Buyee is great! Bought a lot of stuff through them. Electronics, clothes, blurays, even food lol (shio kombu is still not very common outside of Japan). Never had a problem!
The only downside if you buy electronics with
batteries: Buyee strictly enforces a maximum 2 batteries per package rule. So for example a Nintendo Switch would be shipped in 2 package because it has 3 batteries, 1 in the tablet, and 1 in each joycon. Have to plan around that when buying multiple electronics https://faq.buyee.jp/article/99?lang=en (look for items without battery, “unit only” etc)
I used them recently and I was half expecting to give them my money and never receive anything, but actually they were great and very helpful. No complaints at all.
You can use it with Amazon.jp but most of the time Amazon ships directly to everywhere,
no proxy needed
In fact you can use it with any japanese store that has a link to a product, the inquiry is free itself and Buyee reports back if they can buy it for you or not
You can actually ask Buyee to discard the batteries after they inspected the items (you can
communicate with them while the order is in their warehouse) but they only do it if it’s easily
removable. Otherwise
you can end up in a situation
where given your example they will
give you 2 choices: 6 packages which will be very expensive or we cancel your whole order but at this point there are no returns
Every time I’ve bought something from Japan its condition is underreported. It’s always a pleasant surprise compared to US sellers that typically over promise when describing the condition. When I put things up for sale o try to do the same. I might get a little less, but hope that the buyer appreciates getting something nicer than expected.
After buying several used goods in Japan, my impression is that junk simply means the seller does not want to hear complaints over old items, so they sell it at a lower price. I have bought many perfectly working items sold as such.
Of course buying old stuff requires some ability to do simple repairs. That’s part of the fun.
Yup that's about the best case for buying from Japan. Also big is anime, high end fishing gear (reels and lures are perfect because they're so shippable) also golf clubs (length can be a shipping challenge). Also look into zenmarket.com for a proxy buyer / forwarder
Buyee is great! Bought a lot of stuff through them. Electronics, clothes, blurays, even food lol (shio kombu is still not very common outside of Japan). Never had a problem!
The only downside if you buy electronics with batteries: Buyee strictly enforces a maximum 2 batteries per package rule. So for example a Nintendo Switch would be shipped in 2 package because it has 3 batteries, 1 in the tablet, and 1 in each joycon. Have to plan around that when buying multiple electronics https://faq.buyee.jp/article/99?lang=en (look for items without battery, “unit only” etc)
I used them recently and I was half expecting to give them my money and never receive anything, but actually they were great and very helpful. No complaints at all.
Any tips for using it? Maybe I am trying to find the wrong things but every time I have tried to browse it confusing.
Should I be looking Amazon.jp and then buying on buyee?
Buyee is mostly used with Mercari https://jp.mercari.com/en
You can use it with Amazon.jp but most of the time Amazon ships directly to everywhere, no proxy needed
In fact you can use it with any japanese store that has a link to a product, the inquiry is free itself and Buyee reports back if they can buy it for you or not
If you use Discord then the Buyee server is very helpful https://discord.com/invite/YRg3DgkBpS
Thank you for saying that because I was eyeing a lot of 12 Nintendo DSs
You can actually ask Buyee to discard the batteries after they inspected the items (you can communicate with them while the order is in their warehouse) but they only do it if it’s easily removable. Otherwise you can end up in a situation where given your example they will give you 2 choices: 6 packages which will be very expensive or we cancel your whole order but at this point there are no returns
Every time I’ve bought something from Japan its condition is underreported. It’s always a pleasant surprise compared to US sellers that typically over promise when describing the condition. When I put things up for sale o try to do the same. I might get a little less, but hope that the buyer appreciates getting something nicer than expected.
After buying several used goods in Japan, my impression is that junk simply means the seller does not want to hear complaints over old items, so they sell it at a lower price. I have bought many perfectly working items sold as such.
Of course buying old stuff requires some ability to do simple repairs. That’s part of the fun.
No such things as a "Junk" PSP, as this article clearly shows!
Yup that's about the best case for buying from Japan. Also big is anime, high end fishing gear (reels and lures are perfect because they're so shippable) also golf clubs (length can be a shipping challenge). Also look into zenmarket.com for a proxy buyer / forwarder