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Originally Posted by Sylvanfan
Not that I blame you, but how far of a drive is it from Kalispell to Calgary anyways, has to be like 5 hours (424km and just under 6 says google maps). So consider that it could be a day there, a day back, possibly hotel for the night plus gas to drive both ways. Than factor in that the Canadian dollar has come up about 15% in the last 3 months and that starts to eat up a fair chunk of that price difference. Say you wanted to buy with a credit card, thats anohter 2.5% foreign currency fee that you'd get dinged with. Even if you pull off the drive in a day thats a long full day of driving. What was that 15-16 hour day on the road worth to you, add in $250 for gas for pretty much any truck to make that run (which you have to own one, or have someone willing to lend you one) and back. So for most goods where the savings isn't that significant it's not worth the inconvenience for most people.
As Thunderball states, there are additional costs associated with doing business in Canada given our more socialist state, and part of that does get put on the consumer.
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I can get there and back in 12 hours max.
I've got a truck ... if it costs $250 in gas I'm still at least $750 Cdn ahead of the game... plus my gst on $2800 cdn will be $140 while the gst on $4000 if I bought it here in Calgary would be $200 (just saved myself another $60).
I'll pay cash... so no extra fee's from visa.
I don't know about you, but it takes a lot longer than 12 hours of my time to earn that $800 cdn if I bought the fridge here in Calgary.... $800/12 = $66 / hour net which probably works out to about $100 per hour gross for my time.
For me, spending 12 hours on the weekend traveling to Montana and back, to save $800 is well worth it.