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To include watermelons and cantaloupes...what's the deal with them? I heard they are extremely expensive in Japan, although they are supposed to have incredible flavor.

Has anyone in Japan ever considered buying melons from someone in the U.S. and reselling them? Granted, the flavor would be less, but the selling price could be less too, while still making a huge profit because of buying them from America at a price that next-to-nothing.

Anybody from Japan ever consider this?
 
Nothing is simple anymore.

With the sky high price of fuels, shipping by plane or boat would add to their cost. Then there are almost always strict import laws on food products. Probably the growers of fruit inside Japan would have protection from cheap imports or would demand it. My guess would be that for a number of reasons, your idea would be blocked.

Uncle Frank

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A cheap melon is already imported from U.S.A. and Mexico.
A high-quality melon is exported from Japan.
 
Yes, they are expensive.
Taste? Good but I wouldn't say incredible. Just like home. Of course, the Japanese will tell you they are incredible.
 
Uncle Frank said:
With the sky high price of fuels, shipping by plane or boat would add to their cost.
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But no where near enough to equal the cost of the final sale that is the typical price in Japan.


Then there are almost always strict import laws on food products. Probably the growers of fruit inside Japan would have protection from cheap imports or would demand it.
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This could be an issue, but not an issue that couldn't be worked out.


My guess would be that for a number of reasons, your idea would be blocked.
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Only when people try their darndest to find reasons to make it not work, instead of trying to find reasons to make it work.

Hiroyuki Nagashima said:
A cheap melon is already imported from U.S.A. and Mexico.
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I did not know that. If that is the case, how come I never hear of "cheap melons" in Japan? I only hear of melons that cost between $100-$600 dollars?
 
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DRK said:
I did not know that. If that is the case, how come I never hear of "cheap melons" in Japan? I only hear of melons that cost between $100-$600 dollars?
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Have you actually ever been to Japan? While it's possible to find the $100 melons you mentioned these are luxury items meant to be given as gifts to show status not fruit that people eat on a daily basis.

Most supermarket melons are about $10, certainly expensive when compared with the US, but probably not enough of a price difference to make a killing when you factor in shipping, taxes etc.
 
DRK said:
I did not know that. If that is the case, how come I never hear of "cheap melons" in Japan? I only hear of melons that cost between $100-$600 dollars?
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Wow. ☝

For the same reason you don't see middle class white people getting speeding tickets on COPS.
 
becki_kanou said:
Have you actually ever been to Japan?
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No, that would be why I am asking the question I asked.



That's good to know. I had no idea such non-luxury melons existed in Japan.

JimmySeal said:
Wow. ☝
For the same reason you don't see middle class white people getting speeding tickets on COPS.
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What reason would that be?
 
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