Nope, down there isn't exposed. It's covered by black pantsu (presumably plugged into the neko-chan) and to jam in the pink monster u take out the pantsu. Technically, she had a monster jammed up all the time lol.

So here's my story - i went to Butterworth customs = not there, already passed customs. My hometown Poslaju = also not there. My mistake was i should have double checked Butterworth poslaju. It might be in their warehouse. If really not in both offices when i went there (noon time where most trucks are heading out) my theory is the item might be on the way in a truck from Butterworth to BM. That means getting it tomorrow. I'll haunt them again tomorrow.

i've heard of ambulance chasers... but i thought delivery truck chasing is for dogs, no?

chill bro... just a joke, ya? don't flame me.

You see, I'm just afraid Poslaju totally lost my parcel, a bloody EMS parcel, but I'm sure it is in their Butterworth warehouse and their asses are just too lazy to double check things. They referred me to this and that counter when all i was asking to is to check the status of my parcel from a tracking number. But at least I'm sure it's no longer in the customs.

I don't care if i will be compensated in full amount or not. So what if I'm compensated? This figure is raising in market price and our currency is getting bad almost day by day. Buying again means paying more and i might even break the rm500 limit. I just want the bloody figure at my doorstep, or another replacement unit shipped to me. When i saw the attitude of the people at the office there i personally felt that i won't even pity them if ISIS bombed their office. Was trying to be nice but my blood was reaching boiling point.

Ok learnt some hard lesson when ordering stuff from HLJ, especially in-stock items...
ALWAYS choose to send your order to the warehouse, instead of choosing "Ship Immediately".

Few days back I ordered 4 of a same item in one order, and chose "Ship Immediately". What happened was initially HLJ only have 3 of the items in their stock. Since I chose "Ship Immediately, they just process the shipment for those 3 only and shipped them to me (disregarding the fact that the order was for 4 items). Then this morning they ask for payment for shipping the remaining one item.

What pained me was, the item is actually small and light; the shipping cost for 3 of the items is actually same like if you ship only one

Leaving ISIS aside, it's one of those things that are considered norm. Like, "oh, the sky's blue", "the world's still revolving", "Najib's still a d*ckhead", "Oh, Poslaju you incompetent sad excuse of a postal service..."

Just one thing though; if you purchase figures based on its expected market price, then maybe it's time to re-think why you collect in the first place? I began collecting in the first place because Tharja's awesome, and then there's Cordelia, and oh look at all these cute plastic butts... which I branch out to various figures of characters that I like. Of course I sell my figures too, but it's because either I was disappointed in the sculpt, or I no longer like the character. Not because I thought I can sell it for 200% aftermarket. It's terrible financial decision.

Even if you choose to ship when all items are in stock, that's not exactly how they do things. I got the short end of the stick with Toranoana recently, where I placed multiple separate pre-orders, but made sure to choose "予約定期便", which kinda means that instead of shipping out your goods as they are in stock, they'll send out your stuff on delivery day (which is Tuesday) once per week. This led me to believe that as my goods become available they'll just combine everything into one order and ship them out next week. Heck, it's almost common sense.

NOPE. Three pre-orders containing one single light novel each, all shipped separately ON THE SAME DAY, I got THREE different tracking nos, which also meant I had to pay 420 yen for each shipment. Oh, and that 420 yen is a flat rate, meaning it doesn't matter if you have one single thin book or 5 figures in one shipment. I just wasted 840 yen when just combining everything into one shipment would have made much more sense.

I mailed the customer service, behind all the formalities they explained that it was because I placed each order separately; if I wanted everything in one shipment I should've "placed everything in my cart first then only check out". Yeah right, and miss out on buying when the quantity is very limited in the first place?

I seriously have no idea why Japanese-run online store still cannot do mail order properly.

Dude, you are misunderstanding on both accounts

For EXkurogane, his problem is if he get compensation, it's the price he paid for pre-order, then if he orders the same figure again, it'll be more expensive, he rugi ok.

For Exiled, HLJ is either ship now or warehouse. If ship now, means whatever in the order that are in stock

Actually (for HLJ) if you first send them to warehouse, you can actually delay the shipment (if they have the items ready) for 60 days. You can wait for all item you ordered to be in-stock, then only you grouped them together for shipment.

For your case, I think even Amiami did that; they will treat each individual order separately, even if the item inside each shipment is same. You need to combine the orders if you want to send them together. They cannot just unanimously combine your shipment; who knows it was intentional (to avoid custom, for example)? For Toranoana, are you able to combine your shipment using whatever user control panel you can access? If they don't provide such option, when they invoiced you, can you email them and request combination?

Just read both posts again, and you know what? It's the first time I've actually seen someone correct someone and the internet, and they're totally right. And that someone was you to me. So yea, my bad. Lol. Slow day at work today.

You can email Amiami to request combination of orders, even if you've placed them separately. You just can't combine if the two orders you'd like to combine are separated by months, which I suspect is to prevent customers stalling for payment requests. For example, figure A is available now, but figure B releases next month. You place order for both, but you can't combine them because they're apart by one month. Another case is you placed order for figure C, then was casually browsing the pre-owned section and placed order for figure D. You can email Amiami to combine both, no problems.

The second case is what Toranoana won't do, for whatever reason.

For the case of book pre-orders, even when the books are in stock on the same day, I didn't know they're gonna ship the orders in separate shipments even if the orders are sent out on the same day to the same address at the same post office.

I wasn't even trying to avoid customs. We are talking about 540 yen books costing close to 1000 yen because of the flat 420 yen shipping fee.

And like I said, I mailed them but they replied to the effect of "please place everything you want in the cart first before checking out". Of course I couldn't do so, because by the time I find something else I wanted, the Fate Apocrypha material book that was in my cart would've been sold out by then.

This post has been edited by dis0rd3h: Aug 19 2015, 03:12 PM

And from what i know, when Poslaju "Investigate", it means MONTHS.
MONTHS ah? The same figure will be 20,000yen by then or what? PukimaKNNCCB

This post has been edited by EXkurogane: Aug 19 2015, 03:14 PM

Did you emailed them to ask for combination? When they are handling shippings, for sure they are gonna do their work based on Order No. Two orders from a same person can be handled by 2 different people. Every order you placed will generate 1 order number.

Which "them" are you talking about?

For Amiami, as long as you don't click on the payment request, you can ask them to combine, as long as it's not too unreasonable. That's my first-hand experience.

For Toranoana if you place separate orders they'll ship out based on the orders, even if they ship them out on the same day. Worse still, if one of the items in your order is delayed, they'll ship out the current order and charge you again to ship out the delayed item.

Not too bad, you ask; remember the 420 yen flat rate for *anything*. That eats up my wallet *real* quickly. That's not even including the forwarding service fee I'll use later to ship to Malaysia.

Maybe it's just that I'm too spoiled by Amazon's price guarantee (the amount you see during checkout is THE amount you'll pay, even if they ship out the stuff separately) but I can't see why it's so hard to at least send me an automated mail, if they detected several items within the same release window, if I'd like to combine them into one order.

I mean, if they can automatically separate delayed items from the order, they would have enough web programming knowledge to at least automate this, right?

Garrrr rant rant /over.

This post has been edited by dis0rd3h: Aug 20 2015, 04:19 PM

Sorry no offence, what I meant is that those companies may be handling many orders per day so maybe they don't want to make stuffs complicated.
Of course it is best if their system automatically give you shipment choices.

Amazon.jp doesn't allow to add items, only for cancel some of the items, which is a drawback for them.
I contacted them before and they say you can cancel it and reorder with all items that you want.

But overall it's still consider cheap for some shipment.

What I'm really voicing out here is that if Amazon can do it, why not Toranoana? You can argue that they're smaller scale than Amazon, but if they can through the trouble of informing me that one item will be delayed, took it out of my order and re-calculate the resulting taxes + shipment for the now separated orders, why not do the other way around? It's really not the matter of the whole thing being complicated or that they can't handle too many orders; just a simple bit of programming knowledge and structured automation, and customers would be guaranteed to be happier.

Oh and just FYI, I'm talking about Amazon.com here, not Amazon.co.jp.

Amazon DOES allow combination of shipment, only indirectly (as in the customer can't elect to combine the orders). I ordered some Berserk manga and NGE manga on different orders, and come shipment day Amazon detected they both are shipping out the same day, and offered to ship them out in one shipment. *This* is what I expected from Toranoana.

On cancelling and re-ordering, again that's out of the question; what if the stuff I want is already out of stock by then?

A beauty, ain't she? There's also a red version only available at WonFes 2015, limited to 300 pieces. They're going on auctions now for 50,000 yen plus...

This post has been edited by dis0rd3h: Aug 20 2015, 07:33 PM

This figure is the one the staff at poslaju stole from me. My EMS parcel containing this is missing.
I just bought another one, and i threw in more cash for FedEX shipping.

Here's the full story:

http://myfigurecollection.net/blog/23533

This post has been edited by EXkurogane: Aug 21 2015, 02:12 PM

I hate crouching figures, thats just me.

Pangsai pose, hahah
That is what i thought when i first saw this a few months back

and do note figure like that do take up more space on the display stand

Damn dude, real sorry to hear about that. Gotta apologize to you too; a few posts back I replied to you thinking you're only getting the figure to sell in aftermarket. I myself didn't know Skytube figures shoot up in price after release.

I'm still waiting for mine through RSAL, I just hope the worst thing that'd happen is charging me tax. That acrylic plate is starting to sound like an extra hassle after all.

But seriously, FedEX? IMO even though FedEX shipments are insured and super quick, they're also more prone to inspection. I've never had EMS or SAL parcel opened, but the only FedEX shipment I got, which is Max Factory's Chitoge Kirisaki purchased from Amazon Japan, was opened and inspected. Summore they put inside the torn box some sort of letter that said "this cargo has been inspected and we found no taxable goods". I was lucky that it was Chitoge that was inspected, but now, I'm sorry but I fear for your figure...

Matsuri is one of those figures i wouldnt sell at all in aftermarket. It depends. I usually sell just to fund new orders, not for making profits. Profits are just a bonus. As long i can cover a large percentage of the amount i spent for a figure it's enough. It's just part of the hobby, especially when i prioritize photography.

NipponYasan underdeclares the parcel for you, so all's good. They would even produce a fake invoice for you to help you clear customs.
Amazon Japan uses DHL from my experience. And from what i know, the extra swappable content is wrapped with paper or non-transparent material, typical of Skytube. The main figure is dressed up appropriately so it should easily pass. My parcel from Amazon Japan wasnt opened, but then again it is Penang customs, u r in KL area i assume? I think the customs here are not that strict.

This post has been edited by EXkurogane: Aug 21 2015, 02:50 PM

Selangor, actually, but my EMS and SAL parcels pass through KLIA while FedEx and DHL through Subang. And you're right; Amazon Japan uses DHL actually.

But I never had to go through customs inspection twice for that matter. Didn't know Penangites had to go through KLIA and Butterworth inspections. Just curious; ever had any parcels that passed KLIA but was held or flagged at Butterworth?

But anyway, at this moment the greatest worry I have is having my Toranoana books destroyed because of teeny-tiny upskirt shot/boob slip on the cover of the books, I don't worry much about importing figures anymore.