DrewE wrote:
Lehmans is quite familiar with shipping stuff all over the world.
Familiarity with International shipping isn't the issue ... cost is. And that cost difference between a quoted price in US $ will be significantly higher once the product is landed at a Canadian customer's doorstep which can easily double the price of any product. Freight and crating charges are just part of the story as it's the customer who must absorb the costs of currency exchange rate differences, custom fees, brokerage fees, and anything else such as HST that may be tacked on. I just purchased a battery charger advertised by the US manufacturer at $149 US, had I ordered it directly I could have easily been stung twice that in Cdn funds by the time it ended up in my workshop. Thanks to a post here on rv.net I discovered an online sale for the exact same product from Canadian retailer Princess Auto for $140 Cdn ... all in it's costing me $161 Cdn, a far cry from $300.