Chinese Novels

This all makes a lot of sense and is great additional context, thank you!

Yeah, I've never bought from a GO before and don't seriously expect that they would be better in this regard, so it's good to have it confirmed that I was probably right to assume in the first place that even if a shipment did get impounded, it'd have a better chance of getting recovered if I went through an established retailer.

And yeah, the communication levels around the delay truly weren't a big issue; if anything, it seemed worse in retrospect purely due to how communicative The Beguiling were throughout the process. Despite how it might sound in the post, I would definitely order from Yiggybean again if there weren't a domestic alternative (or the border considerations.) I mentioned the stuff about the delay in the interest of expectation-setting for folks (like myself) who may not have a ton of experience buying from overseas; it's good to know in advance the kinds of things that can happen.

The back blurb info makes a lot of sense (and yeah I'm sure there's a lot of conversations about this stuff I'm not privy to since my social media use these days is minimal.) I had a feeling it might just be a difference in publishing industry conventions. I'll update the post later to reflect this, I just don't have my computer on me right now.

Thanks for the link to the post with volume numbers! That's extremely helpful. Where did you get that info? It's very possible it's on their site and I just couldn't find it...