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I just have to rant about this, so I hope you guys and girls don’t mind too much.
My BEP OW came today. I was in Lausanne, so the post office is holding him for ransom until I go pick him up tomorrow. Ransom price: CHF 105.05, or about $85.
No, I’m not very happy. This whole day was a series of ups and downs. Lausanne turned out to be a beautiful city, and I found my conversational French to be much better than I expected. Kaori, the Windstone dealer in Lausanne, was closed, but in looking through the windows I couldn’t see a single Windstone anyway. I wasn’t too sorry I’d been spared from buying – or so I thought, until I came home to find the ransom note.
Underneath it was also the confirmation that I’m now officially a Swiss citizen. That does make me very happy and proud. But with Windstones, $85 on top of the $475 winning bid and $57 shipping… I’m spending fledglings left and right. 😥Wow! That’s high! How do they figure customs? In Canada, it’s 14% taxes.
I feel for you big time!
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http://www.sarahjestin.com/feedbacklists.htmWhere in Canada is it 14% I pay 6% I believe, just the GST, but that can be enough, unless it is UPS, then I have to pay a bunch of brokerage fees as well, bleck.
ruffian wrote:Where in Canada is it 14% I pay 6% I believe, just the GST, but that can be enough, unless it is UPS, then I have to pay a bunch of brokerage fees as well, bleck.
In Québec it’s 6% GST and 7.5% PST, and I think the Maritimes have it even worse…
But I agree, it’s the brokerage fees that are the worse… up to 40%!!!
I think we already went over this a while back though 😆
I forgot…
Greater Basilisk wrote:I found my conversational French to be much better than I expected.
Mais évidemment! Si tu peux bien lire et écrire, (and I assume you can since you aced your exam) c’est sûr que tu peux bien parler! Une bonne étudiante comme toi, franchement… 😆
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http://www.sarahjestin.com/feedbacklists.htmI’m sorry for the misfortune. You need to find someone that can send them to you as a gift if that woudl help
Thanks for the sympathy, everybody, but I’m still sore about it. Not even sleeping on it helped any. Right now I don’t even want the OW anymore – not at that price! Of course it’s too late to go back now, but I just feel like such an idiot. $85 is a lot of wasted money when there were so many ways to save it.
Like DM said, I could have had it sent from Wolfen’s as a gift. I could have had my aunt FedEx it – we don’t need to pay fees there. Stupid stupid stupid.
I am going to ask Karen whether on future buys she can put down the material/production cost as the value, rather than my winning bid. Customs charges according to value (7.6%), weight, and then I think there’s some tariff in there too.
I just remembered I had to pay 40 some franks for Pip’s emerald OW and didn’t mind that. I totally forgot they charge by value. What a great start to the day. 👿dragonmedley wrote:I forgot…
Greater Basilisk wrote:I found my conversational French to be much better than I expected.
Mais évidemment! Si tu peux bien lire et écrire, (and I assume you can since you aced your exam) c’est sûr que tu peux bien parler! Une bonne étudiante comme toi, franchement… 😆
Eh, Medley, je trouve je trouve la lecture et l’écriture d’être plus facile que le discours. Surtout parce que le discours dans l’examen concentrée sur la philosophie du Maupassant et du Sartre… Et je trouve la philosophie est pas du matière conversationnelle en français. Ca c’est mon problème. 😆
He’s home, looking very regal and doing his utmost to help me forget how much more expensive he was than I’d wanted. Live and learn, I guess. The fee was made up of 41.40 for customs and 53.65 for sales tax. Much more of this and it’ll be cheaper to rent a Learjet and go pick them up in person.
Oh Ski, you just made my day. (It must be the hormones or something.) Thank you. He really is gorgeous. Wolfen was right when she said he looked washed-out in the auction photos.
Greater Basilisk wrote:Oh Ski, you just made my day. (It must be the hormones or something.) Thank you. He really is gorgeous. Wolfen was right when she said he looked washed-out in the auction photos.
😆 Glad I could help. I was wondering why the price on these guys has not gone down. The black gold went down. One went for around $250. These guys are not getting any CHEAPER though!! I may actually miss out, but now I can see why. They are AWESOME! Now I REALLY want one!!!
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