Alexified ~

I love buying items directly from korea, but customs tax is seriously a pain in the a**. Hahaha, Sorry for the term, but it seriously is. Imagine paying more than $100 in taxes in every box you received. I would humbly accept it if I were a seller or if I would gain profit from the items I bought but, these are mainly my collection! So asking for that huge amount of taxes is really stressful.

I tried to find a good way to prevent myself from paying those taxes and a friend of mine suggested to use LBC (A local courier service here in the Philippines). he told me that LBC opened a branch in korea and told me to try it out. I was a bit hesitant at first because I heard a lot of negative feedbacks from other filipinos about LBC. But somehow, due to curiosity, I end up using it.

What I love about this service is they don't care about the weight of your package, as long as you can fit he items inside the box then it's good. You need to pay them for the box and not by the weight of your items. For example, for a jumbo box like the one I've used, you're required to pay $105 in total. $105 is really reasonable considering that the package will arrive at your country 2-3 days after shipment.

Keeping my fingers crossed, i asked my friend from to korea to try using LBC service. I asked him to buy this and that from different korean stores, hahaha. I would love to put more items inside my box but sadly, it can't fit anymore. Well it can but it might turned out to be damaged when it reached me.

My friend shipped out the package on April 11, 2016 around 1:00 in the afternoon and that's when I started praying. Haha. I really did pray that my items would reach me safely and nothing along the way would harm them. I tried tracking the number that my friend gave me but the site told me that it's still pending and still waiting for update from the origin so I gave it a day.

Next morning, i tried tracking the item and I was surprised to what I saw, it's already in the Philippines! I was like, wth did just happened?? And the latest update was it was already forwarded to the nearest Delivery Hub in our place. I was freaking out, this is so amazing.

And around 5pm in the afternoon, an LBC personnel called me and told me that the package is already at the nearest branch near me (5-10 minutes drive) and is ready for picked up. I asked them if they can provide a door to door delivery and they told me that they can, but since it's already 5pm in the afternoon, they told me that they might deliver the box the next day and I told them that it's fine.

Around 10am the next day, a delivery guy knocked on our door and handed me my package. I was very happy at that time, i was wondering if they would asked for a tax but they didn't! They just asked me to sign a couple of things and then told me to enjoy my package.

I think I saved more than $100 in using this service. It's a really great experience for me and I'm pretty sure I would use this the next time I'm going to buy something from Korea again.

(For additional information about this shipping service, please don't hesitate to ask me on the comment section)

So what have I bought this time? Well, just a couple of this and that. Haha. More promotional signed albums and regular albums that I'm missing in my kpop collection. Here's some preview to the items I just bought. Excuse for my cute watermark ;) hahaha

But what's important is the inside. Everything is fine and in good condition

(Signed Digital Single Sunyoul x Yuju)

(Signed Album - BIGBANG - Still Alive Special Ed.)

(Signed Promotional Album - Jung Yonghwa First Album)

(Signed Promotional Album - BIGSTAR Shine a Moonlight)

(Signed Promotional Album - LEGEND Shadow)

(Signed Promotional Album - Shin Ji Hoon First album)

(Signed Promotional Album - Sonamoo DEJA VU)

(Signed Promotional Album - Sunny Hill's SUNNY BLUES)

(Signed Promotional Album - 24K)

(Signed Album - GDragon One of a Kind)

(Signed Promotional Album - Hello Venus)

(Signed Promotional Album - Nine Muses DRAMA)

(Signed Promotional Album - ROYAL PIRATES)

(Signed Promotional Album - MAP6 Storm)

(x3 Seventeen 2016 Calendar)

(x4 BTOB - Remember That)

(x2 - Winner EXIT:E ver A)

(x2 - EXIT:E ver S)

(BTS HYYH pt. 2 set)

(F(x) - 4 Walls ; Amber ver)

(Seventeen - 17 CARAT album)

(B.A.P - Carnival)

(WSJN - Would You like?)

(Red Velvet Season Greetings)

(Girls' Generation Cheese Caramel Mix Popcorn)

(EXO - JJAJANG RAMEN - review here)

And a whole bunch of RED VELVET "The Velvet" album. Hahahahaha

So overall, I was really happy right now because there are new items to add in my collections. Hehe. Nothing in here is for sale, please do not use my photos outside of my blog. Thank you so much for reading and viewing this haul again. :P