Hi peeps!

I'm hoping someone who's bought Japan fanclub exclusives before can point me in the right direction.

I'm trying to purchase the ATINY Edition of BAD (Japanese Ver.) from outside Japan. I normally use Buyee, but it requires a product URL, and since the item is only available through the Japan Official Fanclub, I haven't been able to find one.

If anyone has experience ordering FC-exclusive releases through a proxy, I'd really appreciate any advice. And if there's something specific that worked for you but isn't appropriate to post publicly, I'd be grateful if you could send me a DM.

Thanks so much in advance!

I was looking for some Cha Woo-min merch and found some of his birthday meet collectibles for a good price, but I have never ordered from there or heard of it before, is it a trust worthy site?

If there is a better one to look at pls lmk!

TYIA!!! <3

I started truly collecting February 2025, I may have a small obsession lol. I tried to balance albums, lightsticks, and merch without making it feel too cluttered. Open to compliments and constructive criticism!
(Also yes… I’m aware T.O.P is not longer a part of BB I just wanted to display his album and my lightstick… they just fit well together)

Hi everyone im from Honduras so I usually ship my albums to USA and get them sent here, whats the best store in your opinion to buy from onlime?

Basically what the title says. I NEVER see it around on Vinted or anything. Only the colored ICC Version. I did score the Automatic Ver. for like 2€ though, so that's pretty damn cool.

I finally decided to open up the rug from the pop up and display it.

My two little yorkies can’t get to the rug if it’s on the wall 🤷‍♀️

I’ve been keeping all the empty blind boxes from Stray Kids, IVE, and MEOVV on the bottom shelf of my display. The boxes are cute, but I’m starting to run out of space and may need to use that shelf for displaying other items too.

I’m considering throwing them away, but I’ve heard that missing the original packaging can lower the resale value if I ever lose interest in collecting. Do you keep yours or throw them away?

I bought 11 sticker sheets and a small desk organizer from Daiso, and Delivered Korea is quoting me $567 - $1027 on shipping!! How is this possible? What should I do? The box says it’s 9kg and has a dimensional weight of 36kg. I don’t see how it could be so big and heavy.

EDIT: Thank you for all the replies!
I got a response a day later from the customer service team. They said that although it was ordered all at once from the same place, it came in 2 packages. This is also even though the warehouse items said it was all in one package. They said the two boxes + Daiso sending it in large boxes caused the shipping to appear so high, which I’m still a bit confused about because a commenter said the large dimensions they reported still shouldn't have been so expensive but whatever. I also still don’t know why the package was 9kg even though it was only light items that shouldn’t add up to that much.

They told me to use their repacking service and also gave me credits to do so. I’m hopeful it will have a more reasonable shipping cost after the repacking, but I’m also keeping in mind the ideas of shipping to another korean proxy or abandoning the items if it doesn’t work out. Will keep updating!

Bought 3 sets, collected them in person on the final day of the finale in Seoul. Got lucky and found this in 1 of the 3 sets.

first off, apologies if posting this is inappropriate. i couldn’t find the weekly verification post for this week so idk if that’s still ongoing or not.

i bought this トレカセット (trading card set) from mercari japan with my trusted proxy service and i managed to snag these for about $10. this seller has sold a lot of these トレカセットs for different &team members. i doubt it’s fake because of the sheer amount of doubles and i’ve purchased these sorts of sets before with no issue (they’re usually legit and this is a common selling practice in japan). HOWEVER, the cards arrived today and i’m not sure if it’s my skepticism creeping up on me or if it’s because of the moisture from being in a box for over a month but the cards feel flimsier than i expected. i compared them to my other cards that i know are real, some from the same album and other &team pcs. the size, corners, colors, quality, and thickness are all consistent. it’s just the way it bends so easy that throws me off. is this normal for being stuck in a box for a long time? am i tweaking ?? 😭

pics 1&2 the top card is unsleeved
3&4 it’s sleeved
pic 5 is the listing i ordered
pic 6 is the plastic sleeve that a few of the cards arrived in, each separately

i also don’t remember if the listing description said it was from albums or not. the listing is gone now which raises a red flag for me but it could also be unrelated/nothing. i plan on selling the duplicates which is why i want to know so i can price them accordingly. i don’t want to scam anyone by mistake.

My binder has a few groups in it atm, but I collect enhypen mainly as they are my ults.
I keep getting new enhypen pcs and unfortunately I've ran out of sleeves and since I'm going to turn my binder into an enhypen specific binder (with probably smaller binder/s for the other groups I have in my collection)-
I was wondering that if I use the sleeves from the pcs that would not be going in the binder on the pcs that would, with the unsleeved pcs, how is it safe to store them? I have some unsleeved ones left in the albums but I'm not sure how safe that is obviously (though I do store my albums safely)
- An idea I had was to use the boxes you get from Poca market that contain pcs to store the unsleeved ones in? Or could that possibly damage them?

Another question was : if I were to buy pc sleeves from aliexpress or temu or something, would they damage the pcs?

Thank you :)

i think the title question might be confusing, so i'll just ask with examples:

if you collect stray kids, would you buy "IM NAYEON" from Nayeon because Felix is featured on one of the songs? if you were collecting kiss of life, would you but "tilt" from irene & seulgi because she was featured on one song? if you were collecting blackpink, would you buy maroon 5 single that featured lisa?

this might be a question more directed to those who focus on one group, and collect everything from that group, but yeah i'm just curious how you see the features in regards to your collections :D

soooo i have a bunch or stuff coming in so i wanted to post the before though this pic is missing 3 records i think? anyway 😛

also the plastic thing under 7th year is so that that entire stack doesnt fall apart 😓

I will be in this area next month and after visiting pop topic in Brampton I got this idea. Outside of them and LightupK is there any kpop shops that sell photocards either packs or singles? Similar to pop topic set up

Thought I’d share the bits I picked up while in Japan. Had some very lucky finds.
(This is just all music related stuff I purchased so there is some Japanese and Thai stuff that sneaked in£

I love collecting albums and photocards and they genuinely bring me joy but when I think about how much I’ve spent on everything it makes me feel so guilty. What makes it worse is that most of my collection is in a binder so it feels like I’ve spent money on stuff that don’t even see the light of day.
Does anyone have any advice?

I've been hoping for dolls fashioned as gg idols for a long time, so i'm really excited to have her

I recently bought some new nct albums, here are my pulls! And last pic is photocards that i bought!!

Hi there!

I’ve been wanting to get some Ateez stuff from Bunjang. Wondering which is the best proxy service to forward to the US? Taking into account the new tariffs and laws of package revision from customs (this got me stressed af, since I used to buy from Mercari JP all the time). Also if someone had like a recent experience of getting their mail checked pls let me know, mainly I want to get a plush and a squishy and want to everything arrives safety. Tysm in advance! :)