I tried that with the blower, but then after all was said and done, the place I was ordering it from ended up just tacking on a service fee on thier back end, and I could have gotten it for the same price they quoted. Besides, you still pay the brokerage fee, you only save one of the taxes.
That's nonsense - you don't need a broker to ship something from one Canadian location to another Canadian location. Alberta hasn't seceded from Canada yet! What vendor in Alberta were you dealing with that charged you a service fee other than shipping?
That's nonsense - you don't need a broker to ship something from one Canadian location to another Canadian location. Alberta hasn't seceded from Canada yet! What vendor in Alberta were you dealing with that charged you a service fee other than shipping?
It wasn't the brokerage fee from Alberta, to Ontario, from what I understand, but the fee and shipping from California, to Alberta, then additional shipping from Alberta to Ontario. Basically, the price on the kit was originally $4,150.00US and by the time it would have been shipped to my door, it was going to cost me $6,500.00CAN. That's a pretty big hike, don't you think?
I don't really want to give out the name of the Vendor, becuase I've dealt with and ordered stuff from them in the past and their sevice has been fair, friendly and trouble free. But in this one particular case, it just didn't seem worth the trouble.