Nendoroid display case NO.3 & 1.5 years nendor loot

I took a look at the Merissa in my collection and found no stickers on the box like the later releases have for authenticity. Looking closely the quality looks legit though and she was bought from Mandarake so would be fine.

She's a tough one though as loads of cheap dodgy copies have flooded the market over the years. Generally though the Yahoo Japan market tends to be pretty trust worthy and that 2000y price is the base price prior to people placing bids. In addition, as opposed to e-bay's tiny 30 day market, the Yahoo Japan one is quite a few times larger and only runs for 7 day's so its not unheard of for loads of little gems like this to slip under most peoples radars only to be snapped up by collectors like yourself.

Note if living outside Japan you will likely require the services of a proxy. As a rule of thumb its nearly double the eventual cost of anything you buy so a few of the Nendo's I won for 5000y ended up costing me just over $100usd delivered. Combined shipping helps lower the cost and most proxy's do batch shipping also.

Assuming you don't mind a used one the condition is near mint most times with full packaging so you don't really need to bid on a new one especially if you are going to open her for display.

Another alternative is to simply wait for one to appear on Mandarake or you can perhaps buy the second variant which was a limited edition Wonder festival version. Mandarake appears to have two in stock and, to the best of my knowledge, that release was never pirated so would be safe for Nendtaku consumption.

http://ekizo.mandarake.co.jp/shop/en/item_s-150655.html

Happy hunting.

I've used https://shoppingmalljapan.com/ for a while now. They do batch shipping and so store up your wins for up to a month till you select ship and then everything that's in the warehouse gets re-packed together in a new fresh box with extra packaging of needed even including those white foam beans for padding.

They charge a commission, cost of any wire fee to the original seller, shipping from seller to their warehouse in Japan and of course the cost of the buy from the seller to begin with. The the one flaw in their service is they only take payments in USD. Not a great thing being Australian as our Dollar is stronger, but its a small price to pay if its the only way to get something you never thought you'd ever buy due to either being overpriced or simply unavailable.

This service has proved great for getting all those limited release Nendo's like the 2P versions of all the Queen's Blade Freeing releases which are limited to 1000 units. I also picked up a few of the recent wonfes show bag inserts that included the Nendo desk Calender and the awesome 150 Nendo / 100 Figma poster. That poster goes for around 500y on Yahoo-JP.