How Canadians can get the best Black Friday deals
The Canadian dollar might be hovering just around parity with the American greenback, but that doesn’t mean things cost the same on both sides of the border.
Several items are often much cheaper in the States for reasons I’m not well-versed to explain, but it’s disappointing for us Canucks – if you don’t use online shopping to your advantage.
Just in time for Black Friday, it’s worth drawing attention to Bing’s Cross Border Shopping tool. It offers a quick and easy way to comparison shop between items sold in Canada and the United States, factoring in everything from exchange rates to shipping and import fees.
For example, this pair of Yamaha indoor/outdoor speakers cost $199.99 at Best Buy. Bing tells me, however, they cost only $60.38 at B&H Photo. Too good to be true?
No – the site tells me there’ll be an additional $43.42 shipping charge and a $3.92 brokerage and duties fee. Still, $107.72 is nearly 90 bucks less.
However, Bing also shows me the FujiFilm Finepix Z70 digital camera is available for as low as $149.97 in Canada. But New York City’s B&H Photo is selling it for $110.74 plus $28.31 for shipping and no brokerage & duties fees.
Can’t do that math? Bing says on the product’s page that buying it from the USA costs less, but not by much.
If you do decide to physically do cross-border shopping by car, you can follow the Canadian Border Services’ wait time updates on Twitter.
How do you take advantage of cross-border shopping?
- Maurice Cacho, MSN Tech & Gadgets
*Image: The Canadian Press
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Posted by: moses | Nov 25, 2010 12:57:12 PM
moses okguchung is the owner of the movie industry micheal with his groups of terrorist organizations facing criminal nelgelgences charges by a human right court,most of the show terroror communities and organizations and congregations were violate my right for my business.
Iam just not remaind the guy at internet for my business,the criminal organizations
attacking moses okguchung the owner of the movies industry for houseing problems and
bully and doctors harassment businesss,all terror show organizations could even its take years,
iam still charging thems,micheal with his terror organizations for iron man business,
the paying seven communities at bell 16 resident
terrorist were playing me business that is why iam poor
terror attempting to burn me at bell 16 rooming housing becauses they are paying tips for housing co ordinator,to a void me housing to live in aplacese where ,full of crack and terrorist
rooming,
terrorist gaining more people to work against my businesss,becauses they paying crack people in
street of bell 16 to prepare to burn at the room. there are 16 people live at that bell 16 all of them useing drugs so terrorist a void me housing to live at crack houses to blame any accident as agang violences or crack, terrorist have trickes of playing games for my business,they also accused me believe, accused believe is a games of congregations and intercommunities,
iam the owner of the movies industry where is my money why Iam poor? why I live at rooming house with crack people and violences?
did people believe that terrorist owning my businesss? how ? did you see the owner is poor
and those they choices to work for owner business were rich,why?
terrorist playing games of girls go no where, the games of girls go no where ,for my business was support by seven
communities for terrorist, so I becoming poor becauese most of the terrorist organizations playing me games of girls go no where for my busines? my answer is girls go no where for my business has nothing to do with my business.
moses okguchung :reporting
Posted by: Sean | Nov 26, 2010 9:42:07 PM
Wow!