Let's be honest, regardless of our age many frequenting these pages have various gaming collectibles and toys that more boring people would frown upon. You know, all those plushes and expensive limited editions of games, when some would rather buy a nice new lamp for the sitting room.
For those of us eager to add to our collections, Fangamer is definitely in the mix when it comes to online retailers. If you're not in North America, however, shipping and customs charges can often be as expensive - sometimes more so - than the actual item. Fangamer is aiming to improve matters for European shoppers soon, though, confirming that it'll open an EU store that will distribute locally.
There is a follow-up note, though, highlighting that Holiday items may still be more reliably shipped from the NA store, as stock for the EU subsidiary is still not final.
Its good news for fans of the store in Europe though. Some of us in the UK-based NL Towers can look forward to customs charges from both stores, however, which is not very fun.
If you're in the EU and like buying Fangamer's varied merch let us know in the comments - suddenly those collectibles may cost a bit less.
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Awesome stuff, ordering from Fangamer has incurred some seriously expensive shipping and custom charges in the past.
I'm glad I'll finally have an option to reduce that, I mean hopefully anyway considering Brexit complications.
This is good, especially for their physical edition Switch games. Haven't ordered from them for a while because of all the incurred fees.
How have I never heard of this site?
I'd laugh if it's based in mainland Europe so UK still get custom charges.
@jump
They appear to be based in The Netherlands.
https://twitter.com/FangamerEU
This is good for the EU! I am sick of those UK stores now because I have to pay more for basically nothing (customs!).
@RupeeClock This is awesome!
This is great news - I've been asking Fangamer whether they'll do this for ages so ready to spend money when their EU store opens
Yep, this is good news, it's more likely that I'll be shopping there again now.
Given it’s in the Netherlands… I expect to still pay custom charges! Ah well, it’s great news regardless.
Thank GOD! The delivery charges on that site are crazy, just hope they recognise Guernsey as the UK but without VAT or Custom charges
I've never paid customs charges with them anyway, not sure if it's just a random thing or certain order values. I've either been lucky or not placed a large enough order.
Oh great! This site/store is great! Awesome Banjo-Kazooie merch! I’m glad you people in Europe can not pay as high shipping charges!
Hopefully they'll have the Peppino plush.
Another Brexit gift. Hahahaha. Past parody now. At least we have our fish… oh wait.
@jump the alternative being? UK isn't EU anymore (or is it? I honestly don't follow or get it), and now any resident of any country in EU that had to order European stuff from UK has to pay customs within "Europe". It would be absolutely stupid to have their EU warehouse in UK and have 95% of potential European customers still pay those insane fees and taxes. Basically reaching nothing new, no new market,...
@oatmaster @nessisonett It's value based if your order is under £135 you pay tax when you buy the goods with no customs to pay. So if you keep orders from the EU at 150 euro or below there will be no customs to pay.
@Obs ah, cheers! Think my biggest was about £115 so that makes sense.
I suspect shipping costs rather than customs will be more of an advantage compared to US anyway, although they always seemed pretty reasonable to me. Think 'forfansbyfans' had some things I wanted from Slime Rancher but their shipping was bonkers compared to FanGamer.
Epic, now Europe can finally get physical Undertale & Deltarune CDs! (I'm not from Europe btw)
@jump Then laugh merrily - HAHAHAHAHAHA *sobs
Now I can get a bugsnax shirt and not have to import it!
@Obs But I pay my 20% VAT on anything from UK since they announced it. No matter if it is 60£ or even less.
I wish all online stores relocate to other countries in the EU so Brexit can suck it
I love Fangamer! Have gotten so many good collectibles through there, their BK plush is amazingly detailed.
@Noid i've heard it's only popular items at first but i really hope we at least get the pizza tower shirt or pin since both are super good
@RupeeClock Thanks for the heads-up! Seeing as I'm from the Netherlands, that's a nice piece of information. ^^
I hope they'll stock their recent reprint of Stardew Valley that has all the updates on the cartridge
@JoeSooper
Fangamer's release of Stardew Valley had a UK/EU region release.
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Fangamer-5060760880859-Stardew-Valley-Nintendo/dp/B08F8KRRGL
Which is naturally preferable to importing the US release.
@RupeeClock I'm talking about the newer cartridges with the latest version on them. Not sure if the European retail release has been given the same treatment or not.
https://reddit.com/r/LimitedPrintGames/comments/qh8y3f/the_latest_stardew_valley_switch_reprint_is/
Both good news and bad news. Good news is that it is an EU store bad news is there is an EU store (as in I will be buying alot of stuff )
@JoeSooper
Oh I see! It's actually complete on cart, because yes there were indeed some other updates after the EU print.
I actually have the original JP collector's edition release too, and the version on that cart will be quite old.
Got lots of my Undertale merch from there! its great, (I need conker!)
I've wanted to order things from there before, but only did for Undertale on Switch, due to not wanting to pay such high shipping and potential customs fees. Now they get an EU store when the UK is out of the EU, which just seems like a cruel joke to ensure I have to pay customs fees. Ah well, at least there'll be a more local centre for the stuff to come from. Need to look at the bright side.
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