I am experienced in Japan shopping - I had a fiberglass fly rod rolled from scratch and finished, and have purchased a good deal of fly tackle, including English bags at a better price that I could get them from the UK. The next thing, is Japanese businesses are prohibited by law from accepting credit cards from banks not based in Japan. For some reason, paypal is an exception. The language barrier is everything. If the shop does not have English, and most don't, then you must have a broker. I have used noppin.com (formerly crescent-shop) with great success for at least a half-dozen purchases. After signing up, you make an inquiry on the shopping contact board. They will need a link to what you're asking about. They will make the contact and give you a quote, their commission is 20%. Payment is by paypal, and you must register your paypal on their site. Again, not a problem. The quote will include shipping to them, but not to the US. When they receive the item, they will send you a shipping invoice. They only ship Express Mail, which is about $35, but you will have the item in 4 days. All transactions are in JY, so use xe.com to determine how much you're spending. There is another brokerage business, rakuten, but their shipping is nowhere near as easy as noppin - with rakuten, you must set up a shipping account with a third-yet party. At noppin, Masamichi and Shimzu have excellent English, and are easy to work with.
On Wednesday, September 5, 2012 11:26:58 AM UTC-5, Christian wrote: > > Hi everyone > > (Apologies for cross-posting; I sent this to i-Bob also.) > > I have recently come across these bicycle themed prints from the artist > Yuziriha Satoshi. > http://www.yuzuriha.com/css/pages/gallery_folder/gallery2.html I wonder > if anyone reads Japanese and can tell me if they're available for > purchase? If not, I am sure people will enjoy looking at them anyway. > > Thanks, > > Christian -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "RBW Owners Bunch" group. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msg/rbw-owners-bunch/-/dem-Thlb29wJ. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch?hl=en.
