Seattle 12/8/1993 Vault #9 Vinyl Presale

Horse2345 said:

Zod said:

Horse2345 said:

Zod said:

Canadians!  Be Careful!

if you choose UPS Standard, your going to 100% get hit with a nasty brokerage fee from UPS when it crosses the border (plus applicable taxes).    You're probably better off choosing the $63 Standard Shipping over the UPS method (unless you know how to self clear the package, so UPS doesn't handle the customs for you).

Still waiting on the EU store for a better solution

ps.  Other international 10c'ers, the Worldwide Express option isn't the worst.  It includes the brokerage fee (only the lowest level UPS shipping methods make customer pay it upon receipt).  

So nice having the CBSA 10 mins away. They didnt charge me anything for my mystery boxes.

I can't remember, do you live in Victoria or Vancouver.  I've never self-cleared in Victoria before.  Not sure what the process is.  Plus I work all day, so I wasn't sure what hours one could do it.   It would be kind of cool to try it.

edit:  Actually it's a bit moot now.  The two options I get for Victoria are:

    Standard International Shipping - $30.99 
    UPS Standard - $32.75 

The good method is cheaper than the UPS method

Lol, they changed it again, now the shipping makes sense! 
 I’m in Vic. For future reference, the office is in the Atrium building on Yates. Once you get shipping confirmation with order number or tracking number just call UPS and tell them you want to self clear. They email you a couple forms that have all the shippers info, your info and item info. Print the forms and bring them down, you also need some sort of proof that its actually what you bought, i usually just screenshot the item from “your orders” in your account.  They stamp the form ups sent and you email it back to ups.
 First couple of times they just charged me tax like you’d expect but last 2 times with the mystery boxes they didn’t charge me anything. 2 different people, first time i thought it was just because it was close to lunch time. 

demetrios said:

Shipping updated. Sweet! 

    Standard International Shipping - $30.99 
    UPS Standard - $46.94 

Thank you
@Santos L. Halper 

I had already ordered - hopefully they can adjust 

Zod said:

Horse2345 said:

Zod said:

Horse2345 said:

Zod said:

Canadians!  Be Careful!

if you choose UPS Standard, your going to 100% get hit with a nasty brokerage fee from UPS when it crosses the border (plus applicable taxes).    You're probably better off choosing the $63 Standard Shipping over the UPS method (unless you know how to self clear the package, so UPS doesn't handle the customs for you).

Still waiting on the EU store for a better solution

ps.  Other international 10c'ers, the Worldwide Express option isn't the worst.  It includes the brokerage fee (only the lowest level UPS shipping methods make customer pay it upon receipt).  

So nice having the CBSA 10 mins away. They didnt charge me anything for my mystery boxes.

I can't remember, do you live in Victoria or Vancouver.  I've never self-cleared in Victoria before.  Not sure what the process is.  Plus I work all day, so I wasn't sure what hours one could do it.   It would be kind of cool to try it.

edit:  Actually it's a bit moot now.  The two options I get for Victoria are:

    Standard International Shipping - $30.99 
    UPS Standard - $32.75 

The good method is cheaper than the UPS method

Lol, they changed it again, now the shipping makes sense! 
 I’m in Vic. For future reference, the office is in the Atrium building on Yates. Once you get shipping confirmation with order number or tracking number just call UPS and tell them you want to self clear. They email you a couple forms that have all the shippers info, your info and item info. Print the forms and bring them down, you also need some sort of proof that its actually what you bought, i usually just screenshot the item from “your orders” in your account.  They stamp the form ups sent and you email it back to ups.
 First couple of times they just charged me tax like you’d expect but last 2 times with the mystery boxes they didn’t charge me anything. 2 different people, first time i thought it was just because it was close to lunch time. 

That doesn't sound too bad?  Do you have to pickup the package from UPS or is already at the customs place in the atrium building?  As I work downtown, getting to Yates st. isn't too hard.

Zod said:

RS151862 said:

I’m starting to think talking about shipping and shipping related charges is the Canadian National pastime 

It is, most definitely.    I don't think American's have to worry about it as much because the US has 10x as many people.  The US has a much bigger economy and a lot more options for ordering this domestically.   All we have are Canadian versions of Amazon, Walmart, and Best Buy who are pale version of their US counterparts.  Thus American's don't really have a need to import (via online orders) all that much.   Thus they don't have to live the struggle of paying things like international postage fee's.

Given that I've enjoyed collecting cd's, movies, vinyl and occassionally buy other things. I've been having to deal with the woes of importing things into Canada for decades.  I still remember the first time UPS blasted me with an enourmous fee in the late 90s.   It wasn't until the internet got more useful I learned the in's and outs, but it's pretty simple:

Rule #1 - Use the domestic postal company whenever possible
Rule #2 - Avoid UPS
Rule #3 - Avoid other couriers, but if you have to, use them before you use UPS
Rule #4 - Legal limit is $20 via post into Canada (in terms of CDN dollars) or $60 when its declared a gift.   Canada Post lets a lot of items slide (especially when under $100).  A courier seldom lets it slide, and UPS never lets it slide.    See Rules #1 to #3

SHZA said:

PJ_Soul said:

demetrios said:

Hey @Santos L. Halper  &  @Rubysdad , anyway you guys can fix the Canadian shipping rate please? $63 postage to ship a vinyl across the border? 

Thanks! 

Yes, what is going on?? I cannot possibly spend that on shipping - the total in canadian dollars will be $150. Surely this couldn't be right. There is no way I'm paying that. If this isn't a mistake, I'm wondering if someone in the US who isn't buying one for themselves could order one and ship it to me please?? I really would like to keep my Vault collection complete, but I can't pay $63USD to have something shipped 200 miles. Why/how is 10C dealing with a shipping company where the price is like this? Are they deliberately trying to discourage non-US orders?

No limit on orders. I'd grab an extra for you 

dimitrispearljam said:

What's the deadline of the pre-order?