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Just wrote this up for a buddy, and decided to go ahead and post it here so I can refer back to it when the question (inevitably) arises:
People in Japan, for whatever reason, don't really seem to use eBay a whole lot.
Could be the language barrier (eBay packed up their office and left Japan), or could
be other things. Anyway, they like to use Yahoo! Japan auctions. But, it's different
from what we're used to in the US. People (by and large) are not really enthusiastic
about shipping internationally, especially to a bunch of crazy Americans. And, they
usually don't take Paypal. They tend to want to be paid by a transfer directly from
your bank to their bank.
So, if you're gonna bid on cool stuff, and especially if you don't know a lot of
Japanese, a lot of people do it through an agent.
The site I use to bid on Yahoo is Celga:
http://www.celga.com/beta
( Cut for longosity )
People in Japan, for whatever reason, don't really seem to use eBay a whole lot.
Could be the language barrier (eBay packed up their office and left Japan), or could
be other things. Anyway, they like to use Yahoo! Japan auctions. But, it's different
from what we're used to in the US. People (by and large) are not really enthusiastic
about shipping internationally, especially to a bunch of crazy Americans. And, they
usually don't take Paypal. They tend to want to be paid by a transfer directly from
your bank to their bank.
So, if you're gonna bid on cool stuff, and especially if you don't know a lot of
Japanese, a lot of people do it through an agent.
The site I use to bid on Yahoo is Celga:
http://www.celga.com/beta
( Cut for longosity )
