Hello, I want to recommend you atsumedemon, I think it’s cheap and fast, they are also very reliable and friendly, I have made many orders with them since September, I have used it mainly to buy in mercari and other stores, for auctions I still use fromjapan which has been my main proxy for a little over ten years, the person in charge is Sarah, who is known to have run Mana-Sama. net / Monologue†Sanctuary for many years.
If you decide to use their services tell them you heard it first from Klaus, maybe I can get a discount next time haha
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I’ve been using tenso for 5+ years now. Not the cheapest but never had any issues with shipments being lost etc. I get goods and tickets delivered through them.
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I’d like to revive this topic by asking this same questions. Any suggestions?
Thank you very much!
For that I’d recommend a person-based service as tickets usually require more “personalized” attention than buying online.
Taro Osaka (on FB) has been helping me get tickets for years.
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Thank you very much!!!
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Good news to those who use Buyee, like me!
Notice of Revision of International Shipping Rates and Waiving of Payment and Consolidation Fees
14 Dec 2022
Thank you for your continued support.Effective December 21, 2022 at 12:00 p.m. (Japan Standard Time), with a revision of Buyee’s international shipping rates, in response to many customers’ requests, some of our service fees will be revised to more user-friendly prices.
The price revisions are as follows:
◆International shipping rates will be reviewed.
- Please see below the updated rates.
- Targeted shipping methods: Buyee Air Delivery, FedEx, DHL, ECMS
◆No payment fees on Yahoo! and Mercari, and Rakuma.
- Before revision: 200 yen payment fee per successful bid/order
- After revision: Free of charge
◆Waive of the consolidation service fee
- Before revision: 500 yen/1,000 yen consolidation fee per package
- After revision: Free of charge
We will continue to strive to provide services that satisfy our customers.
We look forward to your continued patronage.
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Interesting! I may start using buyee too. So now is there only the service fee, or there are still some other hidden fees? If not, From Japan and Zenmarket better start to worry…
This is why I use treasure Japan 
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Regular Buyee user here. While I don’t have huge problems with the service, I have an assortment of small ones which have been weighing on me for some time.
At the beginning of 2022 Buyee stopped supporting Surugaya purchases altogether for some reason. Buyee won’t even let you submit a purchase request form with Surugaya links in it. This goes so far that certain Rakuten/Rakuma items by extension are also unavailable, simply because Surugaya is the listed seller. I have no idea why they’ve gone this far and every time I’ve asked support they dance around the question.
Buyee’s packaging is thorough even without their “Protective Packaging” add-on, maybe even wasteful - often times each listing in a consolidated package will come in its own over-sized cardboard pocket. Apparently after submitting for consolidation you’re allowed to immediately email Buyee with the new package # and make specific shipping requests to minimize the size/cost. If you’re already buying used and don’t mind the increased risk of scuffs it might not be the worst idea.
Some warnings about Buyee’s purchase request form: it takes a while for them to be confirmed. Maybe this is typical for proxies, but if you can’t act on their emails immediately, it might take as long as 3-4 days to go from “pending confirmation” to “order confirmed”. Even if you are it’ll still probably take about 2 days. Additionally Buyee cannot order from stores that only support payment by bank transfer - I’m not sure what payment methods Buyee actually supports but evidently that isn’t one of them.
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I would say that Buyee, ZenMarket, FromJapan is great when you are first starting out but there are a lot of better Japan import services than those 3.
I recommend Sendico and Hoyoyo instead. Sendico is Japan-based. Hoyoyo, Hong-Kong-based.
The reasons I do is they will buy anything from MercariJP and other sites such as your favorite Japanese music artist or Japanese band’s website. Not only that they are much faster than those 3. If you are not a newbie to using Buyee you will know that there are items that Mercari partnered with Buyee will not ship internationally due to the original Japanese seller not making shipping internationally available. Given that I do not know why people would choose such a limited import service.
Buyee can still be used if you have got coupons which they tend to provide every once in a while and if the items you are looking for show as available internationally.
I think the reasons Buyee, ZenMarket, and FromJapan thrive and are known more is due to how they are the most English-friendly with pleasing user interfaces but given ZenMarket refuses to place orders for you if considering buying something from MercariJP it makes them less appealing. Given they are actually offering much less. But for simple orders and if you are starting out buying from Japan to ship overseas Buyee, ZenMarket, and FromJapan are fine but just be aware there are far better import services with even better fees or warehouse package holding times.
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Hey I never tried proxy shipping before and I have an item from yahoo auction through buyee that I’m interested in. Can you help me if I send you the link, I really have no idea if this guy ships internationally or not, buyee looks clean but I’m not sure, I thought maybe someone who used it before knows more about the process.
Buyee is perfectly legit. Just put the money up for the auction and if they win it for you, they send it their warehouses. They then send you the bill, you pay them, they send you item. Their specialty is international shipping.
I’m more worried about the shipping process, I see airmail which is roughly 3000 yen and then theres ups, which is 17000 yen. I wish to talk to the sender about it but I have no idea how.
Treasure Japan does them too. That place is a revelation.
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17000円 for UPS?! You can’t communicate with the seller just Buyee who you can email or chat with.
so the shipping is 5.200 yen the cd’s itself which amount to 9 is 1000 yen plus border tax which is 216 in the local currency which will amount to 1443 in turkey and 46 dollars in U.S. Holy shit. What a waste. Anyway thanks.
I wanted to ask about the payment, so the guy wants it with bank transfers, will it be processed by buyee itself or straight to the guy and what happens if he decides to keep it? Do I get reimbursed by the service or just scammed, and about AIR/Registered Small Package, I’ve looked into some greek and turkish buyers some say that they paid for the mail and haven’t been even sent to their warehouses and left it ominous as to were they able to compensate the money they gave upfront. As for the mail this has more chance of avoiding trouble with customs because in those countries as I read and looked up the mails that have been veto’d or rejected at customs are being sold in their own countries.
I will be going to america in a couple months and I agree it’s the most secure way I can receive the mail without much headaches but please understand my concern, it’s bat country out here and I really need some pointers, I lost my shit when I saw this auction at a really good price and I can’t believe it if it’s real or not because I never use proxy services only amazon or alibaba because they have their own shipping services and I have a way of reimbursing if anything went wrong.
https://auctions.yahoo.co.jp/seller/zempn23839
This is the guy and he sells every cd at a thousand yen can anyone help me verify if this guy is a scam or not? Apparently what I said is true with this guy despite 6541 good reviews and 11 bad ones. Thank you for helping me.
In this scenario, you “pay” Buyee twice. They’re basically the middleman.
For a marketplace such as Mercari, you front the money for the item that you want to buy to Buyee and they purchase it on your behalf. Bids are pretty much the same, but there’s some additional tools like snipe bid and buyout price. You pay them a second time for mailing it to their warehouse, and you also pay for shipping. Not sure what happens if the guy scams you, but I haven’t had that issue.
Shipping is variable and depends on where you live. EMS is actually pretty great for me as it’s usually cheaper than Air Mail. That’s not the case for everyone. Also depends on size and weight.
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Thanks!
Is there any way by Buyee to pack everything from One seller into one order? Or can do I have to order every item one by one?