It's a bit general, but considering the amount of Hetalia fans who use FromJapan, I thought it would be relevant to post up information on the new commission price introduced to FromJapan shopping's service as it will affect quite a few members. So I hope this is okay! Please tell me if I should delete/move this elsewhere.
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Did they seriously not charge anything before though? I thought there was a box fee or something like that I can't remember where it was mentioned. How did they make their money then? Well in any case it always sucks when prices go up especially considering how many other fees besides commission there already are. :/ I'm hoping the fandom might have some more life when Season 5 comes around just to see more people around, even though I'm not really in it I have noticed the drop though on tumblr it's pretty active.
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I'm sure they charged something to profit, but they had the whole 'No commission fee' per item thing before. They probably charged something for a box fee, but not per item.
I'm hoping the fandom will come back to life to with S5, but I highly doubt it will get back to where it used to be. Even the APH fandom on Tumblr is starting to die. Tumblr may seem much more active especially in comparison to livejournal, but I'm a really old fan and I've been on LJ/Tumblr/various sites so I've noticed the decrease all around. For example, Tumblr used to be much much much more active and whilst it is still active nowadays, it has suffered a large drop also.
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Oh yeah that must have been it then. Sad I never got around to using them.
Ahh it's probably because I stay away from most of fandom that I don't see it. Plus since I'm into the fairly popular side of it probably seems less. It's sad to hear nonetheless. :( I know it won't return to how it was, but I'd be happy with just the level it was when I entered it. A lot of people did move to other fandoms though.
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I just got an email from them! The new fees won't be in until the 26th so if you want anything before then, better to start ordering/paying before they start adding in the fees "orz
Ahh, yeah. That would make sense. I'm in the general fandom and in the indie APH Tumblr RPing crowd, so I've been noticing the decrease in activity level all around :c (so many RPers have left or are not as active anymore. We used to get 100+ notifications on new posts every few minutes during peak hour last year, now it's more like 100+ every half hour or so). Same here, fingers crossed and hope that season 5 will work its magic;;
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Now if only I had money for that. ;; Have to save it for comiket though, gah.
Well the USUK side from what I see is still fairly active on tumblr, shipping is always the last to go though. >.< Wow that's a lot of notifications for that time. Finding a good RPer is difficult enough as it is too. ;; Well I guess it is sort of like how many posts the main comm used to get. :( Yeah I've seen a couple of new faces coming in, so hopefully there will be some more people becoming intrigued especially with the better animation and hopefully cute merch to go along with it to keep people wanting. :)
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Oh man-- good luck with that! I have pretty much stopped collecting doujinshi because most of my favourite circles don't draw for APH anymore;; //and wow, it just used to kill my wallet too much. You would just spend hundreds and hundreds on comiket doujinshi and stuff;;
Yeah, that one is going to be active for a while. Though even I have noticed activity has dropped a bit for them D: But yeah fjdkgldf the main comm used to be so active and it took ages just to catch up to everything and nowadays, it can be frozen for quite a while :c Yes, fingers crossed hard for new faces and new merch and a bit of a revival to the fandom ;v;)/
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I don't know what I would do if it dropped off completely so I'm really hoping that won't happen or that at least it won't for a long while. All fandoms do drop off at some point though I still have hope for new people even if others leave. The main comm is definitely the saddest for me, I really couldn't keep up with it before. I'm truly hoping for that it would be so great. :')
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Me too. It'll be too sad to see it go. But thankfully they did pitch in for a season 5 so yeah, all fingers crossed our wishes and hopes come true ;v;
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When you want to buy things like 10-yen cards or such, though, 200 yen is freaking overkill. D:
With the bank fee and domestic shipping you're suddenly paying near $6 each before international.
And we all know how well those resell for anything more than $1...
:/ Basically it's going to drive up item costs in general, and with the dying fandom, it's possible nothing will ever sell high enough for profit again.
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I didn't even think about cards either, yikes that would be too much.
Yeah the only thing I can think of is the auctions with several bits of merchandise, but those always end up going high anyway.
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But then when you look at items like these...
.___. 80 yen's suddenly jumped from $1.10 to $3.80. And it stacks per listing, regardless of whether it's the same seller. That's where it's going to hurt.
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