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Originally Posted by junglalien
This was the first time I ordered from Japan and figured I'd see my movies in a month or so. First one of the movies I ordered was out of stock and they sent me an e-mail asking me if I wanted to wait till they got it back in stock. They very next day they got it in stock. I took the cheapest shipping which was only $11. I got my movies expressed mailed to me in 2 days. Is this how they normaly do buisness?
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HMV Japan ships internationally by EMS and they charge the actual shipping cost for shipping and no extra. Sending 1 or 2 discs to U.S. by EMS is 1200 yen, 3-4 is about 1500 yen, 5 is usually 1680 yen and so forth. EMS is very cost effective and fast from Japan to U.S. For some reason it's much more expensive from U.S. to Japan.
I like HMV too but I buy new releases mostly from Amazon JP because their pre-order discounts are usually a bit better and both of the shops ship for free within Japan (as long as the order value is not very very low). For older titles HMV keeps the same discounts available while Amazon often does not.