
stratjacket
Well-known member
Interesting process for buying, but it arrived safely today. I found it on Digimart (a Japanese site that consolidates many stores online). I used ZenMarket to facilitate.
For those who may be interested in buying from Japan, here was the process, cost and timing:
So here it is. I love natural Mahogany guitars and this one is a beauty. Looks like a 1 piece mahogany body, almost new, only a few rashes on the back. Plays and feels great.
For those who may be interested in buying from Japan, here was the process, cost and timing:
- Created an account on ZenMarket and pasted the URL of the Guitar from the Digimart site into zenmarkets search.
- Zenmarket verifies the guitar is still available and the price. Took about 30 minutes.
- Once verified, I purchased the guitar through ZenMarket in Yen.
- I paid Zenmarket and ZenMarket paid the store.
- I used Apple Pay.
- After about 5 days I get a notice that ZenMarket (based in Osaka Japan) received the guitar.
- They gave several shipping options and I chose EMS.
- The shipping cost was 20,000 Yen or roughly $130 US.
- They packed it well, insured it and shipped it off, which took them about 4 or 5 days to do.
- It arrived today
- ZenMarket charges a flat rate of 500 yen (about $3.26) to do this, no matter what the size or cost of the item you buy. There's no markup or percentage fee on the guitar, you pay whatever the cost was from Digimart.
- Full timeline - I bought the guitar on January 9, it arrived January 30.
- The biggest benefit, with the Yen exchange rate right now, I paid $1100 for this guitar and $130 shipping. It goes for ~$2,000-$2500 used and over $3k new in the US.
So here it is. I love natural Mahogany guitars and this one is a beauty. Looks like a 1 piece mahogany body, almost new, only a few rashes on the back. Plays and feels great.