Posts Tagged ‘cross-border’

Aside: Canadian Bacon

Tuesday, September 9th, 2008

I thought the whole Bing thing was a joke, until I saw the announcement of McCain’s plan to invade Canada.

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On cross-border shopping and smuggling

Tuesday, November 13th, 2007

So, during a particularly boring meeting today, I ran the numbers on the recent smuggling effort.
I ordered 32 items from Amazon.com and had them shipped to a friend in Boston. Of those, one item is one that for some reason isn’t available from Amazon.ca (and indeed, can’t be ordered from Amazon.com to a Canadian address!), [...]

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Amazon.ca, British Books, What The Hell?

Monday, May 14th, 2007

Ever since Amazon.ca opened, I’ve been in a kind of book-buyer’s bliss. The Canadian variant of Amazon has a broader selection than native Chapters, and typically has lower prices–all good stuff.
Even better, though, Amazon.ca put me in a position to leverage my special status as a Canadian lover of books: we can get both American [...]

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