[kollekxon]

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Originally Posted by Thessair

Pardon my incredulity, but how? The shipping isn't displayed when you check out. If you were just ordering a ¥2000-ish figure then there would have been a ¥500 fee on top of that. But that's still well short of ~$50US.



As for shipping rates, a single figure (to the U.S. at least) with DHL usually runs right about the same as SAL shipping, at least in my experience. It goes up exponentially after that, though. I usually stick to SAL if I'm ordering two or more figures or books, since book weight will kill with DHL.

My 1st post here.

I live in Maryland and order often from Mandarake. I use SAL for everything when possible. On average its the cost of the figure(s) + 500 JPY + shipping (+/- 1500JPY)

here is an recent purchase I made:

Sub total: 1,500 yen
Shipping Fee: 1,180 yen
Handling Fee: 500 yen
Grand Total: 3,180 yen

Also to those who don't know and have yet to Order .. Mandarake site covers several stores. I find it best to find the one item i want most and add to it from within the one store location ex: Umeda store

I have used DHL but it doesnt work out for me only b/c its costs a bit more and they dont deliver to PO Boxes.

The last time I used EMS was for SIC Agito and Tornador (sp) it was costly but given the size of the package it was justified.


Regards,

kollekxon


Edit;

checked my PayPal and I don't see any $5.00 fee for conversion
could this Fee be from a Credit card company?