Import of Japanese releases to UK

[Eusthenopteron]

Can anyone provide advice on importing Japanese releases to the UK? Postage seems to be high but can understand this to a point. However am wondering about sites to use / avoid and sites with good prices for products and P&P.

[Mansinthe]

yesasia is the best site for asian imports. they offer free shipping too.

[Sinthetic]

CDJapan are by far the best for packing and have a loyalty scheme. They are very quick too. Choose Airmail to avoid import fees.

YesAsia are the cheapest, with shittest delivery speed if you choose standard. Customs friendly.

AmazonJP are extremely fast, will sting you with import fees and if you don't group items together, they will send it between a wafer thin piece of cardboard.

[Eusthenopteron]

Originally Posted by Mansinthe

yesasia is the best site for asian imports. they offer free shipping too.

Thanks!

However for the purposes of anyone else reading this according to their website they do offer free shipping, but only if your order is above a certain sub-total value. For many European countries this is $39 US dollars.

[MOONPHASE]

Play-Asia pretty sure ships to UK now as well.

[Sky_Captain]

Are they customs safe, though? Only item I've ever bought from them, was well under the limit. Yesasia's delivery speed is shite, so I don't use them anymore. CDJapan are the tits and some items received faster than those Zavvi clowns.

[rewak]

YesAsia is the only one that's customs safe, it might take a little longer but having your items held in customs would take longer too and get you slapped with fees, so it's the lesser of two evils.