Today I did Something I Have Never Done Before

[anotherbob]

I do speak Spanish, so that wasn’t my issue. I actually just didn’t know how to start the conversation without offending her or sounding like a creep.

I’ll make a point of loitering there around the same time next week incase she comes back

just say you are wearing a lovely perfume I like it. And let her guide the conversation to a point.

 

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Hello, bring tobacco with you. There is very little here to choose from, and I would guess none in Northland. You can only declare 50g per person without paying the tax/duty (@Ahi Ka can update that if quantity changed this last year or so)

I’m obliged mortonbriar, thank you for the information. None in Northland

 

[Ahi Ka]

just say you are wearing a lovely perfume I like it. And let her guide the conversation to a point.

Spoken like a man with experience.

 

[Ahi Ka]

I’m Curious? You have Lakeland pipe tobacco already in New Zealand or is it Lakeland tobacco you’ve purchased in the USA to take back to New Zealand with you?

The reason I ask is because I have a son and his family who live in New Zealand, Parua Bay Northland they love it camping boating fishing and hunting their spare time away and I had planned to spend most of this European winter in NZ‘s summer, an old leg injury played up making travelling the distance unwelcome and I cancelled.

Time being my own I’m planning on trying again for a couple of months in NZ this coming European winter and from what I’ve read pipe tobacco is even more difficult to find in NZ than it is in Cyprus where theres often little or nothing and where Cyprian Latakia Pipe Tobacco once came from and supposedly still does so but in reality doesn’t unless it’s extremely old stock, ten to fifty years old!

Whats the situation please with pipe tobacco in NZ, I know it’s very expensive to buy but is it, any pipe tobacco not just Lakeland readily available or is it better to take what I can find in Cyprus or Dubai where I’ve got to hang around for ten hours between flights with me and take the hit in taxes and duty in the hope that twenty or so customs declared 50 g tins won’t get confiscated by the authorities at Auckland airport?

I can’t ask my son or his wife about this as they are both doctors and while they are not particularly anti pipe smoking, their only interest being if a patient can survive an operation or not they know nothing about pipe tobaccos or obtaining them in NZ.

Thanks in advance

This is really the only place you can purchase pipe tobacco here in NZ. Have a look to see range and prices:

PIPE TOBACCO | Canteros New Zealand

Buy your Pipe Tobacco online from Canteros New Zealand - your source for Ashton, Peterson, Lane, Erinmore, Davidoff and Drew Estate Pipe Tobacco .

www.canteros.nz

You are looking at roughly $3nzd per gram if you buy while here. Whereas any tobacco you bring with you is taxed around $90nzd per 50g. Depending on how cheap you can pick up tobacco where you are, or en route, this is much cheaper.

You can bring as much as you want with you for personal use. Your first 50g is duty free and does not need to be declared. If you choose to sneak tobacco through and are caught (I’m not advising how likely this is) you will have all of your tobacco confiscated and fined at least $400 - possibly more if you were bringing in 20 tins as NZ doesn’t have a pipe tobacco culture so they would assume it was for resale.

If you declare 20 tins, it will not be confiscated unless you choose not to pay the duties - expect to pay around $2000nzd for this amount.

And in regards to your question about Lakeland’s availability down under. Currently there is none. If you find yourself in my region (Tauranga) message me and we could swap some samples or something

 

[anotherbob]

Spoken like a man with experience.

totally.

 

[ofafeather]

. I actually just didn’t know how to start the conversation without offending her or sounding like a creep.

Yeah, that’s a hard “no go”!

 

[VDL_Piper]

Whats the situation please with pipe tobacco in NZ

Thanks in advance

My advice is to camp at Dave's place and smoke his cellar, easier and much cheaper than importing

 

[Ahi Ka]

My advice is to camp at Dave's place and smoke his cellar, easier and much cheaper than importing

If I ever give up pipe smoking I’ve decided to run a camping ground just like this.

 

[jguss]

It takes a lot of courage to publicly admit you're sniffing old ladies at the grocery store.

Sounded more like a brag than an admission.

 

[Brendan]

Just sniff your hands like a normal, sane person. Problem solved

 

[mortonbriar]

My advice is to camp at Dave's place and smoke his cellar, easier and much cheaper than importing

Yeah, that's what I do.

 

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This is really the only place you can purchase pipe tobacco here in NZ. Have a look to see range and prices:

PIPE TOBACCO | Canteros New Zealand

Buy your Pipe Tobacco online from Canteros New Zealand - your source for Ashton, Peterson, Lane, Erinmore, Davidoff and Drew Estate Pipe Tobacco .

www.canteros.nz

You are looking at roughly $3nzd per gram if you buy while here. Whereas any tobacco you bring with you is taxed around $90nzd per 50g. Depending on how cheap you can pick up tobacco where you are, or en route, this is much cheaper.

You can bring as much as you want with you for personal use. Your first 50g is duty free and does not need to be declared. If you choose to sneak tobacco through and are caught (I’m not advising how likely this is) you will have all of your tobacco confiscated and fined at least $400 - possibly more if you were bringing in 20 tins as NZ doesn’t have a pipe tobacco culture so they would assume it was for resale.

If you declare 20 tins, it will not be confiscated unless you choose not to pay the duties - expect to pay around $2000nzd for this amount.

And in regards to your question about Lakeland’s availability down under. Currently there is none. If you find yourself in my region (Tauranga) message me and we could swap some samples or something

Many Thanks Ahi Ka: Your reply clears up the questions I had about pipe tobacco purchase in or bringing into New Zealand. I’m not particularly choosey about what pipe tobacco I smoke as having lived through the collapse of the Banking system where I am in Cyprus earlier this century when pipe tobacco was in extremely short supply I learnt to be grateful for whatever I could get my hands on, things haven’t much improved here since then and where once the worlds pipe tobacco’s were readily available the choice is now very limited and not as good as in New Zealand judging by what Canteros currently has for sale although the pricing did make me shudder.

As for not declaring tobacco importation it’s not a game I‘d get into as I have a relative who is a customs officer and have an insight into the powers customs officers have, best not to fool around with them. Besides that I’m a pipe smoker and as my Cypriot tobacconist friend laughingly tells me everybody trusts a pipe smoker

No pipe smoking culture in NZ, amazing as if I’m not mistaken NZ used to produce its own Erinmore Flake pipe tobacco and export it as well as having some extremely talented pipe makers whose pipes were highly prized and priced in the UK and elswhere in the 1960/70’s when I couldn’t afford them. Inglewicks Tobacconists in Carnaby Street London used to sell NZ artisan made pipes most of which had a waiting list to purchase.

I might find some decent tobacco in Dubai, if so and if it’s of any interest to you we can trade samples as you suggest but I won’t as some have suggested here camp out at your place to get at your cellar. Trust me I’m a pipe smoker

Thanks again you have been very helpful.

 

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My advice is to camp at Dave's place and smoke his cellar, easier and much cheaper than importing

My son tells me there’s quite a hunting and shooting culture in NZ, perhaps it’ll be wiser if I pass on that

 

[VDL_Piper]

My son tells me there’s quite a hunting and shooting culture in NZ, perhaps it’ll be wiser if I pass on that

Depends, some of the Red Deer heads that I have seen coming out of NZ are biblical and I wouldn't give up a chance to bag one if you're a hunter.