Buying and Importing from Japan

[Cornwall Steve]

4 hours ago, Gizmo said:

 

If you can stomach the poor quality of the bevel routing....Looks like something from an Aliexpress seller! 

 

 

 

 

@Cornwall Steve You can try Zenmarket  as a 3rd parry shipper (plenty of YT reviews and How to video on importing guitars using their services) 

 

Using something like Zen can save you a few Hundred £'s over the 3rd party ebay/reverb sellers, doing so will shift the postage risk to yourself, for example using Zen and surface shipping i can get a BTB865SC laned in the UK for about £700 'ish, 3rd party reverb/ebay sellers want £700+ for the same bass without shipping/VAT/Duty inc....so buying from them would give a landed cost of about £1k...but in doing so they take the risk of it getting damaged/missing in transit...risk/reward

 

GL   

Thank you. Not heard of Zen before however someone else suggested them too so I'll check them out.

[Owen]

13 hours ago, BigRedX said:

 Fernades Pie-zo Bass Gothic Hello Kitty Edition, 

I cannot be the only person who was wondering.

 

https://jp.mercari.com/item/m49617180061?srsltid=AfmBOopwopOvwLm9ct3NXxD1-0kez0V9BMlyuIv7nFNnArr-3_c9rEAr

[Owen]

Double post

Edited 12 hours ago by Owen

[Owen]

Triple post

Edited 12 hours ago by Owen

[fergs40]

Another satisfied Ishibashi customer here - in Ireland, but the customs and taxes charges and processes are very similar to the UK. Ishibashi went above and beyond, even when An Post didn’t…

 

 

[Cornwall Steve]

12 hours ago, pete.young said:

 

Many thanks Pete

[BigRedX]

10 hours ago, Cornwall Steve said:

Thanks. There are several for sale by Japanese vendors, hence the reason for my Post 

 

Have you doubled checked that they are actually different bases and not the one on Digimart being offered by various "middlemen".

[BigRedX]

10 hours ago, Owen said:

I cannot be the only person who was wondering.

 

https://jp.mercari.com/item/m49617180061?srsltid=AfmBOopwopOvwLm9ct3NXxD1-0kez0V9BMlyuIv7nFNnArr-3_c9rEAr

 

That's the one.

 

Here are some better photos of the one I actually owned:

 

IIRC it was sold on to someone in the UK so it should still be around.

 

Fernandes do lots of limited edition models with custom graphics for both the bass and guitar versions of this. You rarely see any of them outside of Japan.

Edited 1 hour ago by BigRedX