but amazon for the most part have overpriced figuarts

Under the price on the item page (The last line beside the item image), if it reads "Ships from and sold by Amazon.com" then it will be a better price than BBTS, come with Free Shipping, and be the BlueFin version. If it says anything else other than "Amazon.com" in that sentence, then Amazon is sold out already and listing the best price from the Other Sellers list. Other Sellers can be anyone, even BBTS sometimes.

Sorry, but I would rather pay more to buy it from a US seller than save $20 just to buy it from Japan. Plus, I don't trust untrackable methods, so I will always take DHL/UPS/etc over the cheaper route, so it pretty much puts it all at the same cost.

You literally make no sense to me. EVERY method that mandarake uses is trackable. SAL, EMS, and DHL all include tracking numbers. How is saving money a bad thing when you get the item over (on average) 1 month ahead of the US market as well?

Yes, I understand, but I already have the item waiting for me to pay for it at BBTS whereas I would have to wait for it to appear on Mandrake and hope I get my order through before someone else.

Oh nevermind, I'm not even going to bother explaining it. I'm just going to get it from BBTS plain and simple.

And I get that. I'm not saying you should cancel your order with them this instant but Web exclusives are abundant around the time of intial release on sites like Mandarake. You should really look into in the future. Trust me from experience, it saves you a ton of money in the long run. Or use Sentai Tamahiis' webshop exclusive middleman service. He can really hook you up for a better price than BBTS.

Just wanted to share the irony of this with you all. I have purchased my 10th figuart today. It was none other than De De De Decade! Him and Marvelous are going to have their throw down!

That is what I am going to do for Basco when he starts taking PMs for it. I did not know about his stuff before the cut off time for Gai since I just got into the line back in June.

BTW, I kinda want Putotyrannosaurus OOO.

Mandarake has very good rates on DHL. I'm getting the exclusives for $50-$65 WITH DHL shipping. I just got Agito Storm form for, if memory serves, $60, including shipping. I know someone that's selling his for $85, so I saved $25.

And I've gotten a couple of packages IN THREE DAYS.

FROM JAPAN.

I'm lucky if UPS Ground gets to Utah from California in two days, and I got two different shipments in three days!

It's cheaper and lots faster. If you're interested in saving money, you really need to look into Mandarake. But be wary of Fukuoka, their shipping has been significantly more expensive than the other stores, at least for my last two orders.

Shipping from Japan is perfectly safe, even with SAL. Just always be sure to go with registered delivery. Ordering from over sea's really shouldn't be an issue for anyone these days. In fairness, I've not seen Gai show up on Mandarake so far though.. but maybe you guys have just been too quick.

I got mine in today, he's a great figure, despite the fact I wasn't a big fan of his. For the first exclusive Ryuki figuart though, it's disappointing that he comes with the least amount of accessories. These guys really should have come with their stands, rather than forcing you to buy the contract monsters.