To the OP, ask the seller to write a receipt for the amount paid and declare it at the boarder. If you don’t declare it you may have get in trouble and pay tariffs and taxes on the new value of the item.
@allenf1963 Everyone seems to chalk Canada’s response to tariffs only.
As a Canadian, I truely believe our response would not be so aggressive if our country was not threatened to be taken over or absorbed on multiple occasions.
I would ask anyone who can’t understand our reaction to all of this, to please try to think about what you would do if the leader of another country voiced this type of desire towards your country.
Greg