imports
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Importing Video Games To Australia Is Going To Get 10% More Expensive
108State and Federal treasurers have agreed: the existing $1000 threshold for GST-free purchases on online goods is to be abolished. From the 1st of July 2017 all goods bought online will be subject to a 10%. This includes, of course, video games.
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Guild01 Is A Game For Gamers
Guild01 isn’t like Professor Layton, Dragon Quest IX or any other of Level-5’s recent big-named titles. Rather it’s a budget anthology title sporting not one but four different — and completely unrelated — games by three famous developers (and one comedian). But despite that selling point, Guild01 has completely failed to capture the interest of…
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No Gold At The End Of This Rainbow
These days, most Nintendo-published video games are eventually released across the planet. But every once in a while, a game slips through the cracks. Thus it’s more than a little ironic that Captain Rainbow, a game about Nintendo characters who have slipped through the cracks, is one of these Japan-only titles. But did Captain Rainbow…
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Retailers Worried About Imports – Calling For GST
With the strength of the Aussie dollar, and the relative weakness of both the pound and the US dollar, importing videogames has become increasingly more common place over the last couple of months. While the exchange rates continue to strengthen in our favour, the price of goods remain the same, causing many frustrated consumers to…