Question about Winners Japanese Sword page

[slashxu]

Hi All,

 

So, I have been checking out all the links offered by NMB, and have some questions particularly about the Japanese Auctions link in the top menu. So this takes you to a site called Winners Japanese Sword (WJS) page. I'm guessing this site is a tool created to gather more popular auctions on Japanese auction sites to make life easier for us. However, I noticed the auctions, in large numbers, are from one seller, fuji_5005. At lease for the sword auctions. While at the same time, a lot of the more popular auctions have been filtered out? For example, there is a Juyo token sword on Yahoo Japan right now with lot more hits and bidders. I'm not saying it has to have auctions like this posted here, but just wondering how this works.

 

Another question or rather concern is I have read fuji_5005 is not a so trustworthy seller. I have never dealt with this seller before so I'm not passing judgement. But something I've noticed raised my curiosity. This auction for koshirae along with a few others was listed and ended in WJS a few days ago (http://winners-auction.jp/productDetail/22707), now I see it still going on Yahoo Japan Auctions (http://page8.auctions.yahoo.co.jp/jp/auction/h181790760). I've also noticed some fitting that were supposedly sold and then appear in this seller's inventory with much higher starting price. I don't really care enough to put a "tracker" on this seller, they are free to do whatever they want obviously, and if the buyers did their homework and exercised their better judgement to bid, that's their business. my question still comes down to how WJS is filtered and being a tool to aid collectors, can it be made "safer" for shoppers. I'm not going to lie, when I first visited WJS, I thought it was very cool to have all the nihonto related auctions in one place and categorized, in English nonetheless. Then I was like wait a minute...

 

Thanks in advance.

 

-James

[Brian]

I think Winners has become slightly defunct nowdays for Nihonto stuff, and Yahoo is the auction venue of choice over there.

Correct me if I am wrong.

If someone will send me the correct links for the appropriate Yahoo searches, I will amend and add.

 

Brian

[christianmalterre]

WINNERS?

can ben found here...: http://www.auction.de/catalogues/epaper ... index.html

 

LOL!

Christian

[estcrh]

 

This auction for koshirae along with a few others was listed and ended in WJS a few days ago (http://winners-auction.jp/productDetail/22707), now I see it still going on Yahoo Japan Auctions (http://page8.auctions.yahoo.co.jp/jp/auction/h181790760). I've also noticed some fitting that were supposedly sold and then appear in this seller's inventory with much higher starting price. I don't really care enough to put a "tracker" on this seller, they are free to do whatever they want obviously, and if the buyers did their homework and exercised their better judgement to bid, that's their business. my question still comes down to how WJS is filtered and being a tool to aid collectors, can it be made "safer" for shoppers. I'm not going to lie, when I first visited WJS, I thought it was very cool to have all the nihonto related auctions in one place and categorized, in English nonetheless. Then I was like wait a minute...

 

Thanks in advance.

 

-James

James, unlike ebay auctions Japanese auctions at least on some sites can be ended in the last few seconds by the seller if he does not like the selling price. The item can then be relisted on the same site or on a different site. Items can be on ebay auction and a Japanese auction at the same time as well.

Unlike ebay auctions, Yahoo Japan auctions do not have a time limit, if a bid is put in at the last minute the time resets, allowing another bidder time to bid higher.

[slashxu]

Thanks for the explanation Eric. The termination before it's over thing is understandable. Multiple auctions on different auction sites is a bit tricky. This unfortunately allow people to host the item elsewhere when it is not even theirs. I think that subject has been discussed on the forum before. So, I don't want to readdress it.

 

So, this explains why I see the same stuff over and over again.

 

Anyway, that Kagemitsu Juyo sold well for the buyer, or is it sold???

 

http://page11.auctions.yahoo.co.jp/jp/a ... n124108879

 

-James