To bad it's not in Australia, I'd grab it in a heartbeat.
You should be able to get it to your door for ~$800 including shipping fees and all customs charges inc. GST. I have found when I have imported pins from the US, the biggest cost incurred (as a percentage of the total) is when the machines are NOT located on the coast near a major shipping terminal and you have to pay a moving company like NAVL to ship the machine to a coastal international freight company and prep it for export.
In this case, you are in luck as the machine is located on the West Coast and a lot of the major West Coast freight importer/exporters are also located in Redondo Beach, California.
If it is a machine you really want to have and there is nothing comparable locally, a few hundred extra over and above the cost of shipping internally in Aust is neither here nor there.
