Comments on: Amano Madagascar & Ocumare

By: Art Pollard

Art Pollard — Mon, 04 Feb 2008 12:24:55 +0000

Hi. This is Art. I’m the head chocolate maker at Amano.

We try to work with people from other countries that want to order our chocolate. Unfortunately, the shopping cart system we use does not work well for calculating overseas orders shipping. So, if people send us an e-mail, we will calculate the shipping and get back with them to work it all out. This takes a lot of time on our end (since it all has to be handled manually) but, we do the best that we can to make everyone happy. (After all, isn’t that what chocolate is all about?)

In addition, we are working with a European supplier to bring our chocolate to Europe on a regular basis so even if the shipping does not work out, you’ll be seeing at least some of our chocolate hitting Europe in the not too distant future.

-Art

By: cybele

cybele — Sun, 27 Jan 2008 07:49:57 +0000

Dom – it’s funny, I’ve had three of these bars now and much prefer the Ocumare, but I think I simply prefer Ocumare in just about anyone’s bar. (Chocovic’s is pretty good and about 1/3 the price here in the States.)

Cliff – “Typical American supplier” … wow, pretty harsh. (North Americans feel pretty much the same way about ordering anything from Europe.) Did you try emailing them?

http://amanochocolate.com/about/contactus.html

By: EyeDE

EyeDE — Fri, 25 Jan 2008 21:59:42 +0000

Thank you for another fantastic review and seducing me to pursue this heavenly sounding bar of dark delight.

However after adding a bar to my online shopping basket I have to ask is the delight worth $83.28… Help keep me away from the submit button!

All prices are in US Dollars:
Single 2oz Cuyagua Bar: 6.95 – 6.95
Shipping to UK: – 76.33
TOTAL: – 83.28 !!!!

By: Cliff

Cliff — Thu, 24 Jan 2008 14:26:01 +0000

Looks wonderful. “I wonder if they ship abroad,” I thought. Sure enough, they have a selection of 152 different countries on their order form.

So I complete the form and put in Spain and my postcode. “Sorry, it was not possible to calculate shipping for this order. No shipping options in the UPS quotes set”

And there I am dumped. On a page that asks again for my country and postcode. No way forward, no way back. No way to mail and say “Do you actually know where abroad is?”

Typical American supplier, I’m afraid, even if it isn’t typical American chocolate.