The Marvels 3D Blu-ray (2023) [Region Free] [Japan only]

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Originally Posted by randomfellow

If I recall for people that place their order from Amazon Japan after the shipping costs go down it's a price difference of like 2 or 3 dollars? Very negligible on a $60-70 purchase and for that price difference you get a movie delivered expeditiously with tracking from DHL - often in time to watch that same weekend of release.

Maybe you're confusing the Priority vs Std shipping difference which often is a few dollar difference

Originally Posted by ryanmcv

If I'm not mistaken, the price difference after the shipping costs drop is usually $15 to $20. So it's worth keeping an eye on.

The latter has been teh typical pattern - at least to the US and along with the usual item price drop has resulted in at least $30-35 cost drop from a Day 1 preorder. The item price drop should be covered by Amazon, the shipping price drop has not though some have had success in getting Amazon to refund the difference afterwards.

Current Shipping to the US for THE MARVELS 4K/3D
4634 std
5158 Priority


Current shipping to the US for a current 4K/3D release
2865 std
3100 Priority

I suspect the preorder vs current release shipping difference may be an estimated weight issue that Amazon takes the most conservative route and overestimates. Once the std item gets close to the shipping and has a KNOWN weight the shipping seems to normalize. 2000 Y is currently around $14 (+ local tax). Add the usual item release day price and that;s another 2000-2500 Y so an additional $13-15 drop.

Personally my bent is not only to wait, but to wait for at least 3 items to be available since an added itme only adds a few dollars to the shipping. My last 5 item catchup order cost 4200Y total Priority shipping so roughly $7 for the added 4 items vs a single item