If you buy an iPhone in Canada, it's made by foxcon, the customer interaction is handled by Apple's Canadian distributor, and any repair or replacement service is done by foxcon.
Yet, it's not a "foxconn iPhone", it is not a "distributor iPhone", it's an Apple iPhone.
Chances are, most of the things you own are designed by a brand, manufactured by an unnamed partner, and sold by a retailer.
The difference here is that we're naming the manufacturing partner, giving credit to the work WE does.
It’s great to read that some of my fellow Canucks received their Falcons within the past couple of days... especially since the CBSA decision a month or so ago to make the importation of flippers illegal. (Despite them being perfectly legal to own in Canada.... gotta love bureaucrats!)
So my questions are:
1) what duty were you charged and
2) were you charged GST or HST, and
3) on what value?
edited to add:
Customs Act Memorandum D19-13-2 was published on November 3, 2016
So, I stand corrected, it was more than a few months ago.
Here‘s the wording of the memorandum, and a link:
http://www.cbsa-asfc.gc.ca/publications/dm-md/d19/d19-13-2-eng.html#a4x2
"(a) Automatic knife – An automatic knife is one that houses a blade that will open automatically by applying hand pressure to a button, spring, lever, or other device, in or attached to the handle of the knife, including knives that have a button, spring, lever, or other device, located in the spine of the handle and attached to the inner part of the blade.
Note: Knives that have a 'thumb stud' attached to the blade of the knife, that is independent of the handle (not protruding from the handle in the closed or folded position), and that open automatically by applying pressure to the thumb stud, do not generally meet the above definition of a prohibited weapon, and as such do not generally fall under TI 9898.00.00. However, if such a knife is found to also open by gravity or by the application of centrifugal force alone, it may still be considered to be prohibited. The misuse of knives may nonetheless be punishable under other laws."
I've had nothing but positive experiences when dealing with Massdrops customer service workers. I brag them up to anyone I know that likes knives. Especially us knife knuts here in Canada with our insane Customs BS 💩😠
So I’ve had mine for a couple months and today while casually flipping it a t work, the detent ball fell out and is nowhere to be found... I am very very disappointed. I loved this knife. Is there a way to get a replacement or something? I can’t send it away as I love in Canada and it was risky enough getting here in the first place, because of stupid CBSA. Any help is appreciated.
Right that makes sense and to be honest I've had no issues myself but I don't use the clip very often. Given its small size I'll just throw it in my jacket pocket for now but summer is a different story. Mind you here in Atlantic Canada our summers are quite short most years 😎
Yes your fine with this knife. I mostly buy slip joints or 3" flipper knives but my first Kizer was The Bolt witch is a 3.5" flipper. A much more aggressive looking blade but it got through no problem. This little fella should be no problem. Oh and I live in Canada on the East Coast (The Maritimes) as well. I hope to get a tracking number this week. If all goes as planned 😎
It's pretty much the same in Canada, which is part of the reason Massdrop stopped shipping blades here.
CBSA will confiscate any knives that open via gravity (i.e. they aren't tightened enough by the manufacturer and fall open) or have some sort of switch to release the blade that is not a safety. Even the Paragon Warlock, which has a button to split its frame in half and let the blade swing out, would be considered a gravity-open.
The lever has to be part of the blade and the mechanism of opening can only be "assisted" (see: Ken Onion knives) via ball-bearing and ramp groove/detent. This knife seems to fall into that category - but could still be "easily concealed"... then again, what knife can't fit in a pocket?