Buying from ATI Online? Any new AGP cards?

Kosh · Nov 22nd, 2005, 03:32 PM

Has anyone else bought directly from ATI online? Where does ATI ship from? They're a Canadian company, but do they ship from Canada? Just wondering if I buy from them if I'll pay duty. I'm looking at purchasing a Radeon X800XT Mac Edition for my G5 from them, maybe sometime early next year if nothing new comes out in terms of AGP cards.

As well, has anyone heard any rumors on anything faster and newer than the Radeon X800XT coming out for the older Power Mac G5s with an AGP 8x Pro slot? Ie. Radeon X1800 of some sort that is AGP? Looks like the creation of new faster AGP cards, has stopped and the RAdeon X1800 series of cards and higher are all going to be PCI Express. I didn't think the market would die this fast. I thought the AGP market for faster cards would continue at least for another year or two.

MacGYVER · Nov 22nd, 2005, 07:14 PM

Thank you Trevor for clearing that up. You might be better off looking on eBay for your ATI card, sometimes if you luck out, you can get a better deal then buying from ATI directly.

Trevor... · Nov 22nd, 2005, 07:19 PM

ATI ships from Markham for Canada and Boston for the US.

However, unless your buying clearance, you will get a better deal at a regular store.

gordguide · Nov 23rd, 2005, 08:50 AM

Unless there is a tariff on the item, all you need to worry about is whether you paid GST on checkout. If you pay GST up front, there's no reason to broker the package and it lands at your door without any additional fees due, no matter what country it came from (within reason; the "Taliban controlled areas of Afganistan" might be a bad area to shop online).

The duty rate for video cards is zero %, ATi charges GST on checkout; therefore who cares where it comes from? You pay nothing extra on delivery.

By the way, since computer software and computer hardware are all zero-rated for duty, and since anyone or any company (no matter where they are) can apply for a free GST Number from CCRA to collect GST on checkout, there's no reason except laziness or stubbornness for US firms to ship you stuff that requires paying brokerage fees. If they collected GST up front, UPS would not be the enemy of Canadians because of brokerage fees, because there wouldn't be any.