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Originally Posted by Wogsterca
Those are American dealers, paying $10 for a 50 cent piece of leather is bad enough, paying $40 in customs, brokerage and taxes on top of that $10, is insane....
If Nashbar wanted to make a killing, they would set up a deal with a logistics company, where they collect up Canadian orders, which have Canadian destination labels and waybills attached, these are loaded into a container, that is shipped to a logistics company, in Canada. They open the container and cross dock everything to a Canadian courier company, who deliver the items. Because one shipment (the container) crosses the border, only one brokerage needs to be done, a manifest contains all of the items and a single brokerage fee is paid, along with customs duties. A small Nashbar office in Canada processes Canadian payments, and collects the appropriate taxes. A second website (nashbar.ca?) would have Canadian pricing and shipping information, items where customs is due, it would be buried in the price). UPS, Purolator (a Canadian courier company) and Fedex, have logistics operations, not sure about DHL, they are not that big in Canada, and did once charge me US$50 in brokerage fees on a $10 item, that didn't even have customs due!
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