Yahoo Japan Links, Images, etc. Part II

I forgot to mention another one of his tricks: he'd often just mail the YJ sellers cash, including the cost of international shipping, without consulting them first. This left them pretty much obligated to send the item :thumbsup:

But yeah, absolutely a risky strategy. :lol: Personally, I always use a deputy service.

 

Well not really, they could keep the money and item. It's typically illegal to mail cash.

 

It is not illegal to mail cash. It's just not generally a good idea because it's very difficult to trace cash and there is no record of it.

That said, it is a calculated risk. I'm guessing that the OP's friend was relying on Japanese cultural ethics to work in his favor.

I would NOT suggest trying the same approach with an American or European seller.

-hl718

 

Damn you snopes.com, damn you to hell.

 

The only thing it's illegal to do w/ cash is destroy it (or of course buy illegal shit).

Stupid idea, for all sorts of reasons. The funny thing is, he'd probably have the same success rate by simply asking before bidding... and at the same time not drag every white person's name through the mud.

 

Two PS2 devkits with external hdd, the first one ends in 4 hours:
http://page15.auctions.yahoo.co.jp/jp/auction/t120962075
http://page21.auctions.yahoo.co.jp/jp/auction/j38916216

HDD kit for the TOOL:
http://page8.auctions.yahoo.co.jp/jp/auction/h130866126

A dozen of loose Net Yaroz:
http://search.auctions.yahoo.co.jp/search/auc?p=dtl-h3000&auccat=0

A loose Yaroze pad:
http://page11.auctions.yahoo.co.jp/jp/auction/n77326874

A green and a blue debug ps1:
http://page18.auctions.yahoo.co.jp/jp/auction/w39253240
http://page18.auctions.yahoo.co.jp/jp/auction/w38208347

A TEST PS2 DTL-H10000:
http://page14.auctions.yahoo.co.jp/jp/auction/s134855043

TEST PS2 model dtl-h50000:
http://page14.auctions.yahoo.co.jp/jp/auction/s134855045

 

Well a lot of times people don't place any value on the cost of time. By using a proxy he wins 100% of the auctions and eliminates all of the emails and time spent going back and forth with the Sellers who don't cooperate. I often see the questions from foreigners asking is Sellers will ship overseas and I wonder how many hours of wasted time that took so so he could save $10 by not using a proxy.

 

OMG - the one and only Gold Saturn:
http://page18.auctions.yahoo.co.jp/jp/auction/w39528238

I've seen many discolored consoles but the most yellowish consoles seem to come from Japan.

 

That's because your average Japanese has about 60% of his DNA in common with a chimney.

 

Jimminy Fucking Christmas. That's worse than that one post a few weeks ago. O_O

And the other 40% have partial chimney DNA due to second hand smoke.

 

DTL-H201A and DTL-H700
http://page18.auctions.yahoo.co.jp/jp/auction/w39419256

 

for only 4000 yen? that's cheap! last one was over 7000. buy-it-now price was set way too low by the seller.

 

i cannot confirm the 18 copies, but the last one few years back was over 200000 yen. so no new record.

 

very cool item. but for a rarity, the price seems reasonable right?
i mean it is not 100k+ we're talking about. ;-)

 

For number of pieces it is what Famitsu printed in magazine at time of contest. 10 was for the election prize and 8 was for editors of magazine.

 

ok, great. thanks for sharing this information.

 

Fixed.

 

Ginga fukei densetsu Saffire - development rom
dunno if it's really rare, but the price is nice
ハドソン / 明貴美加 / PCE [銀河婦警伝説サファイア] 開発中ROM 超貴重

http://page6.auctions.yahoo.co.jp/jp/auction/f76201648

 

A loose Toyota Dreamcast plus two others:

http://page11.auctions.yahoo.co.jp/jp/auction/n72051173