Service fee by marketplace
| Buying from | Fee |
|---|---|
| Yahoo! Auctions | ¥500 per item |
| Mercari Japan | ¥500 per item |
| Rakuten Rakuma | ¥500 per item |
| Amazon.co.jp | ¥500 per item |
| Rakuten Ichiba | ¥500 per item |
| a ZenMarket recommended store | ¥500 per item |
| any Japanese online shop | ¥500 per item |
Other charges
- Payment / deposit fee: none
- Packing / consolidation: included
- Free storage: 60 days
- Export clearance fee: ¥2,800 above ¥200,000
When FROM JAPAN is actually the cheapest
Fee tables do not answer that on their own, so here is the same set of orders priced through all five services, showing where FROM JAPAN lands:
| Order | FROM JAPAN | Total | Beaten by |
|---|---|---|---|
| one ¥10,000 item, 1kg, to the United States | 2nd | ¥16,500 | Doorzo ¥16,300 |
| three separate items from one shop | 3rd | ¥17,500 | Buyee ¥16,500 |
| a heavy 3kg parcel | 2nd | ¥21,500 | Doorzo ¥21,300 |
| an expensive ¥100,000 item | 2nd | ¥106,500 | Doorzo ¥106,300 |
| a light 200g order to Taiwan | 2nd | ¥13,223 | Doorzo ¥13,023 |
FROM JAPAN does not come out cheapest on any of these five, which does not make it a bad choice (what it bundles in for the money is covered above). If price is the only thing you care about, though, the comparison pages below will show you which service to use instead.
FROM JAPAN in each of the 9 destinations
On the same ¥10,000, 1 kg Mercari order, FROM JAPAN is the cheapest (or joint cheapest) of the five for 0 destinations out of 9. The postage is the same whichever service you use, so the differences below come from fees and from how each service handles tax.
| Ship to | FROM JAPAN | Rank | Cheapest instead |
|---|---|---|---|
| United States | ¥16,500 | 2nd | Doorzo, ¥200 less |
| Canada | ¥15,600 | 2nd | Doorzo, ¥200 less |
| United Kingdom | ¥18,480 | 2nd | Doorzo, ¥200 less |
| Australia | ¥17,160 | 4th | Doorzo, ¥320 less |
| Germany | ¥18,336 | 2nd | Doorzo, ¥200 less |
| France | ¥18,480 | 2nd | Doorzo, ¥200 less |
| Singapore | ¥15,642 | 3rd | Doorzo, ¥308 less |
| Taiwan | ¥14,010 | 2nd | Doorzo, ¥200 less |
| Hong Kong | ¥14,350 | 2nd | Doorzo, ¥200 less |
As the item gets more expensive
FROM JAPAN's own charges stay at ¥500 whatever the item costs, because none of them is a percentage of the price. The table uses the same 1 kg Mercari order to the United Kingdom at four prices; "own charges" excludes the postage and the tax, which do not depend on the service.
| Item price | FROM JAPAN's own charges | Total | Against the cheapest |
|---|---|---|---|
| ¥3,000 | ¥500 | ¥10,080 | +¥300 vs Doorzo |
| ¥10,000 | ¥500 | ¥18,480 | +¥200 vs Doorzo |
| ¥50,000 | ¥500 | ¥66,480 | +¥200 vs Doorzo |
| ¥100,000 | ¥500 | ¥126,480 | +¥200 vs Doorzo |
Storage, and what happens if you leave things too long
FROM JAPAN stores a purchase free for 60 days from the moment it reaches their warehouse. This matters more than it sounds: the free window is what lets you win several auctions over a few weeks and ship them together in one box, which saves far more in postage than the storage costs.
Optional services you may end up paying for
- Photographs of the item before it ships: ¥500 for 3. On a second-hand auction purchase this is often the only way to find out what you actually bought before it leaves Japan.
- Repacking after the parcel is made up: from ¥1,500.
Import tax collected up front
- AU: GST 10%
- NZ: GST 15%
- SG: GST 9%
- MY: SST 10%
Where tax is collected up front you pay nothing extra when the parcel arrives, and you usually avoid the courier's own customs handling charge.