[Kiwami]

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Originally Posted by Random

You're in Europe though? Being in the UK, I often find web exclusives to be easier to deal with. Not only does it mean you don't have to worry about getting up early in the hopes that you can place an order before servers crash, but you avoid customs charges through most middlemen and have the option of holding orders for a couple of months to combine with other things to save on shipping.

Retail releases are fine if you're lucky and your order avoids customs, but if not, exclusives are usually cheaper.

Yeah I live in Germany and no, not really

I can get lucky with everything if the package is small enough and the custom guys are lazy, but that's really the exception. Because SHF's are usually too expensive to get through, and they know me by now so they check everything.

So it's not really a bonus if once every 10 orders someone is too lazy to check, that can happen with regular releases as much as Web-Exclusives.

So the bonus is really that my regular releases usually have a bill glued on the box so if I need to pay customs my postman can charge me on my doorstep instead of me having to drive to the customs office which sucks especially with weather like this, slippery streets and all that good stuff.

And Web-Exclusives being easier to deal with than regular releases... not really. From what you're saying (Server crashes) and from what I remember seeing from you in the "Recent purchases"-topic you buy from AmiAmi.

I buy form HLJ and it's easy and comfortable. Yes, we all know the deal with HLJ, no need to beat that horse again, but I buy there regularly for nearly two years now and never had any problems which would make me reconsider doing business with them.

And HLJ lets me cancel orders easily and I have the Private Warehouse to manage orders and combine them to a single order no matter when I ordered the individual items. So that's a huge plus for me.

Getting pre-order in is also easy as they open it up enough, so if I miss the day one pre-orders (and I do that quite often because I refuse to stay up for this) I just put up a restock-alert and that's that taken care of.

So there's really no difference in getting pre-orders in or buying from HLJ or a middleman when it comes to customs, the only differences are that middlemen are more expensive, I can’t combine orders and I usually have to pick up the Web-Exclusives from the customs office because there's no bill on them.

All in all I very much prefer to buy retail releases instead of Web-Exclusives. But sometimes I have to do it, in cases like these though I rather miss out on the figures than paying a middleman.