Buyers Beware - Ordering From Canadian Businesses

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CyberSax

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If you feel tempted to take advantage of favorable exchange rates and a lack of taxes when ordering from Canadian sites, you may want to reconsider. I ordered two items from a reputable Canadian site, dragon.ca. I spent an extra 2 USD to have it shipped via airmail, which was rated as "2 - 7 days to any address in the U.S." The first item took a little less than 2 weeks to arrive. The second item, which was shipped last Wednesday, still hasn't arrived yet. This is all rather frustrating, because my house is about a 5 hour drive from where the package was shipped (Toronto). And the situation isn't helped much by the fact that the Canadian postal service offers no form of package tracking.

I have no complaints against the site itself, but the time that it takes for a package shipped from Canada to arrive here in the U.S. takes a lot longer than it should.

Next time, I think I'll pay the extra $10 and get software at Best Buy. Just some advice.

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fr

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And the UN says that Canada is the best place in the world to live.
 
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Ugghhh.. This isn't supposed to be some kind of U.S. vs. Canada thing. Save that stuff for the off topic forum.
 
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bigbigsavings

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This is COMPLETELY true. I sent payment to someone on June 5th, and the check arrived on June 19th. I paid for expedited delivery too, which was supposed to take 3 business days. You may save some cash ordering from Canada, but our postal services take FOREVER.

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<< fr: And they are absolutely correct... >>



you couldn't pay me enough to move to that god forsaken place. Like I will give up my 70/80 degree January/February/March weather to live in that crap sub-zero weather.
 
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bigbigsavings

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rickn,

It's 86F here today. Sure, it gets cold in the winter, but jeez, we don't live in igloos you know! Toronto is a pretty good place to live, although I'd trade it for somewhere down south anyday.

Alex
 
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