Gooparts Japan is a part of the Goo-net portal site and is a Japanese car parts shop. The store also has an online presence and like all other Japanese car parts sites, this site is also available preliminary in Japanese. The site hosts more than 40, 000 car parts and accessories. The Japanese name of the site is Gupatsu and the site hosts all kinds of automobile parts like exhausts etc.. The main business of the company is through the buying and selling of used car parts, though gooparts also sells new car parts.

The language barrier in gooparts presents difficulties for people who do not know Japanese vernacular. An online search of Gooparts rankings is also quite blank as there are no reviews available in most of the well-known forums. (for instance, see http://www.xomreviews.com/gooparts.com ) . However, there is a Google translation version of the website that lets English speakers browse through the parts.

The English page of the website shows several tabs under the name banner of the site. Some of the important the tabs are ‘Find Parts’, ‘Find a store’, ‘Purchase parts’ , ‘Parts glossary’ , ‘Purchase basics’ and ‘Features’. Through the ‘Find parts’ link, car parts purchases can be classified into car models. The car models are categorized according to the country of manufacture. For example, under the Japan category you can search for models like Eunos, Honda, Mazda, Mitsubishi, Subaru; under the ‘France category you can find car makes like Renault, Peugeot, Citroen; under the USA category, car models like Cadillac, Hummer, Ford< mercury and so on. The other countries of car manufacturers that are present on the gooparts website are UK, Germany, Italy, Korea and Sweden. Beside each car model there is a ‘in-bracket’ number that shows how many car accessories are available for the particular brand.

Apart from searching according to brand name , a consumer can also find parts according to the type of car parts. In fact, the ‘Find parts’ section gives four types of search options to the users, namely, ‘search to fit models, Genre search , brand search and find new car parts.

The ‘find a store’ tab at the site enlists the contacts of registered gooparts stores across Japan.

For making the purchase the user has to click the ‘purchase parts’ tab. Under this link the purchase procedure is described in steps. The basic purchase policy of Gooparts is you choose the item and the store and then fill up an online form. You will be then contacted directly from the store tohelp you complete your purchase.

Mbok

Mbok.jp or ‘Mobaoku’ is a Japanese mobile auctions site, where visitors can place their orders using mobile internet. Mobaoku already has the reputation of being the largest online mobile auctions company in japan. Besides mobile auctions, mbok. jp can also be operated via a personal computer.

Online website rankings site robtex.com (http://www.robtex.com/dns/mbok.jp.html ) places mbok.jp at number 3228 of world sites and confirms that mbok.jp is hosted from a server in Japan. Site review of mbok gives it high percentages on trustworthiness, reliability and privacy, though it warns in red that the site may contain material unsuitable for underage visitors. The site is also listed in Alexa 100000 and has secured fair rankings of WOT ratings. Presently the site seemed all geared up for the Valentine’s day with many dress items, gift items, jewelries and fragrances up for sale. Mbok. jp hosts the items in a versatile price range. Some current gift items listed on mbok.jp include unlock my heart pendant, XO stacking rings, Love poems by Pablo Neruda, the Art of kissing book and other gift items. Another classic gift item currently listed on mbok.jp is a collage sheet of  Marie Antoinette Valentine’s day designs.

You can also make mbok purchases via the mailorderjapan shopping services.

Rakuten shopping mall

Rakuten Ichiba is not only Japan’s largest online shopping mall, but also it is one of the top 10 online ecommerce companies of the world. Since its inception in February 1997, Rakuten has grown to a current 50 million plus registered memberships. At present Rakuten is listed at the 2^nd position in the global B2C ecommerce companies. The item categories at Rakuten are extensive and comparable only to Yahoo! Japan auctions. However, unlike the auctions site, Rakuten is not only limited to online selling of items. Instead, this company owned by Hiroshi Mikitani offers extensive financial services, travel services, professional sports sponsorship and internet media services. Rakuten ichiba also offers international shipping services as a part of its international expansion plans.

As a testimony to the international expansion plans of the company, very recently on 27^th January 2010, Rakuten confirmed in a press release that they have agreed to open a partnership company based in China. The Chinese partner of Rakuten in this recent venture is Baidu, Inc. The new online internet mall in China will presently only sell Chinese and other global brands, and will later let Japanese merchants participate in it through a tie up with Rakuten Ichiba. MAilorderjapan can assist international buyers to make the article purchases and have them shipped at any valid given address.

Tokyo Auto salon 2010.

The recently concluded Tokyo Auto salon 2010 was a car-man’s dream come true. This exhibition of exclusive cars, including both domestic cars and sports cars, was held at different premises of Tokyo from fifteenth of January to the seventeenth. This international automobile exhibition at Tokyo aimed to showcase the maintenance and performance of various cars and gave the audience a glimpse of Japan’s subway street culture. The best sports cars from D1GP to the indigenous Japanese motor sports cars were made accessible to the scrutiny of car fanatics. The auto salon also initiated brisk business about the cars as many hunted accessories and performance parts were put up for sale in the salon. Apart from the performance car parts, Japan domestic car parts were also made available to the participants of the grand car sale.

(If you have missed the Tokyo Auto salon news because of not being a Japanese then there is nothing to despair though because www.mailorderjapan.com (MOJ) can provide you with domestic and performance car parts at a suitable bidding price. A basic purpose of our site is to make the benefits of automobile auctions in Yahoo! Japan available to the people who are not conversant in the Japanese vernacular. Not knowing Japanese can be a real problem while seeking to buy car parts from Japan because Yahoo! Japan auctions offer their site only in t he Japanese. Search through Yahoo! Japan auctions through MOJ and find the car part you are looking for. Whether you are looking for performance car parts or domestic car parts, the bidding and shipping services of our site can help you make your purchase and have you the product available at your given address.)

The auto salon 2010 also offered an opportunity to witness the ‘race queen’ cars, the sports cars that have reached celebrity status by their legendary performances. This was actually invaluable for car fanatics because it let them a firsthand knowledge about the workings and maintenance of these high profile cars. The auto salon 2010 also allowed the car enthusiasts to estimate the current developments in the automobile market with the inclusion of the most recent sports car models like the R35GT-R and 370Z.

The salon 2010 was also a great opportunity for the carmakers to hold determine their sway over the Japan domestic market (JDM). Carmakers like Honda and Subaru launched new JDM model cars for the purpose. Honda introduced the insight sports modulo concept along with other customized Honda vehicles like the Life Kei and the Freed minivan for the JDM. Subaru was also predominant at the auto salon grounds when it exclusively launched the 2010 Impreza R205. Modifying the mighty WRX STI, Subaru Impreza is equipped to perform up to 325 horsepower and 318 pound feet torque. The Impreza accessories like black roof wing and a rear apron were also much acknowledged. This was again for the Japan domestic market exclusively.

This is again where www.mailorderjapan.com can be of great help for car enthusiasts outside Japan. Since Yahoo! Japan Auctions only hosts Japanese products, the availability of these sole JDM products to people outside Japan has been made possible by MOJ. You may not find the very recent JDM accessories, but you may as well find previous year’s JDM accessories through Yahoo! Japan auctions. www.mailorderjapan.com actually does everything to ensure that you can buy a JDM vehicle, even if you are staying outside Japan. Small and medium sized car parts (bumpers, bonnets, wheels, engines, emissions) are send by ems worldwide. For shipment of whole cars, we help you buy the cars, cut it into two parts and ship the car to the given address.

The Tokyo Auto Salon 2010 also harbored the street car performance parts. The glimpse of Tokyo street life that the auto salon provided was exciting as usual. You can search for Japanese street culture performance car parts on Yahoo! Japan auctions again. The helmsmen of the insanely fast Tokyo road racing circuit also boast of an individual fashion sense of own. You can even find these fashioned accessories that complete the Japanese street feel over at Yahoo! Japan Auctions.

Yahoo Japan

Yahoo! Japan Auctions for the Japanese market is still the top Japanese auctions site for many reasons. Although Yahoo! has a collaboration with ebay in the name of a joint Japanese Auctions site called the SEKAIMON, yet the monopoly of Yahoo! Japan auctions in the Japanese psyche is still unparalleled. The reason behind is obvious. Yahoo! has emerged victorious in winning the trust of the Japanese market from the very beginning, and has not lost it for a day.

Yahoo! japan auctions had a separate Yahoo! Japan in English launched on October 10, 2008, but eventually this English version was completely withdrawn on September 2009. In fact, the auctions homepage language of Yahoo! Japan auctions was changed permanently from English to Japanese on September 2009 in an obvious effort to further fortify the Japanese trust connection. The presence of SEKAIMON also only added as a popularity tool for Yahoo! Japan auctions and further added to the confidence of the Japanese buyers and sellers on them.

Yahoo! Japan auctions presently sell a variety of items. Although the site is not available in English, yet sites like ours act as mediators between the Japanese language and the English language. The aim of our site is to assist the non-Japanese vernacular crowd that uses English as the auction medium. The most popular items on Yahoo! Japan can be classified under the following categories.

1. Computer and Electronics: Desktops and Laptops (windows 7, Windows Vista, Windows XP) equipped and peripherals like LCD monitor printer, CPUs ( Intel core, Intel premium, Intel Celeron, Intel XEON), Hard drives (SATA, SSD, HDD), Motherboard (ASUS, GIGA BYTE, MSI, INTEL), and additional memory hardware like DDR and DDR2 ram. Not only hardware, software like Norton Antivirus 8.0 and 10.0 can also be found. Under the rare exhibitions category MAC Pc is also available. Apart from this computer domain names and pocket computers are available with their separate component parts and accessories.

Almost all kinds of electronics items like the TV, Compact cameras, Digital SLR, Sony walkmans, iPods, Camcorders, power adaptors and also consumer electronics items like refrigerators, cleaners, Washers and cooking appliances are available. Rare audio equipments like antique audio equipment with radio are also to be found. Browse through our product categories to find the appliance you are looking for.

1. Music: Classic and contemporary exist in harmony in the music category.

Classic records like the Beatles , Pink Floyd, Paul Morgan mood music, rare Joao Gilberto, Signature Schruricht and Backhaus along with Enka Karaoke, Hibari Misora, Fuyumi Sakamoto, Sayuri Ishikawa, Kiku-Masamune are available.

1. Comics, magazines and movies: The comics and magazines category holds categories like children’s books, language learning books, fashion magazine (old and new), and good old comics. For finding rare good anime movies by categories and also anime music collection, search through the comics categories.
2. Hobbies and antiques: Many hobby items like guitar, radio controlled miniature helicopter, Teddies, Character toys, rare puzzles, gaming consoles, antique Imari, rare flight student ticket application before the war, Green laser pointer pens, S sized Kukui, Jissen simple numbers special mysteries are available. Antique items like iron teapot kettle and crockery items, Antique royal road crockery are also available on Yahoo! Japan auctions. Disney rare mickey mouse posters and photos. Rare collectibles like Gramophone records, stamps , coins, first day covers. Rare mineral samples and fossils can also be found on Yahoo! Japan.
3. Fashion and accessories: The fashion and accessories categories of Yahoo! Japan auctions is worth special mention. You can find almost anything fashionable- Denims, coats, sneakers, T shirts, kidz items, luxury watches, branded bags (Vuitton, Gucci, Chanel, Hermes, C Dior, Prada), jewelry, eco friendly items and other accessories are to be found.
4. Automotives: All kinds of used and new car accessories can be found. Most popular are items like the winter tires, navigation systems, motorcycle body kits and car body kits of all well known brands, headlights and tail lights among other car parts can be found.
5. Only for little babies: Perhaps the best feature of Yahoo! Auctions Japan is that it keeps a myriad of beautiful baby items. Mother’s bags, baby perambulators, baby furniture, Hello kitty bath chair, Walkers, strollers and memorabilia like albums are beautifully hosted on Yahoo! Japan.
6. Beauty care items: Beauty care items from all renowned brands covering all types of beauty care needs.
7. Flowers and gardening: Room plants, gardening instruments, rare flowers like the Black Christmas rose, Pink Hepatica species YAmaki bud, Hepatica Blooming wild grass  bring out the most beautiful-Japan and heavenly fragrance to Yahoo! Japan auctions.

Car Parts on Yahoo! Japan

Yahoo! Japan auctions also host car parts and accessories on their buying fields. Not only Japan, but also rest of the world can purchase sports car accessories and other body parts on Yahoo! Japan Auctions. However, the Yahoo! Japan site is only available in Japanese, yet for the convenience of people who are foreign to Japanese, there are sites ours, which act as mediators between the Yahoo! Japan auctions site and an English speaking crowd.   All kinds of sports car parts including books and magazines on the subject are available on the Yahoo! Japan auctions site. Not only can you place bid and make a purchase of sports car parts and accessories, but also the responsibility of shipping the item to your doorstep lies on us. The acceptability of mailorderjapan in different international payment methods like paypal also facilitates smart and transparent payment of the purchase and the bidding.

The availability by brand names on the Yahoo! Japan auctions site are stunning. Almost all brands of super cars accessories and parts, feature names on the auctions site. The names start with names like Acre, Affection, Bride, Craft Square, Dunlop, and end with names like the 5zigen and the Zero sports. Simply put, you can find all prominent brand sports car accessories on Yahoo! japan auctions.

Even if you are trying to buy a sports car accessory that will fit your current brand of car, then too Yahoo! Japan auctions is like a technological blessings site where everything is available. Whatever your vehicle make is, be it Lexus, Mazda, Mitsubishi, Toyota or Suzuki, you can find the brand that will be compatible with your vehicle make.

The auction categories of Yahoo! Japan cover all the parts of a car handling and maintenance. The categories include car Aerodynamics, Brakes, Chassis bars, Collectibles, Engine Management, Horns, Lights, Magazines, Meters, Lights, Seats, Tires, Suspension, Steering and Wheels among others. Also, find sports magazines, antique car accessories, sports car parts and accessories, repair manuals and parts lists from the mailorderjapan site. Another great feature of the Yahoo! Japan auctions site is the availability of navigation systems for sports cars. In short, everything you search from Yamaha exhaust systems to KOSMIC brake pads, you just have to have the patience to search through the categories of Yahoo! Japan auctions and find the sports car part you are looking for.

All of the many thousands of sports car items available on yahoo! japan are not possible to be enlisted in the confinements of this article. That will only make this article turf crowded and confused. Moreover, you are the only person who knows what you are asking for. So take your time and search your part in the sports car sub-category of ‘sports and leisure’ category in the yahoo! japan auctions. If the sports car fate guides you in track, then be sure that she won’t desert you in your Yahoo! japan auctions searches.

Successful searching and happy bidding to all of you.

Ebay Japan had always been a critical turf for ebay. In fact, the world’s premiere internet auctions company failed majorly in its primary business expansion plans in Japan. Their then main competitor Yahoo Japan auctions always managed to take the lead among Japanese participants of the online auction trade. Ebay Japan remained solely operational in Japan only for a short period during the dot-com boom (2000-2001). In March 2002, Ebay Japan completely withdrew from the Japanese market, by accepting a $1.2 billion charge and completely closing any business transactions in the Japanese market. This seemed the only option left for ebay Japan as the world’s second largest e-commerce  geography in Japan only allowed a meager 25, 000 listings to the company, a number far less than the listings of Yahoo Japan Auctions.

For ebay Japan, two prime factors mainly contributed to this humiliating Japanese debacle of the online auction giant.  The first factor was a launch-time-lag of 5 months and the second factor was Ebay Japan decided to charge a commission of 1.25% to 5% on each transaction, which Yahoo Japan auctions never bothered to do. Corporate gossips attributed the then CEO of ebay Japan, Merle Okawara, of being insufficient in understanding the criticalities of the internet market. Ebay Chief executive and President Meg Whitman summarized the Japanese debacle of ebay Japan when she confessed, “We’re definitely in catch-up mode.”

Yahoo Japan auctions on the other hand always maintained a considerable lead in the Japanese e-business. Yahoo Japan auctions started operating in 1999, with only initial staff strength of 120 people. Within June 2001, Yahoo’s site found 2.2 million Japanese users buying and selling various different items. Ebay Japan found itself perplexed and trying different business tactics to gain the audience attention, none of which succeeded to show business results.

Moreover, ebay Japan’s usual policy of word-of-the-mouth advertising also did not see any profit, because the site failed to understand the general Japanese psyche. By the time ebay Japan incorporated the changes in its website, Yahoo Japan had already overleaped it. Yahoo Japan auctions had by then secured its presence by a 95% share of the Japanese market, leaving only a meager 3% for ebay Japan.

Yahoo Japan auctions is immensely popular in Japan, in absence of any competitors and is nicknamed YAFU OKU by the Japanese. Yahoo Japan started the operations in September 2009 and was rewarded with a monopoly success in the Japanese market. This Japanese success was so overwhelming, that the Santa Clara company decided recently to make the Yahoo Japan site available only in Japanese language from September 30, 2009.

Although people outside Japan often refer to Yahoo Japan Auctions as ebay Japan, yet it is an ironical misnomer as ebay Japan had to withdraw from the market in the face of a monopoly Yahoo market. Nevertheless, ebay also tried to get their business done by building in affiliations with Yahoo!.  A CNBC news of 2001 reported that Yahoo! and Ebay Japan were discussing a 50/50 merger in Japan, but that never took shape understandably because Yahoo Japan had enough dominance not to consider any merger of any sort.

However, things took a different turn in 2006 when ebay (not ebay Japan) and Yahoo Japan started a common Japanese site called Sekaimon or the ‘gateway to the world’ to assist Yahoo! Japan users to bid for overseas ebay items. Yahoo! auctions reasoned that this step was directed to bring in more ‘cross-border trading’ of the online auctions scenario. Ebay CEO Meg Whitman resounded this business excitement and asserted that this deal will let the ‘localized site’ offer more ‘ease and convenience’ to the Japanese buyers and sellers. Apart from Yahoo! and Ebay, another company called the Shop airlines also participated in the deals, offering services of site management, payment transparency and item shipping.

This 2007 alliance of Yahoo! and Ebay in Japan actually followed from a similar 2006 alliance in the US. According to this 2006 San Francisco deal the two companies agreed to aid each other in online advertising, payment transactions and business communications. The acquisition of paypal inc. by ebay added as an additional business reason for Yahoo! to get into the business deal with ebay. However, since paypal is not so much popular with Japanese customers, the joint business site ‘SEKAIMON’ lets the customers buy the items using credit card.

SEKAIMON mainly serves as a platform for the US seller to sell their items to the Japanese buyer. The regulations of this site require the Japanese buyer to pay a commission for the ‘handling cost’ of the item over the usual cost of the item. Like Yahoo! Japan auctions, SEKAIMON is also solely available in Japanese and the only way for a non-Japanese customer is to use the web translation tool from Japanese to English or other languages.

I cant believe we ran out of parking space today. We had two car arrivals today. As soon as we parked the two cars in front of our warehouse, we ran out of parking space. Though the present parking structure is quite messy and quite a few more cars can be arranged in the space, it was a little shock to see no more empty space. Its seems like we will have quite a bid of work next week to start and move around all the cars to adjust them properly in our warehouse.

Please click on the picture below to see it clearly.

Making Space the Right Way:

After running out of space, we just took the cars to the slaughter house around the corner and boxed everything like you can see in this container.

Here is another shipment ready for chopping