I'm in Canada and have purchased a number of power cords from US sellers. Have them send it to you via U.S. postal service (will cost about $5 or $6 surface and will probably reach you just as fast as air which is more expensive) and tell them to declare a value of about $8 and you won't have to pay anything. Forget about the insurance; pretty hard to damage a powercord!
Shipping from US to Canada
Hi everyone,
I've never bought anything over the net before, but would like to know how the US-CAN shipping works. Let's say I buy a headphone amp for 200 USD used ... will they charge me tax on this (even though it's used)? If I ship with UPS, which is the cheapest, can I tell the seller to fix the value at say, 50 USD (and hence, pay less tax), but still have UPS insure it for 200 USD? I figure this is not too outrageous since the purchase could be something with zero market value, but worth a lot for the individual.
Thank You.
I've never bought anything over the net before, but would like to know how the US-CAN shipping works. Let's say I buy a headphone amp for 200 USD used ... will they charge me tax on this (even though it's used)? If I ship with UPS, which is the cheapest, can I tell the seller to fix the value at say, 50 USD (and hence, pay less tax), but still have UPS insure it for 200 USD? I figure this is not too outrageous since the purchase could be something with zero market value, but worth a lot for the individual.
Thank You.