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How much you bring back from US?

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Poll: How much do you bring back from US on your same day trip?

  • Total votes: 27. You have voted on this poll.
<50
 
6
22%
51 - 100
 
2
7%
101 - 200
 
5
19%
201 - 300
 
4
15%
301 - 400
 
3
11%
401 - 500
 
3
11%
501 - 600
 
1
4%
>600
 
3
11%
Member
Dec 25, 2005
230 posts
6 upvotes

How much you bring back from US?

Let's see how much people are bringing back across the border. This is a per capita amount.
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Deal Addict
Dec 26, 2005
2806 posts
37 upvotes
Mississauga, ON
crazyproton wrote: Let's see how much people are bringing back across the border. This is a per capita amount.
homework assignment?
Deal Expert
Oct 20, 2001
18709 posts
1326 upvotes
Sauga
Last three trips were all $1000+....over and back in under an hour each time. Getting those items shipped to my mailbox in NF, NY took some time, though. :)
Deal Addict
Sep 22, 2009
2760 posts
228 upvotes
Canadia
I just buy online from the US and make sure shipping to Canada is via USPS, instead of physically transporting goods across the border myself. I find this dramatically reduces the amount of harassment and extortion I'm subjected to when purchasing goods from Americans.
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Member
Dec 25, 2005
230 posts
6 upvotes
Rehan wrote: Last three trips were all $1000+....over and back in under an hour each time. Getting those items shipped to my mailbox in NF, NY took some time, though. :)
Was the custom nice enough to not tax you?
Deal Expert
Oct 20, 2001
18709 posts
1326 upvotes
Sauga
crazyproton wrote: Was the custom nice enough to not tax you?
Of course not. The last time they even took a look through my car... My wife had ordered $200-$300 of soap/spa making supplies (for a kids' birthday party this month), and the girl I went to inside had doubts that it was for not for a business. She marked the whole $1000+ as the beauty items, even though there were other things like books that do not have the full 13% tax on them. :mad:
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Feb 25, 2004
5655 posts
149 upvotes
New Westminster
I do it the same way at Rehan, usually somewhere between $500 and $100 per trip. A few years back I'd even get waived through without taxes but in the last couple of a years, they send me inside for GST/PST. Haven't looked through my car and really hate all the receipt; usually lump it all under some "general" category.
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Jul 18, 2009
1364 posts
81 upvotes
We generally don't do many day trips, but did so to pickup a Weber BBQ (us$1,500 vs. cad$2,500), Snowblower (us$809 vs. cad$1700), TREX decking and a few other things.

We usually plan 3-5 trips per year with a minumum stay of a weekend. We'll spend $1,500-2,000 and thanks to internet shopping and personal import allowances, pay minimal US taxes and nothing on the way home :D

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