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

[Daniel Campos]

I only get things from US over USPS. If you go to UPS, DHL, etc. will be 
all overpriced.

Daniel

On 21/03/2015 19:56, Mathieu Chouinard wrote:
> Hi,
> the last time I ordered something from the US,
> about 140USD, they shipped it via UPS
> and UPS charged me about 70CAD for
> the custom brockerage fees ...
> The problem is not so much the taxes my government
> charges but UPS being greedy. Btw it's around 25$ (fix price)
> with FedEX
>
> Mathieu
>
> On Sat, Mar 21, 2015 at 5:58 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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