Giveaway Terms - Round 2

WEEKLY GIVEAWAY – ROUND 2 TERMS
Version 1

Entries opened when our Round 2 giveaway Reel went live on Instagram on 12 October 2026 at 09:45 Japan Standard Time (UTC+9) – see clause 4.

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Earlier round: Round 1 terms · Round 1 privacy notice

1. Promoter

This giveaway is run by Chikuwa Store. Our business details are on our Legal Notices (Act on Specified Commercial Transactions) page. You can reach us at support@chikuwastore.com.

2. No purchase necessary

Entry is free. You do not need to buy anything, and buying something does not improve your chance of winning.

3. How to enter – both steps are required

  1. Be subscribed to the Chikuwa Store newsletter, and still be subscribed when we take the subscriber record described in clause 5.
    To subscribe, scroll to the bottom of any page on our website, enter your email address in the footer and press OK (Chikuwa Store).
  2. Leave a comment containing a heart emoji on our Round 2 giveaway Reel on Instagram, before the closing time in clause 4.

Following us on Instagram is optional. It is not a condition of entry and it does not change your chance of winning.

4. Entry period

Entries opened when our Round 2 giveaway Reel went live on Instagram on 12 October 2026 at 09:45 Japan Standard Time (UTC+9): instagram.com/reel/DeX-jHgzX6q
Entries close on 18 October 2026 at 23:59 Japan Standard Time (UTC+9).

An entry is a comment containing a heart emoji that was posted before the closing time AND is still visible on the Round 2 Reel when we build the entry record.

We build that record by hand on 19 October 2026, by reading the comments on the Reel. We will state here the actual time we built it. We do not have a copy of the comments as they stood at the closing time, so we can only count what is still on the post when we read them.

  • Comments posted after the closing time are not counted.
  • Comments deleted at any point before we build the entry record are not counted, whether they were deleted before or after the closing time. If you delete your comment you have withdrawn your entry.
  • Comments deleted after we have built the entry record remain in that record.

5. The subscriber record

After the closing time we export a one-off record of our newsletter subscribers from our store platform. That record is what we check entries against.

We can observe two times, and we will publish both here:

  • the time we started the export, and
  • the time we received the finished file.

We cannot observe the moment the contents of that file were fixed. It was somewhere between those two times. We do not claim it was either one of them, and we do not hold a history of who was subscribed at any earlier moment.

The rule is simply this: if your email address is in that file as a subscriber, the subscription condition is met. If it is not in the file, it is not met.

What that means in practice:

  • If you unsubscribe before we start the export, you will not be in the file and your entry is not counted.
  • If you unsubscribe while the export is running, whether you appear in the file is not something we can determine. We go by the file as it stands.
  • If you subscribe for the first time after the closing time but before the export finishes, you may appear in the file. In that case your entry can still count, provided your comment was posted before the closing time. We accept this and do not try to reconstruct an earlier state.
  • If the export is delayed for any reason, this window is longer and the same rules apply. We publish the actual times so you can see how long it was.

If you want to be sure, subscribe before the closing time and stay subscribed until we post here that the record has been taken.

6. One entry per account

One entry per Instagram account for the whole round. If the same Instagram account comments more than once, only the earliest comment counts. Commenting more than once does not give you more chances.

7. Recent winners

Once a win has been confirmed, that Instagram account cannot win again for 90 days from the date the win was confirmed. This is a re-entry rule only. It is not a deletion schedule and says nothing about how long we keep your data – see the Giveaway Privacy Notice for that.

8. Candidate, then confirmed winner – these are different

  1. On 19 October 2026 we draw at random from the entries that meet clauses 3, 4 and 5. There is one winner in this round. The person drawn is a CANDIDATE. Being drawn is not a win.
  2. We send that person a direct message on Instagram, from their profile. If you do not follow us, our message will arrive in your message requests folder rather than your inbox, so please check there. That message says you are a candidate. It is not a win notice.
  3. To confirm the win we complete two checks:
    • You tell us, by direct message, the email address you subscribed with. We check that this address is in the subscriber record described in clause 5.
    • We then send an email to that address. You reply to that email.
    This confirms that the same person controls both the Instagram account and the email address.
  4. Only when both checks are complete is the win CONFIRMED. We tell you separately when that has happened.
  5. If both checks are not complete within 48 hours of the time we sent our first direct message, we cannot confirm your win for this round and we draw another candidate. There is no penalty: you may enter future rounds as usual, your newsletter subscription is unaffected, and this entry is not carried over to the next round.
  6. We contact candidates one at a time, in the order drawn, and we record the time we were able to send each message.
    Being able to send a message does not mean it has been seen or received. We have no way of knowing that, and the 48 hours in clause 8(e) runs from the time we sent it either way.
    If the account has been renamed since the comment was posted, that alone does not disqualify anyone. As long as the comment is still on the Reel, we open it, follow it to the account's current profile, and send the message from there.
    If the comment has been deleted after we built the entry record, we look for the account under the username we recorded. If we find it and can see that it is the same account that commented, we contact it. If we cannot confirm that, we do not message any account, we record why, and we move on to the next candidate – we will not send a giveaway message to an account we are not sure about.
    We also move on when we cannot send a message at all, for example the account no longer exists or is not accepting messages from us. We record what happened and the time.

9. Prize

One PSA-graded card: MONKEY D. LUFFY, PSA GEM MT 10, PSA certification number 155230503.

The prize cannot be exchanged for cash, store credit or another item, and cannot be transferred. If the prize becomes unavailable we may substitute one of similar value and will say so here.

10. Shipping, duties and taxes

We ship from Japan with tracking.
This list is fixed for Round 2. It does not change during this round even if our shop settings change later.

Eligible – 138 countries and territories

North America (6): Bermuda, Canada, Greenland, Mexico, Saint Pierre and Miquelon, United States (including Alaska and Hawaii)

Europe (48): Albania, Andorra, Austria, Belarus, Belgium, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Gibraltar, Greece, Guernsey, Hungary, Iceland, Ireland, Italy, Jersey, Latvia, Liechtenstein, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Macedonia, Malta, Moldova, Monaco, Montenegro, Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Romania, San Marino, Serbia, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Svalbard and Jan Mayen, Sweden, Switzerland, Ukraine, United Kingdom, Vatican City State

Central America and the Caribbean (28): Anguilla, Antigua and Barbuda, Aruba, Bahamas, Barbados, Belize, British Virgin Islands, Cayman Islands, Costa Rica, Dominica, Dominican Republic, El Salvador, Grenada, Guadeloupe, Guatemala, Haiti, Honduras, Jamaica, Martinique, Montserrat, Netherlands Antilles, Nicaragua, Panama, Saint Kitts-Nevis, Saint Lucia, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, Trinidad and Tobago, Turks and Caicos Islands

Oceania (16): Australia, Cook Islands, Fiji, French Polynesia, Kiribati, Nauru, New Caledonia, New Zealand, Niue, Papua New Guinea, Solomon Islands, Tonga, Tuvalu, Vanuatu, Wallis and Futuna, Western Samoa

South America (14): Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Ecuador, Falkland Islands, French Guiana, Guyana, Paraguay, Peru, Suriname, Uruguay, Venezuela

Asia (9): Bangladesh, China, Georgia, India, Kazakhstan, South Korea, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, Turkmenistan

Southeast Asia (9): Brunei Darussalam, Hong Kong, Indonesia, Macau, Malaysia, Philippines, Singapore, Taiwan, Thailand

Middle East (8): Bahrain, Jordan, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Turkey, United Arab Emirates, Yemen

Not eligible

Entries from these destinations are not accepted. If we draw one, we set that entry aside and draw another candidate. Please do not enter from:

Japan, Vietnam, Russia, Israel, Iraq, Afghanistan, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Bhutan, Cambodia, Kuwait, Kyrgyzstan, Laos, Lebanon, Maldives, Mongolia, Nepal, Tajikistan, Uzbekistan, every country in Africa, American Samoa, Guam, the Northern Mariana Islands, the Marshall Islands, Micronesia, Palau, Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands, APO/FPO addresses, and PO Boxes.

Shipping cost – we pay this

We pay the cost of sending the prize to you. You are not asked to pay us anything at any point.

Import duty and taxes – you pay these, and they are not the shipping cost

Import duty, VAT/GST, customs handling fees and any other charge raised by the authorities or the carrier in the destination country are separate from the shipping cost and are paid by the winner. They are charged to you in your own country, usually before the parcel is released. We cannot tell you in advance what they will be.

How we declare the parcel

We declare the parcel as a giveaway prize, describe the contents accurately, and state its true value. We do not declare it as a personal gift, and we do not understate the value or declare a value of zero. If you ask us to do either of those, we will not send the prize.

If a parcel is returned because charges were not paid, it was not collected, or the address was wrong, we are not obliged to send it again.

11. Your address

We ask for your name, shipping address and a phone number for the carrier only after your win is confirmed. Never send your address with your entry. We never ask for payment, card details or passwords. A message asking for those is not from us.

12. Your information

See the Giveaway Privacy Notice for what we collect and how we handle it.

13. Disqualification

We may set an entry aside, before or after the draw, if it is a duplicate, automated, from a destination in the NOT ELIGIBLE list, or if the information given is false. We then draw another candidate.

14. Who may not enter

Members of our household and anyone involved in running this giveaway.

15. Changes

If circumstances require it we may change or cancel this giveaway, and we will say so here.

16. Not affiliated with Instagram

This giveaway is not sponsored, endorsed or administered by, or associated with, Instagram or Meta Platforms, Inc. By entering you release Instagram and Meta from any responsibility for this giveaway.

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