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.
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Have you checked Mercari and Yahoo auctions?
Use Mercari or Yahoo auctions. Prices are better anyway.
I saw this before but I convinced the seller to sell to me. I also think it’s kind of weird.
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.
You don’t have to collect sales tax if you ship overseas.
Perhaps the platform charge being more expensive on ebay? Or currency conversion issue? Or tax? Just wild guesses.
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.