Where to buy Xiaomi phones in Canada

LivedLive · August 28, 2019

So a few months back my wife's phone broke and I ended up getting her a Pocophone F1 off amazon.ca for $430 CAD. She has really liked it so far and it hasn't had a single issue. So my current phone (LG G4) is dying so I though I would get one as well. Only ones I can find in Canada now are $560 CAD. Then I go looking around and see that the Mi 9T pro looks spec vs price at $550 CAD but they all sold out. Then I happened to stumble upon the Black Shark 2. But it was $770 CAD from the only place I could find it.

On Ebay.com I found the Black Shark 2 for $440 USD which is about $585 CAD. So I thought I might as well get that but no one will ship to Canada. All the other ones end up being around $750 CAD after shipping rates.

Any suggestions on where to buy the Black Shark 2 or Mi 9T Pro in Canada?

TomvanWijnen · August 28, 2019

I so far got 3 Xiaomi phones for relatives on AliExpress with no issues whatsoever.

LivedLive · August 28, 2019

What shipping did you use? Also were there any import charges?

TomvanWijnen · August 29, 2019

23 minutes ago, LivedLive said:

What shipping did you use? Also were there any import charges?

When shipping phones to the Netherlands you often either can't choose or can choose between AliExpress Standard shipping (±2 weeks) and DHL (also ±2 weeks, maybe even faster). The last time we (had to) chose DHL (though the seller shipped it in two parts, the first part was with UPS or so). For two of the three phones we bought in total (over the years, we've bought many more things worth more than €21 though!) we had no charges whatsoever, for one we did. If you ask the seller (be sure to ask WITH the order, NOT in a separate message, else they might ship it before they read the message :P) to ship it with a reduced value it should be fine, though. A few sellers claim to ensure you won't have to pay these charges, which worked for me the last time (I bought a Redmi K20 Pro recently).