Colby2004I decided to browse a bit on AmiAmi this morning, however something on the homepage caught my eye.
Yup, you read that right- US/Canada customers will be paying an average of 17% increase for DHL. This may not pose a major problem for smaller items, but large figures are another story.
Not to mention, Canada’s only option right now is to ship DHL- which is very unfortunate timing.
Customers located outside North America will see an average increase of 2-15%. These updated prices will begin starting tomorrow.
So...not great news. Obviously there’s many reasons for price increases right now (which I won’t touch on in this article), but the whole situation is still very concerning. What are your thoughts? Will you be cancelling pre-orders, or succumbing to the high shipping prices?
Yup, you read that right- US/Canada customers will be paying an average of 17% increase for DHL. This may not pose a major problem for smaller items, but large figures are another story.
Not to mention, Canada’s only option right now is to ship DHL- which is very unfortunate timing.
Customers located outside North America will see an average increase of 2-15%. These updated prices will begin starting tomorrow.
So...not great news. Obviously there’s many reasons for price increases right now (which I won’t touch on in this article), but the whole situation is still very concerning. What are your thoughts? Will you be cancelling pre-orders, or succumbing to the high shipping prices?
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It turns out that it shipped via UPS, not DHL.
If you don't mind me asking, what did you order? I order a 1/4 standing bunny figure, and at first they wanted me to pay $400 for shipping. Then I paid for a shipping expert, and it went to $150 shipping. Then later they send me an invoice saying I needed to pay $250 extra for shipping since EMS was now going by volumetric weight (base on the shipping company). I have to fight with customer support until we both agree on $80 extra. It was a huge fight, but it made me think about my other orders that I have with them. Shipping prices are going up the roof, so it makes me think about where I should buy figures and taking it slow on pre-ordering figures.
Why does Canada specifically have no options other than DHL? I'd even wait the 3 months for a surface parcel to arrive if it meant not spending more for shipping than the actual figure is worth with DHL
as I said before for big figures (1/4 or figure where amiami says "Shipping costs for this item may be very high due to package size or/and weight") I'm starting use amazon jp
I'm more worried for GSC figures, I dont know if they already found an alternative for EMS, otherwise the will hold our orders indefinitely
(su mfc ci sono diversi italiani, alcuni sono "mostri sacri" del sito con il loro enorme contributo nel corso degli anni, cercali anche tra i miei amici se vuoi :) )
furthermore now we dont have EMS
before this news I was already pondering to move some order (especially figures with big packages) from AmiAmi to Amazon JP, now I'm sure to do that: I've already seen shipping costs are a lot lower and I can also pay customs at the same time, they only thing i dont like is they dont offer paypal payment Same, italian here and you don't know how much I understand you. I have preorders these months and the only method I can use is DHL. (finalmente un italiano con il mio stesso "hobby")
sadly it is permanent I spoke with an amiami customer service person. I'm not sure why this is happening :/
ems airmail is not available during the holidays but it will return. normal ems is available in the USA but in my experience, they always deliver my packages late and I've gotten multiple broken figures with ems handled by USPS. but to answer your question airmail should be back by next year to usa
yes, they said it will be permanent which sucks since i use dhl all the time.