Selling to Canadians

9rw: what relevance does the "woman who spoke with a heavy accent" have here?

When customs is involved you never know what's going to happen.

I still don't understand this phenomenon. Twice I purchase gear from Canada and received it only to get a bill from UPS for about $20-$30 a month later for shipping charges even though I had paid shipping to the seller and UPS delivered it w/o notifying me there would be extra charges. Calling them yielded no results. I just decided not to pay and after a while the bills stopped coming. Who knows if it ever showed up on my credit report.

""Actually, only if it's originaly manufactured in Canada(Bryston, Classe, YBA, etc) would a Canadian buyer not have to pay duty on it. ""

No duties on anything manufactured in Canada or US and I think even Mexico.Just taxes GST in all provinces and GST and PST in a few.
All else fair game for duties/taxes....
With that being said INCONSISTENCY still rules the day at customs and border crossings.

Mikeyc8: It has to do with a person employed in customer service not being able to communicate. She couldn't understand my wife and my wife couldn't understand her. So we're not certain about the accuracy of what she told my wife regarding the $675 insurance limit. Does that sound reasonable to you?

Someone employed by the USPS shouldn't be English-challenged. No need to get all riled up or defensive.

Several people have mentioned it but I'll say it again. Don't ship UPS because it's very possible to be backbilled on the customs charges. I sold a camera once to a guy in Canada and he refused to pay the custom charges even though we'd spoken about them. You really have no worthwhile options except to pay. And it wasn't a trivial amount. That was on top of all the forms I had to obtain fill out to start with. USPS will save you the hassle.