Shipping to Canada ... hints, tips ...

[lopxtc]

Okay all selling my marker to an AO user in Canada, and had a couple questions ...

I know its best to put sporting goods on the contents instead of Paintball Gun ...

But what about anything else, I have heard that if you record the item as a gift that they wont get hit with import taxes or what not ...


Thanks in advance,

Aaron

[mcveighr]

How are you sending it?

[Creative Mayhem]

good start, you need to send it with out the barrel on the marker. And listing as a gift only REALLY works if you list it as under $50CAD, but seeing as it is a gun, you might have a problem insuring it for more thatn the $50 bucks. the buyer will more than likely have to eat the taxes and duties, but you can always try... Hope it helps.

[lopxtc]

People actually ship their markers with the barrels on? On man, thats an accident waiting to happen ....

Yeah I figured that he was going to get stuck with the taxes ...

Originally posted by Creative Mayhem
good start, you need to send it with out the barrel on the marker. And listing as a gift only REALLY works if you list it as under $50CAD, but seeing as it is a gun, you might have a problem insuring it for more thatn the $50 bucks. the buyer will more than likely have to eat the taxes and duties, but you can always try... Hope it helps.

What is the recommend method of shipping;

USPS
FedEX

Aaron

[cphilip]

Definately not USPS as you cannot get delivery confirmation on it.

[adam shannon]

use ups..its more expensive but you will be able to track the shipment.

disassemble the marker so it doesnt immediately look like a gun!

you can list the value of the marker below $50 to save the receiver the tax burden...but if you do and its lost you wont recoup the full cost if you listed the value as $49.

[sime]

NOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!


UPS is bad for canadians!!!!

Not only do we get stuck with taxes, duties and what ever else, they slap on a "brokerage" fee! Case and point; I purchesed a $20 bike part, shipped ups. They slapped on a $40 brokerage. What was a good deal turned into a rip off. Even from friends UPS burns me. So please, do your buyer a favor and don't ship UPS. Priority USPS is definatly prefered, and I believe you can get a tracking number.

Beyond that mayhem is right. Though you can list it as a "sample"; you can always try that. Implies that the reciever payed nothing, but it can still have a value.....

[cphilip]

Originally posted by sime
[B Priority USPS is definatly prefered, and I believe you can get a tracking number.
. [/B]

I just tried to ship a USPS priority with delivery confirmation to Canada this past Monday.... No dice. Not available to Canada. So then we tried International Delivery Confirmation...agian not available... USPS is not the way to go here.

So if your saying UPS is out and I know USPS is out... then its gotta be like Fed Ex or one a dem others like airborne or something.

[sime]

maybe i'm too trusting in this, but I'd rather go with USPS and a man's word it was shipped, over UPS and pay $80 when mr. brown pants knocks on my door. so much so, I insist upon USPS. If it's gotta be UPS I have it sent to a friend in the states, and go from there.

FedEx is better then UPS, they certainly don't over charge when the package arrives, just the cost at customs.

so i'd be e-mailing the buyer and ask him his preference, a non-tracable package, or the cost of UPS upon delivery.

[cphilip]

Well I would certainly like to know the best solution here. Because I get a lot of calls from Canadians and I just do not have a good way to do this so I often turn them down. I hate to do that. Its not fair!

[Eric Cartman]

I just tried to ship a USPS priority with delivery confirmation to Canada this past Monday.... No dice. Not available to Canada.

That's weird bud. AGD shipped me my ULE trigger pull kit via USPS and provided me with a tracking number which I was able to use to track my package over teh internet. The odd thing was that I guess they handed it over to Fed Ex or Purolater (can't remember which) at the border, because that's who wound up with the shipment and I had to go and get it from them. About a month later, I got a bill from some company who had paid my duty for me and I had to pay them.

Stay away from UPS though!!! My brother got hit with a charge of about $150.00 when AGD shipped him out a new valve for his mag. He had sent his valve in for repair and instead of fixing it (it was ancient), they sent him a new one. After fighting with UPS, he eventually got the charge lowered to $75.00. Since they had his credit card info, he had no choice but to pay.

Getting things shipped from the US blows hard... like the Canadian wind in Winter.

[cphilip]

Are you sure? Cause AGD uses UPS not USPS... And sounds to me like thats what you got was UPS.

Yea it sucks but most of its YOUR fault. All the duties and taxes that have to be levied restrict things coming in OR OUT of Canada. Its a nightmare. I can get 15 Hispanics across the Mexican boarder easier!

[tranman]

AGD will ship USPS if you ask them, when i won my intelliframe, i asked for USPS and they shipped it that way.

[cphilip]

but what happens when it gets to the boarder? Like his seems to went wacko!

[Jeffy-CanCon]

cross-border shipping

A package sent via USPS to Canada should be handed over to Canada Post when it arrives here. Canada Post has a parcel service called "Purolator".

There are no duties on US-made goods shipped into Canada, under NAFTA. There ARE provincial and federal sales taxes applicable, which usually amount to about 15%.

UPS charges a Customs Brokerage Fee which effectively doubles the taxes. I don't know about Fed-Ex.