No more MegaHouse on AmiAmi
Thu 2009/12/17 09:19 JST
If you planning to buy some MegaHouse's good stuff from AmiAmi English web store you will find empty their catalog, but just in the English store not in their Japanese store, that one is full of MegaHouse goodies!!. So what is going on!!
Someone received this message from AmiAmi
We "circumstantially" had to stop selling MegaHouse products internationally. I'm also sad about this. I leave it to your imagination what has happened behind the scenes.
Thank you again for your interest in our merchandise.
Anyone have any idea what happened? I have my guess...
Hmm, perhaps it was becoming too expensive to ship internationally; then again...
does this also mean preorders for Megahouse figures are gone?
I mean, if I preordered something before this happened, is my order gone?
Looks like pre orders were cancel as well
OMG OMG!!
All the pre-orders are gone T^T
I feel your pain, my friend.
Probably because of paypal
Correct. PayPal ToS clearly says no adult related goods.
All of MegaHouse product are adult?
Not really related to adult thingie.. since Taki Corp was not blocked.. almost all figures from them can be said as adult figures what
oh yeah paypal problem no adult realted >_<
most megahouse figures are adult figures T_T
I bought Airi via PayPal on HLJ w/o problems
It's probably because Megahouse as a company "sells" or allows license to officially distribute their products in international markets. A retailer here in the US pays a good amount of money for rights and official distribution here. AmiAmi, selling Megahouse products at a much cheaper price through their english site, which is aimed towards english speaking markets, is hurting the US retailers. That probably got back to Megahouse who may then talked to Amiami about it. Anyway, that's just my theory.
Correct, Mega House is trying to help the international resellers.
So the japanese stores should be able to sell only for Japan, as US only to USA... etc etc.
But as everyone know, not all places have one, like Brazil >_>
Even if we had resellers here, we would need to pay about 70% above the real price >_<
more like paypal lol. the world isnt just USA only :)
If it was because of adult-related figures, why don't Taki, or Griffon blocked also? They produced more adult-related figures than Megahouse (most of Megahouse so-called adult-related figures are usually from Queens Blade only, while almost all figures from Taki are castoffable)
Who ever said we were in the first place? :P
I'd have to agree with Gemini and paiki, if Megahouse is trying to help out international markets; I'm for it.
(Sorry, that first half was in response to Quazacolt).
But what about countries that doesn't have international distributors?
Not sure. There's got to be something they can do.
Ughh amiami should have employs country-detecting mechanism or something.. that prevent certain products from being able to be ordered by customer from countries that have official distributors...
I see.
what EG said, basically.
oh wells, amiami isnt the only international seller out there anyways :P
Wait, the international market is helped by .. making customers in different parts of the world pay more for the same product?
AmiAmi (Japan) - MegaHouse Ranka (Cinderella Ver.) - 5,480 yen or 60.85 USD (http://www.amiami.com/shop/ProductInfo/product_id/147436 )
OtaCute - MegaHouse Ranka (Cinderella Ver.) - 70.90 USD (http://www.otacute.com/index.php?main_page=product_info&cPath=1_6&products_id=3377 )
Whatever happened to whole capitalism thing about competition benefiting consumers?
I understand what your saying, but I can't do anything about it.
Alright, I just want to clarify; I'm for Megahouse selling it's products internationally. I don't exactly enjoy paying high prices, but as I said, I have no control over that.
Hmm but for USA, wouldn't the shipping cost will be lower?
Yes, the shipping cost would be considerable if you ship figures one by one across the ocean. What happens then, when the shipping cost is lowered by shipping many items together? That's when the American distributors start crying bloody murder and erect artificial barriers to keep competition away.
Let's look at these prices:
HobbySearch - Ranka Cinderella Ver. - 6,460 yen or 71.73 USD (http://www.1999.co.jp/eng/10105002 )
Hobby Link Japan - Ranka Cinderella Ver. - 6,460 yen or 71.73 USD (http://www.hlj.com/product/MEG71242 )
Do the American distributors care about HS or HLJ? Nope, can't be bothered. It's the same price and hence, there's no competition.
I guess it can't be helped.
This reminds me of Sony shutting down online gaming retailer Lik-Sang for selling Japanese PSP to European market. Well, it'll be quite troubling for me if AmiAmi were to close down.
Had to head for HLJ and HS then people!
We "circumstantially" had to stop selling MegaHouse products internationally. I'm also sad about this. I leave it to your imagination what has happened behind the scenes. <---
imagination.... IMAGINE BREAKERRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR
Now we have to buy more expensive Megahouse goods, man....
Hmm after I check back amiami.. AlphaxOmega stuff also gone?
I went to HLJ initially for the AlphaxOmega Ranka Lee. I'm somewhat worried now though... :-/
Hmm IINM when the PO for her opened last time, amiami listed her as "not available for customer outside japan" or sumthing
I'm glad I did hit preorder at HLJ then. I just hope this isn't a trend and I didn't just jinx it by saying it out loud lol.
i'm not a fan of static figures that much but the first big one i was planning on buying is done by Megahouse. i remember seeing him for a nice price on amiami a while back too.
sucks balls.
I read at myfigurecollection.net other theory: Figures are not allowed in some countries for nudity (Queen's Blade). Those being returned to AmiAmi and they don't want to deal with that type of problems.
megahouse is not the manufacture sell ecchi figures with removable cloths . And if some country's got problem it should not banned all country's
Then what about Taki's Ikkitousen figures?
That's why I assumed that it's a MegaHouse rule against the Cheap Prices from AmiAmi and soon other companies too.
If nudity figures would start to give these kind of problems, AlphamaX, Taki and Yamato should be the first one to get this restriction ^^;;
It's too bad, and kind of strange, but I honestly don't think Megahouse's figures are that great, so I don't care.