2014-01-03, 03:23 | Link #441 |
見習い魔剣使い
Join Date: May 2006
Location: 大陸の片隅
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To people who have bought off of honto: do you guys use credit cards, or debit cards? honto says that they don't use debit cards, but I've heard from some people that their debit cards work just fine. I'm trying to get my VISA Debit to work with honto, but it seems like they don't accept it, unfortunately for me.
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2014-01-03, 07:01 | Link #442 | |
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Join Date: May 2013
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2014-01-08, 01:20 | Link #444 |
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Join Date: Apr 2003
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Belated reply: A pure debit card won't work, but most nowadays are branded with either Visa or Mastercard and will work ran as a credit transaction. If yours does, it SHOULD work.
The Japanese are still primarily cash, and don't have a good grasp on how US Debit cards work IMHO. When I tried to rent a phone in Japan, they told me they couldn't do it because my card said Debit on it. I pointed to the Mastercard logo and explained to them in Japanese that it also works as a credit card and not to worry. She absolutely refused to even attempt to run the card. Sigh. I will say that my Mastercard-branded debit card works just fine through Honto. Buying frequently with Honto Something I've only recently become familiar with abusing: If you make purchases from Honto relatively frequently (Every 4-8 weeks), you can really keep some nice discounts rolling that really push them ahead of using Kinokuniya. Between the Point Bonus sales, Coupons, and Point Bonuses for orders over X amount; you can get up to like 30% off some orders. (They also offer 10x Point bonus for all orders over 10k yen. Which was boosted to something silly like a 35x bonus up to some total point amount for orders over 10k yen for Xmas) IE: Last order was 5800yen for me, minus 600yen coupon, minus 850 points spent from my loyalty rewards -- order total became only 4400, AND I forget which I get ... but either 900 or 1250 point bonus for future purchases from the holiday sale, plus 370 points from 10x points on comics. So basically $58 of stuff for $44, and I have about $14 in credit towards future orders. Last edited by JediNight; 2014-01-08 at 01:32. |
2014-01-29, 10:52 | Link #447 | ||
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Yeah, abusing honto's rewards, whether it be via points, coupons or over x amount is the way to really keep raking in the discounts. It's one of the reasons why honto is the best, when it comes to purchasing reading material. Quote:
They also send emails regarding coupons, promotions and other such things when they're on-going. It's in your best interests to keep track of said promotions!
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2014-01-29, 16:52 | Link #448 | |
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2014-01-30, 20:41 | Link #450 |
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Join Date: Aug 2009
Location: Imagination Land
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Book depository is the bomb, great prices huge selection and free shipping. My favorite international site with kinokuniya. It does say on the first page of this thread Book Depository takes paypal, I have never used paypal so no idea how easy it is. I pay by debit which is real fast.
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2014-02-03, 04:53 | Link #451 | |
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In my experience, I've always gotten my order confirmations the moment I placed/cancelled an order.
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2014-02-04, 12:11 | Link #452 | |
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2014-02-21, 22:15 | Link #455 | |
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Join Date: May 2013
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They will try to suck you up till there is no more in that wallet~
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2014-02-21, 22:39 | Link #456 |
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Join Date: Apr 2003
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You can check on your order history on the site if you click on the マイ・ページ link in the top right. Then in the list of options choose: ご注文・ご購入履歴 (Order/Purchase History)
You should get an email when its shipped, otherwise if it says 出荷済 (Shipped) for all the items, then it has. Otherwise if some of the items in the order still say 入荷待ち that means they're on backorder. Anything that says 7-21日 when ordering is backordered. If they don't get them in stock within 21 days, it will auto-cancel that item and ship the rest of the order then. Your current point total and nearest expiration date for points are found in the top left of the account page with the big red number. Then if you click ポイント情報 it will show when the next expiration date is for points in the big red sentence. Lately they've really been pushing the ebooks too. I've been getting like half a dozen 200yen off coupons for ebooks every month, and they constantly have sales on ebooks for a whopping 35x point bonus. They almost give the stuff away, which can be great for getting lots of LNs you can cheat with OCR |
2014-03-21, 21:58 | Link #457 |
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Join Date: Nov 2010
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Looks like Kadokawa is now web publishing some of there manga properties in English.
http://Comic-Walker.com Chapter one of the series: New Sister Archfiend Testament High School DxD Archenemy and Hero "Become Mine, Hero." "I refuse!" Fate/kaleid liner Prisma ☆ Illya Drei 3!! Haganai Kagerou Daze Kyou Kara MA no Tsuku Jiyuugyou! Log Horizon MOBILE SUIT GUNDAM-SAN MOBILE SUIT GUNDAM THE ORIGIN Mobile Suit Gundam: The Origin Special Edition NEON GENESIS EVANGELION Nobunaga the Fool Non Non BIyorI SGT FROG Takasugi-san Family's Obento The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya-chan Tokyo ESP Expect some Engrish on the site itself, the manga's themselves are decently readable. They also have 117 series released in Japanese on the site, first and newest chapter mostly. |
2014-07-21, 14:05 | Link #459 |
大佐
Join Date: Jun 2013
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Can somebody help me out here? I have a little problem with honto. Every time I try to log in I get this error message which I take is saying something about me being unable to log in right now:
ただ今このユーザはログインできません。お手数ですがしばらく経ってから再度ログインして下さ い。 However, when I go around and reset my password I'm back in again ... only to be locked out again the next time I try to log in.
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2014-07-26, 20:23 | Link #460 | |
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Join Date: May 2013
Location: Southwestern USA
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I think it says something like, "Logins are disabled at this time. Please check in later."
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