Buying Smokes Online - Threads Merged

Dimitri

Anyone ever tried it? I've been looking at a few sites that google pooped up in a search for "cigarettes buy online E.U" I Havent a clue how safe they are but i'm told more and more people are doing it. Apparently it is perfectly legal to buy from another E.U country for your own us without getting slapped with customs charges or the like. If anyone has any good sites or hear anything as to the safety of most of the sites out there please post up. This will become very important if ash get their way in the next budget i heard on the radio that they requested an increase of two euros on a pack of twenty.

DonkeyStyle \o/

Dimitri wrote:

i heard on the radio that they requested an increase of two euros on a pack of twenty.

:eek: :eek: :eek: Cúnts tbh.

Anyway, I've never tried ordering them online myself, but I've read a good few threads from people that have... a quick search on AfterHours brings up these threads... they're pretty old, so don't reply to them

http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=58553
http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=138955
http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=89517

Mimikyu

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Dimitri

Some intresting stuff there but according to my father(a man of the law!) its not illegal to import them from other e.u countries and you cannot be landed with c&e charges. I thin i'll give one of them a try i'll let ye know how i got on.
If anyone has any info in the meantime please post up!
Edit* i don't honestly think the gov are brazen enough to increase them by that much in one go!

steveland?

Wasn't the budget on today?

I heard on the news there was no increase in prices of smokes and alcahol

Mimikyu

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alleepally

Solitaryman666 wrote:

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If Johnny Blues were even €2 I couldn't imagine paying that for them, never mind €8.20.:D

Conchurl

Do ye know any good websites where i could buy cigarettes online

lord lucan

A number of people have used http://www.e-tobaccos.com/buy-cigars/ and seem to be reasonably happy with their service. They have a rep posting in Bargain Alerts on Boards,

I've never used them myself.

byte

Put "5% discount boards.ie" in the Comment box at checkout, where you're supposed to get ehh... a 5% discount.

I was looking at the site, and cartons seem well enough priced, however the posting charge fires the cost up a lot (IIRC it was 17.99eur). Suppose it's still cheaper than a carton in local shop.

Delancey

I thought ciggies in the post were liable to seizure by customs ?

etobaccos.com

delancey42 wrote: »

I thought ciggies in the post were liable to seizure by customs ?

We have many customers in Ireland receiving our products without any problems regularly. Once of the basic principles of the EU is free movement of people and goods!

Cheers.

pirateninja

Do you not have to pay tax on them once they come into Ireland though?

nyeb2007

yes, you are supposed to pay tax.

I have a family member working in an post who regularly have visits from the guards to their sorting office and pounce on people bringing in ciggies - although to be honest I think they are really just cracking down on people bringing in large amounts.

Oh_Noes

Just wondering about the legality/legitimacy of sites like this http://uk.tobaccoonline.co.uk/product-info.asp?pid=4311&sm=S
(I know there are probably others)

Those prices seem to be in-step with prices in a lot of EU countries. The price listed there is about the same as a Polish friend charges me when he brings them over from home. It's less than half the price of cigarettes over the counter here.

Anyknow know if these sites are legit? Has anyone used the site linked about or have any experience of buying cigarettes online?

Oh_Noes

Anyone?

BeerNut

They're probably legit, but you're responsible for paying Irish tax and duty on the goods. If your parcel is stopped it'll end up costing you more than buying the same thing locally.

lord lucan

Cheap day trip to Spain FTW.

BeerNut

BeerNut wrote: »

They're probably legit, but you're responsible for paying Irish tax and duty on the goods. If your parcel is stopped it'll end up costing you more than buying the same thing locally.

Isn't he only responsible for paying EU tax?

BeerNut

Deleted User wrote: »

Isn't he only responsible for paying EU tax?

Duty on booze and fags is due in the country they are exported to, unless they are transported by the purchaser personally for personal use. Link.

Oh_Noes

BeerNut wrote: »

They're probably legit, but you're responsible for paying Irish tax and duty on the goods. If your parcel is stopped it'll end up costing you more than buying the same thing locally.

Is it common for them to stop the parcel?

BeerNut

Dunno, never tried it. Maybe other people here have.

DJMG92

friend of mine tired them from that site and got taxed & also they were fake!

sc86

being looking at sites to buy fags from online but not mad on givin my credit card details to a site thats not safe...

any1 got a site they have used thats safe??

sc86

looks like no1 wants to give out this info
whats the big secret?

Agent Smith

Captain Morgan wrote: »

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How much are they now? :pac:

Mimikyu

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reverenddave

Captain Morgan wrote: »

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http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2055873286&page=188
second last post
no. 3759

LEIN

Has anyone tried these http://www.e-tobaccos.com/buy-cigars/index.php in the past while?

Thinking of giving it a bash.

Dan Jaman

Oh_Noes wrote: »

Is it common for them to stop the parcel?

I was doing it a few years ago, buying smokes and tobacco from a Swiss seller. All went well for a couple of months then one day the postie turned up requesting duty for the parcel in his hand. Ok, I thought, still only brings it up to shop prices - how wrong I was. The amount of duty was punitive, so I told the postie to tell Customs to shove it up their collective jackasses.

reverenddave

Damo9090 wrote: »

Has anyone tried these http://www.e-tobaccos.com/buy-cigars/index.php in the past while?

Thinking of giving it a bash.

i got 10 pouches off them about a month ago

they were brilliant and really quick postage too i think it only took something like 3 days

and didn't have to pay customs as they come from spain
and they label the box as gifts too

BeerNut

reverenddave wrote: »

didn't have to pay customs as they come from spain

That's not why you didn't pay excise on them. You just didn't get caught.

siobhan.murphy

I thought if you bought within th e u you werent liable for duty

BeerNut

siobhan.murphy wrote: »

I thought if you bought within th e u you werent liable for duty

Only if you physically transport the goods yourself. Here are the rules.

dollyk

Captain Morgan wrote: »

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ha ha check the date, who would have thought it .



opps sorry it was 2005

Condatis

Two questions:

If I receive small quantities of pipe tobacco from within the EU for my own use will I be liable for duties if it's spotted in the mail?

I don't use a credit card and can't find a UK site that accepts laser or PayPal, would anybody know of one.

BeerNut

Condatis wrote: »

If I receive small quantities of pipe tobacco from within the EU for my own use will I be liable for duties if it's spotted in the mail?

Yes, unless you've arranged to pay the duty in advance and have the relevant paperwork from Revenue.

Condatis

I only want 100 grams at a time. VAT and Duty is paid already in the EU. How does this fit in with the concept of a single market?

BeerNut

Condatis wrote: »

How does this fit in with the concept of a single market?

It allows for differing excise regimes in different countries. If the barriers on exciseable goods didn't exist, everyone would just buy their wine straight from France where it's duty free, destroying the wine market everywhere else. All freedoms are limited.

So, European customs law says that excise on excisable goods -- booze and fags -- is payable in the country of destination, so you can't dodge the tax you would be due to pay if you bought them at home. In keeping with the free movement of goods and services, however, if you're transporting your own personal stash of booze and fags you don't have to pay local excise duty when you cross the border from one member state to another.

Getting tobacco sent in the post effectively makes you an importer, with all the red tape that comes with cross-border trade in exciseable goods. The amount is irrelevant, and if you're doing it by the book you shouldn't be paying VAT and duty in the country of purchase.

Scotty #

Condatis wrote: »

If I receive small quantities of pipe tobacco from within the EU for my own use will I be liable for duties if it's spotted in the mail?

Have a friend in Bulgaria who regularly sends me 200-400 cigs as payment for some web work I do for him. Never had any problems.

emmet the rover

is it much of a pain sorting out the paperwork for the revenue? i was thinking of getting some various pipe tobbaccos trought the post as well. but if it involves lots of hassle i recon i would prob be better off going to holland or germany with a empty case.

then i guess i would have to prove it was all for personal use....

noelpat

Hello folks,

I'm just wondering how many of you buy cigarettes and tobacco online?
Do you have any links to sites you can vouch for?
I'm thinking about trying it out if I can get some good deals, but I'm worried about getting a good deal and then been made pay through the nose for it! (by the government)

Thanks in advance.

The Hill Billy

Search for the term 'online' in this forum.

Fromthetrees

Is online the way to go so? I need the saving as I'm always broke. I would pick smoking over food btw.

BeerNut

emmet the rover wrote: »

is it much of a pain sorting out the paperwork for the revenue?

I glanced at it once and it certainly looked it. There's lots that the person you're buying from has to do.

emmet the rover wrote: »

i would prob be better off going to holland or germany with a empty case.

then i guess i would have to prove it was all for personal use....

Yeah. It's a tough one too as one of the tests for cigarette smugglers is whether there are different brands. A pipe smoker is probably going to want lots of different brands. You could always hope they don't believe a smuggler would ever make money flogging black market tobacco to pipe smokers

The no-questions-asked limit is 1kg. Personally, it would take me a long time to get through 20 50g tins of tobacco.

TheKBizzle

Does anyone know a good site for getting cheap Al Capone Cigarillos and maybe Romeo y Julieta Cigarillos

Thanks

holdemfoldem

Just wondering if anybody has any good links other than:

http://www.e-tobaccos.com/buy-cigars/index.php

Wouldn't work out at much of a saving for my two brands, JP blue ( i know ) and L&M red label

Cheers

lord lucan

holdemfoldem wrote: »

Just wondering if anybody has any good links other than:

http://www.e-tobaccos.com/buy-cigars/index.php

Wouldn't work out at much of a saving for my two brands, JP blue ( i know ) and L&M red label

Cheers

Them prices are shocking!! There's virtually no saving to be made.

You'd be better trying to get a cheap flight and do a day trip to somewhere in Europe. I done that last week. Early flight from Dublin to Madrid,cheap Metro into the city,bought 2,400 Marlboro Red in 3 or 4 Tabac kiosks and then back to the airport for a late afternoon flight home. After airfare was taken out i saved €450 and have enough cigarettes to do me until late January.

holdemfoldem

wow not bad, and pretty good idea.

I know there is a sticky on this that i need to read but surely that many is frowned upon.. was there a risk of getting em confiscated?

The Hill Billy

holdemfoldem wrote: »

wow not bad, and pretty good idea.

I know there is a sticky on this that i need to read but surely that many is frowned upon.. was there a risk of getting em confiscated?

Read the thread. There is advice on the number of cigarettes that you can bring in. The charter also has a link to the relevant page on the Revenue.ie site.

tHB

mjcom4d

Anyone know sites for buying carrolls or any other countries that sell them