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Shipping from the US to Canada - Best service

The amount of used equipment in Canada is surprisingly limited and the prices often inflated due to limited supply. I have bought many things off E-Bay from the U.S. but mainly small and not quite as fragile as audio equipment. Ebay also offers cross-border services to make life easier for shippers.

I am looking at 3 different methods:

- Ship directly (UPS, etc.)

- Ship to a location in the US near the border and driving to pick up (there are many services)

- Use a 3rd party cross-border service. Item gets shipped to them,  and then they get it into Canada and the final destination. I was surprised this could be much cheaper than UPS or FEDEX direct.


My question is for sellers:
- I assume it is much easier for you to ship within the U.S.?  Would this influence your desire to sell an item as opposed to someone in Canada?

- Would you be uncomfortable shipping to a 3rd party forwarder and prefer to ship to a pickup location (these are staffed and monitored)

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yyzsantabarbara
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I have used UPS and FedEx for items I sold to Canadian buyers. In fact, I used UPS to ship a Benchmark HPA4 preamp to a guy in France. UPS did all the customs work and the buyer had to pay duty. Same thing occurred for Canada.

I am actually in Toronto for a few weeks and hope to check out Kennedy HiFi or some other shops.

BTW - USAudiomart for Canada has some good used prices.

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