When I first started I got a new volume of My hero (basic ik) but when I got it there was a huge bend in the cover and it was water damaged there was also just regular were and tear but that wasn't really what bothered me, the next day the seller was not selling it anymore which made me mad because I was clearly scammed , what bothered me most is that even though it said it was new it clearly was not and I am almost certainly sure it was not shipping's fault because I had got another book with it that came perfectly fine . At the end of the day I replaced it and yeah that was my worst experience
I ordered ATLA: The promise library edition, but my book never came after 2 weeks since the date it was supposed to come even though they restocked them. I had to cancel the order
I have gotten manga volumes on backorder before, especially if it’s low quantity on books a million; however, my worst manga experience was from Walmart and yes they do sell manga (even super weird ones surprisingly) I got Tomie for a good deal online and they said it was 2 day shipping when I ordered it. A month and a half later and I still didn’t see it. I canceled it from my order.
I ordered Jujitsu Keisen (I think that's how its spelt) 2 weeks ago today and yet it still hasn't come and the weird thing is we can't cancel the order. So hopefully it comes this week or else we'll contact the seller.
My worst experience is when someone who I thought was a friend said he'd do a trade. A bunch of seven deadly sins for a bunch of bleach. I trusted him and sent out his first and he never sent me my part and he pretty much vanished after that. Real douchey.
It irks me when a site says "available in store" and isn't. Legit reasons for this are theft or it being set aside but yet to be purchased. Guess I'll try "buy online, pick up in store" like people do nowadays.
Strap in, this is a long one. My worst experience, Amazon. I ordered a large order, and just like you, two books never showed up. The online order menu told me that they will re attempt delivery the next day, and the day after that, I can come back to that page for a full refund. I wait, obviously, it doesn't come. I go back to the page as it told me to, and there is no refund option. It now said that the same thing again, "re attempting, come back after for refund" ...... This happened 4 times on a row. They just kept updating it and not providing me with any refund button. They'd just keep giving themselves more time, over and over. So eventually I decide I'm gonna call someone about it the next day. But the next day, it suddenly says that my package has been delivered. But I ain't got them, I ask my neighbors... Nothing. So I check the page again. There is no way to say it never turned up, the only options were to send it back, but I obviously had nothing to send back. I ring them, they tell me that the royal mail for some reason have it now, I assume that they par off orders that are taking too long to a different delivery service to deal with? Anyway, I ring the royal mail, and say that I ordered something of Amazon and it says it's delivered, but it's not here. Took me 10 minutes to convince them that I had the right number; they insisted that they were not Amazon, and that I've called the wrong people. After more arguing, eventually, they understood, and I give them my order code. They then say for me to wait for an investigation. 4 days later I get an email asking me to call them, and after 2 hours of waiting on hold, they tell me that it's been delivered. And I'm like... I know, but I don't have it!? Another 4 days go by... I ring again, this time on my own accord, and they then tell me that what happened is a the person who delivered it, declared it as delivered before they checked if they could successfully make the delivery. They then tell me that they can re deliver it... I'm like, yes, please. it still doesn't come. I ring again, they tell me that they don't have it and they gave it back to Amazon because they had it too long... I ring Amazon, explain the whole thing... And of course, another investigation... 2 days later, they tell me that it's been delivered... I'm like, ffs, I know, but I don't have it. They tell me to ring the delivery company who they gave it to. I realise at this point I'm about to get sent in a circle. So I ask for a manger, explain it to them, and they look into it on the phone with me... Alas... they can't figure it out, so they just put an order through again for it, free of charge, Next day delivery. I wait, no package. I ring, they've given it to the royal mail again. At this point I'd lost it, I rang the royal mail on the spot, and told them not to move muscle, and that I'd come collect it, I get there. It's not there yet... though, they tell me that they can see the driver is 30 minutes away, so I wait. It arrives. They then ask for payment. I'm like... Wtf? Turns out Amazon put it through as an expedited delivery without asking, and pushed the payment onto them... after 15 minutes of arguing, I get a manager, more arguing... eventually, they agree to not charge me. Success! Finally I have it... I open the parcel... Wrong mangas.
I got a rare print in The Promised Neverland Vol 6, which upset me greatly, as I was reading by the volume. This rare print appeared in a very important chapter, which in Season 2 of the anime in 2021 will appear. I wasn't nor am I going to spoil the contents of that chapter, but lets just say I'm confident that the pages of Haikyuu that was spliced into that all- important chapter is unlikely to be adapted into the anime. Essentially I had to wait for a reprint, oh and I also blew the horn for a reprint to be issued by informing my local bookstore of this mistake, as it turns out all of the current prints of the volume had the same issue. I kept my old copy, as I can't really do much about it. The most annoying thing is though, that the spliced chapter almost made sense with the plot of Neverland, after the previous chapter
@@CaptainRAIAN What publishers would you personally recommend? I have a lot of Viz Media, they do fumble on presentation, but usually the translation is pretty solid. I can't read Japanese. I know about Dark Horse but from my understanding they fumble on limited editions or discontinue series because they're out of print.
I just bought a manga from Books-a-million online... O_O But usually I buy online from Barnes & Noble. Very rarely have I had problems with them, including one time where my package straight-up vanished. But they were always pretty quick to resolve the matter and they usually ship my books on time when they say they're going to. Update: You were right. BAM online sucks....
Here's my worst experience: I once ordered 4 volumes of Naruto and a few days later the store told me they didn't actually have the vomumes in stock and that I would need to wait about a month for them to get them from Viz directly. Viz didn't have any for some reason, this went on for months and just cancelled the order. About 9 months later, I still don't have those 4 volumes of Naruto because that store doesn't even restock them. More of a Viz problem than the store's but still
Late, but this video got me into looking at reviews from BAM. And from what I can see, they’re not very good at dealing with customers and I doubt that what you went through was an isolated incident. Deeply sorry you had to go through that. I ordered manga from right stuf recently with no problems, so there’s that if you feel you’re done with BAM.
Here in Mexico there are only 2 manga publishers and in one of them if you buy in there website during an offer that they have, the order can take up to a month to be sent plus delivery time, with me it happen that at the moment that I place an order, a volume of my order appeared in stock but it really wasn't, so after a month without seeing my order progress, I contacted customer service and that was when they told me that volume it wasn't in stock and that is why my order had not been shipped, it took almost 2 months to be sent, it bothered me a lot that time
Bam, dreaded bam. I did an online order with them with about 5 manga I needed to continue a series. 2 months and nothing arrived. Contacted support, took another week to refund me. Ordered off Amazon, got in 2 days. So much wasted time. Bam online sucks.
I've only had one online order with Bam. I can only assume they just toss random dates and hope it works out. My first and last online order with them...they said they expected the volume in on 7/23....took me 2 months for it to arrive. I'm sticking with amazon. BAM stores are great...bam online....yikes
One of my first ever experiences of ordering something online went like this, I ordered a dragonball manga from eBay and it came and it was in Chinese, not even Japanese let alone English. I still have the book
I'm actually experiencing this situation right now with Jujutsu Kaisen volume 3. I had to order it from a third party seller and it said it would take 3 to 5 weeks to ship. The next day (after ordering), it said it had shipped. A couple of days later, I received my order (I had ordered volume 0 and 3) and I only received volume 0. A week or two later I had emailed the seller and they said that there was an unexpected delay with my order and they would send an update within about 10 days. It's been 12 days, and I still haven't received an update.
@@weebmatic OMG! No I didn't! I waited a while. But ultimately after hearing too many horror stories about their shipping and other stuff I decided to call their tech support and get a refund. Original comment was January last year. Cancelled around September or something.
A couple months ago I had bought a couple volumes of Happiness from Amazon. One of the volumes came with a huge gash in the bottom of the volume so I tried to return it for a new one but they never sent it.
damn, i was thinking of picking up the one piece manga box set 1 from books-a-million since its not in stock anywhere else but now i don't think thats a good idea.
I never have really had a bad experience with buying manga the only time it got bad was when my family saw fanart of demon slayer and they told the rest of the family
I just recently ordered the Tokyo ghoul box set from bam because it said earliest shipping on June 7th but I got immediately back ordered and I am now realizing that I need to decide between waiting a long time or just cancelling the order😕
Luckily I have never have had a bad experience! I've had stuff go missing in post to only be sent a replacement week later. I usually shop at book depository , wordery, Amazon and few others but there best ones for online shopping for manga in UK. Also shout out to book depository they sent me the wrong berserk deluxe edition that wasn't even suppose to be out yet and they told me to keep it and sent me out the one I was suppose to get. They was like sorry was a picking error just keep that it
I mostly used Rightstuff anime,eBay and Goodwill books for my manga,some second hand ,some in brand new condition.Have to say it’s been well neutral,had some good and some bad
BAM did some similar stuff, I tried ordering firepunch vol 2 off BAM cuz it said it was in stock like you had happen and once I realized no where had it in stock and they were taking too long, that they were just waiting for a reprint and it wasn't actually in stock. customer service was super slow for me too so i've kinda put them aside as a manga source unfortunately.
Books a million is amazing for buying in store. Online is kind of a gamble, but I've had issues with online orders from a most online orders. I pretty much buy from bam in store exclusively and I've saved so much money from their discount section with my membership coupons on top of it. Average of about 25+ manga for $100. And the employees at my store are super nice.
Similar thing happened with me and Indigo. I went back and forth to get my vol 1 of CSM they sent me everything else but the book that I needed to start. After weeks of trying to get in touch with them I finally get a response and this girl at the end of our conversation said it’s in stock but they cancelled my order. Like why did you cancel it!
I'm fortunate enough to not have had a bad experience, yet. I've actually had really good customer service with my UK retailer, Travelling Man, when I accidentally ordered a manga I already had. They refunded me only a few hours after I noticed it. Can't recommend them enough, to any UK collector who may see this comment.
I recently had a bad experience with buying manga on Amazon I’ve tried so hard to avoid buying manga on there cause I always here they always send volumes damaged and their packaging is so bad but I bought Act Age Volume 1 since Viz/Shonen Jump said they weren’t gonna re print them ever again cause of the whole controversy about it but I know people were gonna resell them for $60+ and I rather get them now then later cause I ain’t trying to buy it for $60 or more and Amazon sent me a Volume with a pretty noticeable indent in the back of the volume everything else on the volume was in mint except that then I told them about it and they sent a new one but it was even worst it had crinkles and other damage on it, it was so bad than the first one they sent I knew this was gonna happen cause like I said I’ve heard so many people say Amazon is the worst to order manga on I ended up keeping the first one they sent cause that was at least way better hopefully I can find a cleaner volume at the store whenever I get the chance
oof that sucks. I've never had a problem with amazon personally, but I hear lots of horror stories, so I guess I've just been lucky. It's always safer to buy in person!
Dude your videos are great man ! Luckily I have no bas issues with any company's when it comes to buying manga but I live in the Netherlands and I most of the time buy my stuff from Dutch stores. Bookdepository is also always good so, it's all good.
So I just finished watching your other videos and wanted to comment on an older video but decided the recent one would be best. First off great videos I usually click off after a certain point with some other youtubers but I feel compelled to watch yours through and I think your have a great speaking voice. Second off I know you ain't gonna read Kakegurui without checking out Kaiji as well haha, Kaiji is a gambling manga / anime which goes under suspense and I think thriller, the anime imo is godly and I believe the manga is on the same level so next time you're gonna buy some manga I suggest thinking about Kaiji. It's published by denpa I think. Third off, there is no third, enjoy your day!
@@CaptainRAIAN The animes were actually made to promote the movies and the last movie of the actually came out last year, it's like Parasyte, they didn't really need an anime since it's already popular on Japan and it's the same deal with Kaiji. We'll only get the first part of the series which will be published into 6 omnibus (the series has a total of 75 volumes I think) I'm assuming we'll get more if it sells well but yeah dude!
My personal worst experience was when my friend bought me volume 1 of toilet-bound hanako-kun. He bought it from amazon and it arrived way more damaged than in the photo he sent. Luckily it wasn’t as bad as other manga damages I’ve seen and I’m still very grateful (the pages weren’t ruined). When i checked where he bought it from i did see the reviews also mentioned it came very damaged. But overall it was a very good book!
Ordering from them online isn’t worth it bc they don’t keep their site updated on stock and will take months to finally cancel your order bc it’s been out of stock
At the moment I have brought twenty one piece books and all came but one I brought off book topia it said 10 Business days but it didn’t come for three months and still hasn’t come
Oh God.... based on the reviews I've seen of BAM, I'll be praying your order comes through with no problems, but maybe next time go for Right Stuf instead. In my experience, they're generally easier to deal with. Anyway, I hope you get them soon!
@@amberrizzi1207 yea the only reason i ordered was bc they had the manga i was looking for (apparently) while it was out of stock on rightstuf 🥲 i got part of my order just fine praying the rest comes through too
My worst experience with Books a million is when I ordered volume one of demon slayer online it took a month and a half to come in the mail. I got it but it took a long time, never buying from books a million online ever again
Yep. I ordered volumes 0 and 1 of jujutsu Kaisen along with hunter x hunter. It’s definitely been more than 2 weeks of waiting and I haven’t gotten any of the jujitsu kaisen manga, despite both being in stock. The hunter x hunter manga came in, but my packaging was super weird, it kinda looked like a cardboard slab. Books a million has some serious issues with their logistics, I probably will never buy from there again.
I have this issue with BAM and it’s really annoying, I pre ordered the Tokyo ghoul Re box set and a couple weeks later needed to cancel the pre ordered because I needed money. I messaged them and told them to cancel it and also asked when I was going to get my money back, they told me that I never got charged because it never got shipped but the balance was deducted from my bank account it showed the $130 from the box set was charged but then later disappeared. I went to my bank account and I never saw the notification or message saying I got charged but my money was never added back and my bank can’t do anything lol. Rip $130.
I'm currently having trouble with books a million, it's been two months now, almost 3 months. I've only received 1 out of the 4 mangas I ordered and I still haven't recieved an update, I understand that covid might've contributed to this but not even getting so much as an update puts me in a sour mood
@@incognitounknown146 yeah I'd try and contact them man, that seems suspicious, especially since raihan in this video is saying he won't buy from them again for similar reasons,I am from Australia and order from booktopia, normally they send it out within 4 days and postage takes about a week
OMG i have the exact same problem, I ordered 4 mangas of oyasumi punpun THREE WEEKS AGO, AND THEY STILL PENDING, NOT EVEN SHIPPED. So i contacted support asking what is causing the delay because literally 3 of those 4 mangas were in stock..... actually no, NEITHER of them are in stock, they are all causing the delay, and what's worse is that Amazon doesn't have in stock the mangas so i'm just practicing my patience right now.
On march 20th, 2021 I ordered four omnibus volumes of One Piece from B.A.M. (all of them in stock) but only the first 3 arrived. A few weeks pass and It still doesn't come so I make a complaint to customer service, they say It will arrive on may 20th. It's now June 4th and the book has still not arrived.
When you find a volume that's out-of-print, or hard to find, and you order it, relieved that you won't need to hunt for it anymore, only to get an e-mail a couple days later that its sold out and the order is cancelled... Why does it say its in-stock if its not?! Its happened more times than I can count. I've bought so many volumes maybe 3-4-5 times before I actually got it... Turns into a clusterfuck trying to keep track of it all. Is that normal or is norwegian stores just shit?
Since i live in Europe, my main sites for ordering manga are Book Depository, Wordery and Amazon (both main amazon com and uk) i rarely had problems with my orders, although Book Depository knows to irritate me sometimes, now yes they have free shipping but boy, shipping know to be slow (even before Covid19 outbreak), i often ask myself do they ship it from Mars??, and once or twice my package was lost in transit. No problem from ordering from Amazon, only once book came damaged and i received new since it was shipped by amazon.
@@CaptainRAIAN Well yea, it should arrive in 7-10 days, 15 if delayed but now most of them came between 15-30 days, i mean from where you ship those, it would probably came faster if they have warehouse on Mars:):))
The only problem I’ve ever had is one of my haikyuu books I ordered from amazon having a weird bent to it and it wont go back to its original form. I’m kind of sad about it cuz it bent pretty badly too.
Man I just bought the Tokyo ghoul box set from them Monday for a good deal and it said it was out of stock and might ship in 2-4 weeks I just checked again today and now it says that it’s in stock for delivery and might ship in 2-3 days but my order status still says out of stock 💀💀💀💀💀
Worst exp i had was amazon india ....they take not that long to deliver but they never package it at all ...its just thrown in a plastic white colored packet so whenever it arrives its either bent like crazy or just filled with dirt....at a point out of 10 bakuman volumes i had returned 8 i thought i was gonna get flagged for crazy amts of returns
Because I collect manga very very slowly ( I´m still student and only money which I get is one in year from part-time job or for birthday/christmas/end of school year ) so don´t have lots off experience but... One when I was ordering abot 15 volumes of bnha the company where I was ordering refund me one off volumes ( they give me back my money so its okay ) but they do it only because that volume was for price 10 USD ( when I was ordering ) but they refunded me only because they change price on about 21 USD. And I´m not going to buy it for that price I will wait for normal price P.S I´m sorry if my english is really that bad :)
My worst experience buying manga is when I ordered something from Reddit, and it was the whole series of attack on Titan. When I placed the order i waited about 2 weeks then I messaged the guy and said “hey os there something wrong with my order?” And the guy said “I’m still packaging it.” And I responded back and said “you’re a still packaging it and it’s been about 2 weeks” and the guy said “I’ve been busy” and I said “ok I better get my books soon enough because I’ve never had to wait for manga on Reddit this long it normally comes in about 7-9 days. So about a month in I messaged the guy and I said “dude where’s my manga?!?!” And he said “sry it’s shipping today” and I said “dude I want my refund, give me a refund wnd cancel the order!” And he said “ok deal but I have to keep the shipping cost” and I said “DUDE JUST HIVE ME MY MONEY” and he never responded back, I guess I’m never buying manga from places like that
Nothing too bad, but I ordered all four volume of Zombiepowder off of Ebay one time and the guy told me they moved all their inventory around so they no longer had any idea where it was, so they sent me a free set of ex-library copies, and then after a couple weeks I asked them to just refund my money and they did and then I bought a new set for actually cheaper than what I would have paid (only a couple buck cheaper but still) and the funniest part is the new set I ordered actually came in the day BEFORE those aforementioned library copies came out, so yeah those extra copies took weeks. I have since given those library copies to my best friend since I got them for free. So yeah, like I said, not too bad since I kinda wound up with a more positive outcome in the end.
i live in the uk and i ordered dr stone volume 2 from waterstones (uk's barns and nobles) it was part of a haul and it didnt come. the next 2 weeks i emailed them every day and they ghosted me and i gave in and the day that the amazon order came 1 week later the other package came i wanted to set it on fire
yeah i ordered from amazon not mad but kinda one of my books had like a huge bend in the cover leaving a dent through the entire book and then another one had a bent page and a ripped page nothing runing it
Damn I nervous cuz I want to place an order..pretty big for my sons bday. The only website he wants to us since Amazon has sent some of his books bent n with small tears. Crossing my fingers I don't have this issue.
Books-a-million is really good to go to for buy X get X free sales in the summertime, but other than that you can purchase new manga online for way cheaper
I have the same problem rn and I've been waiting for 5+ weeks for 1 manga and its in stockkkkkkkkkkk and its just not coming. How do you cancel an order?
I call customer service they say the book is out of stock they don’t have no estimate date but on the website it says the book is available what should I do
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Have yall ever had a bad experience trying to buy manga? What happened?
When I first started I got a new volume of My hero (basic ik) but when I got it there was a huge bend in the cover and it was water damaged there was also just regular were and tear but that wasn't really what bothered me, the next day the seller was not selling it anymore which made me mad because I was clearly scammed , what bothered me most is that even though it said it was new it clearly was not and I am almost certainly sure it was not shipping's fault because I had got another book with it that came perfectly fine . At the end of the day I replaced it and yeah that was my worst experience
@@gabriellazevallos5694 oh man that sounds awful!
I ordered ATLA: The promise library edition, but my book never came after 2 weeks since the date it was supposed to come even though they restocked them. I had to cancel the order
I have gotten manga volumes on backorder before, especially if it’s low quantity on books a million; however, my worst manga experience was from Walmart and yes they do sell manga (even super weird ones surprisingly) I got Tomie for a good deal online and they said it was 2 day shipping when I ordered it. A month and a half later and I still didn’t see it. I canceled it from my order.
I ordered Jujitsu Keisen (I think that's how its spelt) 2 weeks ago today and yet it still hasn't come and the weird thing is we can't cancel the order. So hopefully it comes this week or else we'll contact the seller.
My worst experience is when someone who I thought was a friend said he'd do a trade. A bunch of seven deadly sins for a bunch of bleach. I trusted him and sent out his first and he never sent me my part and he pretty much vanished after that. Real douchey.
Daang that sucks!! Straight up betrayed. RIP dude
@@CaptainRAIAN yeah, but that's ok, next time I'll know to be more careful
@le trash can yo shopkins bring back memories
@uugerfgiusrug8iogkuyssjebfkhgss that absolute monster...
Bro that sounds so awful man, deeply sorry to here. That second person should lose there job, that was terrible customer support.
Yeah they clearly weren’t very good at it lol
Never had any problems except my box set of Naruto had a small dent, but other than that, I've been lucky until now ordering from amazon.
That is lucky! I've heard a lot of people say they have problems with Amazon, but I have yet to experience any for myself.
EXACLY THATS SOOO TRUE I JUST BOUGHT MY NARUTO BOS SET AND IN JUST SOME VOLUMES IT ALSO HAD DENTS MAN THATS CRAZY
It irks me when a site says "available in store" and isn't. Legit reasons for this are theft or it being set aside but yet to be purchased. Guess I'll try "buy online, pick up in store" like people do nowadays.
Strap in, this is a long one. My worst experience, Amazon. I ordered a large order, and just like you, two books never showed up. The online order menu told me that they will re attempt delivery the next day, and the day after that, I can come back to that page for a full refund. I wait, obviously, it doesn't come. I go back to the page as it told me to, and there is no refund option. It now said that the same thing again, "re attempting, come back after for refund" ...... This happened 4 times on a row. They just kept updating it and not providing me with any refund button. They'd just keep giving themselves more time, over and over. So eventually I decide I'm gonna call someone about it the next day. But the next day, it suddenly says that my package has been delivered. But I ain't got them, I ask my neighbors... Nothing. So I check the page again. There is no way to say it never turned up, the only options were to send it back, but I obviously had nothing to send back. I ring them, they tell me that the royal mail for some reason have it now, I assume that they par off orders that are taking too long to a different delivery service to deal with? Anyway, I ring the royal mail, and say that I ordered something of Amazon and it says it's delivered, but it's not here. Took me 10 minutes to convince them that I had the right number; they insisted that they were not Amazon, and that I've called the wrong people. After more arguing, eventually, they understood, and I give them my order code. They then say for me to wait for an investigation. 4 days later I get an email asking me to call them, and after 2 hours of waiting on hold, they tell me that it's been delivered. And I'm like... I know, but I don't have it!? Another 4 days go by... I ring again, this time on my own accord, and they then tell me that what happened is a the person who delivered it, declared it as delivered before they checked if they could successfully make the delivery. They then tell me that they can re deliver it... I'm like, yes, please. it still doesn't come. I ring again, they tell me that they don't have it and they gave it back to Amazon because they had it too long... I ring Amazon, explain the whole thing... And of course, another investigation... 2 days later, they tell me that it's been delivered... I'm like, ffs, I know, but I don't have it. They tell me to ring the delivery company who they gave it to. I realise at this point I'm about to get sent in a circle. So I ask for a manger, explain it to them, and they look into it on the phone with me... Alas... they can't figure it out, so they just put an order through again for it, free of charge, Next day delivery. I wait, no package. I ring, they've given it to the royal mail again. At this point I'd lost it, I rang the royal mail on the spot, and told them not to move muscle, and that I'd come collect it, I get there. It's not there yet... though, they tell me that they can see the driver is 30 minutes away, so I wait. It arrives. They then ask for payment. I'm like... Wtf? Turns out Amazon put it through as an expedited delivery without asking, and pushed the payment onto them... after 15 minutes of arguing, I get a manager, more arguing... eventually, they agree to not charge me. Success! Finally I have it... I open the parcel... Wrong mangas.
What a gut punch
Damn, that was a fund read. Well written also, could totally feel your anguish.
@@ben99ny69 Thanks, lol
@@Red_Robinnnn Yup
I got a rare print in The Promised Neverland Vol 6, which upset me greatly, as I was reading by the volume.
This rare print appeared in a very important chapter, which in Season 2 of the anime in 2021 will appear.
I wasn't nor am I going to spoil the contents of that chapter, but lets just say I'm confident that the pages of Haikyuu that was spliced into that all- important chapter is unlikely to be adapted into the anime.
Essentially I had to wait for a reprint, oh and I also blew the horn for a reprint to be issued by informing my local bookstore of this mistake, as it turns out all of the current prints of the volume had the same issue.
I kept my old copy, as I can't really do much about it.
The most annoying thing is though, that the spliced chapter almost made sense with the plot of Neverland, after the previous chapter
Doesn't surprise me lol. A lot of English manga publishers like viz don't put much effort into quality control haha
@@CaptainRAIAN What publishers would you personally recommend? I have a lot of Viz Media, they do fumble on presentation, but usually the translation is pretty solid. I can't read Japanese. I know about Dark Horse but from my understanding they fumble on limited editions or discontinue series because they're out of print.
I just bought a manga from Books-a-million online... O_O
But usually I buy online from Barnes & Noble. Very rarely have I had problems with them, including one time where my package straight-up vanished. But they were always pretty quick to resolve the matter and they usually ship my books on time when they say they're going to.
Update: You were right. BAM online sucks....
Did something happen?
what happened
Bro update us on what happened please
Here's my worst experience:
I once ordered 4 volumes of Naruto and a few days later the store told me they didn't actually have the vomumes in stock and that I would need to wait about a month for them to get them from Viz directly. Viz didn't have any for some reason, this went on for months and just cancelled the order. About 9 months later, I still don't have those 4 volumes of Naruto because that store doesn't even restock them. More of a Viz problem than the store's but still
Most of the time, things go smoothly, however when things goes wrong, thats when you really get to know the character of the store.
Late, but this video got me into looking at reviews from BAM. And from what I can see, they’re not very good at dealing with customers and I doubt that what you went through was an isolated incident. Deeply sorry you had to go through that. I ordered manga from right stuf recently with no problems, so there’s that if you feel you’re done with BAM.
Here in Mexico there are only 2 manga publishers and in one of them if you buy in there website during an offer that they have, the order can take up to a month to be sent plus delivery time, with me it happen that at the moment that I place an order, a volume of my order appeared in stock but it really wasn't, so after a month without seeing my order progress, I contacted customer service and that was when they told me that volume it wasn't in stock and that is why my order had not been shipped, it took almost 2 months to be sent,
it bothered me a lot that time
That sounds similar to what happened to me. These websites need to stop lying about their stock!
Bam, dreaded bam. I did an online order with them with about 5 manga I needed to continue a series. 2 months and nothing arrived. Contacted support, took another week to refund me. Ordered off Amazon, got in 2 days. So much wasted time. Bam online sucks.
I personally like buying at a store. I will only order if I have to or if it would be very inconvenient to buy in store.
I've only had one online order with Bam. I can only assume they just toss random dates and hope it works out. My first and last online order with them...they said they expected the volume in on 7/23....took me 2 months for it to arrive. I'm sticking with amazon. BAM stores are great...bam online....yikes
Yikes! They’re honestly just not worth the trouble...
Omfg I’m still waiting 4 months IM NOT JOKING
One of my first ever experiences of ordering something online went like this, I ordered a dragonball manga from eBay and it came and it was in Chinese, not even Japanese let alone English. I still have the book
Whaaa XD
I ordered assasination classroom manga and i missed 1 vol and i started going inside and i was i a member took two weeks
At least you'll be able to really feel that "Journey to the West" inspiration
I'm actually experiencing this situation right now with Jujutsu Kaisen volume 3. I had to order it from a third party seller and it said it would take 3 to 5 weeks to ship. The next day (after ordering), it said it had shipped. A couple of days later, I received my order (I had ordered volume 0 and 3) and I only received volume 0. A week or two later I had emailed the seller and they said that there was an unexpected delay with my order and they would send an update within about 10 days. It's been 12 days, and I still haven't received an update.
I just bought the Claymore box set and now I'm nervous. Didn't realize how many issues they have online.
Give us a update plz I’m intrigued as I ordered some manga as well
@@sayimchowdhury4305 the emailed me back recently and officially put it on back order saying they would contact me within the month.
@@jacksonvandenberg2728 did you ever get it?
@@weebmatic OMG! No I didn't! I waited a while. But ultimately after hearing too many horror stories about their shipping and other stuff I decided to call their tech support and get a refund.
Original comment was January last year. Cancelled around September or something.
A couple months ago I had bought a couple volumes of Happiness from Amazon. One of the volumes came with a huge gash in the bottom of the volume so I tried to return it for a new one but they never sent it.
damn, i was thinking of picking up the one piece manga box set 1 from books-a-million since its not in stock anywhere else but now i don't think thats a good idea.
I can't guarantee it'll happen the way it did with me everytime, but yeah IF it goes bad it'll REALLY go bad lol
if you’re shopping from BAM definitely buy in store
I never have really had a bad experience with buying manga the only time it got bad was when my family saw fanart of demon slayer and they told the rest of the family
I just recently ordered the Tokyo ghoul box set from bam because it said earliest shipping on June 7th but I got immediately back ordered and I am now realizing that I need to decide between waiting a long time or just cancelling the order😕
Luckily I have never have had a bad experience! I've had stuff go missing in post to only be sent a replacement week later.
I usually shop at book depository , wordery, Amazon and few others but there best ones for online shopping for manga in UK. Also shout out to book depository they sent me the wrong berserk deluxe edition that wasn't even suppose to be out yet and they told me to keep it and sent me out the one I was suppose to get. They was like sorry was a picking error just keep that it
having the platform to be able to actually call them out must feel so nice lmao
I mostly used Rightstuff anime,eBay and Goodwill books for my manga,some second hand ,some in brand new condition.Have to say it’s been well neutral,had some good and some bad
BAM did some similar stuff, I tried ordering firepunch vol 2 off BAM cuz it said it was in stock like you had happen and once I realized no where had it in stock and they were taking too long, that they were just waiting for a reprint and it wasn't actually in stock. customer service was super slow for me too so i've kinda put them aside as a manga source unfortunately.
Books a million is amazing for buying in store. Online is kind of a gamble, but I've had issues with online orders from a most online orders. I pretty much buy from bam in store exclusively and I've saved so much money from their discount section with my membership coupons on top of it. Average of about 25+ manga for $100. And the employees at my store are super nice.
Similar thing happened with me and Indigo. I went back and forth to get my vol 1 of CSM they sent me everything else but the book that I needed to start. After weeks of trying to get in touch with them I finally get a response and this girl at the end of our conversation said it’s in stock but they cancelled my order. Like why did you cancel it!
In person experience I’d recommend Booka A Million but online ordering SUCKKKKs
For real!!! 😤
I'm fortunate enough to not have had a bad experience, yet. I've actually had really good customer service with my UK retailer, Travelling Man, when I accidentally ordered a manga I already had. They refunded me only a few hours after I noticed it. Can't recommend them enough, to any UK collector who may see this comment.
I recently had a bad experience with buying manga on Amazon I’ve tried so hard to avoid buying manga on there cause I always here they always send volumes damaged and their packaging is so bad but I bought Act Age Volume 1 since Viz/Shonen Jump said they weren’t gonna re print them ever again cause of the whole controversy about it but I know people were gonna resell them for $60+ and I rather get them now then later cause I ain’t trying to buy it for $60 or more and Amazon sent me a Volume with a pretty noticeable indent in the back of the volume everything else on the volume was in mint except that then I told them about it and they sent a new one but it was even worst it had crinkles and other damage on it, it was so bad than the first one they sent I knew this was gonna happen cause like I said I’ve heard so many people say Amazon is the worst to order manga on I ended up keeping the first one they sent cause that was at least way better hopefully I can find a cleaner volume at the store whenever I get the chance
oof that sucks. I've never had a problem with amazon personally, but I hear lots of horror stories, so I guess I've just been lucky. It's always safer to buy in person!
Dude your videos are great man ! Luckily I have no bas issues with any company's when it comes to buying manga but I live in the Netherlands and I most of the time buy my stuff from Dutch stores. Bookdepository is also always good so, it's all good.
Thanks so much! That’s so cool! Do you collect manga in Dutch and English? How do they compare?
@@CaptainRAIAN only english the Dutch ones aren't made anymore and the books were smaller so never an option for me to be honest 🤣🤣
@@DannyJapanny Ah I see! haha! That's so interesting!
So I just finished watching your other videos and wanted to comment on an older video but decided the recent one would be best. First off great videos I usually click off after a certain point with some other youtubers but I feel compelled to watch yours through and I think your have a great speaking voice. Second off I know you ain't gonna read Kakegurui without checking out Kaiji as well haha, Kaiji is a gambling manga / anime which goes under suspense and I think thriller, the anime imo is godly and I believe the manga is on the same level so next time you're gonna buy some manga I suggest thinking about Kaiji. It's published by denpa I think. Third off, there is no third, enjoy your day!
LOL Thank you so much! That’s a pretty strong recommendation lol I’d be stupid to ignore it haha
I’ll def check it out! Thanks again!
@@CaptainRAIAN The animes were actually made to promote the movies and the last movie of the actually came out last year, it's like Parasyte, they didn't really need an anime since it's already popular on Japan and it's the same deal with Kaiji. We'll only get the first part of the series which will be published into 6 omnibus (the series has a total of 75 volumes I think) I'm assuming we'll get more if it sells well but yeah dude!
My personal worst experience was when my friend bought me volume 1 of toilet-bound hanako-kun. He bought it from amazon and it arrived way more damaged than in the photo he sent. Luckily it wasn’t as bad as other manga damages I’ve seen and I’m still very grateful (the pages weren’t ruined). When i checked where he bought it from i did see the reviews also mentioned it came very damaged. But overall it was a very good book!
Waaay to underrated
You should have atleast a million
Ordering from them online isn’t worth it bc they don’t keep their site updated on stock and will take months to finally cancel your order bc it’s been out of stock
Same thing happened to me still waiting and they keep saying they shipped it
At the moment I have brought twenty one piece books and all came but one I brought off book topia it said 10 Business days but it didn’t come for three months and still hasn’t come
i wish i saw this before i ordered a bunch of manga off their site 🥴
Oh God.... based on the reviews I've seen of BAM, I'll be praying your order comes through with no problems, but maybe next time go for Right Stuf instead. In my experience, they're generally easier to deal with.
Anyway, I hope you get them soon!
@@amberrizzi1207 yea the only reason i ordered was bc they had the manga i was looking for (apparently) while it was out of stock on rightstuf 🥲 i got part of my order just fine praying the rest comes through too
My worst experience with Books a million is when I ordered volume one of demon slayer online it took a month and a half to come in the mail. I got it but it took a long time, never buying from books a million online ever again
Books a million is great in store thank you for saying that and especially my books a million online and in store but mine is sadly coming to an end😭
Yep. I ordered volumes 0 and 1 of jujutsu Kaisen along with hunter x hunter. It’s definitely been more than 2 weeks of waiting and I haven’t gotten any of the jujitsu kaisen manga, despite both being in stock. The hunter x hunter manga came in, but my packaging was super weird, it kinda looked like a cardboard slab. Books a million has some serious issues with their logistics, I probably will never buy from there again.
my bad experience was when books a million closed at 8pm... like huh
LOL
I have this issue with BAM and it’s really annoying, I pre ordered the Tokyo ghoul Re box set and a couple weeks later needed to cancel the pre ordered because I needed money. I messaged them and told them to cancel it and also asked when I was going to get my money back, they told me that I never got charged because it never got shipped but the balance was deducted from my bank account it showed the $130 from the box set was charged but then later disappeared. I went to my bank account and I never saw the notification or message saying I got charged but my money was never added back and my bank can’t do anything lol. Rip $130.
I ordered volume 26 and 27 of Naruto and waited 4 months for them to cancel the order so yea books a million is kinda a no go for me personally
I'm currently having trouble with books a million, it's been two months now, almost 3 months. I've only received 1 out of the 4 mangas I ordered and I still haven't recieved an update, I understand that covid might've contributed to this but not even getting so much as an update puts me in a sour mood
Where did you order them from?
@@jessehamson5903 books-a-million
@@incognitounknown146 yeah I'd try and contact them man, that seems suspicious, especially since raihan in this video is saying he won't buy from them again for similar reasons,I am from Australia and order from booktopia, normally they send it out within 4 days and postage takes about a week
OMG i have the exact same problem, I ordered 4 mangas of oyasumi punpun THREE WEEKS AGO, AND THEY STILL PENDING, NOT EVEN SHIPPED.
So i contacted support asking what is causing the delay because literally 3 of those 4 mangas were in stock..... actually no, NEITHER of them are in stock, they are all causing the delay, and what's worse is that Amazon doesn't have in stock the mangas so i'm just practicing my patience right now.
On march 20th, 2021 I ordered four omnibus volumes of One Piece from B.A.M. (all of them in stock) but only the first 3 arrived. A few weeks pass and It still doesn't come so I make a complaint to customer service, they say It will arrive on may 20th. It's now June 4th and the book has still not arrived.
When you find a volume that's out-of-print, or hard to find, and you order it, relieved that you won't need to hunt for it anymore, only to get an e-mail a couple days later that its sold out and the order is cancelled... Why does it say its in-stock if its not?! Its happened more times than I can count. I've bought so many volumes maybe 3-4-5 times before I actually got it... Turns into a clusterfuck trying to keep track of it all. Is that normal or is norwegian stores just shit?
Since i live in Europe, my main sites for ordering manga are Book Depository, Wordery and Amazon (both main amazon com and uk) i rarely had problems with my orders, although Book Depository knows to irritate me sometimes, now yes they have free shipping but boy, shipping know to be slow (even before Covid19 outbreak), i often ask myself do they ship it from Mars??, and once or twice my package was lost in transit. No problem from ordering from Amazon, only once book came damaged and i received new since it was shipped by amazon.
from mars 😂😂
@@CaptainRAIAN Well yea, it should arrive in 7-10 days, 15 if delayed but now most of them came between 15-30 days, i mean from where you ship those, it would probably came faster if they have warehouse on Mars:):))
I got the ybc manga from there weeks ago and it hasn’t shipped yet
And it’s not on Amazon what do I do
So I ordered something from bam and I want to cancel my order how did you cancel yours
The only problem I’ve ever had is one of my haikyuu books I ordered from amazon having a weird bent to it and it wont go back to its original form. I’m kind of sad about it cuz it bent pretty badly too.
Man I just bought the Tokyo ghoul box set from them Monday for a good deal and it said it was out of stock and might ship in 2-4 weeks I just checked again today and now it says that it’s in stock for delivery and might ship in 2-3 days but my order status still says out of stock 💀💀💀💀💀
Their online service isn’t the best I’ve been waiting 3 weeks for my order to ship
I go in person, no way to mess that up right?
Worst exp i had was amazon india ....they take not that long to deliver but they never package it at all ...its just thrown in a plastic white colored packet so whenever it arrives its either bent like crazy or just filled with dirt....at a point out of 10 bakuman volumes i had returned 8 i thought i was gonna get flagged for crazy amts of returns
Not me on my way to BAM doing research in the car-
Damn 40 years ago
BAM takes MONTHS UPON MONTHS to ship... it's so god damn annoying. I love going to the store in person, but buying from their website is atrocious.
Because I collect manga very very slowly ( I´m still student and only money which I get is one in year from part-time job or for birthday/christmas/end of school year ) so don´t have lots off experience but...
One when I was ordering abot 15 volumes of bnha the company where I was ordering refund me one off volumes ( they give me back my money so its okay ) but they do it only because that volume was for price 10 USD ( when I was ordering ) but they refunded me only because they change price on about 21 USD. And I´m not going to buy it for that price I will wait for normal price
P.S I´m sorry if my english is really that bad :)
I'm not currently a Manga collector, but when I'm planning on getting more Manga, it's most likely I'll just rely on Barnes and Noble
Worst experience: logos not matching up in a box set. Still recovering till this day.
My worst experience buying manga is when I ordered something from Reddit, and it was the whole series of attack on Titan. When I placed the order i waited about 2 weeks then I messaged the guy and said “hey os there something wrong with my order?” And the guy said “I’m still packaging it.” And I responded back and said “you’re a still packaging it and it’s been about 2 weeks” and the guy said “I’ve been busy” and I said “ok I better get my books soon enough because I’ve never had to wait for manga on Reddit this long it normally comes in about 7-9 days. So about a month in I messaged the guy and I said “dude where’s my manga?!?!” And he said “sry it’s shipping today” and I said “dude I want my refund, give me a refund wnd cancel the order!” And he said “ok deal but I have to keep the shipping cost” and I said “DUDE JUST HIVE ME MY MONEY” and he never responded back, I guess I’m never buying manga from places like that
I ordered 3 voulumes of JJK about a month ago yet to ship and they were in stock
Same bro
wait I bought a manga box set from books a million like 5 days before watching this video...
Nothing too bad, but I ordered all four volume of Zombiepowder off of Ebay one time and the guy told me they moved all their inventory around so they no longer had any idea where it was, so they sent me a free set of ex-library copies, and then after a couple weeks I asked them to just refund my money and they did and then I bought a new set for actually cheaper than what I would have paid (only a couple buck cheaper but still) and the funniest part is the new set I ordered actually came in the day BEFORE those aforementioned library copies came out, so yeah those extra copies took weeks. I have since given those library copies to my best friend since I got them for free. So yeah, like I said, not too bad since I kinda wound up with a more positive outcome in the end.
Wow haha! Yeah that actually worked out great for you haha
i live in the uk and i ordered dr stone volume 2 from waterstones (uk's barns and nobles) it was part of a haul and it didnt come. the next 2 weeks i emailed them every day and they ghosted me and i gave in and the day that the amazon order came 1 week later the other package came i wanted to set it on fire
yeah i ordered from amazon not mad but kinda one of my books had like a huge bend in the cover leaving a dent through the entire book and then another one had a bent page and a ripped page nothing runing it
Now I'm scared.. I ordered all chainsaw man's books and today I receive volumes 6 ND 7
books a million is literally the worst place you could buy manga from.. my 2 months was also wasted and the packaging is horrendous
I ordered 14 volumes from them and I had no issue
Damn I nervous cuz I want to place an order..pretty big for my sons bday. The only website he wants to us since Amazon has sent some of his books bent n with small tears. Crossing my fingers I don't have this issue.
This happened today, I ordered the dbz box set and I wait TWO WEEKS and it says its in stock but nah like WOT
I just ordered from them but on back order will it take long ?
Any news after a month? I ordered some stuff on back order and hope it doesn’t take too long
@@Clearzova didn’t receive anything I just found what I ordered on b&n and canceled my order
Books-a-million is really good to go to for buy X get X free sales in the summertime, but other than that you can purchase new manga online for way cheaper
Agreed. But that was when I got the manga in this video and that didn't really work out so great lol
I have the same problem rn and I've been waiting for 5+ weeks for 1 manga and its in stockkkkkkkkkkk and its just not coming. How do you cancel an order?
Bro this is happening to me right now I haven’t gotten my monster manga vol 5 yet kinda mad been a month now 😭
I call customer service they say the book is out of stock they don’t have no estimate date but on the website it says the book is available what should I do
Oof hopefully this don’t happen to me. I just ordered 1-3 of chainsaw man a week ago
This happened to me with vol 2 and 3 of one punch man and I can’t even read the the following volumes I bought 🥲
i bought from bam and my book had wholes through out the pages 👎
Honestly I’d just stick with buying manga from barns and nobles or amazon
This is litteraly what I'm going through with Hunter x hunter vol 4 rn
The exact same thing happened to me with Tokyo Ghoul set
My worst experience is nothing as of right now, I’ve been very lucky
Hopefully it stays that way!
It's sad how ebay sellers do a better job than an actual book company
My Amazon is the best nothing happens always peak perfection
Incompatible viewpoints and contradicting beliefs are the cognitive dissonance that fuel the creativity, myth making, and invention vital to humankind and our continued existence.
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My books a million is pretty cool although I only but manga at the store but that books a million kinda making me mad🤨
MAN i live in israel so alot of manga i want to order the ship cant go to israel like: goodnight punpun death note stuff and more
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Bro fuck bad customer service. Also great quality video and editing
For real tho >.<
Thanks!
planning to buy in bulk from bam but.. nevermind
Nice vid I subbed
Thank you!
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BAM took 5 months to send me an order
honestly wanna collect manga too but money is missing hahahahahhahahaha lol
oof! I know what you mean! Manga is expensive!
@@CaptainRAIAN Especially now. One individual manga used to be $10.00. Now its $11 or $12.
they did u dirty :(
They really did :(
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