Japanese shopping deputy services

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Ever heard of some websites like Shopping Mall Japan, Noppin, FromJapan and White Rabbit Japan, which allow you to purchase products from Japan and ship them to the deputy services I mentioned, before they ship them right toward you? My parents recently began distrusting them, due to hackers recently stealing credit card and even PayPal info. They also are afraid that the items we ordered will probably get lost, just like when I purchased Fire Emblem: Fuuin no Tsurugi (a.k.a. Fire Emblem 6).

Recently, when I purchased the Asuka 120% BURNING Fest. FM Towns poster for 1000 yen + extra fees and shipping, my parents became a little upset and my stepmother closed her PayPal account after "Charge 1 Payment" was made. When "Charge 2 Payment" (shipping) was started by FromJapan.co.jp (the deputy service I used), I had to use mine and my father's credit card and it didn't work, while the credit union it is associated with called my father by his cell phone and told him his card was being used. We had to ask a credit union representative to allow it to pay for "Charge 2 Payment" (shipping), and it worked. From then on, my parents began to distrust Japanese deputy services and want to only purchase in North America (especially in the U.S.).

If I can't get my parents to allow me to purchase even very rare Japanese products like the 3-disk version of Asuka 120% BURNING Fest. for the FM Towns (which hasn't even been dumped online due to unusual copy protection), then what should I do? If I show them your replies to this thread, they'll look at you all as strangers, but so is 95% of the Internet.

I should probably mention first that I'm not sure what you should do about that predicament. Sorry for the lack of usefulness in my reply!

Huh. I don't think I've heard of those. I have heard of some Japanese imports sites, but I forget what they're called and have never ordered from them. Thanks so much for the sketchiness note though! What sites have you ordered from that are good?

That's why you use a virtual credit card number instead of your real one.

Its essentially an online version of a prepaid visa card.

It generates a random CC# for you and you put into that card an amount and the time period in which the money is available in the card (1 to 10 days). You can also put a limit on how much can be charged per attempt and how many attempts to charge per day.

This way you can purchase knowing that if the site is a scam/fake you only lose whatever you put into that card and not a cent more. I've had websites try to charge $400 for a $10 purchase and the virtual card declined it. Then they tried to charge $10 ten times and it blocked them on the 2nd attempt. I was out of $10 but that was it. The rest of the cash I put into it was safe.