How do I start selling things in yahoo japan auctions? -

I have a yahoo japan user ID and am able to sign into yahoo japan auctions. the problem is that I m using babelfish to translate the site and I cannot find the proper link. when I go to my auctions I get a page filled with japanese image files which I assume go over the process of listing. could someone please list the steps to take in order to list an item?

There is no way you can sell things on yahoo japan auction unless you have an address in Japan. If you do live in Japan, the next step is to become premier member with 300 Yen monthly fee, you need to fill in all your information here, including card number, home address,... You can start selling things after becoming a premier member (there will be a banner next to your yahoo ID indicating that).

If you can not do it yourself, you will need to use an selling agent in Japan. I have try many of the agent in the past, and since last year i have been using https://www.japantodoor.com to help me sell my items into Yahoo Japan Auction. Pretty good service and they pay you in USD into your paypal. I just received their latest news, that they will be lowering their service fee on their selling service, so you are in luck!! Give them a try, their service and system really make selling into Yahoo Japan easy!! Works for me and may work well for you too!

My first recommendation is instead of using Babelfish to translate, use the Firefox web browser and install the extension called Rikaichan (available at www.polarcloud.com/rikaichan). This extension, once installed, can be turned on by using the quot;toolsquot; menu of Firefox, and it lets your mouse hover over any text (and sometimes images or Flash objects) and it will pop up with English translations for kanji and kana either seperately or in the word combinations - it s much, much easier to understand complex websites like Y!J auctions. Using Rikaichan, I can hover my mouse over all the pictures on special.auctions.yahoo.co.jp/html/guide/... where the selling instructions are, and I get defintions of all the words. If you don t understand kana or Japanese grammar, however, you re going to find it pretty difficult to follow nonetheless. Second: are you in Japan? If so, then a lot of the difficult parts will be much easier to take care of - the hardest part of using Y!J auctions is setting up the payment methods. Most sellers will accept standard bank transfers (furikomi) or postal transfers - the first mean you need an account at a major Japanese bank (Mitsui Sumitomo, UFJ, etc) and the second means you need an account with the Japan Post bank. E-bank transactions are also pretty popular, but it can get very complex if your Japanese reading skills are low enough that you need Babelfish - I m at about level 2 of the JLPT proficiency test, and I got so mixed up trying to deal with e-bank that I gave up and went back to postal transfers. If you re trying to sell from overseas (not in Japan), using a service might actually be the best option, simply because it will make you more attractive to buyers if they can use domestic payment methods. I hope this helps somewhat!