Buying from dealer in Japan on Ebay

[Cosmo Valdemar]

Anyone have any experience of this? Any risks? I don't know why there should be but alarm bells always start ringing, hazy memories of warnings never to purchase from sellers in the East or something daft.

Edited January 23, 2016 by Cosmo Valdemar

[Subbeh]

As long as this seller is reputable and you've factored in the VAT charges I don't think there's much to worry about.

[colgraff]

As a rule, I would be happy ordering from Japan as the country is pretty well-behaved and well-regulated. China or Hong Kong would be another matter, though.

[Paul S]

I've bought 3 basses from Japan, no particular problems.

One seller used Parcelforce as the partner at this end, 3 days from Tokyo to Coventry then 2 weeks Coventry to my local depot, from where I had to collect it.

The other seller sent it DHL and it was 2 days door to door, Tokyo to Benfleet. Cost a little bit more but very much worth it. And I think the under-calculated the duty etc.