Does anyone have an experience with parcel forwarding from UK to EU?
(asking for Nic primarily, but i might find it useful for other stuff too)
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I have bought the chefs several times, with tracking and without, I have not had any problem. I’ve only asked for flavors …
From Barcelona, Spain
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Unrelatedly, not much is coming out of the UK in the next few days, between the current impossibility and the backlog.
72mg nic is complicated in terms of legislation, I just ordered 20 bottles of 18mg salts from rainbowvapes but now is too late to hit pre brexit. Less trouble in case your parcel gets checked.
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Yep, 72mg nic is still available but only business to business and no end customers.
I’ve just sent a parcel to Germany using DPD, took 3 days and cost like 14 pounds for 2kg.
What nic can you get in the UK what you can’t buy in the EU?
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I don’t know if this will be any help to you considering we don’t yet know the outcome of Brexit but NicotineUK ship internationally, as do nic hub. Both sell 72mg.
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To end users? I thought you need a business license or something to buy over 18mg in the UK.
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More problematically, customs are tougher with compliance than some of the UK sellers.
So if non TPD compliant, it gets destroyed and that’s it.
I hate the 10ml 20mg bottles like everyone else bu they ar the safe option.
As I don’t use much nic, they are ok for my mixing.
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Strictly speaking, that’s correct. Although I have purchased from both before with no issues and I’m not a business.
Superfrog has a point though. It’s a gamble with customs. It would be worth contacting the companies about how they ship etc but I know that nichub state that they use plain box packaging.
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although I’m not sure for how long, I’m still in the UK so I could give it a go. It looks like a hard brexit and I have no idea if my life here will still be sustainable when the pound goes down even more. I may be ending up in Germany or who knows where in 2021.
I still have 1.5l of 72mg juice but I want to go full VG and my nic juice is PG. It’s in the freezer but by the rate I’m using it up it’s probably going bad before it’s gone.
I’ve read somewhere that nic in VG won’t last as long as nic in PG so a steady source would be nice to have.
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Try salts.
They don’t go off, pretty much, in my ambient temp but no light storage, sealed shut vessels.
And I find that they act as weak preservative for my mixes even at my 1.8-2mg nic levels.
Looking around, the price difference is negligible.
Freebase nic is such a pain…
As a side note, I have been out of the UK for a couple years. Moving is never easy but damn, this is one of the best decisions I took in a while 
No offence to the UK people, you guys are fine, but I can’t at the same time be part of the problem and the solution. So HMRC is not getting a nurse’s salary, that I could never seem to get an appointment with, in tax out of me anymore.
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Never looked into salts. Can you buy them in solutions or in dry form?
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Just as freebase, in solution. As far as I am concerned, use the same dosage unless you are really high.
( I mean, the dosage is really high, you probably should not be mixing high anyway)
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But hey, tha’s where the most fun is… It’s just hard to follow the train of thought once you’re sober again and test the mix.
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Thx Jellybean! I’ve heard about nicuk and they would be an option, but their prices are not the friendliest; 1L 72mg would cost me £88. I will check hub again, but i think they don’t ship internationally anymore (i asked them about this in the summer).
My first choice was ELFC; i made a blind order (without asking to see if it gets through) and it cost me 57 pounds with shipping, but the order was cancelled the next day and money returned (so that’s where my idea of using parcel forwarding came from; two liters of 72mg with shipping would cost me less than 1L at nicuk). Besides, i used them before for buying bases, their 14.99 for 5L of 70/30 is unbeatable (and they have the cheapest shipping).
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Ahem, challenge accepted.
https://www.chefsflavours.co.uk/products/5-litre-vegetable-glycerine-vg
https://www.chefsflavours.co.uk/collections/vg-pg/products/5-litre-propylene-glycol-pg
Also, where it probably all comes from in the great IBC in the sky.
There tends to be a charge for the container until you give it back though.
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Nice find SuperFrog… if you live in the UK. 
International shipping is a robbery at Chefs for 5L.
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Yeah international charge for the weight…
Just wondering, can’t you find any VG and PG outside the vape trade? I mean they are standard chemicals, usually you can find VG in bakery supply places or food supplies in general, PG is often used in air cons and home made cosmetics so perhaps you search these places, too. Or ebay if all fails?
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Yeah, no issue with PG/VG at all. All vendors are willing to ship it internationally and prices are great. Don’t even bother with that; was rather buying based on vapers reviews and reading about the quality. 72mg nic is a different story because of TPD (plus it makes sense to check and compare prices there since quite different).
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Oh OK…
It may be just me (again) but I don’t like pre mixed PG/VG bases. I strongly believe but can’t prove it that there is some slow reaction going on which eventually adds a taste to the mix i just know from the 1st generation of tobacco flavored juices. So I keep it seperarte and mix PG to the VG with the nic and flavors.
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Interesting. I never really thought about it (i don’t taste a difference, but i admit i never tested it alone). I was thinking to order it 10L this time, so i might take this into account and order it separately. Besides i could play more with various percentages. Thanks B_I. (don’t know if this means anything, but they do mix it fresh i believe, since they sell various mixes of PG/VG).
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