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Re: Amazon.ca is pants!
yes because if it is shipped via UPS then they hit you for massive admin charges if you have to pay import duty.
2 buck tax turns into 40 if you are not careful |
Re: Amazon.ca is pants!
Originally Posted by Former Lancastrian
(Post 10505326)
Yet people still choose to move here :rofl:
Crap banking, no competition for mobile phones, crap internet shopping, expensive food prices, outrageous car insurance, expensive booze with no competition, less than ideal education standards, expensive rents for housing, really outrageous air fare prices and etc etc etc So one has to ask why are you coming here:confused: Are you asking me this question or throwing it out rhetorically? I am not complaining about anything but pointing out that Amazon in Canada is crap compared to the UK. I have bought many things off the UK site, whether that be books, electronics, cameras and so on that are not even on the Canada site and received all items very quickly. This was merely an observation based on trying to find stuff to no avail that wold have definitely been on the UK site. My bank has been great to me. Mobile Phone charges are ridiculous compared to UK. Food prices are the same as UK if you look around. Car Insurance is a f*****g rip-off. The booze is OK and some of the beers are great, like Creemore, Alexander Keiths. The local school has been great to my daughter and taken her on in Grade 10 even though she is 14, as she has already completed Grade 9 in UK. Cheers, Jim |
Re: Amazon.ca is pants!
Originally Posted by Steve_
(Post 10505432)
That was the case but it has changed in the last few years.
I was recently using a simcard in the UK with 250 voice minutes, charged by the second, unlimited data and texts - all for £10 per month. You will never get that kind of service here - yet. |
Re: Amazon.ca is pants!
Originally Posted by Former Lancastrian
(Post 10505326)
Yet people still choose to move here :rofl:
Crap banking, no competition for mobile phones, crap internet shopping, expensive food prices, outrageous car insurance, expensive booze with no competition, less than ideal education standards, expensive rents for housing, really outrageous air fare prices and etc etc etc So one has to ask why are you coming here:confused: Put on a coat and some mittens and go out and live life. :thumbup: |
Re: Amazon.ca is pants!
Originally Posted by Oink
(Post 10505823)
+1
Put on a coat and some mittens and go out and live life. :thumbup: |
Re: Amazon.ca is pants!
Originally Posted by Steve_
(Post 10505689)
USPS is $15 billion in debt.
http://www.ehow.com/facts_7257462_us...benefits_.html |
Re: Amazon.ca is pants!
Originally Posted by Zoe Bell
(Post 10505762)
yes because if it is shipped via UPS then they hit you for massive admin charges if you have to pay import duty.
If I paid more attention, I might see use of UPS as the reason but I am making my choice on overall cost. A few years before I moved here I remember ordering a bunch of CDs from the US that even with cross Atlantic shipping rates the overall cost was half what they'd have cost me in the UK. What I was getting at was whether someone making a personal purchase would make their decision based on UPS involvement (in principle if you like) when, if they looked into the overall cost, they might find it was still cheaper because of the lower base price to begin with. |
Re: Amazon.ca is pants!
Originally Posted by JimandBettina
(Post 10505814)
Cell phone charges are ridiculously expensive. Why do you pay for incoming calls?
It didn't seem right that someone else's decision to be called on their mobile should cost me more. So it doesn't seem unreasonable to me for the person making the decision to have a mobile/cell phone to pay the extra cost of the call made to it. |
Re: Amazon.ca is pants!
Originally Posted by JimandBettina
(Post 10505807)
Mate,
Are you asking me this question or throwing it out rhetorically? I am not complaining about anything but pointing out that Amazon in Canada is crap compared to the UK. I have bought many things off the UK site, whether that be books, electronics, cameras and so on that are not even on the Canada site and received all items very quickly. This was merely an observation based on trying to find stuff to no avail that wold have definitely been on the UK site. My bank has been great to me. Mobile Phone charges are ridiculous compared to UK. Food prices are the same as UK if you look around. Car Insurance is a f*****g rip-off. The booze is OK and some of the beers are great, like Creemore, Alexander Keiths. The local school has been great to my daughter and taken her on in Grade 10 even though she is 14, as she has already completed Grade 9 in UK. Cheers, Jim |
Re: Amazon.ca is pants!
We order from amazon uk. They charge for shipping but take the VAT off so doesn't work out too bad. Gets delivered quick too.
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Re: Amazon.ca is pants!
Originally Posted by nativenewyorker
(Post 10506021)
We order from amazon uk. They charge for shipping but take the VAT off so doesn't work out too bad. Gets delivered quick too.
Is it something they really need? Is there a Canadian equivalent? |
Re: Amazon.ca is pants!
Originally Posted by nativenewyorker
(Post 10506021)
We order from amazon uk. They charge for shipping but take the VAT off so doesn't work out too bad. Gets delivered quick too.
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Re: Amazon.ca is pants!
Originally Posted by Oink
(Post 10506031)
If you order stuff from another country get the seller to put 'gift' on the customs ticket then you don't have to pay the sponging Canadian government their extortion money.
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Re: Amazon.ca is pants!
ITT: Apologists for 'the way it is'.
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Re: Amazon.ca is pants!
Originally Posted by Almost Canadian
(Post 10505915)
You are not in the UK
PS: where in my post did I say I was in the UK? |
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