When Neil Pitman was trying to buy a new piece for his pressure cooker, he couldn’t believe the price difference between getting it shipped from the United States to his home in Sherbrooke, Que., compared to the cost of it coming from China.
The part would have cost him less than $1 to ship from China. But if he had ordered it from the U.S., it would have cost $22.99 to ship.
“I buy stuff off of eBay reasonably often, and I’m always surprised how much it costs to ship things from the U.S. as compared to from China,” said Pitman.
“It costs almost nothing to
