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GFC is Back in Business! Worldwide Package Forwarding & Item Ordering Services ^_^.

1) Direct Request (DR) Services - The service that started it all, our Direct Request (DR) Service allows you to buy just about anything you want from the USA and have us order it and ship it directly to you. This is perfect for those of you who are unable to buy from USA merchants that will not ship to Canada directly or who do not accept Canadian/International credit cards. We charge $2.00 per item ordered plus shipping. Additional fees apply for items weighing more than 5 pounds shipped or more than $150 USD in value. Our online form will calculate everything for you automatically and there's no obligation to buy anything until you check out with Paypal. Feel free to ask any questions you may have about our services.

2) Package Forwarding (PF) Services, Address & Rates - [PREMIUM SERVICE] If you want to order the items yourself, you can! You can order from any website that ships to the USA. Ship the items to our secure UPS mail box and we will repackage them and ship them to you in Canada (or any other country for that matter). Typical fees apply for this service as usual and you pay only $1.00 per package received at our mail location. Quick, easy and GREAT for limited-time sales when the Direct Request option may not be quick enough. Please note we cannot ship: meat, cigarettes or other nicotine items (including electronic cigarettes and their accessories), alcohol, weapons or gun accessories (including paintball/airsoft), pornographic materials, toxic chemicals (including several cleaning liquids), fertilizer or any items that are illegal to ship internationally. Also, any items containing NI-CD or LI-Ion Batteries can no longer be shipped via USPS (Laptops, cell phones, handheld game systems, etc.) and must be shipped via UPS instead. If you have questions about a particular item, please contact us first before ordering.  You will receive an Email invoice with PDF attachment explaining line-by-line details of all charges and full payment options. GFC PF Service Requires Premium Membership which costs $10.00 a month or $100.00 a year (discount of two free months) and is available in our GFC Store. Full details on website.

3) GYROS Updates - After you have ordered your items, filled out the forms and notified us of your order we will add your items to our GYROS page (generally within a week or less). Once your items have been received, we will invoice you for the shipping costs + our service charge. After receiving your payment, your items will be shipped out to you in a timely manner and you will receive an Email with all relevant shipping information ^_^. If you have any questions feel free to Email us at [email protected] .

Service Charges (Free Members):

GFC Charges $2.00 per item forwarded for standard or "Free" Members. Please note that an item in this case refers to each item within the packages you ship to us. So if you were to order say 2 DVD Movies, an Umbrella and a Towel, this would count as 4 items total. Items that are sold in "Lots" such as multiple baseball cards will be counted as one item, subject to our discretion. Also, UPS Charges me to pick up the packages, so there will be an additional charge of $1.00 per package received. I will add into the invoice for you when I get your iitems in.

For larger orders, an extra $5.00 USD surcharge is added for each 5 pounds your package weighs OR per $150 in value of their total contents (example: a 5 pound package would cost an additional $5.00 USD, a 10 pound package would cost an additional $10.00 USD OR a $150 item (or group of items totaling $150 or more) would have an additional $5.00 USD charged, a $300 group of items would have an additional $10.00 USD charged). Please note that this will be either a weight or cost surcharge and not both, but the greater of the two will be what is charged. An item weighing 14 pounds will still only be $10 added as it didn't yet reach the 15 pound mark. This will be shown on your invoice and will be clearly explained. In the near future, this service charge will be automatically calculated for package forwarding items the way it is currently automatically calculated on our Direct Request 2.0 system.

So Again the things to remember:

1) Ship to the address above
2) Ship all packages in my name (James Parks) and if you want to include your information as a “Gift Message” on the order, you certainly can do that. This is required though to be in my name as the UPS store will only sign for packages in my name and will refuse all others.
3) You MUST fill out the Direct Request (DR) form on the link above to let me know what’s coming
4) Once I receive your DR submission and all your items, I will invoice you for the shipping cost plus service fees.


Service Charges (GFC Premium):

GFC Charges $1.00 per item forwarded. Please note that an item in this case refers to each item within the packages you ship to us. So if you were to order say 2 DVD Movies, an Umbrella and a Towel, this would count as 4 items total. Items that are sold in "Lots" such as multiple baseball cards will be counted as one item, subject to our discretion. Also, UPS Charges me to pick up the packages, so there will be an additional charge of $1.00 per package received. I will add into the invoice for you when I get your iitems in.

For larger orders, an extra $5.00 USD surcharge is added for each 5 pounds your package weighs OR per $150 in value of their total contents (example: a 5 pound package would cost an additional $5.00 USD, a 10 pound package would cost an additional $10.00 USD OR a $150 item (or group of items totaling $150 or more) would have an additional $5.00 USD charged, a $300 group of items would have an additional $10.00 USD charged). Please note that this will be either a weight or cost surcharge and not both, but the greater of the two will be what is charged. An item weighing 14 pounds will still only be $10 added as it didn't yet reach the 15 pound mark. This will be shown on your invoice and will be clearly explained. In the near future, this service charge will be automatically calculated for package forwarding items the way it is currently automatically calculated on our Direct Request system.

So Again the things to remember:

1) Ship to the address above
2) Ship all packages in my name (James Parks) and if you want to include your information as a “Gift Message” on the order, you certainly can do that. This is required though to be in my name as the UPS store will only sign for packages in my name and will refuse all others.
3) You MUST fill out the Direct Request (DR) form on the link above to let me know what’s coming
4) Once I receive your DR submission and all your items, I will invoice you for the shipping cost plus service fees.

Estimated Shipping Costs:

The following are shipping estimates for standards weights. This will give you a pretty good idea of how much it will cost to ship your item to Canada. If you live in another country, feel free to inquire by contacting us directly.

For all items from 0 - 4 pounds we typically use USPS First Class Mail:

$00.00 = 0 Pounds / Digital Items
$09.00 = 6 ounces
$09.00 = 7 ounces
$09.50 = 12 ounces
$11.00 = 1 Pound
$16.50 = 2 Pounds
$22.00 = 3 Pounds
$27.50 = 4 Pounds

For all items from 5 pounds and up we typically use USPS Priority Mail:

$38.00 = 5 Pounds
$40.00 = 6 Pounds
$42.50 = 7 Pounds
$45.00 = 8 Pounds
$47.50 = 9 Pounds
$49.50 = 10 Pounds
$52.00 = 11 Pounds
$54.50 = 12 Pounds
$57.50 = 13 Pounds
$55.00 = 14 Pounds
$62.50 = 15 Pounds
$60.00 = 16 Pounds
$63.00 = 17 Pounds
$70.00 = 18 Pounds
$72.50 = 19 Pounds
$75.00 = 20 Pounds
$77.50 = 21 Pounds
$80.00 = 22 Pounds
$83.00 = 23 Pounds
$85.50 = 24 Pounds
$88.00 = 25 Pounds

For any items over 25 pounds, we'll have to manually invoice you.

On Hold & Unclaimed Merchandise:

GFC allows you to send items to our secure UPS Package Forwarding address (listed above). After you order your items it is your responsibility to properly fill out our Package Forwarding (PF) Form on our website located here: http://www.gamesforcanada.com/package-forwarding.php . Once you do this, we will be notified of the items you have ordered and you will pre-pay the shipping/service charges up front for us to process and re-ship them to you.

The first 30 days are free to hold all Package Forwarding items.This is plenty of time for you to successfully order from the various stores that you want and submit our PF form to notify us. This also allows for adequate time for you to request us to combine items into a single package.

After 30 days, there will be a $5.00 USD charge per ITEM per week (flat rate fee) until the payment has been paid in full. Since you are pre-paying for the item costs, you will be responsible for both shipping to your country, our GFC Service Charges and any processing fees associated with the transaction.

After 90 days, GFC will not be responsible for unclaimed or missing merchandise sent to us at our Package Forwarding address. We suggest that you fully insure all orders sent to our address in case of loss or damage as we will not be responsible for missing or damaged goods.

 
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Goomba, any idea if you can get your hands on some extra copies of the Demon's Souls artbook/soundtrack and if so how much would they be?

Thanks!
 
Actually, I just realized something; I'd have to pay for the $20 shipping to you and then the $54 shipping to me and that's a little over my budget. I'm going to try to find one that ships cheap to Canada. Thanks anyway.
 
[quote name='moatezhab']Just wanted to randomly jump in here and say that the wonderful looney is a super high of .96! Soooo good deals in the US just got better!

(All you guys probably already know this but I need to say it somewhere! :p)[/QUOTE]

+1, anticipate in influx of more canuck orders, we need to hit parity again!
 
Hmm... I wonder how stable that is going to be. It got to about 95 a month or two back and then dropped down to 90... But the US Dollar is slipping recently... but still.

I want it back to par and I'll be happy... then paypal fees and goombas charges/shipping will only seem like a very VERY cheap tax.
 
[quote name='blackric']+1, anticipate in influx of more canuck orders, we need to hit parity again![/QUOTE]

Just to point out, not sure if this applies to everybody. Whenever the dollar is around .95 and I bill things in USD to my Visa, they usually bill me CAD at par :bouncy: I kinda doubt my Visa account is special, so maybe this is just a Visa perk?
 
Wow I didn't realize the CAD had shot back up so fast. I guess it's good I went to Canada when I did. I might have to start accepting money in CAD again hehe.

In case you guys didn't know, Monday is Columbus Day here in the States so there is no mail until Tuesday. I will have a ton more items out though Tuesday morning so keep an eye out. I'll probably due another GYROS update on Monday. Thanks again! Busy weekend for me, so I'll see you guys soon. I need to get some much-earned sleep ^_^
 
Monday is Thanksgiving in Canada. Goomba, can you please add that little thing you wrote a while back on how many games = how much money to ship to the first post? It's a really handy reference.

Also, is your UPS box only for Amazon or can we order stuff from other stores like Best Buy and Toys R Us too?

TRU is offering free shipping on games by the way. B2G1 started already.
 
Sure thing Firestorm, I can do that for you :) I will go ahead and add the shipping to the first post and as for TRU that's great! Glad to hear they started the free shipping finally :) that makes or breaks the deal for a lot of people.

Oh and the UPS store thing is good for any purchase. Just be sure to let me know, or else I will likely get charged a lot for your package (have to pay a dollar a day there at the UPS store so if I don't pick it up in 7 days it gets very expensive). So just let me know ahead of time with the DR form and I'll get them :) Thanks!
 
Hey Goomba I think you will have a lot of orders for Fallout GOTY edition from Amazon.com, a lot of people on RFD.com saw this deal and I told them about you because they cant buy it through amazon.com.
 
Sejad, I looked at the page on Amazon and it still seems like not that good of a deal. As far as I understand the $40 sale was either an error or a very short-lived sale. Can you please double check for me? I'm still showing like $57.99 on the site. Thanks!
 
Okay guys, I added the shipping estimates to the first post ^_^ It seems the Fallout 3 ($40) deal is dead so please don't request that for now. What you should do instead is consider the TRU B2G1 sale as listed in my next post. I've gone through the trouble of laying out exactly what games will cost you, so if you can find other people to buy games with you (if there aren't three games you want) then you can always put in group orders and pass on the savings. Thanks again!
 
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For $60 Games:
** B2G1 = $60 + $60 + FREE = $120 x 1.06% (Tax) = $127.50
** Service Charge + Shipping to Canada (3 Games) = $4.00 + $08.50 = $12.50
** $127.50 + $12.50 = $140.00 TOTAL for 3 Games OR $46.66 USD per Game
[Equivalent of saving 32% Total off $60 price with 6% Sales Tax + Ship/Service]

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For $50 Games:
** B2G1 = $50 + $50 + FREE = $100 x 1.06% (Tax) = $106.00
** Service Charge + Shipping to Canada (3 Games) = $4.00 + $08.50 = $12.50
** $106.00 + $12.50 = $118.50 TOTAL for 3 Games OR $39.50 USD per Game
[Equivalent of saving 32% Total off $50 price with 6% Sales Tax + Ship/Service]
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For $40 Games:
** B2G1 = $40 + $40 + FREE = $80 x 1.06% (Tax) = $85.00
** Service Charge + Shipping to Canada (3 Games) = $4.00 + $08.50 = $12.50
** $85.00 + $12.50 = $97.50 TOTAL for 3 Games OR $32.50 USD per Game
[Equivalent of saving 32% Total off $40 price with 6% Sales Tax + Ship/Service]

Keep in mind that the US dollar is dropping by the day, so the deals will be sweeter and sweeter as the CAD rises in value.
 
Yeah unfortunately Demon's Souls doesn't show up in the sale (had a feeling it wouldn't). I'm not even sure they are carrying the game. Haven't been in my local store to confirm that though. A lot of good games are though including Uncharted 2 :)
 
Hi Goomba,

Long time lurker of your services here on CAG... I was wondering if you also do clothing request here? (read that you do) Well I placed an order on your site.. Not sure what happens next... Can I also update tha invoice if I desire too? Not sure if i want to add another item..

BTW keep up the awesome work you have done for us Canadians so far!

Another question.. is inner cover art common for the American version of games? I bought two titles in the states so far (KZ2 and SFIV and saw that they both have this inside cover art).

- Anton (shadow_nine)
 
[quote name='goomba478']Sejad, I looked at the page on Amazon and it still seems like not that good of a deal. As far as I understand the $40 sale was either an error or a very short-lived sale. Can you please double check for me? I'm still showing like $57.99 on the site. Thanks![/QUOTE]

No, you are correct it is over but damn....it was $39.99 WOW just WOW for all the expansions included that was the Gold min right there man.
 
Hey Goomba, I was wondering if there was any chance you could sell a Jugg Code on eBay for me? If the buyer wants, I can ship it to them...

I would do it myself but I firstly have like... a feedback of 2... and secondly... I have no idea the ins and outs of selling stuff on eBay (I don't even know any snipe programs and normally do it manually)
 
Unfortunately, all 3 of the ones I got are for the 360 since my brother decided to preorder it for it because he had MUA1 on the 360.

Yay for EB saying to go to activision to get a code, go to our website to get a code, and then giving him a code when he picked the game up.
 
I'll be your best friend for all of time if you give me a Juggernaut code or sell it for a couple dollars :)

Let me know when you get The Third Man goomba.
 
See... I would normally, but the thing is I'm trying to save up for a HD Camcorder for my side film projects (I have a hobby to learn CGI... and I need a higher resolution than I got to really do anything), and the $20-30 on eBay is very enticing.
 
Just put in a DR for...
Uncharted 2
Fallout 3 Goty edition (xbox 360)
Tiger woods PGA 10 (PS3)

The thing is Fallout 3 isn't in stock, but it isn't out yet (comes out tomorrow). Hopefully it will be able to be ordered then. If not, I'll see if there is something else I'd want.

Also, Would the promo code that FireStorm mentioned work?
 
Man oh man guys you really keep me busy :) My casino job kept me overtime again (totally didn't expect it) because today was Columbus Day here in the States and apparently they didn't schedule enough people. Made a little extra money with that but of course now I have to go through like 100 emails and a bunch of orders :) So here are some quick responses:

TheCurse9, please submit a request here: http://www.gamesforcanada.com/direct-request.php and I will send you all the information. Thanks!

firehawk12, TRU sale ends 10/17/09 (many games likely will run out of stock sooner on the website as well as in-store).

Vhalyar, your Dell Zune just came in. I will have it out to you tomorrow morning (mailing to Belgium address that you gave me).

RoganSarine, sure I'd be happy to do that for you. I do generally ask for a 15% cut though plus the actual eBay fees. If you're cool with that I'd be glad to put up a listing for you.

Azumangaman, Your "The Third Man" Blu-Ray just came in the mail today! I was really surprised because there is no USPS mail but apparently UPS still delivers on holidays. Total surprise to me! Should have that out to you tomorrow morning when the post office re-opens. Thanks again!

gsrce, nope. I'm really thinking that WB is not very organized (they sure don't seem it). Every now and then they have great sales but it seems their sales department, customer service and all other sections of their company have no communication with each other. I will update you soon when I hear back from them. Sorry they suck so much =P

.....
 
dancrane, I'm going to go through my DR's in about an hour or so (so many things to do ^_^). I'm not sure if the promo code works for multiple orders or not but I can certainly try. As for Fallout 3, yeah it should be eligible tomorrow. Cross your fingers!
 
Yeah sure Goomba... It beats me figuring it all out for the most part -- I guess it depends in the end of the seller really cares for me to ship the code ha ha. How much would eBay fees be anyway?

I figure 15% is your $2 or so anyway... So... Whatever, ha.

All I want is either a flat $15 or $20-so in credit depending on what it goes for... I'm about $80 off my camera now if this goes for $20... So tempting to spend it on video games... But I really want that dual HD Cameracorder.
 
Sounds good RoganSarine. I probably can't list it until Wednesday or Thursday though is that alright? I have both of those days off from work at night.

Oh and guys, anyone interested in this:
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They are $70 USD plus tax, but are eligible for the B2G1 sale from TRU. So if we get three people interested we can get some great deals on 12 month XBL Cards, headsets, chat pads and PGR4 as well. Altogether it comes to be around $50 USD for all that which is a great deal. Let me know :)
 
I guess that the shipping on my screws/nuts didn't account for any sort of tracking. I think you said shipped on the 22nd but still not here.

EDIT: Nevermind. Lazy Canada Post likes to take their time around the holidays. They were in my mailbox when I got home from school. Cheers buddy.
 
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Done Goomba (completed the online form).

Just a little detail. I will finally be able to pay via my Paypal balance (instead of a Paypal Credit Card). I guess i should save a little that way.

Many thanks!
 
Okay guys, I'm back home for the day. Today is a ridiculously busy day for me (almost 40 Direct Requests!!!!) so I'm just going to plow through all of them. I will be shipping out a ton of your items (post office is back in business again today) and will be emailing you if you emailed me. Just hang in there. I will NOT be posting much here on CAG today as I will be taking care of the business side of things today. Expect more communication tomrorow :) Thanks!
 
Setite, good news. I was able to get you a Network Adapter for $30. The Gamestops listed didn't actually have them in stock, and I can't drive 50 miles for the other ones listed. So I will have that for you soon :)
 
shadow_nine, thanks and yes I got your DR :) I will be sending out the rest of the Direct Request invoices tonight. I literally got almost 50 in this week and almost all of them within the last day or two. Our services got picked up by a great little fashion blog (Le Blog de Sushi) and they had a lot of great things to say about GFC. Because of this, I ended up getting a ton of new customers (mostly from Australia and Europe) and that's been keeping me busy. I'm off from my casino job today and tomorrow though so I promise I'll be sending all the invoices out and packing most of the remaining packages up. Thanks again for your support!
 
shadow_nine, invoice sent. I'm at work again till 6PM today EST guys but I will be doing ALL your invoices tonight I promise (at least that's my goal and I'll try very, very hard). Thanks again!
 
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