GamesForCanada.com (GFC) - Friendly Package Forwarding Service for Canada & The World

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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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[quote name='penetratingpincer']I have a suggestion: why not use megaupload.com?

Create an account on there and chunk up the DVD image into 500MB segments and upload them individually and have whoever download the 9-18 files (depending on DVD-5 or DVD-9 sizes) or so. Don't chunk it up in 1000MB chunks or 2000MB chunks as that forces the downloader to have a premium account or a membership...

I was satisifed with it and bought a lifetime platinum membership last year.[/QUOTE]
Inconvenient, slow speeds, and public file downloads.
 
** GFC Lowball Update **

Just so you guys know, for the first time ever I've added "GFC Service Charge Credits" as items in the current Lowball Sale. This means you can buy $5, $10, $15, $20 or $25 Credits towards your service charges on GFC for pennies on the dollar. Feel free to bid in our sale which is going on here:

http://www.cheapassgamer.com/forums/showthread.php?t=170651

(Please note these are only towards the Service Charges (the small fee we charge which is our only profit on the sale). You cannot use this credit to discount the actual items you are purchasing. Any unused Service Charge Credits will be rolled over for future use until you use up all your credits. If you have any questions about this let me know. I plan to switch over to a Service Charge Credit system very soon on the GFC website, as soon as this summer. Thanks guys!)
 
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Baddestman, I just got home from work a few minutes ago. I'll be doing GFC updates and GYROS updates for the rest 7 hours or so :) Thanks.

Lucas252, a few things to know about Wal-Mart. 1) They charge 6% Sales tax and charge for shipping (you can get free shipping to store sometimes) 2) The gift cards they give you don't take off any money off the actual purchase, so you essentially still buy a $60 card and then they give you a $20 Wal-Mart Gift Card for future use. You're still taxed on the $60 price as well. 3) Wal-Mart sales are very iffy at best. They sometimes work as planned but typically come up with some problems. Just letting you know.
 
Yeah it's a bummer. You snooze you lose :( The good thing is that in the near future we will have a list of sales that are still available so this sort of thing doesn't happen again (or at least as often). This was a fantastic sale...but then again Gamestop has been doing a lot of these lately so I'm sure it won't be long before they do something similar again.
 
No sales tax from NewEgg (I believe they ship from NY) and I happen to really like them as a company because I tend to get their packages very FAST. They don't always offer free shipping, but many items do qualify. Thanks!
 
Hey Goomb, is there any specific port I use? I get some critical error when trying to login... It's wierd. Username and pass are right, I just physically can't connect!

Thanks for the FTP access by the way.
 
What program are you using to FTP? I can look into ports but I think it should just be port 21 or whatever is set to default. I will investigate.
 
Hey goomba. Currently have 2 items waiting to be shipped to you(stanton sa-5 mixer and power supply). I also plan on getting some headphones from ebay. Can you send everything in one package to save on shipping? I paid the shipping (seperate orders) estimate for two items already and was hoping i can just get all 3 items shipped together to save a bit of cash.
 
Friendly reminder from your neighborhood Goomba. A ton of your items came in today. Tomorrow the post office closes at 12:00 noon (I'll be at work) but many of you will receive shipment notifications tomorrow and Sunday as I'll be home after 6PM tomorrow and home all day Sunday (doing GFC/cleaning and Lowballing). So please don't Email me with "Did my item come in/ship out yet". I will update GYROS when your items are in and ready to go out and will Email you when they ship. If I need to contact you about your order, I will. Thanks!
 
Xover, I can ship all three together but just know this: the more you pack together the more likely you're going to run into paying customs. It's totally up to you though. Thanks.
 
I am off to bed for the night but let me leave you with these to look at:

Anyone interested in one of the BlazBlue Fight Sticks? They are limited to only 1500 copies each and are extremely limited. They are $200 and will likely cost around $35-$40 to ship. A hefty investment but a small price to pay for being a loyal BlazBlue collector/fanatic. Here's some lovely photos:

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the mixer and power supply can be shipped together seeing as i screwed up on the ebay auction and bid on an item without a power supply and had to buy one separately :(. I guess ill just get the headphones shipped separately from those two items once i purchase it. Thanks for response keep up the amazing work for us canadians. Cant wait till all your features are implemented on your website. Will be dope
 
Picked up my Asics today, they feel amazing... thank you so much. My old Asics are almost to the point of being able to see the bottom of my socks so it's greatly appreciated ahahahaha. Thanks again.
 
Xover, yeah that sounds best. Get the mixer and supply in one shipment and the headphones in another. It'll allow me to better streamline your orders as well like that. And yes, the new site updates will be dope indeed, if I can ever catch up to all the new orders that is ^_^ Working on it!

Hockridge, that's awesome :) Glad you got them and that you like them. Oh and your dog icon with the hat on always makes me smile. Thanks again!

shadow_nine, they're not actually mine. I took the photo from the Aksys store (they're ultra limited so wanted to get the word out before they sell out and before you guys are sad to have missed them). Just keeping you guys informed. If I had more money I'd definitely buy one :)
 
I'm actually editing GYROS as we speak (since it's May now I have to de-clutter the list for the ones that shipped in April). I will have most of it updated today and the rest updated tomorrow :) Thanks!
 
Alright guys, I did a lot of cleaning up on the GYROS page. So almost all items that shipped in April (Green listings) are now on the Archive page and all current, ordered and shipping items are on the May page (Main GYROS page).

This weekend I will be processing a bunch of the new items that came in (tomorrow I'll be out of town until the evening) but I assure you I will do my best to catch up on all orders to keep things green and happy :) In addition we also have our Lowball sale going on as well. Thanks for all of your support. I will try to update items on the GYROS as soon as they come in. Tons of items this week so it'll be another busy one!

Thanks again!
 
[quote name='goomba478']blackric, your watch is in but your Halo 3 ODST isn't. Do you want me to ship just the watch by itself? Let me know. Thanks ^_^[/QUOTE]

cool, not yet, I may want to tack on another order before having it shipped. I'm really excited that it came in though! :bouncy:
 
I got some Amazon.com GC to put on credit with you Goomba, I'll PM you them, please add it onto my account in your QB/DB. Thanks :)
 
After a long day of visiting family and such I am home again. Going to stay up until 2AM packing your packages guys. The next 3 days I'll be working 6PM-2AM on the orders. Lots to do :) Thanks.

Myv, sure thing. I will add to your account. Thanks again!
 
Hey Rightstuf's got this great bargain bin sale going on, but it ends after Monday.

I've been looking for a great excuse to use your service, Goomba, but with your backlog at the moment, will you be able to process those orders through their site on time? The sale is really really good so there are a lot of items I am interested in.

Thanks a lot!
 
DJ Ghostmare, yes don't worry. The backlog doesn't affect new orders really. It's more of an issue of packing existing orders and shipping them out more than it is not being able to order new ones :) So yes if you put a request in and pay I will order them immediately. Thanks!
 
Anyone here interested in Final Fantasy Crystal Bearers (Wii) for $25.00 shipped? It'll be available for the next hour so let me know ASAP. Thanks!

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$25.00 USD - SHIPPED! Available until 2:00 AM EST
 
I'm staying home again guys today pack as many items of yours as humanly possible :) I will also be going to the UPS store tomorrow to pick up more PF orders and of course running my Lowball. Looks like my one week until my wife returns is going to be a BUSY one for me. Wish me luck!
 
You're very welcome Myv :) Lots more packages to go out today (40+) so I'm going to have my work cut out for me lol. It's hard to keep my house clean (I promised the wife when she gets back it'll be nice and clean and organized) when I keep getting in huge shipments of cardboard packages lol. Maybe some day I can get a real office =)
 
** Upcoming K-Mart Sale **

A LOT of you guys are asking me about the upcoming sale from K-Mart and kmart.com tomorrow... Here's what I know so far:

1) List of games on Sale (according to CAG):

Deals valid online and in-store 5/4-5/10
:360::ps3: Nier $44.99
:360::ps3: Final Fantasy XIII $29.99
:360::ps3: Bayonetta $29.99
:360::ps3: Alien vs. Predator $29.99
:360::ps3: Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 $29.99
:360::ps3: Darksiders $29.99
:360: Metro 2033 $29.99

2) K-mart DOES charge 6% Sales Tax for CT Residents.
3) There are NO K-Mart stores locally to me which means this sale will be online only as far as GFC is concerned.
4) Your best bet to get these prices is to order them yourselves with the Package Forwarding (PF) option if you are able to do so.

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Here's what I don't know:

1) How much shipping will cost (rumored to be $0.99 to USA but hasn't been confirmed.
2) How long the items will stay in stock. Final Fantasy XIII at 50% off is bound to sell out rather quickly. Again your best chance to get this is to do a PF / self order.
3) How many copies they will allow me to order. Your best bet is to get your requests in now, pay up front and then we can try to order for you ASAP. First come-first serve as always with these types of deals.

I will let you know if I learn anything else. Thanks and good luck :)
 
[quote name='PuppetYuber']quick question goomba. amazon's credit promotion for games are emailed after purchase right?[/QUOTE]

Yes. Usually a couple days after; however, Goomba will give you the discount upfront and then keep the credit himself. (Assuming you don't package forward it)
 
Thanks Maigoyume :) I always like to hear when things get there in perfect condition. Much appreciated, enjoy the game!

PuppetYuber, Yes usually within 2-3 days after the item ships typically.
 
RoganSarine is correct but one thing to remember: Amazon.com only gives the credits for the FIRST order of a particular item. So if you want to order a game, please check the GYROS page or ask me directly if anyone has ordered it yet. I'd hate to disappoint you with not getting the discount.

I will try to keep track of these things for you ^_^ And yes, I give you the credit instantly as long as nobody else has claimed it. Thanks!
 
Alright I will keep that in mind, was thinking of getting ssf4 + peace walker, but seems like ssf4 promo expired yesterday =(

oh well back to camping your lowball :D
 
Wait, so who forwards packages from U.S. -> Canada? I've always wanted to buy stuff from American sites but shipping always killed the deal.
 
Anjexu, that would be me (the owner of GFC). You have two options really:

1) Request us to order the items for you and then ship them to you directly (Direct Request Service).

OR

2) Order the items yourself, ship them to us and have us ship them back to you (Package Forwarding Service).

Both are unique services with the same end goal in mind. We can also bundle several items together to help you save additional money :) Shipping shouldn't kill most deals as we charge very fair shipping rates (listed in the first post of this thread).
 
Hopefully I'll be able to order the kmart stuff (I really want FFXIII and Bayonetta). I have a question about the package forwarding: What is the "#90-341" for?
 
Thanks for the reply on adding gaming credit :) I'm also interested in FFXIII from K-Mart, I've been following the thread and it seems like the shipping will be $0.99 from what the representative posted
 
Ah, I just checked gyros and I'm really happy to see that my items have been shipped. Can't wait to see them in the mailbox. Thanks Goomba!

Just one question about the Amazon SSF4 orders though; how many of the pre-order bonus costumes codes did you receive? It wasn't very clear on Amazon whether or not it was 1 per customer only. I'm assuming you'll be sending them to the first orderer if it is, right?
 
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