Peter.J

Question for Soul wheel owners,

Did you pay duties on these wheels when shipped to US/Canada? How much?

Thanks.

bdcheung

I paid nothing.

Washington, DC area.

sjumper

Unless they marked the value to be less than $60CAD, you'll have to pay PST+GST+brokerage. If they shipped postal service, Canada Post will charge you $5 brokerage. Value will also be based on dollar conversion if value wasn't specified in CAD. If they shipped by courier, brokerage fees will be insane.

This applies to everything shipped into Canada. Bike parts generally don't have additional duty. Bike clothing gets hit hard with duty.

rbart4506

^^sjumper has it....My experience in bringing stuff into Canada...Only use postal and no UPS or other courier...

mazdatech10

have never paid anything

graphs

Yep. Only bring things into Canada via post or you will pay dearly in brokerage fees.

JonnyUtah75

Uggg...it's been almost a month since I ordered and it they still haven't shipped. Did anyone else's take this long to ship?

pdedes

my canadian experience is, about half my out-of-country purchases get dinged, other than jenson which collects the taxes on behalf of canada revenue.

Peter.J

Does Sean put a value on the package?

m4ximusprim3

I ordered my white S4's on 12/19 and they're finally in the mail as of last friday. Consider yourself lucky it hasn't been 2+ months.

aggarcia

I got on the Soul S4.0 waiting list back on 01/25. I was told 3 week waiting time, expect total time till I had them in Houston of 5 weeks ( should have by end of Feb). They shipped on Wednesday, with delivery expected late next week. A week late is bad, but not too bad. I have been sitting on a set of GP4000s waiting for these wheels. I know they will be better than my Bontrager SSR's. 2+ months and I would have been looking some where else.

coasting 

how is it that so many imports are not getting taxed? it is not in the interest of the shipping company to not tax. in fact it is in their interest to tax so they don't get caught out if inspected, so why are they not being overly cautious and taxing everything and then leaving the people to appeal for refund? that's what happens here more often than not.

pdedes

taxes are owed by the end user in whichever state, province or country the goods are shipped to.

coasting 

and whichever country. that's not the issue

intence

It's because the orignal poster is in Canada. My experience has been this:

-Canada Post / UPS / whoever in Canada will ding you whenever possible. You may dodge the broker representation fee by using Canada Post (or your country's postal service which eventually hands off to Canada post), but UPS will ding you even more for "representing you" at the border

-USPS generally couldn't care less. I remember one guy who paid duty after ordering a LOT of stuff from PBK or one of the other UK sellers but generally i've done several big orders and USPS doesn't seem to care.

In short, if you're in Canada and ordering from Soul, PBK, Ribble, CRC, etc. There's a good chance you're going to get taxed. If you're in the US, you'll probably get away with it.

I can't remember who it was (Ribble or PBK I think), but they marked a pretty larger order as "Gift". I found it pretty funny.

coasting 

i wish they were as slack here. even when i'm sending stuff, the post office makes a fuss about my description as gift when i sent tea and chocolates to usa.

AngryScientist 

i didnt get hit with any taxes on my SOUL purchase, but i agree that about 50% of what i buy from the UK gets dinged with a tax. Its almost always when the package is physically large (wheels) rather than small (shifters).

rbart4506

Actually, intence, it's pretty rare that I get charged any tax when I order stuff into Canada utilizing Canada Post...Especially stuff from PBK....

thesmoothdome

No additional charges from what Sean listed on the website. Great wheel FWIW.

rufvelo

still you continue to live there for what? must be the superior healthcare coverage...

Val23708

US only sticks duty on textiles, though ive had that go through fine every time..

4cmd3

Canada:
My first PBK purchase, I owed about 13-14% when I went to pick it up from the postal outlet.
($65 on $469)

We'll see what happens on the second purchase when it arrives.

pdedes

depending on which province you're in, if your out of country package arrives via canada post, and they catch it, you'll pay the gst, your province's pst plus $5 handling. clothing will be subject to a further duty.

gregf83 

Most items from the UK to BC under $100 are not taxed. Over that bike parts are 5% GST only (no PST or duty).

cc3chan

Bike clothing gets hit the hardest. I had to pay the 13% GST+PST and duty at 18%! so that's 31% worth of taxes and duty. Unless the price is really, really good, I wouldn't buy from the UK again compared to buying from the US.