Buying A Cartridge Direct From Japan

Thank you I had not considered that problem.

First thing first. I think that any parents and/or educational system should teach their kids the English language. Not in order to promote Anglo/American imperialism but to give those kids the wordlwide access to information and communication. It is obvious that Japanese
have deviant opininon in this regard. Their old traditions are , it seems, more important for them. But then this huge Ogura company is not able to answer any of my 5 emails while J. Carr who lives there warned me about communication in English with the Japanese.
The intermediary. We in Holland are not able to approach Van den Hul direct. We need some dealer as an intermediary. What is the job of such a intermediary? He is a 'hatch' between the customer and the 'producer'. I need to post my cart to some dealer who will post the same cart to Van den Hul then receive the cart from Van den Hul and than post the cart to me. For this 'service' I of course need to pay this dealer. To me this make no
sense at all. So I never used Van den Hul's nor his dealer's services but prefer to post my carts direct to Axel. Whoever prefer to do this otherwise is probaly smarter than I.

What is the job of such a intermediary?

To deal with all the general questions and eliminate the time wasters, thereby allowing Van den Hul to concentrate on fixing cartridges.

For any American kettle to call any others countries pot black is the very acme of hubris.

Really........Schubert "For any American kettle to call any others countries pot black is the very acme of hubris." Hubris I like that.

Hubris: In ancient Greek, hubris referred to actions that shamed and humiliated the victim for the pleasure or gratification of the abuser. The term had a strong sexual connotation. In Greek literature, hubris usually refers to infractions by mortals against other mortals. Therefore, it is now generally agreed that the Greeks did not generally think of hubris as a religious matter, still less that it was normally punished by the gods.

As a direct nemesis and in a very Japanese way of thinking I say shame, shame, shame on you Japan.