ANTSTORE World of Ants

[cocodtim]

Why antstore doesn't ship to Romania, eventhough Romania is part of European Union. In the "your account" page, at "country" you can't find Romania.

[tail__]

It seems Antstore has simply forgotten to update after last EU expansion this year, there is no Bulgaria and Romania. Hope they will update soon, some of them read this forum so I think that won't be trouble.

[JimmyVe]

Hello cocodtim and welcome,

I shall inform Antstore, but it are holidays now so it could take a few days before they answer you question.

[cocodtim]

Well i hope they will add Romania to the country list. I want so much to get some ants and glass farms - it looks so nice in the photos and the other sites i've explored. If they don't, they will lose a customer

[ant dude]

maybe u could buy from pet shops, home's for your ants(basins and things) and capture species localy that live near u aswell look, i know its not the best idea but u might aswell try this option temperarely, i mean untill antstore start shipping to romania, if they start shipping to romania. cos after all, some ants are better than none ants

Well i hope they will add Romania to the country list.

yeah hope they will aswell, its nice to see other people keeping ants an
dat

[cocodtim]

You can't find glass ant farms in Romania or other types of ants/products for ants. . And now is winter and is snow and the ants hibernate. I guess I'll have to wait or till summer for mating season or till antstore puts my country on the list.

[JimmyVe]

I have contacted the people of Antstore, but like i said, it are holidays now. I let you now as soon as i know it.

[uta]

Hello cocodtim,

sorry, that you must wait of an answer, but now we have "christmas-holiday" until new year!
And welcome on our forum. You are for us our first antkeeper from Romania.
I think it would be no problem to dispatch to romania - but only items and central european ants. After holidays we will contact the transport company GLS and then we can give you a detailierte answer to your question.

greetings

[ant dude]

@cocodtim:is all ok now??? i hope u get some nice stuff from antstore as its great and it would be a shame if u could'nt buy here so let me(us)know

good luck with it all

[cocodtim]

Well i'm glad that someone from antstore read my question and is trying to solve the problem and as soon as they add my country to the list i'm going to order some ants :D

[alias]

Hello. I want to order a Lasius niger Colony, queen + 11-25 workers, but the delivery price is simply too prohibitive. I mean how could a pakage that is worth 6,90 EURO cost +70 EURO to be delivered to Romania. Unfortunately for me it is late autumn around here and I could not get a queen this year, so I might have to wait till next year, that is if I cannot find a seller online that has Lasius niger queen for sale. 7 euro for the colony is OK, nut more than 70 euro to deliver it is too much for me.

PS - Dont know why Antstore wont deliver to Romania via DHL, we have DHL here...

PPS - If anyone knows a good source of L. niger queen, please PM me. Thanks alot

[uta]

Hello alias,

yes GLS is very expensive for shipping to Romania - so we will ask DHL ober the price.

But now we can offer you to shipping by letter for 6,50 Euro on your own risk.

Greetings

[JimmyVe]

Hello Alias and .

It are the companies that deliver packages who charges so much. Antstore don't charge for the shipping.
Like Uta said, you can order by letter. That way Antstore sends it with the mail and that is a lot cheaper but than they can not guaranty that the shipping will arrive (in time).

[alias]

Thanks guys for the replies. I undersottd from the begining that the shipping companies are charging that much, not Antstore. What I was trying to say was that it doesn't make any sense to keep GLS as a shipping provider, at least to Romania. I cannot imagine anyone who will want to use this transport option, and to pay that much, at least not any romanian people that I know of

Any idea how long does it takes for the colony to reach Romania by letter? Is it safe for the colony to be shipped that way and how will the colony be packed, because I am guessing that it wont be in a normal test tube because of the size... Am I right? Thanks again for replying to me

PS - I am so new to this, so "noob" and so full of joy and dying to start my first ant colony. After careful reading the forums for about 2 weeks, I decided to register, and get my own colony. Just started building a Y-TONG nest for them yesterday

[JimmyVe]

It is a small package, not a real letter. They will be send in a tube in a small package. How long it takes i don't know, depends on the post office i think.

GLS is the cheapest way to send stuff from Germany to Belgium.

Its really nice that you are interested in ants and you are going to start your first colony, don't forget it is nearly hibernation time so they will be inactive for a few months.