Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1996/03/28
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Tom makes some good points. Canada is not the only country to have an absolutely unreasonable approach to customs and visitors, nor is it the worst, but, thankfully, most other countries are much better. I buy and sell world-wide. When I buy, I pay whatever customs there are at this end -- which is none on used stuff. When I send it out, it's the purchaser's worry to pay the customs at his end. I went to Toronto last fall, by the way, with a load of cameras and hadn't the slightest problem at customs either US or Canadian. But I was geared for the worst. Plus I bought a bunch of stuff at a show in Toronto: the customs agent just waved me through when I showed it to him. Which meant I had an extra two-hour wait at the bloody airport, as I'd been prepared for a struggle. I understand Tom's experience is far more common than is mine, and that US customs is generally much, much worse than is Canadian. Marc msmall@roanoke.infi.net FAX: +540/343-7315 Cha robh bas fir gun ghras fir!