[RamenRider]

Well, the thing with Big-O is that he's a Web-Exclusive release, meaning he is only sold through the Premium Bandai Webshop which only ships to a Japanese address. Retailers like Hobby Link Japan don't sell this stuff. There is a western outlet for it but they don't sell everything the Japanese one does and sometimes Blufin imports Web-Exclusive items but not always.

In the case of the Big-O reissue, neither of them offer it as far as I know, meaning a middleman service is your only option to go with, or you have to pay the markup of stores like BBTS who raise the price accordingly since they have to jump through the loops of obtaining stock themselves too.

I guess paying a middleman service is the best option but they themselves will raise the price too to make a profit and I don't know how much they charge for shipping to the US.

I only really know Nippon Yasan, they offer a shipping calculator I think so the next time you want to pre-order a Web-Exclusive item that isn't sold through the western Bandai web shop or Bluefin you could check there.

I just looked up the Big-O reissue on Nippon Yasan and they still have it up for pre-order, the price is only about 1000¥ more than what Bandai demands, so I would check that out, see if the shipping price is reasonable and get my order in there. If the shipping is really expensive you might want to go with BBTS regardless even if it stings, I don't know any other options.

The link is here: https://www.nippon-yasan.com/figures...d-edition.html

Aside from Web-Exclusive releases Hobby Link Japan and AmiAmi are my go-to retailers for importing Japanese figures. But I have no access to Bluefin either so I don't know what works better for you price wise.