Arcadia SDF-1 Movie version 1/3000 reissue

[vladykins]

Waiting for my shipping quote. Not looking forward to it.

[Shawn]

ooof....it aint going anywhere until April for me. When you get shipping quotes please post a few!

 

On a side vector, on the previous page there is a neat famous pic of the sdf-1

 

That cel is up for sale on YJ, and it is BEAT. Super sad to see it in this poor condition.

https://auctions.yahoo.co.jp/jp/auction/t1205668217

[treatment]

1 hour ago, Shawn said:

ooof....it aint going anywhere until April for me. When you get shipping quotes please post a few!

for US destination.

here's HLJ's tariff-rape and shipping-rape fees for each option:

ecms: 23,517y

 

fedex (current 5% discount): 29,336y 

 

dhl: 34.500y

 

sheesh!!!

 

☠️

Edited Thursday at 05:28 AM by treatment

[jenius]

I see HLJ is once again using 30% as the duty rate. They are just dying to lose all their US customer business. 

[Test_Pilot_2]

6 hours ago, treatment said:

for US destination.

here's HLJ's tariff-rape and shipping-rape fees for each option:

ecms: 23,517y

 

fedex (current 5% discount): 29,336y 

 

dhl: 34.500y

 

sheesh!!!

 

☠️

At least Fedex is having a sale, right? Right?

[vladykins]

AE put DHL up for 16100 yen. 

[Paco Grande]

AE is only giving me the expensive DHL shipping option here in Canada because of the Canada Post strike. But the strike is over so I'm trying to get them to ship EMS instead. DHL from AE is very expensive and on top of that I have to pay a DHL border fee and taxes when it gets here.  AE is asking for over 15,000 Yen for DHL shipping and when it gets here I will need to pay another $20+ for their border fee plus the tax on what AE declares the value to be. AE under-declares which is why I use them, but there will still be some tax.

I stopped using HLJ years ago because they seem to go out of their way to make sure you pay the most shipping and taxes possible. I paid over $90 shipping for a book from them and that was the last straw for me. 

[rsvictor1976]

I still haven’t received any type of notice or shipping invoice from Nin Nin and I’m getting anxious. 

[Impeesa]

1 hour ago, Paco Grande said:

AE is only giving me the expensive DHL shipping option here in Canada because of the Canada Post strike. But the strike is over so I'm trying to get them to ship EMS instead.

It seems like Japan Post has not resumed service to Canada yet, there's probably nothing a store can do about it. I've got packages waiting to go out from Amiami too and they're still just held at the warehouse. Japan Post may be waiting until the strike situation is fully ended, since it's sort of still going with rotating strikes even though most deliveries are moving along now.

[MacrossJunkie]

On 10/30/2025 at 1:20 AM, treatment said:

for US destination.

here's HLJ's tariff-rape and shipping-rape fees for each option:

ecms: 23,517y

 

fedex (current 5% discount): 29,336y 

 

dhl: 34.500y

 

sheesh!!!

 

☠️

Those shipping and tariff costs are really nutty. Then the handling fee is just rubbing salt in the wound. 

Strangely enough, I'm glad there's been hardly anything I've been interested in buying for a while now.

The tariffs have basically made importing things untenable.

[Mommar]

HLJ is weird.  DHL does not have a handling fee that high.  I've shipped by them from other stores and have had to pay upon receipt and it's $7.

[Angesdad]

8 minutes ago, Mommar said:

HLJ is weird.  DHL does not have a handling fee that high.  I've shipped by them from other stores and have had to pay upon receipt and it's $7.

@Paco Grande is in Canada and DHL is indeed ripping us off with fees, I too paid $20 processing fee and 13% duties on top recently.🥵

[Impeesa]

4 hours ago, Angesdad said:

@Paco Grande is in Canada and DHL is indeed ripping us off with fees, I too paid $20 processing fee and 13% duties on top recently.🥵

Duties, or just regular sales tax? Pretty much everything gets hit for domestic sales tax, whether it's coming by Canada Post or another carrier, while toys and stuff are normally zero extra duty or anything as far as I can tell (unless you were just ordering from the US, then I have no idea what the tariff situation actually is right now). And when you get your sales tax bill, every carrier will charge a brokerage/service fee. Canada Post charges ten bucks, every other carrier is more but if you think DHL's is egregious, try UPS sometime. It seems like DHL's fee will almost always be the minimum threshold amount, which is maybe nine bucks more than Canada Post. If you live near a major CBSA office, you can also file the paperwork yourself and avoid the fee. DHL's up-front actual shipping cost also always seems to be higher than any regular post options, but that's another matter. I've never actually seen a separate up-front handling fee like that, I wonder if it has something to do with the current situation shipping to the US and filing those tariffs specifically.