Trading in stuff in Akihabara?

run into some cash flow problems and was wondering if there is anywhere I can turn some of those games and consoles I bought in Super Potato and the like back into cash. They must get the second hand stuff from somewhere?

Also one which I'm not sure will be possible, I brought some rather expensive PC Parts (Motherboard, Graphics Card, DDR3 Memory, CPU) with me in the hope that I may piece my gaming rig back together but I have since given up on that idea. Instead of them just sitting there losing value I'd rather sell them. No boxes though, just in anti-static bags, does anyone know where I could shift these?

eBay is kind of out as I'm under 20 so have found it pretty impossible to open a bank account.

Thanks for any help

 

Well if you have a form of japanese ID or can get a friend to do it for you then you just go to the floor that buys stuff in, although be warned for common games and consoles you'd get a pittance (about 10% to 33% of what they sell things for....). Trader have a kaitori part on their website, it funny that even 'rare' games like Virtua Fighter Kids - Java Tea Edition they will give you a whole 10 yen for (and that's mint with obi....).

PC parts can be sold via places like Sofmap. However a 240P DDR3 1GB PC3-12800 (DDR3-1600) stick of RAM would sell second hand for around 5000 yen, they would buy it from you for 800yen... you'd be better off selling it via the small ads in metropolis and the like.

 

Sounds rough :/ Well I just need to raise 10,000-15,000. reckon I could get that by selling my i7 920? Or are they going total rape mode...:-(

 

i think you will be better off selling it on ebay & co.

but then again, if the buyer does not pay instantly it's of no use, right?

 

Go to Trader or Sofmap, but you need a Japanese home adress.

 

Super Potato offered me a generously 100yen for a minty Gradius guidebook while selling theirs for 1900JPY. I'd be a millionaire already, virtually, if I expected that people buy my items for 20 times of what I paid, that's a fucking rip-off.

 

Well I need the money ASAP, like this afternoon. Just gonna go down there with a bag of my PC stuff and see how much I can get.

 

You think 20 times is bad you wouldn't believe where I work. Typically for anything else their trade-ins vs. selling price is pretty good, but for guides it's terrible.
Common guides trade in for 2 cents and we sell them for 95 cents.
Popular guides (aka Mario, Halo, those types of games) trade in for 6 cents and we sell them for $9.95.
We try to do most if not all as Common ones though and once in a great while a Popular just to keep corporate happy..

 

Gamestop (at the time EB Games/Electronics Boutique) tried to give my friend $.50 for his DC. Good times.
Then again, they obviously didn't want them, but...

 

the funniest thing i had when i sold over 10 huge boxes of stuff in aki was the staff at Traders pretending they had NO IDEA what my boxed mint condition Marty was and then offering me TEN FUCKING YEN for it :/

 

yep, traiding in is a F*ing joke. Go to Hard Off. I always barter with the local one to get a bit more cash from them. Works as well.

 

:lol::lol::lol: <- you should have laughed your ass off at them on the spot right after that.

 

That's a joke man. Even a thousand times that much was still a fucking joke.
I'd told them I rather sold it to someone in Nigeria. :lol:

 

The employees at the Hard-Offs in my area are cheap bastards, then. They give my next to nothing for my stuff. On the other hand, they give me tons more than those thieves over at Traders in Aki try to buy used stuff for.

The best thing is to place ads in Metropolis, Japan-Guide.com, and the like.

 

Well they offered me 5,500 for my GTX275 which made me feel a bit sick, but then I got a failry decent 17,700 for my core i7 920. I got it for a steal to begin with anyway (is that a good or bad thing in this situation?)

 

i never had have sold something to a JPN recycle store.

lolmax @ the 10yen CIB marty offer :lol: do you still have it?

 

Off topic question but, does anyone know a cheap place to get a Famicom aerial wire? Or is the 1,000 something price in Super Potato pretty much it?

 

Yeah, all Hard Offs have their own ideas. I've been going there for years mind you so maybe that helps with the little extra I squeeze out of them.

 

Too be honest, it was the Off House next to my apartment building. My closest Hard-Off is a 2-3 minute bike ride away (5 or 6 within an hour bike ride ) and I was just too lazy to take anything there. It was more an experiment to see what they'd offer me.

Aerial wire? You mean an RF switch box? Yeah... HARD-OFF!!! You'll have to wonder out into the suburbs a bit. Whereabouts are you living in Tokyo? If you're right in Tokyo, you might as well just bite the bullet at somewhere like Super Potato. You'd spend the money you'd save at Hard-Off on train fare.

 

where do you live breetai?