Sorry for bumping, but I was wondering what mail forwarding do you guys use for rakuten? Thanks Show Image
There are 4 services either I or people I know use for forwarding stuff from Japan. It depends on whether or not you need just forwarding or proxy purchasing too (Not every store on Rakuten will accept International Credit Cards, in general the majority of the stores that accept international credit cards will ship internationally as well anyways).
1. Tenso: I'd say this is probably the biggest service, they mainly offer forwarding services but I think they recently started offering proxy purchasing as well. Price wise in general they are pretty good and for very small items they are the absolute cheapest.
2. Sere-nde: This is what I use personally, its a much smaller service and the people who run it only speak Japanese too, if your using it you better either speak Japanese or have good Google Translate ability (Their english website seems to just be their japanese website ran through google translate). But for ordering lots of stuff they are the cheapest.
3. JapanToDoor: This place is pretty expensive, but they literally offer every possible proxy service you can think of, including selling your own items on Auctions. They have special business accounts though that for a monthly fee gets you much cheaper prices.
4. J-Goods: This is only for proxy purchasing but unlike alot of other places the majority of their fee is a set cost per item rather than a large percentage (10-20%) of the cost so for things like buying a single HHKB, the prices can't be beat. This is the only one I nor anyone I'm close to has used but other people on geekhack seem to find it fast and reliable.
