Eyou Electronics in Mount Waverley is another source but I think they just get them from Emona and sell them for the same price, a couple of members here have stated that they ordered a scope from Tequipment in the US for around $510 AUD shipped, I don't know how true this is as they never bother to later confirm that they did actually receive a scope or how much the final purchase price was.
If this were the case then I would expect that the local authorised distributors down here would be rather annoyed to discover they were being undermined by fellow distributors in other countries, a lack of warranty or a dead on arrival unit would be my concern with imported equipment as the cost of returning one would be terribly expensive.
I appreciate that their margins might be tight but it's a shame that our local distributors don't offer a discount code or some other incentive to members here like others seem to do readily overseas, I could also be easily swayed into another purchase with very little enticement.
Thanks for that, hadn't considered bringing in a scope from overseas, in principle I think I'd rather support a local distributor unless the price difference is huge, warranty support is also good point. Having said that Tequipment have the DS1054Z for USD $349 or AUD $450 on today's exchange rate, huge difference in price. Still with shipping @ USD $101 it brings the total to USD $450 or AUD $585. Once GST is added to local pricing it's $637 so only $52 difference in it.
Eyou is the same price as the rest, surprised there isn't a little more competition on price locally. Still we're getting completely screwed on pricing either way, no way it costs USD $100 per unit for a local distributor to ship these across in bulk.
Yeah I agree for $50 not worth the warranty hassle, however on the ebay option with lower shipping the difference now comes to AUD $120 which starts to become a serious consideration. I might give Emona a call and see if they can do anything on price, thinking of getting a DP-832 as well so perhaps some discounting can be had.
Ended up getting 5% off, so $605 for the DS1054Z and $678 for the DP-832, both inc GST. Just picked them both up.