Hi Guys,
As you know the blog has been a little quiet at the moment and i haven't posted as much as i had hoped too. Unfortunately the other week we were putting together some huge bookcases to display some of our Anime figures etc and whilst attempting to film our achievement, one of them fell on me and i ended up in A&E.
So I've been out of action for a wee while. Second disappointment is that my video camera also broke in the accident so I'm not going to be able to do my unboxing videos from march. I will however be buying a new camera at the end of the month so we should be okay to do unboxing videos next month.
Overall last months boxes were very disappointing and in particular i was ripped off entirely by 'chick crate' who sent a box with two unofficial t-shirts and a home printed tote for the grand price of £19.99!!! Not impressed, avoid at all costs.
I should point out that this is a valuable lesson to learn, when i was looking at which boxes to buy i watched a lot of youtube videos to help me decide and watched the only two there was on chick crate. The videos showed someone really happy opening what looked to be a fantastic box. What i didn't realise was that the person in the video is directly affiliated with chick crate. Remember when watching unboxings, most of these people have been paid by the company to promote their products or received their box for free which means they are more often than not, not going to be negative about the items. How many blogs have you read that have given a review of a product? and how many have been negative? I'm gonna go ahead and guess not many.
From now on i will be very careful about which boxes i buy and whilst i will do unboxing videos i want to assure you if I'm unhappy or the box isn''t worth it's money, you will definitely be able to tell.
This month i will definitely be receiving a Betoyo Bento box - which is an anime themed box that contains 5-6 items and usually has both plushes and figures in the box. It costs £25.00 and usually arrives in the first half of the month
I will also be getting two Japanese snack boxes this month. Oyatsu Box being the first which costs £16.67. It contains over a pound of snacks which usually works out at around eleven snacks. They are all full size snacks and the box also contains a Gachapon (small Japanese capsule toy).
The second box is from Okashi connection and costs £14.83. it contains over a pound of snacks as well and I've heard a lot of good stories about this one so i have high hopes.
I'm also scheduled to receive Aprils comic chaos box however the company has been having problems since January and it's looking more and more doubtful as to whether they will send these boxes out. Having already pushed the shipping date twice it is now showing that we'll have these at the end of April, beginning of May. I would recommend avoiding them until their back log is cleared and the next box has been issued. I say this as they have not been very forthcoming with their customers as to the cause of the delay or when the boxes will be out. Some people have been waiting since December and are now due four boxes.
I bought a bunch of Japanese snacks from the Candysan website. I've never ordered from them before and so i can't recommend them yet, until i receive my snacks. Their prices are very reasonable and quite close to what i imagine the snacks cost in Japan, however delivery is quite steep and is usually between £10-16. That said i think this is counter balanced by the price of the products and they have a good range as well. I will do an unboxing once it arrives as well and we can see if it was worth the money.
I am also subscribed to pop in a box. This subscription box is far less of a risk as you create a wish list of funko pops and the company selects two from your list every month and send it to you for a reasonable price of £20.00 including postage. There is also a small packet of popping candy included and the chance to receive a rare pop or to win an extra pop as they give away upwards of 12 pops a month in the boxes.
That's it for this month though i have been tempted by both Nerd block (whose theme is 80's this month) and zbox which has an animation theme this month. So i may cave and get one of them, so don't be surprised if you see an extra unboxing this month.
