I live in New Zealand. I buy a stuff from overseas off ebay and other websites all the time, no problem. But buying pins from overseas is hard. Most don’t want to know you once they hear you are from overseas. This year I bought two pins from England. Both times I had to use a middleman in the UK to organise pickup packing and shipping and for one to make local payment. Used PayPal for the other. I know of another New Zealander who uses a middleman to pay cash and pickup from local sellers in the USA. Otherwise it’s pretty risky for the buyer too. Pay your money and maybe get no machine, so I get the whole middleman concept. Strange that music77 has been acting as a broker for a while but with a new pinside account, so understandable the seller was wary. But I find it unlikely many US sellers would take an unsolicited offer directly from someone in Japan. Wish it was easier. When you live on an island, importing is sometimes the only way to get the pin that you want.