This is like shopping for anything, you need to shop around. I used a local vendor in Alberta where it was cheaper, but on certain items it made more sense to ship it up from vendors in the U.S. based on huge differences in prices. When I was ordering I made a list of all the parts I needed and looked through and found the difference prices at different vendors. I saved a lot more money than I expected by doing this.
There are also differences in quality of the parts depending on the vendor you're getting them from. Don't assume that the parts you're getting are the same from one vendor to another, some may be exact reproductions and others may be junk. I was unhappy with the poor quality of some of the parts I got from Jim Carter but on some of them I was stuck with getting them from them, as no one else offered them.
