garywright
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good luck
I would caution anybody against simply buying a costly guitar from Japan on faith and a few photos.
This purchase of the True Historic 1959 Dark Burst has been a disaster of dispute, wasted time and lost sleep, one which I shall write up in a different thread in coming days.
If you can go through a known and trusted figure, great, but based on my experience, do not do this on your own without direct support.
I would caution anybody against simply buying a costly guitar from Japan on faith and a few photos.
This purchase of the True Historic 1959 Dark Burst has been a disaster of dispute, wasted time and lost sleep, one which I shall write up in a different thread in coming days.
If you can go through a known and trusted figure, great, but based on my experience, do not do this on your own without direct support.
Duane,
I have been following a red M2M True Historic 58' LP on E-bay. Its being offered by "fun-japanproduct".
Curious if you might know what shop it's at? Any help would be greatly appreciated.
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No duty taxes with either guitars.
Anyone needs help getting anything from Japan give me a shout! I live in Shibuya and know all the shops, read and speak Japanese and I know my guitars!
Any good or bad experiences buying from Japan?
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Well, now you can easily buy specials from japan but definitely there are CITES Certification an other issues. But there are plenty of proxy service and fulfillment service provider using their service you can buy directly from the relevant website. Like Ishibashi Music is one of my popular, they have the site in english too, apart from that when accessing website from outside japan, worldshopping titled banner will popup, u can buy and get it delivered. even when buying from yahoo auction, you can use services like zen market, buyee, from japan
Just a word of warning, when I was doing my due diligence on purchasing from Japan, I discovered there are a lot of disreputable sellers on eBay and other sites that list guitars available elsewhere. I don't know if they're all scams, or if they are just acting as middle-men purchasers to buy something from another shop if someone tries to buy it from them.
I ended up with zero issues buying my R8 from Japan. I had originally found it on eBay, but thanks to watermarked photos, I tracked it down from the real seller's website (Nico-Nico Guitars). They were easy to work with, handled the CITES paperwork in a couple of weeks, and updated me when it shipped. I would highly recommend Nico-Nico Guitars.