Has anyone recently imported harddrives from us to Canada? I’m planning on ordering 6x (possibly 12x) 14tb harddrives through eBay. It has been a very long time since I’ve used ebay so want to know what I should expect and at what point it is more worthwhile buying from a Canadian vendor.

I’m assuming usps is still the cheapest way to ship duty/brokerage wise? How much did duty and brokerage cost?

Also open to suggestions on Canadian vendors (currently looking at referb HGST or Exos).

  • 16golfr@alien.topBEnglish
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    1 year ago

    Use a forwarding service, most sellers do free shipping in the states.

    Pay the fee to use the service, pay taxes.

    Avoid any massive brokerage charges.

    The shipping cost alone US to Canada cost more.

    If your in the GTA send me a pm. I can send you a referral. They have 8 locations for pickup iirc

  • TheUbuntuGuy@alien.topBEnglish
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    1 year ago

    I’ve done it a few times and the duty is of course based off the value of the drives. In my cases I’ve bought 1 or 2 drives at a time (20TB) and the duty was never more than $50, with about $10 of that being the processing fee.