yamatoku ebay have just lost me

[kevkevkev]

They have been the best for jpn games and the place i get loads of great deals. But now they have decided to send registered sal only. Meaning a £4 sal is now gonna cost me £9 to ship. This past week i bought 3 games costing me £20 which is quoted £6 for shipping each game. Now instead of the usual combined invoice of around £10-13 they now want £27. Aint gonna happen.

[JetBlackSVW]

Strange, I just got an invoice for 4 games (3 Famicom, 1 N64) which is quoted at $21 for all games shipping to Germany.

[80sFREAK]

Once they started loosing profit over the "undelivered items" sent by unregistered mail, they followed ebay rules and recommendations. Registered mail gives proof of delivery in terms of ebay-paypal and items described as "secondhand junk" hard to claim SNAD.
Enjoy your ebay and paypal.

[kevkevkev]

Well they reinvoiced me. But they will lose my custom.  plenty of jpn sellers with better prices. Just have to find one i am happy with.

[JetBlackSVW]

What I like about Yamatoku are the tons of auctions and actual photos. Other selles have overpriced BINs and stock photos. What are good alternatives to Yamatoku?

[L___E___T]

 



I browse national only auctions sometimes, what drives Yamatoku's prices up is the reach and therefore the bids they receive. 

You can't really grab a bargain there, but it's great if you want something specific and simply must have it.

[FrankWDoom]

Yikes. Some of the listings I've been watching went from $9 to $14 shipping since yesterday. Since these are listings that'll end for <$3 that's going to price them out of my limit.

As for recommendations, I've been very happy buying from pal52 on ebay. http://www.ebay.com/sch/pal52/m.html?_nkw=&_armrs=1&_ipg=&_from= He's located in the USA and ships fast. I get most stuff in 2 or 3 days.

[kevkevkev]

Cheap post to uk from japan always helps. Hopefully they will rethink. I mean a ps1 game worth £2 wont sell if post is £9.  trying j4u on ebay.

[JetBlackSVW]

As for recommendations, I've been very happy buying from pal52 on ebay. http://www.ebay.com/sch/pal52/m.html?_nkw=&_armrs=1&_ipg=&_from= He's located in the USA and ships fast. I get most stuff in 2 or 3 days.

Thank you very much, but buying from US Ebay Sellers is even worse for us Europeans, because of the Global Shipping Program. For example that Super Mario Bros. at $9.95 costs additional $15.65 for shipping to Germany. There are very few sellers that don't use this scam of a service unfortunately.

[MaxXimus]

Sometimes Dora_ts17 has good deals on games. I just got the gamecube remake of biohazard for less than $10 USD shipped.

http://www.ebay.ca/sch/dora_ts17/m.html

[waterclocker]

Gotta be careful with Yamatoku and watch out for getting shill bid up the wazoo.  Hard to get and kind of
deal anymore on the popular items and I've seen a trend of weird bidding.   Some of his auctions will end
of with many bid retractions, sometimes even hundreds!!  Others have reported many instances of shill
bidding if you do some searching.  It's a sad game we have to deal with, no other sellers list as many JPN
games at auction.

Also, a shameless plug for my own ebay store.  I just got a ton of great stuff in and I'm working on listing it.
I pack well and ship very quickly.  Satisfaction Guaranteed!  I ship international to most countries and don't
use the global shipping program.

http://www.ebay.com/usr/waterclocker83/

[pleaserecycle]

Gotta be careful with Yamatoku and watch out for getting shill bid up the wazoo.  Hard to get and kind of
deal anymore on the popular items and I've seen a trend of weird bidding.   Some of his auctions will end
of with many bid retractions, sometimes even hundreds!!  Others have reported many instances of shill
bidding if you do some searching.  It's a sad game we have to deal with, no other sellers list as many JPN
games at auction.

I noticed that many of their auctions have bids from members who have bid 1000's of times on their items.  It's always 99 or 100% of that member's recent bids, too.

[80sFREAK]

Cheap post to uk from japan always helps. Hopefully they will rethink. I mean a ps1 game worth £2 wont sell if post is £9.  trying j4u on ebay.

Rethink what? To keep their lost? Same about "Don't ship to {countries list}" - once seller start loosing money on {country name}, it's easier just not to sell there for a while.

Retracted bids - someone just having fun by thinking "keep thet greedy buggers busy". I'm pretty sure this(retracting, e-mailing etc) done by software.

And i very doubt about shill bidding - they are too big to bother. This is "recycle shop"(scrap yard in other words) and their goal is slightly different of what you thinking.

Ah, forgot about "bid on 1000s of other items"  - resellers(most likely), beginners, another sellers, who wants to push up average market price.

Sometimes Dora_ts17 has good deals on games. I just got the gamecube remake of biohazard for less than $10 USD shipped.

http://www.ebay.ca/sch/dora_ts17/m.html

Just checked their "negatives" - ITEM NEVER ARRIVED. Weird, isn't it?

[kevkevkev]

If they dont go back nobody will buy as much as they wont be the cheapest. So theyll lose more than a few buyers trying to scam them.

[Arkanix38]

I'll keep buying from them regardless. If i'm not purchasing privately from someone here on FamicomWorld then I'll usually turn to Yamatoku. I've always had exemplary service from them, with everything being extremely well packed and quickly dispatched. With the photos they take i've never been unpleasantly surprised with the appearance of a game.

This said, it's a free market and you have many other options for buying your games if you don't agree with their business practices.

For me I don't really notice the postage costs from Japan too much. Living in Australia i'm used to paying more for postage than on the actual product, and postage costs from Japan are usually a happy surprise compared to literally everywhere else (including SAL). For instance, bought some CX-42 Wireless joysticks from the US costing $40 US with about $60 in shipping (cheapest option).