Just a reminder to myself, not to use fedex for cross border shipments:
I ordered a small boat kit from CLC boat works, total value in CAD of $282.32. ($200 USD). I also paid $43 USD on top of that in shipping which is fine.
Fedex delivers it, and …
We had a full solar eclipse on April 8th, and we were lucky to be in the path to totality! We had a nice afternoon by the lake and enjoyed the eclipse. It was looking like it might have been covered by the clouds but we got lucky and it …
I inherited this Korting Scandia MX stereo console from my grandfather. He had bought this back in his youth and had held onto it for a long time. It was in pretty rough shape, but I've been working away on it on and off over the course of a year …
This site has been broken for the past year or so, after upgrading some systems and pyblosxom no longer working. I think that project is mostly dead now and getting it running started to look to be more work than it was worth.
For a long time I've been considering …
Real world example of paypal FX fees...
$196.83 USD purchase, option to pay via paypal letting paypal handle the FX was $279.66 CAD. If you click through and force it to charge the credit card in USD, onto a credit card with a 0% FX fee, the actual …