09-15-2003, 07:37 PM
Quote:Originally posted by matthewmalay
I think you've got to get a license or special permit to import and resell pornography in Canada. I mean check out amazon.ca or go to a comic book store in Canada, they have plenty of hentai there and they were the nearly identical to the stuff JJ ordered that customs Canada was confiscating (AS/MAC specializing in R1 rips of hentai) from him.
As far as I know there isn't any special license you can get. I think it depends more on how picky the customs agents are. As for Amazon.ca, I don't imagine that customs goes through their stock very thoroughly seeing that hentai is such a small portion of their total sales. I know with my local comic shop, he can order all sorts of porn but there's a 25% chance (I'm making that number up) that the whole package will be siezed by customs. Needless to say, my retailer doesn't take that chance. I do know a number of shops in Toronto and Kitchener that seem to have no problems stocking any sort of smut on their shelves. I'd be interested to talk to them and find out what sort of run-ins they've had with customs.
When I first started on this site, JJ had hentai in stock ALL the time. I think it made up the majority of his business. Then he had a really big shipment siezed and was out a few hundred dollars. Since then, I haven't seen him ordering any hentai. As it is, customs still gives him a hard time.
Gullible isn't in the dictionary.