Swag Watch: June 3, 2010

Normally you remove two zeroes to go from Yen to dollars, so I’d say probably around $50 for Saturn and Belch.

I noticed that Geppu/Doseisan auction yesterday, but was a little skeptical because it featured a stock photo and a crazy price. I’m hoping for something more reasonable with a little more legitimacy before I bite.

Do you think that plush auction is legit? Like are they available now, or is this guy just positive he’ll be able to win them?

i just want the plushes

I can’t justify paying $50 for a piece of cardboard, even though other pieces of cardboard went for far more… I would like those plushes though.

Looks like they’re live~

100 yen to $1 is a rough rule of thumb, but it’s not so accurate these days. With the weak USD, I’ve certainly seen the conversion rate as low as 85 yen to a dollar last year. But on average it’s been around 90 to a dollar.

I mention this because it’s very easy to overspend if you don’t be careful.

If you’re importing collectibles from Japan on YJA and such, I definitely recommend not using any estimates and getting your numbers calculated as exact as you can. With middleman services and fees that you don’t recognize at first, it’s REALLY easy to see “5000 yen, ok $50 give or take with fees” and then realize you spent $90 or more with fees and shipping. I’ve done it in the past.

Wheee! I hope I can snag a couple of each. Thanks for the heads up, KD.

Mato, if I happen to snag more than one Belch and you can’t get your hands on one, I’ll send one your way. Everyone deserves at least one ゲップー in their life. Ha ha.

Just don’t buy ‘em all, LT. I have my hopes on winning this auction without paying a crazy sum of money.

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you know all these promotions of the mother series that have been happening lately could be indicating something big happening for the series in Japan

KD, I think I definitely bid on that one through Celga already. :-\ Only up to 5000, so if you outbid me, I won’t raise my max.

I’m pretty much going to go for at least one of every new piece of MOTHER merchandise released, MAYBE two. I definitely am not going to hoard anything, especially if they’re in limited quantity on YAJ or Mbok.

Never mind, I’m bidding on another set from the same seller. You should be okay.

Well, someone already outbid what I planned on paying. I’m not doling out $50+ for these things.

It’s kind of funny what turns out to be really rare and sell for a lot. I’d probably never have guessed 20 years ago that a pizza air freshener would get to be so expensive lol.

Hi all,

I just wanted to say thanks for choosing my item for your post (the Vidpro card). I thought they were really cool collectibles to have. The pizza scented air freshener is really cool too!

Thanks,

Nicholas

I picked up two Mr. Saturns at the Namco Tower in Kyoto today. You can pay 500 yen (~$5) for 6 plays, and both times I did this I got it on the 6th try! Pretty excellent. They were in a “Barber Shop” game where you control a pair of scissors (like a crane) and try to cut a piece of string that is holding the Saturn’s up. They only had Doseisans, but I’ll keep my eye out for Geppu while I’m still here. I’m crossing my fingers!

Awesome bonus: The Banpresto guys were out front of the arcade with a guy in a giant Mr. Saturn suit. I got a sheet of stickers, too! Should I send pictures, Mato?

Yeah, sounds good to me

Like all EB merchendise, this’ll probably be over $100 in Ebay. Those mr. Saturn plushies are expensive already. So myfinal guess on how much these would be on ebay……………$100-$250.

They’ve hit eBay

BTW, did anyone here snag that Geppu/Doseisan pair on Yahoo! Japan for 4000yen? I see a Celga account bought it up. I was eying that one.

Nope but just picked up a buy it now auction for 3800

am i able to buy the belch off yahoo japan? i cant read of it to know

yes you can but you need to place your bid through a third party like celga

link to celga?

http://www.celga.com/beta/ here you go Derrek

thank you! hopefully i can get a belch for 30 bucks