TA Goin' Strong

[rubberratt]

Looks like TA has a pretty steady flow of the most POPULAR modern pachinkos !!!

Jaws is now their #1 Seller ??? Wow !

http://search.ebay.com/jaws-pachinko...3aTB2Q3aUSQ3a2

[Youngjedi]

That would scare the crap outa me.

[Chris]

I would love a jaws as one of my next pachinkos, but unfortunately both of our UK suppliers have dried up

Looks like I might have to look at importing myself and that scares the crap out of me.

[rubberratt]

It's not so bad... just expensive ><

[compirate]

Samuraislot's moving to smaller quarters some time soon (I've offered to help them move, but am afraid I'd high-tail it out of there once the truck was loaded ), and I haven't heard that they're getting anything new any time soon, but they still have a warehouse full of good stuff. I think they've had this one up also, not sure if they have any more.

I believe Britain has a SAL agreement with Japan so they can ship a whole machine cheaper than we can, same as Canada.

We only have EMS for whole machines and EMS, SAL and Slo-Boat for the smaller stuff.

[luckymoey]

You can ship from YA to UK for not much more than buying local. A decent machine in the UK costs say £175 + £40 shipping. That's around $440 at todays exchange rates. SAL shipping from Japan for a whole machine is around $225. That leaves you around $215 or 22500 yen for the machine, commissions and packaging. Most good machines that have been coming out of the parlors for a few months cost around 15000 yen. Add in commissions, etc. and you can have the excitement of importing pretty much anything you want for about the same price.

[daverob]

You can ship from YA to UK for not much more than buying local...

Don't forget that you are pretty likely to get stung for import duty/VAT when it arrives in the UK as well. You might get away with it if the machine is declared with a low value, but typically it can add £40+ to the price of a machine.

You'll then have to add a mains transformer yourself, and you're unlikely to get any balls, trays. feet etc with the machine (and sometimes no dongle either!). So I'd budget a bit extra for these as well.

For a machine that sells in Japan for £50, you're likely to end up paying nearly £250 before it's sitting in your game room here in the UK. I had been considering starting a personal import service myself, now that the Doc is unable to offer this, but as a business the figures just don't add up unless the customers are willing to pay a serious premium for the latest machines.

[arbycoffee]

Truly spoken!!

You pay a premium to have the newist or brand new.

[luckymoey]

Don't get me wrong, I've bought more than my share of machines from Nik and Steve but they only have so many to choose from. I've imported a couple dozen machines/cells from Japan, and got hit for duty once when I declared the full value of the machine and shipping. All the other times the agent just marked as used pachinko with the value of the machine. There is a limited selection in the UK so if you are into the hobby don't be concerned with importing - after the 1st time you're in trouble.