[geeks] Is it too much to be pissed...

[Shawn Wallbridge]

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>Road trip? Wouldn't that require a car? Even a license maybe....
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>On the more serious side, I would love a more reliable and well built
>computer, maybe one that can support a more well designed OS then the
>one I currently use(Win2K) but the next time I hope to be heading
>south is to Des Moines, IA in August, though that is very tenuous
>right now. I am sure that if I do go I can arrange to have a person
>driving through one of those area's pick one up, and I can fins a way
>to get it back home. 
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>The problem with shipping, as one list member had found already(sorry
>again), is that a)the customs office is very much out of the way and
>hard to get to by public transportation, and b)is quite costly. I
>have found that Canada customs thinks a lot higher of computer
>equipment then reality dictates. Mind you, they are used to
>size=price, and usually see more PC's then they do Sun's and so on. 
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Customs simply uses the value listed on the invoice (assuming their is 
an invoice, if their isn't an invoice, then they have to guess). Even if 
they guess, if you show them your invoice or reciept (I have used a 
printout of the eBay page) they will use that.

If you need to get something from the US and don't want to go to 
customs, ship it US Post. Canada Post is VERY reasonable as far as 
brokerage fee's are concerned.

shawn