UK Anime Distributor Anime Limited Discussion Thread

Well, the free shipping threshold going to £150 has pretty much killed it for me. That's basically spending a minimum of US$200. I have 6 Collector's Edition titles in my cart to get it over £150, but only one of the titles is actually in the sale, and it is just a movie, so not much of any savings on the overall order other than my 15% animeUNlimited code. All but one are titles I already have US standard releases of, so I would be double-dipping just for chipboard cases. I guess it is time to finally give up on importing CE sets and concentrate on standard US releases, which take up less shelf space anyway. It's been a fun 10 year run with importing from AL, but I'm out of shelf space and need to start being more selective with the anime titles I buy.
 
Yeah BOGOF has always been it's separate thing. They knew what they were doing slapping a £3.50 shipping charge just before this because it's sometimes cheaper to split your orders to get a better BOGOF deal. I'm sure that was getting abused previous years when there was no shipping charge at all. RIP to those days.

I got a couple of things. That Cardcaptors set dropping to £20 for both parts plus a bit of shipping was a no brainer for me.
 
I'll admit there's a few collectors editions that somewhat interest me, but I think I'm going to wait to see what's stocked in the further days of the sale before buying anything.

(It doesn't help that I'm heading to Germany for a few days tomorrow so I wanna make sure nothing is shipped while I'm not there to collect it.)
 
I think I've gone through everything that is available for the first day.

I'm at 8 sets, for a total of £73. Which is less than a tenner a set and they're all things I've had my eye on for a while and wanted to get before the sale started.

Overall, the sale looks pretty decent so far imo. There are/were some bargains. The standout deal for me is the Cardcaptor Sakura standard sets on the B1G1F offer for 19.99. That's a crazy price for a 4K transfer (albeit on Blu-ray) and 70 episodes. There are some relatively recent standard releases on the B1G1F deal too, like Golden Time, Babylon, Flowers of Evil, Food Wars, Shirobako, etc.

You're just not beating those prices at other retailers. I'm glad I held off from all those HMV offers over Black Friday.

I am hoping the Great Pretender standard sets go on that "buy the separate series sets together for a discount" deal.
 
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Should I buy a 5th copy of The Woman Called Fujiko Mine? Is owning 5 copies of the same anime any more ridiculous than owning 4?

Gunbuster at £10 and all of Cardcaptor Sakura for £20 is an insanely good deal. I've heard Liz and The Blue Bird was good and I'd like to check out Digimon DALEK among others. But I also feel like i should wait until some more sales go live before doing anything. The Last Chance To Buy section will hopefully have something worth grabbing.
 
DragoStark said:
Yeah BOGOF has always been it's separate thing. They knew what they were doing slapping a £3.50 shipping charge just before this because it's sometimes cheaper to split your orders to get a better BOGOF deal. I'm sure that was getting abused previous years when there was no shipping charge at all. RIP to those days.

I got a couple of things. That Cardcaptors set dropping to £20 for both parts plus a bit of shipping was a no brainer for me.
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And once again, the standard ANIMEUNLIMITED code doesn’t work on the BOGOF section, despite the email t&c of “for 10% off any purchase”.

Obviously, the event-specific 15% (unlimited) and 10% (newsletter) have the exclusion in the email, so I wouldn’t expect those to work, but was hoping the ‘paid for’ version was fixed.
 
Rob F1UK said:
No Chaika or Venus Wars CE's back to EB prices... :(
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Yeah, I might have bit if the two Chaika sets and Akiba Maid Wars were in the sale, but then I'd have to find even more titles to add to get to the £150 free shipping threshold. I instead just bought the standard Akiba Maid Wars release directly from Sentai during their BF Sale, along with 5 other titles I don't own yet, so there's no way for me to add enough titles to get the free shipping from AL now.

With them raising the free shipping and putting random titles on sale each day instead of through the entire sale, it makes it almost impossible for international customers to put together an order with any kind of decent savings. I guess I'll be contacting them about dropping my AnimeUnLimited membership, too.
 
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Gemsy-chan said:
It's says not redeemable with other discount codes and the BOGOF is classed as a discount code.
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I’m not referring to the discounts emailed out specifically for the ‘12 days…’ event, but the discount that you purchase as the ‘unlimited’ subscription.

The website blurb specifically emphasises ‘all’ purchases (with no exclusions), repeated in the subsequent email after purchase:

Join Anime (Un)Limited today!

Here at Anime Limited, we've always been dedicated to offering you great products at the best prices, swiftly delivered to your door, and we've gone from strength to strength thanks to the loyalty of you, our all-important and dedicated customers. In return, we want to dedicate ourselves to you...
www.alltheanime.com www.alltheanime.com
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And to be more pedantic; even the sale (and 15% code) emails don’t state anything like “standard discount suspended on BOGOF”, while the BOGOF pages detail no exclusions.

I still went ahead and bought the subscription (earlier in the year) knowing they’re bad at honouring the details, simply because it nets me enough of a saving anyway. But there’s still a disconnect between the advert and application.
 
Googlyhead said:
I’m not referring to the discounts emailed out specifically for the ‘12 days…’ event, but the discount that you purchase as the ‘unlimited’ subscription.

The website blurb specifically emphasises ‘all’ purchases (with no exclusions), repeated in the subsequent email after purchase:

Join Anime (Un)Limited today!

Here at Anime Limited, we've always been dedicated to offering you great products at the best prices, swiftly delivered to your door, and we've gone from strength to strength thanks to the loyalty of you, our all-important and dedicated customers. In return, we want to dedicate ourselves to you...
www.alltheanime.com www.alltheanime.com
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And to be more pedantic; even the sale (and 15% code) emails don’t state anything like “standard discount suspended on BOGOF”, while the BOGOF pages detail no exclusions.

I still went ahead and bought the subscription (earlier in the year) knowing they’re bad at honouring the details, simply because it nets me enough of a saving anyway. But there’s still a disconnect between the advert and application.
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It's really unclear on Anime Limited's part, and it doesn't help that their website is all over the place. The terms and conditions for the Anime Unlimited membership are seemingly scattered all over the place and there isn't even any information regarding your cancellation rights.

However, I did find this email I received when I initially signed up for Anime Unlimited membership:

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It states here that the 10% off for members may not be redeemable alongside other special offers (e.g., B1G1F), so this probably gets AL out of jail for that.

Although, they really need to have a dedicated terms and conditions page for their membership, to make it clear exactly what you are signing up for and what is and isn't redeemable against the membership discount.

But this here, basically means they can decide as they please which items can apply against the regular 10% off discount code.

Although, reading this back, I never got my magazine! (Whatever that was supposed to be, haha).
 
Early bird prices on previous recent releases are gonna be reduced on I think it was a couple of days the 12/ go live on (but no idea which of the 2-12 days they will be), or that what I got from there live stream.

And yeah BOGOF and discounts code not mixing is kinda annoying (but nothing new to us) espcially with the £50 (well more like £55/60 for BOGOF's) free postage threshold. The only thing that has helpped is the price ranges in the BOGOF is only the 2 this year of £9.99 & £19.99 (oh wait there is a 3rd for 4k stuff at £29.99)
 
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