Consumer Warning · Automotive Body Kit Import

I paid Sorcery.jp / Takanori Inoue ¥1,355,500 for a body kit in March 2024. I never received it, and I was never refunded.

Item: Sorcery.jp
Author: Corey Brett

This page documents my own personal experience ordering from sorcery.jp (Osaka, Japan), operated by Takanori Inoue. I'm publishing the timeline, the payment evidence, and the communications I received, so other buyers can make an informed decision before sending money. I've also linked to other public reports describing similar experiences.

Amount paid

¥1,355,500
(AUD $14,631.91)

Payment date

19 Mar 2024

Time since payment

—

Product received

None

Refund received

None

Summary

In March 2024 I paid Takanori Inoue of Sorcery.jp ¥1,355,500 (AUD $14,631.91) by direct international bank transfer for a body kit. I was quoted a 2–2.5 month production time. Sixteen months on, I have received no product, no meaningful update, and no refund. Communication dropped to sporadic, vague "still in production" replies — while, based on a follow-up enquiry I made under a different name in early 2025, Sorcery.jp appeared to still be actively marketing and taking on new orders.

I'm not the only one reporting this. See Other reported cases below for links to a forum-organised class action effort involving multiple buyers.

Timeline of my order

5 March 2024

Initial enquiry sent about body kit options. Received a prompt reply with pricing for different configurations.

5–19 March 2024

Numerous emails back and forth with Inoue to finalise the exact kit specification and pricing.

19 March 2024

Paid in full via direct international bank transfer — ¥1,355,500 (AUD $14,631.91) — to the account details below.

11 April 2024

Inoue advised that production time is normally around 2 to 2.5 months.

22 April 2024

Followed up and received the reply quoted below, giving a delivery window of late June–early July.

"Hi, Mr. Corey Brett,
Thank you for your Email.
I checked the factory(person in charge).
delivery date >> Late Jun - Early July
It is now at work, Please wait.
Best Regards,
Inoue" — Email reply, 22 April 2024

The stated delivery window passed with no product and no further proactive update.

Mid–late 2024

Repeatedly followed up over several months. Around 90% of my emails were ignored outright. When replies did come — every few months — they consistently claimed the order was still "in production" and asked for more time, with no evidence offered.

Early 2025

I submitted a fresh, unrelated order enquiry through my partner's account to see whether Sorcery.jp was still trading normally. It was answered promptly and normally, as if to a new customer — indicating the business was continuing to solicit and accept new orders and payments while my order from a year earlier remained undelivered and unrefunded.

Today

No product. No refund. No substantive response.

Payment evidence

Transfer confirmation details from the bank transfer I made on 19 March 2024:

Status	Submitted
Receipt no.	C079401148906
Transaction date & time	Tue 19 Mar 2024, 1:24pm (Sydney/Melbourne time)
Amount	AUD $14,631.91 → JPY ¥1,355,500 (rate: 1 AUD = 92.64 JPY)
Transfer fee	AUD $0.00
Beneficiary bank	Sumitomo Mitsui Banking Corporation, Marunouchi, Chiyoda, Japan
Bank / SWIFT code	SMBCJPJTXXX
Payee account number	1531862
Payee name	Takanori Inoue
Payee location	Osaka, Japan
Reference	"Supplier Invoice" / "corey brett"

Sharing these details so other buyers can recognise the same account or name if approached, and so this report can be independently verified.

Other reported cases

I'm not aware of any way to independently confirm every detail in these reports, but multiple other buyers have described strikingly similar experiences with Sorcery.jp / Takanori Inoue in public forum threads, including an effort to coordinate a class action and pursue the matter with Japanese authorities:

NSX Prime — "Sorcery.JP - Class Action Lawsuit"

Multiple buyers describe paying for wide-body kits via PayPal in 2023–2024, never receiving the merchandise, and being ignored once the PayPal dispute window closed. Describes efforts to organise a civil class action and pursue criminal complaints via a contact in Japan.

NSX Prime — "Sorcery.jp"

Further buyer reports, including a claim of losing around $6,000 on a body kit order. Notes that some kits have reportedly reached other customers, so outcomes appear inconsistent — and that at least one buyer says they recovered their funds through a dispute process.

These are third-party reports I did not write and can't personally vouch for beyond what's visible in the threads — read them yourself and draw your own conclusions.

If this has happened to you

Check whether your payment method still allows a dispute (PayPal, credit card chargeback). Bank wire transfers, like mine, generally offer far fewer protections — which is worth knowing before paying this way for an overseas order.
Read the NSX Prime threads linked above and consider adding your account — the more documented reports there are, the stronger any collective legal action becomes.
Keep every email, receipt, and screenshot. Consistent, dated records are what make a report credible and useful to others (and to authorities, if you pursue that route).
Consider reporting to your local consumer protection agency and, since the seller is based in Japan, to Japanese consumer/police authorities as well.