How come there are import charges listed?

[scarlet_hill]

How come I am told to pay import charges? There is no import charges or duty on a magazine being shipped from the USA to Canada. Yet I get charged $9.75 extra. This is just a cash grab. I asked the seller if he could mail the magazine USPS 1st class and he said yes with a $9.75 savings to me in postage. After saying he would and then me bidding on the item I still had to pay the extra $9.75. This is a rip off. I will never bid on anything that had any mention of duty charges again. If I bid on an item that requires duty to be paid, I will pay it at the Canadian duty office not though some third party person. For all I know this is a scam.

Should I give the seller a negative feedback?

(I have already emailed him to ask about the extra postage.) With no reply.

Regards  George

[afantiques]

Thank you for your comments. My whole point is that if the item is mailed through USPS there is no extra fee. It comes to my door regular post. I took the seller at his word when he said he would ship by USPS for $11.00.

Once you have sold a GSP item the seller is stuck with the GSP process. Your seller may not have realised this and is now completely flummoxed in his attempts do do what he said, through no real fault of his own. Buyers do not realised just how confusing aspects of the GSP are for sellers. The selling point is simplicity, the practice is far morfe complicated and the pitfalls bigger and well hidden

All my communication with the seller were done before I bid on the item or I would not have bid. As far as feedback, the seller has a 100% feedback rating. I can give him a negative, neutral or positive feedback. It would bother me if I received a negative feedback so I will not be giving him a negative feedback. I will abstain from submitting any feedback for this person.

You might as well do nothing, any less than positive FB on a GSP item may be removed.

I have seen negative feedback for far less of a problem.

I will never bid on any "Customer service and international tracking item again. I still believe that the old way was best. Send the item by USPS and if it has duty or whatever fees I will pay them here in Canada. That way Canada Customs can decide yes or no. The system now says you automatically pay whether it is warranted or not.

If it is any comfort, the import charges are usually legally warrented, it's simply that postal imports often escape having them charges. This scheme means the Canadian government collects more (legally due) tax revenue. I am sure this will be a comfort to all patriotic Canadians.

Who'd not want to buy a politician a new hot tub and a deeper pile carpet?

[afantiques]

Thank you for your comments. My whole point is that if the item is mailed through USPS there is no extra fee. It comes to my door regular post. I took the seller at his word when he said he would ship by USPS for $11.00.

Once you have sold a GSP item the seller is stuck with the GSP process. Your seller may not have realised this and is now completely flummoxed in his attempts do do what he said, through no real fault of his own. Buyers do not realised just how confusing aspects of the GSP are for sellers. The selling point is simplicity, the practice is far morfe complicated and the pitfalls bigger and well hidden

All my communication with the seller were done before I bid on the item or I would not have bid. As far as feedback, the seller has a 100% feedback rating. I can give him a negative, neutral or positive feedback. It would bother me if I received a negative feedback so I will not be giving him a negative feedback. I will abstain from submitting any feedback for this person.

You might as well do nothing, any less than positive FB on a GSP item may be removed.

I have seen negative feedback for far less of a problem.

I will never bid on any "Customer service and international tracking item again. I still believe that the old way was best. Send the item by USPS and if it has duty or whatever fees I will pay them here in Canada. That way Canada Customs can decide yes or no. The system now says you automatically pay whether it is warranted or not.

If it is any comfort, the import charges are usually legally warrented, it's simply that postal imports often escape having them charges. This scheme means the Canadian government collects more (legally due) tax revenue. I am sure this will be a comfort to all patriotic Canadians.

Who'd not want to buy a politician a new hot tub and a deeper pile carpet?

[mater721]

"Once you have sold a GSP item the seller is stuck with the GSP process."

Sellers can't send a revised invoice (before buyer pays) for USPS instead of GSP?

[femmefan1946]

Send the item by USPS and if it has duty or whatever fees I will pay them here in Canada. That way Canada Customs can decide yes or no. The system now says you automatically pay whether it is warranted or not.

That's a sensible takeaway.

The Global Shipping Program was instituted to protect US (and now UK) sellers from their fears of shipping outside their borders.

The seller does not have to ship internationally, just to the GSP plant and can use cheap domestic Delivery Confirmation. And there his responsibility ends.

There is no particular advantage for buyers*.

*Hmmm. Possibly, when an item is being shipped to one of those countries where the customs and postal systems are inadequate or corrupt, the fact that the item had duty and sales taxes pre-paid would be an advantage for the buyer.

This does not apply in Canada.

[pjcdn2005]

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@mater721 wrote:

"Once you have sold a GSP item the seller is stuck with the GSP process."

Sellers can't send a revised invoice (before buyer pays) for USPS instead of GSP?

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No. They can't change a gsp invoice but they can do up a separate invoice through Paypal.

They could send a separate invoice through pay