WTB:Infocus LCD Projector Lamp for LP725

This is the same problem a lot of people would be having with projects, a lamp cost $600 and new and improved projector costs $1000.

Michael

I forgot to mention it's a good idea to search the net for better prices.

Michael

Are you sure that it isn't OSRAM?

Try the following link to the states. Aus$385.30 including freight at the current exchange rate + customs if you get hit.

Hint: Get your lamp sent in via the postal system NOT a courier company. In my experience, items under AU$1000 don't tend to attract import duty or GST if sent via the post, whereas goods arriving via couriers get slam dunked for duty / GST on both the item and the cost of the courier. :(

Cheers, Alan

Aussie post and a lightbulb? No thanks. Hell, I've had a CD snapped in half, case and all, with the force my local postie uses to cram stuff into my mailbox. Common occurence to not be able to remove anything over standard letter size without tearing half the outside off. (Not to mention credit cards ending up two streets down)

wouldn't trust 'em with a $400 lightglobe!

-mark

Sad to hear you've had such bad luck Mark, but Aussie Post aren't always the ones to blame. No amount of courier care is going to protect an item from potential damage if it hasn't been appropriately packaged. Just because an item gets handled by a courier company doesn't automatically ensure it's going to arrive undamaged. BTW if your local postie thinks a box containing a projector lamp can fit in to you letterbox slot, either you've got a very big letterbox or an incredibly stupid postie. If the latter is the case I suggest you take the matter up with you local delivery area manager at Australia Post. You'd be doing everyone a favour.

I receive hundreds of items sent via the postal system from OS every year. In 99% of the time, damage (no matter who the carrier was) can be attributed to poor packaging on the part of the sender.

If a healthy bit of paranoia about possible damage occurring is evident, then I recommend insuring the goods against losses and damage for a small additional cost. Still well below the cost of getting stung for GST.

Remember, they won't let you take possession of the package until you have paid any taxes and GST to the courier company who in turn pass it onto Australian Customs. Too bad if your precious consignment is a box full of broken glass and plastic you still have to pay the taxes and GST. This is where your insurance comes in very handy. So if you are going to insure, the postal service is well worth the small risk of having to make a claim or have the delay in having the goods resent to you.

As a matter of interest, most US Air Post consignments get here to me in Perth (door to door) in 4 days on average. Just as fast as FedX or DHL at a fraction of the cost.

Cheers, Alan

can you list the dimensions

That's odd, I just get a red slip in the letterbox asking me to go the post office to pick it up. The only thing they've ever put in my letter box is letters and magazines.

Michael