Custom fees suck big time!!!

Matrix1980 · September 25, 2012 12:05AM

I wish I lived in the U.S some times I love U.S coins but stuck here in Canada for a while more. I will retire to the U.S if of course the country comes back to it's glorious days.

Matrix1980 · September 25, 2012 12:06AM

Funny when you take a cheaper delivery method I never get any custom fees...but you pay 40$ FeDex shipping and the 1st thing you know they call you to tell you that you will owe so and so amount of money. But then you don't have to worry about lost or stolen item (s). This a no win situation. I should just fly down once a year and make my purchases in say Orlando and one of the major conventions + get a free vacation (no custom fees....easy to hide coins on the way back).

TwoSides2aCoin · September 25, 2012 12:13AM

I know a collector from Moldova. You don't understand the half of it At least the queen let's you have coins shipped in.

bronco2078 · September 25, 2012 12:38AM

Don't ever choose fed ex or UPS to canada. I sold a $300 truck part to canada and shipped it UPS and got a nasty surprise with customs fees. UPS doesn't quote them to the shipper but tries to collect from the buyer. They left a note on the buyers door they owed $60 in fees for the package.

The buyer refused to pay, UPS handed him the package anyway and charged the fees to my UPS account without telling me. 3 Months later they wanted to cancel my account over it and I had no idea what the charge was for but I had to pay it.

Matrix1980 · September 25, 2012 12:40AM

What is my best option then to get stuff from the U.S to Canada (the most safe and the most likely not have to pay these fees)?

Matrix1980 · September 25, 2012 12:41AM

TwoSides2aCoin

Please explain that is very weird in 2012?

droopyd · September 25, 2012 2:05AM

<< What is my best option then to get stuff from the U.S to Canada (the most safe and the most likely not have to pay these fees)? >>

USPS -> Canada Post seems to work for me.

mrpotatoheadd · September 25, 2012 2:10AM

If shipping is through UPS or FedEx, customs broker fees can be charged (not the same thing as customs fees) that don't get charged when using the post office.

LanceNewmanOCC · September 25, 2012 2:17AM

<< I know a collector from Moldova. You don't understand the half of it At least the queen let's you have coins shipped in. >>

ya people at the post office did inform me several times i can get into some hot water by shipping to certain countries if i do not declare i am attempting to ship coins there

but the catch is i can't declare coins because it is illegal to send them to certain places, doh ><
.

erwindoc · September 25, 2012 3:12AM

I was trading a guy in Australia once and when listed as hobby supplies, we neither got hit with customs fees.

OPA · September 25, 2012 4:29AM

<< 

<< I know a collector from Moldova. You don't understand the half of it At least the queen let's you have coins shipped in. >>

ya people at the post office did inform me several times i can get into some hot water by shipping to certain countries if i do not declare i am attempting to ship coins there

but the catch is i can't declare coins because it is illegal to send them to certain places, doh ><
. >>

Metallic disc's are not illegal to ship

TwoSides2aCoin · September 25, 2012 8:10AM

<< TwoSides2aCoin

Please explain that is very weird in 2012? >>

It is wierd that we have a hobby which exists because of the coins of other countries, yet there are places in the world that cannot participate in it without having legal issues or restrictions as previously mentioned. We can be thankful for our freedom, in short.

jp84 · September 25, 2012 1:09PM

Matrix - the best way to do it is to have the items shipped to a UPS Store in a border town and drive across yourself to get it. They charge you $5 for receiving it but you save all the brokerage fees and you can fill your gas tank and pick up groceries to save more cash on the trip. Then you declare it at the border and just pay the HST. I live in Ottawa and make the 45 minute drive to Ogdensburg, New York regularly.

johnny9434 · September 26, 2012 5:54AM

<< Don't ever choose fed ex or UPS to canada. I sold a $300 truck part to canada and shipped it UPS and got a nasty surprise with customs fees. UPS doesn't quote them to the shipper but tries to collect from the buyer. They left a note on the buyers door they owed $60 in fees for the package.

The buyer refused to pay, UPS handed him the package anyway and charged the fees to my UPS account without telling me. 3 Months later they wanted to cancel my account over it and I had no idea what the charge was for but I had to pay it. >>

that sucks

ParkieCollector · September 29, 2012 1:19AM

Yeah it is not so much customs fees as customs broker fees.
Fedex dinged me for this once on a package to Canada (non ebay, in fact the destination was a charity so I doubt anything was due)

Custom fees suck big time!!!

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