Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!usc!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!van-bc! From: lphillips@lpami.wimsey.bc.ca (Larry Phillips) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga Subject: Re: GO AMIGO - mail order Message-ID: <1925@lpami.wimsey.bc.ca> Date: 4 Sep 90 04:55:34 GMT Lines: 46 Return-Path: To: van-bc!rnews In <1990Sep4.124628.18733@cunixf.cc.columbia.edu>, es1@cunixb.cc.columbia.edu (Ethan Solomita) writes: >In article <8750@cognos.UUCP> stewartw@cognos.UUCP (Stewart Winter) writes: >> GO AMIGO does not provide an 800 number for Canada. He is calling >>from Saskatchewan CANADA. In any case, I thought their 800 number was >>for sales only, not service/problems. His only option is to pay for >>the call (at non-domestic rates). >> >> I too have had problems with US-based mail-order companies that >>the Americans seem to have no trouble dealing with. Perhaps they use >>a different staff to handle their foreign calls or perhaps they are > > In its advertisements, the 800 number is only for sales, >but they don't really care. > I think the problem with dealing with Canada may have to >do with getting an American shipping company to get things across >the border. But then again, if there is ANY border in the world >that would be easy to cross I would think it would be this one! 800 numbers are limited by the subscriber to a geographical area, and most seem to be US access only, not Canada. There are problems dealing with customs, but aside from a declaration of the contents and value of goods shipped across, the trouble is all on the customer's end. Easiest and best way (though a tad slower) to ship things to a Canadian is via the mail. This is because customs have finally woken up and have streamlined their assessment/payment operations. It used to be that they would hold a package and make you show up in person, but now they will usually ship it to you with an invoice taped to the package, and allow you to pay by credit card. I even had an assessment re-evaluated lower on the grounds that a 'clock' and a 'clock' are two different things, and did it over the phone. One would think that getting anything across the US/Canada border would be easy, but it isn't always the case. Sometimes I wish we'd just sell the whole country to the US and get rid of the border once and for all. -larry -- It is not possible to both understand and appreciate Intel CPUs. -D.Wolfskill +-----------------------------------------------------------------------+ | // Larry Phillips | | \X/ lphillips@lpami.wimsey.bc.ca -or- uunet!van-bc!lpami!lphillips | | COMPUSERVE: 76703,4322 -or- 76703.4322@compuserve.com | +-----------------------------------------------------------------------+