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Re: Canada shop.lego.com now in Canuck-bucks
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Fri, 18 Jun 2004 02:29:52 GMT
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In lugnet.loc.ca, Jake McKee wrote:
Plus, that doesn't even factor in any customs costs that might be included.

Not to nitpick, but that's a red herring.  S@H already charges Canadian
customers for all applicable Canadian taxes, which are the only fees that
would be assessed at the border by Canada Customs.  This was already in
place before the change to Cdn$ prices.  So there are no "customs costs"
to account for that weren't already being paid for by your customers, so
"customs costs" are not valid justification for different prices.

But the rest of what you said makes sense...

KDJ

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  Re: Canada shop.lego.com now in Canuck-bucks
 
---- Original Message ----- From: "Kyle D. Jackson" <missioncontrol@symp...mblock.ca> To: <lugnet.loc.ca@lugnet.com> Sent: Thursday, June 17, 2004 8:29 PM Subject: Re: Canada shop.lego.com now in Canuck-bucks (...) included. (...) Actually, there (...) (20 years ago, 18-Jun-04, to lugnet.loc.ca)
  Re: Canada shop.lego.com now in Canuck-bucks
 
(...) Actually, there is a small savings to be had. You are correct in saying that they charge all applicable taxes. However.... remember that on imported goods valued at more than $20 you are charged a $5 fee in order to collect the taxes, on those (...) (20 years ago, 18-Jun-04, to lugnet.loc.ca)

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(...) When I did a quick test at www.xe.com/ucc, the conversion of $39.99 USD comes out to be (today, at this moment) $54.99 CAD. As you can imagine, it would be nearly impossible for us to update the price of sets every day to match the current (...) (20 years ago, 17-Jun-04, to lugnet.loc.ca)  

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