Hello all. Just thought I would introduce myself before I do anything else. My name is Don. I've lived in Japan since I was 18 years old. April of this year marked my 20th year here (yeah, that's 38 years old if you don't have the calc handy...hehe). I've had 3 jobs during my time here...the first 3 years was in the U.S. Military. The next 13 years was spent as the owner/operator of an English school mainly geared towards teaching children. During the last couple of years of teaching English I started getting into selling JDM parts as a side business. I've always been a bit of a motor head so dealing with cars/parts was more of a hobby for me than anything. I was into drifting for a couple of years during that time, also. Here is a link to the Nissan Cefiro that I put together from scratch...it took a long time to get it right...piece by piece, bit by bit (warning...the web page was originally made to help sell the Cefiro when I decide to get out of drifting so it sounds more like a sales pitch than anything...but here it is: http://www.newageenglish.com/vids/SR20DETCEFIRO/cefiroe.html
After a couple of years selling JDM parts on the side, I decided I really enjoyed working with cars more than I did kids (I know...it's sounds heartless, but you try working with 2-10 year olds every day for 13 years...) and closed down my school to take up JDM as my only source of income. I've been doing it now for 4 years, full time.
I initially only sold parts to buyers in North America with some random sales in other countries such as the U.K., Germany, France, Australia, New Zealand Italy, etc... I branched out and starting selling items on Australia, Germany and U.K. eBay. My next step is to get my own website up and running so that I can stop selling on flea bay (yeah...I don't like that place either) but I haven't been able to find the time to do it (I've been saying this for years...sigh). I made a site about 6 years ago called JDMbay but I just didn't have the initiative to keep it up. Hopefully I can get that going again, someday.
Well, to the reason why I am here at your Micra forums...I just realized, about 3 weeks ago, that the Nissan March was a popular car in Europe. I had NO idea. I started researching which JDM parts, if any, were wanted items. Come to find out that there are quite a bit of them being sought after. I sold a few parts a couple of weeks back to buyers in the U.K. after posting them on U.K. eBay. After seeing the number of members at this site it's safe to say that those buyers are more than likely members here.
After those inital sales I started looking at March's with more detail...then I came across the IMPUL MARCH that some of you have seen, already. I obtained a number of other parts from both pre-facelift and facelift models and I have almost all of them currently posted on U.K. eBay and Australia eBay. The final two parts that I have available will be posted in the next few hours.
I am currently the member of many other vehicle specific forums in the U.S., U.K., Germany and Australia. I realize that different sites have differnt ways of doing things. I hope to get in line with your site as soon as possible while stepping on as few toes as possible (prior apologies for any mistakes I may make, initially). This is, what I hope to be, the start of a very long relationship with the members here at Micra Sports Club.
I'll see you around the forums!
After a couple of years selling JDM parts on the side, I decided I really enjoyed working with cars more than I did kids (I know...it's sounds heartless, but you try working with 2-10 year olds every day for 13 years...) and closed down my school to take up JDM as my only source of income. I've been doing it now for 4 years, full time.
I initially only sold parts to buyers in North America with some random sales in other countries such as the U.K., Germany, France, Australia, New Zealand Italy, etc... I branched out and starting selling items on Australia, Germany and U.K. eBay. My next step is to get my own website up and running so that I can stop selling on flea bay (yeah...I don't like that place either) but I haven't been able to find the time to do it (I've been saying this for years...sigh). I made a site about 6 years ago called JDMbay but I just didn't have the initiative to keep it up. Hopefully I can get that going again, someday.
Well, to the reason why I am here at your Micra forums...I just realized, about 3 weeks ago, that the Nissan March was a popular car in Europe. I had NO idea. I started researching which JDM parts, if any, were wanted items. Come to find out that there are quite a bit of them being sought after. I sold a few parts a couple of weeks back to buyers in the U.K. after posting them on U.K. eBay. After seeing the number of members at this site it's safe to say that those buyers are more than likely members here.
After those inital sales I started looking at March's with more detail...then I came across the IMPUL MARCH that some of you have seen, already. I obtained a number of other parts from both pre-facelift and facelift models and I have almost all of them currently posted on U.K. eBay and Australia eBay. The final two parts that I have available will be posted in the next few hours.
I am currently the member of many other vehicle specific forums in the U.S., U.K., Germany and Australia. I realize that different sites have differnt ways of doing things. I hope to get in line with your site as soon as possible while stepping on as few toes as possible (prior apologies for any mistakes I may make, initially). This is, what I hope to be, the start of a very long relationship with the members here at Micra Sports Club.
I'll see you around the forums!
