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By Bart

Paragon (1422)

16-02-2005, 00:38

Really cool stuff Ronnie

By Gorgane

Resident (62)

16-02-2005, 21:39

Many of those games just ended up on my watch list.

By rklok

Champion (280)

18-02-2005, 19:24

thnx, especially this one :

eBay link

{Mod: replaced the long link}

By sergem

Expert (113)

20-02-2005, 15:23

real good stuff again, i just wonder how rklok gets to all those games every month ...? (no complaints here hé, just curious)
there is a guy in spain that does the same on ebay.

By Argon

Paragon (1126)

20-02-2005, 15:30

Just find yourself a friend in Japan, send him cash, let him do the bidding for you, give him a financial contribution (percentage on every auction or so), and let him ship them to you (you pay shipment costs of course).

Simple.
I've done it too in the past, but I never did such big-scale importing as rklok does
Most of the stuff I imported was for my personal collection.

If you're interested in importing stuff yourself, I can give you an email of a trustable guy in Japan. Just contact me by mail.

K.

By sergem

Expert (113)

20-02-2005, 19:56

If you're interested in importing stuff yourself, I can give you an email of a trustable guy in Japan. Just contact me by mail.

K.

thanks argon, maybe I will do that sometime but not now because i dont have the time right know, but are these items really that cheap in japan ? Those cartridges are almost 20 years old so how common can they be nowadays over there ?

By JEZ

Rookie (27)

20-02-2005, 21:13

There are Internet sites specialized in bidding on items in Yahoo Japan for you. You could probably build a pretty complete MSX Konami collection in a few months from Yahoo Japan. I've recently even seen things like A1-Spirit. Unfortunally, from my very limited experience, it seems that you will not save that much money compared to Ebay after you have added the extra shipping costs and the commission.

By Argon

Paragon (1126)

21-02-2005, 02:14

They are a lot cheaper than when you buy them on eBay, that's for sure.

I used to bid until I had a big (let's say 50x50x50cm) box full of cartridges.
Then I used surface mail, which takes about 2 months to arrive.

Shipment was very cheap if you ask me, only minus was the long wait.

By JEZ

Rookie (27)

21-02-2005, 09:19

Argon:

You've found a better service than I have! The ones I've been involved with didn't let you combine the shipping from several of sellers.

By Argon

Paragon (1126)

21-02-2005, 11:29

Oh, that's too bad.
That must be much more expensive.