I buy a lot of kpop cds from many different places. Among those places, one of them is Kpoptown. I have bought 6 albums from Kpoptown so far; Natural Born Teen Top (autographed Passion & Dream versions), Infinite Reality limited edition, Infinite One Great Step Returns, BTOB Complete, and SHINee Odd. Most of these albums are slightly dented except for Odd and the limited edition version of Reality. I'm pretty sure that most people's copies of Natural Born have a slight dent on the spine on the inside because the packaging is a little weird. Back in July I ordered an autographed copy of BTOB Complete. This album is gigantic. It's bent a little in a few of the corners though and some of the signatures are a little bit smudged, not super smudged though, it's very readable still. It took a month to arrive since it's an autographed cd and they even said that it would take kinda long. I was kinda disappointed when I saw it since it was a bit bent but it was signed by the entire group and it's such a pretty album that I can't really complain. I ordered it with the Passion version of Teen Top Natural born and somehow, I guess the BTOB album helped the Teen Top album avoid getting bent because that album is in great condition.
Albums from Kpoptown usually take around 10 days to arrive at my house, I live on the west coast so the shipping isn't exactly super fast but it's definitely not slow. When I ordered Infinite - Reality limited edition I had preordered it and it came with these freebie cards from Season 2 and they're really nice cards. It also came with a folded poster on the inside and apparently I ordered an unfolded poster with it because 2 days later, this poster tube came in the mail and here it was, a beautiful Infinite poster.
It's about 2 1/2 feet long and 2 feet tall and it is so pretty.
Shipping from Kpoptown isn't exactly super cheap. It could be more expensive, but it is definitely not cheap. Shipping costed around $25 when I bought Reality and Natural Born. It was around $5-$9 when I bought Odd. As I mentioned before, It's also not exactly fast. The unregistered shipping says it takes around 10-30 days for me. For items that weren't preorder items it took 10 days one time and 13 days the other time. Kpoptown tends to have cds up for preorder on their site earlier than any other site though and that is quite nice.
This is a picture of all of the items I have bought from Kpoptown so far. I don't regret buying any of these, I listen to all of the albums quite often and that Infinite dvd is amazing. Myungsoo's hair was beautiful back then and THE PHOTOBOOK IS GREAT. It's not a gigantic photobook but it is full of high quality pictures of all of the members and for the most part, the entire page is used. You heard me right. The entire page. There are some pages with a white border but they arent gigantic borders, maybe 1.5-2cm wide. These photos are so hd it's scary. If you're thinking about getting this, I would highly recommend it. It includes a ton of their best songs before Season 2 - and some songs from Season 2 that were like sneak previews. It was great. The Woohyun solo was amazing. It also includes 'One Great Step Returns making film' and a video of the members playing a game that I have forgotten the name of.
Anyway, Kpoptown is cool, none of my items have arrived severely damaged and none of them were outrageously expensive. 8/10 would recommend.
