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01-11-2008, 12:50 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Nov 2006 Location: Ottawa, Ontario, Canada | | | Canada/US Customs question
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A bass valued at about $600, shipped from the US to me in Canada via UPS, how much will I have to pay in customs? |
01-11-2008, 12:56 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Dec 2002 Location: Prince Edward Island | | | Can be a couple hundred dollars.
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01-11-2008, 03:14 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Nov 2005 Location: Listowel/KW Ontario | | | GST+PST and brokerage fees, which are about $40-80.
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01-11-2008, 03:51 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Dec 2002 Location: Prince Edward Island | | | Brokerage fees through FedEX are $20 for every $100 that the item is worth, so yup, $60.
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01-11-2008, 04:00 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jan 2007 Location: Winnipeg, MB | | | brokerage through ups kicked my butt lasttime i got something shipped by them. Ordered a new shift knob (paid 60.00 usd). When it arrived, they said i owed them 55.00 brokerage fees.
I ended up just getting it shipped to right at the US boarder at "Menke's Parcel". They held it for me and i drove down and picked it up.
You can ALSO pick up/clear the package yourself and get past the brokerage fees if your heart so desires. It IS more work though.
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01-11-2008, 05:38 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Nov 2005 Location: Listowel/KW Ontario | | | Or you can have it shipped USPS, no brokerage fees, but you still have to pay GST/PST.
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01-12-2008, 12:22 PM
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Originally Posted by iamlowsound Or you can have it shipped USPS, no brokerage fees, but you still have to pay GST/PST.
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That's the only way I accept to have the thing I buy shipped.
If someone or a comapany ship UPS only I'm not buying.
Fedex is not as bad a UPS but USPS is the best way to go.
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01-12-2008, 12:40 PM
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Originally Posted by Yvon +1
That's the only way I accept to have the thing I buy shipped.
If someone or a comapany ship UPS only I'm not buying.
Fedex is not as bad a UPS but USPS is the best way to go. | I will still usually buy, but only if it will come out cheaper than if I bought it in Canada. Which most of the time it does.
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01-12-2008, 05:53 PM
| | Trilla | | Join Date: Nov 2007 Location: Orange Park, FL | | | What is the best way to ship via USPS? Taking the bass apart? I'm not sure they'll accept a box with a bass. If someone could tell me if it's possible to ship via USPS with a big box, then I'd be happy. Superconductor doesn't seem to mind how long it'll take, so long as it isn't a year. BTW, a bass of mine is the one in question from the OP.
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01-12-2008, 06:25 PM
|  | NYAN NYAN NYAN NYAN NYAN! | | Join Date: Jul 2006 Location: Vancouver, BC, Canada | | | Ugh. I was wondering about this, myself. I'm hoping to take deliver on a custom in a few weeks, and am dreading paying the fees. Sigh. |
01-12-2008, 06:32 PM
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Originally Posted by Ben Lesser Ugh. I was wondering about this, myself. I'm hoping to take deliver on a custom in a few weeks, and am dreading paying the fees. Sigh. | it cost me close to 500$ when I received my Lecompte!
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01-12-2008, 06:45 PM
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Originally Posted by Yvon it cost me close to 500$ when I received my Lecompte! |    |
01-12-2008, 08:32 PM
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Originally Posted by Ben Lesser |
If possible try to have it ship USPS or if the luthier can as a warranty repair.
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01-12-2008, 08:37 PM
| | Trilla | | Join Date: Nov 2007 Location: Orange Park, FL | | | Hopefully someone can tell me about HOW they've shipped it via USPS, like if they took it apart or not, and what type of shipping they paid for, etc.
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01-12-2008, 10:07 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Nov 2005 Location: Listowel/KW Ontario | | | You don't have to take it apart.
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