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"I live in Canada and it's too expensive after the conversion"

We hear this question a lot from our Canadian customers, and we totally get it. After converting the price from USD to CAD, it can look like you’re paying more. But you’re not. The cost is exactly the same — the only thing that changes is the name of the money. The reason we have USD listed on our site is we are a US based company but have a warehouse in Toronto that services all of Canada.

Here’s the simple explanation:

$1,000 USD is the same as about $1,350 CAD right now
$1,000 USD is also the same as about 15,864 Japanese Yen

The numbers are bigger or smaller depending on the country, but the real value you’re paying is identical. Currency is just a made-up label — like saying 12 inches or 30 centimetres. It’s the exact same length, just different words.

Think of the iPhone you see in stores. In the United States it’s priced around $1,200 USD. In Canada it’s priced around $1,700 CAD. Same phone, same real cost. If it were actually cheaper in the U.S., people would be driving across the border every weekend, loading up the car with 50 iPhones, and flipping them for instant profit.

We believe people see the $999 USD price and in their head think of that as $999 CAD. Then when they do the conversion and see $1,350 CAD they compare $999 CAD to $1,350 CAD and think it's too expensive due to conversion. However, the $999 CAD price doesn't exist. Hope that helps clear things up!