Buying from Canada!

I ship and receive with Canada quite often. Most of the major shippers act as brokers, therefore, no brokerage fees beyond stated shipping charge. Don't ship via postal services, you or shipper will act as broker, pay separate fees, package may sit in customs for who knows how long. I know this from hard earned experience. I'd not trust a $50 shipping cost being the end of your cost and/or hassles, way too cheap, unless shipper has special deal with shippers. You should not have to pay any custom duties, but I'll not guarantee that. Generally, I've shipped and had products shipped to me stating item for repair, somehow, one time I had to pay a separate customs fee. I suspect customs inspectors may be variable in inspecting packages.

akg_ca is correct. You may or may not get lucky with customs charges. This is why I've been advised to state items for repair on customs document, in my case this has been true statement. Recently shipped $1k item to Canada via Fedex, recipient did not have to pay added customs fees. The one case where I had to pay customs it was obvious package had been opened. I'll also reiterate with postal services its a crapshoot, I've had small value packages go through both with and without delays, couple terrible experiences with larger value packages, in one case package lost in customs for over two months.! Never again!