Re: Canadian Customs (was Re: Zip Chapter 11 ... Not anymore)

[aa382@Freenet.carleton.ca (Marc Sira)]

In a previous article, neufeld@helios.physics.utoronto.ca (Christopher Neufeld) says:

>   There's surely a way around this. If Big Red gets a GST billing number
>they can charge it to my credit card, mark it GST paid, and ship it
>directly to me, I won't have to walk to the mall to pick up the package,
>and pay outrageous money to get my software. I'm planning to notify Big
>Red of this soon, because until then I really can't afford to buy things
>from them. If I'd known about this wonderful customs rule I would have
>asked them to hold my other purchases until PL2.0 came in, then I would
>only have had to pay the $5.00 once.

Well, the wonderful customs rule is quite new. Yes, it does stink. I've
been dinged a couple of times now. You can at least minimise the charge by
using Canada Post rather than UPS. UPS is rather money-grubbing...they
charge a "handling fee" for calling you up and taking your card # that
generally exceeds the tariff.

I believe Quality computers may now have a GST number, as I payed no charge
on the heavy-duty power supply I just got from them (they threw in a free
power cord as well B-). 
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