Yeah shipping is going to suck. I'm willing to do budget options there but eBay sellers don't really want to of course, and I can understand why. The US sellers tend to bake Japanese shipping into the cost of the unit and I'd rather order from Japan than support some random a$$hole that imports systems in bulk.
As long as it's not the first motherboard I'm pretty much good with it. I'd even take one w/o HDMI. Of course, asking Japanese sellers to check what revision the console they have for sale hasn't yielded any responses yet which is also a big part of what drove me to make this thread.