It’s about $8 or $9 from CDJapan, I reckon. Also… postage is always gonna be brutal 
Buy some more stuff, makes the shipping somewhat more tolerable per item 
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I’ve just bought A Dictionary of Basic Japanese Grammar and the Manga for the Beginner Book Club:
Order Summary
Item(s) Subtotal:
￥ 3,386
Shipping & Handling:
￥ 1,300
Total:
￥ 4,686
Grand Total:
￥ 4,686
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I bought the book for the Beginner Book club and the 8 sets of Graded readers that was mentioned here (the one I didn’t nominate cause I want to look it over first)
Import fee is a lie, books a free to import, I’ll get that money back in about 6 months (for some reason they take that long XD )
These ones: (all 8 sets)
Yes, CDJapan is 919 yen(US$ 8.37) Not sure how long will it take though…
I might check if they have it in NY this weekend for $6.99.
If they have it, and it’s winning at the moment… I’ll close the poll LOL
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Oh really? I saw that to the US, there was no Fee, but to Spain there was. How do you get your money back?
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Doesn’t the import fee deposit also include tax though? I know it does where I live, at least.(I also get some money back after a while though, but not all of it)
If it’s from amazon, you just get it back automatically after a while.
Books don’t have any fees here, so I get it all back =P
It’s a mistake for them to take it to begin with, when it’s books they are free of import/tax charge
But if they mark the shipment wrong I’m stuck with the charge, and getting it back is hell so I’m better of giving up.
I have had shipments from eBay not marked as books, but comics. Manga books counts as books, cause they have been published in a different format and then collected as a book (which they specifically say counts as a book). But normal comics do not. So had to pay import tax on the entire Naruto collection cause they called it comics instead of books -_-
They even confirmed the rule was correctly understood, but the seller had to go back to the shipment company and such to get it re-marked, which was just too hard to get done properly.
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It just comes back automatically one day, usually after 6+ months 
Unrelated to all this, I see I have 110 Amazon points now… How do I use this? Is it like 110 yens?
You can redeem them at checkout. It’s pretty much just a 110 yen discount on stuff you buy in the future(the points expire after a year if you don’t buy anything though)
So should we remove Shirokuma Cafe and Chi’s Sweet Home from Beginner Book Club?
Because they are already here?
Yes
That might be a problem to follow the discussion… unless we do 1 Chapter per week or something like this
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Good idea.
Well… I won’t be joining if Shirokuma nor Chi win but just wanted to mention that you can buy those via yesasia, too. Shipping is free for orders over $39.
Shirokuma Cafe 1 (bis)
Chi’s Sweet Home 1
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I voted! And if Shirokuma or Chi’s sweet home win (which it looks like one will) then I will for sure buy the book and follow along! I’ve never done a japanese book club before, so I’m excited! Even though I’m only level 2 now, I should be further along by the time it starts, and I don’t think I’ll mind looking up words. But when is it going to start? Is there going to be a poll to determine the start date?
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I don’t know how they’re going to determine the exact start date, but it won’t be until after the current book finishes I don’t imagine. So no earlier than the 13th of March!
Edit: ah, it’s being decided by vote. I forgot. If you want to vote yourself, you can find the poll in this post.
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