I think I need to clarify something here. Being Japanese I often bought stuff on Yahoo Japan auctions and had family ship me stuff to America.
But one thing Yahoo Japan has plenty of is bootleggers from China and Thailand. They open like 10 accounts at a time and swap feedback among them, making themselve very suspicious. So when I saw that guy's feedback I was suspicious. Look at it:
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=270003113503
His feedback is only 14, he has two praises from people with 1 feedback, one of who is no longer registered. One negative says "Not trustworthy. I bought as is, but he lied about the as is. BEWARE!!!!!!!!!!!!"
Now look at the feedback of other person,
http://feedback.ebay.com/ws/eBayISA...s/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewFeedback&userid=drac05ula
This person also used to sell those Elmos. Look! There's that nicosinatra again in the feedback. Also a negative from puppetmancan. That negative says: "beware! not what described. He did offer to upgrade, but wanted $300 extra."
It looks like drac and asia are the same person. So maybe the guy is a good puppet maker but all this cloak and dagger stuff with forged feedback and name changing doesn't make me exactly jump at the chance to buy from him...
I think some people have ordered from him on this forum, and that's fine, I just wanted to say it is hard to send money to someone without getting facts and references. I'd only buy using escrow, from this type of seller.