From: Adam Skalny shogi sk> 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 ------------------------------------------------------------------- Hallo Daniel! Thank You very much for answer. I am lucky that nobody can see me dancing around with joy about your answer -- except my sixty coworkers:-) How about payment? I saw small icon of MasterCard on the web page. Did you use card too? How long it took from order to delivering ordered goods, please? Best regards Adam Skalny > > Hello Adam. > > I bought my own shogi pieces there a few years ago. I was able to > conplete the order with my very limited japanese, but mostly with the > help of online translation and an electronic dictionary. So, it can be > done. At that time they sent after the automatic confirmation another > mail in English to make sure, that that order was indeed what I had > intended. > > Very helpful in selecting the pieces was this site > http://www.ikechang.com/shogi1e.htm. By switching back and forth to the > corresponding japanese page you can figure out the description of the > pieces to know, what you are actually ordering. > > Keep in mind, that the price will go up considerably: I think, Japanese > sale taxes will be added, but irc those are only about 6-10%. Postage > fee should be about 30 Euro; that hardly matters if you are really going > for 400-Euro-koma. The biggest chunk will probably be the import tax - > in Germany it was 25%, and that is on the total, including the postage. > ;-) > > Daniel Toebbens > > Adam Skalny schrieb: > >> Few months ago, I've "found" quite nice shop >> (http://www.rakuten.co.jp/shogi/index.html) with prices that looks >> reasonable -- looks reasonable trough the barrier of my total Japanese >> language incompetence. I would like to order some medium quality >> (~50000Y) shogi set from that shop in (hopefully near) future. Do You >> have any experiences with ordering from this (or any other on line) >> shop and dispatching goods to Europe? Is it even possible? How much >> does postage cost? Prices published on that page are probably w/o tax, >> aren't they? Reply on letter in my poor English hasn't come back, yet >> (after more than a month). >> --^---------------------------------------------------------------- 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 --^----------------------------------------------------------------