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Re: Questoin about Canadian customers [Re: myketheknife] #426772 04/29/10 04:08 AM
Joined: Feb 2009 Posts: 2,198 drinking yer beer Bushman5 Junk Yard Dog
Bushman5 Junk Yard Dog Joined: Feb 2009 Posts: 2,198 drinking yer beer	Canadians get HAMMERED and rear ended when it comes to getting stuff from the USA. It REALLY REALLY depends on WHO they use to SHIP it. If USPS is used, there is NO broker fee, JUST GST/PST/HST and possibly duties. if UPS (brown) is used, there is anything from $40 "broker fee" all the way (as i found out one time)....to $500 broker fees. NEVER use UPS to ship to canada. ALWAYS use U.S.P.S! JUNKYARD DAWG #86

Re: Questoin about Canadian customers [Re: Bushman5] #426773 04/29/10 06:01 AM
Joined: Dec 2007 Posts: 139 J Joshua J. Mutt
Joshua J. Mutt J Joined: Dec 2007 Posts: 139	Quote Canadians get HAMMERED and rear ended when it comes to getting stuff from the USA. It REALLY REALLY depends on WHO they use to SHIP it. If USPS is used, there is NO broker fee, JUST GST/PST/HST and possibly duties. if UPS (brown) is used, there is anything from $40 "broker fee" all the way (as i found out one time)....to $500 broker fees. NEVER use UPS to ship to canada. ALWAYS use U.S.P.S! Too bad there aren't very many billionaire knife nuts. I'd love to see someone get hit with the fees and buy them out just to fire everyone in management. I'd almost take law school just for revenge. (I'm not bitter that UPS is stopping me from shopping at 90% of websites... <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/footinmouth.gif" alt="" />)

Re: Questoin about Canadian customers [Re: Joshua J.] #426774 04/29/10 07:06 AM
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Private Klink Junk Yard Dog Joined: Sep 2006 Posts: 47,533 S.W. Missouri	That IS a bummer! We keep hearing more and more talk of Obama considering a "Value Added Tax". <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/mad.gif" alt="" /> I HOPE that some of our politicians will shoot it down! <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/crossfingers.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/doh.gif" alt="" /> Junk Yard Dog #1 Moderator/Leader of the Pack Good night Mrs. B, wherever you are! Long Live the Brotherhood of the Yard!

Re: Questoin about Canadian customers [Re: Private Klink] #426775 04/29/10 08:01 AM
Joined: Oct 2008 Posts: 158 Canada NB_GSXR Mutt
NB_GSXR Mutt Joined: Oct 2008 Posts: 158 Canada	Yeah the golden rule is to always use USPS, and for some reason I only seem to get charged tax at the border about half the time... The only downside is if something disappears at the border, USPS says "We got it to the border that's the end of our responsibility" Canada post says "We never got it from the border" and the wonderful CBSA says "What $400 clutch?" And then my friends you are out $400. I'm only an hour from the border anyway so I could always drive down to pick up a huge item, but I hate being treated like a criminal to go across so I tend to avoid it.

Re: Questoin about Canadian customers [Re: NB_GSXR] #426776 04/29/10 08:03 AM
Joined: Oct 2008 Posts: 117,030 S. E. Missouri SkunkHunter Junk Yard Dog
SkunkHunter Junk Yard Dog Joined: Oct 2008 Posts: 117,030 S. E. Missouri	hey, just tell them you're an American! You ARE a north american, just not a U.S. american. If you’re not Paranoid, You’re not paying attention Be a Sheepdog JYD#105

Re: Questoin about Canadian customers [Re: NB_GSXR] #426777 04/29/10 04:53 PM
Joined: Dec 2007 Posts: 139 J Joshua J. Mutt
Joshua J. Mutt J Joined: Dec 2007 Posts: 139	Quote Yeah the golden rule is to always use USPS, and for some reason I only seem to get charged tax at the border about half the time... The only downside is if something disappears at the border, USPS says "We got it to the border that's the end of our responsibility" Canada post says "We never got it from the border" and the wonderful CBSA says "What $400 clutch?" And then my friends you are out $400. I'm only an hour from the border anyway so I could always drive down to pick up a huge item, but I hate being treated like a criminal to go across so I tend to avoid it. If I lived so close to the border I would consider dual citizenship (if they still allow it). I'm halfway considering it anyway. It would certainly make travel a lot nicer.

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