rubs eyes
It’s true! Another chance at glory.
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I’m not sure this is even doable with Buyee—they don’t want to ship more than ¥200,000 worth of stuff at a time.
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I got them to ship ¥230,000 in items last time I ordered. They said that they would not be responsible if it came back.
That is one thing I like about ZenMarket. I have never used this aspect, but I believe you can change the value of a shipment on the paperwork.
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You can change the value of the shipment with Buyee as well.
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I think most Proxies allow this. I usually don’t do, but it is an easy way to reduce customs cost (if you don’t have to pick it up at a customs office and prove values).
Things usually come in waves. I don’t know why.
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Things come in waves because a high final value for a sale establishes a price that makes it worthwhile for others to sell the same thing.
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¥114,555 (or $908 USD) for that lot of P1025. That’s $75 a piece… which is no doubt a very good price. Would probably resell for $199 on eBay.
Really nuts how sellers are doing this, just dumping large lots like this… and essentially losing out on at times more than 50% of their potential profit.
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I may have picked this one up—12 Pentel W-knocks for $75.25 apiece 
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Same seller had another box. I bet there are more coming, too—the next couple may go even lower.
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Wow. From hardly none to dozens.
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Lucky. 1/2 the price of mine!!! Haha.
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So a couple of dozen are about to hit the states. Maybe I should sell mine before supply is greater than demand. 
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Well, congrats in order then. 
I do wonder if the P1025 has had any variations over time. I’ll be very interested you hear your impressions of the mechanism.
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There was a period where a seller had gotten a hold of an enormous case of Pentel S55’s. People were snapping up 12 doz. count boxes for $12 a piece initially from that seller, then selling each pencil for $10 a piece. Nice quick easy money. But it happened so fast, that in no time there were 4 to 6 sellers offering the S55 on eBay. Within a month or two, prices were down to like $9 for 2 pencils. I had picked up 5 boxes early on and waited across a year to start selling. But I didn’t, because so many boxes bought were being unloaded, keeping prices low, to the point where sellers ended up unloading whole boxes rather than breaking them out individually (pencils as cheap as $2.50 each).
Now, 3 years later… the herd has thinned and I see one seller back to selling individual S55’s. One seller (Mt. Writing Co.) just sold a 12 doz. box for $45… LINK. I think that guy bought like 30 boxes of those S55’s! I seriously doubt there will be that kind of supply issue with the P1025, since it’s much harder to come by.
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There definitely won’t be an oversupply like that with these but I’m not sure that there’s more than 2 dozen buyers who would pay $200+ for them.
What do y’all think they could go for a piece?
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I’ll give you 25 years 
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I’m not worried about it. Once I can sell to Japanese collectors seamlessly (which I’m betting will happen within 10 years), I’ll be able to get whatever I want for pretty much any piece.
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Selling in Japan. I’m listening…
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The way I see it, there’s enough two-way demand in all collection markets that it seems inevitable worldwide transactions will be relatively seamless at some point.
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