Bog blast you, Japanese retail sites!
Hanging around Chinese nationals everyday makes me think about something. About their culture. If there's a demand for anything, anything at all, they'll make and put it up for sale. It doesn't matter who you are or where you live. One can barely walk down the street in China and not get stopped by any number of on-the-move street hawkers trying to sell knockoff goods of every stripe. This is bound to get annoying quickly. But I look at the bright side. Because at least if you want something Chinese, you'll get it. Not a problem, least of all because nearly everything you own is made by them in the first place.
A lot of awesome, J-list-y kind of things are made in China to begin with. But once it gets unloaded on Japanese soil, there's a slight problem. That is, if you want these things and you don't live in Japan.
Hi, would you like to order anything from this
retail site? If so, please register with us.
Oh, you don't have a Japanese postal code...?
Wait, you don't live in a Japanese prefecture?
No? Well, FUCK YOU then!
Never mind if you're capable of filling out a registry form, an order form, and completing payment for an order, entirely in Japanese. (Which can't be that hard, since I seem to be capable of doing so myself. Which makes this a bit anti-climatic.) They're allergic to shipping overseas, unless they're Amazon Japan. Back in the deep, shadowy sands of time, in the heady heyday of university otaku-ism, I thought that maybe some years later, they'd get with the times. Quit being so insular, you know? It is an utter pipe dream, and the reason postal redirect sites focused on Japan still exist. I don't know if there's some fucked up legal reason why they refuse to ship almost anything out of their precious little archipelago. Nor do I care.
So this is my Spaceballs salute to such sites: go find a nice warm fire to die in. Or perhaps I should say 豆腐の角に頭をぶつけて死ね.
A lot of awesome, J-list-y kind of things are made in China to begin with. But once it gets unloaded on Japanese soil, there's a slight problem. That is, if you want these things and you don't live in Japan.
Hi, would you like to order anything from this
retail site? If so, please register with us.
Oh, you don't have a Japanese postal code...?
Wait, you don't live in a Japanese prefecture?
No? Well, FUCK YOU then!
Never mind if you're capable of filling out a registry form, an order form, and completing payment for an order, entirely in Japanese. (Which can't be that hard, since I seem to be capable of doing so myself. Which makes this a bit anti-climatic.) They're allergic to shipping overseas, unless they're Amazon Japan. Back in the deep, shadowy sands of time, in the heady heyday of university otaku-ism, I thought that maybe some years later, they'd get with the times. Quit being so insular, you know? It is an utter pipe dream, and the reason postal redirect sites focused on Japan still exist. I don't know if there's some fucked up legal reason why they refuse to ship almost anything out of their precious little archipelago. Nor do I care.
So this is my Spaceballs salute to such sites: go find a nice warm fire to die in. Or perhaps I should say 豆腐の角に頭をぶつけて死ね.