BENTO BOX AND ACCESSORY SALE!

[telophase]

Cheap! Really! Really really!

I've separated them out into different posts by category to make things easier:

Bento boxes
Side and sauce containers
Food cups and dividers
Chopsticks, forks, and spoons
Food cutters - all gone!
Carrying bags

RULES OF THE ROAD

1. Comments on the other posts disabled, so as to keep all comments here.


2. Comment, letting me know what you want, and I'll quote you a price incuding shipping


3. First come, first serve, as indicated by the order in which the comments arrive in my LJ inbox. (If there's something you're dying to have, you may want to post it immediately and edit the comment or post new ones for other items.)


4. Assume all items used unless I mention that they're unused.


5. I can't quote shipping until I collect the items you want, put them in a box, and weigh it and find out on the USPS site what it'll be. I ASSUME it'll be less than $10, probably more like $5 for U.S. shipping, but NO GUARANTEES. Let me know if you're not in the U.S. first! (I have no idea what those prices will be like.)


6. I may not get back to you with the price for a day or two. I do have a real job and commissions I need to be working on!


7. I'll be striking out items as they're claimed, but I may be super-behind in that. Someone may have claimed the item(s) you want in comments already, please don't get mad! Corollary: if you decide you don't want something you claimed, let me know ASAP so I can release it for someone else.


8. Payment will be Paypal, unless we work something else out. Pay me after I quote you the price with shipping.


9. I will be doing my best to mail this weekend - if you're outside the US I have to fill out a Customs form, which means I can't use the automatic postage machine and have to talk to a real person, so it may be a few days longer before I can take off work and go to the post office.


10. If you miss out on something, I recommend Ichiban Kan USA (only ships in the US as far as I know). It's basically a Japanese dollar store, with lots of inexpensive bento stuff (and some more expensive stuff, too). You get what you pay for, and $1.50 bento box lids need to be treated extra-carefully so they don't warp or break, but the ones I've got have mostly all stayed in one piece. eBay and Amazon are other places to find nifty bento boxes and accessories, and I Love Obento is an online store I've just found, which carries middle-priced to expensive bento stuff. (I ordered two food cup sets from them yesterday, but they're obviously not here yet, so no report on how they do.)

P.S. This is the bento stuff I'm keeping - one two-tier slightly larger box, three single-layer boxes, one sandwich case (can't be seen), and two smaller square-shaped boxes. Plus the accessories I actually use, and the bags I actually use (in other cabinet). I also have a few food containers I use as both bento containers and food storage in other places. Plus a thermal jar and a smaller thermal bento set for times I need to bring my lunch and don't have access to a microwave. I'm only getting rid of about half my stuff! XD

Comments

[ukoku.livejournal.com]

Interested in the sakura cups and bottles. I need some containers for sauce!

[telophase.livejournal.com]

Got them struck out for you - I'll do the shipping-quoting thing this evening, when I'm home from work. :D

[ukoku.livejournal.com]

Hokey dokey.!

[telophase.livejournal.com]

$1.51 shipping + $2 for the stuff = $3.51. :D

If you're doing a direct Paypal or bank transfer, telophase14@gmail.com; otherwise sfolse@cepheid.org (telophase@ has only so many echeck and credit card transactions it can do per year).

Thanks! (if you're not doing Paypal, let me know. :D)

[ukoku.livejournal.com]

I think it'll be a bank transfer....yep. Payment sent!

[telophase.livejournal.com]

Got it, thanks! I'll send it out tomorrow!

[gweneiriol.livejournal.com]

Thank you so much and I am interested in the following:

BLUE SQUARE 2-TIER BENTO BOX - $2
MASSIVE 2-TIER BENTO BOX $3
1-CUP THERMAL SOUP JAR $2
PINK AND PURPLE SILICONE TRIANGLE-SHAPE CUPS - $4
200 PIECES SUSHI GRASS - $1
WHITE FORK, SPOON, AND CHOPSTICK SET IN CASE - $2
VEGETABLE CUTTERS - $1
THERMAL FUROSHIKI - $1

[telophase.livejournal.com]

Have them struck out for you, will quote shipping after work today! Thanks! (Good thing I have a lifetime supply of Amazon shipping boxes. XD)

[gweneiriol.livejournal.com]

It is! And how did you want pymt? check or paypal or some other form? :D

[telophase.livejournal.com]

Paypal's easiest - I'll let you know the address after I work out teh shipping costs. :D

[telophase.livejournal.com]

Shipping = $7.52 parcel post + $16 for the stuff = $23.52

And I discovered that the smaller tier of the massive box fits inside the larger and the top actually latches down that way as well, so you could probably take just the one tier if you didn't need both. :D (I discovered it after spending some frantic moments looking for the smaller tier. XD)

[gweneiriol.livejournal.com]

awesome! what's the paypal account you'd like me to send the money too?

That is awesome about the smaller tier! Well, not the frantic searching part. :D

[telophase.livejournal.com]

Oops, I cut the Paypal info but didn't get as far as the paste. XD

If you're doing a direct Paypal or bank transfer, telophase14@gmail.com; otherwise sfolse@cepheid.org (telophase@ has only so many echeck and credit card transactions it can do per year).

[magicnoire.livejournal.com]

Interested in the:
Decorative Cutters - Random Shapes - $4
SAKURA DRAWSTRING BENTO BAG - $1

:D

[telophase.livejournal.com]

Got them struck out for you, thanks! Will quote shipping after work. :D

[telophase.livejournal.com]

Shipping = $2.53 + $5 stuff = $7.53, thanks!

If you're doing a direct Paypal or bank transfer, telophase14@gmail.com; otherwise sfolse@cepheid.org (telophase@ has only so many echeck and credit card transactions it can do per year).

[magicnoire.livejournal.com]

Sent!

[telophase.livejournal.com]

Received, thanks! I've managed to scrape together enough stamps from my Stash o'Stamps that it'll go out in tomorrow's mail. :D

[magicnoire.livejournal.com]

Yay!

[ginny-t.livejournal.com]

I would like the sakura, orange baloon, and comment vas-tu bentos and the yellow thermal bag.

Shipping is to Canada.

[telophase.livejournal.com]

Struck them out for you, thanks! Will quote shipping when I get home from work. :D

[ginny-t.livejournal.com]

... is it too bratty to claim dibs if those wicked awesome triangular silicone cups become available?

[telophase.livejournal.com]

Nope! I just need to remember there's a waiting list. XD (In case they don't, I think I bought them at Michael's Crafts - they were on sale in the baking section.)

[telophase.livejournal.com]

$7.61 shipping to Cananananada + $7 stuff = $14.61 Thanks!


If you're doing a direct Paypal or bank transfer, telophase14@gmail.com; otherwise sfolse@cepheid.org (telophase@ has only so many echeck and credit card transactions it can do per year).

[ginny-t.livejournal.com]

Payment sent to cepheid address. (Sorry about the delay!)

[telophase.livejournal.com]

No prob - I couldn't get to the post office until today anyway. :D

ETA: And it's off! :D

[ginny-t.livejournal.com]

Got it--so quickly! I can't wait to use 'em. ^_^

[movingfinger.livejournal.com]

I just realized that the Ichiban-Kan you (and other bento fans) keep talking about is the same as the Ichiban store in San Francisco's Japantown mall, a store which usually has lots of Pocky, for Pocky fans. It is one of those stores that I do not understand how it works, because it is full of cheap things that are all brought from far away.

[telophase.livejournal.com]

Yup, that's it! :D I know they get ginormous shipping containers full of stuff that come by sea, because when they first opened the online store they were astonished at how quickly the bento stuff sold out, and were posting updates on the arrival of the next shipment on their blog. :)

[movingfinger.livejournal.com]

It's still hard for me to understand. I have perfectly good kitchen things, like a metal strainer, from there which cost a dollar. How can that make money for anyone, anywhere along the line? Capitalism is a mystery.

[telophase.livejournal.com]

The actual production costs have to be, like, a penny per item (accounting for markups and profit for every step along the line - manufacturer, distributer, shipper, retailer).

Or are they loss leaders, and the dollar-store companies make their money elsewhere...?

[ginny-t.livejournal.com]

At the risk of getting sociopolitical in someone else's journal: http://www.storyofstuff.com/

[vom-marlowe.livejournal.com]

I would like the orange silicone cups (diamonds), the round silicone cups, the leaf shape cutters, and the seal and cat baby side dishes.

[telophase.livejournal.com]

Got 'em marked for ya, will quote price tonight, thanks! :D

[telophase.livejournal.com]

$6.35 shipping + $13 stuff = $19.35, thanks!


If you're doing a direct Paypal or bank transfer, telophase14@gmail.com; otherwise sfolse@cepheid.org (telophase@ has only so many echeck and credit card transactions it can do per year).

[badtzphoto.livejournal.com]

I am interested in all the available cookie cutters left.

[telophase.livejournal.com]

Marked for you, will quote tonight, thanks! :D


(posting here for my own reference)
ROMANCE-THEMED CUTTERS - MEDIUM SIZE - $1
HALLOWEEN COOKIE CUTTERS - $2
LARGE ROMANCE-THEMED CUTTERS - $1
LINZER TORTE COOKIE CUTTERS - $2

[telophase.livejournal.com]

$4.55 shipping + $6 stuff = 10.55, thanks!


If you're doing a direct Paypal or bank transfer, telophase14@gmail.com; otherwise sfolse@cepheid.org (telophase@ has only so many echeck and credit card transactions it can do per year).

[badtzphoto.livejournal.com]

money sent. thanks.

[telophase.livejournal.com]

Got it this morning; it'll go out tomorrow! Thanks!

[awamiba.livejournal.com]

We'll take the little bitty orange 3 tier box, the set of three round lidded boxes, and the madeline molds (the boys would love figuring out what to do with them. frozen peanut butter? who knows. that was their answer.)

[telophase.livejournal.com]

Cool! :D I'll box 'em up and weigh 'em when I get home from work. :D (And you'll have to let me know what they come up with for the molds! XD)

[telophase.livejournal.com]

$2.70 shipping + $3 stuff = $5.70, thanks!

If you're doing a direct Paypal or bank transfer, telophase14@gmail.com; otherwise sfolse@cepheid.org (telophase@ has only so many echeck and credit card transactions it can do per year).

[awamiba.livejournal.com]

Paypal should have your money now. :)

[telophase.livejournal.com]

Got it, thanks! Will send it out tomorrow! :D

ETA: Eep! Just noticed - it's pending because it's not a direct Paypal/bank transfer, so I can only accept five of those a year before having to convert that account to a Premium account. I'll cancel it, and if you could send the payment to sfolse@cepheid.org, that'd be great. :D