Started collecting two of my favourite series. Finally understand why people are cautious with Amazon.
So the Punpun volumes arrived perfectly. Well packaged and delivered (as they should. If they had arrived damaged I would've thrown a fit. If I want any series to remain undamaged, it's Punpun).
As for the Beastars volumes, I'm very disappointed. Volumes 6, 8 and 9 arrived early, and they're perfectly fine. But today, I got 1 through 5 and 10 (7 will be arriving much later) and I finally understand now why people say they consider Amazon a last resort.
5 of the volumes that arrived today were just carelessly thrown into a box without any protection. And the box was just ripped open when I received it. Volume 4 is a few millimeters taller than the others and looks as though it's been wet. And volume 10 is a few mm smaller and is already yellow.
From a distance, you can't really see the height difference, and I also don't really mind yellowed manga, but Amazon said these were new. So you would assume that they're at least consistently, you know, not damaged.
I couldn't find anywhere else that had all the Beastars volumes and also shipped to my country (I live in Belgium). Also, my local book store has no manga, and when they do it's in Dutch, which I don't want. So if anyone knows a site or store in Belgium that sells good, new manga, I would love to hear it, because I don't think I will be returning to Amazon for individual volumes.