[Hrodgar]

Hello.

Since I am a Japanaholic, I always crawl around the web for different and funny things to buy.

I also have two hobbies (Kendo and Airsoft) which originate from Japan and sometimes I find interesting things I would like to buy from Japanese websites.

Most often though, the websites have no tolerance for Gaijin like me so they dont have an english site and even if I can autotranslate so I can navigate the site, they dont ship internationally.

I have found some proxy-buying sites with various credibility so I was wondering how you lot do it, if you do it?

Is it easy to find a "real life" person that can help you instead of a company specializing in it, or do you have great references from some site thats easy to go through without having to pay like 100% extra and paying everything in advance?