Something a little different this afternoon with some pluggage and review of a recent new addition to the anime/manga online shopping front for Canadians, BigPfeiffer.com.
I originally found out about them through Animaritime, as they were dealers there as well as frequent visitors to the forums. After being impressed with the prices in their site catalog for numerous older Tokyopop books, I sat down the other day to place my order.
At $4 a piece, I purchased volumes 4-10 of Suikoden III and volumes 2-3 of Cardcaptor Sakura (as I’d previously only owned the floppie versions), as well as an adorable little Uryuu Ishida keychain ($2.50) I’d been eyeing on my continuing quest to own any piece of merchandise with his face on it. The shipping is a flat rate of $7.50.
The site accepts PayPal as its sole method of payment and immediately I ran into a problem. PayPal attempted to charge me twice for the purchase. Boo on their part. So I e-mailed BigPfeiffer with my problem. I recieved a quick response and got things sorted out within a day (with the exception of my refund issues with the people over at PP).
Having made my order on a Friday and having the payment problem dealt with promptly on Saturday (I was impressed by the response on a weekend), the package was mailed to me on Monday morning and I recieved it early Tuesday. Prompt shipping = awesome.
The books all showed up in good quality, minus black marker strikes on their page tops, though I suppose a small quip for a $4 back issue. I love my little Ishida keychain (which is really nice quality, btw), and I was also sent two little… somethings… as a gift for the payment issues.
So cheap prices, quick service, polite staff and fast shipping made me a happy BigPfeiffer customer. Only complaint is that there was no warning about the black marks on the graphic novels. Overall though, a good and fast experience so I recommend checking them out!
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If you liked them, check out BookCloseOuts.com, they have a canadian branch aswell. They also do insane TP sales every now and then. A month or so ago they had the entire month with 75% off of TP titles, i was paying between 50cents and $1.99 for titles. Like BigPheiffer they source their titles from the TP back stock, so it has a the black publishers returned mark on them. But i can live with that.
Their priority international delivery is awesome aswell, shiping was insanely quick, especially since my order was coming from 3 places. Some titles were shipped from canada, ond the other came from 2 warehouses in america. THey were shipped to the central warehouse, repackaged and shipped to me. Total time, 5 days. I got close to 50 titles for $40