voxune reblogged your post inspectorbuffoon asked:I'm using ... and added:
I’ve ordered plenty at AmiAmi and I live in Europe. I started out using Airmail but SAL (registered, for insurence, if you want to track your order and costs you only 400 yen more) works just as well, is just as fast (about 2 weeks), makes no difference for duties (here, in the Netherlands, if you’ve got your stuff shipped with EMS, you pay more for duties) you might need to pay and is slightly cheaper than Airmail. So I would recommend you SAL (registered). You can always change the way you wanna ship at Amiami the moment you pay for your pre-order. (normally for stuff like nendoroids and figmas I pay a bit over 1000 yen for shipping with SAL (registered))
Hope that helped!
when the fig is in stock and ready to ship, amiami will calculate shipping cost and email you for payment. on the payment page there will be a dropdown box with all shipping methods and the cost, you can choose/change it then! c:
gureatodaze reblogged this from you and added:
I always choose SAL. Three day shipping, and you always know where it is.
About AmiAmi shipping: I suggest EMS if you buy expensive things ($100+) so you get insurance. Registered and unreg airmail are okay but registered (& EMS) usually has a higher chance of getting stuck at the customs office than unreg. SAL options are the slowest and cheapest, but very reliable - I've never lost a SAL packet in the mail. c: We have high taxes (I'm a Finn) so I usually pick unreg SAL to minimize the chance of the package getting stuck in customs (it doesn't always work though).
nice to know, thank you!!!
As for me, in Italy, I always got everything I bought from all the world, with or without the track number... The only crap here are the customs times, that are absurd, and no one knows what the hell is happening in that place...
So I think important is have the track number, so if it ever gets lost, you can always find the last place where it went last time and try to figure out what happened :)