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Old 9th August 2022, 04:07 AM
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Wow I haven’t seen the shipping fees for globally purchased asian music in a long time… I totally wouldn’t have been able to support Ayu as a teenager if those were the fees :-0
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Wow I haven’t seen the shipping fees for globally purchased asian music in a long time… I totally wouldn’t have been able to support Ayu as a teenager if those were the fees :-0
Yup, I hope i’ll be able to get her album this year but soooo many of my faves will be releasing towards the end of the year I might have to wait till all the releases are out so I can save up and buy them all at once
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Yeah shipping fees increased almost everywhere because of covid, but the degree is different on each site. Also depends on the country, since some shipping methods stopped working in certain countries
Not only because of Covid, to my country there is still ni airmal/EMS available from Japan because of the war, the normal flight route to Europe is over Russia, and nobody fly over Russia atm
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Not only because of Covid, to my country there is still ni airmal/EMS available from Japan because of the war, the normal flight route to Europe is over Russia, and nobody fly over Russia atm
I find that surprising because just now I've checked the Japan post page and the shipping to plenty of European countries like Poland, Spain, Czech, Slovakia, Austria is possible at least via airmail or EMS (Poland has no EMS while France does but no airmail there). I hope they will open the shipping routes for you!
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I find that surprising because just now I've checked the Japan post page and the shipping to plenty of European countries like Poland, Spain, Czech, Slovakia, Austria is possible at least via airmail or EMS (Poland has no EMS while France does but no airmail there). I hope they will open the shipping routes for you!
yeah I'm from Germany and had no problem getting something from CDJapan this week.
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Old 13th August 2022, 10:00 PM
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I can't help but imagine it must affect physical sales? I also do some small-time label running with tapes of experimental electronics and shipping them has become ridiculously prohibitive. Shipping from the US to anywhere already became hugely expensive a few years ago, so ordering stuff there became significantly less interesting (you'd pay $15 shipping for a $5 tape), but now The Netherlands has also followed suit, unfortunately. Unless you buy a lot of stuff, shipping just kills you. And VAT is also charged more regularly now, sometimes (more often than not in the 00s) you'd get lucky and you didn't have to pay any fees, but now 9 times out of 10 I'm charged hefty import duties.
Interestingly enough, physical sales in kpop seemed to increase quite a lot in 2020-2021, but I guess that's partially because online fansigns became a thing during covid

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Ah, really? I didn’t know that… I always assumed they adjusted it based on the shipping prices since sites with lower priced albums seemed to have higher shipping and vice versa, but correlation ≠ causation it seems
Some shopping sites inflate the price to include the shipping fees in it, and then pretend like their shipping fees are low (*cough* cokodive *cough*, but iirc even yesasia used to do it with their jpop albums), but none of them lower it compared to the actual face value aka the prices at physical stores

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Not only because of Covid, to my country there is still ni airmal/EMS available from Japan because of the war, the normal flight route to Europe is over Russia, and nobody fly over Russia atm
While the war might've changed shipping method availability, I don't think I've noticed any shipping fee increase after it started... Although I wouldn't be surprised if it happened eventually, since petrol is involved
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Old 13th August 2022, 10:19 PM
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i have beef with yesasia cuz they just randomly stopped shipping to Puerto Rico in 2020 and never reinstated the service since then… i only ever made one purchase with them and i was pleased with their service but well X_X
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Do we have any news about this album? It's August already
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Old 15th August 2022, 01:14 AM
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Do we have any news about this album? It's August already
I’m hoping we’ll have some by the end of the month… x-x
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yeah I guess she needed to get past the release date of the live dvd before moving on to announcing/promoting the album? fingers crossed! I really can't wait!
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Old 29th August 2022, 03:13 PM
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Nobody talks about this.. ayu posted on August 27 that she is writing a new song on IG.

and it seems like she is doing some works with RINKA (ig: rinchan521)
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Yes! I saw it. It made me excited to know she's been working on new music all the time ^^
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thats great news =) thanks for sharing
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I hope its going to be Colours vol.2 she should name it Colours again
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Old 30th August 2022, 11:38 AM
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I hope its going to be Colours vol.2 she should name it Colours again
omg no more album "again". 🤣 I like Colour vol. 2, but please have a better album title name.



NEXT LEVEL again
Make in Japan again
A song for xx again
Duty again
Party queen again
Colors again
Love again again
Rock n roll again

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^ How about: Again & Again ? xD

But I really wish we could get some more news on the album
At least the title would be something..
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Old 30th August 2022, 04:43 PM
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^ How about: Again & Again ? xD

But I really wish we could get some more news on the album
At least the title would be something..
She may release some information soon. Today is the last date of TA party.
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Old 1st September 2022, 03:23 PM
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