Archive for the ‘Buying geta’ category

The Well Dressed Tengu

July 23rd, 2009

Many Japanese language internet searches for geta and other products return results from Rakuten.co.jp. Similar to Yahoo! Shopping, Rakuten provides a consolidated search and shopping cart service for their many merchants. Until recently, the entire site was in Japanese with no provisions for international shipping — at least not to my feeble Japanese language ability.
Recently, [...]

Megumi Matsuriya

May 12th, 2009

Megumi Matsuriya is an online geta shop that recently started appearing in searches. They have an attractive site, good prices, great geta, and good service in English.
Unfortunately, like most geta shops in Japan, they have a very limited selection of sizes. The size chart on their site shows conversions for up to 30 cm geta, [...]

Problem: you want to get geta but are afraid to use a credit card online or don’t even have one.
I teach how to buy and sell on eBay at a local night school. One problem that comes up occasionally is I have a student who does not want to use their credit card online. I [...]

Stylish geta

August 16th, 2008

“Rare and Unique Geta,” perhaps you’ve seen them listed on eBay or in The Geta Bazaar. They’re made and sold by eBay seller, Wind_n_Cloud, who is located in Malaysia.
At the time I first decided to buy a pair, all the pairs listed were in women’s sizes and painted with flowers. The listing said they could, [...]

Wooden Things by Famolare

July 3rd, 2008

Joseph P. Famolare was born into a third generation shoe making family in 1932, and founded his own company, Famolare, Inc., in 1969. In the 1970’s Famolare produced a line of shoes called Wooden Things by Famolare.
The Wooden Things line included platform clogs, clog soled boots, clogs and boots based on an all wood shoe [...]

$15 Geta

May 20th, 2008

If you’ve shopped online for geta, you’ve probably run into them. They’re sold by The House of Rice, Asian Ideas, Asian Import Store, Amazon.com, eBay, and our own JapaneseGetaShop.com. They’re available with either red or black straps, and in two sizes: 9 1/2 and 10 inches (24 and 25.5 cm), and prices range from $14.95 [...]