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Title: WTB: OK, I need a new game or two
Post by: SignOfZeta on February 10, 2012, 07:46:50 PM
Looking for good deals on these games:
Macross: 2036 Nexzer (prefer the original, but special is OK as well) Soldier Blade Kaze Kiri Flash Hiders Seiya Monogatari (An Earth Fantasy Stories) Blood Gear Cosmic Fantasy 4 (both) Dragon Ball Z Startling Odyssey II Forgotten Worlds Kabuki Itoryodan Marchen Maze Aurora Quest PC Denjin Valis (any) Blue Blink Yawara! 2 Bubblegum Crash Popful Mail Snatcher Snatcher Pilot Disk Spriggen Spriggen MKII Ys III
Condition must be at least B, do not need obi, reply card, or rotting foam thing. Do need everything else though. Not interested in US versions.
Edit: removed items already found.
Title: Re: WTB: OK, I need a new game or two
Post by: blueraven on February 10, 2012, 08:11:38 PM
I'll let you know if I have an extra Kabuki. I seem to recall having a dupe in storage.
Title: Re: WTB: OK, I need a new game or two
Post by: HercTNT on February 10, 2012, 08:57:35 PM
Zeta, oddly enough that friend of mine has Kabuki Itoryodan. I dont think he likes it all that much, I can ask him if hes interested in selling it if you want.
Title: Re: WTB: OK, I need a new game or two
Post by: BigusSchmuck on February 11, 2012, 04:41:31 AM
Macross: 2036 Nexzer (prefer the original, but special is OK as well) Soldier Blade Kaze Kiri Flash Hiders Seiya Monogatari (An Earth Fantasy Stories) Blood Gear Cosmic Fantasy 4 (both) Dragon Ball Z Startling Odyssey II Forgotten Worlds Kabuki Itoryodan Marchen Maze Aurora Quest PC Denjin Valis (any) Wataru Blue Blink Yawara! 2 Bubblegum Crash Victory Run Popful Mail Snatcher Snatcher Pilot Disk Blodia Spriggen Spriggen MKII Ys III Yu Yu Kakusho
Condition must be at least B, do not need obi, reply card, or rotting foam thing. Do need everything else though. Not interested in US versions.
Zeta, I have Dragon Ball Z up for trade. Check out my thread: https://www.pcenginefx.com/forums/index.php?topic=10924.0 I can provide pics if you want em.
Title: Re: WTB: OK, I need a new game or two
Post by: esteban on February 11, 2012, 03:26:12 PM
Zeta, I have duplicates of Soldier Blade, Forgotten Worlds, Air Zonk, Valis II & III, Victory Run that I will give you for postage.
Oh... wait. They are U.S. versions.
My bad.
Title: Re: WTB: OK, I need a new game or two
Post by: arromdee on February 12, 2012, 12:26:08 PM
Here's where I point out rakuten again. They have Blodia for 41 cents.
Also a number of other ones but you'll have to go through the listings and look.
Interesting. I've placed a smallish order to test out this service. Very little info is given on the items for sale so actual condition is a gamble, as is whatever they are going to charge me for shipping.
My favorite thing about their website was the following statement from the individual store about international shipping:
"I cannot deliver the following articles internationally. ・A storehouse article in the lithium ion battery ・A cake ・An import ban product"
Thank god I already have all the cake I need.
Thanks to this store and a couple of purchases from other members I think I'm good for now. I'll bump this thread when I'm in the market again (probably a couple of weeks).
Title: Re: WTB: OK, I need a new game or two
Post by: MotherGunner on February 12, 2012, 05:04:08 PM
I knew it was too good to be true. The shipping prices (when I looked up the shipping table) are insane...
Title: Re: WTB: OK, I need a new game or two
Post by: Mathius on February 12, 2012, 05:13:55 PM
Zeta, I have duplicates of Soldier Blade, Forgotten Worlds, Air Zonk, Valis II & III, Victory Run that I will give you for postage.
Oh... wait. They are U.S. versions.
My bad.
Hey I have been looking for Soldier Blade! :D
PM sent (http://junk.tg-16.com/images/pcgs.png)
hmm, does that mean that those are actually up for sale/trade? cause i'm looking for valis 3 and zonk.
sorry to threadjack...
Everything is gone now (several folks inquired as soon as I posted). I was going to offer them to Zeta for free (just shipping), but he wasn't interested.
(http://junk.tg-16.com/images/pcgs.png)
Title: Re: WTB: OK, I need a new game or two
Post by: soop on February 12, 2012, 09:27:32 PM
Allegedly. As in I think I heard someone mention free shipping somewhere sometime. I have no idea if there is such a thing.
Understood. I wish there was some way of knowing :(
Title: Re: WTB: OK, I need a new game or two
Post by: BuraiFighter on February 13, 2012, 01:30:13 PM
I can vouch for Auc-egames on Rakuten, I bought 6 Famicom carts and the shipping came to £5, also the prices on some of the games were a tenth of the BINs on eBay. I recently made a rather large order with Surugaya-a-too but I've yet to hear back from them on the postage costs, if it's cheap I think the majority of my imports will be from there. They also have some things there I've never seen on eBay like the WonderSwan dev cart.
Title: Re: WTB: OK, I need a new game or two
Post by: arromdee on February 16, 2012, 06:29:37 AM
I Googled rakuten free shipping. As far as I can tell, the free international shipping promotion was for a single 30 hour period in the middle of last June. So there is such a thing, but it probably doesn't happen all that often.
Also, the tenso.com forwarding service is having a 1000 yen shipping promo until the end of the month. I never used their service and I don't know if this also includes handling, but I wish I had known about it before I made my last order. (My last order included a Bubblegum Crisis B-Club Special, which is a book and thus a heavy item. This thing used to go for insane prices among anime fans.)
Title: Re: WTB: OK, I need a new game or two
Post by: SignOfZeta on February 16, 2012, 08:22:59 AM
I can vouch for Auc-egames on Rakuten, I bought 6 Famicom carts and the shipping came to £5, also the prices on some of the games were a tenth of the BINs on eBay. I recently made a rather large order with Surugaya-a-too but I've yet to hear back from them on the postage costs, if it's cheap I think the majority of my imports will be from there. They also have some things there I've never seen on eBay like the WonderSwan dev cart.
Yeah, I bought some stuff from them as well. A bunch of LDs and PCE stuff. Let me know if you hear anything from them. It's only been four days since I placed my order, but they haven't actually charged my card, sent the shipping total, or communicated in any way. I assume the shipping will be very high since they only do EMS, but considering what the cost of the actual items was (nearly zero) it would be very worth it.
Title: Re: WTB: OK, I need a new game or two
Post by: bartre on February 16, 2012, 08:54:50 AM
yeah, keep us posted, rakuten seems nice, but i'm still a little trigger shy, despite there being a few goodies i want.
Title: Re: WTB: OK, I need a new game or two
Post by: BuraiFighter on February 17, 2012, 06:49:49 PM
I finally got some word back from Surugaya asking me to confirm the order before charging me. The shipping came to a whopping £30 for 5 GG carts, 8 PCE cibs, and 1 WS cib. Considering I saved that much money on just several of the games alone I think it was worth it, you just need to take that into consideration when comparing prices. Again Auc-egames uses the far cheaper Airmail so you can get even better deals with them.
Title: Re: WTB: OK, I need a new game or two
Post by: SignOfZeta on February 17, 2012, 08:48:17 PM
I sent Surugaya an email the other day. They replied saying they are "processing" it and to be patient. I ordered approximately one metric f*ck-ton of laserdiscs so I can understand the guy not being able to just pop that shit in an envelope and stick it in the post box.
Its good to know your shipping wasn't *too* bad, although it wasn't that great either. I'm probably going to have to give them $200 or so since I ordered a lot of shit, including three LD boxes that weigh a couple of pounds each. But, like you said, I saved SO MUCH money I don't care.
So now I'm really wondering most about condition. The items were more or less un-described. Sometimes they say "the cover is blue", which I think probably means its sun faded, but that's about it.
Title: Re: WTB: OK, I need a new game or two
Post by: Keith Courage on February 17, 2012, 09:26:01 PM
you should buy 2 games. Not just 1 :-"
Title: Re: WTB: OK, I need a new game or two
Post by: SignOfZeta on February 18, 2012, 08:12:05 PM
Update on Surugaya order by way of Rakuten: As expected, shipping is cataclysmically brutal, but I'm pretty sure I'm not being gouged. Eight LDs, four LD box sets (one is 3 LD, three are 7LD), five PCE games. Total for EMS shipping was 20,060 yen, which is a hell of a lot, but...that's what shit costs. LDs are heavy. Original MSRP on all this shit back in the day was in a few hundred thousand yen, so I'm cool...as long as the items are in good nick when they arrive.
BTW, two items I ordered, an LD box, and the Hori Commander have gone out of stock since I placed my order. That's my only real complaint right now. That, and a lack of a sea mail option. :)
Title: Re: WTB: OK, I need a new game or two
Post by: esteban on February 21, 2012, 11:46:19 PM
Update on Surugaya order by way of Rakuten: As expected, shipping is cataclysmically brutal, but I'm pretty sure I'm not being gouged. Eight LDs, four LD box sets (one is 3 LD, three are 7LD), five PCE games. Total for EMS shipping was 20,060 yen, which is a hell of a lot, but...that's what shit costs. LDs are heavy. Original MSRP on all this shit back in the day was in a few hundred thousand yen, so I'm cool...as long as the items are in good nick when they arrive.
BTW, two items I ordered, an LD box, and the Hori Commander have gone out of stock since I placed my order. That's my only real complaint right now. That, and a lack of a sea mail option. :)
I would have fallen off my chair at 20,000 yen! But, doing some quick math, it doesn't seem too crazy...assuming that the items are in nice condition! I have a feeling that everything will work out for you, if that helps (http://junk.tg-16.com/images/pcgs.png).
Title: Re: WTB: OK, I need a new game or two
Post by: SignOfZeta on February 22, 2012, 05:20:39 AM
OK, I took a gamble with sight unseen merchandise with little to no description and stock photos with huge shipping...
...and it TOTALLY paid off like no other. I'm not even kidding.
As for the PCE games, two ended up being HuCard-only, Victoly Run and Wataru. How are "loose" HuCards created? Same thing with Mega Drive. WTF happens to the cases? This makes sense with shitty US releases that only came in fragile cardboard boxes with art so hideous you'd never want to have the thing in your house without it paying rent, but with JP stuff? Where is a better place for a PCE game than in its own case? I'll just trade these off and buy them again, I guess. Blodia, Askua %120 and Valis III were utterly mint.
For the LDs, the bulk of my purchase, I am f*cking amazed. These things are in better shape than my own collection. The Mobile Suit Gundam boxes are the first print (I think there are 3000 of these) that came with the huge outer box to house the two slightly less huge boxes. Its almost 4" thick, 13 or 14 LDs. HEAVY. I paid ¥1520 for this, btw. When this came out (in 1998, maybe?) it was something like ¥75,000 or so. When they do pop on eBay they still go for $200-500. I payed $20. Insane. I got the second half of the Z Gundam series, and now I wish I had just bought both halves since my Box 1 is kind of rough on the outside. Also I got Aim for the Top (the later boxed release) Chibi Go Nagai World, Wings of Honeamise (TV size version, unfortunately), Unico and the Isle of Magic () Otaku no Video 1982, Plastic Little, Char's Counterattack (reprint), and Tenchi Muyo Sound File. All that, and the games, ¥6,341. Possibly the best deal I've ever made.
Now, will everyone get deals like this? Will anyone else here actually want ancient untranslated anime LDs? Maybe, maybe not. When you buy something "from Rakuten" you are buying from many store fronts. My stuff all came from Surugaya, and despite their non-existent descriptions and tiny stolen Google photos the stuff was all perfect (sans two HuCard cases) as well as almost free. Its kind of like getting something from eBay. Sometimes you are lucky like me, sometimes you are Michael Helgeson and get f*cked daily. I suggest caution. I used no caution though...come to think of it, so I guess I'm being a hypocrite.
BTW, EMS is STUPID FAST. I sent an email confirming I wold pay the shipping cost some time on Sunday. The shit arrived today, Wednesday. ITS EXPENSIVE BECAUSE THEY SHIP VIA TARDIS, obviously.
Title: Re: WTB: OK, I need a new game or two
Post by: nectarsis on February 22, 2012, 05:23:54 AM
NICE on the Gundam LD's...I personally only have 2-3 sets of X myself.
Title: Re: WTB: OK, I need a new game or two
Post by: SignOfZeta on February 22, 2012, 05:29:50 AM
I'm not mature enough to watch X. I decided I hated the MS 15+ years ago and haven't ever given it a fair chance. Of course I hated ∀ MS even more, and that show's pretty great. I hated Macross 7 even more than that, but it eventually became one of my favorite shows of all time. Eventually I'll probably give X a shot.
Title: Re: WTB: OK, I need a new game or two
Post by: nectarsis on February 22, 2012, 05:43:14 AM
I'm not mature enough to watch X. I decided I hated the MS 15+ years ago and haven't ever given it a fair chance. Of course I hated ∀ MS even more, and that show's pretty great. I hated Macross 7 even more than that, but it eventually became one of my favorite shows of all time. Eventually I'll probably give X a shot.
What is about X that you hate so? I was the same on Turn A, though Macross7 clicked fairly quickly for me.
Title: Re: WTB: OK, I need a new game or two
Post by: arromdee on February 22, 2012, 06:12:34 AM
It was my impression that the ones that are loose say that they are loose. Thus all the items that are badly machine-translated as "there is no box theory" (for surugaya; auc-egames says "only as for the software")
Did you order something which did *not* say that but which still didn't come with a case?
I myself ordered an Avenue 6 button pad and some other stuff. They asked me to verify my order. Then they changed the order and asked me to verify that one instead. The only difference in the changed order was that the Avenue 6 pad didn't have a box. If not having a box is a big enough deal that they revise the customer's order just to mention the missing box, I doubt that they would forget to mention it on the website.
PS: Discotek is releasing both Unico flims on DVD in the USA. They come out May 15.
Title: Re: WTB: OK, I need a new game or two
Post by: SignOfZeta on February 22, 2012, 08:17:29 AM
What is about X that you hate so? I was the same on Turn A, though Macross7 clicked fairly quickly for me.
Like I said, I formed my opinion a long time ago in a pretty bullshit way. I don't much like the character designs and I really think the mecha stink. These are not valid reasons, I know! I might grow to like the show, I'll never like those shitty Gundam though. Its kind of the opposite of Wing; great mecha, the show is just the worst f*cking thing ever.
It was my impression that the ones that are loose say that they are loose. Thus all the items that are badly machine-translated as "there is no box theory" (for surugaya; auc-egames says "only as for the software")
Did you order something which did *not* say that but which still didn't come with a case?
Yeah, I kind of figured that out at the time. Did I pay attention? Probably not. Its probably my fault. I can't say for sure.
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PS: Discotek is releasing both Unico flims on DVD in the USA. They come out May 15.
Yeah, I saw that while looking for clips of the movie. I haven't seen it since it was on the Disney Channel ages ago. I just finally found the LD and then I see its coming out on LD. Bizarre coincidence. That company, which I've never heard of until last week, is doing some other great stuff as well.
Title: Re: WTB: OK, I need a new game or two
Post by: BuraiFighter on February 24, 2012, 10:07:07 PM
Glad to hear your order went well Zeta, mine got to the UK fast and then took a week to actually get up to Scotland. Then I just got a letter telling me I need to pay £35+ in customs charges, a nice surprise this morning. If anyone in the UK is interested from buying off Suragaya, they put the full value on the forms and you can expect to pay around 30% of the orders value for customs. I think larger orders are the way to go as the items themselves are so damn cheap, I remember seeing a Gimmick! CIB for under £60.
Title: Re: WTB: OK, I need a new game or two
Post by: SignOfZeta on February 25, 2012, 04:37:47 AM
Yeah, my order stayed in the air all the way to Chicago, which is only about six hours away from me.
BTW, I ordered a few more LDs. I had to. These prices are f*cking ridiculous and can't go on for much longer.