>>6035066>HLJ's plastic wrapped to cardboard then glued to the bottom of the box seems safer.A bigger box that is also thicker combined with layers of paper reinforces the box to absorb kinetic and crushing damage. HLJ is relying on the box alone with nothing to reinforce it, that's not safer. I've gotten heavily abused shipments from both but AmiAmi always survives better. I've also had the shrink wrap rip on me and then stuff was sliding around inside getting scuffed to shit. I care more about the toy than the box but for resale value purposes I don't want the box scuffed raw unless i'm paying $20-30 less during some sale because then i'm not losing money.
That said, AmiAmi has been shipping me a lot of boxes with crushed corners, ripped/bent flaps and bad scuffing. Normally they sell these items as "new item w/box damage" for a discount so it's getting REALLY fucking annoying paying full price for damaged stuff. Shipping box is pristine so I know it happened before shipping.
>>6034979>At this point it'll just come down to a competition between prices, which right now Amiami does have an advantage overDepends what line you're talking about. Some of the recent stuff has been more expensive at AmiAmi like the Xenoverse SHF, Revoltech and some other Bandai stuff. They still have a decent sized advantage with figma though. Also HLJ will change shipping methods if you e-mail them but there is really no reason not to use EMS.
