Shipping ebay item to canada

[LuckyTaxi]

I've never shipped out of the country before but how are the fees? I have a serious person bidding on a product I'm selling but he's in canada. My buddy says it's a b!tch to ship there but he refuses to explain his reasoning. I think he just hates ebay.

Anyways, has anyone ship using postal service or am I better off using UPS/Fedex?

 

[meltdown75]

Last time someone shipped to me via FedEx, I had to go through some Customs Fee crap and FedEx threatened to sic a collections agency on me if I didn't pay it. My wife got on the phone and ripped a few people a new arsehole and I never had to pay jack squat.

Speaking as a Canadian, I'd beg you to use your best insurable US Postal Service method as opposed to those carriers.

edit: although I think the additional fees are only on certain items, ie. electronics over $50

 

[summit]

post office !

 

[beat mania]

Post office, international priority mail with insurance.

Yeah its expensive, but I don't think you can track your package with anything less.

 

[Flammable]

its a gift which costs 0$

 

[OdiN]

Originally posted by: beat mania
Post office, international priority mail with insurance.

Yeah its expensive, but I don't think you can track your package with anything less.

You can't track that when it's in Canada. Only to the customs on the border, then that's it.

The last thing I shipped to some Cannuck (Hi Melty) was like $15 or something I think...for a decent sized box too.

Got there fine, just took a while longer.

 

[Feneant2]

UPS will assrape the poor guy when he goes to get his package.

Use USPS, it ends up at a Canada Post office and it is much simpler.

 

[sandorski]

Another vote for USPS. All others suck.

 

[flamingelephant]

you will have to state the value of the item when you send it. Receiver will get a bill for duties if applicable from a customs broker in a few weeks. Its not your concern.

 

[slayer202]

USPS is very easy. A package that would normally about about $10-12 in the country would cost about $20 to canada for priority. not bad at all

 

[James2k]

If sent through USPS, and if any duties or taxes are to be collected, Canada Post charges 5 dollars for having to collect (cheaper than couriers). I once bought two packs of cdr's online from the US (thought it would be cheaper) and UPS wanted $75 brokerage fee at the door. Refused those pretty quickly

 

[meltdown75]

Originally posted by: flamingelephant
you will have to state the value of the item when you send it. Receiver will get a bill for duties if applicable from a customs broker in a few weeks. Its not your concern.

here's hoping the OP listens to everyone else in the thread except for you

 

[syee]

I'd still recommend sending it USPS. Like others said, the hit is less (I think the limit is $60 tax/duty free for gifts and $20 for commercial products). Anything outside of that is probably going to raise suspicions and you'll end up paying taxes (GST and PST on it). USPS/Canada Post charges $5 for brokerage, while UPS/Fedex charge their own rates (usually exorbitant).

If you MUST use a courier for shipping, then I'd suggest checking out UPS Worldwide Express here as they'll do the brokerage stuff free if you use that particular class of service. Not sure if Fedex has the same thing. I'm guessing the service is considerably more expensive but it's an option. I'm guessing that the GST/PST will still have to be paid and probably can be specified who to bill to in the waybill.