[Melon]

I am only speculating that they Pbandai US set the exchange rate at 1:100 because they don't want to constantly adjust the price if there is a currency fluctuation. More $ margin to them and it looks better pricing something in the incremental of $5 (ie $80, $85, $90 etc) instead of $67.79 on the webpage.

I am happy that there's pbandai in US, but I'll still shop through hobby genki/kuramatoys/ninningame/okiniland before buying it through pbandai US as a last resort. I am based in nyc too so it's 9% tax on top of figure plus $10 shipping so most of the time middleman sites are the best to buy from.

Tokullectibles/BBTS for pbandai items are even crazier so only if it's sold old everywhere.