wowvintage (been on eBay since June 2012), was listing a piece that initially I don’t think I would have been interested in as most of my statues are all standing up. However Catwoman caught my eye, posing as she was laying back. “wowvintage” was very communicative and friendly, dispatched extremely quickly and my new addition was incredibly well packaged. Were I collecting boxes, I would have been even more pleased, however I am not a purist and want to display my statues as nature intended, so as long as the statue doesn’t suffer in transport, that’s all fine but hey, perfect box is a bonus. At the time of writing, […]

I’ve made two separate purchases from Hobby Link Japan – both were reasonably priced, the first order was for two statues which unfortunately tipped the value of the order over for import duties but the second order came in just under. The site is quite busy (www.hlj.com) as they have a LOT of goods on offer. You can just search for Bishoujo though in the search bar and instant list of statues you might be interested in. They use a variety of stock statuses:In Stock (good to go!).Order Stop (usually see this on pre-orders and they’ve filled their allocation, you’ll have to wait for future availability).Out of Stock/Backordered (means what […]