>>About - Harp Pricing, Quotes & Payment

Please Read This Page Carefully - It is Important
This page outlines how you can acquire a harp from West Coast Harps. There will be no surprises if you read this page and the companion shipping options page. We state our pricing, payment and shipping policies and the benefits therein. We keep our operational costs and overheads very low in order that we can give you a very satisfactory price. So read on....

Harp Pricing
   Canadian Pricing for Canadian Customers
   Email In-Stock & Custom Quotes
   No Border Brokerage Fees for Canadian Customers
   Non-Canadian Customers

Payment Options
   Payment Terms
   Deposits
   GST & HST Taxes

>>About - Harp Pricing - CAD$ Canadian

Canadian Pricing for Canadian Customers
West Coast Harps endeavours to be price competitive with your purchasing direct from the harpmaker in the USA. We handle all the importation issues including brokerage fees and other hidden costs while pricing our in-stock harps in CAD$. [Our custom harp orders are priced in USD$ and give you a fixed cost at the time of purchase] This gives complete certainty of your total cost. Another advantage we offer is that West Coasters can come and try the harp in our Studio prior to purchase.

Each instrument is usually "seasoned" in that it is kept in tune while in our Studio allowing the strings to settle into pitch. Nylon strings take a while to stop "stretching". Minor tuning bugs and buzzes are also corrected. This is an added service over direct purchase from the USA.

Email In-Stock Quotes
All the instruments for sale in our Studio are email quoted in Canadian Dollars [CAD$]. There are no financial surprises once you receive your personal email quote as a Canadian purchaser. No additional border, freight, taxation costs or misapplied duties to pay. In-stock email quotes are fixed for 7 days for current stock including shipping costs and are subject to the continued availability of the harp for sale. All website listed prices are subject to change without notice. We do not reserve instruments without your commitment to pay in a timely fashion. The email quote assumes the shipped instrument will be collected from the specified shipping terminus in a timely fashion as additional late pick-up/storage fees are your care.

Custom Order Email Quotes for instruments not currently in-stock are valid for 7 days given the extreme currency fluctuations we are currently experiencing. The custom quote will be in USD$. The Custom Order harp will be shipped to you from our Studio upon arrival in Victoria BC from the harpmaker and after our full inspection.

Check out our pitch about the benefits of purchasing in Canada through West Coast Harps.

No Border Brokerage Fees for Canadian Customers
All West Coast Harps floor harp, package harp and hammered dulcimer shipments to Canadian customers originate from our Victoria BC Canada studio and are, therefore, not "brokered" through the USA border after we ship to you. You pay zero border brokerage fees with a West Coast Harps purchase as a Canadian customer. This can be a considerable saving. For comparison purposes the UPS Canada brokerage fees are the least expensive option for USA sourced shipments from other harp sales outlets. A significant number of instrument shipments from the USA have additional misapplied duties made payable too irrespective of payment method. West Coast Harps does not ship with UPS. Nor does West Coast Harps dropship harps from the USA. We inspect every instrument we sell in our Victoria studio first before shipping to you as a quality assurance.

Non-Canadian Customers
West Coast Harps does not normally ship small, medium or large floor harps outside of Canada.

>>About - Harp Pricing - Payment Options

Payment Terms
Harpsicle, Flatsicle and Fullsicle harps are payable by cash, personal cheque, bank cheque or Postal Money Order. We do not accept credit nor debit cards. West Coast Harps reserves the right to wait until a personal or bank cheque clears prior to shipping [up to 30 days and 21 days respectively].

Canada Post Money Orders which are bought in sums of up to CAD$999.99 or USD$999.99 each are excellent as we can clear the Orders the day we receive them. They cost CAD$5.50 each and can only be bought only with cash or debit card at your local Post Office [make sure that you do not overdraw the same day dollar limit of your debit card]. Simply airmail the Order to us from the P.O. and you have a traceable payment.

Ravenna, small, medium, large floor harps and hammered dulcimers are payable by cash, multiple Postal Orders or by electronic funds transfer from your bank. We can also visit a bank locally to complete a transaction if you are in our Studio. West Coast Harps reserves the right to wait until Canadian bank cheques including certified bank cheques clear prior to shipping [21 to 30 days].

All cheque and postal order payments are preferred to be in the name of West Coast Harps. "Alison Vardy" is an acceptable alternative. Thank you.

Deposits
West Coast Harps accepts a 30% NON-REFUNDABLE deposit in CAD$ on any instrument we currently have in stock in our Studio with final payment due in 60 days. A 100% NON-REFUNDABLE AND NON-TRANSFERRABLE deposit in USD$ will secure any custom order harp that West Coast Harps does not have currently in-stock but orders by client request. Custom orders with a greater than a 3 month waiting period may have custom deposit terms arranged to suit circumstances.

GST & HST Taxes
Federal sales tax rules apply for all sales in Canada - GST [5% in AB SK MB PE] or HST [12% BC / 13% ON NB NL /15% NS]. No provincial sales taxes will be applied against any purchase from West Coast Harps.

Those who choose to purchase direct from USA sales outlet will be subject to GST/HST/PST/QST as per their province on any goods handled by Canada Customs plus substantial brokerage fees from any cross border freight/ courier company involved.