I knew Sears.com Canada shipping was a scam

[ourkid2000]

Alright....check out this scam.

I went to the local Sears here and looked at the 19.2v C3 Impact Wrench kit (wrench, 2 batts & charger). The price was 249.99 which seemed a little high. Remembering that Sears.com now sells to Canada I thought I should go check out their pricing first.

I actually went to www.craftsman.com and looked up the impact wrench kit. Their price for the same kit is 161.49! Wow sweet, maybe I'll order it. So then I head on over to Sears.com and guess what.......the website figures out automatically that I'm ordering from Canada and jacks up the price! $206.52 and that's before the shipping and customs charges......So I would guess that in the end it would be the same price, probably around $250.

What a scam!

 

[Toolhorder]

Move to a non communist country...

 

[pipsters]

Canada is actually really nice. We went to Ottawa on vacation earlier this month, walked around Parliament and the Mint, not one armed guard seen. Imagine that in the US. When my wife travels she uses her Canadian passport because foreign countries and their people like Canadians. Plus Canadians are so flippin' nice (besides those from Quebec). It is so refreshing to go up there, everyone is so courteous in general. Their prices are expensive but you make more money up there than in the US, so it kinda equals out. The workers there are good, and in my experience at the airport are always ready when we get there. No loitering or texting like in the US, dragging their feet. I swear some people here in the US actually have to TRY to walk as slow as they do. It's painful to watch. People are fit and trim, and eat well. They are environmentally courteous and have been for decades. Oh and their women, in general, are pretty much all good looking.

Only weird thing they do is say "Zed" instead of "Z", I still can't get over that.

Shipping to/from Canada is ridiculously expensive though.

 

[lbgradwell]

I believe it's the Irish Travelers that sell Carolina, but same thing.

Nice... Wish I would hear stupid comments like this in person.

Move to a non communist country...

Yeah. Me too...

 

[lbgradwell]

Only weird thing they do is say "Zed" instead of "Z", I still can't get over that.

You mean as in that famous power trio from Texas: Zed-Zed-Top?

 

[Canadian Charlie]

You mean as in that famous power trio from Texas: Zed-Zed-Top?

No we still call it ZZ Top as you, but the z/28 is called a Zed/28

 

[Bencrx91]

Plus Canadians are so flippin' nice (besides those from Quebec). It is so refreshing to go up there, everyone is so courteous in general.

You should have come to my place, 20 min from Parliement hill, I would have offered you a beer, that's how nice Québec people are ;o)

 

[matthew]

Move to a non communist country...

So whose government had to move into their banking system...

(sorry, just tired of hearing comments like that)



If you look at the original comment, it's Sears USA that seems to have screwed around with pricing. I'll guess it's so they can advertise $9.99 shipping, but it's still doesn't seem right.

 

[hilld]

So when you sleep do you have Z's or Zed's.

 

[Walterchang]

When I was in rentals any time we would ship gear to Canadia we would tag them for an extra 11.1%. Only country in the world we would do that to.

 

[Toolhorder]

Yeah. Me too...

Come on that was a joke not a racial slur.

 

[Stuey]

Wow, that is pretty low. Maybe there's a way around it?

 

[2drx4]

Wow, that is pretty low. Maybe there's a way around it?

Not buying from Sears? Or...

The way around it would be probably be to use a proxy service (such as www.ninjacloak.com), since that should give an American location for the IP, then have it shipped to a freight forwarder/holder on the American side of the boarder, and drive over to pick it up. Or perhaps you could call them and ask what is up with the pricing? If they say that that's how it is, I'd just not buy from them since that is how they're going to treat their northern customers.

 

[lbgradwell]

Come on that was a joke not a racial slur.

Yeah, I thought it was, but we're a little sensitive here because your statement is not far from the truth...

 

[Phuckin' Jim]

Getting back to the discussion on the pronounciation of the last last letter of the alphabet (sorry to hi-jack):
I think Canada chose the different pronounciation because there are already so many letters that have the "ee" sound to them....
B [bee]
C [cee]
D [dee]
E [eee]
G [gee]
P [pee]
T [tee]
V [vee]

So they decided to give "zed" a unique sound.

We still get our "zees" when we nap, and some of us listen to "zee zee" top.
But the truck in our neighbour's driveway is a ZED 71, not a zee-71. This also applies to the ZED-24's and ZED-28's.
Also, if you come north of the 49th, you might see Nissan 280 ZED's.

 

[demographic]

You mean as in that famous power trio from Texas: Zed-Zed-Top?

I'm from the UK and Z's are usually pronounced as a Zed but ZZ Top are still Zee Zee Top to me.

Rio Grande Mud being the best album as far as I'm concerned and they went downhill when they did Eliminator.

 

[demographic]

Getting back to the discussion on the pronounciation of the last last letter of the alphabet (sorry to hi-jack):
I think Canada chose the different pronounciation because there are already so many letters that have the "ee" sound to them....
B [bee]
C [cee]
D [dee]
E [eee]
G [gee]
P [pee]
T [tee]
V [vee]

So they decided to give "zed" a unique sound.

We still get our "zees" when we nap, and some of us listen to "zee zee" top.
But the truck in our neighbour's driveway is a ZED 71, not a zee-71. This also applies to the ZED-24's and ZED-28's.
Also, if you come north of the 49th, you might see Nissan 280 ZED's.

Its possibly more to do with Canada's closer ties with Britain.

 

[Stuey]

So when Canadian children sing the alphabet song, it's "double you, ex, why, and zed?" That doesn't rhymne!

 

[pipsters]

Its possibly more to do with Canada's closer ties with Britain.

After all the Queen is on their money...and it hit parity 3 weeks ago...

 

[Phuckin' Jim]

Its possibly more to do with Canada's closer ties with Britain.

Yeah, could be. We spell colour and neighbour like the Brits do. I didn't know they pronounced it ZED.....I'm always learning on GJ!

 

[twarren]

Here's a few other things you guys probably didn't know about Canada;

Smarties (not sold in the USA)

2. Crispy Crunch, Coffee Crisp

(not sold in the USA)

3. The size of our footballs fields, one less down, and bigger balls.

4. Baseball is Canadian - 1st game
June 4, 1838 - Ingersoll, ON

5. Lacrosse is Canadian

6. Hockey is Canadian

7. Basketball is Canadian

8. Apple pie is Canadian

9. Mr. Dress-up beats Mr. Rogers

10. Tim Horton's beats Dunkin' Donuts

11. In the war of 1812, started by America , Canadians pushed the Americans back past
their White House. Then we burned it, and
most of Washington ...
We got bored because they ran away.
Then, we came home and partied.....
Go figure.

12. Canada has the largest French population
that never surrendered to Germany.

13. We have the largest English population
that never Ever surrendered or withdrew
during any war to anyone, anywhere. EVER!
(We got clobbered in the odd battle but
prevailed in ALL the wars)

14. Our civil war was fought in a bar and
lasted a little over an hour.

15. The only person who was arrested in our
civil war was an American mercenary, he
slept in and missed the whole thing.
He showed up just in time to get caught.

16. A Canadian invented Standard Time.

17. The Hudsons Bay Company once owned
over 10% of the earth's surface and is still
around as the world's oldest company.

18. The average dog sled team can kill and
devour a full grown human in under 3 minutes.
(That's more information than I need!)

19. We know what to do with the parts
of a buffalo.

20. We don't marry our kin-folk...

21. We invented ski-doos, jet-skis, Velcro,
zippers, insulin, penicillin and the telephone.
Also short wave radios which save countless
lives each year.

22. We have ALL frozen our tongues to
something metal and lived to tell about it.

23. A Canadian invented Superman.

24. We have coloured money.

25. Our beer advertisements kick ***
(Incidentally... so does our beer)

BUT MOST IMPORTANT !


The handles on our beer cases are big enough
to fit your hands in with mitts on.


OOOoohhhhh..... Canada !!


Oh yeah... And our elections only take one day!


Warren..................

 

[demographic]

Yeah, could be. We spell colour and neighbour properly

Corrected for you

 

[Phuckin' Jim]

Corrected for you

Thanks.

 

[Skin]

21. We invented ski-doos, jet-skis, Velcro,
zippers, insulin, penicillin and the telephone.
Also short wave radios which save countless
lives each year.

Theres a whole lot wrong with those claims.


The first telephone patent was granted to a Scott. [Alexander Bell]
The invention of penicillin was pioneered by a Scott. [Alexander Fleming]
Velcro was invented by a Swiss. [George de Mestral]
Jet Skis were invented by an American [Clayton Jacobsen]
The Snowmobile was invented by an American [Carlson Eliason]
The first patent for the design of a zipper was given to Americans. The creation of the modern zipper was done by a Swede who happened to be working in Canada. [Gideon Sundbäck]
Radiowaves were discovered by a German [Hertz]. The first commercial exploitation of shortwave radios was done by an Italian. [Guglielmo Marconi]

I'll give Canadians Insulin as it was first used medically there by Canadian doctors, but the actual discovery and initial work was done by Germans.

 

[pipsters]

Theres a whole lot wrong with those claims.


The first telephone patent was granted to a Scott. [Alexander Bell]
The invention of penicillin was pioneered by a Scott. [Alexander Fleming]
Velcro was invented by a Swiss. [George de Mestral]
Jet Skis were invented by an American [Clayton Jacobsen]
The Snowmobile was invented by an American [Carlson Eliason]
The first patent for the design of a zipper was given to Americans. The creation of the modern zipper was done by a Swede who happened to be working in Canada. [Gideon Sundbäck]
Radiowaves were discovered by a German [Hertz]. The first commercial exploitation of shortwave radios was done by an Italian. [Guglielmo Marconi]

I'll give Canadians Insulin as it was first used medically there by Canadian doctors, but the actual discovery and initial work was done by Germans.

LOL pretty sure it was a joke. But I'm in NC and we have the first couple covered, and you can add Chunky Kit-Kat bars and Mr Big to the list of chocolates. Plus we're probably one of the only households in America with an NHL Hockey package on our satellite TV.

Oh here's one, winter hats are called toques. No idea where that came from.

 

[Joe B.]

10. Tim Horton's beats Dunkin' Donuts

This like bragging that your pedophiles are better dressed.

As someone from the Western US where we don't have Dunkin' Donuts, I have never understood how such a crappy donuts could support such a large chain.

I have a friend from Regina that used to always talk about how great Tim Horton's is. Donuts sucked there too. The only thing I could figure out was that Canadians like them because they support youth hockey or something like that.

Canada did bring us Robin Sparkles so that makes them cool in my book.
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[lbgradwell]

Theres a whole lot wrong with those claims.


The first telephone patent was granted to a Scott. [Alexander Bell]
The invention of penicillin was pioneered by a Scott. [Alexander Fleming]
Velcro was invented by a Swiss. [George de Mestral]
Jet Skis were invented by an American [Clayton Jacobsen]
The Snowmobile was invented by an American [Carlson Eliason]
The first patent for the design of a zipper was given to Americans. The creation of the modern zipper was done by a Swede who happened to be working in Canada. [Gideon Sundbäck]
Radiowaves were discovered by a German [Hertz]. The first commercial exploitation of shortwave radios was done by an Italian. [Guglielmo Marconi]

I'll give Canadians Insulin as it was first used medically there by Canadian doctors, but the actual discovery and initial work was done by Germans.

I agree that some of that list is wrong - I've never even heard claims of Canadians having invented/discovered penicillin, Velcro, or radiowaves!

But Bell may have been born a Scot, but he was a Canadian when he invented the phone and the snowmobile was a Bombardier invention - at least a couple of years before Eliason...

Better examples would have been:

Marine Screw Propeller [1833, John Patch]
Robertson Screw, 1908 [Peter Robertson]
Pacemaker [1950, John Hopps, Wilfred Bigelow, John Callaghan]

 

[lbgradwell]

I have a friend from Regina that used to always talk about how great Tim Horton's is. Donuts sucked there too. The only thing I could figure out was that Canadians like them because they support youth hockey or something like that.

Although it's heresy to say so here, I agree that Tim Horton's *****. But it's the coffee to which I principally object; tastes like ***-rinse.

Besides, any civilized person knows a fine dark roast is the only way to go.

 

[Phuckin' Jim]

Timmie's must put something in their coffee to get so many people that badly hooked. Sometimes the lineups at the Tim's drive-thru's are all the way out to the street. I do like their iced-caps though, but not enough to wait in line for 10 minutes!
At least they take Interac now.

 

[Spam16v]

when you leave buffalo, take your garbage with you.... don't just leave it in a pile in the parking lot at the mall like every other Canadian.

 

[lbgradwell]

when you leave buffalo, take your garbage with you.... don't just leave it in a pile in the parking lot at the mall like every other Canadian.

Are you kidding?

 

[pipsters]

Are you kidding?

He has to be I've seen Canadians carry a water bottle for a mile just to find a recycling bin.

 

[GeorgeH]

Here's a few other things you guys probably didn't know about Canada;

Smarties (not sold in the USA)

Warren..................

If you are talking about the candy that comes rolled similar to bubble gum it is sold here.
I have 2 Westies and a Cockatoo that will be your best friend for a roll of them.

 

[lbgradwell]

If you are talking about the candy that comes rolled similar to bubble gum it is sold here.

No, Smarties are essentially the same as the regular (non-peanut) M&Ms...

 

[PaulR]

 

[PCO6]

Here's a few other things you guys probably didn't know about Canada;

3. The size of our footballs fields, one less down, and bigger balls.

5. Lacrosse is Canadian

Warren..................

Thanks, I enjoyed that. A few things though ...

3. The size of our footballs fields, one less down, and bigger balls. --- That used to be the case but the balls are now both the same size. I'm a little uncomfortable saying this but our balls got smaller!

5. Lacrosse is Canadian --- Lacrosse was invented by North American Indians, the Iroquois and the Huron, centuries before either of our countries were established. It is the oldest sport in North America. Canadians invented Box lacrosse back in the early 1930's when arenas first started to be built and basically needed a summer time tenant. Up to that time both countries played Field lacrosse and that is still the predominant game in the U.S. In international play, we kick their butts in Box lacrosse and they usually sneak by us in Field lacrosse. We are the 2 best lacrosse nations in the world.