Shipping from Canada
jaxwired
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I'd appreciate some advice regarding buying from a private seller in Canada (I'm in USA). I've never done this and I'd like to know if there are extra costs such as taxes, import dutes, etc... Also, what do I need to know before I do this? Any horror stories? Thanks for any help...
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I bought my NAD cd player from Canada, payed $30 (not too bad) but the transfer from Canada Post to USPS took forever at the border and I got my cdp in a month and a half, no exaggeration. Ridiculous, I am not buying from Canada again unless it's a great deal.- Jeremy
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I bought my NAD cd player from Canada, payed $30 (not too bad) but the transfer from Canada Post to USPS took forever at the border and I got my cdp in a month and a half, no exaggeration. Ridiculous, I am not buying from Canada again unless it's a great deal.
Same with me, we in the US don't pay tax or duty on imports (I'm not sure if we're supposed to and they just don't care or what) the wait time of customs is a **** though. 1 month isn't unheard of. It's really silly, Canada should be considered another state, and we should be considered a great big Province, seriously.Thorens TD125MKII, SME3009,Shure V15/ Teac V-8000S, Denon DN-790R cass, Teac 3340 RtR decks, Onix CD2...Sumo Electra Plus pre>SAE A1001 amp>Martin Logan Summit's -
Wow, I was going to ask this very question today. There is an item that has been sitting on the 'gon for a while that is at a great price. The only reason I can think it hasn't sold is because it is coming from Canuckland.(((STEREO)))
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Same with me, we in the US don't pay tax or duty on imports (I'm not sure if we're supposed to and they just don't care or what) the wait time of customs is a **** though. 1 month isn't unheard of. It's really silly, Canada should be considered another state, and we should be considered a great big Province, seriously.
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A few years ago I bought a truck from Canada. A mint '72 GMC 3/4 ton 4x4 which had spent its life at the base of Canadian Rockies, (I still have it). Within one week of them getting my money, the truck was in my driveway. And, it had to come through customs in Washington state. Naturally, I hired a broker (only cost $200) that took care of all of customs and had it loaded onto a truck at the airport. He even arranged all of the shipping for that same $200.
I have bought things off of Ebay from Canada and no problem. I think the longest I ever had to wait was 2 weeks from time of sending payment.
As long as the sender knows what he is doing, I see no reason to prevent me from buying something from Canada. -
I have no problem buying things from businesses from Canada. Grant Fidelity is a Canadian based company whom I bought one of their B-283 tube buffers from. That was a painless process and the shipping time was not bad either.
Shipping things to private individuals is another thing all together however. I recently shipped some rack ears for an amp to a Canadian CP member. I thought it would be no big deal, but man was I wrong. I quickly found out that you can't just go to your local Fed-EX or UPS center and hand them the package, pay for the shipping, and have them ship it (I'm not sure about USPS, maybe I should have checked them out) unless you want to send it overnight or two-day, which is way too expensive going to Canada. My package weighed 5 lbs. and Fed-EX wanted to charge $150 to send it two day to Canada! If you send anything ground to Canada via Fed-Ex or UPS, you have to process the shipment online through their websites. The instuctions on how to do this were not clear and pretty much non-existant from Fed-EX and barely passable from UPS. After fumbling around on the UPS website for 2 and a half hours, I finally got the package processed and all of the import and customs papers printed. It cost me $30 to ship a 5lb item in a box the size of a cleanex box to New Foundland. The buyer had to pay an additional $40 in customs fees and it took close to three weeks to get there.
I love Canada as a country and have not met a Canadien yet I haven't liked, but I will never ship anything to Canada agian as a private individual. Sorry to all the Canadien CP'ers out there. -
US Postal Service is the way to ship to Canada.
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As mentioned, USPS is the only method I will have items shipped to to me in Canuckland.
If the sender will not ship via USPS, I will not purchase the item. I have passed on items because of this. I have never waited more than a couple of extra days for the shipment to pass customs if the sender completes the customs papers properly.
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I will never ship to Canada again, USPS or any other form of shipping.
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Some credit card companies have instituted a foreign currency transaction fee, so be careful buying from a Canadian retailer using a credit card.
I bought an Acer Easystore H340 Windows Home Server box from NCIX.com and a $10 foreign currency fee was charged to my credit card, even though prices at the NCIX website were quoted in USD. Someone in their shipping department messed up paperwork and I got a call from UPS that I owed something like $30 in customs fees; luckily NCIX took care of paperwork and fees and there wasn't too much of a delay.
