Hello fellow collector, I just wanna ask about Hobby Link Japan, anyone have purchase figure form them? Is it reliable in term of shipping and cost?

Definitely yes. Although they don't pad the shipping box as much as amiami.

Uh oh you might have problem later then. From the looks of it, if custom here ever open the packaging and check, most probably the figurine will be confiscated, with little to no chance of ever recovering it (custom here won't even send back to the sender). Usually to avoid custom open the packaging and check, the parcel usually will have the value under-declared; safest is item value + shipping is less than RM 500.  Custom will open parcel that was declared to be more than RM 500 in value.

One more reason custom will open your parcel and check the item is when they're suspecting something about the item; usually when item's declared value seems to be too cheap compared to the packaging size. This bring us to the second problem; those Non-Virgin figures were 1/4, and with standing position the box will be big (or at least very tall). If you're unlucky, custom will get suspicious about the parcel and proceed to open them, in which the NSFW figure will be confiscated.

Custom tax is only 6%, but the figure being NSFW might resulted in them getting confiscated if custom ever open the package to check. I guess the safest way to circumvent this is having someone cover the tits and genital, with maybe bra and panties for dolls of the same scale then only ship to you.

I see. This is gonna be a problem tho. I probably gonna have more nsfw figures in the future but this is suck. I found malaysian online website (ToyPanic) for preorder these nsfw figures but you are gonna wait one year from the release date to get the figures. Anyways thanks for the reply.

I see. This is gonna be a problem tho. I probably gonna have more nsfw figures in the future but this is suck. I found malaysian online website (ToyPanic) for preorder these nsfw figures but you are gonna wait one year from the release date to get the figures. Anyways thanks for the reply.

it was pending licensor approval so i'm guessing they couldn't get the approval? 

Finally got her after 1 month detained. 

Ini kalau buka kotak confirm lesap... 

They actually open it, but they dont open the blister. They just look at the manual, only topless pic, no pussy pic on the manual.

Topless can lepas? 

If you can underdeclare the value, most of the time it will pass.

dude, one year? it says 1-2 months from the release date, not 12 months 

Finally got her after 1 month detained. 

Pretty much why i will buy lewd figures from taobao nowadays instead of from japan. I combine ship with other items they wrap the thing so tight in layers for combinations of several parcels, that the kastam cant even open. Values were never declared on the parcel as well. In fact kastam tend to turn a blind eye to parcels from taobao, even if it was temporarily detained for 1-2 days.

Of course, this option is only viable if you know how to use taobao in the first place. Even those who can speak, read and write chinese find the site difficult to use. Their shipping system is also quite different.

If anyone is still interested, there is a small guide on the first page of this thread itself, but i still recommend getting help from a friend if u r unfamiliar.