So I've spent the whole morning researching about sites that accept pre-orders for albums and if they ship to the Philippines and if they offer free international shipping or they have additional shipping expenses and whatnot. I've also read countless reviews about said sites (ie yesasia, kpoptown, DVDHeaven) and they're all mixed thoughts. Some say they're reliable while others say that they've been waiting for weeks and their posters, cds, etc. have still not been shipped even though it has passed the "6-14 business days" mark. Not to mention the fact that some sites have really unreasonable prices and expensive shipping rates.
I have this strong urge to order from Kpoptown since my purchase will count on the Hanteo Chart right away and I not only get an album, but I get to support SHINee as well. I still don't know whether they just ship to the US Market though, which is incredibly unfair because hello, I'm right here. Wait, they do ship to my country but the shipment fee is almost the same price as the album. No thank you, that is absolutely unreasonable.
But then Yesasia has great prices and free international shipping but I'm alarmed by the fact that someone on Tumblr said that they sold his email address and now, his inbox is flooded with spam messages from different companies. It's a good thing I'm using gmail, which is said to have spam guard, but I don't want to be too sure. And someone also complained that two out of 3 of her items were damaged. I hope they accept refunds.
As of the moment, I have 17 tabs open and they all revolve around those sites.
The woes of an international fangirl who's too elitist to buy the album from her own country. But then, Universal Records is launching the album in June. June. What the actual fuck.
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