Well, I just registered into Yahoo Japan, and it looks like it lets me bid in auctions. :clap: I have some questions: I am looking at an article with a reserve price. If it doesn't fetch that reserve price, and I bid and win but with a lower bid than the reserve price, I will win? I can really bid with only registering into Yahoo Japan or I'm only dreaming? Do you think that a seller which has the 海外発送はしません flag will be comprensive or I should better skip on that one? Thanks.
Forget it, you can't buy anything by yourself at Yahoo Auctions unless you're japanese, or find someone who ships outside Japan, and this is VERY rare.
If you mean 希望落札価格 then that's like the BIN price at ebay. If the winning bid is below that price the bidder still wins the auction. Yes, you can. Up to 4999 Yen. For higher bids or in general for some categories at YA (not game related) you need a premium account (monthly fees plus verification via credit card or some banks in Japan required). The biggest problem here is, how would you pay the seller? No one really accepts Paypal and so you need a Japanese bank account or a credit card registered with Yahoo. If it's a private seller then you might find a way to do it. If it's a shop, forget it.
It is a private seller, and I'd do a bank transfer to his account, I know that the fees are high but as he accepts it I'd use it, since Yahoo! Easy payment, Yahoo! Net banking, etc, are out of range.
If there is a reserve price and your bid doesn't match or beat it you won't win the auction even if you were the highest bidder. You need to match or beat the reserve price in order to win the item Oh, and be the highest bidder. Yakumo
Well, he didn't answer me so screw it. No luck this time, I guess that next time I'll use a proxy service like ryinkiria or something like that.
Well unless you send the question in Japanese (and not in translation program Japanese) you probably aren't going to get a reply, even then you are very unlikely to get a reply if you want it sent abroad.
I sent the question in Japanese, and not in computer translated Japanese. What I did send was: ?????? ????auction number?????????????????????? ???????????my yahoo id. It´s a bit cryptic but well. EDIT: I fucking hate macs, here is it in romaji >: konnichiha ima ni boku ha auction number no miru. boku no toi ha, gaikoku o okuru ha ii desu ka? arigatou gozaimasu, my yahoo id EDIT2: finally in my good old Windows computer: こんにちは、 今に僕はauction_numberの見る。僕の問いは、外国を送るはいいですか？ ありがとうございます、my_yahoo_id
Kind of cute. But they should get the message. The question always is, will they want to go through all the trouble. You should have added: I can teach you English (or Spanish).
Lol. :lol: But I seriously don't see the mania with not sending stuff abroad. International transfer. Yes, it is a fucking shitload of comission, but it'd be my problem. EMS or SAL. Which is the difference between going to the Post Office, shipping by Yu Pack and going to the post office and posting by EMS / SAL? :shrug:
The difference ? You're a "fuckin' foreigner", and that makes the whole difference for most of the sellers. Dude, I've seen japanese collectors sell european Pal or US uber rare stuff on yahoo for like nothing when they certainly knew it would reach ten times more on ebay (they must have knew, as they didn't buy these shit in japan). Why the hell ? Just because they DO NOT want to deal with foreigners. No need to try and understand, it's a fact.
It's not quite that simple. Xenophobia has a little to do with it, but I've had thousands of transactions and I've never had one person dick me b/c I was a whitey.... I even bid on an auction that says, "Japanese people only please". I guess he was stunned with my broad vocabulary.
All the people I sell to and buy from know I'm a whitey too. Over 500 transactions with only one problem ever. that guy was a serious prick though. Yakumo
