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Guest Coultard

Guest Coultard

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Hi everyone,

Im new to HPIs and im looking at importing my own car.

A friend forwarded me this link and im very interested in getting this car

http://www.prestigemotorsport.com.au/au/st...asp?StockID=703

However i also found this car on yahoo.jp for a cheaper price and its available for the next few days.

http://babelfish.altavista.com/babelfish/u...ion%2Fd29526584

Is it possible to import a car through yahoo or should i use this other company?

There seems to be many inconsistencies between these two businesses

What should i do?

Tonkotsu Flavour Enthusiast

Tonkotsu Flavour

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Hey that car is really nice

i really like the trick decals on it

yahoo seems to be respectable, and i have bought some goods from yahoo in japan.. but not a car.

at least on yahoo we can see wat mods are actually done to the car... maybe if u import it from the other company, they could easily take off some mods and say it never came with tthem..who knows.. like the warfies.. they are dodgy

if u have contacts in japan, i think yahoo is more surer option.

but see wat other ppl think

dAVE Grand Master

dAVE

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no you cannot import a car yourself from yahoo auctions .. you will need a broker..

2ndly, becuase its an 89 car, the only option is to hold it in japan until 2004. Prestige is offereing this for free at the moment which is a very good deal. Prestige are only a broker, so the only money they make is the 1000 service fee. You will not that it was an approx price of 600,000 yen ... on yahoo it shows the reserve of 500,000... so they are assuming that it wont sell for too much over the reserve.

Btw - i have never used prestige, but many people hear have and they have had very good feedback.

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