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Pillar of the Community
United States
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I will chime in as a somewhat neutral party in this discussion - I am Canadian but live in the U.S. and occasionally send parcels to relatives.
In my experience sending a package to Canada is whole lot more effort and time than shipping domestically.
You have to complete and fill out the customs forms, and unless you are shipping by one of the higher tiers of service, you just can't set up an online account and pay and print for the postage and forms. It necessitates a trip to the post office which means usually standing and waiting in a long line for twenty to thirty minutes.
There may be more streamlined ways of doing it, but for the casual seller, it is just not worth it - especially for a lower $ item.
For me it wouldn't have anything to do with Canadian vs. U.S. buyers or items getting lost...just the extra hassle involved. If it was an item that I thought would generate a sale price much higher by opening it up to Canadian buyers to compensate me, then I would list it as available to ship to Canada.
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Canada
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I'm glad to live near the USA
Have a po box and never had an issue with sellers shipping to my po box instead of my Canadian address.
Saves us both time and money.
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Canada
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USPS.com has "Click-N-Ship" service for international shipping to Canada... you can fill in and print the customs declaration ships online... and even request parcel pickup from your home...
cameron93
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Canada
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USPS.com has "Click-N-Ship" service for international shipping to Canada... you can fill in and print the customs declaration ships online... and even request parcel pickup from your home...
cameron9
Took the words right out of my mouth...
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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USPS.com has "Click-N-Ship" service for international shipping to Canada... you can fill in and print the customs declaration ships online... and even request parcel pickup from your home... That is great if the buyer wants to pay a minimum of $19.95 for postage. Any lesser service and, as I said before, you have to go into the Post Office. |
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From my point of view many US coin dealers ship to Canada, 75% of my collection comes from various US sellers. So, if someone has a coin for sale that I want/need I will buy it no matter the cost for shipping. If you want to sell to me...you best ship to Canada.
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Canada
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I have bought a lot of items out of the US and a lot of times the shipping costs are lower than domestic rates in Canada. I guess if they don't want to deal with Canadians they should just out right say that and be done with it. But from what I have learned from relatives that live in the US they don't even teach the kids in school where Canada is.
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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I agree that if you are wanting to realize the best price you should offer your Canadian coins to Canadian purchasers. I have found my best bargains on Canadian coins from U.S. ebay sellers that only ship to the U.S. Anyone that is doing any type of volume like an online dealer or major ebay seller would benefit in shipping to Canada. It looks the item that the original poster on this thread pointed out is offered by a seller that isn't high volume and this item is the only Canadian item he has listed. It likely wouldn't be worth it for him to have to go through the hassle that he likely doesn't have to deal with on his other sales. parkay> I would have to agree that the school system here in the U.S. doesn't teach as much about other countries as Canada does. My 12 year old son is fortunate to go to a private school and he has been taught about Canada, its geography and culture - of course it was pretty basic compared to what he already received from his father! Just yesterday in a conversation with one of my client's employees, I was told, "Y'all have a lot of igloos up in Canada don't you?" |
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Canada
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It amazes me how insular and inward thinking Americans are when it comes to business and foreign travel to name just a few things. There is a great big world out there and NOT just the US of eh. C\mon cousins get yer heads out of the sand! BTW I am married to an American!
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Canada
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54dollarcoin Sooooo. one of them found their way to your igloo.  |
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Canada
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Chick ..... I am a big old loveable bear........charmed her right in the igloos front door, at first she was lost.... now enlightened! LOL LOL
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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I do my best to educate down here...one poor soul at a time!! |
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Canada
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Thank you for your service!..........A challenging and hopeless task unfortunately/
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Canada
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Also, and Canadians are not going to like this, but Canadians are by far the worst at begging (sometimes demanding) US sellers to lie on customs forms. I am a Canadian seller who is always shipping items down to US customers and unfortunately for most item over $10.00 I get the exact same response from American buyers to please doctor the customs forms (which I refuse to do). Two wrongs don't make a right. |
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The only time I ever had a package go astray the seller would NOT ship to me in Canada - so I had him ship it to a friend of mine in Port Huron Mi. After talking with the post office - the delivery guy described the house, and garage, where he put the package - my friend however being absent at the time of the delivery found no such package. Apparently, according to the post master - "organized crime" followed the postal vehicles. If nobody home, they simply followed the delivery guy...and picked up the parcels.
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