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Registered: March 13, 2007 | Reputation: | Posts: 5,494 |
| Posted: | | | | First time in 31 years the Canadian loonie briefly broke through to parity with the American green back.. it's now sitting at .99986.. Question I'm wondering now is do I start to list my eBay items in CDN or American?.. | | | In the 60's, People took Acid to make the world Weird. Now the World is weird and People take Prozac to make it Normal.
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Registered: March 14, 2007 | Reputation: | Posts: 6,747 |
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Registered: March 13, 2007 | Posts: 844 |
| Posted: | | | | my question is given the relative levels of the dollars, when are Canadian retailers gonna stop screwing us on prices?
If only ordering from the US was not such a pain in the customs butt. |
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Registered: March 13, 2007 | Posts: 793 |
| Posted: | | | | Problem they are laughing their collective @$$ off. They buying at the same USD price they were, and can still sell at the same CDN price, because the average joe doesn't know better.
I'm starting to seriously consider getting a US PO box. I know some retailer won't ship to those, but some do, and I live about 15-20 minutes from the border. |
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Registered: March 13, 2007 | Reputation: | Posts: 5,494 |
| Posted: | | | | Quoting bob9000: Quote: my question is given the relative levels of the dollars, when are Canadian retailers gonna stop screwing us on prices?
If only ordering from the US was not such a pain in the customs butt. Exactly, ,Like Book and magazine prices are stenciled in INK the two retail prices on rear jacket. $21.99 american and $34.99 cdn .... | | | In the 60's, People took Acid to make the world Weird. Now the World is weird and People take Prozac to make it Normal.
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Registered: March 13, 2007 | Posts: 1,136 |
| Posted: | | | | You think that's bad?? Live in UK - hell anywhere in Europe and really get fleeced I was in Toronto once, and picked up a British published and printed book for cheaper than it was in UK (as in ukp was £19.99 can was $29.99) which was dumb, I mean it had to be shipped to Canada just for me to buy it.... Don't even ask about DVD prices - it is still cheaper for me to ship stuff over from Can/US than buy similar product in UK (which might be cut) | | | Signature? We don't need no stinking... hang on, this has been done... blast [oooh now in Widescreen] Ah... well you see.... I thought I'd say something more interesting... but cannot think of anything..... oh well And to those of you who have disabled viewing of these signature files "hello" (or not) Registered: July 27, 2004 |
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Registered: March 14, 2007 | Reputation: | Posts: 6,747 |
| Posted: | | | | Quoting FunkyLA: Quote: Don't even ask about DVD prices - it is still cheaper for me to ship stuff over from Can/US than buy similar product in UK (which might be cut) And I order in the UK on a regular basis, because (due to dubbing) many TV series are either never going to be available in Germany or about a year late. Though I'd never buy books at Amazon UK since the shipping costs are extradordinary high. It's cheaper to order it at Amazon DE with no shipping cost at all. | | | Karsten DVD Collectors Online
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Registered: March 13, 2007 | Reputation: | Posts: 2,293 |
| Posted: | | | | Quoting DJ Doena: Quote:
Though I'd never buy books at Amazon UK since the shipping costs are extradordinary high. It's cheaper to order it at Amazon DE with no shipping cost at all. Yeah, we don't pay shipping from Amazon UK (well, if you order a reasonable amount) but when I ordered the only decent release of Crank (the German one) from Amazon DE I really got hit... if you can it's pretty much always better to order with your local Amazon but that doesn't help if you can't get what you want there! | | | It is dangerous to be right in matters where established men are wrong |
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Registered: March 13, 2007 | Posts: 1,242 |
| Posted: | | | | The other thing for us Brits to remember is when they use the exchange rate they don't go via the bank's current exchange rate they just swap the $ & £ signs over.
Times that I've seen things (books / DVD'd / CD's) marked up at say $19.99 (whaich as of 12:53pm 21/9/07) the exchange rate is £9.92, but the exact same item via the same companies UK site is normally marked at £19.99.
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Registered: March 14, 2007 | Reputation: | Posts: 2,652 |
| Posted: | | | | You guys are complaining about being fleeced. In South Africa, we too have been badly fleeced, and in some cases, still are . I generally buy from Amazon US or UK because the prices are around half of what I have had to pay for the same thing here, if it can be found locally , and then they have been pressed. Some local retailer are waking up to the fact that people are not buying locally due to that and have made started making the prices more realistic and inline with the price overseas (obviously taking into account the exchange rate). Movies, single disc used to be R300+ and double disc could be as much as R500 and TV series started at R800. These prices seem to have become more reasonable with movies starting at R144 for new releases and series starting at R250, and older movies can be found for as little as R35. The other problem has been the release dates – we always seemed to have to wait a year or more to get the releases. I have had many movies on DVD before they even hit our movie circuit by ordering from overseas. This situation is improving and I have been able to get season 6 of 24 before it was released in either the US or UK. As for books, I will occasionally order from UK but NEVER from US as the postage is exorbitant!! I can usually get the books at a reasonable rate here. | | | <---------Mithrandir, Laverne and Shirley Caroline |
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Registered: March 14, 2007 | Reputation: | Posts: 6,747 |
| Posted: | | | | Quoting Voltaire53: Quote: Quoting DJ Doena:
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Though I'd never buy books at Amazon UK since the shipping costs are extradordinary high. It's cheaper to order it at Amazon DE with no shipping cost at all. Yeah, we don't pay shipping from Amazon UK That doesn't explain why it costs 1.88 £ to ship a DVD, but 4.98(!) £ to ship a book. I know, DVDs are much smaller than an average hardcover, but I could order 9 DVD season box sets to the price of one paperback. | | | Karsten DVD Collectors Online
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Registered: July 21, 2007 | Posts: 20 |
| Posted: | | | | Quoting Voltaire53: Quote: Quoting DJ Doena:
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Though I'd never buy books at Amazon UK since the shipping costs are extradordinary high. It's cheaper to order it at Amazon DE with no shipping cost at all.
Yeah, we don't pay shipping from Amazon UK (well, if you order a reasonable amount) but when I ordered the only decent release of Crank (the German one) from Amazon DE I really got hit... if you can it's pretty much always better to order with your local Amazon but that doesn't help if you can't get what you want there! Have you tried Play.com? They have free delivery which is a big plus over Amazon, but not the range of DVDs sadly which is a shame. I just wish there were decent online stores in Australia. I've tried using JB Hi-Fi and Ezy-DVD, but their sites are badly laid out and not a lot of fun to use. |
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Registered: March 13, 2007 | Posts: 1,380 |
| Posted: | | | | Quoting DJ Doena: Quote: 1€ > $1.40 over here
That's fine with me As far as i know dollar has been going down, but importing from US still isnt anymore cheaper | | | Last edited: by whispering |
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Registered: March 14, 2007 | Reputation: | Posts: 6,747 |
| Posted: | | | | Quoting whispering: Quote: Quoting DJ Doena:
Quote: 1€ > $1.40 over here
That's fine with me As far as i know dollar has been going down, but importing from US still isnt anymore cheaper Why? If I buy something for $20 at a exchange rate of 1:1.30, I pay 15.38€. At a rate of 1:1.40 I pay 14.29€. That's more than 1€ cheaper. Additionaly in Germany you pay no customs fee for imports worth less than 22€. That raises the bar from $28.60 to $30.80. And that can make a real difference: 1:1.30: Product A: $29.99 = 23.07€ + 3.5% customs fee = 23.88€ + 19% VAT = 28.41€ 1:1.40: Product A: $29.99 = 21.42€ | | | Karsten DVD Collectors Online
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Registered: March 13, 2007 | Posts: 1,279 |
| Posted: | | | | Quoting DJ Doena: Quote: Quoting whispering:
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Quote: 1€ > $1.40 over here
That's fine with me As far as i know dollar has been going down, but importing from US still isnt anymore cheaper Why?
If I buy something for $20 at a exchange rate of 1:1.30, I pay 15.38€. At a rate of 1:1.40 I pay 14.29€. That's more than 1€ cheaper.
Additionaly in Germany you pay no customs fee for imports worth less than 22€. That raises the bar from $28.60 to $30.80. And that can make a real difference:
1:1.30: Product A: $29.99 = 23.07€ + 3.5% customs fee = 23.88€ + 19% VAT = 28.41€
1:1.40: Product A: $29.99 = 21.42€ What I have noticed is some sites aren't very good at updating the converted prices on a regular basis, so if you use their on site conversion (DVDPacific being one) then it looks as though they are charging the same. It's only when they charge your credit card you see the difference. | | | IVS Registered: January 2, 2002 |
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Registered: March 13, 2007 | Posts: 844 |
| Posted: | | | | Today the Loonie closed ABOVE the US$for the first time in almost 31 years! woooo! My annual Black Friday trek is looking like an especially good idea this year. |
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