This one time, at band camp, Richard Ibbotson wrote: > PC World (for example) which is hated by a lot of people for it's > incompetence
They're hated with very good reason. If you've heard the stories of Best Buy high-pressure say-anything-to-make-the-sale tactics, this place is very much in that league. This guy managed to get over a hundred thousand quid out of them through the courts. Hilarious! http://www.scotcourts.gov.uk/opinions/A187_04.html > It's very unusual for this kind of retail chain to shift large piles > of EeePCs with Linux installed. They are trying to move XP versions > off the shelf but that doesn't seem to work too well :) They wouldn't really care, to be honest. It would all depend on the profit margin, and how many ancillary sales they can make alongside the laptop. I'm sure they'd be pushing their worthless extended warranties, external mouse and keyboard, laptop bags etc etc. On the issue of GST being levied on private imports: there's no published lower limit, but they don't tend to hassle you for them to stop a shipment and charge GST when it's books, CDs, t-shirts or similar in small quantities. If it comes in via one of the big courier companies (DHL, Fedex) you're more likely to get it stopped, but having "Computer" written on the customs declaration kinda guarantees it'll get stopped by any route. The problem here is that customs apply a 20% uplift to the invoiced price before applying GST as they assume you're getting it at wholesale prices (despite the fact you're only buying one), so you end up paying 32% GST! -- Rev Simon Rumble <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> www.rumble.net The Tourist Engineer Nerds need vacations too. http://engineer.openguides.org/ "Cocaine, habit forming? Of course not. I ought to know. I've been using it for years." - Tallulah Bankhead -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
