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[Yellowknife]

So, if you buy from the U.S. and bring it into Canada it has no warranty?

 

[gormleyflyer2002]

yes

 

[Yellowknife]

interesting.

I'm too far from the border anyway.

 

[Lococoin]

There is some misinformation in this thread.

First off there is no duty on machines designed to travel on snow so dont add in the 6.1% that others were adding.

Second, yes the warranty is void in Canada but is still valid in the United States if you had something major go wrong.

 

[DITCHBANGER]

depends which state you buy..michigan has a %6 sales tax that must be paid

 

[Throttle Monkey]

There seems to be some confusion on the 6.1% duty. After two phone calls to different border crossings the duty is applicable according to the customs individuals I spoke with.

 

[gormleyflyer2002]

I just came back yesterday with my new RTX into Ontario.......no duty, only paid RIV fee and GST. No state tx in NY either.

I will say, every customs person I talked to told me a different story.

 

[Reddog]

depends which state you buy..michigan has a %6 sales tax that must be paid

If you are exporting to another state or country you would not pay the 6%. Only applies to titled in MI.

 

[Rioplay]

I talked to many dealers at the sled show and none of them could come close to the US price. Mind you I guess this is Alberta and there is so much money around here that the dealers don't care.
I personally would rather have bought from a Canadian dealer but money talks and the difference pays for many upgrades.

 

[Rioplay]

Also talking with a dealer at the show he did not say that they would not honour the warranty he just said it would have to be submitted to Yamaha USA.

So I did some checking on the Yamaha Canada web site and it in no place specifies that a sled has to be bought in Canada to honour the warranty only that it must be a new sled purchased from Yamaha.

Here is the link, see for your self:

http://www.yamaha-motor.ca/warranty/index.php

Or the extended warranty:

http://www.yamaha-motor.ca/warranty/index.php?group=S

My main question here is why can these OEM's not drop their prices for the Canadian dealers to better reflect the dollar?

 

[Lococoin]

There seems to be some confusion on the 6.1% duty. After two phone calls to different border crossings the duty is applicable according to the customs individuals I spoke with.

Someone should tell them they need to brush up on the information about snowmachines

 

[Sledhead_BR]

I just got back this evening. I paid the RIV fee ($200) and the GST no state tax. I know CND dealers are starting to bring down there price alot. I think I heard of one dealer in Winnipeg, Mb almost matching the U.S price. However when I ordered mine in September that was not the case, my local dealer told me he could drop it $400 buck to 13,200. Still to far away from U.S. price. I would loved to have supported the local dealer and still would have probably for a $1000 difference. The warranty is only 1 year unless they were snow checked and 3-4000 is alot of warranty. Anyway that's all in the past I am just excited to start riding in a couple of weeks! On a side note, we stayed the weekend and did some other shopping and I found that the price of clothes, electronics etc where not that great of deal at all (Minot ND) You really had to watch what you were buying, I did get some great deals on some craftsman tools though.