K-On! - Merchandise (Figurines, Artbooks, DVDs, etc.)

[Dist]

That sounds like your local post office will do the customs clearance for you, and will charge you for that, in addition what the custom charges may be. That can happen here too, but that's completely optional, and you should be able to decline. In that case, you'd have to go to the Customs Office yourself, pay the taxes and pick up the package .. instead of it being delivered to your door.

But note, that's again, only in Finland. I don't know how they do things in Israel but it does sound like something like this ..

Btw : FedEx will do the customs clearance for you, but does not charge. Next time, order with FedEx. FedEx has nothing to do with your local post office, as they are a courier service, so your post office can't charge you for anything.

[grylsyjaeger]

Originally Posted by SaintessHeart

This is ridiculous! How can they release something so cute when I am running low on funds!

Indeed.

That figure's too damn cute...

[Agito Akiyama]

Originally Posted by Dist

That sounds like your local post office will do the customs clearance for you, and will charge you for that, in addition what the custom charges may be. That can happen here too, but that's completely optional, and you should be able to decline. In that case, you'd have to go to the Customs Office yourself, pay the taxes and pick up the package .. instead of it being delivered to your door.

But note, that's again, only in Finland. I don't know how they do things in Israel but it does sound like something like this ..

Btw : FedEx will do the customs clearance for you, but does not charge. Next time, order with FedEx. FedEx has nothing to do with your local post office, as they are a courier service, so your post office can't charge you for anything.

That's kinda what they did, and I've never asked for this service, they did it by force and without asking me, I've never asked for this service and never asked them to take care of my package, I can take this to court for small cases, in addition to that they mentally fucking annoyed me, I'm so furious regarding this issue, I only wanted a PVC Anime figurine, why do I have to go through this shit process, and I wanted to buy 3 more, I'm going to make things very clear with them, I'm a law abiding citizen and I would to be respected by companies here the same way I respect other people.

[Bananoha]

Hmm, I don't recall being charged for any figyuu/toys I've ordered through EMS, but I'm also in Canada. But I'm pretty sure I got charged 20$ from customs for importing a PSP game from Japan. =w=;

Originally Posted by Agito Akiyama

That's kinda what they did, and I've never asked for this service, they did it by force and without asking me, I've never asked for this service and never asked them to take care of my package, I can take this to court for small cases, in addition to that they mentally fucking annoyed me, I'm so furious regarding this issue, I only wanted a PVC Anime figurine, why do I have to go through this shit process, and I wanted to buy 3 more, I'm going to make things very clear with them, I'm a law abiding citizen and I would to be respected by companies here the same way I respect other people.

Oh, you can definitely take this stuff to court.

Spoiler for Canadian example about how criminal the fees from UPS are:

VANCOUVER (CP) - Hidden fees seem to be an everyday irritant for consumers, but a B.C. man is so angry about a fee charged by United Parcel Service he's willing to become the point man for a class-action lawsuit.

It started after Robert Macfarlane purchased an amplified telephone device from Arizona over the Internet last year. He knew he would have to pay shipping and handling fees and government levies, but he was also ordered to pay a $38.40 brokerage fee charged by UPS.

"It's outrageous," said Macfarlane's lawyer Jim Poyner.

"It's a surcharge that nobody agrees to, nobody knows anything about it until the delivery person is at the door."

Poyner said Tuesday he expects hundreds of thousands of people have been in the same situation across the country, and there are plans to file a similar lawsuit in Ontario.

"It's certainly a problem that affects the entire country."

The lawsuit has been filed under the Class Proceedings Act, but the B.C. Supreme Court must first determine if the case fits the criteria for a class-action lawsuit.

The court action claims the UPS brokerage fee is "so harsh and adverse as to constitute an unconscionable practice."

The same Canada Post service for goods shipped from the United States to Canada costs $5.00.

A spokesman for UPS was unavailable for an interview.

Poyner said people are usually never told there will be an added fee until there's a knock on the door.

"(The delivery person) has your goods in one hand and the other hand is out wanting to be paid more money," he said.

The lawsuit accuses UPS of misleading and deceptive practices by failing to get the consumer's consent, not telling the consumer about the fee and not allowing the consumer to arrange their own customs clearance.

Not only does Macfarlane want his own money back, but the lawsuit wants everyone who paid the fee reimbursed.

Poyner said the other major goal of such a lawsuit is what the court calls "behaviour modification."

In one of 10 remedies requested in Macfarlane's statement of claim, it asks for a permanent injunction stopping UPS from continuing to charge the fee.

It also asks for punitive, aggravated and exemplary damages.

I'm not familiar with what customs is like for other countries other than Canada, but yeah, you should be able to clear customs yourself. I'm lazy and don't mind my local post office charging 5$ to do it.

I'm interested in if your country would censor any magazines. I remember reading somewhere in Malaysia? about a guy who imported stuff like Megami and while his package was opened for inspection, the person doing it censored it with black marker. But a lot of similar cases just look like the customs officer's personal bias. I went to Hawaii one year and nothing happened when we were clearing customs on the way back — Pretty sure I was reading a volume of D.N.Angel and my brother was reading Bobobo-bo Bo-bobo while the person questioned my parents.

[Vexx]

Erf.... not everything about Canada is great (just like any other country, choose your pain ). I just pre-ordered the ALTER Ritsu and her drums... so once Mugi arrives and is later followed by Ritsu I'll have an entire band display to find a shelf for.

Also pre-ordered the MOVIC version of Azusa... damn, I always forget to keep an eye on cdjapan's figure pre-orders, so thanks to bloppyblue for pointing it out.

I'll probably end up reselling some of my K-On! figures (probably the beach series and my least favorite "instrument playing" series) so if anyone missed out last year keep an eye on my signature. I post links there when I'm clearing shelf space of figures. Sigh, buy it all and keep only my favorites seems to be the way to play this game.

edit: I notice that cdjapan is cutting prices... I bet the strong yen is hurting their sales quite a bit.

[Dist]

Originally Posted by Agito Akiyama

That's kinda what they did, and I've never asked for this service, they did it by force and without asking me, I've never asked for this service and never asked them to take care of my package, I can take this to court for small cases, in addition to that they mentally fucking annoyed me, I'm so furious regarding this issue, I only wanted a PVC Anime figurine, why do I have to go through this shit process, and I wanted to buy 3 more, I'm going to make things very clear with them, I'm a law abiding citizen and I would to be respected by companies here the same way I respect other people.

LOL .. This just happened to me today. I had some magazines coming again, but this time, for whatever reason, Amazon shipped them with DHL. And guess what, DHL charges 15,00€ for them to do the customs clearance for me, but I never asked for this .. and I definitely don't want to pay. With their fees, plus the actual taxes, the fees are nearly 45% of the total value of the shipment. That's just ridiculous D:

However, in your case, since it's a local post office ... Well, technically you should be just able to tell them that you don't want them to do it for you, and you will do it yourself ( Means => You go to the customs office yourself to pay, and pick up the package ). Not sure if I can do that but I definitely ain't paying this D:

Also to Bananoha ; I think it's about luck whether your item gets inspected and you need to pay taxes. Though it may depend on country, but typically they only inspect heavy or large packages, while small ones go usually through ; though not always. Though my friend who lives in Israel too, said that they inspect every single package there, and if that's the case.. then Agito will have to pay taxes whenever he orders, whatever he orders and whatever shipping he uses.

[Bananoha]

Where is my re-release of Ritsu nendo! It's the only one I don't have on order. Though I'm sure that somewhere, a shop in Akihabara has one for a not obscene price.

Originally Posted by Vexx

Erf.... not everything about Canada is great (just like any other country, choose your pain ).

Eh, customs kind of sucks, but the health care and same sex marriage thing is pretty awesome.

It's just UPS sucks. FedEx hasn't been terribad to me yet.

Originally Posted by Dist

Also to Bananoha ; I think it's about luck whether your item gets inspected and you need to pay taxes. Though it may depend on country, but typically they only inspect heavy or large packages, while small ones go usually through ; though not always. Though my friend who lives in Israel too, said that they inspect every single package there, and if that's the case.. then Agito will have to pay taxes whenever he orders, whatever he orders and whatever shipping he uses.

None of my packages have been inspected. I don't think it's a major thing — they do it if they think the papers for the package aren't correct or just randomly do it. I think a friend in Australia said her package of magazines was inspected once.

However, on my first Amazon.co.jp order where I had no idea we even had customs taxes.... Pre-ordered a CD with other things, but Amazon didn't want to ship it 'til the CD released because it was so far ahead. So the CD alone came separately after the bigger package and I believe it was another 15$ on the Canadian end — 5$ ROD fee from FedEx and I think the rest was a combination of another FedEx fee and customs fee.

Spoiler for Oh, I find my CBSA Postal Import Form for another order:

Okay, this is for a smaller package from Japan HMV. I'll cut the French.

Classification:
B523809090 13 - Video tapes - recorded

Value for duty (CAN$)
$191.20

Duty
Rate
6.000000

Amount
$11.47

Excise tax
$0.00

GST/HST [Note that this order was before HST was put into effect in my province, so there should be no HST]
$10.13

PST
$16.21

Duty: $11.47
Excise tax: $0.00
GST/HST: $10.13
PST: $16.21
Handling fee: $8.00
Total payable: $45.81

Message
NOT OPENED
Canada post fee for handling Priority Courier/EMS items.

And this is for four DVDs. ( ¯3¯)y-~

Now that I think about it, I forwarded a nendo with EMS and stated that it cost 2k yen.... Didn't receive any customs fee? I didn't seem to get one for the puppets I just ordered and they were about 9k yen combined. Hmm.

But anyway, yes, you'll always need to pay custom and duty fees in Canada, at least for certain items it seems.

.... though I've sort of gotten away with it since friend was kind enough to mail some things, albeit in smaller packages, and I didn't get charged since it was "a gift". Two CDs were sent one time, too. (´・ω・｀)

[Agito Akiyama]

Originally Posted by Dist

LOL .. This just happened to me today. I had some magazines coming again, but this time, for whatever reason, Amazon shipped them with DHL. And guess what, DHL charges 15,00€ for them to do the customs clearance for me, but I never asked for this .. and I definitely don't want to pay. With their fees, plus the actual taxes, the fees are nearly 45% of the total value of the shipment. That's just ridiculous D:

However, in your case, since it's a local post office ... Well, technically you should be just able to tell them that you don't want them to do it for you, and you will do it yourself ( Means => You go to the customs office yourself to pay, and pick up the package ). Not sure if I can do that but I definitely ain't paying this D:

Also to Bananoha ; I think it's about luck whether your item gets inspected and you need to pay taxes. Though it may depend on country, but typically they only inspect heavy or large packages, while small ones go usually through ; though not always. Though my friend who lives in Israel too, said that they inspect every single package there, and if that's the case.. then Agito will have to pay taxes whenever he orders, whatever he orders and whatever shipping he uses.

It's not exactly a local post office, it's the only post office that works in Israel.
Anyhow I'm going to talk to them on Sunday, for now I don't have any other options.
And in Israel I've seen some Megami magazines in the comics and manga store...

[0utf0xZer0]

Yeah, "don't use UPS" is pretty well known among savvy Canadian online shoppers. Unfortunately, I suspect that a lot of people think the fees come from Canada Customs, since they don't bother separating the fees out on the bills they give.

I've always avoided using UPS because I know better, but my dad got hit with nearly $30 in their so called "customs brokerage fees" for an order that I remember being less that $100. DHL, who Rightstuf ships their Canadian orders through, also charges a customs brokerage fee but there's is only like $5 or something, and my orders are always worth $150+. Not sure about other companies.

As for bringing stuff with sexual content into Canada, I don't have any experience myself but the experiences of people I've talked to suggest that it is highly dependent on the particular customs agent you get. I also wouldn't count on not having your stuff searched, I've had it happen and I'm not exactly a frequent online shopper.

[Dist]

Tbh from what I've read how it's in Canada, bring a Megami Magazine with lolis in it, in a slightly revealing clothes = Magazine ripped in pieces and who knows what kind of trouble you get yourself to o.o. Plus it's not like the custom agents can tell a different between an adult, and a loli when it comes to anime. If she has a flat chest = loli

[bloppyblue]

I live in Canada (Toronto) and I don't remember any customs being that strict with anime stuff :S The worst that's happened to me was I had my samurai-handle umbrella taken in for check while being flown to Canada, and had to have it mailed back to me a week later.

[kenjiharima]

@- Azusa fans.

I just leave this here.

[grylsyjaeger]

Originally Posted by kenjiharima

@- Azusa fans.

I just leave this here.

We've already been smitten a page back. ;D


I'll wait and see what my Movic Yui looks like before I pre-order this one.

[0utf0xZer0]

Originally Posted by Dist

Tbh from what I've read how it's in Canada, bring a Megami Magazine with lolis in it, in a slightly revealing clothes = Magazine ripped in pieces and who knows what kind of trouble you get yourself to o.o. Plus it's not like the custom agents can tell a different between an adult, and a loli when it comes to anime. If she has a flat chest = loli

I think the local shops that sell Megami magazine would have gotten in trouble if that was really the case. Same with those that sell the DVD cut of Strike Witches, etc. I'm fairly sure Canadian law on lolicon only applies to pornographic material.

That said, lolicon porn will definitely get you into trouble, and there's a whole bunch of other types of porn you could run into trouble with too, although from what I've heard this is pretty dependent on the Customs Officer you get.

[kenjiharima]

http://forums.animesuki.com/showpost...postcount=1413

DOH! Seems it was posted...rarely backtrack.

Well if this might give you interest. Though it's not a K-on product, but it looks similar to you know who.

[Agito Akiyama]

Got the Mio figurine
My first figurine, fucking love it.

Too bad I had to go past a lot of shit that went down, well I'll say it's worth it and regarding the money my dad will help me a bit with it, I have a great family.

[Agito Akiyama]

Here are some pics

Spoiler for Size:

[alucard13mm]

Originally Posted by Agito Akiyama

Here are some pics

Spoiler for Size:

lol dood you even got the bass? is it a fender (MiM) standard jazz bass? fender american jazz bass? fender squier jazz bass? or some imitation like SX Jazz bass?

i havnt received my Mio yet =|, i hope someone didnt jack it from my doorstep. she looks kinda crippled or stricken with polio.

anyone have problems with Cospa products? I used a k-on necktie once and the back part where the ur suppose to slip the back of ur tie into broke >.> my mom sewed it back.. kinda. i also ordered a Mio tin clock and Azusa tin clock, but when I got it.. the face of the clock had abrasions (which i assume was caused by the cardboard which was suppose to protect the clock from shock damage) I'm very dissapointed =\. Its hard to take pictures of the damage to ask for a refund or some kinda action from the retail store because need the right angle and lighting. The scratches were hard to take a photo of and I only managed to take a photo of the Mio one *link*
http://moemoedesu.com/Images/S6300570.JPG
I dont think theres a protective film to take off.. i think

[Agito Akiyama]

Originally Posted by alucard13mm

lol dood you even got the bass? is it a fender (MiM) standard jazz bass? fender american jazz bass? fender squier jazz bass? or some imitation like SX Jazz bass?

Fender American Standard Jazz Bass 2006
I got it in 2007, way before K-On...
I just replaced the pickguard though I wanted to do it anyway before I started watching.

[Qikz]

Ok, ok, ok. I really need to stop ordering more stuff. Just ordered the really cute 1/8 Azusa posted like last page and above. Cannot resist it, it's so nice! <3

My wallet... my wallet hates me.