Technically we buy from Japan online store.. its still sold in Japan paid in Yen. But ship to Malaysia.. do not see anything wrong with that

perception is that if it fails japan qc, it may still be resold as asia version?

ppl said, buying rm 400 KENA TAX.
not Rm 500 anymore.

good luck.

Have I got good news for you.

http://www.amazon.co.jp/%E3%82%AD%E3%83%A3...%83%9F%E3%82%AF

Also a PSA for all to use Amazon Japan more often in your search for figures. Like Tell Your Would Miku above, Amazon Japan keeps adding more figures available for shipping to Malaysia. Just look for dealers affiliated with Amazon Global Sales.

It's how I scored Good Smile's Tharja and Gift's Charlotte. But that's not even why I'm telling you to keep Amazon Japan under your radar.

1. Awesome discounts. Amazon Global Sales would never sell at scalper prices. They're almost always at the original prices, or in some cases, additional discounts.
2. Very, very affordable shipping. The Tharja and Charlotte I got was shipped at 1500 yen, using DHL. Only expedited shipping was available, but it's way cheaper than Amiami or HLJ.

But again, the number of figures/preorders that can be shipped to Malaysia is still limited. But I know from now on I'd be purchasing more from Amazon Japan rather than Amiami.

   

Holy...

So the best way to minimize the chance of getting caught at customs would be:

1. Use SAL.
2. Keep parcel value under RM500.
3. Make sure the item is not categorized as "gift".

1 & 2 should be no problem; I don't mind waiting longer for stuff to arrive. I don't even mind paying extra for split shipment, as long as I don't get hit with that ripoff tax rates.

What's the figure you ordered from Amazon JP?

I already have Max Factory's Momo bride, i think im sticking to MF's series of To Love ru figures. I skipped Mea, ordered Haruna.
Thanks for the clarification.
I did suspect it has something to do with declaration which wasnt properly done so customs used their charts on default values. But yea, all the cases im hearing are involving fedex.

So the RM500 rules apply? I ship by SAL not by EMS

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.

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.

Holy crap! Which seller is this?      No bubble wrapping either