Holy Moly.

Only RCS, WS,and ACG overcharge for shipping. Troy has the best prices MOC and for shipping for the US guys on the net.

Dude, you need to number crunch some more. Troy's price may come out to $133.86 CAD, but you are going to have to pay duty. So the tax on that is $20.08. I forget what the actual duty fee is (haven't had anything shipped cross border to me for about a year) so lets say $5.00. So you are looking at $158.94 total. So Wal Mart is cheaper by $24.49 once your calculations include the proper factors.

I've never to had pay duty from ACG, RSC or Troy :-\

The 'Kick, the reason why I thought of the duty, is because I have never been able to order anything online without getting nailed with it. Graze, consider yourself lucky. Although personally I think the duty is BS, why should we have to fork over extra $$$ to the government for something bought out of the country because we couldn't find it in the country to begin with?

Well how ironic, I got something in the mail I have to pick up and their charging me $15 duty on it. I think it's my Champ 3 pack from ebay

Funny how the government charges you money for THEM to open YOUR property

WTF??? No business you order from charges you duty. Duty is assessed as the order goes through customs and is charged to you by whatever delivery service is responsible for bringing your order across the border (Canada Post, UPS, etc). Odds are if you have never had to pay duty, the order is valued under $20CAD, the package was marked gift with no or a low value still $20 or under) or it somehow managed to get put in the hands of an incompetent customs agent.

Here's my beef with duty. First I'm ordering items I can't get in Canada, if it wasn't for toy companies ed up distribution to Canada, I wouldn't need to order outside the country, so why am I being penalized for that. Second, why are Canada Post, UPS, etc allowed to charge a "handling fee" (which is whatever amount the company charges which should be a controlled flat rate no matter which company) just because the government wants to tax the package. Its bad enough the government has their ing hand out, do these delivery service companies have to as well? Third if duty is assessed and you have to pay, you cannot get your package until you fork over the tax plus the handling fee (does this not fit in somewhere under extorsion, we have something we are supposed to deliver to you, hand over money first). Finally, from what I have read online, Canada seems to have the lowest value for duty free orders. Canada seriously needs to up the limit. Why should I have to pay tax because a friend sent me a $21 Christmas gift, yet I could send them a $100 gift and their customs agency wouldn't even look at it (unless they suspected it to be terrorism related).

What was the value stated on the package? Being marked gift doesn't make the package exempt from duty, being martked gift allows it to have a higher value before it does get taxed.

The way it works, any package where the value is $20CAD and under (bought online or not marked gift), is exempt. If it is a gift the limit is $60CAD. Now the other difference is that with gifts you pay the duty on the difference between the $60 and the value. So if someone sent you a $100 gift, you would pay duty on $40.

And by the way, just having the person mark the package as a gift with a low value, may not be worth the risk. Here is an exact quote from the Canada Border Services gency Website:

So I guess that means customs has the right to open up any package marked as gift to check for Christmas/birthday/etc cards that would indicate the package being a gift. So therefor if someone at customs decided to check to see if that "gift" really is one and there is no card or any notice indicating a gift then the duty would be assessed as if it were never marked as a gift at the $20 limit.

Heres the site I got the info from:
www.cbsa-asfc.gc.ca/import/courier/postal/ind_duty_free-e.html

No problem. I agree the replicawrestlingbelts.com is what tipped them off. The quote I posted on gifts states that it must be sent personally and unfortunately a .com would be considered a business not a person (now if the person sending would have used their own name instead of the website address then it probably would've been OK).

The other hazard with them putting replicawrestlingbelts.com on the return address is that if a customs agent feels like being a total :-Xhole, all it takes is checking out that website to see what the merchandise in the package actually sells for.