Canada Kleenmama to Canada: Customs charges?

You could ask KM these questions. I'm sure she'd be happy to answer them.

Custom fees are based on the taxes.

So if you bought say $100 of pellets, then in Ontario you would be charged 7% PST and 5% GST, so $13.

Its the tax the government isn't getting pretty much.

Of course I've bought a $3000 engagement ring, and not been taxed, but I've been taxed on a $3 sticker book for my niece.

Ly&Pigs said:

You could ask KM these questions. I'm sure she'd be happy to answer them.

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I did, she had no idea and recommended I seek out current Canadian customers and ask them. (I mentioned that above).

Thanks Milkingit- Good to know that hopefully it's just the standard taxes.

I wasn't sure if it was just the tax the border would charge, or other additional "import" fees or what-have-you, like what you would see on an Amazon.com order from the US to Canada.

If anyone has had issues, or problems with the border, I'd love to hear the horror stories. I want to really look into this fully before I decide whether I want to start getting pellets shipped.

Kleenmama's can only send pellets not hay over the boarder as well due to grain laws of some kind. I believe she uses UPS. The information is on the site. You MAY get wacked with brokerage charges, sometimes you do, sometimes you don't. It's kind of random in my experience. You'd have to speak to the shipping company she uses and find out how they deal with these things as it's not in the vender's control but the shippers.

When I priced out kleenmama's it was STILL cheaper to buy pellets and get them shipped from her then some of the other alternatives but fortunitely I found a local supplier of Oxbow.

I live in Edmonton Alberta and I ordered from her. It took a week for 10 lbs of pellets to arrive. They were in a bag, in a small box and they arrived perfectly fine. I transfered them to a large ziplock snap container to keep them fresh and it was I believe $30.00 including shipping, handelling and the pellets themselves.

I'm very happy with them. They're different than normal pet store pellets which I expected but my guinea pigs are very happy with them as well. They demand them when they're daily serving runs out.

So I would say fo for it, it isnt that expensive and it's worth it. It may take a while to get to you because of customs but they use UPS and I'm happy with them.