From: Daniel Toebbens uibk ac at> Date: 30 may 2006 Subject: Re: Few questions about buying shogi sets Your free subscription is supported by today's sponsor: ------------------------------------------------------------------- Is your computer freezing up or slowing down? Repair corrupt files and harmful errors - protect your PC Take a 2-minute PC health check-up at no charge! http://click.topica.com/= caaePuwa2i6YsbnuqMaa/PC Powerscan ------------------------------------------------------------------- Hello Adam. Adam Skalny schrieb: > Few months ago, I've "found" quite nice shop=20 > (http://www.rakuten.co.jp/shogi/index.html) with prices that looks=20 > reasonable -- looks reasonable trough the barrier of my total Japanese= =20 > language incompetence. I would like to order some medium quality=20 > (~50000Y) shogi set from that shop in (hopefully near) future. Do You=20 > have any experiences with ordering from this (or any other on line)=20 > shop and dispatching goods to Europe? Is it even possible? How much=20 > does postage cost? Prices published on that page are probably w/o tax,= =20 > aren't they? Reply on letter in my poor English hasn't come back, yet=20 > (after more than a month). > I bought my own shogi pieces there a few years ago. I was able to=20 conplete the order with my very limited japanese, but mostly with the=20 help of online translation and an electronic dictionary. So, it can be=20 done. At that time they sent after the automatic confirmation another=20 mail in English to make sure, that that order was indeed what I had=20 intended. Very helpful in selecting the pieces was this site=20 http://www.ikechang.com/shogi1e.htm. By switching back and forth to the=20 corresponding japanese page you can figure out the description of the=20 pieces to know, what you are actually ordering. Keep in mind, that the price will go up considerably: I think, Japanese=20 sale taxes will be added, but irc those are only about 6-10%. Postage=20 fee should be about 30 Euro; that hardly matters if you are really going= =20 for 400-Euro-koma. The biggest chunk will probably be the import tax -=20 in Germany it was 25%, and that is on the total, including the postage. ;-)= Daniel Toebbens --^---------------------------------------------------------------- This email was sent to: = shogi-l shogi net EASY UNSUBSCRIBE click here: http://topica.com/u/?a2i6Ys.= bnuqMa.= c2hvZ2kt Or send an email to: shogi-unsubscribe topica com For Topica's complete suite of email marketing solutions visit: http://www.topica.com/?p=3DTEXFOOTER --^----------------------------------------------------------------