J-Scale.com - Offering pre-ordering trains to those who do not want to deal with customs and stuff.

[Wolf]

Hello Everyone!

I am happy to announce that I started a small webshop, offering pre-ordering and the dealings with customs and taxes for those who do not want to deal with all that stuff.

You can find the shop at www.j-scale.com

Whilst I know a huge percentage of the members of JNS know how to import themselves, I still don't want to keep it a secret, and who knows, maybe someone does want to run stuff through me for various reasons.

The idea behind the shop is literally what the title says: To enable people that are too afraid or don't know how to pre-order trains in Japan for various reasons, some being language barrier, not sure which shop to use or simply being not versed or don't want to do any online payments. We also ship from within the EU (Germany), so all customs and taxation are already been done for EU customers on each item being shipped.

For the future, I hope to be able to start keeping some stock on items too, but for now it is mainly just pre-orders.

We also offer services to sell pre-owned stuff (fitting the theme) on ebay, so checking on our eBay listings might be worthwhile too!

You can find them here: https://www.ebay.de/str/jscale

Thanks to everyone who encouraged me to take this step!

Cheers

Stephan

[disturbman]

Great, and good for you. Hope it works out 🙂

[cteno4]

Great to hear. The fear and/or hassles of importing from overseas has always been an impediment for some here to get into the hobby.

 

best wishes for the business!

 

jeff

[Wolf]

Heya,

just wanted to announce that after some internal processing, I am finally able to offer manual payments as well on my webshop, removing the annoying need to pay for any order at the moment of placing it. Instead, you can select "manual payment" now and just receive a payment link via email once your desired items are en'route to us.

Cheers

Stephan

[Wolf]

Heya,

 

thanks to everyone who supported me on my journey so far! I am happy that by now we were able to generate a decent stock of trains and other items.

 

Today I want to announce that we finally managed all the behind-the-scenes stuff to be able to sell the moku TRAIN series by Popondetta, wooden trains for kids, on our webshop. So if you look for a gift for your Japan Train Enthusiast friend that is about to get a kid, we might have your gift covered.

 

You can find the category about the series here: https://www.j-scale.com/moku

 

An additional announcement I wanted to make is that we are able to remove the German VAT to customers within our area of shipping that are not part of the EU in terms of taxations. This means anyone from Switzerland, the UK or Andorra may send me a PN and I set you up for tax free ordering.

 

Sorry, still no ordering to overseas, sorry folks 😕

 

Cheers

 

Stephan

Edited September 14 by Wolf