|
Post by wolffangfisting on Jul 24, 2016 7:51:16 GMT -6
So I'm trying to get my hands on a Banpresto Vegeta Giant Ape vs Goku figure. I was looking for some advice of how I could get it for the best price. I live in the United States. Does anyone know of a site to use and how much it will be roughly? I am going to Tokyo next May. Does anyone know if I will be able to find he figure there and if it will be significantly cheaper. Thanks for the help.
|
|
|
Post by Branjita on Jul 26, 2016 8:35:31 GMT -6
I used Buyee using this advice to buy my Ichiban Kuji Oozaru Vegeta vs. Goku: dragonballfigures.com/thread/655/use-yahoo-japan-auctions After the fees, I don't think I saved very much at all buying it this way, compared to just buying it off ebay. If I had to do it all over again, I would have just spent the extra $10 or $20 and gotten it off ebay since I'm more comfortable with it. I "think" if you look through that topic you'll find the search term or link someone provided me, as I didn't know how to translate Oozaru. I think it was literally "great ape" though. I think the search was something like "great ape Vegeta Goku" in Japanese kanji.
|
|
|
Post by wolffangfisting on Jul 26, 2016 12:37:56 GMT -6
Thank you so much for the help!
|
|
|
Post by wolffangfisting on Jul 26, 2016 12:40:12 GMT -6
Any idea how much it would be in Tokyo? If it's hard to find? Where to get one? Thanks
|
|
|
Post by Branjita on Jul 26, 2016 15:28:21 GMT -6
Here you go, I did a search on that thread I linked you to and pulled out the important posts: Ok! I won a Vegeta Oozaru for 3100 yen which is $28.28. I hope after all this monkey business it is less than $100 by the time I pay for two shipping fees plus buyee's commission. Anybody know where buyee is located? Here's the shipping prices listed in the auction (a little higher than some of the Oozaru Vegetas I previously bid on and did not win). Shipping / 120 size from Aichi) Yu-pack charge 1,230 yen Aichi 1,340 yen Ibaraki, Tochigi, Gunma, Saitama, Chiba, Tokyo, Kanagawa, Yamanashi, Nagano, Niigata, Toyama, Ishikawa, Fukui, Gifu Shizuoka Mie Shiga Kyoto Osaka Hyogo Nara Wakayama 1,440 yen Aomori, Iwate, Miyagi, Akita, Yamagata, Fukushima Tottori Shimane Okayama Hiroshima Yamaguchi Tokushima Kagawa Ehime Kochi 1,540 yen Fukuoka Saga Nagasaki Kumamoto Oita Miyazaki Kagoshima 1,750 yen Hokkaido 1,850 yen Okinawa So which one of those places is Buyee located in? Including Buyee's fees, the cost so far has been $35.52 (3100 yen winning bid price + 700 yen in Buyee fees = 3800 yen = $35.52 currently) (which was automatically taken from my paypal without my consent/doing... which is kind of weird how they can do that...) Buyee's warehouse is located at: 4F 3-22-25 Hasune, Itabashi-ku, Tokyo 174-0046 And according to that seller, the price from Aichi (where the item is) via Japan's domestic mail service named Yu-pack to Tokyo (where the warehouse is) is 1340 yen ($12.23). I looked up what a 120 size package is, and it has something to do with the size of the box and is kind of like priority mail flat rate box where you're charged for the size and not the weight (up to a certain weight limit). So since Oozaru Vegeta is really big, that's a 120 size box, and for that size box, the items can weigh as much as 15kg (33 lbs). He doesn't weigh that much, but his shipping price is based on the size not weight. So if that's what they charge me for domestic shipping, the running total will be $47.75. As long as the shipping to the US via EMS is less than $52 I will be very satisfied, as I wanted to spend less than $100 to get him. If my total goes above $120 I'll be because then I would have been better off buying off ebay. My Shenron is about the size of that Oozaru Vegeta, but probably weighs less, and he's almost 6 pounds wrapped in a box. So let's do some calculations... 5 pounds = 2.26kg... round up to 2.5kg... then the cost of shipping from Tokyo to the US via EMS will be 4700 yen = $42.91 6 pounds = 2.72kg... round up to 3kg... then the cost of shipping from Tokyo to the US via EMS will be 5400 yen = $49.28 7 pounds = 3.18kg... round up to 3.5kg... then the cost of shipping from Tokyo to the US via EMS will be 6100 yen = $55.68 8 pounds = 3.62kg... round up to 4kg... then the cost of shipping from Tokyo to the US via EMS will be 6800 yen = $62.06 Those are EMS prices. UPS is available, but their prices are actually higher for these weights and not worth calculating. So based on those numbers, my total is going to be somewhere between $90.66 and $109.81... so I think I'll be satisfied/happy about this purchase. Just received an email that my Oozaru Vegeta has arrived to Buyee. He weighs 3440g so the shipping is the 2nd most expensive option in my calculations in an earlier post. 1340 Yen in domestic shipping to Buyee 6100 Yen in international shipping from Buyee to the US Total shipping I owe them is 7440 yen = $68.91 Total price for Oozaru Vegeta: $104.43 Overall pretty satisfied with the price. I'm only $5 over what my maximum for what I ideally wanted to spend was. Picked him up this morning, no customs fees. Buyee anecdote complete. Summary: good idea for something that you can buy for half price directly from Japan that costs a lot of money on ebay. Didn't save me as much money as I hoped, but it was a good experiment.
|
|
|
Post by wolffangfisting on Jul 27, 2016 9:12:28 GMT -6
This is great information. Thank you again for the help!
|
|