Our Story

Nanboya is an international luxury goods buying company with over 10 years of experience. It is also the main subsidiary of the Valuence Group, with more than 100 buying offices in the world. The Valuence Group was founded by Shinsuke Sakimoto. He was a professional midfielder in the J-League football team Gamba Osaka. After retiring from his sporting career, he decided to work at his father’s recycling shop. During this experience, he realised the huge potential in the market of pre-loved luxury items and that is why in 2007 he decided to open a luxury item buying shop in the Kansai region of Japan.  He later named it Nanboya, which means “how much” in the regional dialect. Being a midfielder, he knew how important it is to read the game and the players before choosing the next move. He shot and scored: In 2011, he founded SOU inc. (now Valuence Holdings Inc.) and invested in buying offices all over Japan, incorporating antiques and art into his inventory. In the same year, he led Valuence to an IPO on the Tokyo Stock Exchange. All these accomplishments are just the beginning since Shinsuke Sakimoto keeps working and leading his team in the expansion of Nanboya and Valuence into APAC, the US and Europe.

Who We Are?

We are pre-loved luxury items buyers: watches, designer bags, branded jewellery and even precious metals. The value of unused luxury goods in Japan alone can reach trillions of yen. In other words, based on the estimation, Japan has an enormous untapped mine of value capable of moving the needle on our economy. Shinsuke Sakimoto understood the big potential and fully embraced the opportunity: he thought of using this unused value to enter the luxury goods trading market and that's how Nanboya was born. Nowadays, websites for selling second-hand items are becoming increasingly popular but despite this, many people are still reluctant to resell their items, especially their luxury goods. At Nanboya we understand the emotions involved in this process, each product has its own story, and it can be really hard to let it go. Therefore we always seek to make the selling process as easy and fast as we can, while still offering the best possible prices. Nanboya has teams of top experts that will make sure to give our customers the most accurate value assessment. These teams include watchmakers with over 30 years of experience, internationally recognised gemologists and specialists with great experience and knowledge about luxury bags, shoes and accessories. Since you play at the rhythm that you train at, all of these professionals receive continuous and consistent mentoring and evaluation for optimising our customer service and satisfaction.

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