That's what gets' you, you were probably paying for custom taxes, being charged by UPS cause they had to pay it to bring the product into canada, cause the goverment wants the money.
It pisses me off i got skis sent to me too for the US, and paied a couple bucks.
got got bindings sent, guy didn;t make it as a gift, and marked the value at it's FULL RETAIL price, not even what i paid, and you have to pay taxes when it comes to canada from the us, on the listed it prices. man did it ever piss me off, i let that fucker know.
The key is - marking it as a gift, and putting the value $$ of the product down, to what it would cost to "only" produce the item. it skis would be like 75 bucks or something.