The final summary

[thebitterguy]

To get the John Barrowman CD & Book combo from Amazon.co.uk? $46.80 Canadian.

To get them from Amazon.com? $71.73.

Amazon.ca? Not doable.

Man. It just don't make sense.

Comments

[dewline.livejournal.com]

Doesn't Barrowman have a *.com site of his own for this sort of thing?

[thebitterguy]

Yeah, but it just has links to Amazon.co.uk or Amazon.com.

[dewline.livejournal.com]

That will have to be remedied.

[absinthe-dot-ca.livejournal.com]

Welcome to Canada, the cultural ghetto. Or something like that.

[thebitterguy]

A national inferiority complex will get us nowhere. Just because we get treated like shit by Amazon and Chapters is a sucking void of a near monopoly? That's only an inconvenience.

[absinthe-dot-ca.livejournal.com]

And that wasn't actually my point. In fact, most of the USofA's "culture" (or at least a disproportionate amount) originates in Canada. Referring to Canada as a "cultural wasteland" was meant to be sarcastic. Guess I forgot to put the smiley in? :-)

[fraidycatx3.livejournal.com]

Does that include the duty that Canada customs will charge?
I'm asking because I'm interested in a Lost DVD which is $20 cheaper on the US site and am deliberating whether to purchase it there or not.

[thebitterguy]

Gaaaah. I forgot about that.

Well, the fee is usually $5 plus regular GST. Amazon.com, though, if you order from there they ship from Canada so you don't have to pay GST.

[elizard100.livejournal.com]

You're giving her John Barrowman, CD and book combo? Niiiiiice!

[thebitterguy]

Actually, just the CD since it's easy to get the book here. And an iPod and some of his other albums from iTunes.

[elizard100.livejournal.com]

I bet she'd like this: http://community.livejournal.com/who_knits/73936.html

Can you crochet?

[thebitterguy]

I could learn! There's always next year, right?

[elizard100.livejournal.com]

This is true and Jack will still be around, he is after all eternal!

[xxgeek.livejournal.com]

What about eBay?

[thebitterguy]

Actually, a very good idea, but they don't have this one listed.