I totally agree! If it weren't for the fact that the majority of the money from this purchase went to Tenso, I'd be all over this. But unfortunately, I really don't have the money to begin with and handing over half of it to Tenso does not sound like a good investment. I'd rather give all of the money to charity. But I REALLY want that shirt.

Maybe we should all email Tenso and ask them to donate the shipping cost of the Shirt to the Red Cross or at least part of it?? lol Who knows!

I don't think they could anyway, they need the money to get the goods shipped right? :/ Otherwise they couldn't ship anything. They should be able to get a percentage of what they ask us to pay, but they still need to pay for the shipping with that money.

There is no reason for them to donate shipping costing.
They are business just like anyone else, and there whole purpose is to make money.

I dont mind about the "handling" fee as long as all the money i spent on the actual t-shirt goes to charity. to each their own i guess :shrug

actually,they only 'took' 490yen as handling fee.even if mu-mo ships the shirt out without the middleman service,i think the fee mu-mo charge should be more or less the same with the charges tenso charge.

do remember that donation is voluntary and to request tenso give donate their profits, wouldnt that make us like the media, acussing of ayu earning so much but nv made any donations?

another option is buying from noppin

http://noppin.com/portal_my_news/detail/47C17C5D

Thank you for using our service !
We are now offering free service charge for earthquake/tsunami charity.

Some examples:

Hamasaki Ayumi T-shirts
http://shop.mu-mo.net/avx/sv/list1?j...&categ_id=5925

ZOZO Town T-shirts
http://zozo.jp/shop/zozomesse/goods....43762&rid=1006

Please just allow expenses we have to pay.

Thank you very much for your support !

Masamichi Kuge, Noppin

^ OMG YAYYYYYYYYYY!!!!!!!!!!

I might just do that! We still got til April, right?

THis is so cool, wish i had known before ordering.. oh w3ell! :shrug

Oh is that how Noppin works? I registered and was trying to figure out how to use it, but I couldn't...

So if I order this shirt through Noppin and I live in Hawaii, it would only be 3200 yen?

does that mean, we dont need a mumo account? and how do i access the message board? thnx

^I think you only need to apply for a Noppin account, then you can leave messages through their message board. I have used Noppin for YAJ before. Haven't tried its shopping service yet.

I've often used NOPPIN (before they changed and they used to be Crescent Shop Japan) for shopping from mumo, Miyavi's offical online store and Gackt's offical website, and they're very easy to use.

If you've signed up, click on the "MY NOPPIN" button on the top left side of the site, then click on the link that says "Create new Pre-Shopping List" in the menu on the left hand side. Then all you need to do is write them a message on the contact board stating the website you want to order the items from (with the web address, of course), what the item is (and any other info, like sizes or colours) and how much it is. I usually include a picture as well, to make it easier for them.

Then they'll send you a quote and you can pay for it via Paypal or a credit card.

You don't need a mumo account, just a NOPPIN account, which takes like, a minute or two.

I'm definitely gonna try it! Thanks for all of the info guys!

thank you~ im gonna try too!

thanks for the info about Noppin...
i will try to use this service to buy the t-shirt...
i confuse about the size that i need to buy...in the end i choose XL...but i'm afraid it will be too big for me...
my height is 190 cm and my weight is 82 kg..

You should probably measure a shirt you own and compare the measurements to the ones given to see how it might fit you just to be safe.

Wait NOPPIN has free shipping?
...well how come no one brought this up before? I could have saved that extra money and donated it elsewhere.
Oh well it's too late now because there are no cancellations...