Well, Maybe

In posting about thoughts of taking a big plunge and importing a Blu-Ray set of the Macross Frontier movies with English subtitles, I suppose I had a sense I was "committing myself" in some fashion to doing that in the end and not just letting the thought lapse. There was an initial difficulty, though, in that the set has a Playstation game included, which means that the Japanese Amazon site won't export it. In overhearing the discussions of fans much more experienced at this sort of thing, I noticed someone saying he would place an order with CD Japan just to be certain, but cancel it once the Japanese HMV site had its entry up with its better discount. I just waited for it to turn up on the HMV site, even as I noticed the number of copies on CD Japan tick downwards...

Then, I was overhearing comments that HMV Japan had sold out of its own allotment seemingly as soon as it had been available. I grappled with thoughts like "well, if they don't want my money..." and how I'm at least hoping the set of figures I ordered will show up (and also worried someone somewhere would attach specific blame for this to the regular denunciations of Harmony Gold), and even began to put words down to sum up the experience. Then, I reminded myself again there was a third site offering the Blu-Ray set for export, and if I wasn't as familiar with it the link had at least been posted to the message board. In a sudden burst of activity, I set up an account and filed my own preorder. Now, I just have to wonder how many other people have resorted to this last choice and if I'm already lost in that rush. Still, I can add a bit more to "at least I thought about it this time" now.