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#1163714 28-Oct-2014 16:38

Latham: I was definitely thinking of placing a pre order for this.

I am hoping I could rope my friend in Boston into purchasing it for me then I just wire him the money, and he ships it direct to you shop.

Import tax is going to be a huge hit on the overall price. When I calculated it it said about $180nzd, raising the overall price to about $1000 nzd. His hurts my heart a little bit, but I feel like once I sell my iPad, iPod, and phone, it'll only be about $450.

Not sure how you arrived at your $1,000, but Amazon just gave me a NZ$590.75 price for the 32GB shipped to NZ. Add GST, that's around $680 landed. I didn't order, as want to see some reviews first, but happy with that price.

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#1163715 28-Oct-2014 16:38

Latham: Where did you get that stellar deal? I'm killing for nexus but that price is pretty unbeatable

Pricespy, was from BecexTech I think they're called.
There were cheaper but they were the 900f model that doesn't have the 700mhz LTE

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#1163776 28-Oct-2014 17:04

Kopkiwi: You won't get $500 for a Nexus 5, you'll get $300

Not sure if typo but i said approx $400 - I've already had someone offer me close to that.

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#1163966 28-Oct-2014 21:13

dafman:
Latham: I was definitely thinking of placing a pre order for this.

I am hoping I could rope my friend in Boston into purchasing it for me then I just wire him the money, and he ships it direct to you shop.

Import tax is going to be a huge hit on the overall price. When I calculated it it said about $180nzd, raising the overall price to about $1000 nzd. His hurts my heart a little bit, but I feel like once I sell my iPad, iPod, and phone, it'll only be about $450.

Not sure how you arrived at your $1,000, but Amazon just gave me a NZ$590.75 price for the 32GB shipped to NZ. Add GST, that's around $680 landed. I didn't order, as want to see some reviews first, but happy with that price.

Although happy to buy, on reflection the 32GB at $680 is around $80 more than the newly announced ipad air 2 which is 64GB to boot! Hard to believe that a Nexus device will land more expensive than a bigger capacity ipad! How times have changed.

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#1164014 28-Oct-2014 22:04

dafman:
Latham: I was definitely thinking of placing a pre order for this.

I am hoping I could rope my friend in Boston into purchasing it for me then I just wire him the money, and he ships it direct to you shop.

Import tax is going to be a huge hit on the overall price. When I calculated it it said about $180nzd, raising the overall price to about $1000 nzd. His hurts my heart a little bit, but I feel like once I sell my iPad, iPod, and phone, it'll only be about $450.

Not sure how you arrived at your $1,000, but Amazon just gave me a NZ$590.75 price for the 32GB shipped to NZ. Add GST, that's around $680 landed. I didn't order, as want to see some reviews first, but happy with that price.

Where did you see this? Are you referring to the nexus 6 or 9?

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#1164088 29-Oct-2014 07:37

Latham:
dafman:
Latham: I was definitely thinking of placing a pre order for this.

I am hoping I could rope my friend in Boston into purchasing it for me then I just wire him the money, and he ships it direct to you shop.

Import tax is going to be a huge hit on the overall price. When I calculated it it said about $180nzd, raising the overall price to about $1000 nzd. His hurts my heart a little bit, but I feel like once I sell my iPad, iPod, and phone, it'll only be about $450.

Not sure how you arrived at your $1,000, but Amazon just gave me a NZ$590.75 price for the 32GB shipped to NZ. Add GST, that's around $680 landed. I didn't order, as want to see some reviews first, but happy with that price.

Where did you see this? Are you referring to the nexus 6 or 9?

I just went to amazon.com put the Nexus 9 in my cart. As I already have a NZ$ credit card loaded with Amazon, I was given a NZ$ price including delivery.

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#1165203 30-Oct-2014 18:04

Anyone bought the Nexus 6 yet, how do we go about getting it?

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#1165206 30-Oct-2014 18:15

lNomNoml: Anyone bought the Nexus 6 yet, how do we go about getting it?

It's still only through the US play store unfortunately. It sold out in minutes, so you'd be hard pressed to get one. They were still selling more occasionally throughout the day, but they probably stopped that.

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#1165401 30-Oct-2014 23:34

Latham:
lNomNoml: Anyone bought the Nexus 6 yet, how do we go about getting it?

It's still only through the US play store unfortunately. It sold out in minutes, so you'd be hard pressed to get one. They were still selling more occasionally throughout the day, but they probably stopped that.

Thanks for the info, I'm really keen to get the Nexus 6 but have no idea how to get it since the play store says it's not available for new zealand.

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#1165406 31-Oct-2014 00:02

lNomNoml:
Latham:
lNomNoml: Anyone bought the Nexus 6 yet, how do we go about getting it?

It's still only through the US play store unfortunately. It sold out in minutes, so you'd be hard pressed to get one. They were still selling more occasionally throughout the day, but they probably stopped that.

Thanks for the info, I'm really keen to get the Nexus 6 but have no idea how to get it since the play store says it's not available for new zealand.

So do I. Gonna have to wait unfortunately. Otherwise if you have friends in the US they can buy it for you and send it over when they re release.

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#1165455 31-Oct-2014 08:08

If a phone sells out within minutes then the company has Fecked up their shipping numbers royally.

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#1165457 31-Oct-2014 08:09

lNomNoml:
Latham:
lNomNoml: Anyone bought the Nexus 6 yet, how do we go about getting it?

It's still only through the US play store unfortunately. It sold out in minutes, so you'd be hard pressed to get one. They were still selling more occasionally throughout the day, but they probably stopped that.

Thanks for the info, I'm really keen to get the Nexus 6 but have no idea how to get it since the play store says it's not available for new zealand.

You need to buy it in a country where it's sold - Google Play store has never supported NZ for phones.

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#1165554 31-Oct-2014 09:48

Argh same story again, just like nexus 5.

By the time N6 comes to NZ, most likely through 2degrees, we'll have to pay a ridiculous amount.

I really hope we get Playstore becomes available here in NZ.

So jealous of Australia!

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#1165704 31-Oct-2014 11:35

wlfkfgkwlaktka: Argh same story again, just like nexus 5.

By the time N6 comes to NZ, most likely through 2degrees, we'll have to pay a ridiculous amount.

I really hope we get Playstore becomes available here in NZ.

So jealous of Australia!

When do parallel import stores start getting it?

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#1165816 31-Oct-2014 12:43

Come on, guys, don't hate on 2d and friends for selling the Nexus 5 at standard smartphone pricing - if Google doesn't subsidise the device in any given market, the OEM and network vendor still have to make money. Google has something to gain by selling the hardware at cost or below, 2d and LG et al do not. It's not a rip-off because Google uses it as a loss-leader in other markets, that's just warping people's perception of what these devices actually cost to build, ship, market, sell, and support.

That said, the Motorola-built Nexus 6 does not appear to be subsidised by Google anywhere near to the extent of the Nexus 4, 5, and two 7s, given it is $650US unlocked. I would not expect there to be the same kind of gap in price between Google Play hardware markets vs. non-Google markets when the Nexus 6 hits locally as there has been with the past two models.

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