

In both cases, items end up at the proxy service's warehouse, upon which you receive a notification that the items have arrived. On the other hand, the latter method is very useful for bypassing payment restrictions, such as needing a Japanese credit card. In my experience, the former method is more flexible as to where you can receive items from, and is absolutely necessary for items that sell out quickly since getting the proxy to buy for you takes time. physical brick-and-mortar stores) or even events such as Comiket, though those tend to be way more expensive.
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Some more niche sites also do offline shops (i.e. You tell the proxy what you want to buy, and they buy it for you (e.g.The proxy gives you a Japanese address, which you provide to online shopping sites (e.g.There are two main ways in which proxy services work: What is a Proxy Shopping Service?Ī proxy shopping service helps get goods to your doorstep which you normally wouldn't be able to, because the site in question only ships within Japan.

There's also a list of recommended stores at the bottom of this post, which should give an idea as to what sorts of sites proxies can be used for. There are a lot of proxy services out there, varying in how they work and how fees are calculated. Since SOUND VOLTEX is a Japanese game, this post will mainly focus on Japanese proxy shopping services, especially tenso and ZenMarket as representative examples.

This is a different sort of guide to usual since it's not SOUND VOLTEX-specific, but it should be useful for obtaining goods from campaigns or for buying merch online if you don't have a friend in Japan to help.
