Hi All,

Snuff Store is pleased to announce that we can now once again accept payments from customers in Canada and Australia. We also hope to be once again able to accept online payments from customers in the USA from the 24th or 25th of May 2012 - as soon as our programmer can update our site.

We also hope to have good news for customers in New Zealand, but unfortunately for the time being, we still cannot accept online orders from customers in New Zealand.

Customers in Australia, Canada (and shortly the USA) will now find that they can once again log in to their Snuff Store accounts /or create a Snuff Store account and order snuff and snuff related accessories from us.

We would like to thank everyone for sticking by us during this difficult time. It has at times been a close run thing as to whether we actually continued operating, as for a few weeks, we did not have any method for online payment in place at all.

For orders now through Snuff Store, please use our online payment processor via Allied Wallet. Whilst it may be a slightly different method of payment processor to NoChex our previous provider. the payment process is straight forward.

Kind Regards

Julia & Tim

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Snuff Store is once again able to accept payment via cards.

To find out who, why, and what happened to cause this glitch recently, please read on. Customers in Australia, Canada, New Zealand and the USA, please read on as there is an important message below.

Unfortunately in February 2012 we had a ‘forced’ change of online payment processor; due to a change of policy by one of the two main card companies who’s image you will find on most people’s cards.

For some reason, snuff tobacco has (along with several other products unrelated to our hobby) been classified as a potential ‘high risk fraud product’. The fact that we as a company had very few ‘charge backs’ every year and fortunately did not suffer from fraud fell on deaf ears. This meant that to continue being able to accept online transactions, we have had to move to a ‘level 1′ anti-fraud merchant account - of course this means for you as a customer, online transactions with us are now probably the safest in our particular niche.

According to our enquiries, this change of policy will be hitting all small retailers of specialised tobacco products, not just snuff & could possibly be one of the reasons the very famous snuff shop in central  London had to recently close it’s doors.

We initially thought this process would take 4 - 6 weeks, but have completed it in 2. To say this process has been difficult and painful is a complete understatement…

There is a drawback however. Our new online processor has stipulated that we cannot use it to process payments from customers living in Australia, Canada, New Zealand and the USA - don’t worry though, there is an an alternative below.

We will be working on an alternative card payment processor for customers in the countries we can’t currently accept online payment from. But in the meantime we can offer cheque or electronic bank transfer as an alternative. If anyone has any suggestions of a suitable and reputable company to use - we’d be pleased to here from you. Tobacco ’friendly’ banks and online processing companies are unfortunately very few and far between. We have several email suggesting PayPal. Unfortunately we cannot accept PayPal for payment for snuff - they banned snuff tobacco sales several years ago, but any other suggestions will be gratefully received.

*** Update 5th March 2012 *** 

Snuff Store can now accept cheques (or checks depending on your location!) in all currencies. Please however note, we need the cheque made payable to Zacoby Limited. It saves us time with the counter clerk checking our trading name credentials. So please make any cheques that you send us payable to Zacoby Limited. Please contact us prior to posting a cheque, so we can create an invoice and confirm and agree with you an exact amount in your currency. Of course, if you’d prefer to use GBP or electronic transfer as a means of payment for snuff that is ok too!

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To contact us, please use the contact us page on the main site / top right of this page. If you want to order snuff from us and you live in any of the countries that we cannot currently accept online payments from, please contact us and we will send you details of our bank / company payment name to put on the cheque etc to organise this. We will treat payments in this manner as if they have ‘cleared’, so we won’t hold up getting the snuff out to you.

Lastly, it seems somewhat ironic that we initially launched Snuff Store back in 2007, due to the lack of supply and variety of snuff in our local area, only to find that we ourselves could have been forced out of business - not from lack of support from customers, but from lack of support from banks… So much for small businesses driving the world economy out of global recession eh?

We do need your support. Snuff is a very low profit item and we have mounting bills to pay from suppliers and the like. Please continue to use Snuff Store and let’s hope we can continue for the foreseeable future without any further hiccups.

Kind Regards
Julia & Tim

http://www.snuffstore.co.uk
Snuff Store
‘Take A Pinch’

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Movember 2011

Snuff Store’s Tim Love is taking part in this year’s Movember 2011 - the month previously known as November, is now known as Movember, when men all over the world grow their moustache whiskers in aid of charity!

Tim is growing his whiskers for male related health charities supported by Movember, for more information on the programmes Movember are funding please visit the following:
The Prostate Cancer Charity
The Institute of Cancer Research
Awareness & Education
Global Action Plan

If you’d like to sponsor Tim during the month of Movember, then go to his Movember sponsorship page here;
Movember

As a bribe and to encourage you to sponsor Tim, if you decide to make a donation through this page here; Movember, the next time you make an order with us, mention that you have made a donation to Tim’s Movember page in your ‘order comments’ section and we’ll send you a freebie out with your order as a ‘thank you’.

Thanks very much for your continued support of Snuff Store and we look forward to sending out loads of freebies as way of thanks!

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You can ‘like’ the main Snuff page by clicking the like button on Snuff Store’s home page. This will mean that you ‘like’ Snuff Store in general, rather than liking an individual product. Visit Snuff Store’s home page and look for the like button near the top middle.

Since adding the ability to ‘like’ individual Snuff Store products on facebook, we’ve had several people ask how they can just ’share’ the main snuff site, rather than like an individual snuff product.

To do this, and share Snuff Store on facebook, please click the facebook image link in the box above. Good karma will be yours, as well as our thanks!

Of course, you can still continue to like / bookmark Snuff Store on any of the other social media platforms listed below at the the end of this post!

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The lucky winner of our Silver Snuff Box competition in December 2008 was kind enough to send in some photos of himself using the Silver Snuff Box Pattern Lid, that we got to him as promised in time for Christmas 2008 - as an early Christmas present from us!

Leman from Iowa in the USA was picked at random from the snuff reviews submitted within the time frame specified. Leman doesn’t know it yet, but we’re going to try and get him to pick the number of the lucky entrant’s review for the current snuff box competition, which closes at the end of March.

So well done to you Leman and good luck to all those entering the Walnut Snuff Box competition this March.

Leman Enjoying A Pinch Of Samuel Gawith Golden Glow From His New Silver Snuff Box!

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As mentioned in the newsletter a couple of weeks back, we’re running another snuff box competition, this time for a lovely polished Walnut wood snuff box - courtesy of Dholakia snuff, who have also been sending out loads of samples of their new blends. See below for a photo of this Walnut wood snuff box.

Hopefully we’ll have some good news on the new Dholakia blends being available and stocked soon; I was particulary partial to the ‘roasted nut’ blend; when mixed with my favourite coffee snuff, the result was heavenly!

Any way, enough of the rambling! Like the snuff box competition pre-Christmas, all you have to do to enter this month’s snuff box competition is submit a snuff review. But… The review must be on the page of the main snuff site referring to the snuff blend or product in question. Please don’t submit the review in the comments section below this post, as it won’t be counted.

To see an example of a snuff review, check out the review under the main listing for Alt Offenbacher Köstlich Snuff by Bernard.

You can enter the competition as many times as you like. All submissions from the 1st of January 2009 will be admitted.

Same rules as last time; The more reviews you write, the more chances you’ll have of winning the snuff box - no purchase is necessary to enter the competition.

You can write a review for any snuff product listed on Snuff Store - if you agree, disagree or want to add to an already existing review that’s fine. Just click the ‘Write Review’ button below the product listing and your review will be added to a queue for us to check and release.

Your review should be around a minimum of 50 words, describing the snuff product in question. The snuff review doesn’t have to be a ‘positive’ review - we’re just as interested in finding out if you disliked a snuff for any particular reason. Just make your review original, honest and objective.

Your snuff review must be written in English.

To be entered into the snuff box competition, your snuff review must be ‘submitted’ to us by midnight (GMT) Tuesday 31st March 2009.

The winning review will be picked at random on Wednesday 1st of April 2009 (No Fooling!) and the snuff box sent out to the lucky winner free of charge.

Polished Walnut Wood Snuff Box Lid Closed

Polished Walnut Wood Snuff Box Lid Open With 20 Pence Piece To Give Guide Of Size.

So what are you waiting for? Enter the Walnut Wood snuff box competition today!

Lastly, those of you who know us, know that Julia and I have several other websites that are not in the snuff / tobacco niche. One which we are particulary excited about is a site aimed at those in the UK who are fed up with the ever increasing costs of gas, electricity and other utilities.

We have a website called Switch 4 Savings that could help you drastically reduce your utility bills. There’s even a video by French & Saunders, explaining how easy it is to reduce your utility bills.

Seriously, we’ve switched and are saving around £200.00 per year on something we all pay monthly and don’t really bother about - almost on a ‘pay and forget’ basis.

We liked the idea of saving money so much and found the process painless to move from our old suppliers, that we have become independent distributors.

Why not check out the below and contact us via the below site if you need anything further.

That’s it for this week, thanks for reading our snuff news update and speak to you soon.

Julia & Tim

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Hi All,

Just had a few deliveries in today to tell you about, some new stock added and some exciting news about a new brand and numerous blends potentially due in next week!

Snuff Bullets, two new ones added, the Posh Metal is back in stock, so is the Posh Blue and Purple.

Oliver Twist Chewing Tobacco, Royal is back in stock and Original & Tropical stocks have been replenished.

Taxi Snuff, Taxi Red is back in stock. Others have been replenished.

J & H Wilsons Snuff, Medicated 99 Large is back in stock, all others have been replenished.

Samuel Gawith Snuff, there’s a offer on all tins of Samuel Gawith. We’re looking to clear all the old tins in anticipation of the new cartons arriving. Prices on tins have been further reduced from £1.35 to £1.00 while stocks last. They’ll return to £1.45 as we replace with plastic cartons, which several have already moved over to.

Last but not least, we’ve great news for all snuff tobacco enthusiasts out there… In the next few days we’re expecting delivery of a brand new snuff. This snuff previously hasn’t been available to us, but we are pleased to say that we’ll be adding 16 blends of snuff from this european snuff manufacturer to our ever increasing snuff stock list.

With the addition of this snuff manufacturer to our inventory, we’ve just realised that our total inventory of different snuff related items that we keep in stock has peaked 500…

Here’s hoping you have a great weekend.

Kind Regards
Julia & Tim

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Hi All,

Two new snuff boxes added to the snuff box section. We’ve also had loads of deliveries this week and many items that have been out of stock are now available again.

We’ve had a delivery of Samuel Gawith’s Scotch Black; for some reason Scotch Black is in a white ‘new style’ plastic carton… Don’t know whether this is just a once off.

For a brief idea as to what’s in this week, please see below.

New Two Tone Rose Wood Snuff Box now in stock.

New Crest Embossed Wooden Snuff Box now in stock.

Silver Snuff Box Engraved Lid back in stock.

Silver Plain Snuff Box back in stock.

Samuel Gawith - Scotch Black, Banana, Black Coffee and Cherry are now only available in the new cartons. As mentioned above, Scotch Black for some reason is in the white version of the new plastic carton. We still have some supplies of the other blends in tins, but as our supplier’s stock is exhausted we will gradually move over to the new style cartons. Take advantage of the tin stocks as prices are reduced.

Gawith Hoggarth - Aniseed, Eucalyptus, Tia Maria & Strawberry are now back in stock.

J & H Wilsons - Medicated 99 back in stock.

Snuff Book By Ursula Bourne back in stock.

Hope you have a great weekend.

Julia & Tim

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Hi All,

This week there’s news on Samuel Gawith and Snuff Specials - to name just a two. Scroll down to see all this week’s news.

Samuel Gawith Snuff
All blends have now been reduced in price.

Snuff Specials
We’ve added to the ’specials’ list again this week - there are now nearly two pages of stock on special prices!

Snuff Spoon & Bottle
We’ve bulk ordered the snuff spoon and bottle, the price has been reduced by 50p to reflect and pass on the savings made due to this bulk order.

Hedges Snuff
Hedges snuff now re-stocked - for those of you waiting for it!

J & H Wilson Snuff
J & H Wilson snuff has been popular this week. We’re waiting on a new delivery - it’s expected Friday 7th March. We’ve still got a few of each in stock. The surprise J & H Wilson blend this week for us has been No.1 Top Mill - most definitely it was worth the effort sourcing this ‘difficult to get hold of’ blend!

Snuff Accessories
We’re down to our last two Pewter Penmon snuff boxes. When these are gone, we won’t be able to stock for the forseeable the future. The guy who adds the pewter top and bottom has had trouble sourcing the boxes. We will of course endeavour to help him out!

Snuff Handkerchiefs - there’s been a run (no pun intended!) on these this last few weeks. We have a full inventory, but are running short of a few of the Thompson Tartan styles. We’re expecting a delivery in the next few days.

All the others…
We’ve got deliveries due in the next few days for all our main snuff brands / blends. If there’s something you want that we don’t currently stock, drop us a email and we’ll do our best to source it for you.

That’s it for this week

Kind Regards

Julia & Tim

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Hi All,

We’ve got three items of snuff news for you this week.

1. International credit card payments now accepted.
2. New snuff flavours.
3. New snuff boxes.

International Credit Cards

We’re now able to accept international credit card payments. Initially we had been restricted to UK only, but now we can accept credit cards payments world-wide. A few US and Australian customers noticed this yesterday…

For those of you waiting on this, thanks for your patience.

New Snuff Flavours

We now have the full compliment of Toque flavours, adding chocolate, espresso and menthol to the Toque snuff range.

We have also added by popular request McChrystals raspberry snuff to our McChrystals range.

New Snuff Boxes

We’ve added to our snuff box range. There’s now pewter, metal and some new wooden snuff boxes on site.

We’re waiting on a new delivery of Sharrow Snuff boxes, for those of you holding out for the rosewood. They should be with us by the end of the week.

We are also looking at getting some bespoke silver snuff boxes made. These will come with the ability to be engraved with an image or letters.

It looks like they’ll retail at around £40.00, but the engraving will be included in the price.

Please tell us if you think this is reasonable price, as it’ll be a fair expense for us to explore the idea and we wouldn’t want to stock an item that is considered expensive.

We think they’ll make an ideal Christmas present though!

Other than that, nothing else to report this week.

Many thanks once again for using Snuff Store. We realise that you have a choice and we’re happy that you’ve chosen us!

Kind Regards
Tim & Julia

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