Yeah, I picked it up as B&N had their Black Friday sale with an additional 20% off coupon, so in the end it cost me a little less than half the book's price. I knew when I bought that it came in a thick cardboard case like those you get for other expensive books, such as Artist Editions, but prettier, so I decided to take the risk with their shitty packaging and I think it paid off.
krylox, those look absolutely amazing and I hope that, if you've received yours in Germany, I can expect my own order - all but Volume 3 of Walt and Skeezix, which I'll pick up somewhere else, and the two Chris Ware ACME Novelty Datebook's - to be delivered to me here in Scotland before the weekend. Looking at all those pretty books makes me sad that I didn't have the money to buy even more (I would have loved to have picked up all of Shigeru Mizuki's available books in the one order and a few others aside), so hopefully they'll have a similarly nice sale next year. By the way, I presume from the photos of your order that D&Q's packaging was pretty great? Kinda ridiculous if so considering how insanely cheap it was for international shipping.