About Oshi
Why a marketplace only for 推し merch
On a general marketplace, a badge from one event in one city competes for attention with phone cases and used furniture. The person who would have paid for it never sees it, and it sells for nothing or not at all. Oshi is small on purpose: everything here is merch, so the people searching are the people who were looking for exactly this.
Why an auction
Nobody knows what a limited acrylic stand is worth — there is no list price for something that was made once. An auction asks the only people whose answer matters. It also gives the seller a deadline, which is what turns a box in a closet into a listing.
Why we stop at the introduction
We do not take payment or hold money. That means no fees carved out of a ¥2,000 badge, and no third party deciding who was right about a package. It also means the two of you have to be able to trust each other, which is what the ratings are for.
Why both sides are rated
A buyer who disappears after winning costs a seller as much as a seller who never ships. So sellers and buyers carry separate ratings out of five, and each can be read on its own — you are not judged as a seller by how you behaved while bidding.
Why a seller can turn bids away
A seller can decline bids from buyers with no rating or with a poor one, and can strike a bid out and bar its author. Shipping something fragile across the country to a stranger is a risk the seller carries alone, so the decision is theirs.
Why distance is a filter
Some things are better handed over than posted — fragile, heavy, or simply not worth the postage. Search is centred on wherever you say you are, ten kilometres out by default.