importing from Japan

[new in town]

Express Mail Service（EMS）
List of EMS Size and Weight Limits

How big a Pachi can I ship EMS from Japan to the USA ! ! !

Country...+++Weight(kg)...+++Max length...+++ length + Circumference
USA...+++***^^30...+++***^1.5m or less...+++^^^2.75m or less

1 kg = 2.20462262 pounds

1 m = 3.280839895 feet

Weight : 30 kg = 66.1386786 pounds

Max length : 1.5m = 4.921259843 feet

Length + Circumference : 2.75m = 9.022309711 feet

[TilionMtl]

Using Japamart.com
I ordered a Super Stadium cell, shipped using surface parcel (boat), the shipping cost: $86.08
Then a junk frame, not recent, not old, shipped using surface parcel, shipping cost: $32.74

the junk frame seem to have most of the hardware, but it's not a recent one, but not a vintage. funny that it's way less expensive than the cell.

Still waiting for Kiai to ship horror mansion pachinko. ordered it on November 09, on December 03 Kiai got it, but still didn't had time to ship it. I will let you know if I ever receive it or not.

If someone receive something from Japamart.com let us know if it seem to have been repacked/verified or not.

[Montana]

If someone receive something from Japamart.com let us know if it seem to have been repacked/verified or not.

The battle counters I won on 12-27-09 just arrived in custioms at Berlin. That is less than two weeks - the guys at Japamart are really fast! Once I got the package out of customs I will report if everything is okay.

Still waiting for Kiai to ship horror mansion pachinko. ordered it on November 09, on December 03 Kiai got it, but still didn't had time to ship it.

I assume you paid for this already ...

[outdoorenth]

Still waiting for Kiai to ship horror mansion pachinko. ordered it on November 09, on December 03 Kiai got it, but still didn't had time to ship it. I will let you know if I ever receive it or not.

So happy for you that you finally found one!

[TilionMtl]

So happy for you that you finally found one!

well, I still continue to search for Horror Mansion pachinko, didn't get news from Kiai since a while, Paypal refund time limit is over because the payment has been sent on november 09 and it's too late for refund, so well, I hope that some day Kiai will ship the machine, he have it since december 03, but I continue to search, for now I'm considering it lost of money.

About japamart.com got a message today about the shipping cost of the junk frame:

We are deeply sorry that we miscalculated the shipping cost for package
You already paid $32.74.
Could you please send us the shortage of $83.51 (=116.25-32.74)

well, I thought I was lucky..

[dattia]

Awwwww Tilion You will have your Horror Mansion one day, and when you do, I hope it is the best machine ever!!!

[TilionMtl]

Awwwww Tilion You will have your Horror Mansion one day, and when you do, I hope it is the best machine ever!!!

Ahhhhh, you're so sweet dattia

Yup, and I may stop spending money here and there on YJA for other stuff. lol. Right now I'm checking YJA regularly for Horror Mansion, and I ending finding new stuff and wanting new stuff heheheheh. now my wanted list in the auction section here is growing lol

[Montana]

I just got the battle counters out of customs

Everything was well packed. Nothing to complain here.

I will definitely do more business with them. Yesterday I won a Mediterranean See Story... Let's see how they will handle this...

[new in town]

CONGRATS ! ! !

[Montana]

Thanks

One of the Battle Counters is already installed...

I had to disassemble it to get rid of the unneeded cables and connectors...

[MrGneiss]

Very nice!!

[hanabi]

That battle counter really looks at home in your Star Wars pachinko cabinet

Perfect!!

[snake1111]

i love the battle counter in the star wars. nice work!

[Montana]

Yesterday I won a Mediterranean See Story... Let's see how they will handle this...

I want to warn everyone who considers to buy pachinkos with Japamart. Don't even think about it! When they get an item which is over the 30 kg limit their friendliness will fade into aggression: Japamart will put all your deposit on hold and block your bidding account without any warning!

After I mailed them about my account problems I just got this:

We prohibit bidding on an item which is over the size and weight limit of Japan Post.

Item # 126500770 exceeds the limit and we have no choice but to send it using Fedex.
We are afraid that we cannot allow you to use our bidding service until we ship it out successfully.

Sincerely,
Ryoji Yoshida - Japamart.com

They don't even tell you the actual size and weight of the item. I had to mail them again and after a few days got this:

The item does not exceed the size limit.
However, it weighed more than 34 kg and is over the weight limit.
We will let you know when we have the other item (b101601304).

The other item was an Evangelion 4 - only the machine without any balls.

To make things short: I contacted Kiai, he would be so nice to ship the two machines for Japamart to me. Japamart refuses this because of Paypal rules - they want to force me to do a money / bank transfer before they will ship the items to Kiai. I asked them to send me photos of the dubious 34 kg pachinko before I go through the hassle of a "unsecure" money transfer. They didn't reply to this of course...

Last week the Evangelion 4 arrived at Japamart and they mailed me for a shipping request (this is an automatic procedure). I asked for sea mail but got no response (invoice).

Today I wrote a friendly reminder regarding the photos and their reply was very short:

Thank you for using our services.
The total for the shipping invoice # sh24803 is US$ 1071.18 .

Invoice # sh24803
Shipping method: Fedex
Final price : US$ 1071.18

This is for the Mediterranean See Story.

Thank you for using our services.
The total for the shipping invoice # sh24804 is US$ 977.79 .

Invoice # sh24804
Shipping method: Fedex
Final price : US$ 977.79

This is obviously for the Evangelion 4 (but can't tell since they don't gave me any information regarding the weight and size).

I mailed them back, that I will not pay the invoices and that I can arrange a money transfer via Kiais Paypal account so that they can ship the pachinkos to his verified address. Otherwise they should dump the machines... to be continued...

[snake1111]

thank you for this information.

not a good example of good customer care

[FireAndIce]

that's why I use them for small items and Kiai for large items. also, japamarts dollar to yen conversion is 83Y=$1, while on xe.com its 91Y=$1

[monkeyboy]

WOW $1000 to ship a Pachinko!!!

Using Kiai it's more like $400. I'll definatly be staying clear of JapanMart.

[Montana]

also, japamarts dollar to yen conversion is 83Y=$1, while on xe.com its 91Y=$1

Yeah, that is their hidden additional 10 % comission on anything.

After all I will not do anymore business with them. Just filed a claim with Paypal after I got another one of those ridiculous mails from Japamart this morning.

[mudfud]

thanks for sharing this nightmare... hope it all works out for you.

it's good to have a forum like this where we can tell our experiences with vendors, good and bad, to the group.

[dattia]

thanks for sharing this nightmare... hope it all works out for you.

it's good to have a forum like this where we can tell our experiences with vendors, good and bad, to the group.

Yes, that is what this place is all about and it is a learning process every day.