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Old May 21, 2021 | 6:07 pm
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Originally Posted by mtofell
.....There's the sales tax thing and then just the cost of vehicles there. Every vehicle has the shipping cost already built-in. Also, any older used car is covered in rust. I shipped a 12 year old Honda Odyssey minivan that I could have sold for about $6,000 on the mainland. For $7500-$8000 on Maui I could only find them full of rust, with twice the miles and generally beat to hell.
So buy a car in the mainland, ship to Hawaii and then sell when you leave? Difference to value pays for shipping and other Hawaii costs?
I have looked at shipping collectable car USA to AU. That seems simpler than USA 48 to Hawaii.
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