buying stuff from around the world or from japan

My Yamaha RS7000 came from a vendor in Germany. UPS sent me a bill for their customs charges about 3 weeks after I got it. Still came in cheaper than the US prices at the time.

thank you, for replying, tombot.

OK, here is mine:

I was going to buy a camera (a ricoh caplio R1) but, then, they were going to release the R1V, which is the same (as the R1) but with an extra megapixel. so, I waited, a little while, and was going to buy that. now, they are going to release the R2, which is the same (as the R1V) but with a 2.5" screen, as opposed to a 1.8" screen. I don't know when it will be released, here, but you can already buy it, in japan, for 43, 000 yen (US$410 or £215) or so (which is only slightly more expensive, than the R1V, here, now).

I can find it, on japanese sites, but I cannot understand the japanese, to try to order it.

does anyone know good japanese? or live in japan?

If they don't have directions in English, chances are they don't ship outside of Japan. Do you want to send me the link and I'll look at it for you?

I ordered headphones from audiocubes.com in Japan. Took only 3 days with standard shipping and was packed impeccably.

A lot of places don't ship worldwide (especially true of the US and Japan). I've had great success buying from Taiwan, Germany and other places through eBay.

I fear you are totally correct, mary (and ed). I had almost assumed as much.

google page translator only gets you so far and is funny.

so, I need to find someone who lives in japan.

thanks, for your help, this time!

someone (on ebay) is shipping, one, from asia, to the US/UK but won't accept paypal, outside of the US.

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You get some funny sellers like that. Money is money. (Out of interest why the Ricoh?)

I've ordered boots from Australia, but I knew exactly the size I was getting. Most Aussie boots (Blundstone, Rossi, RM Williams) are much cheaper to mailorder, even with shipping.

the ricoh:

small (100x50x25mm), 4.8x zoom (as opposed to standardish 3x) w/ 28-135mm wide angle, 0.8 sec start up, quick recycle, continuous shooting, unlimited (except by memory) movies, >10mm macro, 5 megapixel, 2.5" screen, good settings, I think, quite robust, I think, SD card is good, for me, and you can get it in black.

do you think it would be unwise to even consider a bank transfer or money order nonsense?

I ordered films that you've never heard of from a country called The Czech Republic.

Bank transfers are expensive, slow and a big hassle. Western Union/Moneygram is not too bad but quite expensive. Money orders are too much hassle for both ends.

Sounds good specs by the way.

I'm not going to read your post, as a boast, adamrl.

yeah, ed, I thought so. I think his stipulation is for VERIFIED postal addresses (paypal only really verify for the US, I guess).

It was a haiku.

Paypal, verify for the UK, maybe he is not aware.

right, again, ed. my status is "verified". what is this punk's prob? I will ask him.

i've recently bought quite a few consumer electronics from the US and UK in recent times. i've been lucky with avoiding customs costs, which when applied have a tendency to reduce any cost savings to negligible..

recently recent

I checked the link for the camera on Amazon Japan's page--and they won't send it out of the country. Perhaps you should fly to Japan to claim it?

How do warranties work when buying overseas electronics? Would they be honoured? Would you have to mail the item back to Japan or wherever for fixing?

I'd like to go, to japan.

japanese amazon translated most of it, for me, yeah, I saw why they wouldn't send.

the lady, doing the ebay, though, is having them imported, from japan.

I wonder how she is working it.

thanks, mary.

A possible drawback you might not have considered:

The screen messages will all be in Japanese.

This may not be a problem for you - I mean it isn't for me, mine is a Fuji model I bought over there that never even made it into sale abroad - but it's something else to think about.

I ordered the camera, I wanted, from here! it will cost £209 (incl. p&p) as opposed to £230, when it is released here. I hope it's okay.