sadly I'm not a student..........but my husband is
. Thanks for the tip there!!! Congrats on hanging on and getting your money back. Ah Rock Band ^__^
Actually I only have the problem if I buy off certain shops in Japan. 90% of the time I'm sneaky enough to get a friend to send it stuff to me from Japan and mark down the value of the item, not cheating since she opens them first so not new goods. Recently I haven't been able to do that and got hammered by Parcelforce for almost £30 for processing fees. The tax is fine, £6 or so is reasonable on a CD or DVD. It's the processing that I couldn't get around due to personal circumstances that annoyed me. I'm just not going to get burnt again, I'll just send regular airmail instead of EMS which attracts all the extra charges!