Welcome aboard.
No worries, most of us here not a hardcore fan of certain Anime series (my guess?)
Like me, as long the figure cough my eyes, I don't mind to get it no matter what the price or series of character came from.
F U..................
Here I am; with my financial keep steady & growing, got my own house & car,  & already have steady job.
And yet I here I am, forever alone with only have my "anime figure" waifu to accompany me.

LOL Im also in forever alone state at the moment
Because face problem i guess

Me as a medical practitioner, since college days im surrounded by study worms. Anime fans in my college are very rare actually and collectors almost doesn't exist.

Hopefully my figure photography work is enough to impress a girl in future. Lmao

Now I can just hope that it will start moving soon and receive no love letter from them.

oh wow I almost p/o that one, maybe I will get it. Today I finally got the letter from KDNKK, took them almost a week to process it, luckily they approve it, so next week gonna collect my item and pay them. Just got BR1M, now give it back. RIP

Displayed value is around 300+, actual is 700+. I think they keep it because the box is so big. I paid the RM100 "agent fees" which is really suspicious, but I just want this to be over. Finally got her  Ima stop buying big stuff for awhile now.

Guys, from now on until perhaps election ends, be careful with figure purchases. Everyone is extra hard working in order to show it to everyone. Kastam included.

Stories are already coming out from my friends, every box regardless of size or value they open to check. Bubble wrap also they rip it off. To those who have preorders releasing this or next month, good luck and may the God of Eros bless you.

Hmm from my observation so far (this apply to in-stock items, send using EMS)
First, you go to Hobby Search ( http://www.1999.co.jp/eng ) then look for the item. In the item page you scroll down abit until can see the weight. Then, add 60% to the weight, then compare with EMS rate table (the next highest) http://www.post.japanpost.jp/int/charge/list/ems_all_en.html (see Asia column)

For example, consider this Play Arts : http://www.amiami.com/top/detail/detail?gcode=FIGURE-036288
In Hobby Search the page is: https://www.1999.co.jp/eng/10513773
Scroll down that page and you can see the weight is 584g, so add 60% to weight will make it around 934g. Compare it to EMS rate table, the next highest rate that is close to 934g is 1kg, which is 2,100yen. This is the price amiami quoted me for EMS for the Play Arts Kai Tina Branford. Japan EMS seems to use actual weight for the shipping cost. If your figure box is big but it doesn't weight much, what will contribute to the shipment weight later is the weight of the shipment box (bigger box will weight more)

Might not be accurate but shouldn't be far from the actual shipping cost (maybe few threshold lower or higher)

so far anyone kena sst on figure yet?

problem is having to go to kastam.

then time spent will cost me a lot of money...

Recently parcel from japan got delays. 1-2 weeks. Stuck at Japan port because of Typhoon

Nope, this was my last delivery using air small packet. Package arrived in 8 days.

https://trackings.post.japanpost.jp/service...rtingUrlPatten=

So Fedex pay the tax first then collect it from you. Will custom open and check the content when they are dealing with fedex agent?

Yes, they will collect the tax upfront, whether they pay or not I dont know, but I have never faced any further tax issue with them, its good when you want to know what is the max/exact cost you're going to get hit without any surprises/

I have never had problem with customs for FedEx/DHL.