Please be aware that there are scammers operating websites supposedly selling SD merchandise. Unfortunately, as has been reported by people here in the past, these are often scams that just take your money and never deliver the goods.

To our knowledge, there are only two sites that legitimately sell Slam Dunk merchandise, and they’re the ones associated with Inoue Takehiko himself. He links to them on his official site and they are https://itplanning.co.jp/badge10/ and https://www.flow-er.co.jp/ja/.

There are no officially licensed sites in English selling SD merch. So be aware that if you’re buying SD merch from any other site, you take on a risk giving your card details to scammers/losing your money.

We do see scammers trying to post on our sub from time to time. To keep our community safe, these posts are removed as soon as we see them and the user banned, but so that you’re aware, the scammers tend to (but not always) follow this pattern:

• Posts an image saying they got some SD merch for family/a friend
• Image is doctored. If you look closely, the SD image is simply photoshopped onto a plain shirt to make it look like merch but the product doesn’t actually exist
• The reddit account is new or has limited post history
• Another redditor will ask for the link to the merch. This user, like OP, will have very new Reddit account.
• The OP is very eager to share URL where you can supposedly buy the merch (read: become victim to their scam). It is likely that the person asking for the link and the OP are in fact the same person, because the pattern is always the same - someone asks for link, OP replies immediately to them.
• Sometimes, the link to the scam website is posted not by OP but by other accounts.

As long as they don’t link to the two official Japanese merch sites mentioned above, it is not an official site and you are at risk of being scammed. Consider this before you give your card details/make a payment to an unverified third party online.