I know too many JV-lovers in The Netherland and imho the prices are too high.
Just too bully those guys a bit, I had the title 'JV sceptic' in my facebook name for a while
They are great instruments, similar to good Japanese ones, so also to some US ones (*). My problem is that some people almosty claim there's fluid gold coming out of the jack output or if you play one you're better than Pino, without any lessons. Okay, I'm exaggerating, but imho it's not the miracle bass some people claim. Just good to very good.
(* )I had a bad MIA Fender, an okay MIA Fender, a mediocre/bad CIJ, some very good MIMs and a great Chinese (!) Fender. So I don't really care about the country of origin.