在eBay上从美国买东西，要另外付关税和消费税吗？

[tasse]

想在eBay上从美国买块手表（130多美元/加元），到时会被加拿大海关征缴关税和消费税吗？请有经验的大侠指点，谢谢先！

 

[monami]

我当时在EBAY上买了一个小的电器，被收了15％的税，是快递公司问你要，EBAY上看不出来。

 

[stevenw]

千万不要用 UPS Shipping

 

[ottawauser]

千万不要用 UPS Shipping

Why?

 

[puffy ottawa]

因为UPS有专门的报关公司，只要一用这个UPS,就会收你20多的报关费，然后再加上乱七八糟的税，你自己想想就知道了。
千万千万别用ups。

 

[noonpei]

用usps,然后让买家把价格写低点,就ok了

 

[tasse]

知道啦，谢谢回复！

 

[风 雨]

That's right. If it's not urgent, using USPS (not UPS) is the best choice.

 

[TINA_TAM]

大的快遞公司(Couriers，e.g. UPS, FedEx, DHL...)自己有清關檢驗部門，開了你的郵包，加了關稅，還要跟你要開包的費用 (brokage fee)，絕對花不來。用 USPS (United States Postal Service美國郵局)的話，相對被開封的機會比較小。而且要看你買的是什麼，電器、緍紗、jewelry之類的一般都會被檢查。尤其是shipping slip上寫了高價格的物品。

以我在eBay打滾10年來超過500個交易(transactions)的經驗，總括buyers在下bid之前要注意的:
1. 先看賣家的信譽，一般99%以下的，我不買
2. 看賣家的feedbacks，太多差的 negative feedbacks，我不買
3. 要看/問清楚 shipping cost，很多無良賣家把商品賣便宜，shipping & handling收的很高，我不買
4. 要求賣家用 USPS，寧願加 幾塊錢的insurance ;不然，我不買
5. 要求賣家在shipping slip上填寫value不超過 US$20 (超過要收關稅).;不然，我不買 (除非我非要買他的不可，一般個人賣家都會願意，eBay stores有些是商號就不一定肯)
6. 要是買高價的東西，價值太低不可信的話，要求賣家在shipping slip的item descriptions上填寫 Used + 品名，那麼價格低一點也不是不可能。
7. 要用PayPal，有問題還可以退貨還錢，money order就拿他沒辦法了。
8. 賣家要是要求PayPal以外的付款方式，我不賣
9. 所有的通訊，要經過eBay上你買這商品的item description page的"send message to seller"的link，讓eBay有你的通信紀錄，萬一有什麼糾紛，eBay會依據處理，千萬不要用個人的email通信。
10. 千萬別在收到 item前留feedback，貨品有問題的話。先和賣家在eBay上溝通過，解決了再留positive, negative or neutral 的feedback。

先說這些，想到其他的再說…

 

[la vie en rose]

大的快遞公司(Couriers，e.g. UPS, FedEx, DHL...)自己有清關檢驗部門，開了你的郵包，加了關稅，還要跟你要開包的費用 (brokage fee)，絕對花不來。用 USPS (United States Postal Service美國郵局)的話，相對被開封的機會比較小。而且要看你買的是什麼，電器、緍紗、jewelry之類的一般都會被檢查。尤其是shipping slip上寫了高價格的物品。

以我在eBay打滾10年來超過500個交易(transactions)的經驗，總括buyers在下bid之前要注意的:
1. 先看賣家的信譽，一般99%以下的，我不買
2. 看賣家的feedbacks，太多差的 negative feedbacks，我不買
3. 要看/問清楚 shipping cost，很多無良賣家把商品賣便宜，shipping & handling收的很高，我不買
4. 要求賣家用 USPS，寧願加 幾塊錢的insurance ;不然，我不買
5. 要求賣家在shipping slip上填寫value不超過 US$20 (超過要收關稅).;不然，我不買 (除非我非要買他的不可，一般個人賣家都會願意，eBay stores有些是商號就不一定肯)
6. 要是買高價的東西，價值太低不可信的話，要求賣家在shipping slip的item descriptions上填寫 Used + 品名，那麼價格低一點也不是不可能。
7. 要用PayPal，有問題還可以退貨還錢，money order就拿他沒辦法了。
8. 賣家要是要求PayPal以外的付款方式，我不賣
9. 所有的通訊，要經過eBay上你買這商品的item description page的"send message to seller"的link，讓eBay有你的通信紀錄，萬一有什麼糾紛，eBay會依據處理，千萬不要用個人的email通信。
10. 千萬別在收到 item前留feedback，貨品有問題的話。先和賣家在eBay上溝通過，解決了再留positive, negative or neutral 的feedback。

先說這些，想到其他的再說…

Insurance only covers your claimed amount. If you claim $20 for an item and it is lost on its way, you can only ask for $20 even though you paid $200.

That's why some sellers do not want to lower the claimed value.

 

[半夜听歌]

I bought a lot of stuff on ebay or from US. Most of the time I chose USPS and they only charge 15% HST. UPS ground is to avoid due to extra fees but I was told that UPS Expedited are fine.

 

[TINA_TAM]

Insurance only covers your claimed amount. If you claim $20 for an item and it is lost on its way, you can only ask for $20 even though you paid $200.

That's why some sellers do not want to lower the claimed value.

True, but my point to lower the item value is to avoid package being inspected not for insurance purposes. However, if you go back to my point 5, in the scenario that if I HAVE TO buy from this seller (either he/she is the only seller who has the product that I wanted or the only seller who would ship it internationally) who can not accommodate my requests, I am willing to take the risk of package being inspected by claiming the full value of the item, and in this case, I would pay for the insurance.

Just something for reference:
This happened over 6 years ago, I won the bid for an evening gown on eBay for US$400. The seller sent a huge package by FedEx, claimed full retail value of the gown on the shipping slip which is US$800. Because in her mind, she was thinking the insured value if, in the worse case, the package get damaged or lost.

Almost 2 weeks later, FedEx left a note on my frontdoor telling me that I have to go to their outlet centre to pick up the package. When I got there, I was told to pay CAD$430 (taxes + brokages) before I can pick up the package. That is 40% of the claimed value!! Of course, I did not pay at that time. I had to call the seller to send a letter/fax to FedEx headquatre in the US, stating that I am the original owner of the dress and that she borrowed it from me to wear at a wedding. Now that she is "returning" the dress to me. And the claimed amount was the value of the dress and not an actual payment transaction. They seemed to buy my story, but since FedEx has already opened the package, they still appraised the item at an 'used' value, plus the brokage fee, I had to pay CAD$150 before I can have the dress. It's still quite a bit of money, but much better than $430 and I had to wear the dress on that weekend.

So, yes, I learnt it the hard way! And my stories can go on and on...