Wow, awesome collection guys... I love looking at people's Rika collections
Well, I guess I should post my Rika "collection" as well.
Yep, that's pretty much it. It's the picture I got from winning the JPH!P "Kill Me Kiss Me" contest (along with the CD). =D It's one of the very few pictures I have, so I treasured it by putting it on my wall. Yay!
Naomi, you need MORE!
Here's my H&A collection:
Mad props to my homie daigong for hooking me up with that signed poster
I really want those photocards... and something signed by them too. Imma jealous.
AW YEAH HOMIE!! You went to work at the Merch Table LIKE A BAWS!
Got some new goods 8D just to fill a HelloStoreUSA fixed shipping
Also Linna2040 had an extra giant Rika pic so THANKS
Holy cow, dai.
Stop making me jealous, I'm already broke now as it is >.< hahaha...
But I really love that larger photo... is it A4 size? So pretty.
I got all of those from Yahoo Japan Auctions, through Celga. Personally I think they're a bad service, but other people say they're good. For these Rika purchases, they charged me roughly 3500 yen for shipping via Surface Mail, and that was the cheapest option they offered. I've spoke to others and they said it shouldn't cost that much for the items I had posted. As expected they also charge a service fee, but it all adds up when your charged a fee for each individual auction, so in my case, 4. And then internal shipping within Japan.
Don't go with Celga! I think CrescentShop is much better. I use that when I don't have my extra personal service at hand.
The fees @CS are cheaper, they also allow customers real-time, automated bidding, which is a BLESSING. They are also really professional and manage things very quickly and efficiently.
HOWEVER, if I were to recommend you guys a
YJA BIDDING SERVICE, I would recommend you Edison Chow. He's just an average guy trying to live his dream studying in Japan. Here is a link to his service:
http://forum.lowyat.net/index.php?showtopic=1041719He is SO nice. He listens to all my requests (I always ask for cheapest domestic shipping within Japan, he does it for me, CS doesn't respond to that request). He used to have his service fee/commission at only 100 YEN + 10% of final price, but it has gone up since because he feels overworked for little money. I heartily recommend him though. He's just an awesome service provider
3500YEN!! woah.shipping sucks!
You think 3500 YEN is a lot?
Since my first shopping spree in October last year, I think I've spent about $3000AUD on shipping
alone (domestically and internationally). I'm not kidding.
that's some 226000 JPY for you. It costs almost as much as the products themselves.
@matt9210: Yeah, sorry I was asking Himalia about one particular shirt and he's like "sorry, that's recently been on hold... BUT I have THIS shirt."
The one item I REALLY want above all others (granted, I'm sure that this graduation shirt will be the pride of my collection, hahaha), is the Rikaishite Onna no Ko single.
So many of us get a few of our goodies from Himalia! So lucky, I want a grad t-shirt too >.<
I can help you with the 'Holy Grail', as they have deemed it here...
Looky at what arrived a few weeks ago!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I can sell it to you, if you want, serenyty. I have 5 copies of the Rikaishite Onna no Ko single now... I'm not sure HOW it happened (I won a lot of whole sales and stuff).
True, what matt said... it's not so hard to find anymore, I see it popping up at YJA quite frequently recently. I saw it going for 1 YEN, with free shipping, and nobody bidded for it
Whilst other sellers are selling it for over 10000 yen.. it really depends, I think you can find it quite cheaply there. The only thing you have to deal with is service fees and commission charged by a service provider, and all the shipping that has to be done. Which raises the cost of it to more than double.
You can either buy it with the case containing the other 9 solo singles, or you can buy just the one Rikaishite. But if you buy the single one, just know that the value of the other 9 will go down, since I'll have to sell them separately too (and so I have to adjust prices accordingly). But that's only if you want to buy it from me - I'm sure you can find it on YJA. I don't charge crazy commission and only one way shipping though so just thought I'd offer...