That does not sound right at all.
The import fees are normally Canadian duty (what is that on vintage radios?) the sales taxes charged in your province and a service fee of ~$5US that goes to GSP/Pitney Bowes.
The $39.99 (~$50USD) is over our duty-free allowance of $20Cdn.
EBay is erratic on charging the GSP import fees.
Sometimes they split them into the seller fee for shipping to Erlanger KY and sometimes that is folded into the import fees.
But I think.... hmmm.... are all those numbers in US dollars? Because $32Cdn is about $24US.
Which means the seller's shipping fee more than doubled. No reason why-- unless that fee was rejiggered by the relatively new USPS dimensional shipping, which I totally fail to understand.
The GSP is absolutely horrible at making their fee structure transparent. They use a few different methods to show their work instead of settling on a single system.
It almost wouldn't matter what the system was, as long as it was always the same.
Another thought-- The GSP is not usable by businesses buying for resale because they don't make the various fees a line item.
When you look at the bottom line of the advertised listing we see $78.99US
When we look at what you actually paid we see $79.83US.
Not consistently using the same bookkeeping is the core problem, since the 84c difference is not all that huge. (I don't understand where it crept in though.)
Horrible system that doesn't treat Canadian buyers as intelligent beings.
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