carlap

Don't shoot the messenger ! I am no expert, but even connecting UK phones to the network is not 'allowed' with unapproved phones.

Maybe someone else knows more info or appropriate website. Only pointed it out for the cooker in case it needs to be installed and there might be problems getting someone in Oz to do it.

JAJ

That's a specific telecoms issue. If you want to extend it to all electrical goods, can you provide any reference?

Swerv-o

I imagine that the oven will need to be fitted to the relevant AU/NZ standard, and therein may be a requirement that the device has been approved for use in Australia.

In saying that, I have had a [brief] search around the web and have been unable to find any relevant provisions beyond having the electrical connection performed by a licenced electrician.


S

carlap

No reference. Like I said in the earlier post I do not really know. Would hate to think somebody imported something like this and then found they could not get it installed. Just a warning for them to check up.

NKSK version 2

Called Energy Safety or whatever they are called. No problems with getting it connected up.

ray2gill

Will it have an international warrentee for if something goes wrong and you need a spare part or it gets damaged in transit?

Just a thought.

NKSK version 2

This is the one significant downside. I'm hoping that Bosch will have a worldwide guarantee - otherwise I'll have to stomach the cost. Damage in transit should be covered by insurance.

charlie5

Hi

Has anyone successfully done this?

Charlie

NKSK version 2

Don't know - I suppose you'd have to be in the market for a new oven and then realise how truly extortionate the price is in Australia. And of course benefit from such weak sterling.

charlie5

Hi

Yes we are in the market for a new oven, hence my question.

Have you seen www.appliancesonline.com.au ?

Charlie

NKSK version 2

Yes - prices aren't that much better than normal stores - it's making me think that it's the manufacturers that are ripping people off - not the retailers.

Just had a quote from a UK shipping company - 100GBP from port UK to Fremantle.

So far for a Bosch oven I've got $900 (oven) plus $200 to Australia = $1100

Stores offer free UK delivery but unsure if they will deliver to a shipping company. I'll need to add this and then handling charges in Australia to get it to a point when I can load it on to the back of aute.

Still looking at less than half price though.

charlie5

hi

Watching very closely to see how you get on.

Best of luck

Charlie

NKSK version 2

Dixons are happy to deliver to a shipping company. Shipping company are happy to receive.

So I've now sorted everything apart from insurance and getting it off the boat in Fremantle and to a point wher I can get it on to a ute.

I presume that the shipping company will use an agent in Fremantle.

Amazulu

Will be interested to see how you get on - I reckon it's worth a go.

NKSK version 2

Were you in England in the late 90s and early 00s when there was a huge issue about Tescos or somesuch importing Levis jeans from abroad because the cost in the UK was so high and Levis refused to sell to UK retailers for the lower cost?
Wasn't it deemed parallel imports or something? I think it finally got to the courts and from memory I think the supermarket lost.

I've been thinking about whether someone could do the same here in Australia and what the reaction would be from manufacturers and retailers. You'd massively undercut Australian prices - although the gains would only be really significant whilst sterling was weak.