Why buy Your Japanese Car Not in Japan?
Well, almost each and every customer weighs up options when making buying decisions, be it of furniture or used cars from Japan. When it comes to used Japanese vehicles usually people consider either buying locally or straight from Japan. The only source of reliable information for them to make informed decisions is surfing the internet.. However for most customers, over the internet, they rarely get enough information for them to make informed decisions. They only get prices of the various vehicles they may need to buy. More often than not, the prices look cheaper in Japan hence most people end up buying over the internet, thinking that they are saving money. But do they really save money?
Besides the time it usually takes [minimum 4 weeks],for a car to be shipped from Japan, it is also a matter of buying a car versus a picture. If you are buying online, on any website, you are buying a picture, an image, a photograph, nothing more nothing less. There is no guarantee that the image you are buying represents the vehicle you will receive. There is no way whatsoever through which you can check wether the vehicle is in good or bad condition. You are simply relying on the seller's word. After all, it is very difficult, if not impossible to reverse any kind of financial transactions done over the internet.
Buying from local dealership, you can have the vehicle opened, started, leave the engine running and depending on the dealer from which you buy,you may as well test drive the vehicle around the yard before you pay your money.
Besides, most customers look online and see a vehicle going say for $600.They see that the same vehicle is going for $1800 negotiable. What do they do, they rush to buy on the internet thinking that they have hit a jack port only to have a rude awakening a few weeks later, when they discover that they have to pay tax which is around $1200 once or before the vehicle has arrived in local place. Depending on where they buy, some customers are even charged an extra $800 on top of the 600,1200 which now makes the car cost almost $2600.If you save any kind of money after buying your vehicle in Japan rather than locally, i bet, you will never save a maximum of 400 dollars. Usually you end up paying more than what you could have paid locally.
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