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Posted by ahernandez74
- October 18, 2013, 11:33:58 AMMost of the time its the shipping cost associated with shipping to Canada. It's ridiculous. UPS likes to spike up the cost and add on the customs fees and what not. It's just not worth it to pay the extra cost. Sometimes you'll luck out and find a company wiling to ship for a fair price, but other times we get killed on the shipping cost.
I don't live close enough to the border to just walk over and do that... It's kinda tough.
Posted by CDNRatMan
- October 16, 2013, 08:07:11 AMJH this is not on my part a moan or a complaint or whinning, I have grown accustomed to this and have learned to live with it. It is a apin every so often and we just adapt to it. This is more just a statment of fact.
Posted by John Hopkins
- October 16, 2013, 07:11:55 AMQuote from: CDNRatMan on October 10, 2013, 21:34:15 PMIt seems to me that 25% in 'visiable' taxes is way too much, that is the sort of thing that started the American war of independence..All of our governments seem to exist to overtax us but I suppose in Canada and Britain the counterbalance is a very heavily subsidised medical package with free hospitals and doctors, free medicine for some, an old age pension, free bus transport for pensioners and free schools..we still pay to go into an old peoples home, for home nursing and to be buried but in most cases we can leave something behind for our children.another 2 cents worth
Windsor is 7.5 hours Sault Ste. Marie is 5.6 hours one way, and fuel......ok I have a 2004 GMC Jimmy for my other vehicle.
Progressive mono shock off of e bay shipped from MI to Canada to my door ........
$401.04 for shock
$ 35.20 for Shipping
$ 53.00 for taxes
$ 45.00 for import taxes.
$534.24 all done........From Canadacycle
$544.56 to my door everything included.From local Honda dealer
$535.00 everything included......However I am mystified that my good pal DC has not offered to purchase the parts I require, then offer to drive them up to me of course at his cost, and offer to buy the parts for me because of my meager military pension. I would let him spend the night to rest up and relax before his ride home in the morning.....GB would do it for me as would most other members.......
Gotta be carefull here, the above is for information only, it is not a moan and is getting dangerously close to straying from the original theme of motorcycle parts supply..
By the way the reason we call a motorcycle a motorbike is because it is easier to say and shorter to write motorbike..and some of us are lazy.
For motorcyclist read biker..
John.
Posted by 49Reo
- October 15, 2013, 20:59:37 PMA day and a half drive one way for me. Not an option. I have stuff shipped to my Dad's in Montana, and pick it up when I go to visit, about 2x/year. Some Americans will not sell to Canadians; this is really a "discriminatory" thing. To them I say, you lost the war of 1812, get over it!!!!! 
Seriously, though, it is an issue sometimes, to buy stuff from the states.
Posted by CDNRatMan
- October 10, 2013, 21:34:15 PManother 2 cents worth
Windsor is 7.5 hours Sault Ste. Marie is 5.6 hours one way, and fuel......ok I have a 2004 GMC Jimmy for my other vehicle.
Progressive mono shock off of e bay shipped from MI to Canada to my door ........
$401.04 for shock
$ 35.20 for Shipping
$ 53.00 for taxes
$ 45.00 for import taxes.
$534.24 all done........
From Canadacycle
$544.56 to my door everything included.
From local Honda dealer
$535.00 everything included......
However I am mystified that my good pal DC has not offered to purchase the parts I require, then offer to drive them up to me of course at his cost, and offer to buy the parts for me because of my meager military pension. I would let him spend the night to rest up and relax before his ride home in the morning.....GB would do it for me as would most other members.......
Posted by aralph
- October 10, 2013, 20:14:20 PMHey my turn, I live in Windsor right across from Detroit.
Most American sellers and companies ship free within the USA.
As Ratman says they want a "hockey sock" or a ton of cash to ship to Canada.
Type in a Canadian postal code next time your on ebay and see how stupid things get.
I usually ship to the UPS store just on the other side and pick it.
You don't have to rent a box, just ship it there with a contact # and they let you know when
it arrives for a small fee.
Almost $10 in tunnel toll fees and then possibly duty and taxes at the border.
Not everything has duty.
My Corbin seat and Vanes & Hines exhaust was only the taxes. Only 13% in Ontario. 
So it really has to be a good deal to be worth your while.
aralph
Posted by CDNRatMan
- October 10, 2013, 19:07:24 PMlol we lived on the walk side of the street, but my dad being the smart guy he was told us to leave the house the same time as the bus left from the corner, we were to walk straight to the school and not dawdle, walk normal and properly, if they gave us a detention for being late we were not to serve it we were to come straight home and he would deal with it. We never did have to deal with it.....think he did on a regular basis, the next year the line was moved to the field behind our street....
Posted by Troll
- October 10, 2013, 18:04:10 PMI would imagine you had to walk....
Posted by CDNRatMan
- October 10, 2013, 17:37:58 PMJohn when I was in high school, if you lived on the even side of our street you were allowed to ride the bus, if you lived on the odd side of the street you had to walk be cause the middle of the street was the "LINE" on who could and who could not ride the bus.
Posted by John Hopkins
- October 10, 2013, 17:31:30 PMYeah I guess I know how big Canada is, what I don't really know is how far each forum member is from the border..The idea must have already have been thought about by people who are close to the border..probably even have worked out how to use an empty lot in the town as their address when they opened the box..but I think it is wrong that someone a mile in one direction pays more or less for the same item as someone a mile in the other direction..
John.
Posted by chief
- October 10, 2013, 16:03:04 PMUnfortunately, with VAT, customs fees and just regular shipping fees a lot of people don't want to deal with shipping. Canada is a BIG country... it would be like driving from Hastings to Inverness or more in some cases.
Posted by DC
- October 10, 2013, 11:00:52 AMSounds like a business model that someone is probably making money from.
Posted by CDNRatMan
- October 10, 2013, 09:41:51 AM You have the basic understanding John, for example, I find my progressive shocks on Amazon.com, I order them and get doen the ordering and do the shipping info and then the system will inform me that there is an error with my order and that amazon.com does not ship to my address. Lots of e bay sellers do not ship to Canada. Those that do charge you a hockey sock for shipping and import charges.
It is at least a 6 hour drive/ride to the nearest border crossing for me, I then have to get the post office box, now a lot of towns close to the border are on to that game and will not rent out a box if you give your Canadian Home address. Then you have to cross the border and deal with CBSA or customs, and then you have to claim the items, and pay the duty and the HST tax on it so you have not really gained anything.
Now aralph he might be in on the know better then me because he lives right on the border.
Posted by John Hopkins
- October 10, 2013, 08:39:23 AMAfter reading through a few of these posts I have come to the conclusion that it is difficult for Canadians to get some parts delivered from America, of course I may have misunderstood the situation..
If there is a problem for Canadians why not cross the border at the nearest crossing and open a post office box in America and have the parts delivered there, then when you order something just cross the border and pick it up..
John.