JoeCanuck

What i mean is, how many times have we seen figures with incorrect accessories, or assembled incorrectly, or driver-less HISS tanks?Huh?  It boggles the mind.  One can only assume the photographer just wants to set it up quickly, take the shot, and collect their pay cheque.

Often times, these shoots are given to the lowest bidders and late in the game, so your assumption that its a rush job is often the case.

Its simply the case that finding ad folks and photogs that are also knowledgable of GIJOE or even toy collectors is a very, very rare thing.

This should be an easy fix.
Soften the plastic using boiling water. Once soft ( about 15 seconds), shape it the way you want it and then let it harden as it cools.
It should work for this stuff.

Another BC-er, eh? Good to have you.

I'm soon to be an Ex-BC-er, but I was born and raised in Vancouver-- lived there for about 40 years. I know the Lower Mainland quite well.
Cannot imagine what Joe hunting is like down on the coast right now, but I've been able to get stuff up here in the Cariboo, where I'm living now.

But customs like to charge a fee for items over a certain $$$ amount

The threshold is about $30. You can actually get away with it up to about $60-$75 some of the times on mailed in items, and almost never on anything over $100.
Why they assign that handling fee is usually (their excuse) to cover inspection of the item and checking to see if it can be cleared.
The ironic thing is that, if you cross the border IN PERSON you do not get assigned this fee for these amounts, and yet a item imported via the mails merits it.
I've had charges that were higher or lower myself too, so I'm equally confused as to just what formula they use, and the Canada Customs info on this is vague.

The one thing you do want to avoid is using any kind of courier or express service to ship stuff up, because they WILL use a customs broker. The Customs broker basically does the same thing that Canada Customs already does with the "handling fee"--they "guarantee" the good can cross the border. In doing so they become a kind of redundant middleman with their hand out--BUT, if you agree to use a courier service to ship the goods into Canada you are also agreeing to the use of a third party customs broker--read the fine print.
What sucks is these jokers can add another 25% on top of what you have already spent ( item and shipping)

I just avoid any retailer or transaction where the sole shipping option is a UPS, FED EX or other courier services. Good ol' USPS doesn't use a customs broker for items sent via surface or airmail.

Its probably a good idea to read through the Canada Customs pages on-line that cover importation of stuff like this, just to get a better idea of how it works.

Most of them should still be available at places like Futureshop or Best Buy--or whichever store has a large DVD selection.

Hi folks--
I shamefully admit that this topic has very probably been addressed here, and that I am being sorely lazy in posting a thread about this, but.......

Can someone lead me to a thread about retailers carrying up north here, and perhaps a brief anecdote if they were good to order/buy from from?
I've been getting in the few 25th Ann. figures I want from Stateside, but I'm curious if there's a alternate source up north here that is worth ordering from.
My goal is to avoid some of the shipping cost hits when getting stuff from the states.

Thanks!