UK Anime Christmas Sales for 2025 [Anime Ltd's 12 Days of Xmas + More]

AlmightyAllan said:
Totally. It's a shame that you cannot combine orders after the fact to save on shipping fees. But is what it is at the end of the day. Im still happy with how things played out. Biggest learning is that next time ill limit orders placed. Try to keep to a 1-2 minimum order
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While I think it would be great the reality is if they did implement such a feature what would likely happen is people would order everything and tick 'hold off on shipping until end of sale' then cancel causing problems since these sales are important for stock clearing.

I think if a feature like this gets implemented, not sure how, that as they are shipping they realise the could combine shipping and refund the difference to your account as store credit.
 
fitzroyvass said:
While I think it would be great the reality is if they did implement such a feature what would likely happen is people would order everything and tick 'hold off on shipping until end of sale' then cancel causing problems since these sales are important for stock clearing.

I think if a feature like this gets implemented, not sure how, that as they are shipping they realise the could combine shipping and refund the difference to your account as store credit.
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Some places I know of locally let you do combined shipping. But also have to be mindful of shipping costs etc - likely you'd face an increase in shipping fee depending on how large of an order you placed so actuality is... my suggestion isn't going to save a lot of money if they did. Just a dream 😅
 
fitzroyvass said:
While I think it would be great the reality is if they did implement such a feature what would likely happen is people would order everything and tick 'hold off on shipping until end of sale' then cancel causing problems since these sales are important for stock clearing.

I think if a feature like this gets implemented, not sure how, that as they are shipping they realise the could combine shipping and refund the difference to your account as store credit.
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It's a shame free or reduced shipping isn't part of the sale. That would partially solve the issue.
 
AlmightyAllan said:
Some places I know of locally let you do combined shipping. But also have to be mindful of shipping costs etc - likely you'd face an increase in shipping fee depending on how large of an order you placed so actuality is... my suggestion isn't going to save a lot of money if they did. Just a dream 😅
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True, but the places who do combined shipping probably aren't in as unique a position. How I imagine it'd work for some people to exploit it

Day 1: Order EVERYTHING you are remotely interested in and click 'delay shipping to December 12th'
Day 2-12: Add everything from flash sales/restocks to order
Day 12: Remove the stuff, you aren't as interested in to get under budget

The problem is the result of that is AtA has a bunch of restocks of clearance items

It's a shame free or reduced shipping isn't part of the sale. That would partially solve the issue.
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Free/reduced shipping is great but the reality is it is a cost the business puts on the user in one form, either transparently as a fee or invisibly by increasing the product price. Combining shipping and giving a AtA credits would have the same effect of reducing shipping costs.

I am fortunate in that I live in the UK so I don't have to pay for international shipping and from my perspective international shipping costs are part and parcel (pun intended) of the situation. If on the other hand I had to pay American and Japanese prices I might not be as happy to lose out on AtA and MVM deals.
 
Idm the shipping myself even if i wasn't doing a GO I'd order only what i thought was worth which probably woulda just been my first + fnal cart: being Blood C ult, Great pretender, Cyberpunk, B the beginning S2, GITS s2. They woulda lost me on the mystery box tho they usually get em out before the sale ends alas not this year

I wonder when my day 2 order will ship tho hmmm. Honestly for me would rather they wait until January with the Christmas rush happening now, feels more prone to stuff arriving damaged plus delayed anyways since Im intl in US. Sooooo idm the delay ahaha

I myself asked them to cancel two orders due to items restocking later during the sale, particularly BOGOs, so I would reorder with the restocked missing items. They were polite and efficient in cancelling though but yeah the stock issue is a thing either way.

I guess some folks are more finicky on cancelling due to change of mind as above but I don't usually order something with the though i can cancel it later. Idk if that would particularly be a problem if they implemented consolidated shipping like that though. Imo that's a mindset a person has anyways, consolidated shipping or not. Seems AL is pretty flexible on cancellations so that could feed into it too. CR just straight up wont let me cancel in stocks lol smthg smthg about logistics automated process etc, have to go thru an RMA (for me I accidentally ordered 2 stock somehow, not that I changed my mind)

I imagine though their main audience is UK/ROI folks + EU. I think consolidated shipping would benefit those intl folks the most tbh, the UK/Ireland postage is 3.50 which isn't terrible esp for the flash deals i find it worth if they already didnt hit the FS threshold. Do they charge EU the same 25 pound flat rate too? I can see though that they might not expect many US buyers for example so for me I definitely got my moneys worth of the 25 pound shipping ahaha
 
Please Note: AllTheAnime customer service email is on a break/holiday from the 18th Dec-5th Jan
(I'm not sure if they are in the office on the 18th or not (but I assume not)) so you may not get a response until the new year (5th Jan)
AllTheAnime / Our customer service e-mail will be responded to until our team takes a well-deserved break on December 18th, at which point we’ll be back to respond to any messages over the Christmas period in the New Year when we (and our fulfilment partner) re-open on the 5th January and will endeavour to respond to any messages left over that period as soon as possible.
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Fullfillment center closes for holidays at "5PM on December 23rd"
 
wow i wonder how many folks orders even shipped if orders made minutes into the sale havent lol

i wonder if theyll get a stream of cancellations for the folks holding onto the hope it might ship by today ayee
 
I sent a request in to them around Noon UK time today asking to remove the Perfect Blue 4K CE set from an October pre-order I made that was still waiting to ship, and they did respond to me and cancel the item from my order. I guess the order itself won't ship until next month, though. So now I'm just waiting on 4 CE sets to ship yet:

Diebuster CE
Komada: A Whiskey Family CE
Eureka Seven High-Evolution CE
Blue Thermal CE
 
Well, I just got my pre-order package which should have included Bleach part 9 as well as Perfect Blue 4K CE.
Got I'm Standing on a Million Lives CE instead of Perfect Blue 4K...
I hope they can sort this out before their holiday.
 
otakufloyd said:
Well, I just got my pre-order package which should have included Bleach part 9 as well as Perfect Blue 4K CE.
Got I'm Standing on a Million Lives CE instead of Perfect Blue 4K...
I hope they can sort this out before their holiday.
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I shall pray for @Titan that this is a one-off occurrence, as he had his copy of PB shipped yesterday, and on the site it's still sold out.
If even Girly-dono had to cancel, when international orders get priority one treatment, it bodes ill, it does. Dire times are offoot when our American posters are cancelling...

None of mein own xmas orders have been sent yet as of yet. However, @FathersBane has converted me to the path of God, and I am willing to sacrifice; wait until 2027 if need be.
One must think of others suffering, before their own. So please be patient, my brothers (and sisters). Our bond - under one eroof, shared by Christ - will see us through this hardship. Hand-in-ehand. Together. As one.

I shalt leave you all with a bible verse, to quieten thy minds:

James 5:7–8​

Be patient, therefore, brothers, until the coming of the Lord. See how the farmer waits for the precious fruit of the earth, being patient about it, until it receives the early and the late rains. You also, be patient. Establish your hearts, for the coming of the Lord is at hand.
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Aion said:
I shall pray for @Titan that this is a one-off occurrence, as he had his copy of PB shipped yesterday, and on the site it's still sold out.
If even Girly-dono had to cancel, when international/American orders get priority one treatment, it bodes ill, it does.

'Tis an indication the order backlog is bad if even our more valued American users are growing impatient. Dire times are offoot...

None of my xmas orders have been sent yet. However, @FathersBane has converted me to the path of God, and I'm willing to sacrifice; wait patiently until 2027 if need be.
One must think of others suffering, before their own. So please be patient, my brothers (and sisters). Our bond - under one eroof, shared by Christ - will see us through this hardship. Hand-in-ehand. Together. As one.
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Thank you for the 🙏. But knowing my luck, it will probably be the opposite, & I'll end up receiving Perfect Blue & not Cyberpunk. 😉
 
My MVM orders finally arrived today. So it took them 2 weeks for them to get here as im outside in the eu.

Their shipping handling is way better than Anime Limited's which i hate to say it has gotten worse, it has been these past few years but this years was notoriously bad. I don't what is up with them but something is definitely going on.
 
Unfortunatly this years shipping standards for AllTheAnime looks to have gone backward, most poeple who done this sale before are aware there are likley delays. it kinda feels like we've gone backwards and gone back to the shipping disaster that was the 2019 Christmas Sale (I think it was the 2019, feel free to correct me for which year it was).
whether that due to prioritising Pre-orders or international orders (I have no idea if they are priortizing international order as it was only girls with guns that got there order and the cynic in me kinda wonders "if we ship out the order now we don't have to cancel the order")
The Pre-order prioritising I understand they want them out and done, but I would assume the amount of people ordering pre-orders as a christmas present (especially with AllTheAnime track record of delays to pre-orders) is much lower than the amount of people ordering presents from the christmas sale. Honestly I would just put it down to a poor schedualing choice of don't put pre-orders around a christmas sale.

But yeah, we are all unfortunatly going to have to be patient this year


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