Rakuten Delivery Since Tariffs AMRS

[jfk1117]

Hi -
Anyone ordered from Rakuten since the tariffs kicked in and can tell me the experience? Curious how things progressed shipping wise and fees encountered.

Thanks!

Jude

[jfk1117]

For anyone who cares to know, as I tried it out. $225 item on rakuten and shipped via rakuten. They will only offer global express shipping. I used to pay around $40 to ship from Japan and now it is a little over $60. Real kicker was the tariffs which came in at a whopping $94. I could have bought the item from Okayama denim for $325 but when my size sold out I decided to go for it. Seems those shops are still cheaper options comparative to Rakuten now.

However it seems the amount I paid is higher than expected or what Google says the % is but no way around it. You can’t exactly challenge it.

[sabergirl]

Yikes. Thanks for the intel. Not worth it at the moment.

[nurunuru]

As political discussion of any sort is banned on this forum (which, admittedly, does rather stretch the etymological origins of the word), I can only really chime in with,

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[nurunuru]

"Etymological origins" would be something of a tautology, I suppose. Ahh, well. It's out there now.