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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?"
Ask a lawyer. Maybe the legal departments of large companies won't allow them to do business in Canada because they don't want to incur the expense of complying with Canadian law.
Just a guess.
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There are several reasons; one is that the necessary paperwork to get the package through customs is a pain in the ass for the seller. They don't want the hassle.
Another reason is that many sellers only have permission to sell products in the U.S.A. -- i.e., they haven't bought the rights to sell the product in Canada. You need to find another distributor who has bought those rights, but sometimes that's difficult because the (smaller) Canadian distributor isn't nearly as well-known.
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Twoflower
Have you tried asking any of the companies in question? Believe it or not, they may be staffed by humans who can answer your questions.
Crap, I sound like a troll.
Problems with shipping to Canada:
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CBSA are notorious for holding up packages for weeks for customs clearance. Sometimes things "go missing."
Cross-border claims for goods damaged/missing in shipment are a giant hassle. In certain high-value businesses (like computer parts), there are plenty of fraudsters who take advantage of this, claiming goods never arrived and disputing the charges.
It doesn't matter to the merchant whether the recipient has committed fraud or the item has been stolen or destroyed in shipment or customs clearance - they still end up eating cost. Apparently this happens sufficiently often with trans-border shipments that a lot of computer vendors won't ship to foriegn countries, or even to "America Junior".
Compounding the issue are territorial reseller agreements - some manufacturers limit a reseller to domestic sales only. If you sell some items that you can't sell to a foreign buyer, it's often easier to reject all foreign orders than to have to check each order for said items.
-Isaac
I am not a lawyer, and this is not legal advice. For Entertainment Purposes Only.
Last time I checked their president was a moron...
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... while there are lots of intelligent folks here, there are alot of immature dipsticks, too. It will get modded down.
If poster's scores are lowered enough times, they will begin to automatically post at score:0 but they will still be able to post.
Personally, I wouldn't mind a slight overhaul of the ratings system but even if banned, there are so many ways around that it often makes just as much sense to de-karmatize them to oblivion so that they can post from the same account and just be ignored.
And don't be so surprised about finding that here
It is more productive to voice thoughtful opinions (reply) than to judge (moderate) others.
Judging by the moderation more people got the joke than didn't. You can't please everybody.
If people refrained from telling jokes because a few people might not have the correct frame of reference than there wouldn't be much humor around.
But if the post offended anybody than I apologize. I wasn't trying to be racist.
Then walk over to your legal department and ask them if they want to deal with Canadian laws. Then walk down to the shipping department and ask them if they want to deal with international shipping. Then go over to the programming people and tell them that they will now have to have different logic for international shipping then domestic shipping. It's not just a free 10%. It does come at a cost.
... I always thought Canada was part of the US.
I believe this was a reference to South Park's Terence and Phillip. SP seems to look up to Canada's social progressiveness.
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