Well check out yesasia.com they have almost all of Hello! Projects girls PB's and i think they have Maki's latest PB.
Let me tell you a little story about YesAsia and this book:
When shopping at their site you gotta keep in mind that they are sometimes quite lazy and inaccurate when it comes to updating.
The first time I've ordered Foxy Fungo, a few weeks after it's release, it's status remained "searching from suppliers" for about a month until they eventually cancelled it and gave me a refund.
Soon after, it became unavailable on their site and you could only sign up to receive a product alert in case it becomes available again. But that email never came.
While browsing for christmas presents, I checked it again and it said "usually ships within 21 days". I mailed them about it, complaining that I never got any product alert. I also asked about the chances of getting it this time and they replied that if I ordered right away, they would most likely get it within the mentioned 21 days and then ship it right away. So I placed another order for it on
12/21/2006, right after reading their reply.21 days passed and nothing happened. I checked their site almost daily. The book remained available, with the usual "21 days" availability. The status of my order remained "searching from suppliers". I almost gave up and already started to plan what I could buy from the refund, until, to my surprise, they sent a mail last week, saying "With reference to the following item 'Goto Maki Phoro Album - Foxy Fungo' in your order
*******, the expected ship out date has been revised to Feb/14/2007."
It says
expected - So I'm not going to party until I actually hold it in my hands.
I'm also pretty sure that I wasn't the only one who mentioned to them that it's not a Phoro Album.... To be fair, with the exception of this, I've never had any problems with them and they usually shipped several days earlier than the expected date. BUT if you follow this and other boards closely, you will sooner or later stumble across other stories, of people who waited, had their orders cancelled more than once or shipping dates revised several times and so on.
I'm not saying that it's impossible to get older stuff from them and FF is probably a much hotter item than, let's say, a Mako one (don't get me wrong, I like Mako and I was sad when she left but she just cannot compare to Maki IMHO) so it shouldn't be taken as a standard but don't think that, just because they list it as available or because they let you order it, you are actually going to get it.
I've made it a rule for myself to buy older stuff only after mailing them about it first and to try to get all the new stuff I really want by pre-order and not to combine these items with others who might slow down the order.
Sorry if the long post made you sleepy. I suggest you check some of the preview pics in here to get your blood pressure back up again.
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