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Re: PST and GST on S@H (was: Lego Studio Steven Spielberg Moviemaker set Review)
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lugnet.loc.ca, lugnet.loc.ca.on
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Date:
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Thu, 2 Nov 2000 03:19:58 GMT
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Jude Beaudin wrote:
> In lugnet.reviews, Bradley Dale writes:
> > In lugnet.reviews, Chris Gray writes:
> > > "Bradley Dale" <dinosauria_ca@yahoo.ca> writes:
> > >
> > > > I did the math before, and $5 S@H is about $16 of actual Canadian money. • Would
> > > > that still be a good buy?
> > >
> > > Huh? US $5.00 / 0.65 => about Cdn $7.70 . Add GST => 8.24 . Where does
> > > the rest come from?
> >
> > Two places--
> >
> > Shipping- $4.50 US
> >
> > Taxes are added before conversion rate. And Ontario taxes are bad enough as
> > they are- with S@H, it's about 21 cents per dollar.
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> The taxes are the same whether you add them before or after the conversion. So
> it is still 15% (15 cents per dollar) on both American or Canadian dollars.
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> Jude
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> Also if you pay via a Canadian cheque you only pay 1.43 CDN to US exchange rate
> which is better than the current 1.5271 Bank of Canada rate. At least that
> applies to the current catalog. :-)
Yes, I think we are going to do that. The only problem is that it adds an extra 9
days to your order time and they may have backordered or be out of some of the
deals... sigh... You just can't win...
Dean
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