Double the price?

[Brisch]

I am just curious as to why everything on bigalsonline.ca is double the price of the bigalsonline.com site...same company, same products, and with our exchange rate huge price difference. Why is this so?

[hp10BII]

previously discussed

Why such a huge price difference?

[123mars]

Living in Canada really sucks sometimes.

Advice: You live in surrey. Not too far from the border. Order from Bigalsonline.com, ship it to this place in Blaine: Hagen's of Blaine -- (360) 332-5246 -- Shipping & Receiving, Private Mail Boxes, Fax Service, Photo Copies, Online Consignment. It is a place for Canadians to avoid the big rip off. They even let you throw away the boxes and receipts in the shop. Put it in your car along with decoy junk you brought down, spend a couple of hours bumming around on the beach and go home. Lie to the border guard, they have no proof where you bought it and will leave you alone. The most important thing is not to panic or look stressed! I have done this dozens of times....I usually say I was on a Trader Joes expedition and declare $20 of groceries and they just wave me through. Or if you are the panic type, declare it, go in and pay HST of 12% and duty of 9.5% (if it is not made in NAFTA you need to pay duty). You will still save heaps. Get a BMO US dollar visa card to save on the crap visa rates. It is your responsibility as a Canadian consumer for the good of all Canadian consumers to do as much shopping as you can in the US. Only if we all do this will the margins between Canada and US prices start to drop.

Answer to your question of Why do we pay more in canada?

Because the market will bear it. All the other "reasons" are just excuses from retailers.

[TCR]

if this were facebook i would "like" ur comment

[Nanokid]

if this were facebook i would "like" ur comment

yea me too

[gimlid]

I like your style 123 mars, if that really is your name.......?

[tony1928]

LOL. Funny but there's quite a bit of truth there. It's basic economics, charge as much as the market will bear. Consumers' choices will dictate where prices will go.

[April]

some of it could be shipping..brokers..custom fees, import licenses..etc..food permits..etc etc..theres alot of hidden costs that i know of doing importing..
for instance..did you know that hikari just spent 2 million dollars to get hikari back into canada since the new permit fees?

[TCR]

But as
these extra ( mostly gov charges ) build
up so do the prices.

Hence if we do all buy from the states yes some buisnesses will suffer. But it will be better overall in the end

[tony1928]

Yup, I totally agree that companies here have higher costs. I think everyone's biggest beef is that the business still feel that they can charge whatever they want with impunity. Obviously not try to paint all local companies with the same brush. I think as online buying becomes more borderless, it will really crank up the pressure on canadian companies to be more competitive with their US counterparts, no matter what the cost differences are. If they have to make less profit to compete, well, they know what they need to do.