[sdiy] message for canucks

[The Alison Project]

I placed an order over $200 that qualifies for free Fed Ex priority shipping 
including duties and customs fee's. Order arrived the next day with $122 of 
brokerage and taxes. After arguing with a Fed Ex brokerage officier that I 
should not be charged these rates he went ahead and just billed Mouser the 
entire $122 (even thou approx $40 of that cost were the taxes I was prepared 
to pay)... I contacted Mouser and there Canadian sales rep was a huge help 
and said not to worry about it and if there accounting department brings it 
up she may have to charge me the $40 odd dollars in taxes I owed.

I also asked about future orders and she said from now on I would be 
responsible for the Fed Ex fee's, so I went back to shipping regular USPS 
which is a $5 customs fee + taxes instead of the $50+ UPS and Fed Ex 
charge..

Fed Ex charges based on the lines of product they have to go over I guess (I 
don't really understand what the guy was trying to explain to me). My order 
was for 63 different products and that was 53 lines over, Fed Ex says 10 
lines are free... So from what I understand, if your order is over $200 you 
can get free Fed Ex priority shipping including customs + duties as long as 
it's not over 10 lines (which equals 10 different products)..


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Scott Juskiw" <scott at tellun.com>
To: "Synth DIY" <synth-diy at dropmix.xs4all.nl>
Sent: Wednesday, November 26, 2008 5:55 PM
Subject: [sdiy] message for canucks


>I just noticed that Mouser are trying to become easier to use for non- USA 
>buyers. The site for canucks is:
>
> http://ca.mouser.com
>
> with values in CDN$. Hopefully they've worked out a decent arrangement 
> with Fedex so that we don't get slammed with $50 customs charge on $20 
> worth of parts anymore. Has anyone bought from them recently (I mean 
> anyone north of the 49th)? If so, how was the customs and shipping 
> handled? Did you get a surprise bill for $50 or more two weeks later?
>
> Winter's almost here, that means lots of staying inside and soldering  to 
> keep warm.
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