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M.B.
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1679 Posts
2/01
Posted - Jul 21 2001 : 10:56PM
I'm up here in Canada and am thinking about ordering some disks from the states.
I would like to know what your opinions are of the best discrete packaging you have come across and also the best customer service.
There are a couple of online stores here in Canada that I deal with and they are pretty good. But they don't always have the titles that I want.
I'd like to use an online store that sends the disks with the art work, but without the plastic case. If they are sent in the plastic cases, the box will be opened by customs for sure.
Some of the titles that I want I have not yet seen, so you never know if you might get a scene that has some bondage or some rough stuff which would most certainly be confiscated by customs (bondage and rough stuff is not allowed here).
Have any of you ordered disks sent in some sort of envelope? and if so, did the disks get scratched or damaged? and did customs open it?
Your advice would be greatly appreciated.
charlie
Member

uk
450 Posts
4/00
Posted - Jul 22 2001 : 4:58AM
M.B.
Although I'm not in Canada the 2 companies that I have used previously and fit your criteria are AdultDVDNow and AdultDVDXtreme. They will remove the box and ship just the artwork and disk in an envelope. Customer service for both retailers are excellent in my experience.

ADN go to great lengths to protect the disks while in transit and they have a 15% off voucher at the moment.

I can't vouch for Canadian Customs but I never had any packages shipped this way inspected and that was during the period when UK Customs would confiscate everything. Less of a problem now though.

redviper35
Member

Quebec
9 Posts
3/01
Posted - Jul 23 2001 : 3:59PM
I have ordered a couple of times from FiveStar DVD, DVD Empire and Action-DVD and never had any problems.

I used to order from Gamelink in the past, but unfortunately, 100% of the packages I ordered where opened by customs :(

Customs are tricky, because what they will let in or not is highly subjective; "Human degradation" seems to cover a lot of things.

In my experience, they seems to target specific stores. I used to order a lot from JadedVideo.com, but lately, they opened nearly all my packages (they once confiscated me a tape, but I JadedVideo agreed to replace it). Now, about 3/4 orders are opened by customs from this store :(

Adult DVD Now has the reputation of having nearly 100% success rate in UK, so it should be the same here, but I have never ordered from them.

FiveStarDVD marks the full value of your goods on a custom sticker; that means no confiscation, but some duty taxes to pay.

If you don't order too much DVDs, try to ask the store to ship the following method:
- Individual's name as return adress
- No box covers
- Declared as gift for customs (Value below 60$ CAN)

Using this method, I was able to get Magma titles from Australia to here in 7 days without any customs interventions. And with the same method, ordering from some US stores resulted in a 100% delivery.

ookz
Member

251 Posts
1/01
Posted - Jul 24 2001 : 5:32AM
Imho,

There are several stores with good discrete packaging:
1. www.adultdvdnow.com
2. www.dvdadvantage.com
3. www.adultdvdexplorer.com
4. www.xonair.com

But the best way to avoid custom inspection is to
send the DVD disc only (without box) use envelope,
adultdvdnow, dvdadvantage, and xonair could do that for you.

If you want to keep the box, better use courier, not
postal service. It's guaranteed and insuranced :)


Edited by - ookz on Jul 24 2001




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