Hi JP,
I’m glad you have enjoyed using our service, and thank you for the feedback! We have considered the idea of offering a “frequent buyers” membership, whereby members can sign up on a monthly basis and receive a certain amount of auction wins at a much discounted rate.
We realize that the $10 basic fee can be pretty expensive, particularly for small items that are really small or cheap (100-200 yen or so). We’d love to offer a system in the future that will allow people to buy these things simply and not get bogged down by all the bank transfer fees and the other stuff that we have to deal with each Yahoo Auction purchase, and a frequent-buyer program may just be the ticket!
It would likely be a while before we can implement such a system, as we are still working hard to get our new website up and running. Once things are running smoothly with kuboTEN 2.0 though we would likely be able to plan for new things like this.