Your List of H!P / Related Goods That You Bought This Year! ~'24 version~

[Gaburin_chan]

goods that I've collected since 2011









My last purchase arrived Wednesday


my DVDs


I will buy the goods of the Michishige eleven soul tour in may

[AyuHikaru]

I regret SO MUCH not getting that group towel from Winter 2013. It's beautiful Unfortunately our car broke down and my towel money went to fixing it ><

Always happy to see another Haruna collector (And Sakura!)

[boinsie]

Joined Idol!Swap on Facebook, spent about a half hour browsing stuff...

... ended up on Y!A bidding on Sharan Q items.

[AyuHikaru]

I'm mostly on idol swap for the group orders. Being able to get current H!P goods direct from the source for the base price + 5% is just a wonderful thing.

I find myself browsing http://www.uf-online.jp/ and http://www.helloshop.jp/item/?ct_seq=15 (<--- the goods section) and making lists for the next group order more than I do buying stuff from people

Like, I just recently ordered the Suusan cushion:



and some Suusan pins.



I'm hella excited about getting these omg.

[DSQueenie]

I'm jealous I really wanted the Suusan cushion~ I can never figure out how you guys get these goods. Is it from Japan or eBay?

[boinsie]

Specifically for things like that, we were talking about Idol!Swap, a Facebook group where people sell things as one-offs, but also organize group orders for concert goods, FC goods, etc, etc.

I haven't made use of it myself, but it seems to be a thriving little community.

[DSQueenie]

Thanks~

[boinsie]

And for Yahoo! Auctions, From Japan is still a good resource. Even though a few months ago they started adding a 200yen fee for each auction won, in addition to their normal 5% commission, it's not a -huge- deal, especially when you're grabbing weird things that they Japanese don't want that are going for dirt cheap... but if you're into photos that are being sold piece-wise, it would definitely add up quickly.

[Miekie]

^How about shipping cost...?
Since I don't know Japanese very well I don't understand both the websites very well.
I sometimes see goods being sold for like 100 yen (1 euro), which is a really good deal... but how much do they charge for Shipping?
Because I don't want to buy anything for 100 yen and hear afterwards the seller is charging me like 12 euro's shipping for just a photo card or something to compensate for the 100 yen good prize, while actual shipping is only like 2 euro's or something..

I am sorry for this cryptic description, but I hope you guys understand and are able to help me!

[erilaz]

^ 99.9% of the sellers on Yahoo! Auctions Japan won't sell to buyers outside of Japan, so From Japan can act as your agent in Japan, to bid for you, receive your purchases, and send them to you. There are other proxy services like this around, but From Japan seems to have the cheapest fees. From Japan's instructions are pretty clear (and in English), but it's helpful to be able to navigate the listings on Yahoo! Auctions yourself, either in Japanese or using an automatic translator.

The shipping costs listed by the sellers on Yahoo! Auctions Japan are only valid for shipping from the seller to From Japan (or to any other address within Japan). These are generally quite cheap; I've never seen the kind of price-gouging on shipping on Y!AJ that I sometimes see on eBay. You will, however, need to pay an additional shipping charge to From Japan for them to ship your stuff from their offices to you, as well as several different fees. But From Japan will consolidate all of your auction purchases for up to a month, so you'll save on international shipping by buying a lot of things at once and having them shipped together.

You can also use From Japan to buy stuff on other Japanese websites that don't ship overseas, not just Y!AJ, and not just auctions.

To give you some idea of the cost of using From Japan, here's what I paid for my last batch of Y!AJ stuff through From Japan:

Total bid price of 14 auction lots on Y!AJ: ¥10,151
From Japan's ¥200 per auction fee: ¥2,800
From Japan's system usage fee: ¥933
From Japan's bank transfer fee: ¥2,184
From Japan's excess charge: ¥500 (I think this was because of my oversize poster)
Domestic delivery charge (shipping of all the individual items from their sellers to From Japan): ¥2,500
EMS shipping from Japan to California (all items combined in one box, total weight 4240 grams): ¥7,125

TOTAL: ¥26,193

Shipping charges were a bit high on this shipment because four of my 14 lots were Hello! Channel mooks (which added significantly to the weight of the parcel) and one was a rolled poster, which doubled the size of the box they had to use. You can also choose cheaper shipping options instead of EMS, if you like.

But here's all the stuff I got for that ¥26,193:
Hello! Channel Vol. 3 mook
Hello! Channel Vol. 5 mook
Hello! Channel Vol. 8 mook
Hello! Channel Vol. 11 mook
Morning Musume。DVD Magazine 6
Morning Musume。DVD Magazine 8
Kaitō Reinya Vol. 1 first press box with figure
Kaitō Reinya Vol. 2 first press box with figure
Coconuts Musume DVD (new)
SPEED SPIRITS COMPLETE DVD
Morning Musume。"I WISH" CD single, signed by Gotō Maki
Takahashi Ai H!P 7th Anniversary T-shirt
Morning Cop poster
Heike Michiyo first press photo cards (5)
Rio (Ebisu Muscats) clear file