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Were Thinking Of Buying A 42 Inch Lcd Tv To Ship Over To Oz When We Go In January.they,re Cheaper Here At The Momoent Than Oz But Im Worried That They Might Use A Different System Out There ???? Any Ideas Any1 ?/// Cheers D & P :d

rodandhayley

i would not take the risk of an lcd screen for the transport
you also have to own it for 12 months or pay the tax

surfsup

they do i think but why not do a stopover in singapore or similar where they are even cheaper and you can claim tax back!!

fadgefieldclose

hey !! now ur talkin ! that sounds much better !! did you do that yourself or do u know any1 else who did it that way ?

Tiawamutu

How do you claim the tax back?

surfsup

No sorry just an idea. Phone airline and see if you can get it on the plane even if you have to pay excess baggage or get its own suitcase with some packing of your own, pack wisely - you get upwards of 40 kg each! But you can definitely claim the tax back with right paperwork at the airport i believe.

surfsup

Pack 20 kg each and when you get to singapore put all in one case and have a big cloth suitcase to transfer the whole box into. You need a receipt and another piece of paper from the seller which you produce at the airport for your refund 10% i think. Don't know on any of this apart from the tax, just been contemplating it myself.

Tiawamutu

Wouldn't like to hump a TV around, then allow it to get chucked into the plane's hold

Watty'n'Arls

They do use a different system over there which may mean that you will get either picture or sound only - however if you buy an australian freeview box or subscribe to foxtel (aussie sky) and connect it through scart then you will be fine - just the terrestrial channels through an aerial that maynot work. Tis true about the tax if you haveny had it for 12 months but if it were not in the original box then i cant see how that would be proven??

Tiawamutu

I thought that, but a lot of newer TV's have got printed on the back, the date of manufacture

Ours is December 05, and we are going next month

steve & Heather

I was planning on buying one in Aus. Are they more expensive over there?

Steve

northernbird

We just bought a 42" Panasonic High Def Plasma and it cost $3100, 1250 GBP at todays exchange, don't know if thats cheap or not. Great TV though.

spalen

You would have to be totally off your head to turn up in singapore and go looking for a tv then check it into luggage hold... I'd be surprised if the airline would carry it without classing it as cargo. These are HUGE like 3-4feet high by 4feet wide in their boxes and weigh a ton. You'd be well into excess baggage immediately. Aside from the prospect of renting some sort of truckmobile to get it from the airport to your rental alongside your tons of other suitcases and stuff. The last one we bought here would only just fit in the back of our landcruiser wiht all the seats down !.

Secondly - Warranty - these things do go wrong occasionally - singaporean cheapo shop is not going to give you an international warranty.

Most newer tvs will work here in Aus. There is no problem with picture only with sound, this can be easily fixed with foxtel(sky)/or a settop box (which you need to get High-Def picture anyway (about 80bucks) ).

TVs are cheap here too just like UK. Dont bother running risk of shipping a 2,000 pound piece of fragile glass across the world - wait and buy one here.

christinabell

Unfortunately people are having problems with a lot of the large screen tvs working over here at the moment, no matter where they are from. You might be interested in reading this

http://aca.ninemsn.com.au/article.aspx?id=125201

northernbird

scaremongering. compared to the amount of TVs sold, this is a drop in the ocean.