>>11689328
If only some retard wasn't completely fucking international pricing in every regard by trying to start trade wars with every nation on the planet.

It's almost like you shouldn't let dementia ridden morons be in charge of anything.

>>11689376
Is this only for US buyers?

>>11689376
random anecdote but I sell stuff on mercari and got a message from them saying shipping costs increased average of 11% across carriers for 2026 and that is domestic shipping so maybe not just because of tariffs

>>11689431
I don't think so but coincidentally DHL and ECMS are the only shipping methods they have available for US

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>>11689376
>it's Trump's fault they're greedy and won't bring back Small Packet SAL

let's all laugh at the Americans, why hasn't Trump opened factories yet in your country? You can give Somalia 20 billion dollars from scams they run but not pursuade build up of infrastructure for manufacturing?

>>11689431
>>11689328
Y'all voted for this.

>>11689566
No, I didn't, nor did anyone with a functioning brain.

>>11689585
you are a fat American

>>11689566
It's worth it. :)

>>11689554
Shipping prices were getting out of control during Biden so I don't think tariffs are the direct cause. Weight/size of packages have nothing to do with that.

>>11689376
It's also Trumps fault that for years under Biden the prices of shipping went up steadily and shipping methods were being removed. And not just to the US but to all western countries. Ita Trumps failt amiami takes weeks to fucking ship now when they used to take a day or two. Its always Trumps fault and years after he's gone it'll still be his fault. Trump is the cause of all bad things all over the world since it began, and until it ends.

>>11690435
>it's Trumps fault for the war in Ukraine! he's literally orange Hitler!

kek Americans

>>11690438
Trump promised to end the war on day 1 and release the SLT files

>>11690435
The world used the plandemic to gouge prices on everything.

>>11690435
>Ita Trumps failt amiami takes weeks to fucking ship now when they used to take a day or two.
Kinda? The tariff situation is what got them so backed up after all, is it not? At least I imagine that months of holding stuff for US customers took its toll, in a way that would affect non-US customers, too.

Yeah, i'm using only HLJ from now on.

>>11689328
I assume this will probably effect other stores as well eventually, but I haven't used Amiami in years. That they've been in business so long yet can't figure out how to calculate shipping for in stock items without you messaging them is absurd. But the tariffs have already made importing from Japan fairly unappealing lately. We're at a point where you can often get things domestically for around the same price or slightly less than Japanese sites.

>>11689328
God fucking damn, I seldom bought there but they still had some nice pre-owned stuff.

>>11690203
>>11690435
I wasn't paying these tariffs and charges under Biden.

>>11690203
Biden didn't end de minimis.

>$300 order in February
Fucking rip.

>>11690634
yeah I've been spending around $300 for only 3 figs every month...

I've had pretty bad experiences with ECMS, they sit on it for like a month before even shipping it. When it ships it's pretty quick. Then when it gets here it's filtered through a service called UniUni, where future doctors and nurses deliver it to the wrong address in their 2002 Camry even though they took a fucking picture showing the wrong number. Should call it EBTMS :^)

I don't think I've ever had a single issue with DHL but I'm not paying a red cent for import fees

>>11690203
This anon >>11690633 beat me to, so why lie anon? Are you also going to come over and piss on me feet while strangers photograph me and then claim that you were protecting yourself because I had my dick out and what about to piss on your first? Is that why you had to have your friends come over to beat me up first, hold me down and take their dicks out, too?

>>11690693
You just get screwed with UmiUmi, then? Ali, what? claims those pictures are the proof you got it, and you get no refund and no product?

>>11690693
I ordered one figure and when it reached the states, uniuni took it out of the cardboard box, repacked it in a bag then shipped it out again and when it got to me the figure’s box was crushed which could have been avoided if they kept it in the original box. Seem if you have multiple items, there is less chance of them repacking. Sometimes last mile is done by fedex as well which my next delivery will be from. I’d hope for fedex every time but it’s total rng. With uniuni my biggest fear is them taking a photo of the package at your door then taking it back with them. The photo of it being “delivered” would make it hard to dispute. Hopefully most of the drivers are not smart enough to realize they can do that

I can't even tell if it's the same to just pay for DHL and then pay to have it delivered. Last delivery for a single thing cost $60 for total in shipping with DHL but I can't calculate what my next order will be in regards to packaging. I think last time with EMS fast shipping it was also around $60. This is fucking dumb.

>>11690435
>>11690203
I'm so glad I keep all records of my orders so I can tell when gaslighting bullshit like this comes up meant to damage control stupid shit this administration has done I know it's bullshit.

>>11690489
Anon, they're no better. Amiami actually had the slightly better prices. HLJ's shipping has been fucked for a while now.

>>11690634
>>11690636
Holy fucking shit, does that include the shipping or is it the shipping that reaches that cost?

>>11689643
Hope you're ready to die for Israel, goyim.

>>11691064
Still the better outcome, with Koala Hairs we'd have gotten us and the entire world nuked to oblivion by now.

>>11691064
two more weeks

>>11691060
Includes shipping and tariffs. In nov I ordered figma 2B, shf grievous, and a mafex and shipping was $67. Total around 44k or a little under $300. Does not help that single figures are averaging around $75 now

>>11690636
300 for 3 figs? Might as well order them domestically if that's the best deal you can get

>>11691494
God dammit it

So does DHL on amiami not include the tariff charge? Because that’s what the description seemed to imply. I got a payment request for Toji and I think I’m just gonna hold out for my BBTS preorder of him since it’s around the same price already with shipping and if that’s not including the tariff, it would be even more. What bullshit.

>>11691559
it was still cheaper than domestic though lol... plus you get them a couple months early

>>11691567
DHL on ami does not include tariff, you will get separate charge later. if you don't pay their invoice they might ban your account tho

>>11691567
You pay a fee to have your item delivered. I had my Snake figma delivered with DHL and it cost $30 to have it delivered on top of the shipping fee.

>>11691608
Damn, that's Based. Americans certainly should be paying more for goods

>>11691619
maybe if they went to the figure companies and not american boomer politician niggers

>>11691623
Maybe you should open up factories instead of giving Somalian refugees 20 billion a year for doing nothing huh?

>>11691627
I don't think Toshiro Figma and Watanabe Mafex are gonna be making factories in America regardless.

>>11690465
Are you stupid? They've been taking forever since after covid. They basically never recovered operations.

>>11691627
Orange Jesus/Acting Venezuela gave that to Argentina, sister.
The Somalis got spit on and told their passports were no longer welcome.

>>11691816
Americans won't do farming, why would they ever do toy manufacturing?

>>11691907
>Are you stupid?
Are you? Admittedly, I've only been their customer for the last 1.5 years or so, so I can't speak to how it was years ago. But they always shipped my orders within a couple of days of me paying for them.
The first time it took them longer than that, about three weeks before shipping it out, was my December 2025 order.

>>11689328
So this is gonna effect us eurobros too then? not actually ordered from amiami in a while so I don't know what their shipping is like at the moment.

>>11691985
They get paid to do it.

>>11692100
Nigga I do this shit for free. If Soros does hand out checks tho lemme know

>1k order for jan
They did this shit on purpose. Good thing we are getting more trumpbux. Trust the plan.

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>>11692350
>Good thing we
>getting more
>trumpbux
Sweetie, orange jesus got his billy last year.
That's all it cares about.
You're getting shit this year.
And even more shit the next year and even the year after that.

God, collecting is getting to be such a pain in the ass. Everybody being stupid on purpose is doing what peer pressure never could.

So first you've got the companies doing their usual bullshit. Raising prices, reducing quality, holding teams hostage, willfully making mistakes, willfully shortpacking hot figures while flooding the market with garbage figures, redoing the same tiny range of IPs/characters over and over, etc.

Then you've got the faggots at Walmart that're happy being full of mostly garbage at 3X-4X MSRP listings. Same for Best Buy. And Target just plain doesn't sell toys in large swaths of the country. Shelves are bare and the website is full of shlefwarmers from 5 years ago. GameStop also is not selling toys in many stores, and doesn't curate the website to remove stuff that';s been out of stock for years, and has everything marked up beyond even the ridiculous new MSRPs. So no real major store to buy toys from.

Then shops like BBTS keep getting slower and fucking up their website and not having any clue how to handle mistakes/bugs to the poijt where you might as well just go to eBay.

Then toy shows are going extinct because rentiers are trying to get thousands of dollars to bring in hundreds of shoppers just killing time between Ollies runs so vendors struggle to make $20 more than they paid for being locked behind a table for four days.

And of course don't go to Japan/China, unless you want buttfucked on shipping, buttfucked on tariffs, and buttfucked again on tips for collecting tariffs from buttfucking corporations full of Mexicans and Hindus liable to damage or misdeliver your packages if they don't outright steal them.

All while even small towns fill up with Somalis and Haitians and Hindu street shitters and other third world garbage anyway, ruining the economy just by being here instead of at the bottom of the ocean where they belong.

>>11692459
nah, trust the plan.

>>11692350
>thanks for giving us your money, here have some of it back. oh only if you had a baby this year btw

>>11692473
racists deserve this :^)

>>11692485
You have to go back.

>>11692482
Yeah nobody should count on that tariff rebate check or whatever they're calling it. Just because the Democrats are openly anti-white and anti-worker doesn't mean the Republicans don't hate white workers too.

>>11692485
Also, to be clear, I meant it was making me think twice about collecting toys as an adult. I will never stop hating needful doers that shit in the street. I will help load them into boxcars should the opportunity to do so arise.

>>11692473
You're really just experiencing the fallout of an economy on it's way to collapse and toy collecting getting so mainstream and companies knowing adults that do it have no selfcontrol and will pay anything to get that one figure. America has been on this course for years now.

>>11692813
Funny how China makes better toys and for cheaper too

>>11692815
cheaper labor and they can undercut american stuff really good because of that, most isn't sold in the west though so we still gotta eat the shipping and import

>>11692818
>cheaper labor and they can undercut american stuff
what American stuff Americans can't make anything, you need months to ship stuff all the way from china to only end up filling dollar tree with low quality sloppa, china doesn't have this shipping problem

>>11692822
Chink hands typed this post.

>>11692855
I'm actually trying to get a toy manufactured in the US and it's really difficult on every possible level. Even just trying to hire somebody to turn 2D drawings into a 3D CAD file to get mold cuts is hard. Alot of them are infected with "just wait for AI to do it for you, bro." Here I am worried that AI's (as crippledick worthless as it is) going to take jobs and somebody's turning down a paying job _right_now_.

Then you've got some of them that're hung up on physical production factors like it's any of their business. I'm buying design services. WTF do you care how many units I have funding for? And then it's this cat and mouse game where they won't do a design because you can't commit to a number of units at a price they won't reveal. Give me 3-4 pricing tiers and I'll tell you which one I can afford.

I had the MMC lead designer on the line awhile back and that's exactly what happened with him. I finally pulled a number out of my ass (3000) and he proceeded to shit all over it as too optimistic and _still_ wouldn't agree to the job. So why the fuck did that dickless chink even press the issue?

Anyway, bizarre as it sounds, I actually got better leads from LinkedIn than anywhere in the toy arena. I actually got a number for design _and_ tooling! Sounds too good to be true so I decided to save up a little more money for surprises. I told them i needed to lockdown some more details but I'm planning to earnestly try mid February once I hit my number and have reference materials together.

It would be really awesome if this all actually worked out.

>>11693434
And I have to say, I find alot of disappointing parallels between AI and 3D printing. Real 3D printing is like fusion, always a decade away. All anybody seems to churn out with it is hideous stair-stepped gap fillers for Hasbro figures. Where are all the innovative new products and services to create products that were supposed to come out of this whimpering "revolution?" AI's going the same route with a bunch of dipshit "vibe coders" using thousands of prompt tokens to make toy scripts that any real programmer could crank out in a few minutes. Where's the diverse and cheap retail software market that should come out of such a magical invention? It's all clown world all the time.

Amiami said they're replacing airmail with something called International ePacket Light within the coming months. Might be a cheaper option?

>>11693526
>International ePacket Light
Sounds bad for preventing damage

So what's the best place to order stuff? I don't wanna get raped by shipping

>>11693629
You can't avoid the rape sorry anon

>>11693526
i believe its basically the same service from the jp post with higher rates

>>11693526
It's pretty much the same as Air Small Packet, except no insurance (which ASP had up to 6k yen).

all those scale figures you have ordered? they will be $500 :) don't pay and we ban your account, card and address :)

>>11694252
*$500 each

>>11690712
I live in a fairly small community so it got delivered eventually by a neighbor, it had a Wilhelmina tiddy pillowcase in it though so I'm fortunate they didn't accidentally open it

>>11692034
so because supply chain is globalized, what's been happening is prices are creeping up for everyone to help alleviate the increased u.s. related costs and also because some solutions are easier to implement on everything rather than just select things. So for example the regular price of an item will go up for everyone slightly instead of just a giant price hike srp only for u.s. customers.

>>11690438
when y'all start starving and need to be bailed, you better the Euro's have money left, because Putin and Winnie aren't spending any on y'all unless you have natural resources they want to rape

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>>11692480
>trust
>plan.

>>11693444
>>11693434
AI is those chat bots that allow people to fire the low-end third world off-shore customer service they had, companies are only interested in AI to the extent it lets them cost cuts that don't seem to impact the bottom line (and firing human workers is an easy answer since that's been THE quick and easy answer since the industrial revolution).

The type of AI bullshit y'all are talking about is the stuff that is passed off to sell the public on allowing the rape of electricity and other resources just so companies can squeeze a few more pennies for stockholders (wall street) and fire a lot more actual humans.

>>11698973
nah, trust!

>>11698975
Those CS bots do not require much processing power. What costs processing power is the copilot bots which collate complex data for industry professionals and generative AI which replaces artists. Some toy companies have already been caught using AI generated art on boxes.

>>11689328
Cool. I guess we weren't being raped enough.
>>11690693
I have the same exact issues as you. I even lost crap because the asshole who delivered it claimed they did and the companies refuse to believe or compensate me.


The weird thing is. I get stuff from ecms for another site and they ship fast and for free (it's a scam claw game but with pity assist) but for some reason amiami just sits on their ass for a month and then shoves it out the following month like I picked the slow freight boat option.

>>11699124
>some reason amiami just sits on their ass for a month
The reason they've given is that they can only get a certain no. of ECMS shipments out a day. So after holding orders for US customers for months, they could only be shipped out slowly over time.

>>11699154
>>11699124
I just ordered something that will allegedly arrive in less than two weeks. It's small, a Blokees box - and even the Galaxy boxes are smaller than a Black Series or Harbro box, and two 'compatible' LEGO mechs (they gave me free shipping if I put three things in the cart but also charged me a $7 fee for something even though 'duty and tariffs' were supposed to be included). But it's still cheaper than the best price I've seen anywhere in the USA, especially eBay which was the most common place for that particular Blokees so what can you do.

And $29 is not going to bury me if it's turns out to be a total wash, although I'm sure those LEGO mechs are total KOs that will discolor before Labor Day, since they were essentially $1 for what retailers ask $15.

Although I'm sure if this thread was around an entire month, I'd possibly be back here at the beginning of March bitching about how my order hasn't shipped yet.

>>11689551
It's trump's fault that there are tariffs on things not expensive enough to warrant them, causing post offices that aren't equipped to deal with collecting tariffs on every single parcel to go "no, fuck that".
Greed isn't relevant to this situation.
Go suck your cult leader off in >>>/pol/ .

>>11690435
>its not trump's fault that things continued to get worse through his decisions after sleepy joe left office!
Durrrr