1/64 Model Collectors Thread

[AOS-]

Word I'm totally switching over too. BRB


Edit: 3.5% Deposit fee. There's the catch.... They take your money upfront first. Either way I want to see how the numbers work out compared to WhiteRabbitExpress.

Edit: Hmm... This is interesting. No record indicating that it was Paypal, but I added some money to the wallet and found I was actually being charged more than 3.5%

I put in 22039 JPY, which on their end said 280 CAD. I have been billed that amount in CAD on Paypal, no Paypal currency conversion was done.

If I reverse the order of numbers and conversions 280 CAD converts to 23675.82 JPY (Windows 10 calculator's currency rates).

Maybe I'm doing this math thing wrong, but let me play around with this.


Edit:

22039 + 3.5% = 22810.36 JPY = 269.75 CAD

Even accounting for ever-changing rates, I'm still being charged roughly 10 CAD more in the end. :\

 

[a6m5]

Greenlight really milking those Nissan molds.

They just make your eyes roll with this stuff, and not just on JDM.

Nissan Torque.

👍

The S600 Dunlop features in my top 10 desert island picks.

Do you have a list?

Not my picture. Just a random photo taken from Google.

Just going by how he's holding that camera, he seems to have really nice butt.....

More Ford CM's and a Toyota. Only missing one from ss. 9 now.

Pretty impressive CM's collection by now, isn't it!? Good stuff! :tup:

Maybe I'm doing this math thing wrong

You are Asian.

 

[Spacegoat]

Apparently it’s 1/43... New ‘Tomica Premium RS’ line. Boo....

Bugger. Shouldn't have gotten my hopes up.

You are Asian.

Spoiler

 

[Apok]

Pretty impressive CM's collection by now, isn't it!? Good stuff! :tup:

It's getting there

 

[SVX]

Word I'm totally switching over too. BRB


Edit: 3.5% Deposit fee. There's the catch.... They take your money upfront first. Either way I want to see how the numbers work out compared to WhiteRabbitExpress.

Edit: Hmm... This is interesting. No record indicating that it was Paypal, but I added some money to the wallet and found I was actually being charged more than 3.5%

I put in 22039 JPY, which on their end said 280 CAD. I have been billed that amount in CAD on Paypal, no Paypal currency conversion was done.

If I reverse the order of numbers and conversions 280 CAD converts to 23675.82 JPY (Windows 10 calculator's currency rates).

Maybe I'm doing this math thing wrong, but let me play around with this.


Edit:

22039 + 3.5% = 22810.36 JPY = 269.75 CAD

Even accounting for ever-changing rates, I'm still being charged roughly 10 CAD more in the end. :\

That's a PayPal issue, due to their very broken exchange rate. I have the issue a lot - the way to minimise it is to just buy your credit in yen. I've done the math and it's the cheapest, I think- at least for me, because I can't buy my own NZD currency. Places like Buyee don't make you pay up front, but the prices are even more blown up.

The easiest way is to just buy so much that they give you a 50,000 yen credit, like yours truly... *nervous laugh

 

[CodeRedR51]

Yay finally.

 

[ScottPuss20]

Tomica Premium Bull

Apparently it’s 1/43... New ‘Tomica Premium RS’ line. Boo....

Oh come on! Still going to buy it.

 

[AOS-]

...to just buy your credit in yen.

Not sure how this works.

Is that where you're adding funds from your bank to your Paypal wallet and then converting to JPY, or selecting Credit Card directly in the Add Funds page?

 

[domalorite]

Do you have a list?

I did make one. But paused after writing more than two paragraphs I’ll try and dig it out again.

 

[Gotbeefboy564]

Yay finally.

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Seen them at a lot of stores now. No cargo carriers series except for the transit.

 

[CodeRedR51]

Seen them at a lot of stores now. No cargo carriers series except for the transit.

Well if I want to find anything anymore I have to go to Phoenix and I only do that once a month so I might be a bit behind. I did find this series a while ago but the Audi was always missing.

 

[SVX]

Is that where you're adding funds from your bank to your Paypal wallet and then converting to JPY, or selecting Credit Card directly in the Add Funds page?

I didn't even know there was a credit card option PayPal every time for me. Just purchasing it in Yen.

 

[AerodyManiac]

All this discussion about Zenmarket, and here I am still using Buyee for whatever products I bought from Japan.

Seriously though, doesn’t Buyee feature all of the items listed for sale at Yahoo JP Auctions because they are the official partner or something else? I just tried entering the same keywords on both websites’ search engines, but the results returned by Zenmarket is significantly fewer than those of Buyee, and I couldn’t find what I want on Zenmarket. Or am I using it incorrectly?

 

[SVX]

All this discussion about Zenmarket, and here I am still using Buyee for whatever products I bought from Japan.

Seriously though, doesn’t Buyee feature all of the items listed for sale at Yahoo JP Auctions because they are the official partner or something else? I just tried entering the same keywords on both websites’ search engines, but the results returned by Zenmarket is significantly fewer than those of Buyee, and I couldn’t find what I want on Zenmarket. Or am I using it incorrectly?

I started out with Buyee, but the fees were expensive and the customer service slow and rude. I still use it for searching though as it's got the best engine/translation I've come across.

 

[a6m5]

I did make one. But paused after writing more than two paragraphs I’ll try and dig it out again.

Awesome. Your collection has grown quite a bit since, and I know how difficult it can be narrowing it down to ten cars from a large collection.

 

[AerodyManiac]

I started out with Buyee, but the fees were expensive and the customer service slow and rude. I still use it for searching though as it's got the best engine/translation I've come across.

Personally I don’t think Buyee was all that expensive, as it charges you ~1000 yen at most for its services, and you can actually chop 500 yen off it if you don’t need the insurance and inspection. As for the customer service, I asked questions once to the staff, and they don’t come across as rude or slow at all - in fact quite the opposite, as I got a reply (and action) within a day after my email was sent, so I was quite impressed.

They’ve probably improved their customer services since the last time you used it, though, if your previous judgment was right.

 

[AOS-]

Well then:

 

[SVX]

Personally I don’t think Buyee was all that expensive, as it charges you ~1000 yen at most for its services, and you can actually chop 500 yen off it if you don’t need the insurance and inspection. As for the customer service, I asked questions once to the staff, and they don’t come across as rude or slow at all - in fact quite the opposite, as I got a reply (and action) within a day after my email was sent, so I was quite impressed.

They’ve probably improved their customer services since the last time you used it, though, if your previous judgment was right.

350 is a lot when they don't really do anything, ZenMarket re-boxes your item- Buyee just puts a shipping label on it. Then you factor in the 1000 JPY per a consolidation (ZenMarket is free), Buyee's inflated exchange rate, etc, it's quite expensive.

It's not even been a year since I stopped using them, so I doubt there's been any improvements. The regular stuff is fine but when I imported a camera it took an extra month to be sorted after it was mistakeningly sent with the battery removed. It took days before stuff would actually happen.

 

[GTboyz]

 

[CodeRedR51]

The R32 looks interesting.

 

[BLiTZ]

R32 looks good (though still not a fan of the side graphics) I wonder if part of the Nissan licence mandates that their cars have to have head/tail light tampos as most first releases seem to have them?

 

[domalorite]

Well then

Hopefully I can pick up the Tarmac version this Thursday

 

[yabiggoose]

Found a complete 5/5 car Eurospeed (R8, Alfa, 190, 993 GT2 and M1 Procar) set today....at the supermarket. So I got it. No pics because cbf lol

 

[Daniel008]

Has been quite a while.
Tomica

 

[MedigoFlame]

Ended up buying the Kyosho Lexus RC F/LC500h set.

 

[AOS-]

So what's your asking price on your dupes?! Tell all!

 

[domalorite]

 

[GTboyz]

So Honda Series has finally come to my country

 

[Daniel008]

Matchbox Datsun X Tomica

 

[GTboyz]

I pre ordered another Inno64 model, gosh i don't even know if these models are worth it.