Quote from: pine on August 24, 2012, 03:37 amThat could certainly be the case in terms of overall volume, but the internal domestic market surely can't be that large and so most of it must either be transshipped to the UK asap or held in dark storage somewhere as a form of insurance. I doubt there's many Irish vendors on here. Not to mention that they can't have many geographical arbitrage possibilities (which might make their vendors more likely to ship to Oz, not less, come to think of it). I think there is grahamgreene and he'll know the other ones, you could ask them about the situation on the ground.Ireland has become a major landing point for UK bound cocaine in recent years - this is generally stored for a couple of weeks, split up, then taken to ports on the East coast and shipped from there to the UK; the reason it doesn't seem like this is happening (resulting in no news reports) is because we have a rather inept drugs force, a low-budget intelligence service, a practically non-existent naval service (our fleet totals 8 small ships, at least 2 of which are almost always deployed outside of Irish waters as part of various international taskforces), and 340,000 square kilometers (4 times the area of the entire country) of coastal waters to patrol.There was a case back in 2007 where 1.5 tonnes of cocaine destined for the UK literally washed up on our south west coast completely by chance due to a vessel used by the traffickers capsizing. If a seizure of this magnitude was only discovered by accident, you can imagine how much is getting through unhindered.In 2008 there was a seizure made on foot of an intelligence-led investigation that netted 2.5 tonnes, with very few other seizures worth noting. These are very small scale seizures when you take into account the size of the UK cocaine market.Even with Ireland becoming known as a cocaine landing point, the fact that most of it is being moved out of Ireland means that our security forces don't take as much of an interest in it as they would if it was being distributed here, for obvious reasons (no public outcry, meaning no interest by politicians, meaning no reason to waste precious resources.)This also means that Irish exports (including mail) are less likely to be under as close scrutiny as exports from certain other countries. As a result of this, Irish vendors do have an excellent opportunity for providing products to the EU market in particular, but also the US and Australasian markets (in particular Australia) due to the high number of Irish families, students and expatriates there. Prices in Ireland are generally quite high though, even wholesale, so if one were able to source excellent product here at reasonable prices there would be a lot of money to be made on SR.Spain and Portugal are still major ports of entry to the continental EU market though, so I'd imagine mail from those countries would probably be singled out for more random inspections than mail from countries such as France, Germany, Austria etc.I'm not a vendor myself - I work in a drop-shipping capacity to a number of my former IRL customers so I'm more of a middleman.daRwin is the only Irish vendor on the Road at the moment, selling weed, mushrooms and prescription drugs but currently only to EU customers.If I recall correctly SpanishFly ships hash worldwide from Spain so it might be worth your while messaging him and asking if he'd be comfortable letting you know how successful his Australian shipments are. This might give you an indication of whether to order from Spain or not.- grahamgreene