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Title: Best/cheapest Yahoo Japan bidding service (or, anyone in Japan willing to help?)
Post by: bhtooefr on Thu, 16 July 2009, 16:39:38

There's some items on Yahoo Japan (not keyboards) that I'd like to buy. They're heavy items, shipping may be as much as 21 kg each (but the item itself is in the 14 kg area. Yeah, IBM figured out how to put a lot of packaging material on these, I think.)

Price will be in the 10-40k yen area each, and I'm interested in purchasing multiples.

Anyone interested in helping, or know of a good service for this?

Title: Best/cheapest Yahoo Japan bidding service (or, anyone in Japan willing to help?)
Post by: kyamei on Thu, 16 July 2009, 17:21:53

I don't know if its the cheapest, but Japan to Door does Yahoo auction bidding.  Heres a link to their rates page: https://www.japantodoor.com/Overview3.asp?idno=35

Title: Best/cheapest Yahoo Japan bidding service (or, anyone in Japan willing to help?)
Post by: majestouch on Thu, 16 July 2009, 18:02:43

PM me with the item list and I'll let you know if I can help.

Title: Best/cheapest Yahoo Japan bidding service (or, anyone in Japan willing to help?)
Post by: bhtooefr on Thu, 16 July 2009, 20:37:56

PM sent.

Title: Best/cheapest Yahoo Japan bidding service (or, anyone in Japan willing to help?)
Post by: joniho on Thu, 16 July 2009, 23:56:41

Probably not the best, but I've used RinkYa: http://www.rinkya.com/ (http://www.rinkya.com/)
They do Yahoo JP Auction bidding, item holding (to bulk shipments if you order items later), and ordering from other sites like Amazon.co.jp as well.

There's also Tenso: http://www.tenso.com/?lang=en (http://www.tenso.com/?lang=en)
It's cheaper but works differently and might be a little more complicated. Basically you have to make an account and order the item as you normally would for the shopping site, but at checkout you provide an address in Japan that Tenso provides to you at no cost. They only charge you for the item (and its shipping to your Japanese address) and shipping & handling to your desired shipping location.

Title: Best/cheapest Yahoo Japan bidding service (or, anyone in Japan willing to help?)
Post by: bhtooefr on Fri, 17 July 2009, 00:31:50

majestouch is already helping me out, but thanks. :)

Title: Best/cheapest Yahoo Japan bidding service (or, anyone in Japan willing to help?)
Post by: o2dazone on Fri, 17 July 2009, 12:06:04

Quote from: ripster;103056

I'll retrofit them to match Cherry keyboards and make MILLIONS!!

(http://www.canpages.ca/blog/wp-content/uploads/2008/12/dr-evil.jpg)

you forgot the sinister laugh at the end