/cgl/ - Cosplay & EGL

>Going to Miku Expo in may
>really want to have a vocaloid itabag to bring with me
>only have one or two vocaloid straps with me now
Aah, I'm dreading the upcharge if I use yahoo auctions to buy a ton of straps/badges in one sitting. I'm used to just slowly acquiring things, do other people use proxies to buy things all at once? Whats the middleman charge end up being compared to the 3-5 dollar cost for the actual goods?

My Nameless Poem OP shipped well over a month ago - ordered straight from taobao with a SS - but still hasn't arrived. I contacted my SS and she said that other girls have yet to receive theirs as well and that I just need to be patient...I don't know what to believe anymore since the other taobao order I placed after my Ista Mori order has already shipped and arrived.

How often do you guys make new orders?
I just can't bring myself to do huge orders so my wishlist is always full. It's only been a month but it's so tempting to start a new order.

General question about buying clothes online,
how often do you buy things online and end up hating them once you receive them? (fit is wrong, just don't like it) Do you return them or re-sell them? (It doesn't seem quite lucrative to ship some stuff all the way back to china.)
Sorry if this is a shit question, I'm a figure buyfag and I want to start bettering my wardrobe instead of buying 200+dollars of plastic butts every month, so I'm pretty /new/ to all of this.