My friend went to Japan before and he told me about a giant hobby/toy store which is 7 floors, and all 7 floors are filled with 100% toys. Each floor is different 'genre', like 1 floor all mecha and plamo kit, 1 floor all figures, etc. Im not sure of the name and even the location. That place should be worth a visit, gotta wait and see if anyone here knows the name of that place. Otherwise Mandarake have their own physical stores which is also worth visiting, they have 3 outlets.

Check the declared value on the EMS sheet.

you can always volunteer to pay

i've tried solaris japan. they're ok. you can find quite a few rare pieces from them still...

Which is why i told people not to worry even if they had a parcel that goes 15k yen. My highest record to escape kastam is 17,300yen. It's only in Sabah especially the kastam there tend to be complete a-holes. You r very lucky to escape at over 20k.

Yes, u got lucky
marking as gift is actually dangerous

My 46k yen parcel kena tahan

3 PAKs, 1 NXEdge, 1 Revoltech. Trying to see whether the saving on shipping cost can offset the tax + poslaju charge

Good news is Natsuki Saya managed to pass kastam

They did check value. My figma tank shipment (item 12k yen but shipping was 7k yen) with huge box passed kastam (2 shipment summore). For the figures in my detained shipment, 1 of them is 15k yen, which probably not gonna pass kastam anyway (then you will have to pay rm 53 poslaju charge on top of the tax). If I split shipment into 3, 2 of them will probably get taxed (the rm 53 poslaju charge is per shipment. If 5 shipments, 1 of them will get taxed, but you will have to pay about extra 3600yen compared to single ship. Not to mention there will be more padding which will add extra cost

I used to collect by myself when I'm doing proxy order with my friend in Japan, since the declared value was never true (and there were hidden nsfw stuff inside the shipment) For the shipment you tipu value, when you go there you can cook up some story to convince the kastam, and can prevent kastam to thoroughly check your parcel (for example you can just take one item out then told them the rest are similar items). Pos Malaysia need invoice, so in my case cannot give.

But, if your detained items were declared correctly, and no nsfw stuff inside, might as well appoint pos malaysia to collect, since it is cheaper than going all the way to lcct (fuel and toll) and pay additional form fee. Though if you have multiple shipment detained by kastam, it is cheaper to go there and collect all one shot, since pos malaysia charge is per shipment, regardless of whether all of them are addressed to same person.

Can but need to cook up some stories. Though if you can have the sender create fake invoice better. Last excuse I used was "the items are all my friend's who gonna return back to Malaysia soon".

Kastam actually will put the box on the table and you will be the one who actually cut open the shipping box, at least at the day when there are other people claiming their stuff too (usually on Saturdays).

For NSFW stuff, if it's figurine, make sure you ask the seller to declare as toys and under-declare the value (but don't mark as gift), as the goal here is to not having the kastam check the parcel. Other NSFW stuff like doujins will be hard. What I did last time was asking my friend in Japan to actually put them in the box of one of the gunpla I ordered through him

So far I know Nippon Yasan, Jungle and Mandarake does it