Import duties aren’t shipping costs.

It’s not a DHL thing it’s all shipping internationally thing.

From what I read, it’s got a slower response time than wired I think?

Why would wireless be terrible? I've been wanting a wireless board too

damn sorry about the downvotes

on god, I also had to pay 30 swiss francs for taxes

Nice kb! I just got my first and well.. its an Ajazz Ak33 and i do love it but now looking at the v1 I wish I didnt go to the cheap end of the budget on mine lol

nice! It looks really good

Build:

Keychron v1

Gateron Milky Yellow Pros

Apollo PBT keycaps (even from being from Amazon they are really nice and feel really good)

looking splendid ! Great job on the build !

your username is familiar :)

Absolutely, im in british columbia right near the border. Need to start just going across the border to pick my stuff up since its back open

I love the look :)

As others have mentioned KBDfans is not at fault here as import duties are applicable for any import orders above the customer's country's threshold and it is up to a customer to know their local tax/duty expectations for where they live.

While DHL/FedEx/UPS do charge a fee to process import duties, note that vendors chose to use fast, reliable, and trusted couriers to ship international express packages for a reason as they want customers to get their packages timely and in good working condition.

And to note, a common overlooked thing by most people is a store's terms of service, shipping policy pages or more. KBDfans does list on their terms of service information in section 21 about import duties and international deliveries. This is a good thing to consider going forward when importing items from any vendor in any industry.

Yea they don't undervalue there products but 100$cad is still way too much for just shipping costs

Customs duties are unavoidable unless they undervalue the shipment but they could have offered cheaper shipping rates. It seems like these companies are charging the standard rate to customers. I'm sure these keyboard vendors that are having big sale volumes get a very good discount from courier companies like DHL or FedEx.

For what it's worth, there are some services like Shippsy that are better for cross border shopping - they give you an address in Washington or New York, you pay less in shipping, and they charge $7 CAD (plus whatever CBSA asks for) in order to properly import it over the border to a local warehouse.

Given how DHL charges $15-20 even if no taxes are due, it can make a world of difference, especially for crazy deals like Cannonkeys Bogo.

I've been hit with import fees on Drop orders too sometimes. You can try to order from the KBDFans Aliexpress store instead, I haven't been hit by import taxes on orders from Aliexpress yet (I'm in BC). Though shipping is a lot slower

Well like others have said, its not the businesses fault

I've ordered from drop, omega keys, and the key company and had zero issue, one comment also said that when he buys stuff from KDB he gets it sent outside of Canada then shipped to him after and the shipping costs are cheaper, its DHL price spiking for nr, and KDB could have at least let me know about the extra fees

Nothing to do with the company or DHL, it's just canada.

Cool to know there Canadian! And yea, I'll def be doing a background check on any business from now on, thought a hobby business would be more caring to there customers

Thanks for the suggestion ill check them put on my second build, and yea I know they KDB doesn't have much control but I wish they were more honest about it is all

My wife and I had a conversation last night about ChatGPT and our conclusion was that it does an equally good job to humans of writing bullshit. Lots of marketing copy, for example, is bullshit: just a bunch of key phrases glued together to fill space on a web page. ChatGPT is just as good as humans at producing such text, because text like that is already devoid of meaning when underpaid humans write it.

I use it for media control.