so this made me cry (not to mention other people i know)

http://www.pccasegear.com...dex&cPath=193_1066

so some one lend me some $$$$ so i can get 2 maybe 3 of these?

XLAR8

so this made me cry (not to mention other people i know)

http://www.pccasegear.com/index.php?main_page=index&cPath=193_1066

so some one lend me some $$$$ so i can get 2 maybe 3 of these?

questions lol iam ganna have to take out a second mortgage just to get 2 lol

here is another site http://umart.com.au/newindex2.phtml?bid=2 $899 each

We have here (Czech Rep.) GTX480 for cca 670 USD incl vat, but there is 3 year warranty so price is adequate with respect to predicted lifetime 2 years.
Do if you have warranty 3 - 4 years price is ok too.

difference in currencies does not account for this gouging, no way no how, i guess it must cost a couple hundred dollars per card  to ship to aussie land, lol

i new it was the best moving to the 285

Gorefiend

The Aussies amaze me. You guys get screwed in just about every aspect of pc culture and you keep plugging away. You get my respect. If I were ever forced into a situation like what you deal with, I'd probably have a melt down.

well there are some sacrifices for living in the best country in the world

i believe it has something to do with the amount of hands that the equipment passes throw, everybody in the loop has to make money but there are two many hands in the pie

snooooze

rjohnson11

If you have questions about Australian EVGA pricing please email:

dbretherton@evga.com

Dont quite understand why Duane should cop the flack for pricing RJ. I'm sure he has very little to say about it.
 
The Fact is that in the USA the OP's linked product 015-P3-1480-AR is $499.99. I have had a heap of stuff shipped (posted) out here and for that size you get insurance and change from $50 USD. So for $550USD you "should" get a delivered product, now my credit card company (bank) at worst for the last 14 days charged me .89CUS for A$1. There fore US$550/.89= A$618.00 now there is a strech to $829 from $618 (close to 1/3).
This is why I buy my stuff from the USA and import it myself. In the case of my 790i it was nothing like worth it with 3 RMA's chewing up my benefits but all the rest of my EVGA imports have saved me heaps....sorry Duane....when these cards settle down I may just get two localy....time will tell.

+1

Prices are the same as in the Netherlands so the Ausies are not the only ones crying.

the customs over here are good personal imports upto the value of $1000.00 is free, i still reakon its just the amount of hands the gear passes throw that increases the cost

thait

I'm also quite disappointed in the Australian prices, give how well my dollar is doing ATM.

Maybe EVGA are willing to do a one off and ship a few to us over here 

Poor Duane hehe

Was discussing the Aussie pricing at http://i4memory.com/f18/f...enchmarks-fails-22994/ and while I'd like cheaper prices, you guys do need to understand the Australian situation.

It's easy for simple conversion if you individually buy from USA store, but retailers and folks than buy >AUD$1000 value of items will get hit with 10% GST tax for imports and retailers also have staff/store and operating cost overheads. Usually, when I do conversions it would be US$ dollar to AUD$ dollar + 10-15% (inclusive shipping costs + my credit card 2.35% foreign exchange fees) which would be ball park figure for comparing US and Australian costs - for items with higher failure rates I also add in cost to return/rma ship items back to USA.  This would be my criteria for deciding if I should buy locally or direct from USA retailer for items like pc hardware i.e. memory, DSLR photographic gear etc.

So US$499 item with say US$45 USPS EMS shipping costs = US$544 taking into account 2.35% CC fee and US$0.88 exchange rate = ~AUD$633 that's the comparative price in Australia for Nvidia GTX 480. If I need to rma back to USA tack on AUD$65 for USPS EMS postage back = AUD$698.  Still AUD$633 or AUD$698 is more reasonable than AUD$829 but that's for EVGA GTX 480 - while everyone knows EVGA in Australia has a much higher premium asking price than other brands so who knows.

But for larger quantities retailers have to deal with 10% GST is added so AUD$633 + 10% = ~AUD$696 then there's mark up costs for middlemen, distributors, shipping and distribution costs within Australia.

So unless there's an added price break reduction to Aussie disties from supplier, we'd probably need to live with higher prices for now. Not good though in comparison price terms though compared to ATI 58xx series.

For others reading here's Australia GST import policy for items over AUD$1000 in value and when 10% GST is applied When buying over the internet

Of course you would have to test it out first to make sure you aren't shipping them a defective card.

And here we are again EVGA UPSET customers again and still the promised new changes have yet to be implemented ....

"Yes that's absolutely true.  We are currently working on an EU shopping cart - same will eventually be true of the APAC region"
The above was quoted from Shane if your wondering http://forums.evga.com...p;high=australia  So im left wondering as I have so many months ago? Does EVGA care about Australian customers?? The answer so far is not even in the slightest does it worry you that your double the price and we are still at around 92 cents to the $US dollar.


https://www.evga.com/foru...2&high=australians
https://www.evga.com/foru...5&high=australians

Prices have dropped to ~750 from a few retailers. Still not ideal, but alot easier to swallow.

Thank you Duane!