Shiina Ringo/Tokyo Jihen CDs/DVD/Merchandise

[Mad_Mac]

Sorry, another stupid question.

Is a single DVD could get VAT (value added tax) charges?? I can't get any information of custom issues in HMV, but yesasia seems to have a refund function for VAT.

[pariscombo]

Japan imposes a consumption tax on stuffs. ( Consumption tax is similar to VAT. As I know the consumption tax is 5%.) The price on HMV is the price consumption-tax included. And HMV doesn't impose consumption tax when they deliver abroad. So the price you pay is lower than the HMV posting price. You can confirm it by comparing HMV's price and the price actually imposed on you in 'My orders'.

[Kasanagi]

Originally Posted by arutea

:O a fellow Sydney SR fan!!
Yeah China town. (Would there be anywhere else in Syd? I'll try looking around parramatta since I work there). I don't know what the shops are called ( ^^;; ) but I just go in anywhere they sell asian cds/dvds... I find a lot of Mika Nakashima ones. When I ask the dudes at the shop they never heard of Shiina Ringo. >.>

Yeah no one seems to know SR in those shops... its all ayumi and mika....
Please tell me if you find any down Parra.

You can get SR/TJ T-shirts on " www.kronekodow.com ". Unfortunately it doesn't deliver abroad, though. You have to use someone in japan or deputy service in order to buy T-shirts from " www.kronekodow.com ".

Can you explain whats a deputy service?

[Inaudible-Whisper]

Originally Posted by Kasanagi

Yeah no one seems to know SR in those shops... its all ayumi and mika....
Please tell me if you find any down Parra.




Can you explain whats a deputy service?

A service whereby a company will buy goods in Japan that only ship to Japan. They then ship to goods off anywhere in the world for a fee. For example, you could use one of these sites (Japamart for example) to buy a T-Shirt from Kronekodow.com. Once they receive the T-Shirt, they send it out to you. There are a few, such as the Shopping Mall Japan mentioned earlier but they now only deal with Yahoo Japan Auctions. Japamart allow special orders from specific online sites such as Kronekodow.

[cjhobbies00]

Originally Posted by zarya

I didn't have any extra money at the time Brad took the orders (and looking back, it seems like a good thing :s) and I reeaally want some merch.

Sigh...why did you bring back the pain??

[justriiingo]

Originally Posted by cjhobbies00

Sigh...why did you bring back the pain??

Has he seriously not sent out the stuff yet? It's already a year after JCHI!

[cjhobbies00]

Originally Posted by justriiingo

Has he seriously not sent out the stuff yet? It's already a year after JCHI!

yes...and the man is incapable of replying to emails

[justriiingo]

Originally Posted by cjhobbies00

yes...and the man is incapable of replying to emails

I know what you mean about emails. I emailed him a few times before and he didn't bother to respond at all. There were still a few mentions on his blog about the JCHI tour good last year but now he's almost stopped posting about SR stuff completely.

edit: Oh what the hell, he's even disabled comments on his blog!

[Inaudible-Whisper]

I still haven't received my stuff neither, and he has also stopped replying to my emails too. Thief.

[CatchFiveBats]

Hey, does anybody know how HMV Japan delivers to the US (i.e. UPS, FedEx, etc)? If it's of any help, the order I'm expecting contains the HF LP, so the package is gonna be pretty bulky.