sharkey - Collegamento all'originale

I have been ordering from DigiKey and they've always shipped from the United States (apparently when ordering from the Canadian site it's perfectly normal that they would ship from the United States, at least that seems like their attitude). My understanding about why they are doing this, is they don't have to deal with taxes and duty this way.

Previous orders, this has been "not a big deal, a bit of a pain, but not really a big deal". This time (split order) it's been a really very significant difference. The first part of the order was something like 36% border fees.

I've tried to find a Canadian place, and probably have found a couple of reasonable alternatives, but I'd really like to ask if anyone has some good electronics shipping from Canada.

I get to some degree, it just doesn't really make sense to try to do that, as most of the manufactures are based in the United States. Even Canadian electronics companies, that are "manufacturers" are to some degree dealing with having to get stuff from the United States.

Anyway, if you have a place to look at I'd love to hear. Thanks. #AskingFediverse #AskingFedi

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mastodon - Collegamento all'originale

cate

IIRC they work out if custom (like airports), so with stricter controls of what enter and exit in their warehouses. Also IIRC at beginning of the crazy tariffs many companies asked them how to implement such things, and they were also looking to have warehouses outside us. So if you do no buy adafruits, and few other US products, it should be nearly fine. But also I’m looking a non US supplier.
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gotosocial - Collegamento all'originale

Kermode 🇨🇦

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Primarily, when getting anything from the USA, do NOT ever use UPS. Never. They are bandits and thieves.
Never use them for out of canada goods at all.
They claim 'customs clearance fees' that don't actually exist.
FedEx never does this. The postal service never does this.
There are no duties on computers or electronic components.
Source: ran a freight shed for years with both. Also, even further back, I simply got a customs license from the feds for next to nothing to avoid the bastards and 'cleared' my own stuff for nothing.

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