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Originally Posted by TechniSol
Oh, he fully realized certain items are not able to be shipped outside US manufactured by US companies, esp. tech., but how that affects a Chinese product purchased through a US Storefront/facilitator sent to Canada one must wonder.
However, he was very surprised to find that items as innocuous as an ereader cover might not be shipped from China to Canada... Again wondering what the trade restriction or shipping policy causing that would be? Perhaps import taxes or something the shipper does not wish to bother with, or cannot be quoted up front? I've seen mention of some sort of VAT(like items trading to England) or the like being possible when buying items from Canada through EBay, perhaps it's that, but on incoming goods? C'mon, you Canadians should know the drill on this if you've bought stuff from importers.
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I've been through the drill often enough. However, most of the issues seem to be shippers who simply don't want to ship to Canada or any where other than the 48 contiguous states.
The real laugh was one gentleman in Toronto who will not ship to Canada. His reasoning being that if he only ships to the States, he doesn't have to worry about taxes while if he ships inside Canada, he has to collect and remit the HST or the GST (and PST, if applicable).
At one point, I ended up borrowing a co-worker's mail box in Blaine, WA. as the ship to address (it's one of those PO box rental places that gives what looks like an apartment number to the box), then driving down and picking the package up on the weekend. This was after my first order took over 4 weeks to arrive at my door. The shipper's claim was that the delays in shipping were on the Canadian side of the border while the tracker showed the parcel sitting in a facility in Indiana(?) for over 16 days with no movement before it miraculously appeared on this side of the border and was delivered to me about 40 hours later.
Regards,
David