SUPERDENIM SMALL QUESTIONS THREAD (Use instead of making new threads)

[indigoeagle]

This has always been the situation in the EU with tariffs and fees for the shipping companies (besides the shipping fee they charge 8 to 15 EUR for doing the customs payment procedure), whether you buy from Japan, US or UK or anywhere else outside the EU.

[Dr_Heech]

40 minutes ago, Double 0 Soul said:

Me too, worse than before.. I think the elastic band has snapped!

Or the hamster needs feeding so he can run the wheel

[yung_flynn]

2 hours ago, ATWM said:

^ remains to be seen what happens with US retail prices, but I think I’m pausing overseas ordering for now because in the few situations I’ve priced it, it’s not very different from US anymore. That said, usually it’s more about availability or something else than strictly price anyways, but if US retailers can keep their prices in place (presumably they paid some fees already - though probably not as high as now - because they are not de minimis orders), they may do a little better. I don’t know. That’s probably stupidly optimistic. 

Also, Sufu is painfully slow for me again. 

 

Yes I agree. I was curious how the math would compare. Japanese retailers (at least in this case) would only be 10-15% cheaper than the current listed price for a comparable product at Selfedge for example. Since I live nowhere near anyplace to try on denim, it always made sense to buy direct from Japan previously because the price delta was so high. For only a 10-15% difference, the convenience and lower risk (e.g., easy returns) of a US domestic retailer would make a lot more sense for me even if I still could not try on in-store

[ATWM]

3 hours ago, yung_flynn said:

Yes I agree. I was curious how the math would compare. Japanese retailers (at least in this case) would only be 10-15% cheaper than the current listed price for a comparable product at Selfedge for example. Since I live nowhere near anyplace to try on denim, it always made sense to buy direct from Japan previously because the price delta was so high. For only a 10-15% difference, the convenience and lower risk (e.g., easy returns) of a US domestic retailer would make a lot more sense for me even if I still could not try on in-store

With OA’s recent Amoskeag denim release, for example, once the proxy fees were combined with the expected import fees, roughly I think pre-ordering from S+S as opposed to Barnstormers would only cost an extra $30 or so, as opposed to maybe over $100 previously. For me, it wasn’t worth it to do the proxy route anymore, even though I have in the past. And since you’re in my region - neither are close by you and both differ in selection - but Today Clothing and Dant together have a lot of bases covered and offer the possibility to buy from regional small businesses - that’s worth something to me. Hard to quantify but worth something at least - enough that I’ll even try to adjust what I’m looking for based on what they stock as opposed to searching all over the world for the specific thing. 

[PartTimeBarista]

8 hours ago, Double 0 Soul said:

Here you go @PartTimeBarista

https://web.archive.org/web/20150403153953/http://denimbro.com/beach-cloth_topic1426_page1.html

Thanks @Double 0 Soul! Unfortunately I can only get to the first 3 pages and the majority of the pictures are lost. I've only been able to find a few odd stock on odd sites, and not much secondhand. Perhaps they haven't been produced in a few seasons.

 

[Double 0 Soul]

24 minutes ago, PartTimeBarista said:

I've only been able to find a few odd stock on odd sites, and not much secondhand. Perhaps they haven't been produced in a few seasons.

 

There is a lot for sale on JP auction sites..

https://zenmarket.jp/en/mercari.aspx?itemCode=m18513113493&q=fullcount%2bbrown%27s%2bbeach&p=1

https://zenmarket.jp/en/yahoo.aspx?q=fullcount%2bbrown%27s%2bbeach

https://zenmarket.jp/en/rakuten.aspx?q=fullcount%2bbrown%27s%2bbeach

It's also worth searching beyond FC to FW's, RMC, Anatomica, RRL.. and so on

[superfuture]

On 8/27/2025 at 4:03 AM, Double 0 Soul said:

Sufu is slow af for me today and i'm not talking about the post count, i thought it was an issue with the broadband at work but it's the same here at home..

Speed check is fine

.. but the site is taking an age to refresh, even uploading that^ 38kb screenshot took over 30seconds.

Same for anyone else?

Hello supertalkers... Yes. Just got a relatively astronomical Bandwidth bill for August and we are getting way beyond normal views from China. Still investigating what's up. How has it been this week?

[Double 0 Soul]

Good to bad depending on the time of day.. are large influxes of traffic slowing it down as timezones come online?

[Double 0 Soul]

Hey Chinese lurkers.. there are alternatives to a one party system, you could vote for me, i can promise better denim, more freedoms but less economical stability.

With this challenge to authority we should get blocked by the state. 💪

[ATWM]

It’s mostly been okay but there have been some times where it’s really slow for what seems like half a day or so. In general better this week and than prior I think. 

[indigoeagle]

Pretty slow today here.

[Dr_Heech]

On 9/4/2025 at 11:36 PM, superfuture said:

Hello supertalkers... Yes. Just got a relatively astronomical Bandwidth bill for August and we are getting way beyond normal views from China. Still investigating what's up. How has it been this week?

Slow again today and has been for just over a week now though. Still usable and not quite dial-up speed so we're still here 😁

[Double 0 Soul]

That's strange it's fast as hell for me today.. it was reasonably good yesterday morning but yesterday afternoon between 1pm and 2.30 ish (GMT) it wouldn't even load up.. just a white screen.

[Dr_Heech]

18 hours ago, Double 0 Soul said:

That's strange it's fast as hell for me today.. it was reasonably good yesterday morning but yesterday afternoon between 1pm and 2.30 ish (GMT) it wouldn't even load up.. just a white screen.

Yeah when l've got the white screen l just assumed that the site was doing some kind of reboot/maintenance to try and sort the problem. Anyway, it's only a first World problem so I'll live.

Edited Sunday at 03:30 AM by Dr_Heech

[MJF9]

Slow here. Working but slow.

[nopal]

On 9/5/2025 at 7:48 AM, Double 0 Soul said:

Hey Chinese lurkers.. there are alternatives to a one party system, you could vote for me, i can promise better denim, more freedoms but less economical stability.

With this challenge to authority we should get blocked by the state. 💪

Or it will be seen as an invite to ramp up DDOS efforts.