Hi,

Can anyone help me out here?

I'm after sliding gloves and found some gravity ones online at Deuxnee. Anyone out there know of other online retailers where I can shop around, compare prices etc?

R

Yup Deuxnee is the source for Gravity in Japan. They are the exclusive distributor for Gravity as well so everything from Gravity enters Japan through them even if someone else sells it. I have never seen any sliding gloves anywhere in stores in Japan so that might be your only domestic option anyway.

I am not sure what the Deuxnee price point is but one option is to ship from the Gravity site to an address in North America then either pick them up when yourself sometime or have someone send them here. A set of gloves can fit in a smaller mail pack so should be about $12 to send. If you can stand the wait this is often better than paying 2-3x's North American retail price of many Japanese stores.

Thanks, I guess that's what I expected.

Have you ever shipped a oard from the US?

Deux Nee has the gloves for around 5000 yen, which isn't the usual 2-3x mark up... so I suppose the price is gonna work out about the same...

Meanwhile...

What do you reckon sliding gloves are called in Japanese? You reckon it would be a katakana thing? Or a combo (as in gloves and "slide") of kanji and kana...

I'm not quite ready to give up yet though, so I'll keep looking around and report back if I find anything useful.

Sorry for the delay on this. Didn't see it till now. That's a decent price on the gloves since all leather products get hit with this tariff since Japan has a leather industry.

I think your safe with Katakana on the sliding gloves but might be best to get a back-up description in mind.

Shipping single boards is costly $50-$70 before and maybe more with the fuel surcharges etc. That said the you could order now ship by surface and it will arrive just after rainy season wraps up.

The best option by far is have it shipped to an address and bring it back with you. I've done that with a ton of stuff including about 80lbs worth of Randal trucks. My Japanese boss carried back about 4 sets for me. Stellar guy!