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Originally Posted by SentaiSan

Yes, and no. I guess my main beef is that now that I've begun shopping with HLJ, I'm a bit more jaded.

* Ami has the rigid order policy and most communications with them comes across like you're just bothering them. A few times they did what I asked without even responding to me. I had to log in and see that it had been done
* Ami has great discounts (better than HLJ in most cases) but severely overpriced shipping. This might be because they well-pack things into huge boxes, but still, the prices are up there (my last order was for $220 with $95 in shipping via EMS. A similar order @ HLJ cost me $50 to ship via Fedex)
* Ami offers order grouping when making new orders, and grouping previous orders when the releases are in the same month, but HLJ has the private warehouse where I order what I want, then ship what I want, when I want.
* Going with the last point, HLJ offers more and cheaper shipping options and tells you the prices up front (when ordering or moving from warehouse to shipping). I just personally feel it's a smoother process.
* The DX sell-out times are insane, but at least the restocks can be caught if you watch.

On the plus for AMI, they carry more product, meeting more needs, and are usually a few bucks cheaper than HLJ. They also have the point system which is cool.

I never came back to this thread until now....oops.

There's where I split off. I don't do the whole warehouse thing. It's a neat system, but I have trouble waiting that long to have something in hand.

I agree the shipping can be a bit high, but they still go by weight. Stuff might cost the same but could be a lot heavier. It would make no sense if 2 boxes of equal weight cost $40 more to ship from AmiAmi than HLJ. The shipping cost ratios are relatively constant between most places based on my 2 years and thousands of dollars worth of orders. xD

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Originally Posted by Josgar

Is there a good resource for buying japanese video games? I want to buy Digimon Story: Lost Evolution and Digimon Story: Super Xros Red Wars / Blue... but I don't want to just use Amazon in case there's a better place.

I don't know about better, but you can check Play-Asia. Not necessarily cheap, but there's some condition that will net you free shipping I think. Unless it's always free. Never ordered from them, but I've browsed a lot of import games.