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I've surmised it's different people looking to sell the same guitar via Ebay (ie The West) for a profit on what they pay to obtain them at home (ie Japan). However, they don't seem to actually bother purchasing them in the first place until they get a buyer on Ebay. This obviously can and does go wrong - eg they have to cancel the Ebay transaction because the guitar is no longer available. This leads to negative feedback, which after enough, leads to the junking of the account and the process starting again.
"The pictures in the listings are of the actual item so please have a look for an idea of the cosmetic condition."
Ad 1, £1592.34 from Ishibashi, Shibuya
https://www.ebay.com/itm/274354926940
Ad 2, £1392.10 from Ishibashi, Shibuya
https://www.ebay.com/itm/283922909211
https://www.ishibashi-music.jp/category/select/cid/547/pid/19595
The Microsoft Translate wording is great!
A few years back I bought quite a lot of guitars from Japan, but this was in the days before this phenomenon of multiple eBay sellers listing the same guitar (also before the prices went up enormously!).
The people I bought from were genuine sellers who actually had the guitars they were offering - and you could tell because all the pictures of their different guitars were taken in the same locations.
I don't think most of these guys are actually crooks, trying to rip people off or sell them fakes. They're just trying to attract buyers. If you contact them and ask about a guitar, they'll say they don't actually have it but can get hold of the same model, or they'll try to sell you something similar which they do have in stock.
I've dealt with Ishibashi too, again a number of years ago. It was a bit of a faff, they'd correspond by email but you'd deal with one person so it worked quite well. And you couldn't just pay on the website, they'd email a link for you to make payment. Things may have moved on from that now.
But the whole pricing thing is just bizarre, I have to say.
Nowadays if I get an eBay notification for something interesting and it's in Japan, I just think fuck it, too complicated.