Importing (?) A Car Back From Overseas

[fLipKnot]

Do you know what the funny thing was, a guy saw some dodgy bugger advertising my car for $13K, then managed to track me down and bought it for $30K

<{POST_SNAPBACK}>

What car was that??

For 13k and bought it for 30k?!?!? goodness, u must made hell alot of money eh K?

Cheers,

Ben

[Iron Chef]

hahaha - you're everywhere!!

It owed me more than $13K

The profit made was suitable payment for the pain and suffering I went through getting the car here to Oz.

[fLipKnot]

Same goes with you K...

Tell us how u go CS_Student..

[Beer Baron]

Hi everyone,

I'm currently making enquiries about buying a Nissan R33 Skyline GTR Vspec.

The only complication is the car is currently overseas (Spain) and *was* previously in Australia. So the car is going to be shipped back to Australia with all the relevant paperwork in a month.

The story is the seller was unable to register the car in Spain because its right-hand drive, and that the Australian registration is still current (because he bought the car from a friend in Australia).

If I do purchase the veichle, and the seller organises shipping (he has offered to pay for this), do I still get hit with customs duty of 10% + 10% GST?

Also is there any complications with compliance considering that it has being complied before? (What happens in this situation?).

I really need help ASAP as the seller has other interested buyers who are looking into it and would like a deposit made. Everything would be going via a shipping company...

Thanks,

Gareth

<{POST_SNAPBACK}>

it is so blatantly a scam it's not funny. even someone with no knowledge of the automotive industry, regulations etc. would know that no-one would be dumb enough to have a car bought from australia to spain, only to find out he can't use it, then rather than chosing any nearby country decides to ship it all the way back to australia for practically nothing and the reason is that the $260 rego is still current????!!! oooookaaaayy.

you should have a responsible adult take away your cheque book and change your pin number before you lose a shitload of money.