Oops! My Wife Saw My Customs Invoice

[oldtoby]

@ robcapp
+1 :clap:

 

[mso489]

Six hundred bucks is too much. That would be the pipe and tobacco budget for two or three years for many of us. I couldn't buy online at those prices. That would get me down to two or three bowls a week in a hurry.

 

[pinchoftobacco]

And I though we had it bad in ny with super high taxes on tobacco. A 50g tin that typically costs $5-10 online is $20-25 in stores. 100g tins are $30+
Either way sucks you guys in Canada get screwed so bad with customs.

 

[meatballj]

The duties or tariffs are bad enough but the price to buy in Canada is just as ridiculous. (was quoted anywhere from $39-42 for a 2oz tin from stores in Ontario and Nova Scotia). To add further insult to injury, I live in New Brunswick (very rural) and tobacconists are rare if not extinct! Canada does not allow cross border sales of tobacco from other B&Ms or retailers. So, I would have to drive about 5 hours to get to the closest decent B&M to pick up a decent selection AND at that would be paying $40 a tin. Yikes!

 

[olkofri]

Indeed. A tin of Dunhill in Saskatchewan is ~ $50 at the B&M after all taxes are in.