Buying rifle scopes 'online' from the U.S.

[tiriaq]

Import into Canada and export from the US are not the same.
CBSA is interested in collecting taxes, and are not tasked with enforcing US export regulations.
When Midway and Zeiss-USA got savaged with huge fines, it was not because they were exporting military scopes without permits. They were exporting telescopic sights.
There are, no doubt, US sellers who are ignorant of US law, or who are prepared to ignore it, in the interest of making a buck.
There are Canadians who are prepared to have controlled goods sent to a US accomodation address, and then do their own exporting, either by mail, or in person.
Doesn't make things legal.

 

[DrewT]

Ive seen them come into canada as "monoculars" on the waybills. All I could think was ya, ok, this box is 14" long.

 

[banditogold]

4 scopes.com has and will ship to Canada 39.00 s/h 10.00 for fed/ex and GST just got one from them today saved 60.00 and was available

 

[independent anchor]

hello for example swfa does not export anything ,it does not say you may not import them. if you have friend in the states he can buy it, and send it to you. it does not say you can not import all of there products

 

[Brianma65]

I'd recommend talking to Jon at www.theopticzone.com. He'll do the export paperwork free of charge, so long as you can wait 3-4 weeks. He has some of the best prices, and it blows away the pricing up here. In fact, a lot of the time he has sales on , 5-7% off his already posted prices. He does charge a small fee for international shipments, along the line of 2-3%. But, he ships via US post, so, you don't get bent over on brokerage.

I don't know what everyone on here gets worked up about. Even Opticsplanet says they'll do the export paperwork in order to ship to canada so long as you indicate that's what you want.

Another online shop to check out is www.brunoshooters.com. They clearly indicate they'll do the paperwork to ship to you as well. They charge a 4% fee to do the paperwork and ship. They use UPS though, which means you'll get dinged for an extra $35 in brokerage fees. Still, if you're saving $300-400 on a Leupold who cares.

I just talked to Tammy ar optic zone and before they do export paper work we have to contact our gov and gat an import application approved and then email that to optic zone and then they will apply for export paper work . She said that takes about 6 weeks . Then allow 2 weeks for shipping.scope from state = $500 .. Same scope from amazon $ 600. $ 100 more but 6 weeks faster.

 

[metalbender]

Not too difficult if you jump through the hoops. Us export permit from them, CDN import permit from you to them, those two go to their feds, a little time, pay taxes when it arrives here. Got my Deltapoint from Texas, no problem. Some US dealers can't be bothered with these steps.