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[Blurrz]

Why don't you just mail the box set home? that would give you more room in your suitcase.

Canuckian customs would kick him in the jewels.

[kirbenvost]

Why don't you just mail the box set home? that would give you more room in your suitcase.

Canuckian customs would kick him in the jewels.

Yeah, $300 box set = MINIMUM $30 customs fees, at least twice as much if you use a courier.

[DISCHARGE]

Why don't you just mail the box set home? that would give you more room in your suitcase.

Canuckian customs would kick him in the jewels.

Yeah, $300 box set = MINIMUM $30 customs fees, at least twice as much if you use a courier.

That sucks. I don't really know anything about customs fees. How would they know to charge $30 dollars. It is more of a gift, since the item is just being mailed across the border, by it's owner.
Or is $30 a basic fee for the box size? I mean if I had family in Canada and I shipped them something, they would be responsible for a customs fee? taxes have already been paid, I don't see why the Canadian govt has any right to impose taxes on something that was not sold in their country.

[Stormrider]

Why do they all have the same shade of blue? Did FunPub get a discount on blue?

[GetRightRobot]

Why do they all have the same shade of blue? Did FunPub get a discount on blue?

That literally, made me smile.

[Blurrz]

I don't see why the Canadian govt has any right to impose taxes on something that was not sold in their country.

Just one of the many invisible fees that the government has in order to recooperate costs for some of Canada's 'free' services (Health Care)

[DISCHARGE]

I don't see why the Canadian govt has any right to impose taxes on something that was not sold in their country.

Just one of the many invisible fees that the government has in order to recooperate costs for some of Canada's 'free' services (Health Care)

Does this mean that customs will open your package?
I was reading up on mailing to Canada. It states that if an item is valued as a gift of $60 or less it is exempt from duties and fess.
Why would you not just mark it as such to avoid the fees?

[Blurrz]

Why would you not just mark it as such to avoid the fees?

Can't send a gift to yourself. One does not simply succeed in tricking the system either with stating a lower price. Tried to do it a few times and it just never works out well.

And don't all customs open packages? I'm quite sure the US does that with select stuff, especially post 9/11.



I wonder how successful this set will be. I don't think it'll have the same allure as the '09 SG set had.

[DISCHARGE]

Why would you not just mark it as such to avoid the fees?

Can't send a gift to yourself. One does not simply succeed in tricking the system either. Tried to do it a few times and it just never works out well.

And don't all customs open packages? I'm quite sure the US does that with select stuff, especially post 9/11.



I wonder how successful this set will be. I don't think it'll have the same allure as the '09 SG set had.

If the U.S. opens packages, they are real good about sealing them up.
I've only gotten one package from China that was messed up, and the seller said it looked like China customs opened it up because they repacked it in an EMS bag. Other than that I've been good. I've also never had to pay any excess fees
to get property from a foreign country either.
Couldn't you just get a buddy from Botcon to put his name and address on the return part of the box?

I'm starting to think everything I learned about Canada from Canadian Bacon is not accurate.
Also:
http://www.discospock.com/humor/perkycanda.html

[Midnight_Fox]

There's a lot of wasted space in that box. Which sucks for people like me who are flying out of BotCon because that means this thing is gonna take up a lot of room in my suitcase. Which also means I won't be able to buy as much stuff in the dealer room. Not like there's going to be much there I'm interested now that they've banned all 3rd party items. They could have made that box a lot more compact and more presentable at the same time.

Do what I did last year: use it as your second carry on.