External Sales • Locating stuff on Yahoo Auctions Japan

[ArcadeOtaku]

It does depend on what you're looking for. High ticket items you won't get any bargains these days, so say goodbye to cheap arcade PCBs.

For consoles and games you might still get a bargain here and there.. but with the hassle of using a proxy service and the fees they incur there's probably no point.

I still browse it now and again just to see what might pop up. (it's been a few years since I've actually bought anything though!)It's crazy how there's just no safe spaces left out there anymore online, back in the day you could leave ebay and go to a local flea market, or YAJ, or a forum and now they are all the same most of the time, someone anywhere on Earth will be trying to price gouge their special item. The years I spent in the Nippon or took vacays there I got spoiled shopping in stores where they basically couldnt give some things away, it was junk, got entire games for $1. Take junk online now it's top dollar, even the local stores there know the foreign resellers that buy all their boards to flip. I would still take a trip there with 10k spending money if I wanted to buy a PCB collection and you'd get way more for the money. I still find deals shopping music stores or using ebay for albums, but damn gaming is like one giant overpriced flea market dealer.

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