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papaburger · #1 Post by **papaburger** » Thu Mar 09, 2006 4:03 pm

I have just ordered a crosman quest 500 from a online shop. I filled in the form on the web site and the shipping charge on the web form is $8.99. After I confirmed the order, the customer service person explained to me that the shipping chrage to BC is $27.5, of which $19.9 is Canada post charge for shipping "FIRE-ARM", and $7.5 for oversize (over a meter) charge.

Does $27.5 or shipping sounds right to you ?

airgunfun · #2 Post by **airgunfun** » Thu Mar 09, 2006 4:06 pm

I've never heard of an extra charge for a firearm. The price doesn't sound extreme, it all depends on how it's sent. Sent by ExpressPost with insurance plus a signature on an oversized package...it well could be. It also depends on where this shop is located. It ain't cheap to send stuff from Ontario/QC to BC...especially oversized items. Like I wrote above, it depends on how it's sent.

airgunfun · #3 Post by **airgunfun** » Thu Mar 09, 2006 4:07 pm

Forgot about the taxes plus fuel surcharge...

#4 Post by **sniper** » Thu Mar 09, 2006 4:38 pm

why not just buy it from D&L in BC ???
Sounds like it's coming from Ontario ......
Post office doesn't need to know it's an airgun, usually they don't even care...
I never heard such thing Fire-Arm charges .... beside Quest 500 is not
classified as firearm.

#5 Post by **under500fps** » Thu Mar 09, 2006 4:43 pm

When i ordered my Daisy 953 from BritishColumbia to NovaScotia.
Rifle $110.89 plus shipping and handling $26.00 plus gst $9.58 total $146.47

holey cans · #6 Post by **holey cans** » Thu Mar 09, 2006 4:55 pm

interesting... I was just comparing some prices for an item around the country, I live in bc. one guy on ontario could send it shipped for 12 bucks. a guy in alberta, right beside me, claimed an 18 dollar shipping quote!

seems a bit incongruent to me

papaburger · #7 Post by **papaburger** » Thu Mar 09, 2006 4:56 pm

It is shipped from AB. I figure if I buy from a shop outside of BC, I can skip the PST.

Thx all for replying.

airgunfun · #8 Post by **airgunfun** » Thu Mar 09, 2006 5:10 pm

holey cans wrote:interesting... I was just comparing some prices for an item around the country, I live in bc. one guy on ontario could send it shipped for 12 bucks. a guy in alberta, right beside me, claimed an 18 dollar shipping quote!

seems a bit incongruent to me

Regular parcel vs. expedited parcel vs. expresspost. Pick your poison...pick your shipping method!!!

Wolf · #9 Post by **Wolf** » Thu Mar 09, 2006 6:18 pm

You can always go to the Canada Post web site and caculate the shipping charge in reverse. It's darn accurate.
Canada Post does Not have a firearms shipping surcharge. They do have an oversize charge for anything 39" and over in length.
Maybe you should have the sender verify the charges?

Wolf.

calculator · #10 Post by **calculator** » Thu Mar 09, 2006 7:20 pm

Never heard of a firearms charge before. Wholesale Sports and everyone else, including the people who know CanadaPost inside and out all call it a "Dangerous goods" charge. It is actually a law that they have to charge it. Even though the Quest 500 is not a firearm, it still falls under the category of "weapon" which is a dangerous good. Pellets fall under the same category because they are ammuniton, but in my experience, I have yet to be charge a dangerous goods fee on pellets or even centrefire cartridges.

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