"Antipika" <antipika@hotmail.com> wrote ...
> Paul Blay wrote:
>> How widespread is Paypal use in Japan?
>> 
>> What "Paypal like" systems are popular in Japan and
>> do any of them allow people not in Japan to use them?
> 
> Already bought some goods on Yahoo Japan Auction, basically foreigners
> that don't know japanese language aren't allowed to register on Yahoo

別に問題ありません。

> Japan Auction. I'm french, living in Paris, don't know japanese at all
> but used systran translator to make my account :d...

おいおい。
 
> Well when it took me around 1 week to explain to my japanese seller how
> to use paypal, how to receive money with it etc... 

I hope he made a decent profit. ^ ^;

> He didn't knew
> english very well, so it was a bit hard for him. Btw he managed to make
> it work :p
> 
> I think that japanese ppl use a kind of auction service like paypal, on
> Yahoo Auction Japan, located at http://payment.yahoo.co.jp/

That seems to be specifically and only for Yahoo auctions, so not
quite like Paypal.
 
> Paypal seems very unpopular in japan, every seller i dealt with was
> saying "Don't want to use Paypal, please use international bank money
> transfer etc...".
> 
> By the way i didn't wanted to use International bank money transfer,
> cause my bank charge me huge fees for those kind of transfer and for
> currency exachange (euros to yens) too.

Hmm.
 
> So i learned them of to make an account :p And i explained them that i
> was paying them FIRST, before they send the item, so no risk at all :)
> And i also paid all paypal fees (i kindly added 3.4% + 0.25usd to each
> payments). Also gave her my ebay feedback page (got 100% positive
> rating) so they trusted me :p

So basically "Individual Japanese can be successfully persuaded to use 
Paypal with some effort."

Thanks for the information.