Gemsy-chan
Shrine Maiden
A lot of people on here use forwarders if a shop doesn't ship to their country, Stackry being the most popular. I've used them to get stuff from both CR and Sentai. Try have a look to see if it's any use to you.
UK Anime Distributor Crunchyroll/Funimation/Manga UK Discussion Thread
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ussjtrunks
Straw Hat Pirate
No amaray release for witch from mercury is a strange decision
We have to hope that G-Witch gets a standard edition release later.
ussjtrunks
Straw Hat Pirate
Even though I don’t agree with hmv having exclusive steelbooks it’s 10x worse cos there’s no amaray wide release for other shops. Disgraceful decision
Steelbooks used to require print runs of at least 4000 units in the past - and whilest G-Witch has a fanbase, it's still quite small compared to other series like DBZ, NGE or others...
So it's likely that G-Witch might struggle to sell 4000 units, even US+UK+CA combined, and if there was an alternativ edition with the same street date, I'd say it would be impossible. Maybe later - or maybe never...
By the way: Who said it's a CR Store exclusive?
It usually takes some days until they hit Amazon US
So it's likely that G-Witch might struggle to sell 4000 units, even US+UK+CA combined, and if there was an alternativ edition with the same street date, I'd say it would be impossible. Maybe later - or maybe never...
By the way: Who said it's a CR Store exclusive?
It usually takes some days until they hit Amazon US
Based on that "exclusive" tag I assume it means it is a CR Store exclusive.
Oh my God, how is CR this bad and incompetent? "We actually now ship to Europe too! But you are not actually able to order anything cause we are idiots and we have put a 10 digits limit on the phone number format which incorrectly claims that your phone number is invalid despite it being real." Damn, this whole situation is so f*cked up!
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Jon O Fun
Combat Butler
I've never ordered from their site (the shipping charges!?!?!?) But when some sites force you to use the country code you don't include the initial '0' which should leave 10 spaces.
Obviously Crunchyroll are that dumb not to think of that...
sniper_samurai
Mad Scientist
Wasn't able to order the Witch From Mercury sets in HMV Dublin, but saying that the salesperson didn't seem interested in even checking and probably fobbed me off. When I went in they were standing away from the till with their head buried in their phone.
ussjtrunks
Straw Hat Pirate
I don’t even know want them anymore Crunchy can live without my money, will get some AL release instead
I left out the initial 0 and it still won't accept my phone number cause then it doesn't meet CR's 10 digits requirement, my phone number is one digit too short without the initial 0. And when I include the initial 0 it claims that my phone number is "invalid."
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Jon O Fun
Combat Butler
Well that's crap
sorry.
AgeOfBoredom
Great Teacher
If you have Apple Pay, you can use that to pay on the CR store. Obviously not everyone has iPhones, but hopefully that helps a few of you out.
Sadly I don't have iPhone.
I even contacted CR's support team yesterday about this phone number thing but I haven't heard back from them and based on the experiences of other non-USA customers who have the same issue I won't hear back from them ever. Kinda makes me wonder how on earth CR has not solved this issue when many others have contacted them about it! Welp, I guess I just have to hope that it later gets an standard edition (I don't care if it's a standard edition, steelbook or collector's edition, I just want to own the damn thing!) which is not exclusive to one store and is available via Amazon, MVM and AL. Or that by some miracle AL is allowed to release it.
I can't help but wonder they made G-Witch CR store exclusive. Like, CR gave Trigun Stampede a proper collector's edition with merch and all but it is not a CR store exclusive. But they gave G-Witch a bland looking steelbook release with no merch and made it CR store exclusive. What is the logic here?
ussjtrunks
Straw Hat Pirate
What is wild is the witch from mercury license is probably expensive and they’ve made it hard for people to buy the thing
Wicker
Dandy Guy, in Space
For some reason the crunchyroll store will ship everything to me but the Kaguya sama movie. (Prevents me from advancing the basket as it says some items cannot be shipped to my address)
No issue with the other Aniplex Title "Rascal does not dream of a girl venturing out" however.
No issue with the other Aniplex Title "Rascal does not dream of a girl venturing out" however.
Girls with Guns
Chuunibyou
I would just use a fake phone number in your CR account, if that's what it takes - I would never expect CR to make an international call to contact someone outside of the US if there is some issue with an order, just as I would never expect AL or AOL in the UK to ever call me on the phone here in the US. All my correspondence with overseas anime retailers is done through their contact page or through email. That's just the norm, I would think. Pretty sure Crunchyroll would never even call someone domestically in the US for an order issue - I've never heard of that happening even once.
I wonder if the delivery service (FEdEx, DHL, UPS) would need my actual phone number though? Is there a risk of me being unreachable when they need to deliver the order to me? Or would my email be enough?
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Otomo
Thousand Master
I've never had a UK seller phone my UK number.
To be honest, I be suspicious if they did.
I'm probably not using them in the future but if I did, I would just use a variation on the Blues Brothers trick and put in the number for Wrigley Field.
And claim a typo if noticed.
