TCV has recently changed there pricing structure for dealers here in Japan and made it almost impossible for us to financially advertise on their website at an acceptable monthly cost.

I will not go into numbers but I can tell you that the cost is substantial and almost as much as some ones monthly salary.

For this reason, we and other companies are pulling out of TCV and protesting about this outrageous price hike that is possibly going to put some good and honest car dealers out of business.

This will limit the amount of cars that you as buyers can see on a daily basis and greatly reduce your options.

Not only this. TCV has started Paytrade which is nothing more that a collection point for the company to make additional money from the payments made by customers. Paytrade is not a recognised banking institution and offers no more security than what TCV users already have except a larger fee.

A group of dealers here in Japan a joining together to bring you a better and safer service that will be less expensive and over all easier to use. The website is not going to be operational for another 3 months but it will be an industry leader and great for global car buyers together.

Keep an eye out for http://www.japancarmax.com Its coming, and is going to be everywhere.

JAPANCARMAX

Bonjour,

C’est Francois de Auto Trader Imports a Tokyo! Je peux vous aider, vous conseiller et vous trouver les meilleures affaires sur le marche domestique Japonais.  Ayant acces a plus de 350,000 vehicules par semaine aux encheres je suis sur de vous trouver la voiture exact que vous souhaitez importer a des prix defiant toute concurrence.

Importer une voiture en France, en Suisse ou tout autre pays francophone devient maintenant plus facile grace a un interlocuteur parlant votre langue (je suis francais).  Je me charge de tout pour vous de l’ achat a l’inspection jusqu’a la livraison du vehicule au port le plus proche de chez vous.

N’hesitez pas a me contacter pour plus d’information, je suis a votre entiere disposition!

Vous trouverez ci-dessous quelques exemples de voitures exportees vers l’europe recemment a des clients francophones satisfaits!

En attendant de vos nouvelles je vous souhaite une bonne navigation sur notre site et n’oubliez pas de vous inscrire gratuitement aux encheres: http://usedcars.co.jp/aj

A bientot,

Francois Fleury
Sales Manager
Auto Trader Imports Ltd.

Mobile:+81-90-7421-7295
Phone:+81-3-3695-3134
Email: frank@autotraderimports.com
Skype: frank-autotraderimports

1-24-6-303
Okudo Katsushika-ku
Tokyo Japan 124 0022

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http://www.autotraderimports.com/auction

Back to business again on Thursday

Please contact Lachlan directly – lachlan@autotraderimports or find me on Skype: Lachlan-AutoTraderImports for more info!

Buying direct from auction gives you an amazing range of cars to choose from and usually works out to be the most economical way of buying your new car!

We are getting a lot of inquiries from first time auction buyers recently and there seems to be a little confusion regarding the different prices involved.

I would like to try to clear this up here.

First thing - Japanese car auctions are not like Yahoo or eBay auctions where the item is available to be bid on for a week or three days or anything like that. A Japanese car auction lasts about 30 seconds. Then the auction is over and the car is either sold or unsold.

Now secondly, there are some prices that you can see through our auction link. There are three figures that you need to be aware of:

1. Start price – auction cars have a start price, it could be Y0, Y10,000, Y100,000 or any other number. This is just the start price for the auction that the owner has decided on. Its has no bearing on the final sale price. The car will not sell for this price!!

2. Reserve price – this is the price that the owner has agreed to sell the car for. This price isn’t know until the auction is running.

3. Sold price – this is the highest bid above the owners reserve. This is the final sale price.

As an example – there is a 2001 Mitsubishi Lancer EVO VI at auction with a start price of Y50,000.

The owner has set a reserve of Y900,000

The final bid was Y1,120,000

The person who bid Y1,120,000 is now the owner of the car.

If the final bid had been Y850,000 then the car would have been unsold as it didn’t meet the owners reserve price.

If you had bid Y50,000 (ie the start price) then you would not have been successful in winning this auction.

Please have a look at the live auctions for yourself here - http://www.autotraderimports.com/auction and don’t hesitate to contact us if you have any further questions about the auction process.

Please use our FAQ link here for all those answers and more.

http://www.autotraderimports.com/category/faq

Mazda Cosmo

Great question that needs a great answer!

We call them, Jap Imports, Japanese Imports, JDM, Grey Imports, Used Japanese Cars,

and much more.

Why do we want Japanese Imports?

1. Many cars are only destined for the Japanese market and cant be found overseas.

2. Japanese change their cars often due to expensive local body charges.

3. Japanese Imports have mostly done low Klm and have been serviced regularly.

4. Lets face it the best cars currently come out of Japan

5. You will save $$ thousands of $$$$ by buying a Japanese Imported Car over the local variant

6. Yes its true! Their are lots of classic cars here in Japan!

We will update this post soon promise

Below is a list of what auctions are open on any particular day of the week and their respective Location.

Auto Trader Imports are based in Tokyo however we can check cars outside of Tokyo if we have notice in advance so please keep this in mind.

Normally on any week here in Japan there are upwards of 100,000 Japanese Used Cars being auctioned. This is a well oiled machine!

Your next Japanese Import will come from one of these auctions. Also remember that when you are buying stock from dealers here in Japan, that those cars have also more than likely also come from auction. You will save money by going direct to auction for your next Japanese Import.

Japanese used cars from Uss Auto Auctions