Easy way to ship goods here from Canada

[Wendle]

Just a quick bit of info for those who may be interested.

I found this company run by a Dominican guy his name is Valentin, who sends consolidated container shipments from Toronto, Ottawa and Montreal to the DR. He does door to door service. He picks up the goods from your location in Ontario and gets them to your door here in the DR. No worrying about customs documents, no waiting at the port... Nada they take care of everything. Lots of Dominicans in Ontario are using him to ship their goods to family here! The company is S&S Shipping, saw ad in spanish newspaper in Toronto. You can send food and used clothes in boxes or drums for no extra duty...just ship cost. I think the next shipment is Nov 15.

He told me they ship everything from cars to appliances to food etc..He will quote you a final price no little extras to worry about!

If you want to contact them their numbers are 1·888·333·1318 or 416·737·6845 or 613·808·0148. I am sending 3 drums of stuff!

[bob saunders]

so have you actually talked to anyone that has shipped with them?

[naturelover]

sounds too easy to be true

[alicious]

I've used a similar company I think it was called something like Hispanolia Shipping, was run by a Dominican guy called Alexander.
Not sure if they are still around though...
And it's not too easy to be true...well the one I used before was the exact same thing, and it worked great.

Wendle...Please let us know how it goes once it's done!! Very interested to hear!!

Thanks

[naturelover]

how do they now how much its going to cost to get through customs or do you only find out when it arrives

[alicious]

Not sure how that works.
Possibly since they are a company that ships things they have a pre-arranged set up with customs.
The only thing that costs more is if you are shipping electronic items, which I believe since they do it often enough, they have an idea what it will cost, and they charge you that flat rate.
Anyways I'm sure if you call the numbers and ask them, they will be able to give you a better description than me.
I wasn't the one paying, it was my parents sending me things when I lived down there...so unfortunately I don't know on the paying end how that worked exactly.

[Lambada]

Originally Posted by Wendle

He picks up the goods from your location in Ontario and gets them to your door here in the DR.

I am sending 3 drums of stuff!

(boldening mine)

Wendle, where are you? Only you refer to 'here' in DR, then say you are sending 3 drums. So does the service also apply from DR to Canada? i.e. you are sending 3 drums from DR to Canada?

[Wendle]

I am here in Puerto Plata and my family sent 2 boxes full of food, clothes, books, household stuff etc...they cost $140 per box to ship plus $6 for the actual box. The box is 24x24x24. He dropped the boxes off at my families house in Ottawa, picked them up at a later date and delivered it to me here in Puerto Plata. They had to itemize evrything in the box but NO PROBLEM AT ALL!!!!

I spoke with him and I will be sending 3 drums here in the next shipment Nov 15th at $160 each. The thing I like is that the price for me and the price for my Dominican friend in Toronto was EXACTLY the same...None of this one price for you another for the gringo. My friend in Toronto is going to be sending a number of fridges here with him to Santo Domingo and he quoted him the final price out of customs. He offers insurance too!!! So things in Toronto and Ottawa for gringos and dominicans were the same...we tested him! Believe me my Dominican friend tried to work a better deal but he was really honest saying he would grant a deal if quantities were higher but one or two boxes was the same for everyone! He seems like a really good guy! He speaks english and Spanish fluently so no translation problems!!!

Electronics are kinda expensive but he will give you a definite price on the items you want to send. TV´s up to 24¨ are not so bad but when you want to send 42¨flat screens they get pricey. Can´t remember exactly the price he quoted me...His prices were OK compared to anything else I´ve found... He will bring in commercial goods for you too. He´ll give you the breakdown on each items duty and I know he´s working with a few guys who have big business´here bringing their goods. So it must work for them! I got quotes on a few things I wanted to bring to sell... Not BAD! I expected worse...

I asked him about the Alexander guy and he said he is no longer shipping from Canada. He said their is another guy in GTA area doing it but he has a bad rep for mysteriously losing stuff and shipments always get postponed!

He has guys in Toronto, Ottawa, Montreal, Santo Domingo, and Puerto Plata. Call him and see what you all think...It worked for me last time without any problem, I wasn´t missing anything in boxes.. and I didn´t have to pay anything EXTRA!!!

Let me know if anyone has any problems but so far so good!!!
Just a thought since Christmas is getting close and you all might need a little bit of home for the holidays!!!

[Lambada]

Welcome to Puerto Plata!

[alicious]

Thanks for checking on the company I previously used.

I called the number and it was out of service.

I had no problems when we used him.

My parents used the service twice, once to sent household items when I was settling in, incld a fairly large flat screen TV, DVD player and CD player.

It was sent in a large barrel they purchased...(the size of a wheel barrel). It was FULL of house items besides the electronics, and as I can find, the cost of all this incld the cost for electronics was around $200 cdn.

The only draw back whatsoever was the delivery, was about 1 week late, due to some customs delay. However, I checked all the items against a very detailed list my parents sent, and every last bit they sent was there.

However, since it appears they are no longer in business, as mentioned before, if it's alright with you, I will check back on my next move, to see your further reports on how this company did with your shipment!

The positives with this barrel they used, was that we filled it with water, so whenever our building lost water, we had this for backup...lol...