If you live outside Japan (AKA: 99.99% of this community), that does not at all mean that you should stay at your desk drooling or simmering at what people elsewhere in the world are getting in terms of new Beyblade items! We are in 2015, the limits to our Blader Spirits are almost all extinct now!
There are many different options of sites and services to use in order to purchase Beyblade Burst products directly from Japan or through a middleman service. What makes you choose one of them in particular basically comes down to stock at those sources, delivery speed, methods of payment and your own instinct!
First of all, you have to figure out whether you would call yourself a confident online buyer with some experience, or whether you would prefer going through a middleman service. There are definitely some advantages to using the latter services, such as being able to ask them personalised requests like throwing away big package boxes or other similar tactics to lower the size of the box to ship to you.
Middleman services
The following thread outlines the most commonly used and reliable middleman services known to the Beyblade community. A few of them specialise only in Yahoo! Japan Auctions, but as soon as you are speaking to an individual, like OkinawamTS and RiderProxy, then you know they can help you with other Japanese online shops as well. Read this page to learn more about middleman services :
http://worldbeyblade.org/Thread-How-to-u...n-Auctions
You can also use BuySmartJapan to purchase items from Toys "R" Us Japan's site :
http://www.toysrus.co.jp/disp/CSfDispLis...C%E3%83%89
Their method is that you go to the page of the product you wish to purchase, then click on the BuySmartJapan banner at the bottom of the screen and fill out this form to apply for the purchase:
https://www.buysmartjapan.com/index.php/...ement.html
However, there are also select websites that now allow you to order directly on them and that ship worldwide.
Online stores with Beyblade Burst producst in stock
With the following sites, you can directly order Beyblade Burst releases without having to go through a middleman.
Taka.Ohno
Our latest WBO Authorized Beyblade Dealer lives in Tokyo and has Beyblade Burst items in stock and at an exclusive price for WBO Members, so use it to your advantage!
[URLs to come!]
OkinawamTS
Besides being a middleman, OkinawamTS also offers some guaranteed stock as well, especially for the Beyblade Burst products. Check out his website below:
http://tokutakutoys-bey.ocnk.biz/
Japan-Toys
http://www.japan-toys.com/
This is the best and only store to purchase full cartons of Beyblade products, meaning 24 iterations of an item. In the case of Random Boosters, one carton therefore contains three times the eight Beyblades it can have, guaranteed.
A bad point: if you use it for individual purchases and not cartons, shipping might be exorbitant compared to what you paid for the products. It takes a certain quantity of items in your order to make it worthwhile.
Hobby Link Japan
http://www.hlj.com/scripts/hljlist/?SeriesID=6351
Great prices and in stock!
Nippon-Yasan
https://www.nippon-yasan.com/580-beyblade
Most prices seem close to the retail price in Japan, so this is another option!
Amazon.com
http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=sr_nr_p_89_0...2528832011
Some prices are quite close to retail costs in Japan, so this is a good option for those who live in the United States!
Yahoo! Japan Auctions
You can always also prefer Yahoo! Japan Auctions, which is like eBay in most aspects. However, for that reason sometimes the items are used, not new, and bidding wars don't always end well. One considerably huge bonus for this option though: it's the only place to obtain exclusive Beyblades and Beyblade recolours from Japan! No other shops will commonly list special releases, so good luck getting them without YJA. But be ready to sacrifice some big bucks!
Another advantage for Yahoo! Japan Auctions is that you can buy/win lots sometimes, so the overall price might be worth it compared to purchasing the items separately.
However, Yahoo! Japan Auctions necessarily comes with middleman fees, bank fees, domestic shipping (from the seller to the middleman's house), and then international shipping. That can sometimes really make the bill sour in the end ...
Here is the URL for the site:
http://auctions.yahoo.co.jp/
And just because sometimes linking to it directly does not work due to the Japanese characters, here is the keyword to use in order to search for Beyblade Burst auctions on Yahoo! Japan Auctions :
ベイブレードバースト
eBay
Of course, you can always resort to eBay that we all know by now, but prices there are usually quite high, so that's up to you!
If you have any questions regarding these methods, post them right here and someone will be on their way to answer you to make sure that everybody has a chance to own these hot new Beyblades!
If you find other options, let us know and we'll add them to this post! There are shops like YesAsia that are way too expensive though, so no reason to list them unless they become the only sites with stock still available.
