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Guide

How to buy used lenses from Japan

Set lithium to none for a lens. Unspecified assumes a camera body.

Lens, not body

Map Camera documents two overseas routes: the eBay store, and Buyee. The domestic shipping page is not an export service. A lens does not raise the 100 V question. It can still be expensive enough for Buyee's postal brokerage fee once merchandise is over ¥200,000.

Condition grades on Japanese auction listings are disputed by working photographers on Reddit. Read the listing. This tool will not grade glass for you.

Steps

  1. Copy the yen price. Read the price on the listing yourself. JapanLanded does not fetch the page.
  2. Weigh it, or say you didn't. Enter grams. If you leave weight blank, the tool uses an unsourced placeholder and labels it.
  3. Read pay-now separately from arrival. The partial sum is not a landed total. Duty amounts are not calculated.
  4. Check whether it can leave Japan. Lithium batteries, alcohol, and 100 V gear each have their own note. The result is not a customs clearance.
  5. Order on the proxy's own site. Outbound links are public pages until affiliate programs are enrolled. We never take payment.

Questions

Why did the tool mention a battery when I priced a lens?

The cameras category assumes an installed battery unless you set lithium to none. The sample on this page sets none.

Sources

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