Tora-san films with English subtitles coming from Shochiku

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Originally Posted by McCrutchy

Amazon's shipping is extremely cheap for Japan, but obviously, only if you are buying a handful of items. When you're already paying for 49 items in one order, there should be some kind of bulk order discount, not a shipping charge of ¥17,750 ($165), especially not when a person living in Japan can send a 7kg* parcel to the US with EMS shipping for ¥11,200 ($104). Why is Amazon, one of the biggest online sites in Japan, actually charging me ¥6,550 more for shipping than what Japan Post would charge to ship from person to person? This is an obvious weakness of Amazon's shipping rates to North America, which go by item, with a ¥600 base and then ¥350 per item, but no cutoff or bulk discount. It's silly to keep adding on ¥350 after a certain point, so where it gets cheaper to ship by weight, they should at least offer that option.

*Assuming each Blu-ray weighs 5oz, meaning 49 weigh 245oz, or 6.95kg

And obviously, this shipping issue with Amazon plays into why they won't ship the trunk set to the USA (and probably not outside of Japan), because they want ¥17,750 to ship 7kg of Blu-rays ordered as 49 items together, but their system is set up to charge only ¥950 to ship a 15kg Blu-ray box set because that would be counted as one item.

i think you're choosing to perceive it should be balanced in your favour. and expecting it to get ultra-cheap. rather than assuming you should price it out as postage per item at actual final cost with how their system works as is. not as if they're going to change it for you, or just in time for you to take advantage of it with this set. if you do that, it's $3 a disc, like i say. can't beat that anywhere without it being a loophole or mistake. even japan post are overcharging compared to the 15kg amazon single item charge of 905 yen you quote. any computer system's calculations is going to be as unfussy as possible over keeping the profit margins secure and un-exploitable, so that they keep the rule solid however many items you order seems logical from that perspective.