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44371423 No.44371423 [Reply] [Original]

$300 for slippers and a fucking bottle

>> No.44371560

>>44371423
holy kek

>> No.44371570

Same thing happened with Luknight slippers
The shipping cost would skyrocket the moment those were included
It must be based on the size of the item

>> No.44371587

>>44371423
That is crazy

>> No.44371633

>>44371423
Where do you live, Bakhmut?

>> No.44371694

>>44371423
have you considered not being an euro?

>> No.44371818

>>44371423
What the actual fuck?
I live in the US and shipping costs me $20-40 and there are zero duties. Where the fuck do you live? Also, you shouldn't be taxed on shipping. That makes zero sense. And if you're not being taxed on shipping, then your sales tax is like 66%, and literally no state's taxes are that high.
I think you're a mexican or some shit trying to use USD instead of your worthless currency.

>> No.44371860

>>44371423
I really don't want to see this shit with BRL taxes...

>> No.44371858

>>44371423
Nijisanji does this shit too, even here to the US, it's the reason I never buy physical merch.

>> No.44371902

>142$ for shipping
HAHAHA, WTF DO YOU LIVE IN BUM FUCK NO WHERE LAND?!

>> No.44371943

>>44371818
Not everyone lives in murica, anon

>> No.44371954

>>44371818
You get taxed on shipping in the EU. Whole price of the order is taxable. You gotta pay for that health care somehow.

>> No.44371971

>>44371423
You are almost 100% not an American and don't live in the US. There is no fucking way shipping, duties, and taxes are that high for the US from Japan.

>> No.44372044

>>44371943
The pic literally says USD.

>> No.44372152

>>44371423
imagine being an europoor
can't be me

>> No.44372162
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44372162

look at this asshole in brazil

>> No.44372226

>>44371423
Does USD mean
>ur shitty dinero

>> No.44372242

The Mori slippers must weigh as much as the real Mori.

>> No.44372276

>>44371423
>200+usd for shipping + fees
not even in my backwater third world shithole you get those fees, do you live in some god forsaken siberian forest?

>> No.44372373

>>44371954
That's brutal. EU doesn't even seem to have that many shipping treaties so you can sometimes see outrageous prices like those in OP.

>> No.44372438

>>44371423
do you fucking live in tuvalu or some shit?

>> No.44372479

>>44371818
OP is a retard. I'm European. It's the fucking EU's fault. They passed crazy fucking protectionist tariffs a year ago to fuck the UK for leaving. On top of the VAT you already had to pay. Some websites charge you those fees as "shipping".
OP should be mad at the fucking EU not cover.

>> No.44372517

I assume they'll be delivering to your Amazon Jungle treehouse village on foot?

>> No.44372604

>>44372479
Sorry anon, that sounds rough as fuck.

>> No.44372654

>>44371423
That's not even close to 300 bucks.

>> No.44372656

>>44372479
why the fuck does the EU do that???

>> No.44372905

>>44372373
I don't know why is that way.
There are also a lot of hidden things for example if you pay with EUR for USD nominated things with Paypal, you get charged 7% extra. And even that extra is then taxed.
For you to not have to deal with gov. customs, companies charge fees so they do it for you (10#-20$), thats gets taxed also.
As a rule of thumb. When I order 1/7 fig. fom JP to EU i can pay 3x as much as I would to the US.

>> No.44373079

>>44371423
And I thought I had it bad when a fucking tea cup ended up being almost 100 bucks kek these shipping prices are outrageous

>> No.44373112

>>44371570
damn big goofy lunaito slippers

>> No.44373199

>>44371818
I live in Texas and I get shipping fees like that from the official shop. I've seen some speculation that it's on DHL's end. It went something to the effect of Cover utilizing their flat rate boxes until DHL got fed up with it and put a stop to it.

>> No.44373373

>>44371423
>Duties
>Taxes
Sound like a (you) problem

>> No.44373510

>>44372479
Brazil has the same bullshit, but with the plus that the content never arrives.

>> No.44373703

>>44373373
Duties and Taxes is not the problem here (you) idiot

>> No.44373745

>>44372479
Yes the new shipping rules make it impossible to order outside eu and china ( becuase of eu warehouses loop)

>> No.44373930

>>44373199
They're using DHL's next day delivery that's why it's so expensive.

>> No.44374208

>>44372656
The entirety of the EEA is held up primarily by Germany and France and Italy to a lesser degree. The UK used to be a big contributor along with them to upkeep the welfare queen states of Europe like Greece. With the UK leaving it puts more stress on the other big contributors hence why they pull retarded shit like that to scrounge up more tax money.

>> No.44374246

>>44374208
taxes are such bullshit.

>> No.44374333

>>44371423
Dang dude that’s a lot of money for some vtuber stuff. I rather buy a shotgun for that amount of cash.

>> No.44374582

>>44374246
Taxes out the ass on everything else would be tolerable if there was no income tax. They are fucking us from both ends however

>> No.44374592

This isn't the fault of the corpo, this is some insane protectionism. Do you live in Palau or something?

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44374833

>>44374333
Got my overunder for less. Goddamn I love being an American

>> No.44374852

>>44371423
And this is why Amazon's global logistics network has achieved something incredibly powerful and unique.

>> No.44375002
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44375002

>>44371423
skill issue, shipping to EU from South Korea, estimated time to delivery 2 weeks aftert shipment

>> No.44375184

>>44374333
the goods arent that expensive, it's the shipping cost

>> No.44375214

>>44375002
>>44371423
Are these both to the EU? value and weright of the items is more or less the same but shipment is massively different

>> No.44375292

>>44375184
Oh ok. Got cha.

>> No.44375347

>>44374833
Nice dude.

>> No.44375489

>>44372479
It's 100% Cover doing this though because not every shipping service to the EU is that fucked up

>> No.44375842

>>44371423
Just don't buy then

>> No.44375920

>>44375489
Nigga, they're legally required to charge you those fees or customs won't let the package through. If they don't charge it at checkout the delivery driver will ask you for the fee. Some delivery companies only take cash. Don't have it on hand? Too bad they're taking your package and destroying it.

>> No.44376024

>>44375920
> Some delivery companies only take cash
Your south american or africa shitholes literally don't count.
No first world country or in this case EU operating company will ever accept cash on the delivery guy in hand

>> No.44376176

>>44373930
This has ruined ordering merch for me. If I'm ordering merch months in advance I don't mind waiting a bit longer for delivery, but spending $100+ just on shipping when it used to be ~$20 is insane. I hope they change the prices back.

>> No.44376191

>>44375002
EU has some agreement with South Korea. When I order custom keyboards it's far cheaper then JP, KH, Taiwan, etc.

>> No.44376242
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44376242

i just wish that the stuff shipped faster. its bullshit that something I ordered back in august will arrive now in march.

>> No.44376277

Have you tried mailing Cover about why their merch shipping is suddenly so expensive and ask if you can just opt in for a cheaper albeit slower option?

>> No.44376343

>>44375002
>Cover ripping my ass more than some literal who merch
sasuga

>> No.44376464

>>44375920
>Some delivery companies only take cash
they literally cannot do this wtf

>> No.44376681

>>44375920
They are not legally required to charge you $300 shipment, shipment can be expensive but it also depend on the service used by the store to delivery the merch

>> No.44376734

>>44371423
Have you considered not being a Takamorifag?

>> No.44377313

>>44371423
It's a bug on the system, the shipping is defaulted on "next day express air shipment", which is absolutely premium class expensive and taxed to hell too.
Don't order now

>> No.44377383

>>44377313
t. anon who is buying everything up so he can scalp it later

>> No.44377740

>>44371423
Yep. Reason why I haven't bought a single piece of merch yet. Feels like they don't want my money.

>> No.44378435

Back when Luna's anniversary merch was being sold, I just used a forwarder. The slippers made the shipping price absolutely retarded. I want to say that it was probably over $100 just for the slippers itself if I had used my actual address in the US.
I'm guessing that the other people being surprised at the shipping price are just lucky with buying items where the shipping price isn't bullshit. I know that I've bought Korone's birthday set on the last day it was available and the shipping was reasonable at around $20.

>> No.44379136

>>44378435
holopro shop isn't that bad for the US, but 140+ for some packs is insane, and the merch isn't exactly that...amazing.

>> No.44381363

>>44371633
yes

>> No.44381801

>>44371423
shameless scam

>> No.44383300

>>44376242
This way cover gets to collect interest on your money for 6 months. Win!

>> No.44383432

>>44372044
Are you retarded?

>> No.44383596

>>44376191
EU also has some agreement with Japan, but in the current state it's only for business and stuff like that probably.
https://trade.ec.europa.eu/doclib/docs/2018/august/tradoc_157228.pdf

>> No.44386642

>>44371423
Time to go crawling back to Geekjack

>> No.44387697

>>44376024
>No first world country or in this case EU operating company will ever accept cash on the delivery guy in hand
NTA, but they do here in Austria. If you don't have the cash on hand, they will store it for up to three weeks at the next post office. You will have to go and get it from there then. They also charge an additional delivery fee of 10€ if the package has to go through customs. Those prices in this thread are outrages however and have nothing to do with EU regulations, because I never had to pay that much, and I order merch constantly.

>> No.44388001

Holoshop shipping used to be too cheap and now it's too expensive.

>> No.44388054

>>44387697
thats weird as fuck especially considering all the tracking bullshit EU wants for money

>> No.44388152

>>44388054
I forgot to mention that this only applies if the Austrian post service delivers it. If you use some private company like DHL it's a bit different, but I think they still take cash.

>> No.44388810
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44388810

>>44371423
Holy corpo!

>> No.44391000

>>44371423
Don't forget that, depending where you live, you can be charged extra upon receiving the package. I had to pay an additional $30

>> No.44391578

I dont know what you guys are doing. Im german and i paid like 30eur for shipping for gura merch

>> No.44391700

>>44371423
use a proxy service like buyee jesus fucking christ

>> No.44395305

Complain to your government retard. Fees and shipping has nothing to do with hololive or japan.

>> No.44396777
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44396777

>>44376242
Yeah the long delay fucking sucks, especially under certain circumstances
I barely cared about my merch when it arrived. I guess the sanallite plushie makes for a decent pillow for napping on your desk

>> No.44396858

>>44371423
FUCK THAT

>> No.44396904

>>44391700
geekjack is still a thing, though I don't know if they stopped delivering to regions supported by the official hololive store
tried ordering from the official store and used tenso for shits and giggles, but it took just as long as if I ordered it from geekjack anyway, and I had to pay quite a bit more but not as high as what OP had to pay for
t. SEA

>> No.44397239

>>44396904
i see, ive had bad experiences with geekjack so i just use buyee, and honestly paying it in 2 parts (initial merch cost and then the shipping cost when it arrives at their warehouse) is a big plus for me even if it is just as/a little more expensive

>> No.44397325

>>44373199
I also live in TX and I've never had shipping over 40$

>> No.44397349

>>44397239
some of my geekjack orders took a month to get to me, but at least I didn't pay outrageous amounts of money for shipping

>> No.44397389

>>44371423
And here I was thinking that Phase Connect had it bad with $30 shipping to yuroland

>> No.44397406

>>44397349
took multiple months for a few of my orders, one of them reaching almost a year iirc

>> No.44397437
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44397437

>>44397406
what the fuck

>> No.44397536

>>44374208
it's gonna get a lot worse with the 2 poorest and most corrupt countries in europe knocking on the door. i genuinely don't understand why i have to pay for them. i didn't ask for it. i didn't vote for it. the EU is fucking garbage.

>> No.44397739

>>44397437
yeah, that's why i dont use GJ anymore.

>> No.44397762

>>44397739
I wish being a buyfag wasn't so complicated

>> No.44397899

>buying whore merch
You get what you fucking deserve.

>> No.44397927

>>44372479
I order big shit like entire boardgames from the US to the EU all the time and I've never seen shipping costs like that.

>> No.44398222

>>44397762
its not complicated if you can afford to shill out the money needed LOL

>> No.44398346

>>44397406
When my orders were taking forever, it was because EMS was blocked to my country for over a fucking year straight and they default to shipping with it.
You can message their support and ask them to ship with something else, but it will cost you.

>> No.44398426

>>44398346
oh dont worry, i did exactly that for one of my orders. GJ were helpful and told me exactly how to do it and it was done no problems, but I'd rather not experience something like that again so i just stick with proxy services now lmao

>> No.44398615

>>44371818
Hasn't shipping been fucked for a while in the Holopro shop, even for the US? I haven't bought anything in a while so I can't attest it for myself but I've seen anons who also live here complaining about it. Dunno if it's a bug though since Cover hasn't released an official statement about it yet.

>> No.44398732

>>44395305
are you retarded? only vtuber merch has this problem which means it is something they're doing. i'm ordering stuff from across the world pretty much weekly and get stuff fast and relatively cheap from anywhere, including china and japan, EXCEPT for niji and holo merch. they're trying to save money somewhere in their process chain and it fucks up their overseas orders.

>> No.44398889

burning 142 for shipping alone is a joke.

>> No.44399295

>>44398615
Cover has released a statement about it, there are bugs that prevent you from ordering at all. Like with Sora's 1m subscribers merch. The exponentially higher shipping prices are not part of the bug and Cover has not said anything besides in December when they announced there would be increases in shipping costs. They also switched to the most expensive DHL service so people are hoping that was a mistake and prices will normalize when they switch back, but it has been months and they haven't fixed either issue.
These issues combined with the limited supplies of ID merch really looks like Cover throwing away free money because they don't want to deal with overseas fans.

>> No.44399666

>>44397437
The geekjack situation was because EMS was suspended due to the coof. That's now fixed for most countries, so they're only a few weeks slower than the official shop.
By the way, geekjack is literally just a wrapper around CDJapan's proxy service, they have the same return address and the same name is signed on the customs forms. If you email them and ask they will change your shipping to DHL or FedEx (at extra cost).

>> No.44400011

>>44399666
>geekjack is literally just a wrapper around CDJapan's proxy service
Oh I didn't even notice. But based on my experience, ordering stuff from CDJapan direct's fast as hell. Been preordering a bunch of stuff from there and my items arrive at my doorstep 1-3 days after release (via EMS and not DHL/FedEx/etc)

>> No.44403249

>>44372162
Shut up Flare or I'll draw you using a bow.

>> No.44406317

>>44372654
IKt's most of the way to 300 bucks anon

>> No.44408776

sorry mori, i already bought the Slipkin Slippas

>> No.44410319

>>44376024
>EU operating company will ever accept cash on the delivery guy in hand
lol what? they do in germany

>> No.44412534

>>44371423
Thank you for funding the next set of Tempus Guild Members!

>> No.44412667

>>44371423
that's what you get

>> No.44412806

>>44412534
>over merch

>> No.44415901

>>44371423
how new? cover's been defaulting to next-day dhl shipping for a while now. just use a jp proxy instead.

>> No.44420631

>>44415901
thanks mang

>> No.44422121

>>44371423
do you live with the penguins in Antarctica, anon?

>> No.44428878

>>44376242
>>44373930
>next day delivery
>takes months to arrive
Discrepancy?

>> No.44429197

These tariffs really shouldn't even apply to this sort of thing. I get protecting your local steel and textile industries, but it's not like there's a local producer for Calliope Mori Ch. Hololive-EN New Outfit Celebration 2023 Death-sensei Room Slippers.

>> No.44432135

>>44428878
All the goods besides ID's are all made to order. So it takes months after you place the order for the products to be made and shipped. However once they are shipped DHL is delivering them the next day.

>> No.44432743

>>44429197
YOUR SLIPPERS NEED TO BE PLACED ON TARIFF SIR

>> No.44432815

>>44371423
I don't understand how Cover can't arrange affordable shipping.

>> No.44432824

>>44371694
euro doesn't cost this much, is likely Aus

>> No.44432901

>>44383432
The US in USD stands for UNITED STATES

>> No.44432921

>>44372479
see >>44373930

>> No.44433357

>>44371954
>for that health care
roru, free health care is bullshit
t.eu

>> No.44434939

>$142 shipping + tip
for that price i'd expect it hand-delivered next-day even if I was in fucking antarctica

>> No.44437109

>>44397927
Why do you need to order games in the EU? Isn't there a pretty prominent board game culture there? Do you guys have LGS?

>> No.44437197
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44437197

>>44408776
>Slipkin Slippas
Sounds like a Moomin character

>> No.44437407

>>44432901
Cover's shop only sells in JPY or USD regardless of where you live

>> No.44441633

jesas

>> No.44442645

>>44432815
I'm amazed the store works properly. I thought there would have been a major problem by now

>> No.44443366

>>44396777
I knew I had the right idea when I only ordered the sanalite plush. By the time it came i had a new oshi already and got over Sana. The plush is still fucking adorable though.

>> No.44443839

>>44398732
I order records and music gear from Japan fairly often, and it's always pretty fast and reasonably cheap. Otaku merch shipping costs and delays are *weird*. I'm a huge tuber fan with no tuber stuff because the total cost is always ridiculous.

>> No.44443964

>>44372479
That’s why I pirate merch items

>> No.44444746

>>44443964
If only I could find a decent bootleg of Ina’s hoodie
I don’t really watch her that much but I think that’s one of the best clothing items from hololive

>> No.44445053

>>44443366
I bought the whole set and the only stuff I’ve used were the plushies (also bought 1 extra) and the animal noises voice pack
The blanket and the clear folder were too small for me to use for their intended purpose
The glass still sits inside its box, and I was supposed to get a nice canvas backpack so I could have the logo badge sewed on it but I don’t really care that much anymore

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