95 % of my orders come from either Orgazmik or Erodvd.nl, never had a missing package, I would recommend those two stores very highly. Orgazmik used to be quite expensive but they've lowered their prices on loads of titles.

As for content, I order lots of extreme stuff like fisting, watersports, fetish and again never had any problem. Orgazmik and Erodvd send me DVDs without cases in very anonymous looking plain enveloppes so shipments are quite stealthy.

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Ordered from Erodvd.nl about 20 times in a 4 year period and had just one single shipment seized by customs (watersports and fisting DVDs) a couple of others were opened but let through because the content was milder (Private DVDs). In the same timeframe I ordered about 10 times from Orgazmik and never had any customs related problem, also about 5 orders from Lasersedge and a couple from Fivestar and again no problems.

Seems to me living in the UK, you take more risks if you order from the Netherlands, but Erodvd.nl is a pretty safe bet especially if you stay away from "controversial" DVDs like watersports, fisting, scat, sex with animals, etc...

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For what it's worth I've ordered from Vidshop (who ship with cases) and Orgazmik (who ship without cases) and have not had any problems with interception/delivery with these two so far. I've just recently placed my first order with lasersedge (haven't received yet/ordered with case).

Vidshop have a good selection of DVDs, with the ability to check real-time stock availability on their site.

Orgazmik provide an excellent email response service (they're polite/friendly as well which is nice) and deliver fast . Their method of putting DVDs in a thin wedge of cardboard and making the package look very much like a normal letter (no customs declaration on outside) is great.

I didn't think I'd ever find anyone who could match Orgazmik's email response service until I set up my account with lasersedge. Marc at laseredge's customer service department got back to me quick as lightning and his response to a potentially-difficult query of mine was both helpful and understanding.

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I did have a couple of packages go astray in the postal system from the USA but in both cases the vendor, even though they weren't obliged to as the shipping method was an uninsured one, provided a replacement. I won't name them so as not to put unfair obligation on them, but suffice to say they were among the number of US dealers who keep getting good reviews from users of this forum, and for understandable reasons.

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From Joey and G9's in-depth experience of ordering maybe it is possible to (theoretically) suggest that few - if any - porn packages coming into the UK from the US are actually examined by customs (has anyone ever had a package from the US checked by Customs?). The same might also be true for Australia (Cuddlywombat told us in a recent post that Customs in Western Australia never seemed to examine packages sent from the US, but that they always examined/re-sealed every package sent to him by his European suppliers)(Are you in a different part of Australia, Joey? Your customs-free experience from Erodvd.nl obviously stands in contrast to Cuddly Wombat's Euro ordering experience).

Sir Wankalot (UK) has also told us that he has never had any packages from the US intercepted, but he has had 3 packages from erodvd opened and examined. Likewise, Joey (when he lived in the UK) and G9 (UK) have also had similar experiences with some of their orders from erodvd. It would seem, however, that some orders from erodvd to the UK get through unchecked. Loz recently ordered what I think was a euro-version Max Hardcore DVD, which got through to him unchecked. From what Joey said in his post it is possible that Customs might have confiscated this if they had intercepted it as I believe (see Loz's post "Where can you buy European strength Max Hardcore") that loz might well have ordered a title that included pissing/puking/gagging etc.

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I think your "poll" isn't very reliable anyway because of the low number of answers. You'll just get a very vague general idea of the situation at best...

It would be interesting to get seizures/non deliveries statistics from an online store such as Erodvd.nl but I doubt they'd be willing to divulge such things...

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I have ordered about 300-400 dvds in the last 3 years. About 90% of these are from the States almost always using global priority letters.

I have never had a confiscation.

I have had 3 letters opened from Erodvd (Holland) but resealed by customs and delivered.

I have had only one package where i had to pay customs duty...recently with Adultdvduniverse

I have had one global priority letter opened, the dvds stolen and then resealed. Sender Moviesbymail. They didn't seal the letter with cellotape.

I have had one delivery badly damaged. 3 dvds all smashed as if the letter had been caught in some machinery. Obviously royal mail's fault as the letter got to the UK in normal time (going by customs date stamp) then was severley delayed before delivery. The dvds were replaced by retailer.

I have had about 15 discs which were faulty (mostly Devils Film) that had to be returned.

I have had about 3 deliveries that didn't arrive and were presumed stlolen/lost. They were all replaced.

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Have any of your many shipments from the US ever been opened by UK Customs?

Cheers for the info.

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I have just started ordering from Orgazmik in the past month based on the good reviews from this forum. I must agree that this is an excellent store which delivers fast and very discreetly (looks just like a normal letter!). I have not had any of Orgazmik's packages opened by Customs.

The only US order I have had opened by Customs was when the value exceeded AU$275 and I just got hit with a $70 Customs duty!

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It didn't take me long to work out what it was about.

I was waiting for a couple of discs - one of which I'd been after for ages and ages (included Golden Showers and Shallow Fisting) and needless to say those nice people at C&E had confiscated BOTH discs - that's the killer not just the Peeing/Fisting one but the other (run of the mill) one too - why did they not forward that one on ?

OK to fill in the info as suggested.

Country of Residence : UK
Source EroDVD in Holland
Titles - dont want to name 'em - Ya never know those nice C&E boys may surf this site and no need to draw attention to oneself.

Well peed off I am :-( (didn't even realise the pun there) Not Happy

Oh and as you probably know EroDVD always package VERY discreetly

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Contrary to what I said recently, your experience just goes to show that C&E are still interested in material other than child/animal porn.

With regards to your getting both discs confiscated - I've heard that this is what always happens when Customs make a seizure. So if you ordered 10 discs - and only one contained fisting/pissing - then the whole lot would as a matter of practice be seized.

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S&M, Fisting, Pissing, Scat - indeed very few if any restrictions.

Yep I'm glad we didn't stay in Germany (in case anyone missed it that was sarcasm !!)

******* ******** at customs Grrrrr

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Would love to - whenever I go "Home" for a break I always love being there and hate coming back to the UK but I've lived in UK for 98% of my life and I'm too old to start a new life back home - everything would be against me.

So unless I win A FEW million on the lotto - then yes I might - nah it just ain't gonna happen.

It was on my last trip home that I discovered many video rental places back home rent stuff covering the areas I mentioned above - it did make me wonder how much of my salary would be spent on smut if we had stayed in Gewrmany :-)

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I was quite surprised by your post as I had heard a story from someone some time ago about how he got stopped by the Garda, had his car and luggage searched and didn't get any hassles despite having quite a stash of grass in the luggage which they searched. Apparently down to the fact that they were only looking for 'terrorist' type of stuff (no offence meant here). Law enforcement agencies are obviously a law unto themselves as to when they want to play and tough and conversely when they want to turn a blind eye.

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Something else worries me about HM Customs which I havent seen discussed in this forum. What is the situation about .jpg and movie files which happen to be on a laptop or on a USB flash drive carried through Customs? I suppose the same censorship rules apply but I can't believe they attempt enforcement. Perhaps they do spot checks - pretty bad if you happen to be the lucky guy who gets stopped.

I heard recently that someone with a laptop was asked by HM Customs at a UK airport to turn it on and open his address book. The officer then picked a name out of this, called the person up, asked if he knew the bloke and if so to please describe him! God knows what would have happened if the officer had discovered his cache of porn pics. And yes, it was lawful. Weird and worrying...something to keep in mind when voting.

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The opened parcel had three dvds in it (still in their cases) from www.adultdvdexplorer.com.

I prefer to order dvds from the US rather than Australian distributors as a dvd I get from the US for about AU$30 can cost AU$70 in Australia. However, I have been concerned that some of the recent Jules Jordan stuff might get seized (mild bondage and spanking/whipping mixed with sex - a definite no-no in Australia!). I have noticed light spanking popping up in a few 'mainstream' adult dvds of late (for instance, the very hot Kinzie Kenner scene in "Who's Your Daddy 6").

Most of these new light S&M films seem to get past Australian classification though (ie, I can also order them from an Australian distributor), but I am wary as I have had non-sex spanking films seized in the past. As there may be a few weeks delay between a dvd's US release and it receiving a classification in Australia, I fear an over-zealous Customs officer may ping me in the interim for importing an unclassified hardcore dvd containing 'spanking' or depictions of violence.

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EroDVD always send discretely - but it didn't stop my recent shipment being stolen by those nice Customs boys (one of em probably got the disc spinning on his DVD Player - paper tissues to hand - as you read this

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If erodvd are doing this then I can only presume that it is the Dutch postmark (is there one?) which gives the game away. Know that some Dutch suppliers use a courier service to carry the goods into the UK before Royal Mail distributes them (eg Vidshop) which might (?) lessen possibility of customs intervention as goods are not being shipped directly via Dutch mail. Vidshop certainly guarantees delivery of orders, so presumeably they'd re-ship if an order didn't get through.

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I suspect yu are right about the Dutch postmark - I guess it is a bit of a beacon :-(

EroDVD also offer aguarantee but getting my order re-sent due to a customs seizure is **NOT** going to be without cost - so I'd be interested just how much of a guarantee orgazmik 's actually is :-)

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and also what they have told me when I emailed them to ask if they ever had any problems with UK Customs. I've ordered from them four times and although this is not alot I certainly haven't had any problems with deliveries from them. They also have quite a good stock range I think.

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Interesting to read you've had no problems with vidshop I thought I'd read somewhere on here, admittedly some time ago, that people had had a lot of problems with vidshop - though I **MAY* ahve the wrong company here - could have sworn it was vidshop though.

Yes Your Choice looks worth checking unfortunately they don't seem to have the particular title I'm after - but certainly worth a look - and their prices on Max's Euro titles are a bit more sensible than their prices have sometimes been in the past (Sorry Jacco ;-) )

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And yes, thanks to the cheap dollar and some internal reorganisation our prices are quite a bit lower than some years ago, fortunately.

And no, I am not going to say anything about Vidshop

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So maybe it was vidshop that got the bad press a while back OR your comment could maybe mean you are saying nothing because it is a part of the yourchoice empire or some way connected

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http://www.adultdvdnow.co.uk/

no doubt to pretend to be www.adultdvdnow.com

Not my idea of a decent way to attract business.

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Kind Regards,
Frank
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An order from Erodvd was opened by customs, resealed and sent on.

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This is first time i have orderred so will be really pissed off if they get siezed or lost.

I doubt THAT many packages are checked, particularly from the US. If you think how many thousands of packages are sent daily, I just don't think there is enough time to fully check everything coming in - but they are more likely to weed out what they deem to be more 'obscene' by checking packages from countries such as Holland.

Edited by - joel on 6/14/2005 3:42:05 PM

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Joel - you don't really need to edit your message - just update the thread with your latest news, as it helps make more sense if someone reads posts back at a later date. Keep us posted - hope you get your goodies soon!

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I ordered a disc from EroDVD 2 weeks ago, and it just arrived this morning. It was only a Private title, so I wasn't worried it would be seized. Anyway, I had assumed that 2 weeks delay meant it was almost certainly being examined by customs and would be sent on resealed.

Well, from the date on the postmark (and the fact my CC hasn't even been charged yet) it seems that the package was only sent 2 days ago, so it's arrived intact at the normal expected postal delivery time from Holland to the UK, without customs intervention.

I assume that EroDVD (like most stores I guess) don't always have every item actually in stock. The title I ordered was a few years old, so maybe they had to try and get hold of it. Anyway, fullmarks for the discreet packaging, and it's nice to know the package wasn't opened.

Conclusion is, if you've ordered online then the package might not even get dispatched that quickly. A long delay is not always caused by a postal/customs holdup.

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This is usually not a problem at all. Sometimes if a movie has pissing in it it's seized. Not only the DVD is seized, but every DVD along with it! Apparently pissing is ok, but not pissing on people? Someone once told me otherwise. Only the most extreme Japanese bukkake titles have been held by customs. I also once sold a retail copy of a movie called "Lolita Semen" (over 18 actors!!) and that was seized. I think that has pissing in it too. Overall i'd had maybe only 5% of my shipments seized.

Germany
Apparently it's illegal to mail order porn in germany for some reason. I ship DVDs their all the time and it's by far I ship the most porn there. As long as the DVDs aren't in some huge box and I use my real name it's perfectly fine. For a very large order it's stupid to not split the order into differnet packages.

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I only get about 1-3 orders per month to ship to these countries and it's a REAL pain. I'm not sure why this is exactly. Anyone know?

I've ordered hundreds and hundreds of import DVDs into the USA from Japan and Germany. Only one DVD has ever been seized. I ordered a GEKKO title. It's a Japanese bondage title with nothing that bad in it. Apparently it had a movie trailer of dog porn on it! Whoops! I didn't realize that. Gekko also sells dog porn. Sickening. It's funny to hink that customs will check even movie trailers!

Anything and everything has passed. I order a lot of stuff that you'd think would be seized. BTW i've never ordered anything illegal of course. I've ordered some schoolgirl themed titles with OVER 18 actors. They look underage and are as flat as a board but those passed ok. Their from big studios and have age 18 logos on them and everything.

I order Japanese bukkake DVDs all the time and some of them have SCAT movie trailers on the discs. Those seem to pass ok. I've never ordered SCAT and find it absolutely disgusting, but there's a good chance it might pass customs OK. Fisting DVDs are no problem at all, same with any type of watersports of course and any type of bondage.

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Interestingly, the previous order from there had the 'packet opened by customs' sticker, so maybe they're taking a closer interest either in post from the Netherlands or EroDVD...

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