Fucking Canada WTF!!!!!

Kiopa_Matt said:
What? No... if you're say a US resident, and a Canadian company is charging you HST, then that company is ripping you off.

You don't charge GST/PST/HST to non-residents. For example, if you're an online company in BC, Canada, you charge GST to all Canadian residents, and GST + PST to BC residents. Those taxes don't apply to non-residents though.
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When it reaches the family in Canada that's when the HST would have to be paid but other than that no duty if the product is made in NA. Actually, the HST only applies to some products, not sure which ones. Usually you don't pay HST but I've had to pay before, it's weird. I think it depends on the value of the item.

There's some info: http://www.cra-arc.gc.ca/tx/bsnss/tpcs/gst-tps/gnrl/txbl/mprtsxprts/mprtdgds-eng.html
 


Oh I was going to say, buy shit on eBay. Lots of people ship to Canada and you can pay however you want.
 
As a Canadian who often shops via eBay, USPS is the best way to go. UPS/FedEx tacks on their own "Cross-duty" fee ON TOP of duty taxes, which is total horseshit.

I think if you label it as a gift and declare value of the item to be really small (like $10), they won't get dinged by duty tax.

ENDed said:
The are over in BC somewhere. I will talk to wife tmrw and see.
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I can help as well depending on where they're located.
 
Canadian credit cards? What the fuck does that even mean? VISA and MC are international. I've used my credit card in Canada, the US, Europe, China and Korea and never had any problem.
 
avatar33 said:
Canadian credit cards? What the fuck does that even mean? VISA and MC are international. I've used my credit card in Canada, the US, Europe, China and Korea and never had any problem.
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You're right. I buy all kinds of shit from all over the place and have it shipped here or there, BUT you often can't buy goods from many online retailers and have them delivered to an address other than your billing address. Also, I can't very often buy anything from the UK versions of ebay or Amazon. They simply won't ship outside the UK. I have better luck ordering from the .de versions.

Plus there are tons of bullshit rules on media and licensing and all that kind of crap where the billing/shipping address must be in the same country as the card is issued.

I have one card issued from an offshore UK bank, but it has a Spanish billing address. I cannot use that card at iTunes or EA/Origin, for example, because if I try to use it at the Spanish version of their stores, it flags it up as being a UK card. I can't use the UK version of their stores, because my IP says I'm in Spain. I have another card from a Panamanian bank, with a Spanish billing address, that suffers the same problem as the UK card.

I hold one Canadian credit card with a Canadian billing address, and that is the card I have to use for just about all of these kinds of virtual purchases. I've complained bitterly to the likes of Apple's and EA's tech support, but besides confusing the shit out of the phone support people, I'm told the reason it's like that is for the various regional licensing/publishing/distributing deals they have in place.
 
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Most big ecommerce sites let you pay via Paypal. You can use your american CC through there. For shipping, just choose USPS. If the value is under like $100, you shouldn't have to worry about duties or customs fees.
 
As noted by FatBat this is pretty much history, but all you need to do is call your CreditCard company and ask them to put a 'alternative' address on your account. You can even request that they make it pirmary so that it passes AVS.

Just get the address from the person you have to send it to and use their address as your secodary / primary. You can literally change it the same day.

I'm Canadian, living in Costa Rica. I buy a lot from Amazon.com with a Costa Rican card with my billing in the USA.
 
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Yeah I just called in order to do that I need to create a Fed Ex account. Then specify on the label to bill me for the duties.

Not to mention they just told me it would be $95 to ship the shit.

We where going to get them like I don't know $200 in clothes. Seriously wtf!!!!
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Sounds to me like you hate freedom.
 
mx=headroom said:
Please tell us more about this shit company you're doing marketing for.
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