Anyone have experience with Buyee?

[StrayGuitarist]

Recently found out about Buyee, a tool for ordering from Japanese auctions that takes care of international shipping and whatnot for you. Anyone have any experience with it?

 

[duwen]

Yeah, I've used it a few times and had no issues. I'd previously used ZenMarket but switched to Buyee because their fees were cheaper. I've not used Sendico (which is the proxy buying service that a whole bunch of YouTube channels I watch recommend), so that's another one that might be worth investigating.

 

[esmith13]

I bought about a dozen items from there to be delivered to the US. My word of advice to you if you plan to buy multiple items, big or small, is to try to buy them close enough together to use their bulk shipping service. When you do this, your items go from the seller to a buyee warehouse where they can stay for free for up to 30 days. once a bunch of stuff for you is there, you can have everything put in a single box (still individually packaged and bubble wrapped as well) and shipped for a flat rate to you.
It's really the only cost effective way to go with small and/or light items in quantities.

 

[RyanTheArchivist]

Recently found out about Buyee, a tool for ordering from Japanese auctions that takes care of international shipping and whatnot for you. Anyone have any experience with it?

It can be expensive, but I have had no damaged packages or anything like that. Basically even after the package arrives at their warehouse. they give you 30 days to pay for shipping before they start charging you for holding the package. Shipping fees vary quite a lot. Sometimes as cheap as $12. Sometimes as expensive as $80 for larger packages. It depends the size and weight of the package basically. I've bought from them dozens of times, and had no issues at all. I think this summarizes how much I enjoy the service. I may be a little addicted.

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I bought about a dozen items from there to be delivered to the US. My word of advice to you if you plan to buy multiple items, big or small, is to try to buy them close enough together to use their bulk shipping service. When you do this, your items go from the seller to a buyee warehouse where they can stay for free for up to 30 days. once a bunch of stuff for you is there, you can have everything put in a single box (still individually packaged and bubble wrapped as well) and shipped for a flat rate to you.
It's really the only cost effective way to go with small and/or light items in quantities.

Sadly they don't offer this for all packages. Most notably Yahoo Japan Auctions packages.

 

[Hulthemosa]

buyee overall is a great service for buying stuff from japan. i've used it a few times myself. however... shipping can and often will be very expensive. make sure you consolidate large orders to bring the cost down

 

[SylverReZ]

Never bought from Buyee before, looks like a marketplace similar to AliExpress and Temu. I got my items fine from those places, so it shouldn't be an issue ordering stuff from there.

 

[CMDreamer]

Never used any of the already mentioned options, but I've used the formerly known White Rabbit Express, now known as Japan Rabbit, and it offers 45 days free storage as well as many options to buy from Japan, including in-store pickup, Yahoo!Auctions, preorders and many more.

The users service is great and we can get an instant quote on their site, by adding the items link we want to buy, on their form.

 

[The Real Jdbye]

Recently found out about Buyee, a tool for ordering from Japanese auctions that takes care of international shipping and whatnot for you. Anyone have any experience with it?

I don't know about Buyee, but I know Sendico is quite popular. There are a lot of these sites. I haven't used them myself yet though. The cost only makes sense if you are buying expensive things or consolidating multiple orders.

 

[Przetrosz]

Buyee gives away various shipping fee coupons. They may only be available for specific platforms like Yahoo or Mercari, but if you have at least one purchase in your combined shipping that the coupon applies to, you can use it for the entire order.

 

[blaudjinn]

Good experience so far, but since Zenmarket added mercari in its buying options i stopped using it (lower fees)

 

[AkikoKumagara]

Never bought from Buyee before, looks like a marketplace similar to AliExpress and Temu. I got my items fine from those places, so it shouldn't be an issue ordering stuff from there.

It's not. It's proxy shipping from other sites/services. Comparable services are Tenso (who owns Buyee) and Neokyo.
I've used Buyee and Neokyo and have no major complaints about either one. The shipping option I used from Neokyo required signature verification, which my Buyee orders never have.

Just take care to make it worth your while and order everything you want in one go and have it shipped together to save on shipping costs. Also, Buyee charges for consolidating packages, while Neokyo (and probably some other services) do not.

 

[SylverReZ]

It's not. It's proxy shipping from other sites/services. Comparable services are Tenso (who owns Buyee) and Neokyo.
I've used Buyee and Neokyo and have no major complaints about either one. The shipping option I used from Neokyo required signature verification, which my Buyee orders never have.

Just take care to make it worth your while and order everything you want in one go and have it shipped together to save on shipping costs. Also, Buyee charges for consolidating packages, while Neokyo (and probably some other services) do not.

Okay, but that post has been made over 5-months ago.

 

[AkikoKumagara]

My input is just as relevant as it would have been five months ago.

 

[Blondiez78]

Buyee gives away various shipping fee coupons. They may only be available for specific platforms like Yahoo or Mercari, but if you have at least one purchase in your combined shipping that the coupon applies to, you can use it for the entire order.

Buyee has proven to be a reliable service for purchasing items from Japan.

 

[RyanTheArchivist]

Buyee has proven to be a reliable service for purchasing items from Japan.

Yeah when it comes to stuff through Mercari and Yahoo they are definitely the go to. If you need to make purchases from other Japanese retailers I suggest going through ZenMarket.

 

[ELY_M]

Do we have any choices on who to use for shipping carrier??? I would prefer them to use UPS Shipping as possible.

USPS is very short staffed and they seem not sending any mails for long time. I have ZERO trust in USPS.

 

[RyanTheArchivist]

Do we have any choices on who to use for shipping carrier??? I would prefer them to use UPS Shipping as possible.

USPS is very short staffed and they seem not sending any mails for long time. I have ZERO trust in USPS.

Yes they give a list of choices and list the prices and expected time of delivery.