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WTB: LED City Lights - Online Vendor Shipping is RIDICULOUS !

casanis1

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[FONT=&quot]I am looking for a pair of ZIZA LED city lights for my B5.5 Passat Wagon. Online vendors seem to charge ridiculous shipping prices to Canada![/FONT]

[FONT=&quot]EXAMPLE:[/FONT]
[FONT=&quot]I was looking into ECS Tuning for a pair of LED City lights

[/FONT] [FONT=&quot]http://www.ecstuning.com/ES1844086/ [/FONT]

[FONT=&quot]$49.95 for the product. Free shipping in the States.[/FONT]

[FONT=&quot]Cost of shipping to Canada however, is ludicrous. [/FONT]

[FONT=&quot]$40.62 Shipping via USPS International or $56.04 via UPS.[/FONT]

[FONT=&quot]How is this possible? Do they ship them in an over-sized wooden crate?[/FONT]

[FONT=&quot]Anyone in the US want to order these, free shipping to your door, throw them in a padded mailer and send them across the border for the ACTUAL USPS shipping cost?
[/FONT]

[FONT=&quot]Peace![/FONT]
[FONT=&quot]Adam.
[/FONT]
 

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I'd be more than happy to help. I'm in seattle, so it will kind of be going back and forth, but if you don't mind I don't either. This is just the sort of international shenanigans I like. I'll probably get put on a watch list for this, but to be honest I'm probably on one already.
Email me if you'd like to take me up on the offer.

Andrew
ffenwerdna@gmail.com
 

burpod

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you could also easily just buy the LED bulbs + with a little bit of a wire and maybe a couple sockets (not sure exactly how these fit in the passat), make them much cheaper yourself :p
 

FlyTDI Guy

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I'd be more than happy to help. I'm in seattle, so it will kind of be going back and forth, but if you don't mind I don't either. This is just the sort of international shenanigans I like. I'll probably get put on a watch list for this, but to be honest I'm probably on one already.
Email me if you'd like to take me up on the offer.
Andrew
ffenwerdna@gmail.com
Iff'n he lived in Vancouver, that'd be a sweet deal. I notice he's in Ontario, still pretty spendy including time and fuel.
 

Area351

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Send them to me and I'll mail them to you as a "gift".....

I've helped people with stuff like this before to the Czech Republic and other foreign countries.

:D
 

annieneff

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Holy-expensive-a-moley!!!

Iff'n he lived in Vancouver, that'd be a sweet deal. I notice he's in Ontario, still pretty spendy including time and fuel.

I thought you were full of it so I called the PO. $38.00 (usd)! for shipping from here to there (assuming a 5 lb package)!
Take the other guy up on the gift offer :eek:.
I'll still do it if you want me to, but you're right; for some reason the usa PO hates canada.
 

Area351

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Stick them in a padded envelope and throw some stamps on it......

:D

No need for a 5lb box for about 6 oz of stuff. I'll bet it'll be less than $10.00 maybe even $5.00
 

FlyTDI Guy

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I thought you were full of it so I called the PO. $38.00 (usd)! for shipping from here to there (assuming a 5 lb package)!
Take the other guy up on the gift offer :eek:.
I'll still do it if you want me to, but you're right; for some reason the usa PO hates canada.
I figured you were talking about driving it up to the border for him. Now I don't have any clue what you're talking about. :confused:
 

annieneff

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Op lives in Ontario, yes? Driving it "to the border" would be ludicrous from Seattle. Unless I was in dire need of an epic (and boring) road trip.
If USA shipping is free-- I was offering to have it shipped to me, and then I'd put it in the mail and ship it to him. Sounds like my 5 lb estimate was grossly high, but it would still make more sense for the fella out in the Midwest to do this than for me too.
Just to be clear; I'm not offering to dive it there :).
 

macoombi

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Trouble is that shipping in Canada is expensive compared to shipping within the US. Shipping across the border is even worse.

I often ship stuff to Ogdensburg, NY and drive across and pick stuff up. I'll probably be travelling through Whitby some time in the next 3 or 4 months. Post up on the Ontario forum and you might be able to find someone making the trip sooner. I know there's a few of us that ship to Odgensburg.
 

casanis1

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Stick them in a padded envelope and throw some stamps on it......

:D

No need for a 5lb box for about 6 oz of stuff. I'll bet it'll be less than $10.00 maybe even $5.00
PM Sent to AREA351!
Many thanks for the help and kindness.

Cheers,
Adam.
 

FlyTDI Guy

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Op lives in Ontario, yes? Driving it "to the border" would be ludicrous from Seattle. Unless I was in dire need of an epic (and boring) road trip.
If USA shipping is free-- I was offering to have it shipped to me, and then I'd put it in the mail and ship it to him. Sounds like my 5 lb estimate was grossly high, but it would still make more sense for the fella out in the Midwest to do this than for me too.
Just to be clear; I'm not offering to dive it there :).
Ok, cleared that up. Diving it up to him is indeed impractical. :D
 

yatzee

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ECS is also known to be the most expensive in terms of shipping to canada. I have ordered once or twice from them, but had it delivered in the USA, and i've then picked it up.
 

Area351

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I took his bulbs out of the box and put them in a small padded envelope and was shocked when I went to the post office. They wanted $23.00 to mail the envelope!

I put them in yet another envelope yesterday and mailed them via first class (no insurance - not available for first class) and it was still over $8.00

I personally wouldn't mail them without insurance but that's what the OP wanted.
 
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FlyTDI Guy

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I took his bulbs out of the box and put them in a small padded envelope and was shocked when I went to the post office. They wanted $23.00 to mail the envelope!

I put them in yet another envelope yesterday and mailed them via first class (no insurance - not available for first class) and it was still over $8.00

I personally wouldn't mail them without insurance but that's what the OP wanted.
That's just crazy... I wonder why the excessive upcharge? Duty, customs, greed, or all three?
 

chrism9852

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Mail fraud contributes to increased postage rates.
 

slosrtnick

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I get a discount shipping to Canada from my work. We do ups Canada standard and USPS priority and first class. If I recall its not too bad. I'm not sure what sort of customs fees there are for items, but I can help out if anybody wants.

Nick
 

FlyTDI Guy

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Is Canadian post generally expensive? Here in the states, USPS is about a economical as it gets, though it can still be expensive if you're in a hurry. I'm wondering if the Canada rates are a large contributor to the overall price of cross-border shipping costs.
 

casanis1

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Send them to me and I'll mail them to you as a "gift".....

I've helped people with stuff like this before to the Czech Republic and other foreign countries.

:D

Lights arrived today! Many Thanks again to all the members willing to help out - special thanks to Area351.
 

IndigoBlueWagon

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I'm probably not the one to defend a competitors shipping rates, but I hope that folks from Canada realize that its your duty and tax structure that adds to shipping costs, not what a supplier (or carrier) is charging. We've negotiated hard with UPS and had to incorporate in Canada to reduce fees when shipping cross-border. But keep in mind that when you see high rates often the shipper is merely billing through the costs levied by your government.
 
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