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I want to pay with paypal and don't want to pay much shipping cost and taxes and don't want to wait long for a receive my cd's. No I order at Cduniverse, but sometimes I have to pay large taxes (often when the packages are big).
Henk
I feel for you, brother. There aren't many online dealers in Canada who carry respectable stock; (Amazon.ca isn't bad and I order a lot from them). We here in this country get dinged for taxes and tarrifs
and brokerage quite meticulously by those who specialize in collecting these levies.
The most blood thursty are FedEx and UPS who always collect taxes & tarrifs (if relevant),
and added a hefty brokerage charge -- the pure fact is that these outfits are in the brokeage business as much as they are in the delivery business and derive a significant portion of their profits from the former. On the other hand, Canada Post charges a flat fee for brokerage: $5 or $8 for expedited post (although they don't really "expedite" foreign source parcels); they charge nothing on parcels under Cdn$20.
OK, now let me mention
ArkivMusic that operates out the the U.S.
This comment applies to Canada, and perhaps other countries too. When you place an order with them, they compute a delivery fee that is proportionally less for large orders (as you would expect). However it is very likely that the order will be sent to you in
multiple installments coming from different locations
via U.S. Postal Service, but,
N.B. they do not charge extra from the multiple actual shipments.
The resulting packages are typically small, and even when worth over C$20, still fly under Canada Post's radar for brokerage & tax collection. Could this work for packages sent to the Netherlands?? Maybe you could give it a try. Anyway, ArkivMusic has one of the world's best selections, including exclusive
'ArkivCD' reissues, and absolutely the best designed website; their prices are compeditive