Where to buy Avex Taiwan CDs?

[FIRSTKLAS]

Does anyone know of any online stores that sell Avex Taiwan CDs and also ship internationally? I was thinking of getting the TW press of NEXT LEVEL in addition to some other albums (alan, Voice of EARTH; BoA, BEST&USA, etc.)

I know there a few sellers on eBay but they mark up their prices by 50-100% and I was hoping to pay retail - or at least a more fair price.

Edit: corrected the mark-up amount since I exaggerated a bit. Heh.

[pommy48]

Yesasia sell the OS press~

[FIRSTKLAS]

Yeah, I use YesAsia a lot and I know they sell OS press(es), but it's usually Avex Asia.

I was hoping to specifically get some Avex Taiwan CDs because I've never tried them before and also because, unlike Avex Asia, they have their own standardized catalog numbering system (I'm a bit of a collector so random catalog numbers in my collection is something that bugs me - yeah, I know, I'm crazy. ).

[Polyrhythm]

Taiwan has a white OBI with blue chinese words on it. You should consider that. Otherwise, its pretty close to the original version. I dont think theres any online sites that sell Taiwan...

[FIRSTKLAS]

Originally Posted by xheartstation

Taiwan has a white OBI with blue chinese words on it. You should consider that. Otherwise, its pretty close to the original version. I dont think theres any online sites that sell Taiwan...

The white obi with Chinese words doesn't really bug me; in fact, I think they would provide an interesting contrast with my other albums if I were to ever display them with the obis showing (kinda like books ).

And, yeah, I'm definitely beginning to think that there are no online stores that sell Avex Taiwan CDs: Google doesn't turn up anything.

[jiarongisme]

Originally Posted by FIRSTKLAS

The white obi with Chinese words doesn't really bug me; in fact, I think they would provide an interesting contrast with my other albums if I were to ever display them with the obis showing (kinda like books ).

And, yeah, I'm definitely beginning to think that there are no online stores that sell Avex Taiwan CDs: Google doesn't turn up anything.

FINALLY! SOMEONE WHO APPRECIATES TAIWAN PRESS OBIS!

[pommy48]

well at least the quality of taiwan press are pretty good

you can find someone on ebay, i know that karenpang have a taiwanese friend who gives her nice offers for TW press

[jiarongisme]

^ Yup. I got him to buy NEXT LEVEL for me too.

http://cgi.ebay.com/J-POP-Super-Star...4.c0.m14.l1262 (CD Only)
http://cgi.ebay.com/J-POP-Ayumi-Hama...4.c0.m14.l1262(CD+DVD)
http://cgi.ebay.com/J-POP-Ayumi-Hama...4.c0.m14.l1262 (2CD+DVD)

http://cgi.ebay.com/J-POP-alan-Voice...d=p4634.c0.m14 (Voice of EARTH)

Sadly, he hasn't listed the BoA album yet.

[FIRSTKLAS]

Originally Posted by jiarongisme

http://cgi.ebay.com/J-POP-alan-Voice...d=p4634.c0.m14 (Voice of EARTH)

Sadly, he hasn't listed the BoA album yet.

Yeah, I've seen that seller before and never really had a problem with his prices till I checked the Avex Taiwan website and saw how much the "retail price" really is.

alan, Voice of EARTH @ Avex TW e-shop = $398 Taiwan New Dollars
alan, Voice of EARTH @ iluvhelloproject (eBay) = $21.49 US Dollars

According to XE.com:
$ 398 TWD = $ 11.7849 USD (approximately)

So that means he marked up the price almost 100%. :S

[Heavenly]

yeah on ebay, you can find a lot of Taiwan press, here i bought my COMPLETE all singles, and GREEN/Days - Days/GREEN.
"iluvhelloproject", "undercatdog2" and "artice_ray" are very good sellers =)

[LacusClyne]

Originally Posted by FIRSTKLAS

Yeah, I've seen that seller before and never really had a problem with his prices till I checked the Avex Taiwan website and saw how much the "retail price" really is.

alan, Voice of EARTH @ Avex TW e-shop = $398 Taiwan New Dollars
alan, Voice of EARTH @ iluvhelloproject (eBay) = $21.49 US Dollars

According to XE.com:
$ 398 TWD = $ 11.7849 USD (approximately)

So that means he marked up the price almost 100%. :S

the price at taiwan website isn't really accurate(there's shipping to), unless you buy from the avex shop, in the retail stores it's mostly around USD$15. so this price aren't too bad.

[Evolution7/4]

Ebay is the only place I can find Taiwan press.

[Polyrhythm]

For anyone who is living in Southern California or is visiting, I just visited Life Plaza in Arcadia, and they have an insane selection of Taiwan Press Jpop CD's. I was soooooo tempted to buy Koda Kumi's Moon CD+DVD with the golden OBI for 11.99 but my parents were there and i would get "looks of disaproval"....they had Bold and Delicious CD+DVD...vogue, evolution, Heaven, memorial address CD Only....I didnt get any of them but they were all Taiwan Press. I also saw an Ai Otsuka Album CD+DVD....i think its called Love Piece...it has a puzzle cover...anyway....its a great little store. There was also a TON more Avex trax CD's that I didnt look at...my sister bought 2 dream CDS (amazingly Dream CD's are still sold) and they also had Utada's Dareka No Negai Ga Kanau Koro and Be My Last CD+DVD. Also, the pricing is INSANE. older CD's like vogue and evolution went for 7.99. Newer singles like Heaven were 8.99. The CD+DVD sets were all 11.99. They also had the Ayumix....dunno which one...the silvery shiny one...for 13.99. For anyone who's interested they also had a Jolin Tsai Butterfly thing that came with a shirt....(my mom was like WTHeck is this)...The bad side is...other than memorial address...i didnt see any albums =[ I wouldve totally bought (miss)understood if I saw it. So yeah, anyway, if you really want Taiwan Press CD's, try Life Plaza. Plus...great deal on Boba.

[KarenPang]

Originally Posted by jiarongisme

FINALLY! SOMEONE WHO APPRECIATES TAIWAN PRESS OBIS!

Originally Posted by pommy48

well at least the quality of taiwan press are pretty good

avex taiwan rocks hands down . I love it that they produced OS presses of Johnny's stuff & that goes for avex artistes too & they're not stingy when comes to quality of their items unlike Warner S'pore

you can find someone on ebay, i know that karenpang have a taiwanese friend who gives her nice offers for TW press

true

if you want my Taiwanese friend's email contact , just send me a PM & I take care of the rest for you

I bought my Taiwan press / CD + DVD of NEXT LEVEL from him & I got it yesterday

Originally Posted by Heavenly

yeah on ebay, you can find a lot of Taiwan press, here i bought my COMPLETE all singles, and GREEN/Days - Days/GREEN.
"iluvhelloproject", "undercatdog2" and "artice_ray" are very good sellers =)

frankly outta the 3 ebay sellers , I prefer the 1st one lmao . undercatdog2 & artice_ray are quite haughty & arrogant to a certain extent

at least iluvehelloproject doesn't charge jack ass prices when comes to shipping

a note regarding YesAsia - not all the OS presses that they sell are Taiwan presses . You have to be careful especially with regards to OS presses of Johnny's items & some OS presses of avex's artistes . Like for GIRL NEXT DOOR , Anna Tsuchiya & alan's , all their albums are made in Taiwan & not in Hong Kong at all

YesAsia tends to put Hong Kong press on their links for practically all OS presses that they sell & etc but in reality some of them are really Taiwan press .

I never seen a HK press of a Johnny's item at all so yeah

YesAsia's not like HMV HK in that for HMV HK's case (www.hmv.com.hk) , they will specify the catalogue & record label no.s .

Like for NEXT LEVEL's eg. , OS press wise :

CD - http://www.hmv.com.hk/product/japanese.asp?sku=431997

CD + DVD - http://www.hmv.com.hk/product/japanese.asp?sku=431335

2 CDs + DVD - http://www.hmv.com.hk/product/japanese.asp?sku=430988

Only the CD only's Taiwan press , the other 2 are HK presses

a key note's that for Taiwan press's catalogue no. , it starts with "AVJ" while for HK press , it starts with "AAJ"

it's unfortunate that you don't get to see that on YesAsia's website