Depending on where you are, going there might be cheaper. Kastam sepang open on Saturdays too. (closed every 1st and 3rd Saturdays of the month) If you go there what you don't have to pay is only the poslaju charge, which is about RM 50-ish. You still need to pay the tax (GST). This poslaju agent service already available for quite a long time lol. The new procedures are actually the notification part (call you instead of sending notification via mail), and on the tax calculation part (they tax you before they called you). But I guess it's only for parcel that has declared value over RM 500 (as written on the declaration sheet on the parcel). If declared value lower than RM 500 but kastam suspected you underdeclare, they will still mail you the notification.

Besides, if you ask poslaju to be the agent to clear kastam for you, you still need to pick your parcel at the nearest (to the delivery location) pos laju depot. If you want poslaju to deliver the collected parcel to your address, need to pay additional fee, which I guess use the same domestic poslaju fee.

Additional delivery charge only applied if you want them to send the parcel to your doorstep after they cleared your stuff from kastam (I'm guessing this is because it will be considered as new order). If you paid poslaju to handle kastam for you, after clear (they will charged you about RM 50, not including kastam tax) they will send to nearest pos laju depot for you to collect.

rm 50 poslaju agent charge, and 6% gst

If you don't want to drive all the way to sepang pay them to settle lol.

For the branch, rather than poslaju branch (this could include the one at malls etc), they actually send to the poslaju hub that is responsible for delivering poslaju parcel for that particular area (for example if the delivery is within Petaling Jaya they will send the item to Pusat Pos Laju Petaling Jaya). Some hub did cover huge area.

Amiami actually quite fast in term of processing lol. Many online shops took few days after release or payment (whichever is later) then only ship. Amiami can be as fast as same day (usually late night) sometimes.

What's the scale of your car model?

Hmm that Miku is 1:12, and it actually belongs to action figure category which is in this (deserted) thread https://forum.lowyat.net/index.php?showtopic=3342550 Since she's 1:12, mostly can fit with lots of 1:12 bike model you can find at shops. Feel free to ask here though , since the other thread might not be active Most of the figurines discussed here are 1:8 and bigger

Usually most of us bought from online shops like Amiami (http://www.amiami.com), Hobby Search (http://www.1999.co.jp/eng), HobbyLink Japan (http://www.hlj.com) and Nippon Yasan (http://www.nippon-yasan.com), with second hand stuff usually from Amiami or Mandarake (http://order.mandarake.co.jp/order/). Maybe other people here can help suggest the local shops?

Hobby Search put her on bargain today lol http://www.1999.co.jp/eng/10438261

Naah usually their price is higher than amiami or nippon-yasan. They only held the sale occasionally. Besides, hoping for figurine to end up in bargain carry a risk that the said figurine will went up in price instead after release

Haha nice
Mine still haven't open since 2013

Anyone plan to buy Max Factory 1/8 Iowa Heavy Armament version from Goodsmile website? If combine shipping, with Goodsmile flat shipping rate (18 USD), the final total (including custom tax) could be cheaper than say, single shipping from Nippon-Yasan (that escaped tax), since NY is asking 3800yen for the shipment, and NY price is more expensive than Goodsmile shop price.

This one: http://goodsmileshop.com/en/CATEGORY-ROOT/...AX_WHS_WD_00012
It's Goodsmile Online Shop exclusive

Nippon Yasan: https://www.nippon-yasan.com/figures/22012-...mament-ver.html
They asked 3800yen for the shipping cost though, while Goodsmile Online Shop even if you ordered 3 (maximum allowed) they will only charge 18USD for shipping

This post has been edited by Exiled_Gundam: Aug 18 2017, 04:25 PM

So, anybody want to combine order for this one? http://goodsmileshop.com/en/CATEGORY-ROOT/...AX_WHS_WD_00012

haha try looking at their last few preorders. Around the same price

Correct, but that 0% tax is actually import/export tax. GST still need to pay if declared value exceed RM 500 for items delivered via air courier. Of course you can slip past this if you declared low for the value of the items. But if the declared value is too low but the shipment box was huge, kastam officer will suspect under-declaration and they will detain your parcel. You then have to go to kastam and explain why the declared value is low. If your relative coming back to Malaysia reason such as "this is my personal item in China" is acceptable (if they asked for receipt you can say the items were bought or given by someone quite a while ago and the receipt already lost), but make sure the boxes appeared old/damaged. Better if they were not put in their original box since this reinforce the fact that they were personal artifacts. If the box looks new kastam will suspect that the items were to be sold back in Malaysia, and they will asked you to provide the value of the items and then tax you.

Not kastam might decide to charge more lah, it's kastam will apply the GST if they think your under-declared, used (as claimed by you) items are not for personal use. If you under-declare, and kastam doesn't have any suspicion regarding that, no tax at all. If you memang declared above RM 500, pay GST (and form charge) only.

i would say if your nephew is bringing other personal items back to Malaysia, mix the figurines with them.

This post has been edited by Exiled_Gundam: Sep 7 2017, 11:39 AM

Usually under-declaration will do the trick. The reason why some of us do this not because to avoid pay tax, but to prevent kastam from opening the box haha

So far I know Nippon-Yasan and Mandarake Online did it; they will automatically do it for you, even though their policies said they don't provide underdeclaration facilities One bad part about underdeclaration, specifically applied to insured packages (like EMS) is if the package was lost in transit, you can claim only on the value you declared.

Actually both manufactured by Alphamax. For megumi aniplex will sell it (alphamax sell utaha as a standard release)

Aniplex is the distributor for the anime I think. Most probably they made contract with Alphamax to produce the Megumi figure, but the marketing and distribution of the said figurine will be handled by them. I think Aniplex chose to do that for Megumi most probably because she's the most popular character for the anime, and fans will not fret to spend money on her figurine Alphamax most probably receive normal license for Utaha.

This post has been edited by Exiled_Gundam: Sep 11 2017, 04:23 PM