On Sun, Apr 11, 2010 at 02:17:03PM -0400, John Sessoms scripsit: [snip my tripod laundry list] > In your position, I'd just browse B&H's web site and find the one > that fits my needs and then look for a place in Canada that stocks > it at a price I was willing to pay.
Nobody does, so I actually ordered from B&H. (Which I feel is fair; I've been using their website as a search resource for awhile.) Wound up with "Cullmann Magnesit 528C Carbon Fiber Tripod Legs", which might be slightly short but this is probably survivable. (I don't actually know how much tripod head to eyepiece clearance I'll have to with the scope that isn't here yet, so I'm guessing. I hate guessing.) > In my position, I'd just order what I need from B&H (if one of my > two local independent camera stores didn't stock it), since I don't > have to hassle with customs to get stuff from NYC. > > Although I think the hassles come from Canadaian Customs rather than > from B&H. Sometimes. Sometimes they come from somebody at the shipping company just losing things, but you have to wait until it could not possibly still be stuck in customs before complaining. > And at that, I thought Canada was part of NAFTA. Why *IS* there a > hassle with Canadian Customs? Load, mostly. They have to collect either GST or HST, depending on which province, and if they're understaffed for the current peak load (which they ought to be about half the time...), things are slow. There have historically been various morality hassles and people enacting their own political agendas, too, which I am not pleased about but don't expect to apply to tripods. -- Graydon -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
