Buying from Japan

[Panzer Tacticer]

Now I am not saying Amazon .japan can't deliver and deliver damned fast (they do), but I am I think not going to be going for a round two ever again.

WTF it was just a goddamned blueray concert for Christ's sake.

I wanted the Hatsune Miku 39s Giving Day concert enough to actually buy it.
The price was crazy, but I was weak.
20 bucks for shipping a damned disk? But I gave in and ok'd it.

But it gets here, and they want 25 bucks duty too?

Fuck that.

Glad FedEx left a door hanger saying they had missed me. It gave me all day to stew and be disgusted. Long enough to realize 'get a grip, you are NOT paying 110 bucks for any damned blueray anything'.

So I called my credit card and killed the order.
Presto, no loss to me.

I am still suffering though, fucking Amazon.japan is good for spam email every second day. Lesson, don't use primary email any more for whimsical uses.

FedEx called the next day after the second attempt to deliver. It was easy resisting urge to scam the source and just pay the duty. Signatures n all that stuff eh. I don't mind downloading, but I do have limits

Told them, 'no that's not my package'. Well at that moment I was technically correct. I have killed the payment, so technically it was no longer my property.
Not my problem to figure out how to discern an email in Japanese either. They need to really work on that. If it is being sent to an non Japanese address, perhaps they could understand the customer is not able to read it either.

Dodged a bullet over all I guess.

Comically I find the blueray rip the next day

I would have preferred a real copy though.
But for 25 bucks retail like every other damn product thank you very much.

It's nice seeing it in decent quality finally, although there were some views from the low image quality download missing I wish had been retailed.

Darn rip though is juuuuuuust large enough in file size to not fit on a standard dvd.

 

[ojsinnerz.]

It's Canada's fault you know. The government puts taxes and duties on anything that's imported outside Canada and America.

Unless the item is shipped as
1. a gift
2. or labelled to have payed less than 30 dollars,
you should have expected to pay duties once you got it.

 

[Deleted User]

Never again!

 

[Issac]

It also depends if it get's caught in the toll (or something). We also have this "pay 25% duty" if the order is from outside the European Union... But most things I've bought never got stuck in the toll

Amazon can be quite expensive though, and I think playasia or ebay would be a better place to look for japanese music cd/dvd/bluray

However, the risk of paying duty is always there!

However, my experience with Amazon.jp is outstanding, ordered a manga on a Monday at 11 pm here in Sweden, Wednessday at 10 am it was in my mailbox!

and I took the CHEAP AND SLOW shipping method! wonder how fast it'd gotten here if I payed $30 extra shipping

(jk)

 

[epicCreations.or]

It also depends if it get's caught in the toll (or something). We also have this "pay 25% duty" if the order is from outside the European Union... But most things I've bought never got stuck in the toll

Amazon can be quite expensive though, and I think playasia or ebay would be a better place to look for japanese music cd/dvd/bluray

However, the risk of paying duty is always there!

However, my experience with Amazon.jp is outstanding, ordered a manga on a Monday at 11 pm here in Sweden, Wednessday at 10 am it was in my mailbox!

and I took the CHEAP AND SLOW shipping method! wonder how fast it'd gotten here if I payed $30 extra shipping

(jk)

*clicks submit*
"Your order has been recie-" *doorbell*
*opens door* "Yeeeesss?"
"Delivery!"
"AWESOME"

 

[Panzer Tacticer]

Yeah I have no beef with Amazon's amazing speed.

If you have the cash, they will make sure you have the purchase with incredible speed.

I have bought over the week of Christmas when you would think the world normally comes to a halt. But they have put books in the mail and have them arrive in 3 days during parts of the year that should be impossible.

Still, today, made in Japan no longer means cheap stuff