Mouser (was: Re: [sdiy] Push buttons with nice LITE action)

[Dave Leith]

I live in Canada and I've never had "late" tax bills from Allied
(Cancon service,) Digikey (and now Mouser ) with this service. It
seems that they are internally handling the brokerage. I had figured
the US Canada free trade agreement was responsible for this. All the
above companies do charge the required Canadian GST and PST.

I did ask Allied what their service called CANCON was. Here's their response:
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HI David

Cancon is our custom cleared with no broker fees. It is shipped to you
direct from our warehouse in Texas.

The cost is $12.00 to ship to you.

thanks
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On 3/21/09, Mike <profpep at hotmail.com> wrote:
>
>
>  > The real turn around from Mouser on shipping to Canada is it is now
>  > FREE on orders over $200.
>  > And due to some weird glitch between FedEX and Mouser they don't
>  > charge any brokerage, GST or PST when it arrives.
>  > A true anomaly when importing anything into Canada.
>  >
>  > Bruce
>
> Warning !
>
>  In the UK, they deliver and a VAT invoice arrives from FEDEX some time
>  later. I nearly got stung by this when doing a MIDIbox group bulk order: I
>  was just about to send out the invoices when they all went up by around 20%.
>  17.5% VAT and an admin fee which seems to be worked out on a fixed fee plus
>  a variable based on the number of different item lines.
>
>  Best for me were Digikey: the parts arrive and you pay just the VAT directly
>  to the driver on delivery.
>
>  Mouser have now set up a UK office, so the VAT thing will get better, I
>  hope.
>
>  ||\/||ike
>
>
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