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  • Ordering Cuba beans with PayPal, beware!

    Hey guys! Recently had a strange experience I thought I'd bring to everyone's attention. Trying some new green beans from a supplier in Aus, some Colombian, Cuba, and Uganda, trying some different stuff to the usual

    I put through the order, paying through Paypal, and got an email saying they had to review the transaction. Few days later it was rejected and refunded to me without explanation! Very very strange, as PayPal had never done this before...

    So I tried again. Same thing, review, and then rejected. They then sent me a message, and it basically said that:

    "U.S. regulations currently prohibit the purchase or sale of various goods and services originating from or being shipped to Cuba."

    I was so puzzled haha... and then it occurred to me that PayPal is a U.S. based payment system. Then I looked it up and apparently there's some embargo between the U.S. and Cuba and their products. Had no idea about that, nor do I even know what's going on between the two! Perhaps some rocky relationship of sorts...

    And they also asked me to kindly not send this payment again, and will close my account if I violate the terms again.

    So if you ever order Cuban green beans from anywhere (even if the beans are currently in Australia and aren't being sent from Cuba!), you may have PayPal troubles! Using other payment methods are fine.

    Unsure if CS has ever had this issue, but very bizarre!

  • #2
    The heavy hand of Govt. strikes again...

    Mal.

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    • #3
      Ahhh I can see others have had this issue in the past... years ago! Wow, still ongoing! Just weird that it's purchases made within Australia that it still applies to..

      https://coffeesnobs.com.au/general-n...ly-2016-a.html

      https://coffeesnobs.com.au/off-topic...te-poopal.html

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      • #4
        Something to do with some Russian missile silos getting built in Cuba...

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        • #5
          Bully boy USA still harassing Cuba concerning events over 50 years old...

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          • #6
            Originally posted by Erimus View Post
            Bully boy USA still harassing Cuba concerning events over 50 years old...
            Oh it goes even further back than that. They started the Spanish-American war after a US ship exploded in Havana, without any strong evidence of what caused the event. And they then picked up Puerto Rico, Guam, the Phillipines etc. We have are stuck between two shameless amoral super powers. The yanks are just the lesser of two weevils.

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            • #7
              All just makes me think of this to be honest XD

              https://youtu.be/8T4t3eNxrIk

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              • #8
                I thought all the bans were repealed sometime under Obama?

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                • #9
                  Originally posted by simonsk8r View Post
                  All just makes me think of this to be honest XD

                  https://youtu.be/8T4t3eNxrIk
                  Particularly funny as I'm roasting some Dominicans at the moment! I wonder if they'll taste like Cubans��

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                  • #10
                    Originally posted by DaveD View Post
                    Particularly funny as I'm roasting some Dominicans at the moment! I wonder if they'll taste like Cubans[emoji23]
                    Hahahaha, too good XD

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                    • #11
                      Originally posted by level3ninja View Post
                      I thought all the bans were repealed sometime under Obama?
                      The Orange in Chief imposed a new set of restrictions back in April.

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                      • #12
                        Rather than start a new thread, the Cuban beans I ordered were Cuban Serrano.

                        Looking them up at different places, under 'Grade' it always says 'Serrano'. Beans on the pages mostly are specialty grade with some exceptions...

                        But does ANYONE know what Serrano grade means? I thought it was a misprint, but it shows up multiple times from multiple sources... and it doesn't appear to be the farm or estate etc...

                        (I google translated Serrano and it came up with 'highlander' haha..)

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                        • #13
                          To answer your first and last posts (briefly)...

                          We don't have that PayPal problem in BeanBay when we sell Cuban coffee -- we fixed that 3 years ago (odd)


                          Cuban coffee is government regulated, blended and sorted centrally and then allocated a grade (by the government) for export.

                          The main grades in rough quality order are Turquino, Altura, Montana, Serrano

                          Serrano is a grade, not a great one and is commonly the lowest export grade. I haven't tried a Serrano that was better than a Turquino which is why the last Cuban we had in BeanBay was a Turquino.

                          I've had some samples of really good Cubans that will land in the next few months, when they do they'll be in BeanBay.

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                          • #14
                            Well, Serrano translates to "mountain" so perhaps it is a way of indicating a 'high grown' coffee...

                            Mal.

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                            • #15
                              Ah thanks Andy...

                              Perhaps the 'mountain' reference is to indicate that this lower grade coffee availability is as high as a mountain...

                              Mal.

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