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Price difference US/Canada

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Can someone explain the huge price difference when buying a notebook in Canada instead of in the US? I just don't get it.
 
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the exchange rate, the cost to ship them to canada, lots of reasons.
 
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There may be tariffs in place, or the company just chooses to charge more in Canada because conditions lead them to think they can charge more.

It can go both ways though. I was going to buy an LG laptop once, which isn't sold in the US because LG makes some laptops for an American company and agreed to no competition. Anyway, I found it on a Canadian site which would ship to the US and had a site for US customers and US dollars. The US dollar price was more expensive that n the Canadian dollar price with the exchange: same seller, same product.

The funny thing was, you could order from the Canadian site and have it shipped to the US, thus getting the cheaper price.
 
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I think Apple has to pay duty when shipping to Canada. I had to do this when I sold computers that I built and shipped to Canadian customers. I think they are just passing the cost on to you up front instead of you paying it when the computer gets to you.
 

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