Shipping to canada...

[Dave O'Connor]

No ten packs :/



On Sat, 2008-07-05 at 18:09 -0700, steve wrote:
> Check out Koolu. They have just signed up as a distributor for Canada and
> the US. 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: community-bounces at lists.openmoko.org
> [mailto:community-bounces at lists.openmoko.org] On Behalf Of Dave O'Connor
> Sent: Friday, July 04, 2008 11:27 PM
> To: List for Openmoko community discussion
> Subject: Re: Shipping to canada...
> 
> Hello.
> I'm in Canada too and myself and Railer from the #openmoko along with
> someone in my group have been doing some research into this. 
> 
> UPS Suck, they screw you on two main fees, brokerage (customs clearance) and
> bond fees.
> 
> Bond fees are for them putting up the money for GST which you can pay to
> them when the package is in transit if you want to avoid it.
> 
> Brokerage fees are the even bigger scam and these are for clearing customs.
> (These don't have to be paid at all using fedex or USPS and if openmoko
> would notice this in the future and allow more options it would be very much
> appreciated :) )
> 
> We worked it out that it's just 10 dollars extra to send it expedited and
> that includes all of their scam fees.
> 
> You can do brokerage yourself and you'd have to look into it and see how to
> do it in Alberta. For us this would involve rejecting the package and their
> extra fees, going to their depot, which is near the airport in Vancouver but
> I don't know what applies to you, and then going to customs. That's too much
> time off work for me to be worth it so we're going to go for the expedited
> delivery which is much faster and only 10 dollars more expensive than
> standard delivery + scam fees
> 
> Did I mention UPS suck?
> 
> Regards
> Dave
> 
> 
> On Fri, 2008-07-04 at 23:57 -0600, Matthias Stone wrote:
> > These are probably silly questions, but I ask anyway (and thank you 
> > for your replies)
> >  
> > a)  In shipping the phone (freerunner) to Canada, are any 
> > taxes/duty/fees applied? (buying from openmoko.com webstore)
> >  
> > b)  How long would you expect it to take to ship to Alberta using the 
> > normal (aka cheapest) shipping rate?
> >  
> > Thanks,
> > Matthias Stone
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