Buying used audio equipment in peron in Canada


Anyone has ever bought used audio equipment in person in Canada and took it back to USA ? What is the cost associated with that. What taxes do you pay at the border ? What if you paid cash ? 
Thanks !

slyniwa

If you think about it for a minute. We audiophiles worry about paying more money in a tax or a tariff for a piece of audio equipment we want. How petty and ridiculous when you stand back and look at the larger picture. Our allies and their leaders are hating us because of our deranged lunatic leader. When such a man like Adolf tried to create a nation of a super race and failed the world hated Nazi Germans for decades. All German people were labeled this way. Now you see America being labeled. It’s a tragedy.

I'm from NYC, I visit Montreal and sometimes other parts of Canada regularly. Not too long ago I was in the Charlevoix region of Quebec (very beautiful btw) and I was following some 'food trail' thing. I ran into a farm where they made wine from tomatoes. Who knew? If I recall, the farmer was of Belgian descent and explained to us that at some point in WWII the Nazis confiscated grapes and/or grape wine so the Belgians learned to make wine from tomatoes. I tasted it and it was quite good. So we bought a case without checking how much we were allowed to bring back duty-free. When driving back, I declared the tomato wine (and told the story) and expressed embarrassment at not knowing that I was over the limit. He just looked at me and basically said 'just get the hell out of here', which I did lol. 

Canada and the US are both former British colonies that became independent sovereign states by very different means.  

The US became independent through a revolutionary war, whereas Canada became independent by legal means with the willing participation of the UK - basically separation followed by divorce through acts of parliament.

You can end a marriage two ways - separation and divorce, or do what Henry the VIIIth did on a chopping block.

The result of Canadian independence is that the British sovereign (King or Queen) is our symbolic head of state but with no power - purely a figurehead.  It is not unlike divorcing someone who still uses their married last name long after the divorce.

Canada is a strong, free, independent and a sovereign state and a valued and respected member of the G7, NATO, the Commonwealth, La Francophonie, the UN etc.  We are nobody's 51st state!

The buck tooth British queen and her royal inbred family holds the legal title to 89% of Canadian land today

Our current German/Scot American leader and all his part Soviet children shall help the spineless canadian peasants (subservient to the crown, laying on the dirt) grow a spine with this great audiophile track. We shall liberate them from the plunders of the Brit Monarch.

Busta Rhymes - This means war

https://youtu.be/NDWvesHh_Gc?si=mnanFx8Iel7SmjRw

(You only need to turn the recent history pages to observe the unmatched cruelty of the Brit monarch, what she did to the Irish, the Scots, the Africans, Indians, etc...The Canadianos need liberation)

 

 

You can end a marriage two ways - separation and divorce, or do what Henry the VIIIth did on a chopping block.

The result of Canadian independence is that the British sovereign (King or Queen) is our symbolic head of state but with no power - purely a figurehead. It is not unlike divorcing someone who still uses their married last name long after the divorce.

Canada is a strong, free, independent and a sovereign state and a valued and respected member of the G7, NATO, the Commonwealth, La Francophonie, the UN etc. We are nobody’s 51st state!

I’ve had high dollar archtop guitars, delivered across the BC border by owners who sold them to me. They don’t declare anything, namely because the guitars were made in America. I’ve driven high dollar amplifiers across the border myself, and simply expressed I was sampling it against an audiophile’s amplifier I was considering in trade. Yes I lied. Lying is what we humans do. I lie, you lie, everyone lies. Since the amp was made in America there’s no duty because it’s originally made here. But if you tell an unconvincing lie, be prepared for consequences.