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Thanks for the info. However, this is a UK seller so I guess that she did it right and the mistake happened at royal mail.

Did you also have to pay for customs/pay the VAT again?

I think the dates where changing all the time and probably depend on what the website said this moment when you ordered. They kept on re-ordering from their suppliers obviously, with all those items selling out and then coming back with later shipping dates. (Plus their emails about delays for some items.)

Very true. I am kinda happy I did not win, would not have liked to have hoped for my design to be printed on merch,just to never see this come true. Although, given their processing time on orders, it might come true in 3 years or so, lol.

They also still have the hoodie boxes and AW necklaces. Unfortunately also the same shipping costs abroad, lol.

No, so far not. Which I find really strange actually. They never talked about it again.

Rider tank? Where do you see this? Edit: never mind, found it. It's not on the shopify site, just on the animated one 🤔

Just did a research on sizes of my 13 LDR village tees 😅🙈 Comparison overview: So generally the sizes of the black shirts seem to be pretty the same (Chemtrails, BB and B2D collections), while the sizes of the other colored ones are hard to predict. Generally the black ones seem a bit smaller, tighter, while especially the white ones sit more loose. Sorry, I didn't bother to iron them 😅 These 4 are all M and have the same measures (Sweet Carolina, Cartoon, LDR eyes, Mic). On the first pic, one lies on top of the B2D ringer shirt (also M) for comparison. Same measures, both are S (black west coast shirt lying over the white west coast shirt) Same measures, both are S (red rose and graphic shirt) Ringer tee in M Bee tee in S West Coast tee in white, size S (bigger than black in S)

Just quoting myself as recently so many people asked about sizes. I don't know though if the recent collection is the same.

The BB eyes hoodie felt more like woman size to me. I ordered in M and usually wear M, and it was sitting quite perfectly (a bit loose though as I wanted it). The bee crewneck is much bigger, more male size I guess.

I got the born to die ringer shirt. It's bigger than my other shirts from LDR village. I got it in M as this is my usual size, but I guess S would fit me, too.

I don't think so but it will surely be available once the vinyl came out - for sure someone will scan it. The bigger problem might be sharing the uncensored version, lol.

Thanks :-) Does the lighter come in a box? 😍

I think their actual problem is the processing time, not the shipping itself. After weeks or sometimes months you get a "shipping notification" - if you click on it, you see that the "shipping label has been created" so you got a tracking number. But they need more weeks or months to actually hand the parcel over to the shipping company 😅 however, currently they seem to work a bit faster, at least regarding the air fresheners. Once the parcel was actually posted, I got it in one or two weeks (Germany). And I love how they always declared the value to be 5 USD 😅🙈 I never paid customs for it.

The ones I bought from LDR village last year totally differ from each other to me. Got the Lana speaks one, the mic one, the one with her looking like a star sign in the sky over a born to die scene and the wild at heart one. I opened them one by one every few months and used them in my wardrobe. Only the white born to die one is still sealed. I hope they bring them online again, I adored the mic design smell.

Wouldn't buy it either for that price. I think it's worth waiting. When inflation goes down again, her records might cost less, too. It might be worth to have a look for collections however. Some people sell theirs and are too lazy to sell them one by one. 2 years ago I bought another fans collection for 1000 euros. Some of the records in it I already had, so I sold the doubles in single auctions for together 800 euro. So I got the blue B2D, rsd picture disc of B2D, national anthem picture disc and many equally rare records (8 rare records in total) for 200 Euro in the end 🙈

The prices kept on getting up and up for her items (especially since early 2021 I think, because I became a fan in 2020 and was able to buy most of her records for reasonable prices still, before prices went up like crazy), but I had the feeling recently they were going down a bit again. But currently it's really hard to tell because of all these new scammers on discogs. They ruin the overview by their offers of 70-150 USD/EUR. I remember in 2020 I could have gotten the heart shaped vinyl many times for 80-150 Euro plus shipping, but I found it too expensive. Lol. However, 80 would still be the maximum I'd pay for it. After all, it's a beautiful piece of plastic, nothing more.

I have placed all my past orders (probably 5...) through the shopify site. Much easier to use and overview than the animated one. I never had any trouble with them except for the extraordinary processing times. (They also sent me a new candle because the first one arrived broken and I got a refund for a hoodie which was not as described, so even their service worked well for me.)

Did you get this notification that the shipping label has been created? Because they usually do this weeks before actually sending it 🙈

It's all still available, just place another order! The same happened to me with the red vinyl by Miley Cyrus. I ordered from the US to Germany, cancelled it (after a white version came out in the EU) because incl. shipping, fees etc. it would have costed me 62 EUR. They refunded and then I got it for 12 EUR vat and post fee only 🙈 would have told them and sent it back, but int. Shipping from Germany to outside EU for vinyls starts at 40 Euro, wouldn't have made any sense to send it back.

Especially strange as these confirmation mails only came for necklace and jacket, didn't they? Maybe there was an issue with your payment method? Sounds more logical to me.

Of course I don't know, but I have such a feeling this is one of these records which do not sell out fast but will be worth a lot in the future. Maybe you should order just to be sure - it's released months later, if a deluxe gets announced you can still cancel it. Sorry to hear it didn't work. I also miss about 3 vinyls to complete my collection, but I probably never will because I am not gonna pay these prices. Especially not for the heart shaped vinyl, as I wouldn't listen to it anyway but want it for framing only because I love how it looks. So I now got a cheap transparent red 12", will cut it to the same shape, stick a more beautiful photo in the middle and frame this one. 😅 I am only waiting for someone telling me the size. (Besides, it's risky to pay a lot for it, as there seem to be various replicas of it. When I checked collection photos to find out the size in comparison to other vinyls, the size (outer line) varied from anything between 10" and 12". No idea which one is real... However, some people surely haven't got the original there.)

That's what I am guessing. I heard of it for the first time in the post above, and since Royal mail could be responsible for not registering the tax being paid according to my information, maybe the cyber attack was the reason why I had to pay again. The seller wrote the IOSS on the parcel, but obviously they did not register it. Need to find out tomorrow where in this long chain the mistake happened...

I am afraid there is a bit of reason to worry actually regarding customs and packaging - I have some feeling the seller did a mistake with the tax number. Unless the hacker attack on royal mail mentioned above was responsible for the double tax, could be possible. I also think the seller currently got too many orders after Lana's insta post. The producing times are much longer than stated and some recent buyers complained about the quality... I hope you will get it without trouble however. Please let us know.

I know, it's no official merch, but still Lana got her cake boxes from the same seller (see honeymoon insta), so I wanted to share these photos with you and also my experience, in case you want to order one, too: They arrived today, luckily complete. The box the seller used was very fragile and was not handled well by the post, so I expected the worst. Only the mirror in the white box need to be glued on again. Unfortunately there must have happened a mistake with the seller's custom declaration, so I had to pay the VAT again... plus post office fees. I asked her before if she knows how to do it and didn't expect this now... So if you order from outside UK, you might face the same problem. I am so tired if ordering from UK. Will try to get the second VAT back now... However, the white/pink one did not look 100% as pictured on Etsy (color and form of "icing" - still OK though, but I would have preferred as pictured), the white one I ordered with strawberries instead of cherries... So (having paid EUR 127 incl. shipping and VAT plus EUR 19 second VAT) not really satisfied I have to say, especially as I know now how to do it myself, lol. https://www.etsy.com/de/listing/1219872021/gothic-vintage-fake-kuchen-schmuck-boxen?click_key=6245881f7b21ee8dd41f848c03fe22b1fe1cc513%3A1219872021&click_sum=410a827b&ref=shop_home_recs_3 https://www.etsy.com/de/listing/1328406277/marie-antoniette-vintage?click_key=a2f7e929601cfcd74e2565dc911c8a8add040455%3A1328406277&click_sum=18686623&ref=shop_home_recs_2&crt=1