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Re: Lego Studio Steven Spielberg Moviemaker set Review
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lugnet.reviews, lugnet.org.ca.vlc, lugnet.robotics.vc
Date: 
Wed, 1 Nov 2000 05:51:02 GMT
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Bradley Dale wrote:

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.

Shipping is $6.xx for shipping. Don't forget to add an extra $2 for duty or
whatever it was...
That's $9 bucks CDN for shipping. I figure that when S@H moved to the US our
prices for S@H stuff jumped about 26%.

I used to order MANY things from S@H, now I consolidate my purchases though
friends and whatnot. I'm hoping S@H's trucks to Canada won't be full and they
will waste money and smarten up and not charge us Canadians though the nose...

Dean
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  Re: Lego Studio Steven Spielberg Moviemaker set Review
 
(...) Sorry for including the entire history above, but I thought it was needed. I made my first big train order to S@H not long ago. I don't quite see how it all worked out, but here are the numbers: Total for goods, in US funds: 303.88 (4565 + (...) (24 years ago, 1-Nov-00, to lugnet.reviews, lugnet.org.ca.vlc, lugnet.robotics.vc)

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  Re: Lego Studio Steven Spielberg Moviemaker set Review
 
(...) Would (...) 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. (24 years ago, 1-Nov-00, to lugnet.reviews, lugnet.org.ca.vlc, lugnet.robotics.vc)

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