VAMPS International - L'Arc~en~Ciel International

http://www.vampsxxx.com/vampslive2012/goods/index.html








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Time to start saving for my standard three items.

I just know that L'Arc will release its World Tour DVDs when I want to buy VAMPS merchandise.

(06-09-2012, 02:09 PM)cathb Wrote: [ -> ]I just know that L'Arc will release its World Tour DVDs when I want to buy VAMPS merchandise.

Of course they will! Sometimes I feel like L'Arc and VAMPS are in a competition

These are some of the best tour merch yet, in my opinion Aesthetically anyway. I want that black tank top so badly, and those leggings!

Oh and HYDE's hair is REALLY beautiful. Probably my favorite hairstyle by him yet!!

Desperately hoping for at least a new single... but they probably won't release one.

(06-09-2012, 07:58 PM)VAMPkito Wrote: [ -> ]These are some of the best tour merch yet, in my opinion Aesthetically anyway. ...

I think so, too. Going back to an ornate, more graceful style of merchandise. I like the wristband and the hipbag, and want to know what they're made of. The page isn't currently loading well enough for me to do a machine translation and see if it says, in the details.

I like the designs on the tank tops and T-shirts, too.
I'm curious about the shape of the lip balm holder - is that an ankh or a sword or the symbol for Mercury or something else?

I want the i-phone case, and I don't even have an i-phone! Are i-phone cases compatible with other models, I wonder?

The main thing is, how am I going to get my hands on these??

Is someone here going to these lives who'd be kind enough to pick up some goods, for me?

And what are your recommendations on a good shopping service, these days?

Here is the actual store page: http://www.official-store.jp/vamps/

I wonder if they will update the English page, there is an English option at the bottom of the page but it leads to an outdated 2011 merch page.

(06-09-2012, 08:44 PM)Tokio Wrote: [ -> ]Here is the actual store page: http://www.official-store.jp/vamps/

I wonder if they will update the English page, there is an English option at the bottom of the page but it leads to an outdated 2011 merch page.

Thanks, Tokio ~ it works, now! Earlier, it was stalling.

The wristbands are polyurethane fake leather and cotton fabric. The hipbags are polyester and polyurethane, with a metal chain.

I wonder about the English version, too. I hope they'll offer all the merchandise on the English site, too, this time.

If anybody knows, were you able to order directly to international addresses, from the English site, before, so that Japanese shopping service isn't necessary? Or would it still be necessary, for the payment method?
update ...the old English version site will open now, too, (still not updated) and I just clicked on Help. It may have answered some of my questions, if the info's still going to be correct, with the new merchandise, but it's scary! 4000 yen flat rate shipping fee, per order?? $50 shipping, alone? ach Plus the insane exchange rate, lately, and I wonder if there's a conversion fee, for paying with a U.S. bank card. Just when I think I'm getting used to the exorbitant fees for ordering from Japan, it get higher.

(06-09-2012, 09:07 PM)Mme. H Wrote: [ -> ]

(06-09-2012, 08:44 PM)Tokio Wrote: [ -> ]Here is the actual store page: http://www.official-store.jp/vamps/

I wonder if they will update the English page, there is an English option at the bottom of the page but it leads to an outdated 2011 merch page.

Thanks, Tokio ~ it works, now! Earlier, it was stalling.

The wristbands are polyurethane fake leather and cotton fabric. The hipbags are polyester and polyurethane, with a metal chain.

I wonder about the English version, too. I hope they'll offer all the merchandise on the English site, too, this time.

If anybody knows, were you able to order directly to international addresses, from the English site, before, so that Japanese shopping service isn't necessary? Or would it still be necessary, for the payment method?
update ...the old English version site will open now, too, (still not updated) and I just clicked on Help. It may have answered some of my questions, if the info's still going to be correct, with the new merchandise, but it's scary! 4000 yen flat rate shipping fee, per order?? $50 shipping, alone? ach Plus the insane exchange rate, lately, and I wonder if there's a conversion fee, for paying with a U.S. bank card. Just when I think I'm getting used to the exorbitant fees for ordering from Japan, it get higher.

They get you financially one way or the other. Loving a Japanese band is NOT cheap!!

Only problem with waiting for the English site is what if they do not have what you want? They don't always seem to offer all of the goods.

I do believe that you will pay a conversion fee. I seem to remember that from the past.

And yeah....shipping will kill you every time. I sometimes have to pay more to ship an item than what I paid for it in the first place.

(06-10-2012, 07:09 PM)cathb Wrote: [ -> ]They get you financially one way or the other. Loving a Japanese band is NOT cheap!!

No kidding. When you're all excited because a DVD costs less than $40...less than $50, even...then you know they've trained you :P

Just be glad you're not addicted to Takarazuka (unless you are, in which case you be scoffing at the petty $110 plus shipping, for a limited edition DVD set!)

cathb Wrote:Only problem with waiting for the English site is what if they do not have what you want? They don't always seem to offer all of the goods.

I do believe that you will pay a conversion fee. I seem to remember that from the past.

And yeah....shipping will kill you every time. I sometimes have to pay more to ship an item than what I paid for it in the first place.

Just today I was thinking about how I got this great deal on the limited edition of HYDE Is Dead, except that I paid one and a half times as much for shipping as for the set, itself.

And if you really want the newest What's In? that many are drooling over, the shipping from the only currently available source is almost 6 times as much as the magazine itself!