First, what is Buyee?
Buyee acts as the middle man if you want to join Yahoo Japan Auctions, Yahoo Shopping, Rakuten, or any other Japanese online shops. Once you purchase an item, they purchase it for you, and keep it in their warehouse, consolidate all your purchases, until you want it delivered which has a max of 30 days. Fees apply when you keep your items beyond 30 days. They are based in Tokyo, so you can receive the items faster when you shop.
This is my first time using Buyee, and it did not disappoint me. I used Buyee for Yahoo Auctions. I am a Dragon Ball enthusiast and toy collector and my friend told me to try Buyee. You can find rare items in Japan! Bidding is fast, and realtime. I won two bids. An MG Figurerise Goku with Gold TOEI animation sticker, which adds more value as they are exclusively made in Japan and for Japanese customers only. The downside, you get Japanese instructions only, lol. Then I also got a very rare Dragon Ball Z HG Gashapon Vol.1 full 6-pc set!
The thing I didn't like was the part when they automatically add 150Yen service fee and 200Yen payment fee whenever you make a bid. That's a total of 350Yen on top of every bid you will win. 700Yen in total for my two items won. But no worries! They will not charge you if you do not win the bid.
I really like the chat support feature as they are very responsive and acts really fast. Particularly, when all my items arrived in the warehouse, and was only supposed to weigh around 800g. I don't know if it is Buyee or the originating seller that is not quite honest with the weight of the product.
Since I am a collector, I know how each type of figure weighs, so I was able to get my shipment's weight corrected from around 1.3kg to around 800g which also lowered the international shipping cost.
Then I requested to consolidate my two items, for a fee, 500Yen. This will save you from paying multiple shipping fees for separate items. You can consolidate your items for a fee and keep it for up to 30 days. They will charge you for 100Yen per day you exceed. Also, please keep in mind, there will also be domestic fees for each shipping. So be vigilant in checking if the shipping will be shouldered by seller or the bidder.
I chose the lite plan for the packaging which is 0.00Yen. You will be able to choose it whenever you make a bid. So the chat support requested for it to be packed in a smaller parcel really fast. I have read about small items being packed in a huge box, which bloats the shipping fees so I have to be careful with my first purchase in Buyee in which we were able to fix with the help of chat support. Even with the light plan, they still put it in a bubble wrap, and well packaged.
I was able to receive my items complete in good condition, with no damage at all. So I'm quite satisfied. To my conclusion, Buyee is great, they have reasonable fees for fast service, but I think they can still work on the service fees!
Here is my unboxing video that will show you how my items were packed and delivered with the 0.00Yen Lite plan using EMS.
