How to acquire a T7200 T60 in Canada for less than $2000?

Is it possible to get that in Canada? I don't care about ram or video card, in fact, I prefer gma950 for maximum battery life.

512 mb of ram is fine as I can upgrade it later. I just want a core 2 duo that's not the bare minimum of t5500 .

Thanks

 

Wait, Canadian always wait.....................

 

Okay thanks!

Does anyone else know how?

 

You could have someone in the USA order it for you and ship it to you. I configured a T60 with the T7200, DVD-RW, 100GB hard drive, 15" IPS Flexview screen, and ATI X1400 for a little over $1700 USD. I would guess that Lenovo's warranty would transfer to the new owner in Canada without a problem but you could check on it. I'm an eBay Powerseller and have sold several laptops if you don't have someone else you could have buy it for you.

 

What will be the custom fee?

 

About $500
Don't even THINK about sending a new laptop thru customs, if price is an issue.

 

Would you just send it as a personal gift then, and thus avoiding customs?

 

You can mark it as a gift with a low declared value and insure the shipment through a third party insurer like U-pic or DSI. A lot of eBay sellers do this so that their buyers don't have to pay custom duties. Of course this is against what the customs department states so this isn't the legal way to go about it but I've never seen anyone get in trouble for it because the customs department doesn't really have any way of knowing whether it is a gift or not and what the true value is. It's mostly just an ethical thing as to whether or not you want to pass it as a gift. Of course in this circumstance it would sort of be a gift but he would be paying for it lol.

 

No reputable vendor is likely to declare a product as a gift.
In any event, any gift with value > $60 still gets hit by customs duty and tax.

 

You pay GST - pretty sure computer stuff is exempt from duties. I have bought 5-6 notebooks form the USA and I don't remember paying any particularly nasty fees.

Call CRA or look up computers under the duty/excise section of their website.

 

Try entering the Lenovo site through visaperks.ca
If you then immediately enter the part no, and add to cart, you will see a discount. I've seen discounts from 10% to 25%.
Getting discounts is really flakey, and you have to do things in the right order. Exactly what that order is, I haven't quite figured out yet. It's completely inconsistent.
If you order from the US, you will only have to pay a customs brokerage fee and GST. Check with courier companies to make sure they don't charge a customs brokerage fee. DHL or the Post Office is best.
If you find a Core2Duo w/FlexView, please e-mail me. Thanks

 

what about used one, e.g. priced at $400US, what would be the duty when importing to Canada?
isn't there a NAFTA agreement between US and Canada?

 

might aswell go down to the states and bring it back up with you.

 

For that you need someplace for it to be mailed, in the US.

 

send me money , i order for u .

 

For that he needs to live close enough to you to pick it up. Sending something of little value from US to Canada is troublesome enough (packages are often lost/delayed/opened (with the items inside sometimes broken), and you get import duties.

NAFTA was not all inclusive (though it does include computers), but IIRC it only covers companies to end users (i.e. an american computer manufacturer selling to a Canadian).