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Originally Posted by Hammertime
The cost of gas, wear and tear on a car, as well as the time spent driving to Washington makes the $350 dollars look not so great a savings. If they could ship it up here for that price, that's a different story.
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For yourself, you can have it shipped to where you live for a few extra dollars, although with some tires the Canadian manufactuers do have an exclusivity agreement.
From my house to the border is a 3 minute drive and than another 3 minutes to Oroville. So for me it's well worth it ship it there and pay the $4 holding fee and import it myself, plus buying gas down there I save another $20 a tank, and I can buy a lot of groceries for a lot cheaper. Really when the dollar is at par like it is right now, I save enough money buying a lot of my basic needs in the US that it easily offsets the extra taxes I pay to live in BC verses what I was paying in Alberta.
I have wondered if I could make a decent amount of money by picking stuff up in a place like Oroville, importing it, and than shipping it again once it crosses the border to Canadian customers. The brokerage fees that are charged can be pretty high. I actually ordered something on E-Bay where I was charge $15 for shipping. I had to send it back and the actual cost to send it was $10.30.