Luke69 Posted September 7, 2009 Share Posted September 7, 2009 Hey i use to be a heavy forum member about two years ago but haven't been on for a while. I just wanted to check what sites were still doing well with regards to shipping stuff into canada. I know mnhookah use to be good. Just wondering if there are any updates? I'm looking to get a km hookah and some shisha and coals. I really want to try the new lucid line, but mnhookah doesnt have it. Thanks for any replies Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mix_tape Posted September 7, 2009 Share Posted September 7, 2009 I think Hookah John is the way to go. He seems to have a good rep for everyone but customs is getting harder and harder to by pass. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gaia.plateau Posted September 7, 2009 Share Posted September 7, 2009 Canada is seriously cracking down on baccy, I'm afraid. Many vendors who used to ship there (Hookah Life, GotHookahs, etc.) no longer do. My last order from Hookah John was seized by customs, $180 worth of shisha. I would recommend just biting the bullet and paying the taxes. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Luke69 Posted September 12, 2009 Author Share Posted September 12, 2009 so if you had to choose a site, what would it be? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ilikemyusername Posted September 12, 2009 Share Posted September 12, 2009 from what I understand mnhookah is down for the count. If you want to pay taxes anyone will work, if not you can make it worth my while and I'll send it to you. and what ever happened to you man? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PalGuY Posted September 12, 2009 Share Posted September 12, 2009 QUOTE (gaia.plateau @ Sep 7 2009, 05:56 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>Canada is seriously cracking down on baccy, I'm afraid. Many vendors who used to ship there (Hookah Life, GotHookahs, etc.) no longer do. My last order from Hookah John was seized by customs, $180 worth of shisha. I would recommend just biting the bullet and paying the taxes.I kind of guessed something was up with customs, My order from john for about $190 was seized for a month and today they sent it back to John, didnt even give me the option to pay the taxes... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hookah hippie Posted September 12, 2009 Share Posted September 12, 2009 your best bet would be to have a friend ship it to you in a box marked gift or something like that welcome back Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mix_tape Posted September 12, 2009 Share Posted September 12, 2009 QUOTE (PalGuY @ Sep 11 2009, 07:28 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>QUOTE (gaia.plateau @ Sep 7 2009, 05:56 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>Canada is seriously cracking down on baccy, I'm afraid. Many vendors who used to ship there (Hookah Life, GotHookahs, etc.) no longer do. My last order from Hookah John was seized by customs, $180 worth of shisha. I would recommend just biting the bullet and paying the taxes.I kind of guessed something was up with customs, My order from john for about $190 was seized for a month and today they sent it back to John, didnt even give me the option to pay the taxes...Something about that doesn't seem right. I've been busted a few times and they always give you the option of paying there must be a reason your box was refused... I've had orders kept for $300 worth of tobacco along with a new hookah and still had it all sent to me.I have a smaller order coming from John we'll see how it pans out. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Luke69 Posted September 12, 2009 Author Share Posted September 12, 2009 I went to school and didnt have much time to smoke and couldnt bring my hookah stuff. But now i think im comin back strong. I just gotta figure out where to get myself another nice setup and stash. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Universal Magnetic Posted September 12, 2009 Share Posted September 12, 2009 (edited) Never had a problem with ordering from hookahjohn into Canada, my last order came about a week ago without any problems. usually sits in customs for a day or two. best bet would be to order over the weekend so john can ship it out on monday...you should get your stuff by friday.if customs is cracking down i dont know what to do...john has been supplying me with shisha for about 6-7months now without any problems. AF sells for about 20$ a tub and nak for around 15$ locally. with the discounts and shipping from john i get my tubs of AF for around $15, nak mizo around the same. biggest problem is that i cant find anyone who sells nak mizo locally or else i would just suck it up and pay more.im contemplating putting in a large order if customs is cracking down it may be my last one. the QL CH coals weigh quite a bit so i will probably put in an order of all shisha flavours and then another one with just coals.paying the customs and taxes on tobacoo is outrageously high, it would come out to being more expensive than just buying it locally...btw, puffin on some grape mint right now and its fantastic Edited September 12, 2009 by wesclrg Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PalGuY Posted September 12, 2009 Share Posted September 12, 2009 QUOTE (mix_tape @ Sep 11 2009, 09:52 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>QUOTE (PalGuY @ Sep 11 2009, 07:28 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>QUOTE (gaia.plateau @ Sep 7 2009, 05:56 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>Canada is seriously cracking down on baccy, I'm afraid. Many vendors who used to ship there (Hookah Life, GotHookahs, etc.) no longer do. My last order from Hookah John was seized by customs, $180 worth of shisha. I would recommend just biting the bullet and paying the taxes.I kind of guessed something was up with customs, My order from john for about $190 was seized for a month and today they sent it back to John, didnt even give me the option to pay the taxes...Something about that doesn't seem right. I've been busted a few times and they always give you the option of paying there must be a reason your box was refused... I've had orders kept for $300 worth of tobacco along with a new hookah and still had it all sent to me.I have a smaller order coming from John we'll see how it pans out.I have to wait and see when John gets it why they sent it back. I hope they dont black list him like they did for HC a few years ago. I never had any problems with Mississauga customs, only Vancouver customs is giving me a headache, we'll have to see. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mix_tape Posted September 13, 2009 Share Posted September 13, 2009 Odd. I didn't know HC got black listed the person I talk to said they chose to stop shipping to Canada because people would get charged duty and refuse the package, send it back to HC and ask for a refund. Basically the same problem most vendors seem to run into with Canadian orders. That was right from a HC employee and they actually had a trial of sending to Canada a little ways back for a month or so and ran into the same problems and decided to keep it the same no Canadian shipments. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PalGuY Posted September 13, 2009 Share Posted September 13, 2009 QUOTE (mix_tape @ Sep 12 2009, 05:05 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>Odd. I didn't know HC got black listed the person I talk to said they chose to stop shipping to Canada because people would get charged duty and refuse the package, send it back to HC and ask for a refund. Basically the same problem most vendors seem to run into with Canadian orders. That was right from a HC employee and they actually had a trial of sending to Canada a little ways back for a month or so and ran into the same problems and decided to keep it the same no Canadian shipments.I cant remember the exact details, but back in 2005 or so me and my friend put in a huge order from HC and it was caught by customs, as I remember goerge got in trouble with them, I think he was given a warning, immedialty after that on his website if you put your address as Canada it slapped like a ~200% tax on your order, I think he was remitting directly to canada customs, a few weeks later Canada was taken completly off the website. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Luke69 Posted September 15, 2009 Author Share Posted September 15, 2009 so should i go ahead and try to place an order with hookah john and risk it? Would you say its best to order only some shisha and coals online and buy the hookah locally as its readily available? even though it will most likely be some knockoff piece of crap Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hookah S Moka Posted September 15, 2009 Share Posted September 15, 2009 Ya each order is hit and miss, only way ive seemed to get around it is only ship usps, Got nailed once from UPS like 210 bux Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SeaBass Posted September 15, 2009 Share Posted September 15, 2009 Please tell me how this works out. paying $20 for 40g of shisha in edmonton sucks. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PalGuY Posted September 15, 2009 Share Posted September 15, 2009 QUOTE (SeaBass @ Sep 14 2009, 10:50 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>Please tell me how this works out. paying $20 for 40g of shisha in edmonton sucks.safadi in edmonton was selling 250g of nakhla for 20$, they had a sale 2 weeks ago or so.I would personally avoid vancouver customs for the time being, as they seem to be some problems there, try ordering from somewhere on the east coast like mnhookah so that it hits mississauga or quebec customs. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chinamon Posted September 15, 2009 Share Posted September 15, 2009 QUOTE (PalGuY @ Sep 15 2009, 08:45 AM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>QUOTE (SeaBass @ Sep 14 2009, 10:50 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>Please tell me how this works out. paying $20 for 40g of shisha in edmonton sucks.safadi in edmonton was selling 250g of nakhla for 20$, they had a sale 2 weeks ago or so.I would personally avoid vancouver customs for the time being, as they seem to be some problems there, try ordering from somewhere on the east coast like mnhookah so that it hits mississauga or quebec customs.minnesota is still west of toronto so i doubt any packages would come east then head back west.also, i believe that packages go through the customs hub that is nearest the recipient, not the sender. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PalGuY Posted September 15, 2009 Share Posted September 15, 2009 (edited) QUOTE (chinamon @ Sep 15 2009, 01:49 AM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>QUOTE (PalGuY @ Sep 15 2009, 08:45 AM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>QUOTE (SeaBass @ Sep 14 2009, 10:50 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>Please tell me how this works out. paying $20 for 40g of shisha in edmonton sucks.safadi in edmonton was selling 250g of nakhla for 20$, they had a sale 2 weeks ago or so.I would personally avoid vancouver customs for the time being, as they seem to be some problems there, try ordering from somewhere on the east coast like mnhookah so that it hits mississauga or quebec customs.minnesota is still west of toronto so i doubt any packages would come east then head back west.also, i believe that packages go through the customs hub that is nearest the recipient, not the sender.my order from mnhookah went through quebec not vancouver i'm speaking out of experience, and i live west Edited September 15, 2009 by PalGuY Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PalGuY Posted September 15, 2009 Share Posted September 15, 2009 (edited) double post. Edited September 15, 2009 by PalGuY Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chinamon Posted September 15, 2009 Share Posted September 15, 2009 QUOTE (PalGuY @ Sep 15 2009, 10:43 AM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>QUOTE (chinamon @ Sep 15 2009, 01:49 AM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>QUOTE (PalGuY @ Sep 15 2009, 08:45 AM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>QUOTE (SeaBass @ Sep 14 2009, 10:50 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>Please tell me how this works out. paying $20 for 40g of shisha in edmonton sucks.safadi in edmonton was selling 250g of nakhla for 20$, they had a sale 2 weeks ago or so.I would personally avoid vancouver customs for the time being, as they seem to be some problems there, try ordering from somewhere on the east coast like mnhookah so that it hits mississauga or quebec customs.minnesota is still west of toronto so i doubt any packages would come east then head back west.also, i believe that packages go through the customs hub that is nearest the recipient, not the sender.my order from mnhookah went through quebec not vancouver i'm speaking out of experience, and i live westthats very weird considering mississauga would've been much closer.i speak from my experience because i live in toronto and my packages always come through mississauga.they never come through vancouver (or anywhere west of mississauga) even if i order from california. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gunsboy Posted September 15, 2009 Share Posted September 15, 2009 I am sick and tired of Canada customs treating us like criminals.I have been through many kinds of scenarios when it comes to ordering from the US.Here is a list of things you could to do to minimize getting caught by those evil customs - Choose a vendor that would not mark it as tobacco (e.g. HookahJohn or MnHookah)- Use usps and never UPS.- Do not order more than 2kg at a time.In the case that any order from any vendor starts getting caught, you need to do what I did a while back. You can order from any vendor that you like to someone - known and willing to help from the forum or a friend - that lives in the US. I used to buy him shisha that is worth a little more than the cost for him to ship it to me like a box or two of 250g or even coals or accessories. Then he would just tag it as a gift or something you two would agree on and ship it to you. This worked for me for almost a year without getting caught once. The only downside to this is the delay it caused when your order has to be shipped twice. Plus you are under the mercy of someone's conscious and free time. If all this does not work, then . You can leave Canada and move to the US or just stop smoking hookah. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Luke69 Posted September 17, 2009 Author Share Posted September 17, 2009 I'm actually going to school now in kingston ontario at queens. So no more vancouver customs. Would anyone be willing to ship from the states for me? I tried to contact both mn and hookah john regarding shipping into canada without much luck. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chinamon Posted September 17, 2009 Share Posted September 17, 2009 QUOTE (Luke69 @ Sep 17 2009, 10:19 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>I'm actually going to school now in kingston ontario at queens. So no more vancouver customs. Would anyone be willing to ship from the states for me? I tried to contact both mn and hookah john regarding shipping into canada without much luck.just order from john. hes the best there is when it comes to shipping in to canada. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Universal Magnetic Posted September 18, 2009 Share Posted September 18, 2009 (edited) I made another order with John that was accepted by USPS on Sept 15. it was for a total of 5.6 Kilos of shisha LOL...i figured i would make one more large order to keep me occupied for a while. we'll see how it goes. i factored in the shipping time so i made the order so that it would not sit in customs over the weekend.Ive ordered larger orders in the past (because of coals, hoses etc.) this one was strictly shisha flavour. customs recently held one of my packages for over a week (it was clothing) from a retailer i frequently order from and never had a problem with before. i hope theyre not inspecting my packages now (because i order things online VERY often) if they are im going to get booked hard with this order. Edited September 18, 2009 by wesclrg Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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