anyone have some ideas on a good place in Canada to buy NOS ?
Thx

Dunno about that but you won't go wrong with Jim McShane in the U.S.A.

- Jon

From: "jim"
Newsgroups: rec.audio.tubes
Date: Sun, 04 Apr 2004 23:57:55 GMT
Subject: Question: Where to buy Tubes in Canada???

anyone have some ideas on a good place in Canada to buy NOS ?
Thx

Jon Yaeger wrote...

Dunno about that but you won't go wrong with Jim
McShane in the U.S.A.

Thank you Jon!

FWIW, it's cheap to ship from the US to Canada too.
I ship to Canada all the time, drop a note if I can help.

Jim McShane
Need Tubes? Got a H-K Citation (Pre) Amp?
Check http://pages.prodigy.net/jimmcshane
Repro knobs for Citation gear in stock!

"Jim McShane" wrote in message
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Jon Yaeger wrote...

Dunno about that but you won't go wrong with Jim
McShane in the U.S.A.

Thank you Jon!

FWIW, it's cheap to ship from the US to Canada too.
I ship to Canada all the time, drop a note if I can help.

Jim McShane

If Canadian GST (sales tax) and/or duty is payable then Revenue Canada
makes you pay it AND adds a CDN$5.00 collection fee to the tax and any
duty! This certainly pushes up the "landed" product price .

Does anyone know if vacuum tubes can enter Canada duty free? We're
certainly not protecting any industry so there may be no duty, but
I'll bet the sales tax collector has his hand out.

Cheers,

Roger.

Tubes are duty free entering Canada, but Canada Post charges a $5 handling
fee (customs) and then makes you pay the GST and PST
taxes which are 15% on the canadian value.
In Canada try the tubestore..excellent
and partsconnexion
http://www.thetubestore.com/
http://www.partsconnexion.com/
I believe you can send up to $15 US and it will get thru ok..after that you
pay the taxes.
You can ask the sender to mark as a "gift" that will get you up to $40US
free..no taxes.
You can also ask the sender to declare a lower value and then pay less
taxes.
I've done them all and no problems shipping thru the mail.
Dan

"Engineer" wrote in message
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"Jim McShane" wrote in message
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Jon Yaeger wrote...

Dunno about that but you won't go wrong with Jim
McShane in the U.S.A.

Thank you Jon!

FWIW, it's cheap to ship from the US to Canada too.
I ship to Canada all the time, drop a note if I can help.

Jim McShane

If Canadian GST (sales tax) and/or duty is payable then Revenue Canada
makes you pay it AND adds a CDN$5.00 collection fee to the tax and any
duty! This certainly pushes up the "landed" product price .

Does anyone know if vacuum tubes can enter Canada duty free? We're
certainly not protecting any industry so there may be no duty, but
I'll bet the sales tax collector has his hand out.

Cheers,

Roger.

Try www.thetubestore.com in Hamilton. Also www.partsconnexion.com



On Sun, 04 Apr 2004 23:57:55 GMT, "jim" wrote:

anyone have some ideas on a good place in Canada to buy NOS ?
Thx


Dan Santoni
DTS Audio
Hamilton, ON
Canada

There's also

http://www.conusaudio.com/

in Toronto.

Brian.

Engineer wrote:
"Jim McShane" wrote in message
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Jon Yaeger wrote...


Dunno about that but you won't go wrong with Jim
McShane in the U.S.A.

Thank you Jon!

FWIW, it's cheap to ship from the US to Canada too.
I ship to Canada all the time, drop a note if I can help.

Jim McShane


If Canadian GST (sales tax) and/or duty is payable then Revenue Canada
makes you pay it AND adds a CDN$5.00 collection fee to the tax and any
duty! This certainly pushes up the "landed" product price .

This seems to be "luck of the draw." For small shipments (under $100 or
so), they usually don't bother. But ya never know. Out of about 20
packages received from the States in the last year or so, with values
ranging between $5 and $75, only one package was slammed for the GST
(and the $5.00 surcharge assessed by Canada Post for gracing you with
the GST bill).

Ironically, that one package was a pile of books (3 ARRL handbooks and
an RDH4). I suppose I could have fought it on that basis... but what the
heck.

Does anyone know if vacuum tubes can enter Canada duty free? We're
certainly not protecting any industry so there may be no duty, but
I'll bet the sales tax collector has his hand out.

Yes. All antique electronics and electronics parts are duty free. Even
contemporary electronics is only assessed at a couple percent, so even
there they don't usually bother unless you're importing a whole whack of it.

Cheers,
Fred
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