Japanese eBay Sellers Who Won’t Ship Domestic??

I need someone to explain this to me because I’m going crazy. I’m just trying to hunt down a limited Pikmin sweater that got scalped. (Yes I hate feeding their evil ways, but I really love Pikmin and the design is stupid cute.)

Every single seller that claims to ship from Japan refuses to ship WITHIN Japan. They offer ~free~ international shipping, but say they “can’t” ship domestically.

When I asked one seller why, they said:

“ebay is used to deliver Japanese products to people around the world.
When doing business in Japan, many people utilize Japan-specific applications.”

And nothing else. That tells me nothing of value and further confuses me. Couldn’t you… also… allow residents who don’t use those to buy?

Please help because I need to KNOW.

7 comments
  1. I saw this before but I convinced the seller to sell to me. I also think it’s kind of weird.

  2. It sounds like, for Japanese people, they use eBay if they want people overseas to buy. And Mercari for domestic. Just a wild guess tho. But like… if you buy it, that means someone overseas will lose the chance to when you can just go to Mercari. There’s a lot of unspoken etiquette in this country I find.

  3. Perhaps the platform charge being more expensive on ebay? Or currency conversion issue? Or tax? Just wild guesses.

  4. You make more margin exporting it. That 10% consumption you pay gets given back to you if you export it with a license. So whatever they’re selling it for, they will also make 10% of what they paid for it on top of whatever profit they’re already making. Can’t file for a consumption return on a domestic sale, only on an export overseas.

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