eGlobal Shuts down Website Due to New GST Restrictions

Lwombat1955 on 30/06/2018 - 11:22
Last edited 30/06/2018 - 11:35 by 1 other user

Dear customers,

Due to the new GST regulations that were passed in Australia, we regret to inform you that our website will be closing down, effective on 23:59 AEST, June 30th, 2018.
Rest assured, we will still process any enquiries and pending shipping orders as soon as possible. All after-sales services such as Order Status updates and ticket submissions to our RMA centre for issues such as Warranty Claims, shall still remain open for assistance.

My order | RMA center

If you have any further questions, you can contact via a service ticket or email us at
[email protected].

Thank you for your understanding and continued support over the years.

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    • spackbace on 30/06/2018 - 11:59
      +12

      And you vote for who exactly?

      • EightImmortals on 30/06/2018 - 12:05

        Dunno about him but I put liblab last and work my backwards from there. At this point ANYONE is a better choice.

        • havebeerbelywillsumo on 30/06/2018 - 14:12
          +1

          As much as I dislike the also-rans and the no-clues Lib/Labor need a GOOD shake!

          So "other" is my choice too.

      • [Deactivated] on 30/06/2018 - 22:45
        +1

        Stop taking the bait. This guy posts this at every oppurtunity.

        • spackbace on 01/07/2018 - 11:09

          I know lol

        • [Deactivated] on 01/07/2018 - 11:30

          Then Hwhy?

    • payton on 30/06/2018 - 12:04
      -5

      Please house those children if you're so righteous.
      Yeah didnt think so

      • jackspratt on 01/07/2018 - 16:33
        +1

        So the government will let those children in if I offer to house them?

        Yeah, didn't think so.

    • whooah1979 on 30/06/2018 - 13:00
      -7

      increasing taxes.

      Gst befits the states. The more gst we may collect the better.

      • havebeerbelywillsumo on 30/06/2018 - 14:09
        +2

        And ANY poli will spend the largesse wisely?

        • whooah1979 on 30/06/2018 - 14:17
          -2

          The alternative is higher income tax.

        • EightImmortals on 30/06/2018 - 14:35
          +2

          @whooah1979: Why?

          Why do they 'have' to steal MORE TAX in order to do their job? The short answer is 'They don't' between cutting back on the rampant waste that government is infamous for and adopting policies used in the past to fund legitimate government activity they do not 'have' to raise taxes OR borrow more money from the global ponzi scheme.

        • whooah1979 on 30/06/2018 - 15:18

          @EightImmortals:

          Public services and infrastructure doesn’t come cheap. Someone has pay for it. So it’s either gst, income taxes or both.

        • EightImmortals on 30/06/2018 - 15:29
          +2

          @whooah1979: I think you'll find the government has built infrastructure in the past without any of those things.

          The Nullabor railway was built debt free, interest free “By utilising Australian notes in this manner the Commonwealth Government avoided debt, interest-charges and taxation, and, before it finally entrusted the Australian Notes Account to the Common­wealth Bank, it made enough money out of that account to pay the greater portion of the construction cost of the East-West Rail­way, the remainder coming out of revenue. (Hansard, Vol. 129, p. 1930) 9th edition page 5

          Just because the lack the political will or the public knowledge to do something 'differently' doesn't mean it hasn't been done and can't be done that way again. It's like the old saying goes "Read the papers etc to see what the mentally lazy are thinking, read history books to see what is really happening both today and by that understand what is most likely to happen tomorrow."

        • pais on 30/06/2018 - 17:43
          +1

          @EightImmortals:

          The modern equivalent of this is a sovereign wealth fund… which requires raising the revenue from somewhere (e.g. a resource tax ala Norway).

        • Gnostikos on 02/07/2018 - 13:12
          +1

          @whooah1979:

          The alternative is higher income tax.

          Yeah because we haven't exhausted that avenue already. 41% of Australia’s taxation revenue comes from income taxation on individuals. We come 2nd place when ranking OECD nations by personal income taxation as a percentage of total tax revenue, with a higher percentage than the US, Canada, the UK, Germany and Norway.

          The real alternative is not wasting the goddamned revenue. Even equally politically-apathetic, bureaucratic, welfare-state nations like the UK manage to waste less money than we do.

  • burningrage on 30/06/2018 - 11:58
    +4

    Send this news to MSM please..

  • Clear on 30/06/2018 - 12:07
    +1

    While AliExpress and Gearbest will start collecting. Banggood is a maybe too.

    • EightImmortals on 30/06/2018 - 12:08
      +1

      iHerb are collecting too.

      • Clear on 30/06/2018 - 12:09

        That'a shame but at least they'll all be still cheaper for a lot of things. Also makes claiming on tax much easier :)

        • EightImmortals on 30/06/2018 - 12:12

          How do claim Iherb purchases back?

        • Clear on 30/06/2018 - 12:12
          +1

          @EightImmortals: Your invoice will have GST on it now.

        • EightImmortals on 30/06/2018 - 12:22

          @Clear: But I still can't claim GST back. Unless you are a retailer?

        • Clear on 30/06/2018 - 12:25

          @EightImmortals: Work related expense ;) There are ways if you can justify it.

        • EightImmortals on 30/06/2018 - 12:41

          @Clear: Ok cool. Thought I was missing out for a sec there.

        • stickyfingers on 04/07/2018 - 12:38

          @Clear: That's still not claiming back the GST portion. It's just a tax deduction.

    • PowerPants on 30/06/2018 - 19:26

      Please, please, not banggood too :( We need a list of reliable alternative sellers. Maybe someone in China can start a clone site like BangBetter or AliBooBoo or something.

  • sane on 30/06/2018 - 12:51

    Hmm https://www.eglobalcentralau.com/ exists. Is that the same lot, a different lot, or just they haven't killed that site yet? It might be they are just killing their .com.au site to demonstrate distance, etc.

  • pao2x on 30/06/2018 - 13:55

    While I hate the new GST rules I think this is just the website rehashing itself. DWI eglobal… whatever same mob

  • tonyjzx on 30/06/2018 - 22:33

    lol finally some good news

  • Yummy on 01/07/2018 - 13:48

    @tonyjzx
    Hi Gerry!

  • R4 on 01/07/2018 - 13:50

    Looks like B&H Photo aren't collecting from what I can see

    Good news if so

  • Roney on 01/07/2018 - 16:51
    +7

    Boycott HN. Anyway they're always overpriced as well as having outdated stocks

    • et tu brute on 02/07/2018 - 21:16

      A simple boycott @ my local HN is to just walk in and stand there looking about… guaranteed to have no service for a minimum of 10 minutes… it justified my purchasing online prior to 1st July, 2018 because I wasn't putting anyone @ HN out of a job or a sale… just a commission if they never bother to serve you…

      The boycott will continue Gerry post 1st July, 2018 ;)

  • silvertone on 02/07/2018 - 18:15

    Serious question: if overseas retailers are supposed to collect GST on behalf of the Australian government, how are they supposed to remit that money back to Australia?

    • SwarleyAUS on 02/07/2018 - 18:38

      Yeah why are they ceasing operations, the AU gov doesn't have any recourse against them surely? How would customs even verify GST had been paid for items from noon complying sellers??

    • et tu brute on 02/07/2018 - 21:47
      +3

      A similar thing is going down now in the USA with the various states that impose sales taxes. The US Supreme Court has just handed down a 5:4 ruling allowing states to amend their tax legislation to allow the individual states to levy sales taxes on any purchases (online, mail & phone order) made interstate coming into the destintion state thereby closing a long held loop hole. It is believe almost all states will amend their sales tax legislation to meet this new ruling.

      What this means to me?

      Well I make many purchases online (B&H, NewEgg & Amazon et al) and have them shipped to my US address in Portland, Oregon, USA. Oregon does not have any sales tax on purchases made outside the state and many of these companies have free shipping within the continental USA. They re-ship (sometime consolidate inbound shipments) to my Australian address.

      These taxes will bbe collected at the point of sales (ie Amazon, B&H etc.) However, like Australia, many commentators are saying that imports from Chinese site like Alibaba, GearBest will probably not charge US sales taxes, and if they did would not remit them the collected taxes to the various US states. The various US states would not be able to take these Chinese sites to court due to foreign jurisdiction, economic costs and will like get away with just ignoring the US states… unless Trump has a brain-fart on the topic triggering a tit-for-tat response from the China.

      Ironically, China imposes sales taxes on it's citizens who make online purchases overseas.

      I predict that the recent changes will become a headache for the Australian government (or rather the ATO) once the true cost of accounting, auditing and even greater cost of collecting (which was why there was an A$1,000 threshold before the 1st July, 2018).

      As an aside, I have made a few online purchases at the weekend from Amazon Australia using the Global shipping option. First I took up the Amazon.com.au Prime Membership (trial) which provided me with free shipping on these product, all of which were fulfilled and are being shipped from Amazon.com USA. They have actually worked out cheaper for the same product (ASIN codes were identical.

      … Early days…

    • et tu brute on 02/07/2018 - 21:51
      +3

      I don't believe many of these comanies ever will remit Australian GST back to Australia, whether they collect the GST or not, particularly from Chima. It would be impossible for the ATO to take any action.

      …. It won't matter whether it is A$5.00 or A$5m… they can't enforce any action.

  • kingpin123 on 02/07/2018 - 19:24
    +1

    I been dreading this day …

    good thing I bought up alot of things in my watchlist on ebay and ali express

  • syousef on 06/07/2018 - 14:04
    Merged from eGlobal shut down due to GST.

    Did anyone else notice this?

    "Due to the new GST regulations that were passed in Australia, we regret to inform you that our website will be closing down, effective on 23:59 AEST, June 30th, 2018.
    Rest assured, we will still process any enquiries and pending shipping orders as soon as possible. All after-sales services such as Order Status updates and ticket submissions to our RMA centre for issues such as Warranty Claims, shall still remain open for assistance. "

    https://www.eglobaldigitalcameras.com.au/

    • Skramit on 06/07/2018 - 14:10
      +1

      No GST was probably their competitive advantage, to make them just viable, even by just a few %. So they've probably thought "f#@k it" with the changes.

      • syousef on 06/07/2018 - 15:32
        +1

        I do wish Staticice would remove them from their listings.

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