本帖最后由 aldarion 于 2013-12-14 15:52 编辑
Nope, GST and import duty only apply to items with an assessed value over 1000. Shipping/agent/insurance fees are excluded in the assessment of an item's value. This is pretty logical since shipping can be extremely expensive for some cheap big items. Therefore, he only has to pay 827.36 + 144.56 = $ 971.92. All chinese laptops come with 3 years major parts warranty as required by the chinese consumer law. I did a bit of googling and found one victoria based HASEE distributor. On the site, they stated "In the unusual event of a problem occurring with your new Hasee netbook or laptop you can rest assured that you will have the backing of our Australian based support team."
http://www.txp.com.au/shop/home.php?cat=324
I'm not too sure if they will repair laptops bought in China but I know that since LZ is of chinese background, he likely visits China regularly or know people who do. If something stops working, he could always ask his friend to take the laptop back for him and get it repaired. As for the OS, LZ could try to use the freely distributed Ubuntu. It is very user friendly nowadays. Ask anyone who knows a bit about computers, they would tell you that linux is way better than windows. If LZ really wants to use windows, well it isn't too hard to find a pirated version online. In fact, some pirated versions work better than the official version.
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