For all of you fans out there who thought this month has been (more or less) calm CCS wise, you are so wrongSo, what happened this January 2015
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I already know about Mandarake and Suruga-ya from many years ago, but I confess I never bought anything from them, or more like, I completely forgot them until I read your post just now ^^; Thanks for reminding me of those 2! I will definitely take them in consideration in the future! :) And this is indeed the very first time as far as I remember that I've heard you telling me about these 2 stores...
About the Clow Book...well, until the very VEERRYY end I was expecting it to come back on amazon.jp because it's really by far the most practical, fast and less expensive way to get books from Japan, but as you said, they never restocked it D:
I've already spend 200 USD on CCS goodies and we are only January 31st! + I still have more things to purchase, WAY TOO MANY actually, I'm completely booked until June 2015, I'm actually starting to very seriously regret pre-ordering some things but it's too late, I can't cancel... My regrets are due to my way of living this month: I've had it really hard this January, I had to make sacrifices in my real life and struggled...when I made all those pre-orders months back, I thought it was 'worth it', that I would save money in advance and that I could deal with it...but now I'm really suffering from it, but I have to keep my engagements and keep paying people for this or that...
LJ works in funny ways :) that's why I thought I'd mentioned it, but hey! Even better then if you know. I'm always on the lookout for new shops.
*huggle* I've been struggling too with personal finances...I've been in the black too. Reserving in advance can be a double edge sword. AmiAmi doesn't charge you right away when reserving, but you never know if something might happen when it's time to pay and you might not have the funds. Last month I barely manged to pay for the monthly load of goods from AmiAmi.
I've sacrificed paying for some RL things I can get away with for a bit cuz I had to cover for other important RL things...and the rest went to hobbies. It's very hard. I know how you feel. You can't just suddenly back out of stuff you've already agreed to.
Best you can do is trust your gut. If you feel it's best to reserve it now, go for it and pay later, or go with paying in full. Don't regret too much.
After all, if collecting CCS things make you happy, then all it's worth it and that's what should matter the most.
I just keep repeating the exact same thing to myself: material things in real life (clothes, DVD, fancy foods etc...) will always be there, it's not like they are running off anywhere, right? But years from now, I will regret not getting those CCS goods which will be impossible to get in the future, or will be classified as Collectors and impossible to afford...
But even while telling me that, it's still hard! D: I'm a LOT, L-O-O-O-T more selective: I'm actually sacrificing even things that I really want, and even my priority list is getting cut off...Sincerely the problem is not the items' prices: it's the proxy buyer fees I have to pay for, it's the shipping cost from Japan and than it's the custom fees...without all these, I wouldn't be so short on money! >.
Thanks for reminding me of those 2! I will definitely take them in consideration in the future! :) And this is indeed the very first time as far as I remember that I've heard you telling me about these 2 stores...
About the Clow Book...well, until the very VEERRYY end I was expecting it to come back on amazon.jp because it's really by far the most practical, fast and less expensive way to get books from Japan, but as you said, they never restocked it D:
I've already spend 200 USD on CCS goodies and we are only January 31st! + I still have more things to purchase, WAY TOO MANY actually, I'm completely booked until June 2015, I'm actually starting to very seriously regret pre-ordering some things but it's too late, I can't cancel...
My regrets are due to my way of living this month: I've had it really hard this January, I had to make sacrifices in my real life and struggled...when I made all those pre-orders months back, I thought it was 'worth it', that I would save money in advance and that I could deal with it...but now I'm really suffering from it, but I have to keep my engagements and keep paying people for this or that...
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*huggle* I've been struggling too with personal finances...I've been in the black too. Reserving in advance can be a double edge sword. AmiAmi doesn't charge you right away when reserving, but you never know if something might happen when it's time to pay and you might not have the funds. Last month I barely manged to pay for the monthly load of goods from AmiAmi.
I've sacrificed paying for some RL things I can get away with for a bit cuz I had to cover for other important RL things...and the rest went to hobbies. It's very hard. I know how you feel. You can't just suddenly back out of stuff you've already agreed to.
Best you can do is trust your gut. If you feel it's best to reserve it now, go for it and pay later, or go with paying in full. Don't regret too much.
After all, if collecting CCS things make you happy, then all it's worth it and that's what should matter the most.
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But even while telling me that, it's still hard! D: I'm a LOT, L-O-O-O-T more selective: I'm actually sacrificing even things that I really want, and even my priority list is getting cut off...Sincerely the problem is not the items' prices: it's the proxy buyer fees I have to pay for, it's the shipping cost from Japan and than it's the custom fees...without all these, I wouldn't be so short on money! >.
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