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Post by SACD Hunter July 26, 2014 (21 of 24)
mekduk said:

SACD Hunter always posted that low price of 31USD but never mentioned where to get them.

Esoteric SACDs (single disc title) had been sold in Japan at list price JPY3300, ca USD32 (excluding tax 3143, ca USD31) since the first 4 releases (TDGD-90013, ESSD-90014, ESSD-90015 and ESSD-90016) in 2008. Japan have raised consumption tax rate from 4% to 8% on April 1, 2014. Therefore, the price including new consumption tax is now JPY3394, ca USD33, but the price excluding tax remain the same.

In Japan the Esoteric SACDs are available from some physical stores and their online stores, such as Diskunion, Joshin and Yodobashi. But their websites are in Japanese and do not ship overseas. The only one I found who can ship to countries outside Japan is Stereo Sound Store. However, not all of the Esoteric titles can be shipped overseas, only some of them, such as ESSG/D-90089-97 (9 discs, JPY27771 / 25714) 4 Great Operas on Deutsche Grammophon & Decca, ESSD-90086 Mussorgsky: Pictures at an Exhibition / Night on the Bare Mountain, ESSD-90084 Brahms: Piano Concerto No.2, ESSE-90082 Bartok: Concerto for Orchestra / Music for Strings, Percussion & Celeste, ESSE-90081 Bruckner: Symphony No.4, ESSE-90072-80 (9 discs, JPY27771 / 25714) Karajan & Callas - 4 Great Operas, ESSE-90071 Holst: The Planets, ESSW-90069 Tchaikovsky / Glazunov - Violin Concertos, ESSE-90068 Mahler Symphony No.1 and ESSS-90056 Handel: The Wind Instrument Sonatas, etc. Stereo Sound Store ship international orders via EMS. The consumption tax is not charged, JPY3143, ca USD31 for single disc titles. The shipping rate can be found on their website.

As Esoteric SACDs are limited edition, most titles sold out quickly in these stores, sometimes within one month.

I usually purchase Esoteric SACDs from above-mentioned websites and have them shipped to the Chinese Embassy to Japan in Tokyo. My colleagues bring them to me when they travel between the two cities. I also bought a lot in stores of Ishimaru (now closed) and Diskunion in Tokyo when I was there several times for international conferences.

Post by mekduk July 26, 2014 (22 of 24)
Thank you very much for sharing your insight on this subject. We have vPost service which charges some fee for shipping from Japan to our address in Singapore. Perhaps would be good if I were to order many discs at a time as the basic shipping cost from Japan is roughly about 20USD for the first 500g.

Final price inclusive shipping would be about 4200 yen per disc for the usual type.

Post by FullRangeMan July 26, 2014 (23 of 24)
The explanation to the contract finish is Amazon JP sell too few to overseas.
The reason for low salles is they ship only by expensive De Luxe ship by Fedex.
No even the usual registered air mail they offer. Too incompetence for years.

His competidor CDJapan ship overseas in a plethora of ways:
Express Mail Service-EMS
Jap Post Registered Air Mail
Jap Post Air Mail
SAL
Registered SAL
SAL ParcelPost

Amazon must be carefull hereafter, the Chinese giant AliBaba is bigger than Amazon and Ebay together...

Post by Bobpaule July 26, 2014 (24 of 24)
I will certainly keep it a habit to take a sweep on amazon.co.jp anytime a higher priced SACD, DVD-A, or BD-A comes in my crosshairs. I have not once saved hundreds on rare out of print SACDs.

The English language feature is OK-ish but compensated well by Google Chrome's auto-translate feature.

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