Hello to whoever is reading this! Hope you're having a great day/evening/night! From the title you can guess what I'm going to talk about , so here is my review!
I don't have many albums, but the majority of those that I own, I bought from catchopcd. Back when I was ordering for the first time (2014), I couldn't find much info on the site, but I've seen that lately a lot of people have been ordering their K-pop albums from catchopcd so if you're having doubts, I hope my review would be of help to you~
Prices
Their prices are one of the cheapest I could find, if not the cheapest. I have searched eBay for some of the albums I wanted and the cheapest on eBay was from their eBay site and it was more expensive than from their official site.
You can find everything there, from Korean and Japanese music to pop, rock, jazz etc. They don't really sell merchandise in terms of clear files, photocards/postcards, lightsticks and so on, but they have quite a lot of albums, DVDs, concert albums and DVDs, photobooks, posters...
Shipping and delivery
They say the package is shipped 24 -48 hours after receipt of payment and they're not lying, they ship stuff really fast! If I have put my order and payment on Sunday night usually it was shipped by Monday morning.
For the types of shipping they offer Regular Airmail, Regular Airmail with tracking code, Express and EMS. I always used Regular Airmail, sometimes with tracking code, sometimes without it.
Their site says that delivery time for Europe is 10-20 days and my packages came in 10 working days (actually a bit longer, but that's just my country post offices)
For me, one of the "problems" was cost of the package but not because of amount of money I had to pay to catchopcd, but because my country has set limit under which you don't have to pay tax and/or custom. I was a bit worried at first, but catchopcd always put the value of album $15/$20 (even if it was Got Love which I paid $15 or 1of1 and Wings which I paid $40) and check it as a gift^^
The packaging is another thing I was worried when I ordered for the first time. But they wrap albums in so much bubble wrap and put it in either those orange envelopes that also have bubble wrapping inside or in a box, that there's no way you get your album dented (except if your postman shovels your package in your mailbox, which happened to me once, but album was still in perfect condition).
Shipping fees are also one of the cheapest I've seen, but if you're interested in shipping fees for your country/territory, here's the link for that: http://catchopcd.net/en/content/1-delivery
Example
Placed my order: Sunday, 16th October
Shipped: Monday, 17th, October
Arrived: Friday, 31st October (at least that's what package slip said)
Overall
I simply LOVE catchopcd! Although I haven't ordered from many sites (only catchopcd and ktown4u) so I don't have many to compare it with, I still feel like it's one of the cheapest sites for me. Their prices are really good, although there's no freebies, and shipping is awesome! I believe that customer service is great as well, although I never had to contact them in those 2 years I've been ordering from there~
If you decide to order from catchopcd, you can do so through this link, and you'll get discount!
*Sorry for no pictures this time, but I kind of forgot -.-*
Anyway, I hope you liked my little review of catchopcd~