Redstar.co.jp

[neko]

This seems to be a business that imports things and sells them within Japan, somewhat like ncsx and conics in the US.

Why is ED warning people about them, is there some evidence that it is a scam?

 

[urjaman]

Why is ED warning people about them, is there some evidence that it is a scam?

"Why I cannot tell they're scam when it comes to other items, I can tell you they haven't any deal with us about the Pandora, so please be careful."
- ED (in the blog post).

I think that means that they havent preordered any pandora's. Thus either its a scam or they will try to preorder pandoras as people order them from there, but that would mean that either it must be more expensive than getting them straight from the source (ED or craig), or they would need to have some deal with them, that they dont.
I dont personally understand that website (language and font display problem ), so I dunno.

 

[Tom`]

Why is ED warning people about them, is there some evidence that it is a scam?

"Why I cannot tell they're scam when it comes to other items, I can tell you they haven't any deal with us about the Pandora, so please be careful."
- ED (in the blog post).

I think that means that they havent preordered any pandora's. Thus either its a scam or they will try to preorder pandoras as people order them from there, but that would mean that either it must be more expensive than getting them straight from the source (ED or craig), or they would need to have some deal with them, that they dont.
I dont personally understand that website (language and font display problem ), so I dunno.

That was my understanding from reading the machine translation as well, but it's unclear. Anyway it's probably cheaper for people in Japan to order direct, since they're adding a ¥15,000 markup.

 

[mindlord]

This seems to be a business that imports things and sells them within Japan, somewhat like ncsx and conics in the US.

Why is ED warning people about them, is there some evidence that it is a scam?

Because to OP Ltd's knowledge Redstar has neither worked out a deal with OP Ltd to acquire any sort of stock of Pandoras nor have they pre-ordered any through Craig or Ed's shop. They appear to just be taking people's money with a promise of delivery that they can't possibly currently fill.

Edit: ninjas

 

[neko]

Why is ED warning people about them, is there some evidence that it is a scam?

"Why I cannot tell they're scam when it comes to other items, I can tell you they haven't any deal with us about the Pandora, so please be careful."
- ED (in the blog post).

I think that means that they havent preordered any pandora's. Thus either its a scam or they will try to preorder pandoras as people order them from there, but that would mean that either it must be more expensive than getting them straight from the source (ED or craig), or they would need to have some deal with them, that they dont.
I dont personally understand that website (language and font display problem ), so I dunno.

That was my understanding from reading the machine translation as well, but it's unclear. Anyway it's probably cheaper for people in Japan to order direct, since they're adding a ¥15,000 markup.

Since they're asking people to e-mail them if they are interested, that's probably what they are doing. ¥15,000 markup is kinda high, but if someone doesn't speak English well they're probably going to have a tough time figuring out Craig's ordering process.

 

[WizardStan]

Indeed. There's probably quite a few sites you can order Japanese and Chinese stuff from and have it shipped to you, if only you could figure out the language. Or buy from sites from those countries specifically geared at English speakers at a 5-10% premium.
Sounds not entirely unreasonable to me.

 

[matzesu]

54800 Yen = 510,43618 €, thats a lot.. but i can remember, the first pandoras on ebay are going up to 1500€...

 

[neko]

Indeed. There's probably quite a few sites you can order Japanese and Chinese stuff from and have it shipped to you, if only you could figure out the language. Or buy from sites from those countries specifically geared at English speakers at a 5-10% premium.
Sounds not entirely unreasonable to me.

Yes, sites like rinkya, celga, and shoppingmalljapan do this.

 

[Tom`]

Indeed. There's probably quite a few sites you can order Japanese and Chinese stuff from and have it shipped to you, if only you could figure out the language. Or buy from sites from those countries specifically geared at English speakers at a 5-10% premium.
Sounds not entirely unreasonable to me.

Yes, sites like rinkya, celga, and shoppingmalljapan do this.

¥15,000 is a lot more than 5-10%, though

 

[WizardStan]

Indeed. There's probably quite a few sites you can order Japanese and Chinese stuff from and have it shipped to you, if only you could figure out the language. Or buy from sites from those countries specifically geared at English speakers at a 5-10% premium.
Sounds not entirely unreasonable to me.

Yes, sites like rinkya, celga, and shoppingmalljapan do this.

¥15,000 is a lot more than 5-10%, though

Aye, I misread, thought it was 1'500JPY, which is about $20: a little pricey but reasonable for the service of awareness and translating.

 

[Fishbong]

Well, according to them, they will carry the Pandora starting spring 2011, so they probably hope to aquire some stock until then.
Perhaps they're making a big preorder from batch 2?

 

[EvilDragon]

Well, according to them, they will carry the Pandora starting spring 2011, so they probably hope to aquire some stock until then.
Perhaps they're making a big preorder from batch 2?

Maybe, but they should talk about that with us
What would they do if we won't sell them more than 5 units, for example?

That's why I didn't say they are scam, just telling you to be careful, they have no deal with us so far.

 

[neko]

First things first: I'm sure you remember that I mentioned RedStar and that you should be careful buying from them?
Well, seems like they are no scam - as they contacted us and they have in fact three Pandoras preordered.
They just never told us they plan to resell them...