I've imported a fair amount of stuff from the states with high price tags, and the way around paying any GST on any of it is deal up with the supplier to send multiple packages through with the invoice being less than $1000 Aus.
So if you split the kite up and priced it at say $950 then sent the bar and lines separately to total the full cost of the purchase, up to $2000 for two items.
If each individual item is more than a grand just make sure you buy say 5 other low cost items on the same packing slip to make it seem like they are low cost goods not any one particular item adding to a grand or more.
If it's more you need just shuttle the postage address's around to some mates and chuck them a carton or whatever.
And yeah the seller needs to be on your side as well.
If you are a regular customer of the seller then they will indeed side with you as it is in there best interest, one would think.
If you do this you should be fine.
Kinda sounds like what a drug trafficker says to his mule just before he boards the plane with bags of powder in his suitcase, doesn't it.
But really sounds like someone with "a hard on" ...produce receipts for the last two years, why should you do that, just because they ask you?
Where in the law book does it say you need to keep import receipts on goods purchased
