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Yggdrasil asked:


It seems like there is a proliferation of folks selling counterfeit anime and anime merchandise…as well as outright fraud. I just got ripped off by a company called CCG Armory, Baltimore, MD. They were selling the ArtFX Misato Katsuragi figure and listed it as in-stock…10 days later, I was still “assured” that it had been mailed. I even got several nasty e-mails from them. Well, come to pass they don’t have it…it was “damaged” and it was the last one (which, of course, didn’t keep it from posting it as in-stock after they admitted their screw-up. When I mentioned blogging the whole transaction, I had the money back in my account within hours. What squirrels!

Anyway, do be careful…there are some really unscrupulous people out there. Stick with the well-known merchants. For example, somebody is listing a 2DVD set of Aishiteruze Baby (all 24 episodes on 2 DVDs? LMAO) for a stupidly low price…which is interesting, seeing as how it isn’t licensed in the USA. Still, I know people are buying this stuff.

Anyway, this isn’t meant as a rant…so… Have any of you ever been scammed in anime or anime merchandise buying?
Well Pranksta…thanks for your little superior dance. You only buy from well-known merchants, but you prefer to steal instead? I actually was being serious here…but thanks for the laugh.
BargainAnime is one of the worst, especially as they go through all this crap about how they are really Otaku beyond words, etc. One of the best things to do before ordering from a new source is to Google the name of the source with the word “complaint.”
timjake: I use Bob’s site for most of my stuff and RightStuff for the rest. I do admit that I use fansubs when there is no way to purchase the item (like Aishiteruze Baby), but they are destroyed as soon as the anime is licensed.