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Old 03-10-2009, 04:01 PM
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You could try to get in on a group order (or start one) to offset the shipping cost.
Last fall we did a group order BRS and it went extremely well. There was no savings to be had in the shipping costs as each persons order was sent directly to their homes. BRS indicated that as the shipping costs are by weight it made no difference in the cost to ship the orders to one location or 10 locations.

The quality of the product sold by BRS are the best.

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I've ordered stuff from the US - including Bulk Reef Supply - and sent it to Ship Happens. It's in Sumas so for you folks in the city it might be a little far but to those in Surrey, White Rock, and the Valley its great!. It's a company that has a US postal address. You use your name with their address and send it to them. Hop across the border, pick-up your stuff for $4.00 (they have to make a living too) then cross back. I park and walk across in Abbotsford. The 176 crossing isn't far either. Even if (depends on the Border Agent - heh) I pay GST and PST it sure beats the shipping cost the Bulk Reef charges you to Canada. After all, they ship for free in teh states I believe! Check it out: http://www.shiphappenssumas.com/
Maybe theres one near the Peace Arch too?? So for a little bit of your time (I've done it in an hour walking across) you do save some money! Hhmm....I wonder what the Border Services would think of a group order with all those chemicals????
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Old 03-10-2009, 05:02 PM
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I've ordered stuff from the US - including Bulk Reef Supply - and sent it to Ship Happens. It's in Sumas so for you folks in the city it might be a little far but to those in Surrey, White Rock, and the Valley its great!. It's a company that has a US postal address. You use your name with their address and send it to them. Hop across the border, pick-up your stuff for $4.00 (they have to make a living too) then cross back. I park and walk across in Abbotsford. The 176 crossing isn't far either. Even if (depends on the Border Agent - heh) I pay GST and PST it sure beats the shipping cost the Bulk Reef charges you to Canada. After all, they ship for free in teh states I believe! Check it out: http://www.shiphappenssumas.com/
Maybe theres one near the Peace Arch too?? So for a little bit of your time (I've done it in an hour walking across) you do save some money! Hhmm....I wonder what the Border Services would think of a group order with all those chemicals????
I have a box in Pt. Roberts and I've made a lot of runs across the border for all kinds of stuff. The issue with the large quantities of bulk chemicals that you'd have for a group buy would be that any cautious customs inspector would understandedbly be very suspicious about them. Granted reef chemicals don't have the explosive potential that FW planted tank chemicals have (e.g. KNO3), but as a former border cop I can tell you that I'd be checking into things further if a guy had a barrel of fine white powder in a passenger vehicle.
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I usually don't have any issues as long as I'm nice to them AND have ALL shipping documents with me. This includes the print-out from ordering online as well as any packing/shipping documents. As long as I can prove its a legitimate company selling legitimate supplies there really isn't too much issues. Now getting back to that group order........You might be right 100 bls of magnesium might arouse suspicion
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Our Last group buy from BRS was Great. You pay full shipping but the cost of the items are marked at the lowest bulk prices.
The Group buy policy allows everyone to take advantage of the prices regardless of where you live (Vancouver, Calgary, or Anywhere) because you pay shipping to your house

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Our Last group buy from BRS was Great. You pay full shipping but the cost of the items are marked at the lowest bulk prices.
The Group buy policy allows everyone to take advantage of the prices regardless of where you live (Vancouver, Calgary, or Anywhere) because you pay shipping to your house

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Old 03-10-2009, 07:35 PM
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Yeah I really upset I missed that
Set one up. All you need is 10 people who want to buy at least one item. The great thing about a BRS group buy is the people can be any where as they ship to each persons door.

We just did one in Calgary a couple of weeks ago.

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Old 03-10-2009, 07:40 PM
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Now if BRS could only do something about the Canadian dollar . . .
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Old 03-10-2009, 08:31 PM
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Now if BRS could only do something about the Canadian dollar . . .
Yeah I think the last group buy was when the dollar was little better for us wasn't it?
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So........ did you give univar a call?

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