There is a set of toys I have been trying to buy for about a year now and they are up on Amazon Japan, offered by Amazon Japan, with free shipping. They only have 1 set of these toys left in stock. I can't find a set of them anywhere else and for such a resonable price. The toys cost about $25 before shipping when the yen is converted to dollars.

What is the best/cheapest purchasing service to use to buy a toy from Amazon Japan?

I did some calculations on one buying service and it would be $50&change shipped, but I'm looking to see if there are any other cheaper options.

I see this place listed as a middleman purchasing service:

http://www.yokattaweb.jp/ordering.html

How are they? Are they expensive?

Thanks.

I wish I knew the answer to this, I've been trying to find out myself. From what I can tell, Yokatta's a bit expensive, but they are easy to deal with and pretty reliable with preorders. There's another person with a service called RiderProxy that has a thread on HenshinJustice.

Sentai Tamashii, from THIS forum, has a middleman service but I don't know if he does Amazon.jp. Worth asking him in PM though.

I tried RiderProxy but their website seems to no longer exist: http://riderproxy.com/

EDIT: alright, I can contact Rider from here I guess: http://forums.henshinjustice.com/showthread.php?t=49712

I emailed Yokatta and they can buy it. The item's price from Amazon.jp is ￥ 2,380 and their fee is ￥ 700 which makes it ￥ 3,080. Most places suggested on the Tokunation list and from folks on TFW charge the ￥ 700 for a fee. Below is the reply they have sent me so far. So is ￥ 700 a fair fee or can I get this thing even cheaper? I just need someone in Japan to buy it and then ship it to me. I have never done this before so with my first attempt I'm just trying to not overpay more than I should (whatever a fair price may be).

700 yen is pretty fair. I looked around and a lot of the middleman/proxy sites that deal more generally with Japanese items(as opposed to just toys) tend to charge a straight percentage with a minimum guaranteed charge. And it usually seems to be more than 700.

Nakano has the Super Best W Driver up for 4000 Yen-
http://ekizo.mandarake.co.jp/shop/en/item_s-882205.html

Looks like that cheap Bouken Red became an expensive Bouken Red. I paded out my order with another item and HLJ shipped the 2 separately, and charged me EMS shipping for both :rolleyes

Yeah I didn't realise how HLJ worked either. Deka and buster red ended up getting shipped together, so I sent bouken to the warehouse and added jyudenchi set 2 to it to make it a little better. Its still crazy cheap for me though =]

Thanks for this! :thumb:
Been looking for one for a while.

I was just wondering, do people think Gobuster DX CB-01 is worth 3800 yen before shipping? Or if the DX Gobuster-oh box set worth 8000 yen before shipping? And how much would the approximate shipping for either is?

Maybe on the box set but I often see the DX Ace for about 1500-2000 yen before shipping. Camp out mandarake for a few days, they always turn up cheaply there.