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Heather Patey <hpatey@nfld.com> wrote in message news:G84tvz.3G9@lugnet.com... (...) charge - (...) one (...) else (...) My Scotiabank Value(I think) Account costs me $9.95 per month saves me $5.00 a pop on $US money orders which I figure I break (...) (24 years ago, 2-Feb-01, to lugnet.loc.ca)
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(...) I sent my membership in recently, too. I used Paypal - they now accept international accounts. I made my fee $13, to make it just under $CDN 20. BUT Paypal adds a 2.6% (or 2.9%?) + $US 0.30 as a surcharge on international transactions. This (...) (24 years ago, 2-Feb-01, to lugnet.loc.ca)
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(...) I have a US Borderless account at Canada Trust, which includes free money orders for $4.95 a month. (They charge $3.50 otherwise, same as the post office.) I just did a quick look around to see what the other banks charge - not easy to find! (...) (24 years ago, 2-Feb-01, to lugnet.loc.ca)
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(...) I'm assuming that the $3.50 is for the possessing of a U.S. money order; cause American stamps simply costs $.60! Try using the Royal Bank, they don't charge the processing fees that some banks do on creating foreign money orders. P.S. I know, (...) (24 years ago, 2-Feb-01, to lugnet.loc.ca)
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(...) Close enough.....$3.50 CAD just so the post office can "stamp" a piece of paper saying it is worth $10 USD! (24 years ago, 2-Feb-01, to lugnet.loc.ca)
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Why did you pay $4 for a stamp? ;-) -Adam (...) (24 years ago, 1-Feb-01, to lugnet.loc.ca)
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I finally got around to sending in my LUGNET membership fee today. I got a US$10 money order and a US stamp - my cost in CAD dollars? $19.49! Ouch! (24 years ago, 1-Feb-01, to lugnet.loc.ca)
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(...) And they evidently collect on non-postal imports as well..., I drove that large order in personally. (...) Well given that a BrickBay package that just arrived from Italy was also taxed, I guess I won't be seeing anything come back. Since (...) (24 years ago, 1-Feb-01, to lugnet.loc.ca)
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(...) Kyle, I don't think you will have much luck getting your PST back. CCRA (was Revenue Canada) and the province of Ontario have a service level agreement to collect PST at the border. I just double checked the Customs site and CCRA also has (...) (24 years ago, 30-Jan-01, to lugnet.loc.ca)
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Following up my own message here. I had posted in the previous message that in Ontario you should only have to pay GST on imported LEGO from the USA. This was based on information given to me directly by Customs by telephone. As it turns out this (...) (24 years ago, 29-Jan-01, to lugnet.loc.ca)
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(...) Heh heh - how silly of me. Yep - I know where TRU is - it's a block from my house. Cheers, Kevin (24 years ago, 27-Jan-01, to lugnet.loc.ca.on.ott)
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(...) Yes, Toys Are Us. (...) Nearly everywhere! Not hard to find at all. If you somehow still don't know, it's the one with the giragffe dude. (...) (24 years ago, 27-Jan-01, to lugnet.loc.ca.on.ott)
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(...) What's TRU? Does that stand for something? Where is it? Thanks, Kevin (24 years ago, 27-Jan-01, to lugnet.loc.ca.on.ott)
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(...) I don't have *that* many, I only have 5. I could use 5 more thought ;-D KZ #142 (24 years ago, 26-Jan-01, to lugnet.loc.ca)
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Hi, tonight I stop at a Wall-mart that I was passing by hopping to find a few oasis ambush that Kevin Z. might have left ;-) Well to my surprise I find out that they where half price and that there were 26 left.... emptied the shelf. Martin (24 years ago, 26-Jan-01, to lugnet.loc.ca)
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(...) I got it about a month ago at TRU for $19.98. (24 years ago, 25-Jan-01, to lugnet.loc.ca.on.ott)
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(...) Well I guess I'm glad I'm here Down Under..... : ) even though.. it's been up to 45 so far....!!!! Kev... : ) (24 years ago, 25-Jan-01, to lugnet.loc.ca)
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(...) Eastern Canada has in fact been cold and snowy (I'm in Southern NB), but we still aren't hitting -30C or -40C. Well, often in central and northern parts with overnight windchill it may come close but where I am in Saint John it's relatively (...) (24 years ago, 25-Jan-01, to lugnet.loc.ca)
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(...) I would say that it is not available in Ottawa and Toronto. Only S&H has some left. (...) Yes, and according to (URL) sets have those, but they are expensive or discontinued. My <set:8417> also has two of those. It is also a discontinued set (...) (24 years ago, 25-Jan-01, to lugnet.loc.ca.on.ott)
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I would have thought someone at Sears would have figured it out by now, but I was in one today, and bought one of these sets for $9.99 minus the 20% sale. The total was about $8.50. How could I resist such a deal! Even the lady at the cash register (...) (24 years ago, 25-Jan-01, to lugnet.loc.ca)
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