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Bellingham Bill
2016 Jan 9, 12:01pm
Capitol One is great on the FX, too. Amazon was offering 113 FX but my card gave me 117.3, the actual exchange rate right now
Bellingham Bill
2016 Jan 9, 1:00pm
My next purchase is going to be a case of this:
beef consommé crisps -- so f-ing tasty ¥1980 for 6 is $2.80/ bag (240g is 8.4oz), about what a family-size Ruffles is at e.g. Walmart.
The box itself would cost $30 to airmail via SAL, adding another $5/bag (they're good but not that good).
Maximum USPS airmail box size is 275cm (length + cross-section perimeter) so I could cube up the 50 x 20 x 30 cm case into a pack of 4 with weight of 7.6kg and dimensional size of 240cm [60 + (50 + 40) x 2]. Airmail (~1 week) but postal airmail is $125, which is actually $5 more than just sending via SAL individually . . .
Guess I'll have to figure out something else to combine the order with, potato chips are great on the weight front but I'm also paying to ship a lot of air . . .
Xylitol and Stevia are among the healthiest sweeteners, but the usage of Xylitol has been suppressed in the US by the Aspartame/Acesulfame/Sucralose lobby. It is more widely used pretty much everywhere else.
Patrick
2016 Jan 10, 9:14pm
amazon.co.jp
but it's almost all in japanese! http://www.amazon.co.jp/
how do you find what you're looking for?
edit: ah, they do have this: Would you like to see this page in English? Click here.
but it doesn't seem to change that much about the site...
FortWayne
2016 Jan 10, 9:26pm
My next purchase is going to be a case of this:
I've been buying mine at gun shows, really cheap reloaded ammo. For target practice you can't beat the price anywhere.
Bellingham Bill
2016 Jan 12, 8:51pm
I think if you close the page after you click the change to english and reload, you'll get the shopping controls at least in English.
What's with those notebooks? Why are they better then the ones at the dollar store?
Bellingham Bill
2016 Jan 15, 7:10am
What's with those notebooks?
Good question!
Mainly the ruling is at 6mm, so you get 34 lines on a ~10" page vs. college-rule 33.
The narrower size (8") means less wasted space horizontally.
Cheap paper has fuzzy rule printing, but this printing is razor-sharp.
The paper quality is great too.
And all the rings make it secure but you can still tear out pages if you need to.
Bellingham Bill
2016 Jan 15, 7:13am
So shipping cost came in at $95.
The capitalist way to allocate this is by weight, everyone pays their own freight.
The socialist way allocates by price, from those with ability to pay.
Interestingly, on a hunch I guessed that if you average the price % and weight % of each item, these averages will still add up to 100%:
So the notebooks are $5 apiece, the gum is $1.70 per pack . . . not bad.
In other news I ordered
and ten of these:
and 2 cases of 20 of:
from amazon.co.jp today. They don't ship any of that to the US, but there is a packaging forwarding service in Tokyo that will turn the boxes around for ~$15.
Air shipping via the post office (delivered by USPS) will cost another $45. Allocating the ~$60 in shipping costs among the 3 products results in the headphones costing $85 (current amazon.com cost $110), the 10 green notebooks for $4.25 each (I last paid $5 in-store when the yen was around 80 for them, and online now they're $7 - $12 each.) The gum is going to come in at ~$1.60 a pack, it was ¥110 a pack when I was buying it in Tokyo 15 years ago (it's awesome gum)