In the 4 or 5 years that I've been buying from Yahoo, Japan. I've only had one occurrence where they had a speaker issue and I simply had to go to a different shipper to get the item to me. During covid there were a lot of shipping issues as far as high prices, but now they're come down again to more reasonable prices and various prices. You can pay for various services to have your items shipped to you. I use the buyee option rather than paying for the EMS which is slow or seamail can take months and I can't wait that long.
Not really looking for any model in particular, just trying to figure out what the story is with the Japanese sellers on eBay. At some point I might buy a radio from one of them and don’t want to get scammed.
Back in the day in the years of 2006 to 2010 I bought several from reputable Japan sellers. But present day if I see something for sale in eBay I can find the exact same thing for less price including shipping from buyee Yahoo Japan, because remember the ebayers have to pay the eBay about 13% to sell something. Whereas in Japan it I don't know what they pay but it's got to be much less for them to list things for 10 bucks starting roughly and then nobody's interested in it and I win and then if it's a large boombox I'll pay anywheres between $50 to $100 for shipping. That has been my experience except for maybe the very few extremely large like m90s and the like sized boomboxes have cost a little bit more. But then hey I've got those and you don't LOL.
I've heard stories of scams but for me it's non-existant. They products are always packaged nicely, some even have notes or something like highly-regarded tea bags. My one bad sale story is I bought some AIWA 22 Stuff and a AKAI U5 showed up, same setup with tuner/amp/tape deck. The seller was so mortified that he sent me the AIWA at no charge and let me keep the AKAI.
