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It's not fun, but worth it for a Carvin. I ended up paying $120 for Cdn shipping, and $480 for customs/taxes last year. Now apparently they've just changed to FedEx so it's slightly better for Canadians, but we've been screwed lately with UPS as their only option.
As of a week ago, they still use UPS for Canada. I recommend brokering it yourself. I paid maybe half of what it would have cost if they had done it for me. It's super easy.
Chris confirmed they're now using fedex. Must be a really recent change![]()
I love how originally the prime complaint from international buyers was that Carvin wouldn't sell direct to Europe/Asia at the same pricepoint we get in the USA and the dealers/carvin international site charged too much. Now the prices are made identical to what we pay finally, but the taxes and shipping are too high?![]()
I'm all for the VAT (that's why we have social security while you have 10% of your population on food tickets)
Correct pricing for a guitar in its case with insurance is 120ish$ for a private individual without access to any bulk prices.
Now if only they would use FedEx for US orders...![]()
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Do they use ups? I must be the only person who prefers that. FedEx blows in my experience. Lost packages, damaged packages and they show up between 4 and 8 pm whereas ups shows up reliably at noon and our driver is super friendly and courteous with the packages.
I'm all for the VAT (that's why we have social security while you have 10% of your population on food tickets) but I have shipped enough guitars to and from the USA to know that this is a grossly inflated shipping price, especially considering as a company they get rebates and stuff. Correct pricing for a guitar in its case with insurance is 120ish$ for a private individual without access to any bulk prices.
Unless they changed everyone over to FedEx in the last week, they were still using UPS as of February when my DC800 shipped. It varies state to state, but in my experience both in Pennsylvania and in Virginia, UPS sucked total balls (lost packages, broken gear, signature-required packages worth $10K left sitting out at my doorstep without signature for 6 hours in the middle of the day...) whereas FedEx I've only had a single problem in 15+ YEARS of voluminous package shipping/receiving. YMMV and all, but UPS has sucked for me and typically even on coast-to-coast shipping, FedEx gets the packages here earlier.
My UPS drivers in this area either show up at noon or 8-9pm (I kid you not) which is pretty ridiculous, and when deliveries are supposed to happen by COB, 8pm NGD's or release-day game deliveries are not something I'm thrilled about.
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