xAaroncx Posted January 30, 2011 Share Posted January 30, 2011 Hey, as you can probably see I'm new here, I've been following for the last few days just generally looking for better methods and the favourite coal and tobacco etc, but I was wondering if anyone could give me a heads up where to buy Al Fakhr or Nakhla tobacco from the UK, preferably cheap and online? Thanks Aaron Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
magick777 Posted January 31, 2011 Share Posted January 31, 2011 Unfortunately, you pretty much can't buy it legally online in the UK, owing to the enforcement of tobacco tax laws. Basically a company wanting to import and sell it legally first has to be licensed as a tobacconist and then has to pay duty of £71 per kg on top of the price of the product, meaning that they'd be permitted to attempt to sell it at something like £120 per kg, or about three times the going black market price. What therefore happened was that the big shisha businesses were faced with the option of get licensed or go herbal, and they went herbal. One cannot blame them. Of course, it's still sold under the counter by many of the shops that sell shisha supplies, it's still sold illicitly on eBay, often by asserting that what's being sold is the collectible packaging, and it is still illegally imported from abroad. You could do worse than to ask local shisha businesses; my local Middle Eastern grocery store has Nakhla, they just keep quiet about it. If you don't have any suitable local shops/cafes in which to ask locally, there are successful reports of people importing small amounts from a company in Tunisia that's not hard to find, and some users of this forum (not yet including me) have imported orders of a few kilos from select US retailers without problems. This, however, is never guaranteed. I'm afraid I'm not going to give you a firm recommendation, other than buy local if you possibly can. Buying online from the UK is effectively not possible, buying from abroad is possible but (relatively speaking) expensive and risky. Finding those places that serve local communities that just carried on quietly is likely to be your best bet. I can point you to areas/places around London, but don't know Luton at all. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Cheng Posted January 31, 2011 Share Posted January 31, 2011 Al Fakher can be bought for around £13-£15 per 250KG, it depends where you are tbh. Nak is harder to find, hardly anyone has it. Im sure RJ will see this in the morning, he knows some guys who knows some guys who has some AF I would recommend ordering from the US, big selection and decent pricing, the only thing to watch out for is customs, but you gotta risk it for a chocolate biscuit haha. www.hookahset.com --> Good price and good customer service. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
magick777 Posted January 31, 2011 Share Posted January 31, 2011 [quote name='Cheng' timestamp='1296443237' post='496222'] Al Fakher can be bought for around £13-£15 per 250KG, it depends where you are tbh. [/quote] £10 here, when they have it, but people are trying to charge anything up to £30 for 250g online. I wouldn't pay more than £15. Kilos go for £40, any more is high. [quote name='Cheng' timestamp='1296443237' post='496222'] Nak is harder to find, hardly anyone has it. [/quote] Nak seems to be what the Syrian, Iranian and Lebanese communities smoke (and therefore import) by choice. Nobody ever has a full range of flavours, but I find it easier to obtain (and more commonplace) than AF. My local shop seems to stock Nak for preference, same price, but currently carries AF two apple "because they didn't have any nakhla two apple". As usual, "one man's meat is another man's poison", I'm not going to say one is better than the other... but I would agree that it depends on where you are and who you're buying from. Subjectively I prefer Nak, but, maybe I'm biased by the amount of it I've smoked... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
razzzzzzzerc Posted February 1, 2011 Share Posted February 1, 2011 another way would be to check the buy and sell threads on here , and just buy or trade to another hf user ( thats if they have AF or nak for sale ) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rj_skillz Posted February 1, 2011 Share Posted February 1, 2011 If you need any AF KG's, PM me. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
xAaroncx Posted February 3, 2011 Author Share Posted February 3, 2011 aha, thanks for the heads up!, found a place locally and got 250g of AF Double Apple for £15, a different shop had same for 12.99 but sold out Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shaffaaf27 Posted February 9, 2011 Share Posted February 9, 2011 yh 15 is the max I would pay aswell. Though I have heard of people paying 60 quid for 250 box Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ukhookah Posted February 11, 2011 Share Posted February 11, 2011 15 for af isn't bad, but 60 quid what a rrrrip. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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