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Try this Jim
 US Ebay
Item US $250.00 or NZ$ 430.00 plus NZ$ 96.00 post to
You shop USA in Oregon (a NZ Post subsidiary for items that sellers not ship here )
Then YouShop charge me  NZ$ 227.07 international shipping
  High value surcharge. NZ$ 6.90
GST on value 0f NZ$520.60 is NZ$ 78.97
So sub total NZ$ 312.06
 Then classification fee of NZ$ $46.00
 So total to pay is  NZ$ 358.06 on top of my original NZ$526 so NZ$884.06 total,
 Bloody expensive steam toy

Cheers
Dennis

Dennis.....that sent a shiver down my spine.

I bought some things for Jenny and myself recently in the US (like you helped me out in NZ recently) and I used an on shipping (forwarding) company....wow never again!!! Thankfully like you did, Nick came to the rescue.


@Nick