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Adorama shipping to Canada
ontarian:
I'm impressed with Adorama for replying to a forum post but I agree with many Canadians here that UPS sucks. USPS or purolator is the way to go to bypass the brokerage fee troubles. I've personally never had an issue with USPS shipping to Canada.
Mt Spokane Photography:
--- Quote from: DeepShadows on August 28, 2011, 07:46:21 PM ---You are all forgetting the scam UPS runs on the end user (which I've been told directly from two different UPS employees) "Brokerage fee" which does not exist when using usps. I have been charged over $200 3 months after receiving a product and $187 a week after receiving my monitor worth $400 from the states. I have not had ONE good result using UPS in over 25 times. USPS is cheap, fast for me, and have never lost or damaged a package. I will not be ordering from Adorama until UPS scamsville is no longer an option (fedex blows too). B&H got it sooooo right with the purolator service, they have my business because of it.
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When you ship using the low cost standard shipping, they add a brokerage fee based on value (none for low cost items). When you use premium shipping, its included in the cost of the shipping. They also collect your taxes as required by the Canadian government. You really can't blame Canadian taxes on UPS.
Helen Oster:
--- Quote from: Mt Spokane Photography on August 04, 2011, 01:09:55 PM ---
I will not order from Adorama again until they ditch UPS as their courier to Canada.
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--- Quote from: DeepShadows on August 28, 2011, 07:46:21 PM ---..........I will not be ordering from Adorama until UPS scamsville is no longer an option
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--- Quote from: ontarian on August 28, 2011, 08:47:25 PM ---USPS or purolator is the way to go to bypass the brokerage fee troubles.
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Provided your order is below the insurance, weight and dimension threshold you can currently have your order shipped USPS - you only need drop me an email: Helen@adorama.com
Going forward, within the next 3 weks or so Adorama will be introducing the new shipping option which will be available to our Canadian customers.
eosguy444:
whenever I order ANYTHING from the U.S. I always specify USPS and NOT UPS-I wont let them leave the parcel at the door or wherever if Im not home-CanPost will leave me a card to say come and pick it up-and its realitively close to get-brokerage fee is $5 I think thats it-and the taxes too-but not the outrageous fees UPS attaches to anything over 20 bucks
DeepShadows:
--- Quote from: Mt Spokane Photography on August 28, 2011, 10:34:48 PM ---
--- Quote from: DeepShadows on August 28, 2011, 07:46:21 PM ---You are all forgetting the scam UPS runs on the end user (which I've been told directly from two different UPS employees) "Brokerage fee" which does not exist when using usps. I have been charged over $200 3 months after receiving a product and $187 a week after receiving my monitor worth $400 from the states. I have not had ONE good result using UPS in over 25 times. USPS is cheap, fast for me, and have never lost or damaged a package. I will not be ordering from Adorama until UPS scamsville is no longer an option (fedex blows too). B&H got it sooooo right with the purolator service, they have my business because of it.
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When you ship using the low cost standard shipping, they add a brokerage fee based on value (none for low cost items). When you use premium shipping, its included in the cost of the shipping. They also collect your taxes as required by the Canadian government. You really can't blame Canadian taxes on UPS.
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One of those shipments that gave me problems was from B&H using UPS Worldwide Saver. I was told that brokerage was included.... WRONG, I got charged $65 dollars ONTOP of the shipping charge of $35 when I went to pick up my 32GB Lexar 600x CF card. After that, I said no more. Purolator on most packages shipping is 9 or 10 dollars, add in the taxes and it comes up to around 30 or 35. That's it. No more fees for me. That's the way it should be.
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