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BustaQ
Posts: 51 - Karma: 20
Hey i might be ordering a jacket and pant from the US to Canada, just curious if anyone knows how much they usually hit ya for when coming accross the border?
Aug 6 2007 10:50PM
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dave44
Posts: 11052 - Karma: 113
I'm interested in this too, although I'm hoping they would mark it as a gift for me. I have yet to speak to them
Aug 6 2007 10:53PM
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BustaQ
Posts: 51 - Karma: 20
if it's a gift they will not charge accross the border? we could just send it to a friends house as a gift then could we not?
Aug 6 2007 11:01PM
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bigwhite.steeze
Posts: 8227 - Karma: 1,032
didnt charge me a cent on my skis from maine to B.C.
just ask them to mark it as a gift and it'll be fine
Aug 6 2007 11:01PM
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dave44
Posts: 11052 - Karma: 113
What gift means is that it's something of yours, but your sending it to someone else, as a gift. Anything new will be taxed. However, if they mark it as a gift, they shouldn't tax it. However, Canadian customs is a bitch, sometimes they just decide to rip it open and tax it anyways. You shouldn't have a problem though, if its marked as gift.
Aug 6 2007 11:11PM
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BustaQ
Posts: 51 - Karma: 20
from where im ordering i can get a gift box, should i do that? they wont rip open a fuckin gift box
Aug 6 2007 11:12PM
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adam.
Posts: 3469 - Karma: 11
so if you buy something used off of NS from usa and have it shipped to canada you get taxed

but if you mark it as a gift you dont?

and do you get in trouble if it is marked as a git and they rip it open and such?
Aug 7 2007 12:52AM
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squibble
Posts: 4569 - Karma: 104
customs isnt that bad, its the broker guy whos a rip off
Aug 7 2007 1:29AM
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funk.
Posts: 2679 - Karma: 33
i get lumber from BC and its a bitch cause they go down to seatle before coming up here to juneau. logic...
Aug 7 2007 2:16AM
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dave44
Posts: 11052 - Karma: 113
You don't literally need a gift box...
Aug 7 2007 2:18AM
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