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We are digital librarians. Among us are represented the various reasons to keep data -- legal requirements, competitive requirements, uncertainty of permanence of cloud services, distaste for transmitting your data externally (e.g. government or corporate espionage), cultural and familial archivists, internet collapse preppers, and people who do it themselves so they're sure it's done right. Everyone has their reasons for curating the data they have decided to keep (either forever or For A Damn Long Time (tm) ). Along the way we have sought out like-minded individuals to exchange strategies, war stories, and cautionary tales of failures.

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Duty on HDD US > Canada (alien.top)

submitted 11 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Has anyone recently imported harddrives from us to Canada? I'm planning on ordering 6x (possibly 12x) 14tb harddrives through eBay. It has been a very long time since I've used ebay so want to know what I should expect and at what point it is more worthwhile buying from a Canadian vendor.

I'm assuming usps is still the cheapest way to ship duty/brokerage wise? How much did duty and brokerage cost?

Also open to suggestions on Canadian vendors (currently looking at referb HGST or Exos).

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

I've done it a few times and the duty is of course based off the value of the drives. In my cases I've bought 1 or 2 drives at a time (20TB) and the duty was never more than $50, with about $10 of that being the processing fee.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

Was this through USPS? Or other courier?