Trusted Sellers/Dealers List

[JH Lee]

It seems like this section of NMB has a great deal of valuable information to identify the "bad guys"-- the forgers, liars, thieves, and generic miscreants, etc.

 

If it is OK with the admin and do not violate any of the forum rules, could we please also have a sticky-ed list of the established "Good Guys"? Perhaps links to the pages of the tosho in Japan would be great too. Please only mention those persons/dealers with whom you have personally had fair/honest and reliable transactions. For example, I have purchased a kozuka and some menuki and a fuchi-kashira set from Aoi-Art in the past. I would consider it a valuable public service to newbies like me who need help avoiding rip off's, scams, etc. by going directly to the trustworthy sources. Locations would be great too.

 

Obviously, this wouldn't be fool proof, and people must still do their own homework. But I thought it may be a good starting place for getting a sense of the overall landscape of what is available and from whom.

 

So, I would like to kick off this list by saying that I have purchased from them and would likely do so again someday.

 

http://www.aoijapan.com/ ("Aoi-Art"; located in Japan)

[Curran]

This seems to come up 2 or 3 times a year. Basically it is the four 'Commercial Links' list.

 

There have been various iterations: North American, Japanese, European

There was one done in this same sub-section within the past few months.