Akubra Overload

[intulor]

Thanks. I like that teardrop shape.

Thanks. Had no idea what I was doing. Took a lot of trial and error and watching YouTube videos. The teardrop shape is rather wide, wider than I wanted, but I believe that's because I kept trying to get the overall height lower, forcing the sides out.

My dog hair donor decided to photobomb my attempt at taking a pic of the crown. I'm still rather shy about putting my own face online.

 

[daddy0d0]

Good evening everyone, it’s been quite a while since I’ve been here. Health issues between myself and immediate family tends to put your focus onto ther things! Along with that I made the mistake of taking up fly fishing
Anyway, I’m out and about today in my BlueGrass Green CampDraft.
Nice to be back!!
NO IDEA WHY PICS ARE SIDEWAYS!!
I have some Akubra’s listed in the classifieds if anyone may be interested.

 

[intulor]

Good evening everyone, it’s been quite a while since I’ve been here. Health issues between myself and immediate family tends to put your focus onto ther things! Along with that I made the mistake of taking up fly fishing
Anyway, I’m out and about today in my BlueGrass Green CampDraft.
Nice to be back!!
NO IDEA WHY PICS ARE SIDEWAYS!!
I have some Akubra’s listed in the classifieds if anyone may be interested.

Welcome back!

 

[Marcus G]

Hi All,

Regarding the online selling of Akubras in 2025, at the end of December, I spoke directly with Trudi at the Hattery. She said that they are still able to post photos of the Akubra inventory that they have for sale, but that they cannot post the prices online and also cannot sell online. Now for the good news. . . you can still purchase Akubras from The Hattery if you contact them, I suppose by email or phone. While the hats cannot be ordered from the website, The Hattery will still send hats in the mail like before. I guess it will be a phone transaction. The prices will match the prices on the Akubra website, meaning that most discounts seem to be gone. Different stores got different deals from the Akubra company.

Now, in the past 5 months, I've purchased an Akubra in Australia and worn it on the plane back to my home in Japan. In addition, I've also purchased several other times online. One concern that I have is regarding price. If you buy in Australia, you pay the normal retail tax of 10% at the retailer, but you get a voucher that you can claim at the airport to have the tax refunded. So, a hat costing $320 (that has the 10% Australian sales tax build-in to that price) actually has a cost of $290 if you claim the tax rebate at the airport like I did. Then you'd probably have to declare the hat at the airport in your home country to pay duty if required.

I believe that one of the reasons we get cheaper prices at Everything Australian is because they recognize that we live outside of Australia with their International store on their website (as opposed to their domestic store), so we don't have to pay the sales tax in Australia because we have to pay duty on the imported item when the hat arrives in the mail. No problem. My concern lies in whether or not we'll have to pay the Australian tax in addition to the import duty. That would be kinda maddening.