Anyone ever used Buyee (Japanese Shipping Proxy)?

[GentlemanShark]

It is I was blowing the whole ship thing out of proportion because it's legitimately "snail paced mail" basically SAL is put into the plane "if there's room" EMS and whatever gets priority over SAL that means your SAL package can sit in Japan until a plane has room for it.

Aw darn, hope I don't have to wait too long.

 

[GentlemanShark]

Huh, my order just shipped.

 

[aquelito]

@GentlemanShark I asked the French shop regarding the Inno3D 1050 Ti Single Slot availability and they have no idea of the actual ETA date.
That's too bad because the Elsa 1050 Ti is way more expensive (for what seems to be the same cooling solution).

To answer your first question, I've been using proxy from Japan for almost 15 years and my favourite is FromJapan.
They charge a flat fee of 300 (no insurance) or 700 JPY (fully insured) per order (whatever final price and quantities).

 

[GentlemanShark]

@GentlemanShark I asked the French shop regarding the Inno3D 1050 Ti Single Slot availability and they have no idea of the actual ETA date.
That's too bad because the Elsa 1050 Ti is way more expensive (for what seems to be the same cooling solution).

To answer your first question, I've been using proxy from Japan for almost 15 years and my favourite is FromJapan.
They charge a flat fee of 300 (no insurance) or 700 JPY (fully insured) per order (whatever final price and quantities).

Only 700 JPY!? That's crazy cheap, does the shipping raise the price a lot more?

 

[chx]

I have used https://www.easyauctionjapan.com/ with great success in 2011. My first purchase was a an IBM T221 monitor (!). 25K the monitor, a bit less than 10K in fees and shipping.

Price：￥25000
Tax (VAT)：￥1250
Bank Fee：￥300
Domestic delivery charge：￥1490
COD handling charge： ￥0
Shipping Fee：￥20600 (hopefully your video card won't be 30lbs or so )
Other Fees：￥16170 (these were special dual link DVI to DMS 59 adapters that they purchased based on a link I sent them, no problems)
Re-packing fee：￥1500 (adapters into the monitor box)
EAJ commission：￥4125 (this now would be http://www.easyauctionjapan.com/newsDetail.php?news=72 half)

Very clearly broken down, excellent communication, super helpful service. Strongly recommended.

 

[aquelito]

Only 700 JPY!? That's crazy cheap, does the shipping raise the price a lot more?

You can estimate the total cost of your purchase on their website :

http://www.fromjapan.co.jp/en/estimate

 

[Kwirek]

Got a package from Buyee today, decently packed and properly labelled. Might certainly use again.

 

[GentlemanShark]

Good to hear, mine entered the US about 4 days ago and just got transferred to the third USPS facility in LA.

 

[Kwirek]

Good to hear, mine entered the US about 4 days ago and just got transferred to the third USPS facility in LA.

The exciting wait to see how many sorting facilities you can collect on one package. :-P

 

[GentlemanShark]

The exciting wait to see how many sorting facilities you can collect on one package. :-P

Yup, it took like 2 days to move a couple digits up on the zipcode.

 

[GentlemanShark]

I just got it! It looks in good condition and my PC detected it!

 

[BaK]

Happy ending!

Why did you want that one card especially?

 

[GentlemanShark]

It's one of the only cards that can fit in my uSFF case

 

[BaK]

Ok I see