Hey all,
Since the Kobo Aura HD probably isn't coming to NZ until June and according to the same retailer, (I e-mailed 4, 2 replied only one gave any useful info) it may cost NZ$299 (seems confirmed by this blog post http://www.booksellers.co.nz/book-ne...book-retailers I just found), I'm not sure if there's much point waiting to buy it locally. Perhaps the parallel importers would have a decent deal, but I'm guessing they won't.
So my best bet is perhaps just to order from the US (since there's far more freight forwarder services for there and it's generally easier to avoid origin destination tax issues) and use a freight forwarder (will cost under NZ$20 or so to send it from US to here I expect). There's the risk I'll have to return it and so pay shipping both ways, but even so it'll likely still end up being cheaper then having bought it here. It seems Borders used to ship internationally at least for a while in 2011 and cheaply, but they're gone. These Canadian stores Futureshop (specifically say), Best Buy, Staples and The Source don't seem to ship internationally. Indigo seem to (whether they're supposed to or not for the Kobo I dunno) but they want to charge me C?$40.75 for the shipping and I'm not sure if they will be any better for warranties (I did ask) but in any case, probably not worth it.
Anyway has anyone used a freight forwarder to ship the Kobo Aura HD to them (whether NZ or elsewhere)? I know a lot of people do it for the Kindles given Amazon's second class citizen for the rest of the world policy. I'm particularly wondering if anyone has had any problems getting Kobo to accept their details or credit card because it wasn't a US/Canadian one. I know of the problems people seem to be having even when they are in the US simply because their system appears a bit naff. But even though these may indicate their payment system isn't that flash, I guess given their geotargetting for books, there's a chance this is extended to their Kobo reader system and so it might be fussy about the credit card. Seems I need to put a US billing address, had to do that with the Nexus 4 (in that case I was having it sent to a friend) and managed to get it working, so hopefully that won't be an issue.
P.S. Of course if anyone has another proposal, I'm all ears.
Cheers
Since the Kobo Aura HD probably isn't coming to NZ until June and according to the same retailer, (I e-mailed 4, 2 replied only one gave any useful info) it may cost NZ$299 (seems confirmed by this blog post http://www.booksellers.co.nz/book-ne...book-retailers I just found), I'm not sure if there's much point waiting to buy it locally. Perhaps the parallel importers would have a decent deal, but I'm guessing they won't.
So my best bet is perhaps just to order from the US (since there's far more freight forwarder services for there and it's generally easier to avoid origin destination tax issues) and use a freight forwarder (will cost under NZ$20 or so to send it from US to here I expect). There's the risk I'll have to return it and so pay shipping both ways, but even so it'll likely still end up being cheaper then having bought it here. It seems Borders used to ship internationally at least for a while in 2011 and cheaply, but they're gone. These Canadian stores Futureshop (specifically say), Best Buy, Staples and The Source don't seem to ship internationally. Indigo seem to (whether they're supposed to or not for the Kobo I dunno) but they want to charge me C?$40.75 for the shipping and I'm not sure if they will be any better for warranties (I did ask) but in any case, probably not worth it.
Anyway has anyone used a freight forwarder to ship the Kobo Aura HD to them (whether NZ or elsewhere)? I know a lot of people do it for the Kindles given Amazon's second class citizen for the rest of the world policy. I'm particularly wondering if anyone has had any problems getting Kobo to accept their details or credit card because it wasn't a US/Canadian one. I know of the problems people seem to be having even when they are in the US simply because their system appears a bit naff. But even though these may indicate their payment system isn't that flash, I guess given their geotargetting for books, there's a chance this is extended to their Kobo reader system and so it might be fussy about the credit card. Seems I need to put a US billing address, had to do that with the Nexus 4 (in that case I was having it sent to a friend) and managed to get it working, so hopefully that won't be an issue.
P.S. Of course if anyone has another proposal, I'm all ears.
Cheers