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i live near one of these third party shipment places that only receives parcels from the US, and there's always people picking up big Home Depot boxes and i just don't get it, what's in it? there's no way its cheaper to get fucking caulk or something like that imported from the US rather than acquiring it locally, the only thing that makes sense is that they're full of power tools and stuff like that, local taxes or the big box retail stores jacking up the prices in-country probably means that you can get the tools at a much better rate or catch them at a good discount in America that trumps the local price, even with the shipping cost