New!! Yahoo Auction Agent Service

New!! Yahoo Auction Agent Service

We hope you are enjoying your holidays and have had an amazing start to the New Year. Year 2009 has started and I am wondering what sort of the year it is going to be.

Last year was a leap year and we had the Olympics, US presidential election and the worldwide economic turmoil started with the financial crisis in the USA. This crisis even affected countries such as Europe and Japan which have no direct connection to sub-prime loans and it does not look like to be ending soon. It is really serious in the automobile industry that we are in. It started with the US’ Big Three and now Toyota plunged into the red for the first time in history. We cannot see the bottom of this yet.

In Japan, manufacturing companies are cancelling their contracts with temporary workers from agencies when they had to close their factories down for a while. Thousands of people started looking for new jobs, which is the biggest social issue at the moment. I have never watched such a scene on TV, people are struggling to survive on a day-to-day basis in this particular country: so I guess it is a depression era which only comes every 100 years.

However, we cannot blame everything on this. We are going to forge a solid footing in our business by providing excellent service and creating new business models. As the first “new” service for the year, we are now ready to assist you to get what you want from “Yahoo Auction”.

Yahoo Auction, affiliated company of the US Yahoo, is an on-line auction site run by Yahoo Japan Co. Ltd. I did mention this when I wrote about how to buy used cars in Japan but this time we have developed the translated site in English and Russian so you now do not have to try translating it by yourself. You can order from our website for us to bid on your behalf. I am sure you will like this convenience.

In the USA, “Ebay” is the most popular but in Japan, it is “Yahoo Auction”. Although Ebay tried to break into the Japanese market, Yahoo Auction had such a big presence Ebay had to pull back because of Yahoo’s unbeatable popularity. On Yahoo Japan, individual members and shops who pay monthly subscriptions can freely list items on the internet and others buy them by auction. (Some items also have a “Buy Now” function.) Not for my business but for my personal use, I have been buying a book shelf, computer software, car parts, etc. through them. I admit I am a heavy user. Some items are listed from US$1 and compared with car prices, they are heaps cheaper per item; so you can try it easily. Most items which individual members list are in excellent conditions and reasonably priced and some of them can be quite rare. I think Japanese people have stopped wasting materials. You might find some good bargains there, so please have a look. You never know!

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To use our Yahoo Auction Agent Service, customers are required to pay a bit more than the total cost of the bidding price and other costs (JPC’s fees, postage in Japan and to your place by EMS), in advance. On Yahoo Auction, different sellers have different conditions and costs of freight will depend on where they live; so we will estimate it roughly at first and re-calculate the actual cost after successful bids and any difference will be shown on your “My Page” of our website as “Balance”. If it is refund, you can use it when you use this service again; otherwise we will send it back to you using Paypal.

When you buy a car from us and if you buy parts from Yahoo Auction, we can send the parts with the document to save the total freight cost. One of our customers in Russia started this business over there and is making more than US$50,000/month. We have some large companies trying to franchise representative service business in Japan. I think it has a big potential in the future.

For dealers who are struggling to survive the recession because you cannot sell as many cars to make a profit, this site will be useful to start a side business. Or you can just use the service to get what you want as an individual. Please give it a try. Also if you find anything inconvenient, hard-to-use on the website or any suggestions, please let us know. We always appreciate feedback from you.



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