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Dean Husby <nntp@akasa.bc.ca> writes:
> 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...
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 + 2x4531 + 3x4515 + 4553 + 2x5304 + 5302 + 5303)
Total for order, given over the phone: 307.20
(also shown on my credit card statement)
Amount in Cdn $ charged to my card: 468.87
That's a conversion rate of about 0.655, which is pretty close to the
value reported on the nightly financial news.
So, amortize the extras by making a few large purchases rather than a
whole lot of small purchases, and the added bits pretty well disappear.
There are *no* duties on toys. I see *no* GST in the above (a mistake
by Lego, or are they swallowing it?), and since I live in Alberta, there
are no provincial taxes. Also, the order was > $75.00, so I got a free
Spy Runner.
All in all, I'm quite happy with S@H service to Canada. The parcel arrived
in under 2 weeks.
--
Don't design inefficiency in - it'll happen in the implementation.
Chris Gray cg@ami-cg.GraySage.Edmonton.AB.CA
http://www.GraySage.Edmonton.AB.CA/cg/
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