Shipping to Canada and an aquabid story

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santoury

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Okay, somebody won a lungfish from me. My auction said "will sell in seller's country only."

The "closing of the auction" gives his address as being in... Canada. Cute huh?

I emailed him and told him all the risks are now his, and that there is no guarantee now (Not worried about that one anyway) and told him shipping will be higher.

Now, have any of you shipped to Canada before? If so, any problems? And what did the cost look like?

Thanks
 
santoury;794403; said:
My auction said "will sell in seller's country only."
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If dude bothered to read that, and your location info, he would know that you would not be obligated to sell to him and relist your auction.
His fault for bidding. Move on.
 
If he agrees to be wave liability and pay extra shipping post it and get some experiance shipping there. Canada and USA are close anyway, just be glad he's on the same continent and not in Europe
 
The "shipping" part is easy as long as your carrier will accept live animals. FastAir, UPS, GreyHound all have ways to do it.

Be absolutely certain to declare exactly what is in the box, or you may be named in the investigation if the receiver tries to get it in without declaring. A friend of mine is in big trouble right now because someone shipped him fish from Asia and declared them as dry goods... customs in neither country are amused.

After that, it is entirely up to the receiver to pay any inspection fees, brokerage, duties, jump through hoops of fire, whatever the knobs at customs want to slap on that day.

The biggest risks overall are time and temperature. Lots of us ship across borders all the time, without problems.

If you already ship domestically, let this guy be your trial for international. There is a whole country of fishkeepers up north, and we spend a lot of $$ on them.

Hope that helped some,
Kris (Manitoba)
 
Are lung fish legal in Canada? (Ontario) ?

And what is the cheapest way to ship? UPS is about $160. !!!
 
I am in Manitoba and they are in every pet store...

Try NorthWest parcel service airport to airport, or even USPS.

Anyone here on the US side want to help a newbie out? I know lots of folk ship North all the time.

/Kris
 
What about shipping a small lungfish USPS? Will it go through customs ,etc or is it just going to end up right at his door?
 
PM or call one of the guys from Massive Aggression(forum sponser) they have a sister store in canada they ship to all the time...
 
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