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Canadian Amazon.com shoppers are limited to books, CDs, and DVD/video.
Prices are competitive, customer service is exemplary, and shipments to Canada are timely. They've been around a long while, and have their routine down-packed as a result.
They've got the biggest customer base so products are more likely to have customer reviews at Amazon than anywhere else which helps immensely for purchasing decisions - no matter where you end up purchasing the item.
Did Juju mention the customer service? Best customer service on the net -- all the other etailers should take lessons.
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+ extensive product details
+ tons of customer reviews
+ toll free customer service for Canada too
+ exemplary customer service
+ boxsets count as one item for shipping purposes
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- site bombards with suggestions of items that are not available to Canada (if the software's clever enough to recommend items similar to what we've bought in the past, it should be trivial to verify our country!)
Tips
Amazon Gift Certificates 101
If you get your grubby fins on a gift certificate ("GC"), note that Amazon GCs come in 2 flavours:
Promotional: These GCs can only be used at the time of order and cannot be combined with other promotional GCs or coupons. (in GC lingo, these are called "Non-Stackable").
Non-Promo: These GCs are like money. You can store them in your account and they'll never expire. You can keep adding GCs to your account and eventually use the whole amount to buy stuff. You can combine (or "stack") any number of Non-Promo GCs with exactly 1 coupon or exactly 1 Promotional GC.
So how can you tell if a GC is Promo or not? It's all in the digits:
XXXX-XXXXXX-XXXXXX PROMOTIONAL GC
XXXX-XXXXXX-XXXX NON-PROMOTIONAL GC
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You can also add GCs to your open orders at any time. So, for example, pre-order a DVD and/or use a coupon that expires soon on an item that has yet to be released. You can add GCs to order up until the order ships! This is done through "Your Acount" -> "See status of all my orders". This is useful if there's a coupon that's expiring, or if you get a GC unexpectedly and have orders pending.
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