Forum - View topicINTEREST: Girls & Panzer's Armor-Piercing Shell Pillow Gets 101,000-Yen/US$1,020 Bid
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Cecilthedarkknight_234
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so how many of you are daring enough to bid on this?
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Dfens
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Even if I was willing to shell out that kind of money it's pointless Yahoo Japan Auctions the seller won't ship outside Japan. Sometimes their is a proxy service that you can hire to bid on it with your money and charge a fee to acquire it and ship it to you.
Still over 1K I'd pay 150-200 dollars tops, those Japanese fans must really want one or have more money than brains. |
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Mikeski
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...the pun, it burns us! |
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reanimator
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I'm not into Girls & Panzer, but I understand that scarcity of that hug pillow drove up the price. When the show is super popular among Japanese otaku fans and the item is made through a dojin circle at small quantity, it's no wonder some people would bid that high for a pillow. What is it, 100 units? Granted that Dojin circle is not about making big bucks with copyrighted materials, but business idea they come up with is fascinating. Copyright owners could have come up with the same idea, but it seems like they never did.
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dm
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The second wave of auctions is finding "more reasonable" prices --- $125. There are currently three at that price.
The high bidder on the headline auction appears to have wimped out --- the final auction price was "only" 95,000 yen --- about $950. The other two auctioned over the weekend went for about $800 and $630. It rarely hurts to be patient in matters like this --- and the sellers knew this. One of the $125 auctions started around the same time as the extreme high-bid auctions, but was scheduled to last several days. The high-bid auctions were set to end in 24-36 hours. |
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