In Reply to: and buying one duty free allows you posted by gecko on Friday, 20. November 2009 at 20:18 Bali Time:
If you buy a camera duty free you cannot claim the GST as there is none. That's why it's called "duty free". I purchased a camera before I went to Bali a while back from a Priceline store here in Melbourne which had a camera/photo processing area in store.
The reason that I bought it at Priceline, was that as I have a Priceline card, I got points on the purchase.It cost about $400 so I got a Priceline voucher sent to me in the mail not long after for about $20, so saved that off the purchase. Then at the airport, I claimed the GST, again saving money. Cheers.