I was going to order and then received this. Worth $80 after shipping and currency conversion when there is a 40% chance it will not show up?
Thanx for your inquiry.
We've send many packages outside of the EU , in the last years. We
noticed that growkits to the US are very often refused and send back.
They come back here after many weeks, and arent in good shape anymore.
Or sometimes the package arrives empty.
*** Therefor WE RECOMMEND to choose FULLY GROWN TRUFFLES instead ***
They are ready to eat and slip through customs much easier since we
ship them in a thin letterbox. It will fit right into your mailbox
*** Please let us know what you wish to do with the inquiry (cancel /
change / send) ***
If you do want to order a growkit we wont stop you. Based on our
experiences we can say: the chance is around 60% it will arrive.
Any other shop that tells you better news, is not aware of the
reality, or is trying to make it look better to customers than it is.
We pack discrete, thats not the point. Customs opens big heavy growkit
packages more often than thin letterboxes (in which truffles go).
Before you take financial risk with a growkit we just wanted to tell
you that truffles have around 90% shipping success.
We've heard that the reason that customs took the growkit away has
been communicated by an empty box with a note, saying that "you need a
licence to import agrarian products".
We talk about the US as 1 country, but noticed that states have
different laws and different shipping success. We will try to gather
some feedback as to what states are more successful than others.
Sometimes kits arrived very fast with no problems. Unlike for
truffles, for growkits we dont have enough data now (oct'11 as we
write) to predict more precise outcomes.