Yeah, that happened a lot here too. Then Superstores like Wal-Mart started to cost them business. Now online stores are costing the Walmart’s business lol. Next, immediate drone delivery’s will be in the air.
Manufacturing is dead in Australia.
It costs too much to employ people, taxes are too high to run a business, the population is too small to scale production effectively and there’s too much competition from the rest of the world.
Our economy is propped up by foreign investment in real estate and commodities like coal and uranium. Agriculture and farming are beginning to grow with demand from Asia though but I don’t know why any company would waste money manufacturing in Australia outside of chemical giants.
It benefits dying retail giants and that’s about it.
Sometimes I really worry about the future of this country. The cost of living is super high, we’re tied up in bureaucratic red tape and we pay stupidly high taxes for nothing to improve.
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Wow…that’s bleak (and I don’t mean the Finnish rock band).
Honestly it sounds like where we were. We’re coming out if it though. Hopefully you guys will too:)
Omg…I had no idea. Soooooo sick.
What caused it???
What can fix it???
Budget and Shizzlemetimbers pretty much hit the main points on why I feel GST imposed on foreign sellers/vendors brings more cons than benefits. Sure maybe the Australian retailers are able to compete on an equal playing field with overseas retailers but consumers are paying more in the end.
Looking to buy more cards this month before eBay/other international sites increase prices for Australian buyers.
Seriously considering becoming an electrician at this point lol At least I’d make bank and would be self employed with the ability to transition to an electrical engineer once my body could no longer take the strain.
Yea being a tradie is great… no sick days, work in the nice cool aussie summer, no super and oh yes chasing up people who dont pay…
Puns aside if you can get past the apprenticeship its well worth it 
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I’m a tradie and I get sick days and paid holiday leave 
Can’t imagine electricians would be subject to the same conditions as chippies and brickies.
Just get a state govt job. I get 80k a year and just watch YT vids most of the day. Good enough for me.
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Nah go federal, you’ll earn way more than that 
No wonder the nation is in trouble lol.
Welp.
It’s officially begun as of today for Australians. ALL purchases are getting taxed on Ebay and all of them on other sites like Hobby Link Japan and AmiAmi.
I’d advise anyone who wants to avoid the hell of it to just mark all packages as gifts from now on because more than likely the posties will be collecting tax. v_v.
It sucks but what can you do.
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why did yall vote that in tho?
We didn’t vote for it.
Hmm, maybe I shouldn’t have left this one until today.
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rip
I’ve had 3 new customer aussies in the last two days all ASK to make family/friends payment if I mark the customs form gift and for minimal values. I explained to all if it doesn’t arrive or gets damaged they lose all and that was fine.
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Pretty standard for high end stuff for Aussies even before this tax came in, previously the threshold was $1k the only difference now is that’s gone 
From the looks of that picture from @admiral you can’t avoid the payment through eBay now as they’ll take the 10% from you at checkout if it’s international and coming to an Australian address.
More business for middlemen and more private sales is what’ll come out of this, I’m not going to be spending thousands on eBay anymore. My last international invoice would’ve been like $700 extra for the tax … fuck that.
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So ebay is taking the tax for sellers across the board, even if a singular seller sells less than 75k to australia per annum?
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