if that happened to me I'd leave the country....permanently.
It is a knife for f#$% sake...
Eww! I suspect it was not easy and you were bombarded with paypal claims alot id immagine.
Learning the hard way isn't fun.
I'm not even sure lockback knives are okay anymore. The permit is a joke as it refers to definate illegal items like balisongs and throwing knives/ stars etc. I will look into it next week at the local police station.
I am curious about one thing: what will you do if your item is confiscated by your local custom?
will you ask fully refund from your seller?
I am really surprised you have been able to get them into the country, i know a few might get passed customs but your not ment to bring them in.
Well I’ve just joined the club of shattered people having there knife seized……more like stolen,just lost $140.00 Au d…not happy and its made me wild, what can ya do? It was a beauty to HX outdoors knife.
Welcome to BLF!
sad first post, I hope you have ordered nice flashlight to compensate the loss?
When it is late, but it is important that I stay awake, I try to watch an episode of Border Security: Australia’s Front Line.
That provides me with enough adrenaline to get me throught the night. If it were a dish, it would be on the menu as:
A well-done massive chunk of abuse of power, delicately coated with an ultra thin layer of one-way legality, served cold.
Wow sorry to hear of your loss and aggravation—that’s some nanny-state fear in action.
It would be interesting to know who were the authors of those laws and amendments that thought it necessary to keep everyone protected from the “evildoers”…
I totally agree. The Australian custom officers are a bunch of arrogant *.
When I was watching the Border Security Australia I tought they must have exaggerated the situation because sometimes it seemed so bizarre and ridiculous (for example seizing a pistol shaped cigarette lighter). Then we had a flight to NZ and our plane stopped at Brisbane for refueling. We spent there less than 50 minutes in the transit zone and despite all this we had to go through a full exhaustive security checking. My girlfriend was even searched for explosives! :person_facepalming: We felt we had just entered the world of 1984 by George Orwell or we took the wrong plane and we arrived to North Korea. That was the moment when I realized that everything I saw was true in the episodes of Border Security and I don’t want to visit Australia ever again (although it was on my bucket list).
I always wonder how things are in GB and AUS when someone is being a good Samaritan at a car accident and needs to cut a seat belt to extract a victim. Or some rope when stuck lashing something to the car top carrier?
As someone who has carried a knife his whole life (even when living in southern Europe, don’t tell the Carbenarri.) It is just to handy to have on ones person, than to not have one.
All I can say is its put me of ordering anything again which involves a package having to come through customs, and that just not fair that’s what its come to for me.I live in Australia and I hate my country…I got a shit load of resentment and now I deffinately won’t have any respect for the law.What’s got me stumped is I have got about 50 flipper knives here all come through customs and more than half of them have been inspected by customs and I know this because they come to address with a customs seal tape on them with a slip to say they been through customs inspection so why have they all of a sudden not let this one through and have seized Oriya under subsection 203B(2), being good suspected on resonable grounds to be a special forfeited goods….I don’t get it because it really no different to the knives I’ve already received.
Hey mate call custom and ask? Have your shipping number ready they will ask and the carrier info. I had a machete seized because it was double sided one (one side has a saw) and i asked them what the problem is? They said because of the size and its uses it shouldn’t be an issue. Depending on size and style and stuff. If you ordered a double sided knife they are illegal here so no way of getting it back.
As far as i know thumb grips are all legal here now. At least in NSW its not considered an assisted opener any more.
They ended up releasing mine for me. Some times they make you fill out paper work.
Its often what the company writes on the box that stuffs things up.
You’re probably on ASIO’s watchlist after that post!