I purchased a used dvd drive from Canada for an older computer.

[spanone]

When it came through customs, I got hit with a $39.00 tariff.

The drive cost $200.00.

I was told the seller had to pay....

[AZJonnie]

1. Why so expensive? I would think used older DVD drives would be dirt cheap

I know there's some older Plextor drives (before Plextor was bought out) from the 2000's that are a step above in quality and features, but $200 sounds like a fortune even for one of those. Did you need IDE or something?

[spanone]

2. It's a component of a RadarII recording system.

A specialty item.

[Norrrm]

3. It's called 'revenue' and we are supposed to be appreciative of it.

[canetoad]

5. Isn't that called

Personal choice?

[canetoad]

9. You tell me, then

Why folk still use vinyl? It's not being very flexible about the choices of others to be so dogmatic.

[spanone]

10. Looks like someone wasn't happy...guess I missed it.

[canetoad]

12. It was either a return troll (LG?)

Or someone pushing cloud storage. Won't be missed.

[spanone]

13. Thanks

[leftstreet]

6. LOL do you work for a cloud service?

Lots of people have movies and such on dvd

[ForgedCrank]

8. Yea, that

happened to me once years ago. I only buy from US sellers now because of the duty fees

[spanone]

11. This is one company that made this particular machine and this particular drive.

I still use it so I really have no choice.