Rakuten / Celga

culture · March 2, 2006

Anyone on this side of the world ordered anything on Rakuten?

How the hell do you navigate that site? Its like trying to decipher heiroglyphs...

I want to order a handful of things but the question marks are out of control.

Kasper · March 3, 2006

Quote: I want to order a handful of things but the question marks are out of control.

you need to install asian fonts,if you're using Windows, they're not installed by default. also, you might use a translator like google or bablefish. but in my experience, you don't really need to. the thing people usually don't understand about rakuten is that's a online mall, so you shop in different shops and that make it a bit complicated sometime.

antihelt · March 3, 2006

Actually, i had have some very good experiences using google site translation http://www.google.com/translate_t

rakuten translated: [url="http://www.google.com/translate?u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.rakuten.com&langpair=ja%7Cen&hl=en&ie=UTF8"]http://www.google.com/translate?u=<a href="http%3A%2F%2Fwww.rakuten.com&langpair=ja%7Cen&hl=en&ie=UTF8" target="_blank">http%3A%2F%2Fwww.rakuten.com&langpair=ja%7Cen&hl=en&ie=UTF8</a>

Japanese to English is only beta, but works just fine.

I recently ordered a pair of jeans thru Celga, now waiting for them to arrive at Celga. Their support has benn very nice, and it has been a real pleasure.

megsanrocks · March 5, 2006

Correct me if I'm wrong, but I thought that Rakuten didn't ship overseas (as do most Japanese businesses).

PG2G · March 5, 2006

Quote:
Correct me if I'm wrong, but I thought that Rakuten didn't ship overseas (as do most Japanese businesses).

--- Original message by megsanrocks on Mar 4, 2006 09:37 PM

Celga acts as a middleman, so you pay them, they purchase and then ship to you.

culture · March 5, 2006

No, they dont ship abroad, youll need to use celga.com or another service to have them shipped.

sriracha hot sauce · March 5, 2006

Celga is good, but its a very long process.

Bidservice seems like its faster.

megsanrocks · March 5, 2006

I was also going to point out www.rinkya.com

They allow you to search (in english) for items on Yahoo! Japan and has a nice "translate page" button at the top of each auction-I find it really straightforward to use.

You bid on the items yourself and have it shipped to their warehouse.

Kasper · March 5, 2006

Quote:
Correct me if I'm wrong, but I thought that Rakuten didn't ship overseas (as do most Japanese businesses).

--- Original message by megsanrocks on Mar 4, 2006 09:37 PM