grassy
Well-Known Member
It would be nice if other large US companies would follow suite...and I think the profit margin is higher at companies like Jegs then it is at LL Bean...
i would buy so much more from the states if more usa companies offered free shipping to canada
Frankie,
The sad fact is that it is still less expensive to buy in the states from LL Bean than it is for me to buy locally....at a lesser quality....even with the duty and stuff...
The second sad fact is that folks that do not live in the states are paying for your "shipping free to the lower 48" deal so we are almost paying for shipping twice...
I have worked this out....for some US companies, it is cheaper to ship to me than it is some of the states...
From a business point of view...it would be profitable for some of the companies ...I think jc whitney does this. (not that I would buy from them)...is to have a shipping address in Canada...
We may only be a small country but we buy lots..
It would surprise (and flatter) me if any company moved to Canada just for the sake of my convince.
The business model would have to be there. ..however, if other American companies are doing it, than there must be a reason...or cannot they see past their noses..
However, none of this conversation talks to American companies being able to ship to me cheaper then parts of the lower 48....and I think you will find that many of us search hard in Canada before we look to the states..and with our declining dollar, that is going to be even truer..
The bottom line is that they do not see Canada as a valuable market.
Lands' End sucks! The majority of their clothes come from Guatemala and other sweat shop countries. I know this because my job there was to stock shelves with boxes to be picked to shipped out. Plus we found tons of dead spiders and a few snakes in the boxes too.
Did they charge extra for the meat?