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Originally Posted by whulsey
No, it has to do with trade and copyright agreements. That stuff has been around, probably, forever.
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It applies to a lot of merchandise. Almost everything in fact :P
There are books, figures and collectible items I've tried to buy,
but they're only for sale within Japan.
The option is to find someone to whom you can send the money,
and then he sends the item to you. In the world of collectible figures
that's called a "proxy". There are "proxy" companies devoted exclusively to
perform that operation. At least when buying figures. I don't know
if they can buy paper models or such.
Long ago I tried to buy certain exclusive, limited-edition piece of jewelry,
using as proxy a relative who lived in a US base in the south of Japan.
Weird thing was... since it is a US military base, it has an US address/ZIP code
and the company didn't approve the sale because of the address (despite being physically inside Japan).
