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Proxy-buying from JP?
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? |
Proxy means you have to pay money. They provide a service that you cannot do on your own.
I don't think it is the websites have "no tolerance" for foreigners as much as they are not intended for overseas buyers. That is why proxy buying services exist. |
Well yes. :rolleyes: I was a bit scetchy in my choice of words.
Of course a proxyservice will cost me extra money compared to buying it directly, but I have found a wide variety within these services of costs and how to buy it. What I was hoping was some good advice of which services to be aware of (scammers or overpricers) and which to use. :-) Would it be okay otherwise to ask for someone to help me buy stuff, to be my helpful proxybuyer, through the looking for friends-forum? |
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