Companies that Still Don't Ship to Canada?

mstich asks: "I'm curious as to why some companies make it so difficult to ship to Canada (from the U.S.A.). I'm only about 200km (124mi) from Detroit, so distance surely can't be the problem. Companies like NewEgg state that they won't ship to Canada, even though they will ship to Alaska (albeit, at an inflated cost) and some, like Crucial, do ship to Canada but they won't extend their 'free second day shipping'. Are there really that many underlying costs that show up when crossing the border? Is this just another money grabber? Does NAFTA fit into all of this, somehow?"

Comments

Re:Canada. Hmmm. Canada?

[Down8]

I don't want BC, b/c Vancouver is there, and that city has admitted they lost the war on drugs.

And I've had equally hard times getting abck from TJ as from BC - though Mexico doesn't charge to leave their country.

-bZj

Re:stop whining

[Scottarius]

i guess you guys don't watch South Park

Oh no?

[lorcha]

Well, how many US e-commerce sites do you see that have sites that are also in Spanish? Because there are more Hispanics in the US (35 million in 2000 census) than there are Canadians in Canada. But that brings up a good point: In order to take advantage of the 30 million Canadians (2001 census), you gotta have pages in French, 'cuz there are 7.2 million pompous assholes in Quebec.

Another thing you have to remember about business is that you need to focus your marketing and sales efforts. 10M people does not necessarily mean 10M potential customers. Hell, my company won't do business with 99% of the US population and we're doing just fine, thanks. But I gotta tell ya that if I was in the e-commerce business, I'd be much quicker to translate my frickin' pages into Spanish and sell to all the Hispanics in the US and the 105 million Mexicans in Mexico than I would bother with Canada.