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

[Gene Heskett]

On Saturday 21 March 2015 18:56:25 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

And its been my experience that Fedex gets it right a noticably higher 
percentage of the time. UPS failures seem to run well above 25%.

> 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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Cheers, Gene Heskett
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"There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty:
 soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order."
-Ed Howdershelt (Author)
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