Subscription boxes: the best and the worst. An honest comparison among the most famous

1. Bishiebox

Bishiebox is the most “indie” Subscription Box I have purchased. It is manifactured by an american company (probably a small one) and, to tell the truth, it also turned out to be the worst box I have ever got. Sorry guys, but that’s what I think.

Here it is their catchphrase:

“A mystery multi-fandom anime Subscription Box, full of beautiful bishies every month. Our boxes include ‘Older & New’ series goods from official anime merchandise released only in Japan!”

At the beginning my attention was caught by the promise of a single special box featuring Haikyuu!! merchandising (being Haikyuu!! one of my favourite anime) and I decided to purchase it.

First of all, the order took ages to be dispatched: 3 months from payment to delivery. After a couple of months I wrote to the customer service asking what happened to my order and I was told to just wait because the box wasn’t on its way yet. Soon after that I received another mail asking me to pay for the international shipping costs as the price I had already paid for the box did not include shipping (usually subscription boxes’ shipping is free, no matter where you live. This one was not). I did pay the shipping and I also had to pay the customs fee, when the box finally arrived.

Back then, I understood that mine was not a real bargain: A Subscription Box with tiny anime gadgets should never cost more than 25 / 30 $ and I ended up spending twice.

The items inside the box were not worth it as well. First of all I realized that the so-called “Haikyuu!!-themed box” was in fact just a box with “something” branded Haikyuu!! and something else from different fandoms. Furthermore the quality and quantity of the merchandise was globally quite disappointing. Never Bishieboxes again. Not for me.