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Nytemare Senior Enthusiast

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Ordered HP Tuners...the dongle showed up today...125 bucks in brokerage fees....thats 25% of what I paid for the dam program....holy hell Just to cross the border.

 

:):P Damn UPS

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Canada Post, slow like a turtle but only $5.00 brokerage fee no matter what the declared value

 

Ordered HP Tuners...the dongle showed up today...125 bucks in brokerage fees....thats 25% of what I paid for the dam program....holy hell Just to cross the border.

 

:):P Damn UPS

pwall Senior Enthusiast

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UPS is such a rip-off for us Northern folks.

I want to order a Banks exhaust for my truck, but I think I'll have it shipped and drive across the border and pick it up myself. Fuel would be cheaper than UPS charges.

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Unless you can pay UPS charges upfront it is ridiculous, I find the USPS priority is actually quick these days, under a week sometimes and I am out in Nova Scotia.

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I hate when you don't have a choice...I would have chosen USPS in a heart beat.

 

You have a choice... don't do business with companies that will only ship UPS. Once they tried to charge me more in brokerage fees than I paid for a item. I will never do business with them again. Ever

 

 

 

But if you have to use them, look up self declaring your item. It will save you tons. You get the paperwork on the package from UPS, go to your local customs office, usually at your airport. Present a invoice for what you paid for it, pay your gst. Then go back to UPS with the paperwork from the customs office saying you paid tax and get your item.

Nytemare Senior Enthusiast

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I hate when you don't have a choice...I would have chosen USPS in a heart beat.

 

You have a choice... don't do business with companies that will only ship UPS. Once they tried to charge me more in brokerage fees than I paid for a item. I will never do business with them again. Ever

 

 

 

But if you have to use them, look up self declaring your item. It will save you tons. You get the paperwork on the package from UPS, go to your local customs office, usually at your airport. Present a invoice for what you paid for it, pay your gst. Then go back to UPS with the paperwork from the customs office saying you paid tax and get your item.

 

Can you do that after it has been shipped...I haven't paid the fees I was out when the item showed up.

 

Yeah, I don't normally deal with UPS, but thats how HP tuners ships its stuff...so I was kinda boned...

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Can you do that after it has been shipped...I haven't paid the fees I was out when the item showed up.

 

Yeah, I don't normally deal with UPS, but thats how HP tuners ships its stuff...so I was kinda boned...

 

Not if UPS has already cleared the item. The only time I have been given the option to clear a package myself was using UPS freight. I have had friends who have tried it with no luck, the procedure seems to be as soon as you get the tracking number call them and tell them you plan to self clear. Then you have to get the paper work and go to your local customs office, pay the fees and then return that paper work to UPS. However I know of a few people that were told they had to be at the entry port in person to pay not an office, which is false. The best way to do this is to have your items shipped to a business, if it is a business shipment UPS isnt automatically granted power of attorney like with a personal shipment so they have to call/email you and ask how you plan to have custom paid for, either they clear, another clearing agency or self clear.

Nytemare Senior Enthusiast

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Can you do that after it has been shipped...I haven't paid the fees I was out when the item showed up.

 

Yeah, I don't normally deal with UPS, but thats how HP tuners ships its stuff...so I was kinda boned...

 

Not if UPS has already cleared the item. The only time I have been given the option to clear a package myself was using UPS freight. I have had friends who have tried it with no luck, the procedure seems to be as soon as you get the tracking number call them and tell them you plan to self clear. Then you have to get the paper work and go to your local customs office, pay the fees and then return that paper work to UPS. However I know of a few people that were told they had to be at the entry port in person to pay not an office, which is false. The best way to do this is to have your items shipped to a business, if it is a business shipment UPS isnt automatically granted power of attorney like with a personal shipment so they have to call/email you and ask how you plan to have custom paid for, either they clear, another clearing agency or self clear.

 

Well that sucks the big one...

 

I guess I'm screwed...I mean its not that big a deal really...but I think 25% is a little excessive. Especially as taxes here are 12%...I could see a 5% surcharge for doing the paper work. I mean I already paid shipping of 55 bucks for a little box. I just shipped the same size package to Texas for 35 bucks and I paid extra insurance on it...and it got there faster.

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I know for a fact you can refuse a UPS shipment at your door and then go self declare it. Atleast here in Winnipeg they let you

 

here in B.C you can also, just have to want for when the item goes into exception call them up and tell them you wana self declare it

im 10 mins from the border so have a usa shipping address now, no fee's now lol

TexasAl Enthusiast

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This is probably the best bet for most of you guys. Getting a mail box (not a PO BOX), and having the packages sent there (in the US). That will only work if you live close enough to the border. I use to sell automotive parts online, and I stopped doing it because of all the hefty shipping costs and extra fees like this. Too much BS

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You can clear your package through customs yourself or have it it shipped at a parcel service and drive across the border to pick it up. I've done both. I usually just drive the hour down south across the border to pick it up. I will NEVER EVER EVER EVER EVER have anything shipped via UPS again!

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Another option is to have it shipped to a friends place in the US and them have him mail it to you. I've done this many times to get free shipping and beat the brokerage nightmare. I then just send him a money order or buy him a case of beer next time I go visiting.

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