Hello from Garrett French of ToolCrib.com

[Marty Walsh]

Glad you've joined our little 'family'.

I'm sure there's enough knowledge and experience among the members here to help you with just about any woodworking related question you might be able to bring us.

Enjoy your stay...
- Marty -

[scott spencer]

Welcome Garrett! Great to have you aboard!

[Rennie Heuer]

Welcome Garrett!

[Garrett French]

Mr. Evans, er, Sir, I mean Tod told me you guys were nice but I sure didn't expect to get my face all split with a smile. Thank you ALL for the warm welcome

For Jay I will make sure that I post any deals we hear about in the deals section of your forum... I'll also be checking that section regularly for the ToolCrib.com blog, which should be going live later this week or early next (that booming noise you hear is my heart pounding from too much coffee and excitement from getting a new blog ;D.

For Art I'll call Jeff Bezos and plead the case of our friendly Northern Neighbors. JK - I'm actually pretty new to tool selling sites. Art do you have favorites that do ship tools to Canada?

And to Rennie, scott, Marty, joe, Vaughn (who seems very goofy from what I've read in here - nice to meet a fellow goof ball), Steve, Mark, Chris and Stuart I give you a hearty ToolCrib HELLO!!!

I'm very pleased to meet you.

And... I think ToolCrib.com questioner Dick will be glad I met you too I posted his question to you guys just a moment ago:
http://familywoodworking.org/forums/...7550#post17550

I'd be pleased to hear your thoughts.

G

[Art Mulder]

For Art I'll call Jeff Bezos and plead the case of our friendly Northern Neighbors. JK - I'm actually pretty new to tool selling sites. Art do you have favorites that do ship tools to Canada?

Amazon already has a deal/arrangement for books -- with canada post I believe. If I go to amazon.ca (not .com) I can order books and the prices are in Canadian Funds, and not have to worry about customs, brokerage, or duty or anything related to cross-border shopping. I have no idea how they arranged that.

As for tools... I have not personally ordered anything to be shipped across the border. I know of people who have (a) driven over the border to shop in Buffalo. (b) ordered stuff and had it shipped to a UPS terminal near the border and then driven down to get it (c) ordered direct from Rockler/Woodcraft and then had to deal with brokerage fees and duty themselves from the shipping company (frequently a hassle).

One of the issues is that for domestic shipping inside the US, people use UPS all the time and they are apparently very reasonably priced. So UPS is all they know for shipping, and they want to use it to ship into Canada also. But for shipping into Canada, UPS is one of the worst choices around, as they charge outrageous prices on brokerage.

If you want to score the Canadian market, then you need to come up with an arrangement like amazon.ca has already, so that it is basically pain free for us to order. I don't even think people would care about having the prices be in US funds, as long as ALL the fees were listed up front. If there is going to be tax - get it listed. Brokerage fees or Duty fees? Ditto.

...art

[larry merlau]

spell betr so you high culflutin folk can read betwix the lins? if so i willhav ta git a trnslter..welcome garret and i to am victum to the river store, welcome and hopefully we can give ya some help when you need it..

[Steve Clardy]

Welcome Garrett

[Ron Jones]

Welcome to the Family Garrett! Glad to have you here. Oh, yes--Amazon has some of my money and is likely to get more.

[Allen Bookout]

Welcome Garrett!

The major complaint with Amazon that I have is that they make it way to easy to order stuff. They have a lot of my money. But in return I have a lot of their stuff. Their "qualifies for free shipping" usually pushes me over the edge and I hit "procede to checkout". I am going to have to be more careful about that. Good outfit.

[Vaughn McMillan]

To offer a little different point of view...

A lot of us get answers to our questions here for free, and use that knowledge to make money when we sell our finished products. How does that make us any different? Garrett's been very up front about his affiliations and income source (check point number 1 on his list), and in the end, he's helping spread woodworking knowledge, which is one of the reasons this forum exists in the first place.