So I just paid off Sigurd...

On my order page, it was 61 USD and change, like it has been since I ordered him back in... August? Whenever he went up.

On the checkout page, however, the price was $65. The hell is going on?

See, this is exactly what happened with my Omnimon order. Just as I switched to PayPal the price was suddenly higher (and I ordered in Euros so conversion rates don't apply) and when I cancelled the payment process and returned to my account the price for the order suddenly was the higher one from the PayPal-page...

I figured sending a ticket about this won't help since they'll just say "We can't find any evidence of that in our system" and I didn’t had a screenshot of the old price in my account so... meh.

Another reason besides the stupid "Pay Later"-shit to never buy there again.

I think it's just an exchange rate thing. I pay everything in Yen and I've never had an issue. Though I too am trying to avoid NY going forward.

As I said though, I ordered in Euros. Meaning I had the price set in Euro the day I pre-ordered. That usually means if I get to PayPal, PayPal won't apply conversion rates anymore because I already go in there with the price in Euros.

Which means NY is either pushing conversion rates on what used to be a set price, or they can't give the information over to PayPal correctly. Either way, dick move. Paying 5 bucks more isn't killing anyone, but it's still shit.

After this the only thing I have ordered with them is Cure Beat in February (or March. Whichever). I'm going to start looking for a new service in the meantime if anyone has some recommendations.

I doubt that any shop would allow someone to "lock in" a price in a foreign currency unless payment is up front. Otherwise, they could potentially lose a lot of money due to exchange rate fluctuation. When you have the prices display in your own currency, it is just an estimate based on the rate at the time.

Only other site I used is Toku Taku. They are good, but a tick more expensive than NY. And you only have the option to either pay everything up-front or the first half upon pre-ordering and the second one later. Never done the last thing so I don't quite know how it works.

But NY used to do exactly that, which is why I and Tali were surprised about this.

Ah, I think I got my Dragonfruit Energy Lockseed from him...

It used to work that way, up until they overhauled the site earlier this month.

Interesting. I didn't know that, but that sort of explains their apparent price hikes in shipping. I would assume they burned through a lot of funds doing that. With the way the value of yen has fallen in the past year or so, they need to recoup somehow.

Keep in mind you should NEVER pay for something in NY using their converted rate. At the very least, check out in yen. Just as an example, I put the Metal Action Kaiser Pilder into my cart. 10580 yen plus 3200 for EMS shipping. The total is 13780 yen, which based on todays daily rate should be 114.91 USD. If you try to pay using NYs USD rate, its 121.26. Paypals rate isn't great either, but it's still cheaper. Best thing to do is get a credit card without international transaction fees and have paypal charge the card in the original currency.