Windproof lighters.

[gorgall2]

Hi,
Anyone know a supplier for windproof "Zippo style" lighters. It would appear my usual source no longer stocks them.

[mrs maggot]

the only place i know sells them by the 100 per order, pm me if you want details i am having a nightmare posting them though, with some getting "confiscated" by the post office as they are stuck in the loop of posting a banned item, even though being new its not banned,

[gorgall2]

100 is way too many, thanks anyway.

[Stallen]

Lighters themselves should be fine, as long as they don't contain any lighter fuel.

[mrs maggot]

the problem is (as has been discussed on here before) if you put new gift on and don't declare its a lighter, and they scan it, it is confiscated for being a lighter - which is prohibited. if you declare it to be a new lighter, quite often they appear to disappear, you are told that they cannot rely on your word that it is new ! although i think possibly a lot of staff read the contents and think oh a nice new lighter - yes please

[pisquee]

Wonder if how 'professionally' they're packaged affects the disappearance rate - if they're just loose in a reused jiffy bag for instance with stamps for postage if they'd disappear more than one sealed in a branded blister pack in a PVC mailer with franked or PPI payment for postage - I'd think the latter may be taken more seriously as being new. The former example being an extreme, but you get the idea. Not a product we do mind, but interested to know in terms of what/how you get around Royal Mail trickyness - If you do PPI then you can skip the high street post office and take your sack straight to the local depot/sorting office to remove a load of checking - we drop our sacks to the local sorting office, and they're not checked and just loaded straight on the van and taken to the main depot/hub, since doing this we've had a lot less items going missing/delayed.

[gorgall2]

Most of mine are sold face to face, so postage is not a great problem. However getting them in the first place seems to be.