Browse Forums Kitchen Corner Re: Importing kitchen appliances from Germany 2Jan 29, 2015 9:05 am With 25 years kitchen experience and a passion for what I do, I have joined this forum to offer advice or at least my opinion on all things relevant to kitchens. I was a cabinetmaker by trade and am now a senior manager of a kitchen company. Re: Importing kitchen appliances from Germany 15Oct 09, 2017 7:22 am alexf40 Hi, We had a fantastic experience with importing our goods. The total cost of everything including taxes, custom duties, custom broker, insurance, shipping etc was almost exactly half the price. Some of our appliances have international warranties but from reading from other people on forums they can be a pain to get things fixed. Worst case I don't mind paying to get something fixed, worst case I can replace the whole item(s) and would have still saved. We used Matthias at http://www.hai-end.com/ details below, his English is great and was very helpful with our entire process. I have some details for insurance, custom brokers etc will need to dig them out., Matthias arranged shipping. What are you looking at bringing over? Cheers Alex Matthias Pflugmacher __________________________________________________ HAI-END GmbH Zum Handelshof 1a 39108 Magdeburg Tel. (01803) 424 363* Fax (01803) 424 364* www.hai-end.com Thanks Alex - We are planning to bring in range hood, dishwasher and fridge. Re: Importing kitchen appliances from Germany 16Jul 07, 2019 7:46 pm alexf40 Hi, We had a fantastic experience with importing our goods. The total cost of everything including taxes, custom duties, custom broker, insurance, shipping etc was almost exactly half the price. Some of our appliances have international warranties but from reading from other people on forums they can be a pain to get things fixed. Worst case I don't mind paying to get something fixed, worst case I can replace the whole item(s) and would have still saved. We used Matthias at http://www.hai-end.com/ details below, his English is great and was very helpful with our entire process. I have some details for insurance, custom brokers etc will need to dig them out., Matthias arranged shipping. What are you looking at bringing over? Cheers Alex Matthias Pflugmacher __________________________________________________ HAI-END GmbH Zum Handelshof 1a 39108 Magdeburg Tel. (01803) 424 363* Fax (01803) 424 364* www.hai-end.com It hasbeen a few years now, would you do it all again? Did you have any warranty issues? Re: Importing kitchen appliances from Germany 17Jul 07, 2019 7:56 pm Everything’s as good as new. No issues with anything, I’d 100% do it again without any worries. Buying good quality appliances is the key as they likely have a much lower chance of going wrong. Re: Importing kitchen appliances from Germany 18Jul 07, 2019 8:02 pm alexf40 Everything’s as good as new. No issues with anything, I’d 100% do it again without any worries. Buying good quality appliances is the key as they likely have a much lower chance of going wrong. Thanks for sharing all your information and experience, it’s given me something to think about as in tossing between Neff & Gaggenau and it’s so much cheaper to buy overseas. There is a company now called Salbini which seems to import everything to Australia Re: Importing kitchen appliances from Germany 19Nov 25, 2019 2:18 pm alexf40 Everything’s as good as new. No issues with anything, I’d 100% do it again without any worries. Buying good quality appliances is the key as they likely have a much lower chance of going wrong. Do you mind sharing the info your provided? Trying to import a range and don’t know where to start other than purchasing! Any help is appreciated! You can really use anything you want the main consideration would be how it looks once painted/finished - or the look you want. Cabinetmakers use MDF because its cheap… 2 10925 Hi - thanks for your reply. Yes I think 'Ill go for whitish with very speckly bits rather than pure white something like this. PS was actually 2008 I built the… 2 12659 Thanks mate. Yeah good points! Leaning towards Option 3 to get a bit extra space in the cabinets but not going too crazy high (and expensive). Would require a mini… 13 42265 |