a question and a picture

[evilnekohilda.livejournal.com]

hello fellow lolita-chans...

As I'm sure you have all come to experience, it is very hard to find brand name goth and lolita clothing outside of japan without it costing your life's savings :'( However, since I've developed the bad habit of browsing Yahoo!Japan auctions for anime goods, I've found lots of great clothes for not too much money. But since most sellers don't ship internationally, it's very hard for a mid-western American girl like me to get them. I've been using celga.com to order my anime goods, but I can't use them for clothing.

So I did a little digging and found Rinkya.

The concept sounds good, and their layout suggests a somewhat professional, and therefore dependable quality, but the lack of "https" urls when signing up for your account worries me a bit.

I guess my main reason for posting is to ask you girls if you've ever used Rinkya or heard good things about it. If not, is there any other service that you all have used before to purchase from Yahoo!Japan?

Thanks in advance for anyone who might answer my question :)




This is my newest outfit :) It's made from the patterns included in this book, and looots of guessing and checking measurments :P I think it turned out pretty cool though, considering that the sewing machine was going berserk every 3.7 minutes >< Oh yeah, and my hair is crap in that picture *sigh*

Comments

[xelyna.livejournal.com]

Rinkya is a rip-off if you ask me... you'll end up paying an extra $50 towards something that costs only $20 to buy! There is on cheaper company, but I can't remember their name... Personally I don't use a service because I can speak enough Japanese to get the sellers to ship to me anyway, but not everyone has that option... The people I know who have used Rinkya got their purchases okay, though, and were happy with it.

Hey, good job of making that Tezukuri book dress!

[evilnekohilda.livejournal.com]

Thank you! That helps a lot :)

[fechan.livejournal.com]

Well I can't tell you anything for sure, but I created an account, and I've had tons of troubles with the suscribing... the site said they were going to email me withing 24hrs and they didn't so i had to email them and wait and then, wait again for another email, and it took like a whole week just to suscribe!
Besides as cheap as some of the clothes can be, their fees are really expensive in my opinion.
I've dealed with crescent errand service (http://www.crescent-shop.com/index.html) (supposed to recieve my order soon btw ^_^v, going to post about how everything went once i get it!) and 1rst of all, their payment can be done safely through paypal or an international postal money order, and secondly I found out their charge were less expensive than Rinkya...
Unless you buy for like 40,000 yen at once you don't get a good deal on Rinkya's charge...

I hope this could help you a little!

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[angel-cosmos.livejournal.com]

wow that's interesting. How exactly can you order from crescent-shop for Yahoo JP? =X

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[fechan.livejournal.com]

I wasn't saying you can order from yahoo JP, actually, I was just comparing prices and payment method.
demo, I think you could try asking the poeple from Crescent what they can do about it, and they just might be able to help! I know they can find pretty rare stuff when you ask them to. Maybe they can look in used clothing shops too?
It's worth giving a try, in my opinion!

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[angel-cosmos.livejournal.com]

oops sorry =^.^=

[uglylittlewhore.livejournal.com]

Non-secure signup? That's not a good sign...

I haven't heard much about Rinkya, but I have heard lots of good reviews of Crescent Trading, from people in the Super Dollfie community. Also try Celga: http://www.celga.com/ They seem to specialize in cels and anime goods, but they'll probably bid on other things, too.

[insanedoll.livejournal.com]

I love it! Beautiful! I am currently working on something just like that. i hope mine turns out just as that one.

[ohimesamashinig.livejournal.com]

Dood 0___0 you look exactly like me only taller!! ~stares~

[evilnekohilda.livejournal.com]

omg - really? do you have a picture? i keep meeting dopplegangers/seperated-at-birth-twins to me on this community :P lol

[chuppie.livejournal.com]

I love your dress it turned out really good. I bid on a $20 purse and wound up paying $60. It took three months for me to get my purse too. I only bid on that one item and I highly doubt I'll ever use them again. I'd suggest useing Cresent trading, I've heard good things about them.

[serenevalkyrie.livejournal.com]

I collect anime cels, so Yahoo Japan deputy services are very well known and popular in my hobby. Rinkya is one of the big ones and many people use it. Celga is another (www.celga.com)

I personally use Anime Chaos. I think in the end, their fees come out to less money than Rinkya, and I have never had a problem with them. It is very easy to use and I would recommend it highly. I've had over 30 transactions with them.

The site details all the fees and how to sign up (check out the Yahoo Japan Deputy Service section). If you have any questions, there is also a message board there or you can just email the webmaster (or ask me and I'll try to help ^_^) Do note, though, that if you have an AOL email address, that you should probably use a non-aol email when dealing with them, because AOL seems to like to block mails from them randomly >_<

http://www.animechaos.com

Hope that helps!

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[serenevalkyrie.livejournal.com]

Der! Missed the part where you already know about celga. XD They won't do clothing?

Anime Chaos does everything. :)

[im-sorry-now.livejournal.com]

I LOVE the outfit!!!!

& BTW
ur icon... did you know that Falcoon is now an official SNK artist?

[evilnekohilda.livejournal.com]

no I didn't - awesomeness XD

[radikal-girl.livejournal.com]

kawaiiiiii

[yapipie.livejournal.com]

Well, I don't know anything about the services, but I have to say that your dress is fantastic ^^ I was thinking of having a similar one made, except longer, like a black cleric thing. Great job on making it ^_^

[storknightmares.livejournal.com]

i think that somes times useing rinkya is worth it if you are bidding on something that is in great condition and is a lot cheaper than getting it new. recently i got some an ten na shoes (they are the shoe company that you see alot in the GL bible that the models are wearing when not wearing lolita brand shoes) for about 50 dollars including service fees. those would noramaly cost atleast over 100 dollars. and they were in perfect condition. i also just recenly bought a bssb skirt in perfect codition for 50 dollars including fees, and you know that those cost atleast 140 direct from the site. in that way its good, if you are getting things that are pretty inexpensive to begin with and paying double for it, thats not a good deal. just use your judgement wisely and dont spend over the amount you think its worth for a particular item.