Amazon AU shipping to NZ, including honey?

[Bron]

Soooooo! Saw the news tonight & Amazon Au is going to ship to NZ. Including honey. Sooooo! How does that work

“Customers will also be able to shop from homegrown small New Zealand businesses such as Serious Food Co, The Herb Farm and Bella Honey, which use the Amazon.com.au platform to sell across the ditch.”

from NZ Herald

 

[yesbut]

In two words, drop shipping. Honey'll get sent direct from the packer.

 

[kaihoka]

Soooooo! Saw the news tonight & Amazon Au is going to ship to NZ. Including honey. Sooooo! How does that work

“Customers will also be able to shop from homegrown small New Zealand businesses such as Serious Food Co, The Herb Farm and Bella Honey, which use the Amazon.com.au platform to sell across the ditch.”

from NZ Herald

Will amazon have a "can not ship to NZ " notice next to honey sales .
In case someone in NZ tries to buy some from aus .

 

[Bron]

I can have this shipped to my address!

 

[yesbut]

@Dennis Crowley

 

[bighands]

I can have this shipped to my address!

No you cannot, under our biosecurity laws honey from another country is not allowed.

 

[yesbut]

No you cannot, under our biosecurity laws honey from another country is not allowed.

Bron's point is that Amazon's current system physically allows the sale & import.....we all know it's wrong, except Amazon who I expect will soon find out.

 

[James]

Yes....but .....did you not think ....you might be able to buy it cheap off amazon and onsell for a profit without even touching it .

 

[nikki watts]

$140 kg for 10+ ?? we should all be selling via amazon.

 

[frazzledfozzle]

I’m interested that they are using “UMF” as a measurement of the activity.

I thought you had to be a registered member to belong to the UMF club and surely they wouldn’t allow the crap that is Aussie faux manuka to be able to use their trademark ?

 

[nikki watts]

I’m interested that they are using “UMF” as a measurement of the activity.

I thought you had to be a registered member to belong to the UMF club and surely they wouldn’t allow the crap that is Aussie faux manuka to be able to use their trademark ?

check out the umf website @frazzledfozzle, they’ll sell memberships to anyone. there’s even a usa manuka umf member.

 

[yesbut]

yesbut what is this for? if it is about amazon aussie sales, APINZ have passed on to MPI, the which have passed onto the appropriate authority our concerns over this.

Just making sure mate .

 

[Dennis Crowley]

I’m interested that they are using “UMF” as a measurement of the activity.

I thought you had to be a registered member to belong to the UMF club and surely they wouldn’t allow the crap that is Aussie faux manuka to be able to use their trademark ?

I would suggest this is a two finger salute from the aussies. Not a member of UMF myself, unsure what they could do about it as I don't know how far their jurisdiction goes over trademarks.

 

[Bron]

Sooooooo…. It still says on Amazon that it’s eligible to ship to NZ… come on folks wheres MPI…

 

[Bron]

Seeeeeeee

 

[Mummzie]

Sooooooo…. It still says on Amazon that it’s eligible to ship to NZ… come on folks wheres MPI…

Email it to Karen Kos at Apinz.

 

[Bron]

I just emailed Amazon au & mpi. Rant over. I’ll go back to hermitting in the corner now.

 

[Bee Real]

We all need to be aware that if anyone buys overseas honey. It is going to be the buyer the most likely person to be prosecuted by MPI, not the seller.
It is forbidden to import honey and the buyer by completing the online purchase you would be showing intention to import a good forbidden to be imported by biosecurity law.
Arguing you didn't know it was forbidden or that you were just testing the system to see if the honey was going to be stopped at the border won't help you.....

It remains me the case of a journalist who, few years ago, purchased a firearm without a firearm licence to prove it could be done. He just wanted to make a point so after he published his article he handled the firearm to police. Next thing he ended up being prosecuted by Police for what he did.

 

[Dave Black]

It remains me the case of a journalist who, few years ago, purchased a firearm without a firearm licence to prove it could be done. He just wanted to make a point so after he published his article he handled the firearm to police. Next thing he ended up being prosecuted by Police for what he did.

Umm, nearly. It was a woman (Heather du Plessis-Allan), the police investigated, didn't prosecute and dropped the charges.