Customs and Other Duties

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Yo Carol,

 

> Hi, Butch...

>

> >But are the oils you are ordering Origin Canada? Important question.

>

> Hi, no they are imported, but aren't most, lol?

 

Yep .. but sometimes a question has more impact than a statement. ;-p

 

> Another reason I deal with these companies, is that I get wholesale

> prices ( anyway, they tell me I do, LOL), for being a student of

> Aromatherapy.

 

Mebbe they are wholesale .. but whatever they're called its the numbers

that really matter. Folks outside the Continental USA get wholesale

from me (includes Hawaii and Alaska) but folks inside the 48 states must

be resellers of goods or services. This is pure logic as it helps them

in paying the shipping costs. Plus my wholesale customers would tar and

feather me if I gave the same prices to end users. ;-p

 

But again .. I say you should buy the most quality you can for the money

and if it is in Canada .. then go for it.

 

> >It seems that US Postal for some reason more often than not bypasses

> >the dudes with their hands out but the Special Carriers .. like

> >FedEx and UPS and such make sure they stop off there.

>

> No kidding, I recived $20 of free software, paid $5 for shipping,

> arrived via UPS with a hefty $46 fee, I couldn't believe it. I refused

> to accept it. I will not use any company that lists UPS or Fedex to

> Canada for that reason.

 

First .. what is all that software humma-humma? Is that like they are

giving Green Stamps and such? ;-p

 

Secondly .. the seller should have made it clear what you costs were

going to be afore it was shipped. Nothing ruins a sellers day more than

a buyer not accepting a shipment.

 

Finally .. don't be hasty on deciding which carrier is the cheapest.

When we get ANY international order we go back to the buyer with three

prices for shipping and they choose .. one is US Postal Air, one is US

Postal Surface and the other is FedEx International. And lemme tell you

that on some orders FedEx International is the cheapest. Not likely it

would be with your orders as you are not a reseller .. but there is one

buyer in Western Canada that is about to get 160 + kilos total from me

and the cheapest cost of shipping that order was FedEx. And different

folks will have different rates with FedEx or UPS or whoever .. depends

on how much business they do with them in a month.

 

> >But .. that company might get their oils from me ..

>

> I sure hope the do!, If you want to open a distributing centre in

> Canada, email me...

 

Hawhawhaw .. thankee m'am for the kind words. I get 2-3 requests a

month for exclusive distributorship from various countries .. and have

them from Canada. Problem is with that I lose control and make all my

buyers angry .. and the initial cost to set it up would be sorta out of

sight. I say that cause I have calculated it for Taiwan and it scared

the britches off all who asked. ;-p

 

> Butch, I find your fees to be excellent, and have no problem with

> ordering my Catnip oil from you, and the other things that I can't

> find here.

 

Thankee m'am. But its not just me that I was writing for. You might

find that Chris Ziegler, or Marge Clark .. or someone else in the USA ..

can beat the heck out of a Canadian supplier. If you wanna know just

give'em a Straw Man order and ask them what the total cost would be.

There's mo commiting to sure an inquiry .. and it will give you an idea

of what the REAL final costs are for an order.

 

> I find the bulkier the order the more I'm gonna swear at the post

> office when it gets here...

> Carol....:-)

 

Canadian Postal Services are not bad .. especially comparing them with

many of the other countries. Of course, for international orders the

volume of an order is as significant as the weight. Daily I go back to

an international buyer and tell them that their request for one each 800

gram jar of Rose Petal Jam is just not economically wise .. they will

pay more for shipping than the jam costs. But if they buy 12 jars they

will find it a heckuva lot cheaper .. per jar.

 

Creative International Shipping is an art .. really it is.

 

Two points that wrap into one .. I was just notified that my apartment

in Friendsville will be available the first Friday in August so I am now

jumping through my butt to get the necessary and unnecessary crap done

to get out of here. And that includes doing one of the biggest exports

I have ever done to my US company.. over four metric tons .. but not all

for me. I have written to a number of routine large buyers in the USA

and offered them Turkish origin oils at real savings IF they allow me to

ship them with this export. Fixed costs for export are the same .. be

it one kilo or 1,000 metric tons. The more I ship the cheaper the per

kilo rate is so I am offering some of the larger buyers some dang good

prices. That's what its really all about .. getting the most bang for

the buck or rubble for the ruble.

 

As for my apartment in Friendsville .. I got the better one .. three

rooms .. modern kitchen/dining room, super nice big bedroom with a big

living room with satilite TV. And it is right beside our store. Gonna

pay for two months up front with an option to extend cause I might just

decide that I wanna hang around the USA a bit. I won't be in town more

than 1/3 of the time but I need a place to come back to when I drag my

tired butt in at midnight or so some night. I am excited about this

trip cause its the very first I have made where I had the mission of

finding me a home. :-)

 

And .. Chris has convinced me that my Lap Top will work pretty well in

the USA now .. works like crap here for pulling down email. So I will

be on the air the whole time .. most likely.

 

Y'all keep smiling. :-) Butch http://www.AV-AT.com

 

PS: For my Aussie friends .. feller came by today and gave me a second

ostrich egg .. big muther it is .. the size of a small foot ball. Has

pin holes in both ends where they blew out the inside .. but I like it a

lot. Y'all got some crazy critters in your neck of the woods. ;-p