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Originally Posted by superdry
That's a really sensitive fraud protection on your card then since pretty much all stores do the initial authorization charge once you place your order and the order is approved.
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Yeah, apparently banks don't see much difference between the world's third largest economy and Vietnam. It's being charged outside the United States, so obviously it must be fraud. Nevermind that I'm making charges in Japan an average of about 3-4 times a month for the past two years and that I've called them and asked them to not block the damn credit card charge several times. I've just been using PayPal for my CDJ orders, because otherwise every other authorization charge gets blocked. And I'm still getting phone calls to call their fraud department to confirm that I've made all of my recent transactions about every other month, because they've never heard of the concept of "behavior recognition", so they *still* need to confirm that yes, those Amazon.jp charges are legit, just like every one of the last hundred or so times I bought from them. But at least they don't actually block the charges for those, unlike the CDJ situation.
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One disc via EMS will be cheaper than one disc via DHL using Amazon unless it's a heavy ass disc. I just had two CDs and one BD ship via EMS and that cost me 1500 yen. But, either way, shipping one disc per month is silly via a shipping cost perspective.
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Based on my experience with CDJ, EMS for two BDs would cost about 1100 yen. It would be cheaper to keep my Amazon.jp order for that, at least for my January and February orders. And by the time Nise gets solicited, this sale will be over, and I'd have to factor in the discs costing several hundred more yen each as well.