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Best watch repair/mod service in Canada
- Thread starter bora12
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Don’t waste time with those guys, just ship your watches to @dogwood . He is the best and you can trust him with your watches!
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I have used a Watch Maker in Whitby. He has been good so far and works on reps.
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Thats 200k out my way but good to know. TYI have used a Watch Maker in Whitby. He has been good so far and works on reps.
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What happened to the guy in milton? Anything around hamilton/niagara? Has anyone shipped to dogwood with fedex from gta since the strike with canada post?
UPS is less expensive than FedEx for watch sized domestic shipping. The Canada Post strike is a major pain in the ass. Here are the rough prices for shipping a watch sized parcel across the country these days:
FedEx: C$80 to C$120 depending on service / pickup and day of the week (it costs more to drop a package off over the weekend) from BC to ON.
UPS: C$40 to C$50 depending on service speed from BC to ON.
Canada Post Xpresspost (when they weren't on strike): C$15 within BC, C$20 from BC to AB/SK/MB, C$25 from BC to ON/QC, C$30 from BC to NL/NS/NB/PE. I assume these rates would be comparable if you live elsewhere in Canada for same province, nearby provinces, to distant provinces, and coast to coast. Xpresspost was a pretty good service, it was consistently next day within province, 2-day from me in BC all the way to QC as long as I dropped the package off before 3pm mail pickup at the post office. And on the few occasions I was shipping from BC to the maritimes it was 2-3 day delivery.
I haven't tried DHL, Canpar, or Loomis, but I'd guess they're somewhere in the DHL to FedEx range of pricing.
Thanks for the heads up on netparcel. Less convenient than Canada post because I had to walk 1.8km to a purolator drop off location rather than 150m to the post office, but not much more expensive than xpresspost. Hopefully delivery isn’t a headache. I’ve always told people who send me stuff to ship with Canada post and not a courier because I live in a condo and have found courier drivers often don’t bother buzzing up since they assume I won’t be home during the day, and they don’t want to waste time scrolling through 160 names on the enter phone system to find my buzzer code (ouch annoyingly isn’t the same as my unit number). The latter problem is somewhat mitigated by asking people to always include my buzzer number on the second address line. And Canada post parcel delivery workers have been documented pulling the same shenanigans even though theoretically they have a mail service key to open the front door to the building and access the delivery boxes in the lobby (I guess even they get lazy sometimes and prefer to leave a note on the building’s front door).Cheapest options using netparcel, random postal code in Toronto to random postal code in Van.
There is a good watch maker in St. Thomas, ON but he only works on gens. In fact, he abhors reps. But if you have a gen, he's very good. Archer Watch.
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