I almost died of shock last night when there was a ring at the doorbell at it was Fed Ex :O. My package from HLJ apparently made it through Fed Ex’s system in record time. I ordered both items during HLJ’s black Friday special last week, the special was basically to encourage people to switch paypal billing agreements.. if you bought an item from their specially selected sale items you got free ems/express shipping (the kicker was everything in that order of in stock items would qualify for the free shipping) all other items that weren’t already on sale were also 25% off.

I had a little bit of extra cash to work with this past paycheck so I studied what was in stock on HLJ and tried to decide what would really be worth it to order, considering the rather sucky conversion rate at the moment I decided to focus on larger figures and discovered at the time they still had the Magical Lyrical Girl Nanoha 1/4 Fate Figure still in stock. I had originally really wanted her and basically had already purchased Nanoha to go with her so I decided she would be my target. Then it was just a matter of going through the sale items until I found one I wanted, while they did have a few pullips on sale it still would have been cheaper to buy them off of Pullipstyle because of the conversion rate so I passed on them- plus they didn’t really have any wanted 😦 and chose the Fate/Stay Night 1/7 Sakura Figure by Griffon Enterprises mostly because I haven’t seen many owner photos of it and I rather like Sakura (plus I haven’t bought a new Fate figure in a while). Cost-wise it really wasn’t all that bad, all told it ran me just under $135 even with paypal’s lackluster conversion rate.