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Politics : Canadian Political Free-for-All -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Ichy Smith who wrote (9436)	6/9/2006 1:19:38 PM
From: seventh_son	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 37504

The outrageous fees for outsourced customs inspections make me wonder if there were some sort of political connections when the gov't set up that system and gave out the contracts. Like you, I hate these fees. I often buy stuff from tigerdirect -- in Canada the .ca site seems to be just a facade for shipping the same products with the same website descriptions out of the US where they have the .com site but they typically charge 30% more for the items from Canada than their US websites (vs 10% exchange differential). They probably figure they can get away with charging effectively 20% more to Canadian customers (who pay shipping anyway) because of the ridiculous fees one pays for customs inspection when it is bought directly (rather than indirectly) from the US.