ALLENNOKISI ! I dont know how I missed this thread the first time around, but I did. And another thank you to Tomcat, who was very helpful in my hunt for the W2002's. And johnnylexus, thanks! I'll post a bunch of stuff about them soon.
Yes I am getting the W2002's, and in fact I got an email late last night (Singapore is 15 hours ahead of me) that they finally shipped! So I was going to post about how happy I was about that when I discovered this VERY helpful and informative post.
The story on my ATH-W2002's so far is:
Suggested retail is 100,000 yen -but- A/T lets distributers discount off that, so I payed much less. Trouble was, I only found ONE place that would ship them to me, and we had already agreed to the full price before I later discovered the discount available on another website. Lucky for me they agreed to match the lower price I found elsewhere. Whew! That saved me a bundle. I already have a girl here who speaks Japanese who will translate the manual for me (since I'm almost certain it is a Japanese language only manual) and I'll post the info here and on my website when I get it.
They already left Singapore! I'm really excited. UPS only offers one type of service from there, and it only takes 3 days to boot! So if everything goes well I should have my new cans on Wednesday.
I have the tracking number, so I'm planning on getting them from the UPS station as soon as they land in town.
Thanks again allennokisi, you're input was very appreciated.