Holy,,just paid 311.33$ for tax to pick up laptop

[khunkami]

bought a laptop yesterday via Ebay. They shipped it via UPS to Canada.
Thing is i just paid 311.33$ for tax something.
It cost that much?
i dont get it.
they didnt even notice me. If i knew i didnt buy it : (

well, tax suks

 

[Sundog]

Sorry to hear it was so much.

The canadian import taxes are not new news though.

 

[MrChad]

 

[CraigRT]

duty fees, brokerage.. massive waste of $.
your typical money grab scam, the company should be shot for that crap...

 

[Sphexi]

Called Import Tax, you pay GST/PST like everything else on the declared value. UPS requires a declared value to insure things now, if the guy claimed it was worth $800, you likely would pay something like $200 on it, which includes GST/PST plus a fee from UPS for like $40+ for being a custom's agent. I sent my wife a computer last Christmas, put down $800 as the value, she had to pay about $200 in fees.

 

[khunkami]

the company said they are responsible for that.
man;;

bytheway, the moneygram crab scam, I told the guy f**k off!

 

[Instan00dles]

never, ever get anything shipped to canada from the states with UPS! either usps or fedex, ups has some outgrageous brokerage fees

 

[Sundog]

Originally posted by: Instan00dles
never, ever get anything shipped to canada from the states with UPS! either usps or fedex, ups has some outgrageous brokerage fees

You still have to declare a value on the item(s) shipped, and it needs to be the correct value if you want to insure it for the proper amount.

 

[Sphexi]

Originally posted by: Sundog

Originally posted by: Instan00dles
never, ever get anything shipped to canada from the states with UPS! either usps or fedex, ups has some outgrageous brokerage fees

You still have to declare a value on the item(s) shipped, and it needs to be the correct value if you want to insure it for the proper amount.

Exactly. UPS got hit with the same thing companies like Radioshack and BB did. They're not licensed and bonded insurance companies, so they can't offer or talk about "insurance" for products. In Radioshack's case, they couldn't offer Verizon's monthly insurance plan. In UPS' case, they couldn't offer shipping insurance anymore. Now, they just ask what the declared value is, calculate it by a percentage, and add that onto the shipping cost as an extra fee.

If you ship to Canada from the US, and don't care about making a claim later on because you trust it'll get there (or like gambling), just declare it for under $50. I send up packages all the time, mark them as gifts (mostly because they are), and mark the values real low, and nobody gets charged.

 

[Instan00dles]

Originally posted by: Sundog

Originally posted by: Instan00dles
never, ever get anything shipped to canada from the states with UPS! either usps or fedex, ups has some outgrageous brokerage fees

You still have to declare a value on the item(s) shipped, and it needs to be the correct value if you want to insure it for the proper amount.

Yes I know but UPS has its own brokerage fees depending on the declared value of the package, fedex is lower and I believe usps is a flate rate of 5 dollars. Of course there is your tax on top of that.

 

[Looney]

Because it's UPS. Should have gone with USPS.

 

[Sundog]

Originally posted by: Sphexi
If you ship to Canada from the US, and don't care about making a claim later on because you trust it'll get there (or like gambling), just declare it for under $50. I send up packages all the time, mark them as gifts (mostly because they are), and mark the values real low, and nobody gets charged.

Not always the case though. I have had packages opened up and the declared value changed (by customs) because they thought the declared value was too low.

 

[khunkami]

this company doesnt under stand that they should write down "gift" on the package.
now i paid 1900$ for new laptop.
sigh...
thought I paid lower than normal price, so i was kinda happy : (

Damn UPS!

 

[Sphexi]

Originally posted by: Sundog

Originally posted by: Sphexi
If you ship to Canada from the US, and don't care about making a claim later on because you trust it'll get there (or like gambling), just declare it for under $50. I send up packages all the time, mark them as gifts (mostly because they are), and mark the values real low, and nobody gets charged.

Not always the case though. I have had packages opened up and the declared value changed (by customs) because they thought the declared value was too low.

Like I said, if you like gambling. I've never had them do that, but obviously if you ship up a computer, in the box that the case originally came in, and declare it for $5, they MAY be a bit suspicious. Just claim it's a computer case, declare it for $100, and worst comes to worst the person has to pay about $20 or so in duty.

 

[Encryptic]

Jeebus....I hope they at least included some lube with that. :Q

 

[Sundog]

Originally posted by: khunkami
this company doesnt under stand that they should write down "gift" on the package.
now i paid 1900$ for new laptop.
sigh...
thought I paid lower than normal price, so i was kinda happy : (

Damn UPS!

You would be asking a company to commit fraud at that point. It is not their fault.

 

[khunkami]

that's true.
yet i paid too much to buy from Ebay.

 

[CraigRT]

Originally posted by: Instan00dles
never, ever get anything shipped to canada from the states with UPS! either usps or fedex, ups has some outgrageous brokerage fees

Agree, I've learned the hard way not to use UPS.. USPS is better than Fedex still, for Brokerage. Fedex is great otherwise. But when using international shipping between US and Canada, never not use USPS!

 

[Ausm]

They should have at least included a complimentary jug of KY jelly with that deal!


Ausm

 

[FoBoT]

next time buy a canadian laptop?

 

[DaWhim]

owned by customs. why didn't you tell your seller ship it via usps marked as gift?

OWNED

 

[Looney]

Originally posted by: khunkami
this company doesnt under stand that they should write down "gift" on the package.
now i paid 1900$ for new laptop.
sigh...
thought I paid lower than normal price, so i was kinda happy : (

Damn UPS!

Writing down 'gift' only applies to things that are $50 or less. Writing 'gift' on anything above that means SQUAT.

 

[khunkami]

canadian laptop ey : )
just tell me drink canadian coke or pepsi

 

[trinketsummoner]

Sending an item marked as a gift when it isnt would be fraud. You'd pay taxes if you had bought it in Canada too and you said you still saved money so whats the problem? Imagine they had sent it insured for $50 as a gift and it was lost or damaged, id imagine you would be pretty annoyed at that too?

 

[FoBoT]

Originally posted by: khunkami
this company doesnt under stand that they should write down "gift" on the package.

that would be FRAUD

you don't want them to go to jail