UK Anime Distributor Anime Limited Discussion Thread

Hunter_Killer said:
It's a shame that Anime Ltd doesn't use "Royal Mail" for larger packages during sales. For me, the collection fee for this method is usually £25-30 less than FedEX or UPS. I'd rather pay extra and have Royal Mail. It's 5-7 days slower, but I pay a lot less.
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Same. I paid €24 in admin fees for Macross Plus as they shipped it by UPS. The fees would have been €4.95 if sent by Royal Mail or about €7.50(calculated fee of 30% the vat charges, min fee of €5/max fee of €15) via FedEx.
 
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RB008 said:
Gaaaaahhhh it's here! Not sure if they'll announce anything new because MCM was not long ago but one can dream.
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I think I only have one thing I'm keeping an eye out for:
  • Black Lagoon + the OVAs (hopefully they'll go on B1G1F again as I missed out last Christmas)
Outside of that, there's not really much I'm after - unless they do those lightning deals again and something catches my eye; picking up Cardcaptors CE for £58 (discount code included) and Neon Genesis LE for £60 last year were very good deals considering the regular prices for those sets.
 
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For me it will probably be a case of looking at what deals they are doing, in terms of BOGOF (even though the impact of that offer might be affected by the postage charge as you can't link titles of similar prices together to maximise the saving (i.e. 2 titles at £15 in one order, followed by 2 titles at £25 in a second order).

Early birds don't interest me, I would rather keep my money until the product actually ships rather than it being held by AL for many many months when release dates get pushed back and back
 
Sounds like new things are added to the sale each day? That's new isn't it?

EDIT: Wow!
Ok so no new products this sale? Focus instead seems to be offering stuff that has been out of print/stock
 
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Alright. No new stuff as I thought, buuuut still looking forward to it incase they got some deals I'm interested in plus the mystery boxes.
 
A little summary of notes I made during the Christmas showcase video so people don't have to watch the whole thing if they missed it:
  • Sale begins at 17:00 UK time on December 1st and runs until 17:00 UK time on December 13th
  • No new product launches during the sale
  • Old stock of some out-of-print collector edition titles will be available to buy
  • Mystery boxes to return on December 1st: a higher number of mystery boxes will be available than in recent years
  • Stocking fillers: both DVD and Blu-ray and both TV series and film will be included
  • Collector edition deals: some will be available throughout the sale period, others will be a return to early bird prices available on a specific day
  • Bundle deals: select series that are separated into different sets can be combined for a discount - will be available on a specific day
  • FLASH sale: available on 3 different days, discounts on select products for 2 hours, different item revealed every few hours. Mentioned that the products would be towards the higher end of things
  • Vinyl deals available on two different days
  • MVM sale available on specific day; 20% off nearly all of their catalogue
 
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12 Days of christmas live show break down:

Runs from 5pm Dec 1st-13th

The usual daily things (no early bird each day anymore, cause well they know they wont make it on schedual) + stuff on throught out the sale as usally.
So looks like there won't be a load of titles release

Possible OOP title from stock found from various places (sound like the "last chance to buy offers" will be a daily thing and will change).

Mystery boxes, probably 4 but could be more, on 1st december/launch, don't know if there still CE mystery boxes though.

The usual: Stocking fillers,
CE deals (no mention of ultimate edition, but possible there is the odd one in there),
Early bird prices of recent titles (this will be a opend up on a certain day),
bundle offers (for a set of series or boxset),
Flash sale return again (3 seprate days), runs for a couple of hours (implied good sale price on higher priced item),
Vinyl sale (a couple of music days),
MVM Sale Day (20% off, and I think mention of some stocking filler priced items of there range),
BOGOF (oh there was mention of BOGOF at the end and included Gundam BOGOF in there too),

Free international and domestic shipping (require a certain threashold)
Bonus discount for Anime Unlimited as usual
Mailing list discount code still avalible at 10% off (with i assume certain amount required to be spent)


It's very possible i missed the odd thing, was just writing a few things down as it was live
 
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Old out of print stuff is interesting but no mention of additional postage discounts or a lower threshold means those daily and flash deals are gonna seem less appealing the more the days go on. They really need to be offering some sort of combined postage where it all ships together at the very least.

The wording of the mystery boxes worries me too since it feels like any titles could be fair game whereas before you could at least guarantee it hadn’t been in a box before. But that could just be me misinterpreting or doomposting and maybe there is still 1 box that’s the classic version
 
I’d love for the Black Lagoon CE to resurface, otherwise I have a rather lengthy list of titles that I haven’t picked up yet and the mystery boxes (at least for CEs) will be mine.
 
xp_version1 said:
Old out of print stuff is interesting but no mention of additional postage discounts or a lower threshold means those daily and flash deals are gonna seem less appealing the more the days go on. They really need to be offering some sort of combined postage where it all ships together at the very least.

The wording of the mystery boxes worries me too since it feels like any titles could be fair game whereas before you could at least guarantee it hadn’t been in a box before. But that could just be me misinterpreting or doomposting and maybe there is still 1 box that’s the classic version
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If the flash sales are anything like last year, it will likely be the more expensive sets. It was mentioned specifically that the flash sales would be geared toward higher end products. Last year we had Cardcaptors CE, Neon Genesis LE, and I think there was some ultimate edition sets in there too. I think everything was £50+, so postage won't be an issue in those cases.

I'm quite looking forward to the flash sales and seeing what some of the long out of print stuff is. I think the flash sales are likely to be the best of the lot in terms of price. Since last Christmas I haven't seen Neon Genesis LE, for example, available anywhere for the £59.99 that it was priced at for those few hours last year at ATA.
 
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BrokenPhoenix said:
If the flash sales are anything like last year, it will likely be the more expensive sets. It was mentioned specifically that the flash sales would be geared toward higher end products. Last year we had Cardcaptors CE, Neon Genesis LE, and I think there was some ultimate edition sets in there too. I think everything was £50+, so postage won't be an issue in those cases.

I'm quite looking forward to the flash sales and seeing what some of the long out of print stuff is. I think the flash sales are likely to be the best of the lot in terms of price, since last Christmas I haven't seen Neon Genesis LE, for example, available anywhere for the £59.99 that it was for those few hours last year at ATA.
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There was also Blood-C ultimate at £44 last year and mention of a collectors edition and vinyl day where a great many things will probably be under the threshold. I think the point still stands that it’s poor move that will make people think twice about what they order.
 
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There was also Blood-C ultimate at £44 last year and mention of a collectors edition and vinyl day where a great many things will probably be under the threshold. I think the point still stands that it’s poor move that will make people think twice about what they order.
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For sure. Unless you're wanting a product or a group of products that add up to £50+, you're going to be stuck with the £3.50 postage. Grabbing those bits and bobs from the other areas of the sale may not be as sweet of a deal as they were before. It also doesn't help that a lot of the sale is separated into different days.

My rule of thumb is going to be if I've seen a cheaper price elsewhere for a product throughout the year, then I'm not going to bother. However, I think the flash sales should still be pretty good in terms of price, even if some of the products are under the free delivery threshold.
 
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I don't think I'm even looking for a single OOP item, especially one that's marked "sold out" in the store. It's different when it comes to music. Vampire Hunter D... I don't expect to buy much, because most of the things I don't have but would like are probably new, so they won't be on sale/the discount won't be big, but I could be wrong.
 
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