Considering it hasn't even been a day since Jacob said they were looking into it, and this thread has been around for 5 weeks. I'd say we will be waiting at least 2-3 weeks before we hear about something.
It wouldn't surprise me if we had to wait longer though.

Any news yet JacobF?

sign me in mate

While I am unsure why, the price difference between the 670's in the US and Aus is a bit closer than the 680's are.
For EVGA, it is a $100 difference rather than a $200 variance like the 680's.
Granted we can still save around $50 if we import from the states, but this is a better than before.
Let's hope the 680's come closer in line with pricing.
 
Prices taken from pccasegear.com.

jasonpb, I have had to RMA a GPU with EVGA once and it went very smoothly. Called up their support and they set up an RMA.

I actually did try and and contact couple of reps here but their inbox were full and also sent an email to to EVGA Taiwan asking if they could expedite this a little sooner but just didn't work. The guys over at TW were all confused and asked me to send it directly to them, which is way too expensive! Anyways, with these chaos all around my EVIL mind did play a trick on me and I have almost built my Z77 system . Just awaiting for the motherboard to come!

Macros

@mudvari that's ridiculous! You should of contacted EVGA directly to see if there was anything they can do for you.

evga gtx 680 sc is like 530 on evga website, and here in australia selling for 735......yet our dollar is stronger..... if evga posted to my door for like 50 bucks id buy two directly from you!!! so would everyone else .....please have a post to australia option soon.....we get left behind too often

Lets take a stock GTX 680 for example. Cost price on this card should not be $499 for Australian distributors.
I believe the problem lies in the fact that in the US, EVGA is the only distributor for their cards, so Newegg/NCIX/Tiger/etc all buy from EVGA.
Whereas in Aus, a separate distributor buys from EVGA, and then PCCG/CLP/etc buy from the Aussie distributor who is bringing up prices due to handling.
 
After quite a bit of searching, it seems like there are two distributors in Aus for EVGA (places where PCCG/MSY/itsdirect/CPL/etc buy their stock from).
Ingram Micro & MMT
 
Now working in retail, products have anywhere from 70% - 7% margin with 25% being the average.
 
Please note the below is *not* based on fact.
 
Lets say that in the US EVGA sell the GTX 680 to resellers for $399 giving Newegg/NCIX/Tiger/etc around a 23% profit margin after shipping.
EVGA would sell the same card to Ingram and MMT for the same price, because there is no reason for them not to. EVGA are making the same amount off the card, but MMT & Ingram would be making a bit less due to higher shipping costs.
In a worst case senario, (if MMT & Ingram have a crappy deal on their shipping) it costs them $50 per card shipped to Aus.
Now MMT & Ingrams cost price on the card is $549.
As these companies are in the buisnees of making money, they then sell the product onto MSY/CPL/etc for a profit. Lets say they decide the want a 15% cut to make it worthwhile which brings the cost price up to $631. 
At this point, retailers would only be making around $55-$65 when selling the card at $699 which represents roughly a 9% profit margin.
 
I hope this has shed some light on the subject, even if it is all hypothetical.

*really* considering 2 670's and would love to be able to buy from evga!

whilst a little late to the party, you can sign me up too.
 
and while on the topic whats with the one card per address?
i mean if you have the $$$ , why not sli ?

Hi Yall,
 
one more to the call for direct to Auz sales. 
 
GreekGeek  

/sign

Sign me up too 

I signed up just to express my support for this, absolutley dying to get my hands on an EVGA GTX 690!
 
Another thing lads, if I were to somehow get my hands on a 690 from the states, it would work just the same as aussie stock wouldn't it? (i.e slot straight in without any special considerations). Sorry, I've never purchased pc hardware from outside of Australia before.

It's interesting that in the US there is a $40 price gap between the GTX 670 and the GTX 670 FTW.
Aus? $30 difference.
 
Prices taken from EVGA.com and pccasegear.com