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Online vape seller has ‘no intention of stopping’ shipments to Australia, despite nationwide ban — ‘We have no intention of stopping just because of one twat in Canberra.’::The New Zealand-based seller issued a notice to its Australian customers that shipments will continue regardless of the government's vape reform.

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[–] RegalPotoo@lemmy.world 85 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (9 children)

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The thing about shipping internationally is that you generally need a logistics partner to actually physically move the packages for you, and they also have a legal responsibility to ensure that what they are carrying is legal. I don't know what number of packages you need to have seized by customs before they stop doing business with you, but I'd doubt it's much more than 1.

As a bonus, there are only a handful of logistics companies in NZ that do international outbound, and they are the major domestic delivery companies as well, so if you fuck around enough you could end up finding out that no one will deliver your packages locally either

[–] anivia@lemmy.ml 11 points 8 months ago (3 children)

Darknet markets have no issues shipping millions of packages internationally that contain drugs or steroids. Why should this be any different for these vapes?

[–] RegalPotoo@lemmy.world 8 points 8 months ago
  • I think you'll find "millions" is an exaggeration
  • Depends on how happy you are with risking prison
[–] downdaemon@lemmy.ml 7 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

a lot of darknet vendors don't even bother with australia and their insane import controls, at best it's a "no refunds" type of situation

[–] Wooki@lemmy.world 2 points 8 months ago (1 children)
[–] Moneo@lemmy.world 1 points 8 months ago

Damn it's been a minute since I've seen a kek.

Good ol' kek

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