Please Help me buy a pachinko machine.

[Goobie777]

Hey guys, I'm stationed here and Japan and decided I would like to make my first pachinko purchase. I would like to know nice knowing if there is any physical sores or something like that I could buy from. I am confused with yahoo auctions too. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

[alucard7x7]

There are sites like rakuten.com where you can browse vendors of pachinko machines. They can ship to you if you are stationed there in Japan.

[emmadog]

Bunch of threads in here about YJA (yahoo Japan auctions). In short, you can't buy direct from them because they won't ship outside of Japan so those of us that use them utilize a proxy bidder that buys on your behalf and then ships it to you. Since you're in Japan then you may be able to buy direct but you'd need to set up an account with them. It's probably like having an eBay account.