| piggychan said: getting caught by customs just seems random... sometimes u can get away othertimes.. pay up when the postman arrives at your door!
and I got my copy of Futari and didn't pay any tax! but I got mine from eBay from a seller selling them brand new direct from asia
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Sweet. You can get dinged by customs importing from ebay too as well though. Though a lot of ebayers (not all though. Some have disclosed the true value of games I've imported from the states) will lie about the true value of the goods they are shipping out so that they can save you the trouble of having to pay customs. I'll keep an eye out on ebay as well.
Btw is Futari's stock going to be around for awhile? Or is this something that is going to go out of print fast? I have a few games on my plate at the moment so I'd like to put off purchasing this for awhile if possible. Though if it's something that'll become rare and even more expensive soon, I won't have a problem with importing now. This is the first region-free Japanese-exclusive 360 game and from what I understand, it's fully playable if you don't know Japanese since the menus and options are in English. I want to buy this to support Cave's decision to go region-free. If people import the games, hopefully Cave will make all their games region-free from now on. I understand that localization isn't cheap (even if the translation is very easy, there are so many costs involved with localizing a game) so I can understand them not doing NTSC-U or PAL releases but at least make all the Japanese stuff region-free from now on. I don't know why Cave and other Japanese developers haven't tried this sooner considering that they have the option of going region-free. They aren't forced to make their games region-locked.
