Guide for Sellers

Please first create an account.

To list an item, you must create an account. To only list items, there is no charge upon creating an account. However, in order to make and win bids, credit card authentication and a 500JPY charge are required.

To list a product in an auction

After creating your account, fill in the exhibition product listing application form from My Page to create and print the application, or print out and fill in the PDF application, enclose it in the bottle you want to list, and send it to "Whisky Auction Japan, 58 Enshoji-cho, Okazaki, Sakyo-ku, Kyoto 606-8344."
Domestic listers can send the item cash-on-delivery via our designated shipping services. Our company will bear the shipping costs. To request a shipping kit (packaging material, invoice, application form), please do so from My Page. After receipt of the item, we will upload it to My Page in about 7 days.
Overseas listers are responsible for shipping costs. Any customs duties will be offset by the winning bid amount. Shipping kits cannot be sent overseas. We ask for your understanding.
Please feel free to contact us with any questions.

Listing commission

10% of the winning bid amount and associated consumption tax will be charged as the winning bid commission. However, if we do not receive notice in advance concerning re-listing, withdrawal, etc., a fee may be charged.
In addition, a minimum bid price can be specified for 500JPY/bid.
Click here for the listing application form.
Click here to fill out the PDF listing application.
*When sending a bottle, please print out and enclose the listing application form each time.

Items that can be listed

Unopened whiskey bottles (any size or age), other bottles of distilled liquor, whiskey-related items (glasses, other valuable items)

Items that cannot be listed

Opened bottles, bottles with apparent leaks, unsealed bottles, bottles filled by individuals rather than sellers, other items deemed unfit for auction
Please feel free to contact us with any questions here.

Shipping company, packing materials

Accepted by Sagawa Express, Kuroneko Yamato.
For packing materials, please request a shipping kit (packing materials, invoice, application form) from My Page, or prepare a cardboard box and cushioning material on your own, and sending the item securely protected. The deadline for acceptance of listing will be the date of arrival at our company, so please send the item in time.

Auction schedule

Bottles that do not meet the deadline for acceptance of listing will be posted in the next auction. In addition, bottles that do not reach the minimum bid price can be returned or re-listed in the next auction.

Date and time of end of auction

The auction will end at a date and time specified in advance by our company. If a bid is entered within 5 minutes before the scheduled ending time, the system will automatically extend the time for 5 minutes.

Receiving the payment

After the end of the auction, after confirming payment by the buyer, the amount after deduction of the commission (including consumption tax) will be credited to the specified account within one week.