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The other thing they do is say the thing you've enquired about isn't available, but they can sell you something similar....
I've never heard anything to suggest any of the dealers are actually crooked - I don't think they'd take your money then not send you anything. But it is very frustrating seeing endless pictures of things you can't actually buy. As soon as I see an item's in Japan I think oh well, fuck that, it doesn't exist.
It's all pretty academic anyway, the prices are ridiculous nowadays, I can't imagine anyone being prepared to pay that much.
even on little things from japan (£20ish) you will be charged a flat rate of about ten pounds for royal mail to processs that tax charge, then whatever unpaid taxes on top.
so if you buy something for £20 (about that) add £10 for royal mail and another £5 for hmrc, if taxes aren't included and prepaid then those bargains can suddely seem deeply unbargainly.
if you are talking hundreds of pounds for a guitar check tax small print and do careful maths.
... and then CITES will rear its ugly head if there's any rosewood involved...
Those japanese sellers, as someone as mentioned, don't hold the guitar. So much so that I had to talk one of them out of removing an ad for a guitar, I had in my possession for at least 2 weeks.
Tax is tax and duty is duty, you seldom avoid these and have very little room for discussion as most shippers end up with Parcel Farce as the UK end of the equation. I just make sure they are using the correct commodity code.
For me, its usually been about getting something I want less about a cheap guitar.
A prime example was The M Series MIJ Larry Carlton Tele with Interlock neck joint 24 frets on a Gibson Scale. I got it for 600 quid after it did not sell on eBay for 1200 found the seller via google images and a lot of searching. The duty and 20% pumped it up but for me it was worth every penny. As probably the closest thing I would get to own what for many years was a guitar I coveted.
One of such proxies is rinkya, you also have fromjapan or buyee, to give you a couple of examples.
As an extremely shameless plug... I'm currently selling 3 very high end japanese les pauls here on the forum.
Hope this makes sense - kids runnin around and brain not working to full capacity
it's neither one or the other... you simply talk to their support guys on the chat and ask them to increase your cap/limit for bidding, because the items you want to bid on demand higher values then your current limit. And they just change the setting on your account for you.
It doesn't require you buying credit or paying for anything upfront.