What last-minute tax-free foreign purchases have you made?

[DELTAprime]

I didn't order any Transformers, but I grabbed this years birthday and Xmas presents for my Mum from Amazon US a few days ago.

[BruiseLee]

Not an official TF but finally pulled the trigger on the 3rd party Leonidas Origins (not Lio Convoy) from eBay.

Also quickly shipped everything in my HLJ private warehouse earlier this week. Some large items in there from their sale right now but mostly being:

1/9 scale Hulkbuster action vignette
1/9 scale Iron Man Igor action vignette

Came in a massive box yesterday! Amazingly fast delivery as usual.

[Rodimus Cron]

POTP Blast Off & POTP Wreck-Gar, both from Robot Kingdom. Wasn't gonna miss out on Blast Off

[Raptormesh]

Not really TF related but I picked up trackhat and a fairly decent HOTAS set for my flight sim rig. Just returned from a shopping trip in Japan so nothing much from there.

[griffin]

ohmyprimus just got POTP Predaking in stock... so with about 2 hours to spare, another last minute tax-free purchase.
It ended up being AU$280 with shipping, and if we get it here, I would expect $300-350, as Trypticon was $298 at BigW (on sale for $248), which means at least that for Predaking.
It was worth the risk, as we don't even know if any retailer here (other than ToysRUs who will no longer be stocking it) ended up wanting Predaking... so if we do get it here, at some point it might be on sale for less than what I just paid, but that could be some months away and at least I know I got one, and probably have it in hand within 2 weeks.

[BigTransformerTrev]

we don't even know if any retailer here (other than ToysRUs who will no longer be stocking it) ended up wanting Predaking... so if we do get it here, at some point it might be on sale for less than what I just paid, but that could be some months away and at least I know I got one, and probably have it in hand within 2 weeks.

Apparently Target in the US will be getting Predaking so hopefully that ends up happening here too

[Galvatran]

Hope Myer gets PotP Predaking... then pick one up at clearance... in a minty box.

[dirge]

ohmyprimus just got POTP Predaking in stock... so with about 2 hours to spare, another last minute tax-free purchase.
It ended up being AU$280 with shipping, and if we get it here, I would expect $300-350, as Trypticon was $298 at BigW (on sale for $248), which means at least that for Predaking.
It was worth the risk, as we don't even know if any retailer here (other than ToysRUs who will no longer be stocking it) ended up wanting Predaking... so if we do get it here, at some point it might be on sale for less than what I just paid, but that could be some months away and at least I know I got one, and probably have it in hand within 2 weeks.

Thanks for the heads-up. I've grabbed the set! I do agree about the risk, too.

Between Predaking & MP Dirge, this has been an expensive deadline.

[Trent]

ohmyprimus just got POTP Predaking in stock... so with about 2 hours to spare, another last minute tax-free purchase.
It ended up being AU$280 with shipping, and if we get it here, I would expect $300-350, as Trypticon was $298 at BigW (on sale for $248), which means at least that for Predaking.
It was worth the risk, as we don't even know if any retailer here (other than ToysRUs who will no longer be stocking it) ended up wanting Predaking... so if we do get it here, at some point it might be on sale for less than what I just paid, but that could be some months away and at least I know I got one, and probably have it in hand within 2 weeks.

During this years toy sale BigW has Trypticon for $200.