My trick idea to buy tobaco on EU flight .. will it work?

Green Finers

I will be flying to Copenhagen in few weeks. This is my idea.

To buy cheap flight to UK even one way. You can get for €5 even!! This is to be at same time approx as flight depart to Denmark.

Check in online for this flight as well as my flight to Denmark. Flight can even be in fake names, they only check ticket and not ID when purchasing cigars when I flied to Kiev few years ago.

When I’m in the departure buildings I can buy tobacco with my UK ticket and hop into my Denmark flight.

Will it work?

GerardKeating

It will work, in the same was as throwing stones at a car will work, but you had to use a credit card to purchase the flight, so the fake name won't stop them finding you.

Green Finers

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118578330#Comment_118578330

Such information as name on credit card not visible to shop employees

GerardKeating

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118578365#Comment_118578365

Yes, but the airline from the UK flight might get upset when someone who checks in, does not fly and investigate.

And if both flights were with the same airline...

Aquos76

Would there not be an issue whereby you check in, go into departures and then don't show up at the gate for your flight to UK, The crew at the gate will know that you've gone through into the departures and should be expecting you?

dxhound2005

Do it and come back and tell us if it works. Nobody here is going to know if it could work.

Green Finers

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118578413#Comment_118578413

I will only scan the Denmark pass. Uk one will not be scan at security.

So my questions … will it work in duty frees if checked in online but not scanned at security

Fandymo

I can’t see why it wouldn’t work. People don’t turn up for flights every day. There’s no CSI:Airport checking out what happened to them.

dxhound2005

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118578438#Comment_118578438

Only one way to find out. When are you going?

Green Finers

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118578465#Comment_118578465

Few weeks.

Atlantic Dawn

Worth a try but as far as I know you need to have used the ticket to pass through in to the barriers at the secure zone for it to then become valid in duty free. It will be near impossible to use both when going through as they are normally supervised and you would need to be sure your actual flight ticket gets validated or you will have problems at the gate boarding.

dxhound2005

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118578486#Comment_118578486

Will you be able to get a €5 flight then?

Freddie Mcinerney

Yet I get barred for a week.

Green Finers

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118578493#Comment_118578493

Maybe not 5er but still cheep to justify saving on cigar and cigarette.

MAULBROOK

I wish you the best of luck and look forward to your findings. Trailblazer

Green Finers

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118578519#Comment_118578519

Why are you banned?

Green Finers

If flight from Dublin to Derry ever set up or Cork to Belfast …. Or Kerry to Belfast would duty free be available? Just a theory question?

dxhound2005

How much money are you going to spend on tobacco products?

Atlantic Dawn

Just a heads up, the retail price of cigarettes and cigars in shops in Spain is cheaper than the price in duty free in Dublin Airport, as they are within the EU the 200 cigarette duty free limit doesn't apply.

Freddie Mcinerney

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118578549#Comment_118578549

For asking a trans gender related question.

Was put in the bold boy corner for the week.

Green Finers

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118578589#Comment_118578589

This website is no free speach. It’s like like Ceausescu.

Green Finers

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118578580#Comment_118578580

That is rule in THEORIES. Custom have stick fingers. Even though no limit in EU they make own rules. Steal tobacco and sell in markets.

Hotblack Desiato

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118578461#Comment_118578461

Happened all the time even before online check-in was a thing. Nobody gives a shyte unless you checked in a bag, if you don't turn up it has to be offloaded.

Hotblack Desiato

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118578624#Comment_118578624

Got any evidence for your wild allegation there pal?

Car99

What's to stop you going through security with a cheap UK boarding pass. Buy your cigarettes duty free then just leave the airport after making your excuses covid symptoms just came on bla bla bla?

BurgerFace

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/2058231227/my-trick-idea-to-buy-tobaco-on-eu-flight-will-it-work

Why don't you just go to the airport. Get there early and go through. Go to the departure bar and look/listen around for someone who could be flying outside of the EU.....Norway, long-haul whatever. Strike up a conversation and then ask them to use their boarding pass to buy you a few cartons in the Duty Free shop. Give them the money and buy them a couple of pints. Easy-peezy lemon squeezy. Done this a few times myself.

Atlantic Dawn

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118582395#Comment_118582395

Yes one of the UK departure gates will be all you need now that they have duty free as outside EU.

BurgerFace

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118582414#Comment_118582414

200 cigs retail in Ireland is 146 euros. In Holland it's 82 euros. In Amsterdam dury free it's about 50. Well worth the couple of pints for that savings.

OU812

Oh man... I wanna see the results of this. Go for it buddy, preferably record it all vlog style.

BTW - It's not gonna work.

alias no.9

Last week you declared that you would not breach a speed limit for fear that a summons would jeprodise an application for citizenship and this week you're all in on plans for tobacco smuggling / tax evasion. You bring a lot of colour to the site.

Liberty_Bear

If its a legal loophole and you are not breaking the law then why would anyone pay one iota of attention?