[Coco] Buying a Dragon from California Digital - Has anyone?

[Ken Flanagan]

Actually Gene, there would be no duty on it. At most, there might be 5%
GST. Electronics from the U.S. are exempt from duty under NAFTA.
On Mar 21, 2015 2:58 PM, "Gene Heskett" <gheskett at wdtv.com> wrote:

>
>
> On Saturday 21 March 2015 16:38:36 Al Hartman wrote:
> > Their shipping charges are outrageous!
> >
> > Maybe you can arrange to have it shipped to someone just over the
> > border to you in the U.S., and have it trans-shipped to you via the
> > Post Office.
> >
> > My bet is that they use UPS, or Fed Ex which are much more expensive
> > than the Post Office.
>
> Then you miss-understand Canadien Customs.  Just rying to carry it across
> the border without all the paperwork and tax receipts will get you 5 to
> 10.
>
> The citizens of Canada are proveably our friends.  But their government
> is so intent on collecting what they figure is their fair share of the
> taxes , and have done it for so long that they hace amply proved that
> they are no friend, but an enemy to be dealt with.
>
> Why do I feel that way?  One piece of Norpac gear we had at the tv
> station needed repairs and they do not supply schematics, so I packed it
> and sent it back to some place not too far from the falls via UPS.
> Estimated time to repair & return 2 weeks when I tallked to them on the
> phone.  A month goes by, its not back.  I call, it was shipped 3 weeks
> prior.  Ask for trace.  3 days later its found, sitting out in the
> weather and soaking wet inside the chain link fencing outside the border
> shack at the crossing & needing several thousand dollars in sales taxes
> paid before they would release it.
>
> Lesson learned.
>
> I call cbs, who insisted we buy it in the first place and learn that
> every piece of paper that came with it originally, proveing the payment
> of the taxes and customs fees was supposed to be part of the shipment
> when it went north so it would be present and accounted for when it came
> back south.
>
> Any such stuff we ever had would have been sent to corporate in Mt.
> Vernon IL, where Shiela probably pitched it once it was on the books as
> inventory.
>
> I heatedly told CBS that it was their problem, if they wanted a CBS eye
> in the lower right corner of the screen, they could fix the "problem"
> and hung  up.
>
> A month later, it shows up via ups, still soaking wet, I poured water out
> of one corner of what was left of its box.  I unpack it & stick it in
> the oven for another 2 hours at 175F a couple times a day for a week.
> Seems dry. Put back in circuit, it didn't work till some time the next
> day, worked for about a week & quit again.  I find a fresher box, pack
> it up & mail it to CBS, saying its your problem again . That took
> another 6 weeks but since it was late into the summer, it was dry when
> it came back. And it was still working when I retired, presumably till
> June 30 2008 when the analog transmitter was  turned off at midnight for
> the last time.
>
> IMO, with all the triple and quadruplicate paperwork that is needed to
> get something across the border into Canada, or vice-versa is worth $25
> to the person filling out all those forms.  Every penny of it.
>
> So $70 to Canada sounds about right. Lots and lots of paper has to go
> with it.
>
> Fix your customs, they are killing any chance of any of your
> manufacturing facilities ever competing on the world market.
>
> Cheers, Gene Heskett
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