yam yam gold surfaced

i merged the many consecutive posts for forum cleanliness. nothing else was changed.

BTW, coming here is a first step. telling from who you bought the fake (if things went as you stated) can be a nice second one.

showing us your collection can be another.

i hope the refund will be fast and smooth, and that you won't try to resell the now surely fake again, at least without cleatrly stating that is a fake.

in any case, it'll take some time, but everything can get back well in track.

 

Who hasn't told you that the one Mandarake is selling is a fake, too? Who? There is no information anywhere, and the only resource is Mandarake having it.

 

By paying with Paypal? Not really. Sounds like par for the course.

You clearly have no idea how things in Japan (or more importantly Japanese companies) work.

Now on a similar note, I can say with 100% certainty that those internet myths that have been around since anime and manga became popular in the west about Japanese shops not wanting to sell to foreigners is complete horse shit. I talked to some guy in a newsgroup back in the day before my first trip to Akihabara. Of course, he didn't want to tell me about the shops b/c "they don't like foreigners going there". Of course, this is crap, and in my many trips to Akihabara (and that's a lot) over the last 12 years, I was never once cock-blocked on an item. And I've bought stacks, most of it from the showcase.

 

I think it's a conspiracy by a lot of gaming geeks wanting to keep Japan's inventory of games to themselves. Honestly, there's only so many morons out there who act if they have an interest towards anything Japanese(yes, including women), they gotta try to keep any mention of it under wraps and make it appear it's not as great as you might think. Just so they get one more discouraged person, while the whole country is theirs for the taking....or something like that.

I know I've heard stories of how Akihabara also is becoming less and less of a gaming heaven. How many here can confirm you probably can still go there and find millions of old titles for old systems you couldn't dream of attaining over here.

Yep, pure bullshitting, that's what a lot of people do. What's worst is when it's people who have never even BEEN there(it happens a lot, though I've never been myself, so if I'm wrong about Akiharaba I'll look like a hypocrite :d oh well!).

 

With Super Potato being there now it's probably easier to find "any given old title". The problem is Media Land and Trader aren't really much competition for them any more, so their prices suck. Good thing I don't really collect any more, or I'd be quite upset.

 

Neither do I, can you explain why there are some games displayed and not for sale?

 

You mean why YamYam is not for sale? Well I guess you don't have to know how things in Japan work for this, shops all around the world have extreme collectibles in their showcases in order to attract customers (I remember a DVD shop in Paris that had authentically signed Godard film posters (signed in the 60s), not for sale of course)

 

it has museum character. plus its good advertising.

 

why do they have such rare stuff not for sale displayed in their shops ?
we talk about it when being in europe or the US and it's not still obvious for you ?
a-dver-ti-sing

 

and such owners of freaky shops like the galaxy in mandarake nakano e.g. are collectors and hunters as well. means the're just as freaky as most of their customers. so why not show some of their uberrar gems in the showcase as a lot uf us like to do the same at the own home?

 

yes, of course, I know that, I was talking more about the part "how thing works IN JAPAN"

that was I would like to know from gaijinpunch

 

someone is selling some golden carts...

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&ssPageName=STRK:MEWAX:IT&item=140281830570

arg...

 

Looks like he didn't learn the lesson.

I feel sorry for the poor fellas who bid on this one :banghead:

 

Wow. Not learned his lesson yet? wow.....

 

Generally "backwards" for lack of a better word. Ask any long term gaijin...they'll pretty much attest that just about anything here is like pulling teeth. This is a country that's known for not bending the rules (or making sense in a lot of cases).

 

Yep, 100% what the other said sod above said.

 

just described as it is!

 

But don't forget that only us non-Japanese who have lived here a long time and aren't weeboos (or what ever they're called) think this about Japan. Almost all of the Japanese can't see what we complain about.

 

lol..isn't that just normal:lol:

 

Well,in fact he was selling them since 3 months,they just get relisted automatically,that's all.