Um...cancelled photobooks or...?

[jinnyss.livejournal.com]

Sorry to do this! Delete if not allowed! Sorry!

But cdjapan did something weird and...did anyone else who ordered one of the reprints of the Arashi photobooks (any of the three, pikanchi, arashi around asia, etc) get an email that the release date was pushed forward to like...THIS WEEK, and the items themselves no longer exist if you click on links for them...?

o_o Yesasia doesn't seem to be doing this so I'm just...not sure what's going on.

Does anyone know?

[edit]

Got a reply from cdjapan...annnnd apparently, the release dates are really changed! Go figure?

Hi Jinny,

Thank you for contacting us.

The item release date has been changed.

We are sorry for making you confused.

We didn't cancel your order item anything, all 3 items in your order [#order number#] exist.

Should you require any assistance, please feel free to contact us again.

Comments

[neocopasetic.livejournal.com]

Hmmm!!! What a conundrum! I actually didn't order any of them, though I wanted to... but they're not showing up as listed items at all anymore, it seems.

I would check your bank account to see if the money was returned. If not, try emailing them and asking what happened.

[jinnyss.livejournal.com]

It IS a confusing thing because my money wasn't returned (They don't "charge" you though until it ships. They just put a hold on your credit card for that amount), and they haven't answered my email yet. =/ I'm not that surprised, since they're probably busy, but I'd like to know if it's cancelled on cdjapan so I can order it from yesasia instead or something...:X Hopefully they'll reply by sometime tonight?

[abby-gaby.livejournal.com]

I don't know if this is related but I think Kodansha is responsible for the printing of JE photobooks...and if Johnny is cutting ties with Kodansha..well we can put two and two together..but then you said yesasia doesn't seem to be doing this? hmm..maybe I'm wrong.

[fluttering.livejournal.com]

Unrelated, the photobooks disappeared off cdjapan long before the whole scandal thing.

[abby-gaby.livejournal.com]

whew. thanks for the info ^_^

[font.livejournal.com]

I got this, too -- I had ordered Pikanchi, Arashi Around Asia and 04150515. The message I got was that Pikanchi and AAA were bumped up to the 7th, and 04150515 was moved to the 17th. All my orders still look ready to ship on Thursday, but I was confused too. I checked my Kiiroi Namida order with Yesasia and there is no change.

No insight, though it is nice to hear fluttering say that these had been removed earlier. I think we're all understandably easily spooked these days.

[jinnyss.livejournal.com]

I'm glad to hear it's not just me going crazy, and yeah, I'm...really relieved that they were removed before.

We're all like a little field of jumpy rabbits. =| (This cues an envisioning of Arashi dressed in a big bad wolf costumes <3)