Some of the reasons :
some amps are cheaper than here even after tax.
Imatation amps hard to get from US.

Warranty? Don't think about it, by shipping from US to Malaysia, if by air, it will take 1-2weeks, follow by customs declarations and it will take.... Well, we knows that their effiency is very high, maybe 2 months or 3 months. Mine last time was 3 months. By waiting the amp to reach your hand, it only left 8 months, then minus out another 2-3 months to ship it back to US if got problem, so in actual the warranty is only 5-6 months. Tha's why when buying the amp, try to get the price that atleast 200-300% cheaper, as warranty you can consider don't have.

Actually what I mean was not warranty void, is because of most of the time wasted on shipping and customs. The chances of getting customs bypassed will be around 50/50 depend on your luck.

If you carry along then it will be fast, but by postage it will take long time.

Well, it has a tax table, you can have a check on customs website, but if can try to make the package old and declare as used item, you can get cheaper tax.

If not mistaken, study in US can get tax free, I don't know how true is it. Example, if you buy a Rockford Fosgate original speakers P62S, cheapest in US is USD84.5 and you get tax free for it. By taking currency exchange of rm3.7, you will get rm312.65. Here is selling for >rm1.5k.

Yarloh, it will be hard, sometimes even if unlucky, you won't get the amp, normallah, they want some coffee money.

Amp should be no problem, but HU might have due to signal, like Japan HU here have to add fm booster then only can use.

Hello, after so many replies only you say you want to buy from SG.. @#$%^, If like this is much more easier, drive your car in, pay the tolls, pay the parking fees(SGD10), then change your HU, speakers, amps over there. Tax free. But only problem is warranty claims problem later.

Like that ah, I think US is not a bad place to look for, can try on amazon or ebay.

Depend on your taste, I prefer Rockford Fosgate amps, really can see the price gap between here and US.

I don't think UK is a good place for hunting cheap ICE. Anyway still waiting the seller to reply how much is the amp and shipping to here.

Soundstream XTA880.2, here got people selling second hand for rm900, but there new one include tax is rm1100 I think.

I always surf on ebay and I have bought once before from a seller there. Amps are really dirt cheap on certain brands, but only waiting time very long.

By taking 1=6.92, if tax is 40% from the price you buy, then total will be somewhere around rm920. So you will save 480, but this don't have warranty, so can considered as 480 is the warranty.

Well, 1 thing buying from other countries is, the chances that getting imatation is lesser. But depends how you feel it, rm400-500 is not a small amount. Another thing is student can get tax exempted if I not mistaken, if yes then the amp will be rm660 + 1 big makan for your friend.

I got the price of shipping today, the amp is USD159 and shipping is USD130....