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Posted by greenbarn
 - November 22, 2013, 20:30:15 PM
Quote from: CDNRatMan on November 22, 2013, 18:37:50 PM

Found an elusive rectifier cover on e bay,

http://www.ebay.com/itm/K53020-161-NEW-KAWASAKI-FIRE-STEEL-VULCAN-Rectifier-Accent-/190947559933

$59.00 for the item
$45.95 for shipping to my address now check this out....
$8.98 for shipping to an APO address or to GreenBarn's zip code.....

So, what's the big deal??  Ship it to my place, Man!!!  I mean, it will fit my bike, I'm sure, right???
Posted by CDNRatMan
 - November 22, 2013, 18:37:50 PM

  Found an elusive rectifier cover on e bay,

http://www.ebay.com/itm/K53020-161-NEW-KAWASAKI-FIRE-STEEL-VULCAN-Rectifier-Accent-/190947559933

$59.00 for the item
$45.95 for shipping to my address now check this out....
$8.98 for shipping to an APO address or to GreenBarn's zip code.....

Posted by greenbarn
 - November 21, 2013, 16:49:28 PM
Quote from: 49Reo on November 20, 2013, 18:59:11 PM

I have spent too much time trying to find an aperture for an old (very old) tang sights for one of my singleshot rifles; found one finally on eBay, the seller would not ship to anywhere but the good old U.S.A. But, thanks to Greenbarn, I now have an aperture for my tang sight for my singleshot .45-70.

Many thanks, GB. Much appreciated!!

Regards,
49Reo

Hey, no problem.  It was no big deal, and I was glad I could help you out.
Posted by CDNRatMan
 - November 20, 2013, 20:49:43 PM

  That GreenBarn dude is as much a solid hero as yourself, you both have done a good deed for another member and that is what it is all about.

Posted by 49Reo
 - November 20, 2013, 18:59:11 PM

I have spent too much time trying to find an aperture for an old (very old) tang sights for one of my singleshot rifles; found one finally on eBay, the seller would not ship to anywhere but the good old U.S.A. But, thanks to Greenbarn, I now have an aperture for my tang sight for my singleshot .45-70.

Many thanks, GB. Much appreciated!!

Regards,
49Reo

Posted by 49Reo
 - October 30, 2013, 14:52:32 PM

I usually ask the sender to ship USPS. Usually quite a bit cheaper.

Posted by CDNRatMan
 - October 30, 2013, 10:57:10 AM

ok so you are maybe, like 4 hours south of here. So ride up in the spring and visit, lol too far for me to go to the city...or we can met in Barrie. UPS charges are really bad.

Posted by ahernandez74
 - October 30, 2013, 10:18:45 AM
Quote from: CDNRatMan on October 18, 2013, 13:41:01 PM

I just ordered 2 paper back books from the US,
cost of the books $5.10 ea.
cost of shipping  $24.99 ......to my house

cost of shipping to an APO $4.10.........
that is ebay.

ahernandez74 were abouts are you located to?

Outskirts of Toronto. Nothing too remote and I still get killed with the UPS rates.

Posted by 49Reo
 - October 29, 2013, 10:12:07 AM

Thanks GB, I appreciate that!

Posted by greenbarn
 - October 28, 2013, 22:13:05 PM

Hey 49 if I can help let me know.  Send me the info and I'll send the email from my address if that would help you out!.

Posted by 49Reo
 - October 28, 2013, 20:51:42 PM

Just found (at long last) an aperture for a vintage sight/ Been looking for one for over a year. Problem: seller won't even accept emails from non-U.S. email addresses. Sight aperture is only $20.00 U.S., would have had it shipped to my father in Montana, but can't even email the guy.

Poop. :(

Posted by CDNRatMan
 - October 18, 2013, 13:41:01 PM

  I just ordered 2 paper back books from the US,
cost of the books $5.10 ea.
cost of shipping  $24.99 ......to my house

cost of shipping to an APO $4.10.........
that is ebay.

ahernandez74 were abouts are you located to?

Posted by ahernandez74
 - October 18, 2013, 11:33:58 AM

Most 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 AM

  JH 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 AM
Quote from: CDNRatMan on October 10, 2013, 21:34:15 PM

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.......

It 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.

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.

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