How to purchase from Japan Tackle?

1. Delivery area, address restrictions

2. Place orders

3. Payment

4. Custom Tax

5. Shipping fees

 

Delivery area, address restrictions

We ship all around the world, everywhere angler lives.

Sorry, but we do not accept credit card orders from Indonesia, Thailand, Philippines, Malaysia, Caribbean countries, countries in Africa, Estonia, Latvia, and Serbia. For customers from these are, please send payment through bank wire transfer. These areas are reported to be famous for fraud, and we may not accept credit card orders.

How to place orders

Please order products using the shopping cart system. We use eProcessing Network system, and it is safe and fast. The products with ADD to Cart button are stocked, and we will ship immediately.

 

The availability on our web is manually updated. If you are in a hurry, please email and make sure we have what you will order. "Ready in 1 week" means that products are stocked at manufacturers, and they will be ready to ship in a 1 week. Please allow us a week of time before we ship out the product to you. For some rare products, we provide quote form, and please fill your order through it. We will get back to you with availability. These products are mostly discontinued of production, and we will find one from our tackle shop networks, or find one in second hand.

Payment

We accept major credit cards, Paypal, bank wire transfer, international postal money orders. All prices are in the US$.

Credit cards: (Visa, Master, American Ex, check cards with these logos)

Please use credit card through the online order system. The system is encrypted and secure. Please make sure you type in the CVV2, security code, 3-4 digits printed on back of your credit card. If you are concerned, please fax or call to +81-45-941-3019 (Jun)  for the order. We do not accept credit card order from Indonesian area because of a lot of credit card fraud reports related to the region. Our credit card system sometimes declines foreign (non-US) credit cards for some reasons, but this is not your fault. In the case, please email me the trouble, and I will arrange other payment.

For the first time shopping with us, we require you to send a copy of credit card statement, indicating both your credit card number and your billing address. Please send it through FAX +81-45-941-3019, or by email question@japantackle.com.

We do not accept orders if any following,

bulletShipping address is totally different from billing address without good reason
bulletBilling Address is not confirmed
bulletValid personal ID is requested, but not offered
bulletOrder is suspected to be fraud

For the first purchase, we might ask you to send your personal ID to check your address. Required ID is one of following. Passport, drivers license, citizenship card, and etc. We'd like to keep offering credit card payment option to all customers, and your co-operation is appreciated. We are pretty much concerned about credit card frauds. email question@japantackle.com

Paypal: Please add 3% fees, and send the payment to auction@japantackle.com

 

Bank wire transfer: For large orders exceeding $1000 will be mostly required to use this option. Non-US customer needs to add $25 to the total. Please make transfer to the account below.

Beneficiary: Jun Sonoda
Beneficiary Address: 5-24-34, #B-3 Chigasaki-Minami, Tsuzuki-ku, Yokohama 224-0037 Japan
Account #: 5628756
Bank Name: Citi Bank NA Japan
Swift#: CITIJPJT
Bank address: Ote Center Bldg, Otemachi 1-1-3 Chiyoda Tokyo Japan 100-0004
(Send thru bank Citi Bank New York, ABA# 0210-0008-9, New York, NY USA)

International postal money orders: The best, cheapest way to place an order if you don't have a credit card. It is pink and orange money order, sold at post office. Air mailing it to Japan will take about 1 week. No additional fee is required. Please make it in order to

Jun Sonoda
5-24-34, #B-3 Chigasaki-Minami, Tsuzuki-ku
Yokohama 224-0037 Japan

Money orders (personal checks, business checks): All checks and money orders except international postal money orders (above) will be forwarded to US bank to clear, and $5 should be added for each order. For money orders and casher's checks, we will ship immediately. Please allow about 10 days to clear for personal and business checks. Please make it in order to

Jun Sonoda
5-24-34, #B-3 Chigasaki-Minami, Tsuzuki-ku
Yokohama 224-0037 Japan

Custom tax

All imports will be charged with custom tax, by laws, and please pay the tax when you receive the package. Tax rate varies country to country. However, in most countries custom office do not charges to all package, and pick a few "Victims" to levy tax from hundreds of packages imported.

In the US, the tax rate is 5-6%, but the chance of taxation is about one out of 50-100 packages.

Canada, Australia, Italy custom office catches all packages passing the border for tax. Rate is Canada 10-30%, Australia 10-30%, Italy 30%.

For your reference, tax is calculated by the declared value, and the value is also used as insurance value for the package.

Please ask further question@japantackle.com