[Baltan II]

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Originally Posted by Locke

I emailed them to change it over but then I realised I'd probably be waiting like a week for them to email me back

You realized wrong. Here you were thinking you'd have to wait three days for your order to be confirmed despite being told otherwise, and after Mandarake acted exactly the way we said they would, based on absolutely nothing you assumed a change to your shipping option would take forever?

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Originally Posted by Locke

And if the middle postage is almost twenty five dollars then I dread to think how much DHL is.

Can't speak for shipping to the UK, but when shipped to the US, DHL costs maybe four bucks more than EMS and can sometimes take less than 24 hours. For those impatient or who don't care about the cost of shipping, it's a magical experience and can be even more convenient than EMS.

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Originally Posted by Locke

And I still stand by the fact that if the rest of the world can tell you postage up front, I don't know why Mandrake can't. I'm not saying the site itself is bad but this way of ordering is totally new to me and seems ridiculous.

Despite the way we may refer to it, Mandarake is not a single online store that is anything like Amazon, HLJ, or the rest. Mandarake is a chain of multiple second-hand stores, each of which handles its figure orders separately and does so with its own limited number of employees.

Mandarake stock isn't a set of consistent, predetermined items with preorders known well in advance, it's whatever they choose to purchase from Japanese collectors and list for sale. As such, they couldn't keep a database of virtually anything possible that they could ship, with quotes worldwide, when, as actual open stores, these items can also sell to a local customer well before you attempt to place an order. I mean, weren't you wondering why Mandarake brought up taking potentially as much as three days to confirm your order?

That's also what makes your idea of buying a second Pegasus so amusing. Depending on the listing, you just agreed to purchase an entirely different Kuuga Pegasus, possibly from a wholly other Mandarake branch. You didn't order "the same figure".