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Originally posted by Made in DNA:
Sticking with one exchange rate is to your benefit and ours. If the prices keep changin day to day, then you don't know when to buy. What if you buy something today for $18 and the next day it's $16? Don't you feel ripped off?
No, because I know how to play with exchange rate. I've been buying overseas for over a decade; I know to follow the exchange rate to decide when to order and when to pay, thanks you.
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Moreover, just because J-List lists in dollars doesn't mean you are losing out in the process cuz the price that was in Japanese yen was never available to you in the first place. Remember, you aren't in Japan. You can't expect things for a yen price.
Are you kidding me? I know how to count, thank you, and have access to many ways to import from Japan, with more or less cost or inconvenience.
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Furthermore, just because some sites list in Japanese yen, DOESN'T mean they accept Japanese yen. Don't be fooled. Read the fine print.
Who do you think I am? A newbie? I know the prices of the items I buy, I have the detailed bill for what I'm buying and I'm sending the money in yens; can you explain me how possibly the company doesn't accept paiement by yen?
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Your whole ideas about "loss" is all in your head. Get away from the conversion thinking, and start thinking about whether you simply feel the product is worth the money to you or not.
It's true if JList was the only way I have to have the products I'm interested by. But it's not the case; if through JList I can have some items at a higher price than through another way, don't you think it IS a loss?
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Have you ever been to Comiket? If you had, you would never ask such a question. I think it's pretty audacious to ask a question like that.
I don't want to turn this into a flamewar, but did you even read my question? Yes, I've been to Comicket, even if once. And so? There's a difference between taking orders and NOT being able to fulfill them (which I can understand because I went to Comicket and regularly ask to friends who go there to
try to get stuff there) and NOT even taking orders for the Comicket.
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I'll tell you what, I'll pay your airfare to Japan and back if you come here first, go to the Winter Comiket in December, and buy me the 10 most wanted doujinshi on my wish list.
Blah-blah-blah. I don't remember asking for anything impossible like the example you're giving. I asked IF they would TRY to get items, because I DO know stores who would, so save me your superior attitude, okay? Save your "you should feel lucky that companies like J-List even gave other companies the idea of performing the services of offering doujin at all" because:
1) I don't remember asking for doujin (I happen to know a bit how the doujin market works, thank you). I'd rather try with Toranoana than JList or any other "general" stores, anyway...
2) I DO have alternative to JList, so I think I have the right to compare JList to every other way I use to get my different stuff from Japan and not to order from JList if for everyone service they can provide me I can find another way which is cheaper or less inconvenient for me.
3) I don't remember complaining, just explaining why I don't use their service.
Honestly, if you're a PR for JList, the mere fact that you used such a condescending tone to deal with myself, whom I consider a potential customer, is enough for me not to want to deal with you, ever.