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To all my Canadian counterparts ...... yesterday was a sad day for me!! I officially have quit buying cards online. My borderline bottom was hit when ebay changed the exchange rate to .68(add another five numbers here). My wife and I can no longer see the point in doing so it just too outragous. If eBay is charging that so is my bank, paypal, creditcard ..... all of them. Back to only hitting card shops in the city I guess. And to think that two years ago we were actually at $1.05 for a few weeks. Sad sad day. Or I'm just being pi$$y!! .............. >( ............ LOL

Dollarama - 15 hockey cards for $1.  Buy 20 packs for $ 20 = 300 cards.

Yeah but Dollarama needs to get baseball as well

LOL ......... its not volume I'm Iooking for or just a quick fix ........ I'm talking about the specific cards that one needs. The fact that I am trying to buy a card in Ontario lets say and I have to pay for it in US dollars .... even shipping in US. I have always complained about having to pay another fellow Canadian in US dollars and right now at 32 cents on the dollar ....... thats just stupid. Aint gonna happen in this household.

Don't blame ya there

Feeling your pain. 

It sure would be nice if baseball products were more widely available in Canada - or at least if I could skip the currency exchange on the rare occasions that a Canadian-based seller has a card I want.

I guess I could reduce the impact of the exchange rate by selling stuff, but (a) I don't want to deal with the cost and hassle of shipping, and (b) I'm a pack-rat who can't bring myself to part with anything.

Maybe one day we'll get back near parity again...but I'm not holding my breath.

As soon as the global economy starts moving again, all of our resources and commodities will be in high demand and our dollar will move back up.  I am 57 years old and have seen the cycle 2 or 3 times.

At least your postage is cheap, to send to Australia most sellers use international priority which costs around $20 up, unless I buy in bulk the cost is way to much, further more we have hardly any hobby shops at all so walking in to buy singles is out of the question as they carry mostly Aussie sports plus the latest boxes, oh for the Aussie dollar to be strong again