no more physical copies in Europe? please help
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Hi there Fakku Team and Fakku Community.
I'm a collector of Fakku Books since years. My collection counts more than 110 titles as physical copies as of now.
In the starting years I could order Fakku books through Diamond Comics in my local Comic Store. This option somehow disappeared at some point, so no more (pre-)orders through Diamond Comics here in Europe.
In the following years till approximately summer this year I could pre-order Fakku books through local and online Book Stores here in Europe.
Since weeks this option vanished completly.
Some titles are still available as back issues in both both ways mentioned but now more pre-orders of Fakku titles.
I know, there is an easy answer to the problem: just order the titles through the official Fakku Store. But paying more Money for shipment fees plus possible import fees than the physical copy itself is just absurd regarding the ampount of titles I'm buying. FYI I usually payed around 20 Euros per title.
What exactly happened Fakku Team? Is there really no more partnership with distributors here in Europe?
I would love to know any Info or solution to my problem. Suggestions from the Community are also gladly seen to minimize my costs.
Thanks for your time reading till this section an a special thanks in advance for every answer given.
I'm a collector of Fakku Books since years. My collection counts more than 110 titles as physical copies as of now.
In the starting years I could order Fakku books through Diamond Comics in my local Comic Store. This option somehow disappeared at some point, so no more (pre-)orders through Diamond Comics here in Europe.
In the following years till approximately summer this year I could pre-order Fakku books through local and online Book Stores here in Europe.
Since weeks this option vanished completly.
Some titles are still available as back issues in both both ways mentioned but now more pre-orders of Fakku titles.
I know, there is an easy answer to the problem: just order the titles through the official Fakku Store. But paying more Money for shipment fees plus possible import fees than the physical copy itself is just absurd regarding the ampount of titles I'm buying. FYI I usually payed around 20 Euros per title.
What exactly happened Fakku Team? Is there really no more partnership with distributors here in Europe?
I would love to know any Info or solution to my problem. Suggestions from the Community are also gladly seen to minimize my costs.
Thanks for your time reading till this section an a special thanks in advance for every answer given.
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animefreak_usa
Child of Samael
I mean it's been the way of weebness for a while. Especially when you buy stuff from Japan and you realize that a book The size of a American comic book is 20 bucks or when you put down $100 for the slowest cheapest shipping of something that is the equivalent of 3 kilos. Which in reality is cheaper than piecemilling a bunch of tankobon, doujins and figs.
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Ari_Lin wrote...
I usually buy mine through Archonia (limited stock & they don't usually restock), Amazon (germany), or Bol (more for Belgium/Netherlands) bought a few from Book Depository (which has unfortunately shut down this year RIP). Other than those options, I wouldn't know any other resellers I'm afraid. You could always send an email to your local distributors/book stores to see if they'd be willing to stock them as a last ditch effort?
I hope you can find a solution that works for you!
-A fellow long time European collector
(I've also imported some box sets straight from Fakku before and I feel your monetary pain)
I encounter the same issues.
Mein first go to is archonia, otherwise i order from blackwells (uk bookstore) . Blackwells deliveries take some time but so far it worked for me. Recently they seem to have quite a number of titles in stock, just search for fakku.
Amazon has become super unreliable. I placed several pre orders on books and those preorders just vanished after a while . . .
EDIT: how much shipping did you pay for your delivery from fakku?
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Hallo, I'm from germany. I have nowadays the same problem. The shipping costs are very high ordering some books. The custom fees also. I tried also the same shops in europe like archonia. But I'm waiting months or a year getting something. It is very annoying. Why don't you have a partner here in EU?
