Took things easy today, by going to
Akihabara again >.<
Went to the Good Smile Cafe today, had
a "Miku" drink, which was a sweet almost syrup like flavor
with ice cream on top, and a bowl of fried rice. The drink came with
a coaster and the meal came with a placemat, which got damaged in
transit on the way home. Finished off my drink and meal and went
around taking pictures of all the nendoroids and figures, there were
a lot of them! That took quite a while, and when I left there was a
line of people trying to get in, I guess I beat the lunch rush.
I
checked out the rest of the building, which had lots of merchandise on
sale, and lots of people trying to sell back their books/figures
book-off style.
It started to rain again, so I went to
the other place I had missed out on during my previous trips to
Akihabara... Mandarake. Mandarake confirmed what I had seen in other
stores, which was people reselling their manga and figures. Almost
every store save for the official stores like Good Smile have a large
amount of used figures for sale in and amongst their new ones. The
easiest to spot for figures are the ones in little baggies, which can
range from 400 yen to 1200 yen. Other figures that have been better
preserved and kept in their box, or repackaged with all parts in
their box, vary wildly in price depending on figure condition and
rarity of figure. Three of the same figure, all in the box, can each
go for different prices. So if you're not picky about getting used
figures and want to complete your collection less expensively, then
used is the place to go... certain nendos you can get for 1/2 price
of the real thing, still in box.
Of course, some figures still go for
5686589548458 yen because they're just that rare. Also, there are
various stores that rent out spaces to people to sell their stuff. In
that case its up to the people renting the space to set the price of
their products (essentially they rent a glass box locker). Some
things you can get for super cheap, others buy things like figmas and
try to resell at a higher price as to try and make some profit on it,
usually with figmas/nendos that are rare or out of stock.
So, I got a figure-education today.
Still deciding on whether I want to go
to the dream party thing or a J. League match or something else on
Sunday.
Tomorrow (I guess today now) its a trip
off to the 'burbs.
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