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Blinky said:
Actually I don't mind saying who I worked for, as I won't be going back. It's a company called MEGT, and there were 16 staff in one office when I arrived there. I've played a large part (through successful tender writing and good strategies) in the company now having 1,000 staff in 100 offices. I would have felt much worse leaving 5 years ago, when it was fun, when we didn't have layers of management and when our field staff were left alone, but supported when necessary. We were also (not coincidentally) wildly profitable, with around 25% ROI. We are looking at a multi-million loss this year. So it's more sorrow than anger.
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Very sad when you see good companies going bad.

I have seen it in my industry that you see a customer start off and gets some good growth and then all of a sudden they get some huge dreams of what they can make the business and then all of a sudden they are facing huge losses and they go and lease the flashest offices and flashy cars for all the staff and have a perceived lack of business direction.

I had one customer when first started out just bought 2 half decent utes and after a good year or 2 sold all of the utes and bought all new SS V8 Commodore utes and had more than 10 to 15 staff as soon as business slowed a little bit they where selling boats and it was like the world had ended for them. Now they are back to only 2 or 3 staff and that is it.
 
Want to buy something online, but my UK bank account doesn't have my correct address registered (Am changing it shortly now that I've sorted out a more permie place of residence).

A little annoying though because the site won't ship what I want to any address other than the one registered with the bank. Also tried Amex, but it had the same address type issue.

Grr. But I know it's for fraud purposes.
 
medhead said:
Anyway imported a car to Australia from Europe? Rough costs?
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Very approx $2000 ~ $3000 in a container for shipping only wharf to wharf, plus fees, etc. Have friends who spent $10K to import a pre war car from the USA all up (local transport, steam cleaning, sea freight, duties, and more).

Use an agent:- do not try to your self. A lot of companies do this. Look in any collectable car magazine:- Unique Cars, Aust Classic car and more. If old (30ys plus) not so difficult. If modern can/will have a lot of compliance issues for registration, taxes. fees, GST.

Aust Customs are well aware of the value of cars & all schemes/scams to avoid /evade taxes, GST etc. Google "importing car". There is information on the gov.au web site.
 
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If its a modern and expensive car then don't expect to be able to sell it trade it after. Cars in Australia are almost impossible to get finance on with a Personal Import Plate!
 
Thanks. I should have googled but thought I'd do an initial "is this a stupid idea" check.


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Mwenenzi said:
Very approx $2000 ~ $3000 in a container for shipping only wharf to wharf, plus fees, etc. Have friends who spent $10K to import a pre war car from the USA all up (local transport, steam cleaning, sea freight, duties, and more).

Use an agent:- do not try to your self. A lot of companies do this. Look in any collectable car magazine:- Unique Cars, Aust Classic car and more. If old (30ys plus) not so difficult. If modern can/will have a lot of compliance issues for registration, taxes. fees, GST.

Aust Customs are well aware of the value of cars & all schemes/scams to avoid /evade taxes, GST etc. Google "importing car". There is information on the gov.au web site.
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My cousin imported a car from USA and it got lost but they only found out when they arrived in MEL from OOL to pick it up as they found out that it was still in AKL as the boat stopped there and someone took the wrong car off the boat and it had already sailed when they realised the mistake. Vehicle had been all made compliant for Aust market in USA. No one told my cousin or the shipping agent of the mistake until the boat got to MEL.
 
Marking a bunch of exams, I've come to the conclusion that the general skills of first year engineering students to make succinct, critical arguments is embarrassingly horrible.
 
medhead said:
Thanks. I should have googled but thought I'd do an initial "is this a stupid idea" check.


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Unless its something really rare or exotic, and you've owned it for more than 12 months, I put this in the "pointless" category, as any (minor) saving will be lost on resale in the long term when no-one wants to buy a private import.


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anat0l said:
Marking a bunch of exams, I've come to the conclusion that the general skills of first year engineering students to make succinct, critical arguments is embarrassingly horrible.
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Be careful what you say, one of my mates is a first year engineering student at your university. ;)
 
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