Made in Canada conundrum

Martykl

...and that impression has been going on for decades. We don't get a very objective view of ourselves if we only subscribe to our hometown news.

Listen to the BBC for a less biased opinion now and then and you'll understand.

Dopwn here there's a lot of Canadians whom I call friends. I've never heard any negative discourse about us, from them... ever. Not even from strangers I have met from there.

A general rule of thumb in retail is to tax everything... maybe that's the ticket at the crossing... when in doubt "apply all fees".

Crossing over or not... just shipping bothers me... and i've had reasonably good experiences there.

ASk for a schematic or buy something else... actually, regardless, ask for a schematic... they may take a powder or have to just fold up shop at some point.

Thanks for the heads up. I did pay the mentioned $s when i purchased a table from C.
A reminder is good.

Hope you're doing well, Denis.

I think the percentage of foreign companies without a US repair facility is well over 50%. Based on the experiences I've had in the past few years, I've more or less come to the conclusion that a company not based in North America that is unable/unwilling to pay someone in the USA to support their margue and all that's involved in doing so is a company not worth patronizing.

By the way, this is definitely not something between the people or governments of Canada and the USA. The problem is the shipping companies who have folks working for them enforcing draconian, onerous, and outrageously priced policies. NAFTA sure didn't benefit the high-end audio customer. Most will find this difficult to believe, but my shipments from China were far, far, far faster and less complicated than those I was involved with in Canada. To the point where we finally went to having the gear I imported directly into Canada from China, as opposed to coming to me first.

RODMAN smoke very good suff ( from the north)............

A friend who married a Canadian and migrated there [from Australia] has a theory that Britain deported its convicts to Australia and its beauracrats to Canada-which was far worse!