Chinese/taiwanese Pen Markets

[mke]

Are Japanese fountain pens a must have in China or Taiwan?

Would people from there pay lots of money for a used Japanese pen?

 

Reason for the question:

Since several months, very aggressive buyers can be seen on Yahoo Auctions. They just buy everything which looks OK or which is cheap.

The buyers often have large numbers of buys - in the thousands. Proxy services usually have 10000+ buys. Either this are new proxies or buyers from outside of Japan.

Some speculations are that these are Chinese/Taiwanese buyers re-selling the pens in China/Taiwan.

Could this be true?

Where do Chinese/Taiwanese buy used stuff like fountain pens?

 

I know that there are Taiwanese sites which mirror what is going on on Yahoo Auctions. Sometimes I found stuff which I didn't find on Yahoo directly.

 

Thanks for any insights.

Edited February 4, 2018 by mke

[hungrynerd]

Not sure about Taiwanese, but I've seen 2nd hand pens on Taobao for Chinese buyers.

[Mech-for-i]

While there certainly is an ongoing hype on Japanese pens aming the wider Asian and not just China Taiwan market. The emphasis is on those specialty NM nibs and limited editions not vintage but with such an influx of interest its not surprising that the demand on the end user collectors side could see likewise increase in volume and that reflect the case no less most of these new comers are well ofg yuppie generation who could care less but want the toy NOW ...