Canada Customs

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Originally Posted by WolFF

Serial numbers are on a database with customs. They can pull up your luxury watch and determine exactly where your watch was originally sold and if duties have been paid on it. If it has a serial number it's recorded in a database somewhere.

Buy in Canada or just declare it. Don't give them the opportunity to confiscate it. And sell it at auction for their own gain. Who are the real thieves? You for buying something with your own hard earned money. Or them for taking it away if you don't pay them enormous amounts of taxes and duties. Remember you will get a smuggler mark on your profile when they swipe your passport. And be searched and or detained most if not every time you travel.

I have purchased watches from US based sellers and had it shipped to a Niagara Falls address .

I would then drive across Queenston bridge , pick it up, clear customs and return.

I have never been asked for the serial numbers.

They just ask, how much did you pay for, where did you buy it and if any proof of payment. I bring a printout of the listing and a copy of the wire or paypal receipt.

Just get charged the 13% tax, never the duty. You get hit with the additional 5% duty if using a servcie like fedex/ups or canada post

I always have a copy of the blue and white receipts stored in my phones when I travel.