Buying A Cartridge Direct From Japan

I don't care from which country the cart that I am looking
for is posted. My own listings are always worldwide. I am
cheated 'only' twice by sellers from Germany. They don't
like paypal ( fees?) so one need to pay via bank-transfer.
But there is no protection by bank-transfer. Many Germans
however limit their shipping to Germany believing that
only the Germans are trustworthy. Those are prejudices
based on assumptions or some bad experience with some
sellers from some countries. Well in 'contradiction' to
my own experience the most items I have bought in Germany.
The same prejudice I see regular by the British and American
sellers on ebay. Are all Americans with God knows which origin
trustworhty and all other 'countries' untrustworthy?

Hi Duvallite, Your question is very clear: how to buy direct in Japan. All the answers avoid this question. As if we are unaware of Juki, Otomon, Toxan or whomever from Japan who buy their stuff second hand in Japan and resell on ebay.com. I have bougth my carts from everywhere in the world except from Japan. So I am also interested in any address in Japan where I can buy without intermediary.I was not able to find any. Considering the fact that Japan is very dependant from export this is very strange situation. China is much more easy to approach so I got my Jasmine LP2 phono-pre direct from China without any problem. The arrogant Japanese can learn from China and need to do so very fast in order to survive. Anyway that is my opinion.

Dear Banquo 363, As you can see from the title of this thread the question was about carts. It may be interesting for whomever to know about headshells, leads, ETC. (what
do you mean with 'etc' btw ?) but headshells and leads we can get everywhere. I myself am interested in those Highphonic carts while Otomon, Toxan, ETC. don't even bother to answer my questions.

Dear Henry, Those names are intermediary. You can buy directly from me many Japanese carts (grin). You already got one from Holland. That is however not 'the' question.

Dear Henry, My frustration with the Japanese is not accidental. Two years ago I try to contact Ogura for our common cause. That is to say that we would be able to
order by Axel micro ridge styli and boron cantilevers made by Ogura. I even consulted J. Carr and asked him for the address which he kindly provided. But my 5 emails were never answered. Carr warned me about 'communication in English' with Japanese. Now from the Chinese I bought this excelent Jasmine LP 2 phono-pre direct from the factory for $500. I got about 10 emails from them in this connection. That is I suppose why the Chinese have ecomomic growth of 12% each year while the Japanese are in recession for 15 years.
BTW you should ask our comrade Thuchan about Otomon , etc. intermediary.
Then my MIT 1 is only meant for my Slavic brothers (grin).
I am glad to hear that you enjoy the cart but my intention was that you should 'burn in' the cart because I have no patience for such kind of job (smile).

First thing first. I think that any parents and/or educational system should teach their kids the English language. Not in order to promote Anglo/American imperialism but to give those kids the wordlwide access to information and communication. It is obvious that Japanese
have deviant opininon in this regard. Their old traditions are , it seems, more important for them. But then this huge Ogura company is not able to answer any of my 5 emails while J. Carr who lives there warned me about communication in English with the Japanese.
The intermediary. We in Holland are not able to approach Van den Hul direct. We need some dealer as an intermediary. What is the job of such a intermediary? He is a 'hatch' between the customer and the 'producer'. I need to post my cart to some dealer who will post the same cart to Van den Hul then receive the cart from Van den Hul and than post the cart to me. For this 'service' I of course need to pay this dealer. To me this make no
sense at all. So I never used Van den Hul's nor his dealer's services but prefer to post my carts direct to Axel. Whoever prefer to do this otherwise is probaly smarter than I.

Hi Brf, If you think that Van den Hul himself does those
rapairs I am sorry to disappoint you. He spends the most of
his time in Ukraine by their airspace industry. Being
secretive about his cart business does not mean that we
are imbeciles. What btw is the diference between answering
dealers or customers questions? Then by Axel one is sure that
Axel deed all the work. By Van den Hul nobody knows
who deed the work.

Because Axel Schurholz is 'one man company' I asked him
why his wife does not help with his customers? He gets more
emails then he can answer. His answer was that his wife
then need to ask him how to answer the questions asked.
So much about (his)secretary.