Recently My Smoking Shop has stopped shipping to the US. When I contacted them, they said that it is permanent, and the reason is restrictions from Visa and Mastercard, and that no UK Tobacconist can ship to the US. Tim, Roderick, or anyone else, can you shed some more light on this?
Yes Visa and Mastercard in America have suddenly taken responsibility for running the tobacco business out of town. This has been happening little by little and the way they are doing things now they are saying because of fraud they can’t approve international purchases. They have also taken specific actions on tobacco orders. The vendors can fill you in on more details. There was some discussion recently in alt.smokers.pipes and I know someone who had a similar problem with a foreign order.
Well that’s a load of BS. What now, we have to mail an IMO? Ugh.
We need to start growing our own leaf is what we need to do.
I hope this doesn’t affect the US shops and distros, or I’ll be stuck with Garrett only.
I think it does or will eventually, but Tom or Dave will have to fill us in.
This whole visa/mastercard thing better apply to ALL products that Americans purchase online from the UK and not just tobacco or else I am gonna really be pissed! What about Discover or American Express? Do any of these companies accept these? What about Paypal?? So this whole issue must affect snus purchases as well?? Before I get my panties further up in a bunch I will wait to hear from some of the UK stores here…
hell yeah this pisses me off. What douches. I hope they all suffer the same pain this makes for me.
I just placed orders with Northerner and Toque tonight, both went through with no problems. I hope this is not true.
Anyone remember the hiccup that Mars went through a while back? I think this is the same thing, not really Visa, but the processors of the CC info.
My smoking shop sent me an e-mail saying they can’t ship tobacco to Brazil. what the hell is going on ?
I too placed a Toque order and it went through fine. Got my confirmation emails as well.
sigh of releif
If this is true Pay-Pal might be the way to go
Pay-Pal don’t do any tobacco related transactions!!!
Moneybookers ain’t an option either. We might as well set up our own bank.
But they had that quality Ingsoc Victory Vodka and ciggs.
Racing pigeons???
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How DARE the CC companies try to dictate what their customers can buy! This is an outrage!