Buying Parts from Canada

Welcome to our world as we have to deal with these issues a lot of the time when dealing with American sellers. The duties and brokerage thing is the ***** (we know) and sometimes American sellers will not ship USPS. When that happens we are left with paying the enormous brokerage costs or refusing the delivery and going to the local UPS/Fedex/etc depot picking up the item and bringing it through customs ourselves. In all of this I have NEVER asked the seller to share ANY of the costs as I know this is not his fault. Most American sellers are aware of this pain in the *** and have helped us out by shipping USPS. To them a big THANKYOU:salute:.

I bought a certain item from a USA member of FABO. He was going to ship via UPS or FEDEX. I asked him to ship via USPS and he wanted me to pay extra for him to go to the post office. I did pay the extra on top of his shipping charge because he said it was out of his way and either UPS or FEDEX would come to his door for the pick up. I guess he was just lazy. Never again from this seller or any other, US or Canadian, that won't use the post office for small items.