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Taking advantage of the Canadian/American pricing difference?
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Professional Poster
Join Date: Jan 2001
Location: Salt Lake City, UT USA
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This just jumped into my head. I recall a little bit back someone complaining about Apple screwing canadians because even though their dollar is now worth more than ours (The US's) they're still getting charged the old pricing.
What's involved in selling something over the border?
Could I make a few extra bucks by buying a new machine, selling it to someone up there for less than cost to them, but more to cost than me?
Granted, $50 out of $2000 invested isn't great, but it's $50. What else is involved? Would I get hit at tariffs or customs or junk like that?
I don't have $2k right now, but if I did, would it work?
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2008 iMac 3.06 Ghz, 2GB Memory, GeForce 8800, 500GB HD, SuperDrive
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Sounds like a great idea! What could go wrong? In order to make $500 (driving from Salt Lake City?!?!) you would have to bring 10 laptops across, so you are going to lay out $20,000 American dollars. Now the computers have been sold to you, you aren't in the wholesale business. So they are technically "used". Upon arrival at the Canadian border, they will simply confiscate them. In three or four years your case will come up and they would probably have "lost" them. I think you would do better trying to corner the curling stone market!
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Join Date: Jan 2001
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You don't have to be rude about it...
My theory actually worked out more to something like this:
Buy Powerbook at $2000.
Find buyer in Canada for $2100 ($100 less than what they'd pay)
ship PB to Canada (I'm guessing less than $50).
Make $50 profit, or a bit more.
But I don't know the customs laws or anything, I don't know what the shipping declaration costs are, but I imagine they aren't prohibitive. Why would they confiscate the computer at the border?
I'm just trying to figure out if it's feasible, or if it turns out to be another MN bottle scam... 
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Join Date: Dec 1999
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You'd have better luck stealing a lamp post and selling it as aluminum scrap. Some kids were doing it near me, they were making $150 a lamp post. Tied a chain around the lamp post, then to their pickup, and ripped it outta the ground (including the live power line, which caused several streets to go dark.)
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