Mandarake Online Restock time?

Anyone know what time the website restocks? Or updates stock. It happens after midnight and I always fall asleep before it happens, so I really don't know. I'd like to be able to set an alarm so that I'm able to grab a few clothing sets - they're usually just listed and then sold out by 6-7am. 

I've got a friend in Central time who checks around 2 am (insomnia's a bitch), and she's had good luck with restocks happening around then. She still misses stuff every so often, but usually she gets first pick!

I'm also central time- in my experience the restocks are staggered from about midnight until roughly 6-7am, with most new items being posted around the top of each hour (give or take a few minutes). I haven't been checking as actively in the last few months, though. 

On 4/13/2024 at 8:10 AM, Inolth said:

Anyone know what time the website restocks? Or updates stock. It happens after midnight and I always fall asleep before it happens, so I really don't know. I'd like to be able to set an alarm so that I'm able to grab a few clothing sets - they're usually just listed and then sold out by 6-7am. 

I've noticed that in my time zone (USA, CDT zone), I will see things starting to be posted posted around 8-8:30pm or so. This is specifically for all the doll stuff though, as I don't really use Mandarake for anything other than dolls and the occasional cd. Restocking is staggered though like others here have mentioned. I've seen new stuff still popping up even at 7:30am. Sometimes I'll randomly wake up at 3-4am and will check just because. And I won't lie, some of my favorite/luckiest finds have been from randomly waking up early (first dibs on a lot of voc@loid Ginger Tea outfits, a feeling cant be beat)! Sleep schedule may be wrecked, but I can't say my girls mind it at all lol. Good luck with any hunting though, hope any of those times might help you find something early!

Restocks also occur on different days per shop. AFAIK, all categories are restocked around the same times, but sometimes it's possible to snatch something early because items are made available in Japanese first, with the translated items showing up in the search at a slight delay (probably has to do something with indexing search items).

Also, lately they seem to be using a rotating system that causes items that haven't sold for a while to show up as "new".

The restock timings are stated on the site. For example ( UTC +8 )

5/4/2024 23:00 ~ 11:00
5/4/2024 17:00 ~ 23:00
5/4/2024 11:00 ~ 17:00

So if you are camping for something, bash the refresh at the start of those timings.
Or if its something listed before, put a favourite alert on it.

And take note that there is a online and Japan ONLY listing. So if you are loading the "international" version you will not see those that they will only sell in Japan.
I had a case with a Obitsu50 Rosaline listing that I wanted but because it was considered heavily damaged they do not want to sell overseas.

It was only after I emailed them and getting more detailed pictures of the defects before they agreed to let me buy it. Took me about a month to remove the major staining but the head was in good condition so I did not mind.