Re: Kimbles needs our help!
Posted: Wed Jan 28, 2009 3:15 am
But she's too embarassed to ask for it, so I'm posting for her. D:
Pretty much, the deal is that Kimbles is attempting to bid on and win the Japanese magazines containing the first 3 chapters of the Telefang 2 manga, and part of the Bugsite manga, neither of which was ever reprinted in volumes. This means that they are very hard to find, and this might be our only real opportunity to get them scanned.
The trouble is that the auctions are on Yahoo Japan Auctions, which means the only way to buy them is through a proxy service. This is always extremely expensive, because not only do you have to pay for the items and shipping, you also have to pay a considerable fee on each auction and pay for the shipping overseas to you.
We last used a proxy service to buy the Telefang/Bugsite/Dino Device guides and Telefang manga. The cost of the actual items was only about $30 CAD, but after all the shipping and fees it ended up costing $150 CAD. >__> So you see.
Basically, we can't strictly afford this auction right now. It would be really awesome if the people of Tulunk could get together and help try to cover part of the cost.
I want to be clear that we're not "charging" for it or threatening not to buy it if we don't get money for it. In fact, Kimbles has already put in the bids and downpayment for it, so there's no going back now.
Andwhyisit offered to pay up to $100 to help buy these (awesome), but personally I think it would be really nice if everyone was able to chip in smaller amounts instead. Even just $5 or $10 would help. That way nobody would have to pay a huge amount...
Anyway, we might still lose some of the auctions and we'll have no way of knowing the total fees until well after it ends, so there's no point in sending any money until then.
If anyone does decide to help out, I can post the total amount it's costing after the process is finished. It'll probably be a few weeks. That'd also give us time to figure out how to actually recieve money from people....
Again, this isn't required, I'm just throwing this out in case anyone wants to help.
**P.S. We live in Canada so this is in Canadian dollars (CAD), which are worth less than American dollars and more than Australian dollars, but I don't know about other countries.
Pretty much, the deal is that Kimbles is attempting to bid on and win the Japanese magazines containing the first 3 chapters of the Telefang 2 manga, and part of the Bugsite manga, neither of which was ever reprinted in volumes. This means that they are very hard to find, and this might be our only real opportunity to get them scanned.
The trouble is that the auctions are on Yahoo Japan Auctions, which means the only way to buy them is through a proxy service. This is always extremely expensive, because not only do you have to pay for the items and shipping, you also have to pay a considerable fee on each auction and pay for the shipping overseas to you.
We last used a proxy service to buy the Telefang/Bugsite/Dino Device guides and Telefang manga. The cost of the actual items was only about $30 CAD, but after all the shipping and fees it ended up costing $150 CAD. >__> So you see.
Basically, we can't strictly afford this auction right now. It would be really awesome if the people of Tulunk could get together and help try to cover part of the cost.
I want to be clear that we're not "charging" for it or threatening not to buy it if we don't get money for it. In fact, Kimbles has already put in the bids and downpayment for it, so there's no going back now.
Andwhyisit offered to pay up to $100 to help buy these (awesome), but personally I think it would be really nice if everyone was able to chip in smaller amounts instead. Even just $5 or $10 would help. That way nobody would have to pay a huge amount...
Anyway, we might still lose some of the auctions and we'll have no way of knowing the total fees until well after it ends, so there's no point in sending any money until then.
If anyone does decide to help out, I can post the total amount it's costing after the process is finished. It'll probably be a few weeks. That'd also give us time to figure out how to actually recieve money from people....
Again, this isn't required, I'm just throwing this out in case anyone wants to help.
**P.S. We live in Canada so this is in Canadian dollars (CAD), which are worth less than American dollars and more than Australian dollars, but I don't know about other countries.