Its nice for you guys down in the states, but up here prices are ridiculous at the dealers. Considering the our dollars are almost par I find it hard to conjure up a reason to justify paying something like a 20% mark up. Example: If I walk into the vermeer and buy a Pantin I will be paying around 110 and thats without our tax of 13%. Where as I can support another dealer, which thankfully there are two that I know of; I'm only paying about 76.50 (which is what its advertised for in the american prices catalogue! And yes it will be in Canadian funds). I said enough was enough after my last piece of investment, Wondercube (my 114 dollar throw cube) started falling apart in 3 weeks.
I don't want to even talk about the surprise shipping charges I incurred on top of the taxes I payed when I ordered a set of pole pruners from the bargain basement, which ended up being not such a bargain after all.
At TCIA why was there practically no gear on site to sell?! I was stoked to get the fair prices when the dollar was super close to parody and all you guys were doing was taking shipping orders!
Mind you, the customer service representative that handled my issue with the poles was extremely nice and very diligent in trying to work something out. Great dude. Your shipping is fast too. But everything else...
It sucks, cause you guys have the equivalent to the Sears catalogue that came out at christmas when I was a kid, it had all the dopest toys.