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I Bought a “Junk” PSP From Japan
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#32Buyee is great! Bought a lot of stuff through them. Electronics, clothes, blurays, even food lol (shio kombu is still not very common outside of Japan). Never had a problem! The only downside if you buy electronics with batteries: Buyee strictly enforces a maximum 2 batteries per package rule. So for example a Nintendo Switch would be shipped in 2 package because it has 3 batteries, 1 in the tablet, and 1 in each joy…
I've bought stuff thru sendico as well. Only thing I don't like about em is their weird credit system that you have to top up before a purchase even though there's no way to predict shipping etc
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#33I use Jauce for buying stuff from Japan, a bit more pricey, but their shipping is exceptionally good. I buy instruments, so care is a bit more important for me.
But, yeah, I found it interesting that literally all used listings in Japan are marked as "junk", I figured this must either be some translation thing, or a trick for seller to avoid returns etc.
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#34After buying several used goods in Japan, my impression is that junk simply means the seller does not want to hear complaints over old items, so they sell it at a lower price. I have bought many perfectly working items sold as such. Of course buying old stuff requires some ability to do simple repairs. That’s part of the fun.
Meanwhile in the U.S., 'tested, working' seems to mean "I plugged it in and the power light came on", unless there's evidence of more comprehensive testing.
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#35Earlier quoted context omitted.
Contrast that with my personal experience of items from the UK ( specifically the UK , my experience is different elsewhere) where “untested” almost always means “I tested it and I know it’s broken but I want to try to get a better price anyway”. Especially when testing would involve plugging it in with the adapter it comes with and seeing that it doesn’t light up, for example.
A whole lot of these bulk electronic sales seem to be "Here's all the stuff I couldn't fix". Either water damaged or the repair was botched. I can't imagine too many normal situations someone has 15 of the same game console they are selling in a bulk lot.
I used to do vacuums. As I understood it, it was house clearances etc.
I think it depends on how much it's been parted up. A big mess of everything is probably safer than a listing of 15 identical items.
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#36I want my life to end that 2005 is "retro" now...
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#37Earlier quoted context omitted.
Any tips for using it? Maybe I am trying to find the wrong things but every time I have tried to browse it confusing. Should I be looking Amazon.jp and then buying on buyee?
Buyee is mostly used with Mercari https://jp.mercari.com/en You can use it with Amazon.jp but most of the time Amazon ships directly to everywhere, no proxy needed In fact you can use it with any japanese store that has a link to a product, the inquiry is free itself and Buyee reports back if they can buy it for you or not If you use Discord then the Buyee server is very helpful https://discord.com/invite/YRg3DgkBpS
Amazon.jp does ship everywhere, but their international items use a separate warehouse, and sometimes items are only stocked in the domestic one(s) and are unavailable for international shipping.
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#38I want my life to end that 2005 is "retro" now...
I agree with the sentiment, but that's a really weird way to phrase it!
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#39I don't know if the author just writes like this, or if the text was put through ChatGPT, but it sets off my slop alarm: " Running a PSP the way Sony intended, but with a modern jailbreak in place, feels like the best of both worlds. You keep the original hardware, the original screen, the original ergonomics, but you reduce the friction. No UMD juggling. No region limitations. No locked-down firmware. Just drag, dro…
100% run through an LLM. Not sure if the author started with a draft or only an outline, but there are multiple instances of stuff like “it’s not just X, it’s Y”.
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#40Earlier quoted context omitted.
Buyee is mostly used with Mercari https://jp.mercari.com/en You can use it with Amazon.jp but most of the time Amazon ships directly to everywhere, no proxy needed In fact you can use it with any japanese store that has a link to a product, the inquiry is free itself and Buyee reports back if they can buy it for you or not If you use Discord then the Buyee server is very helpful https://discord.com/invite/YRg3DgkBpS
Amazon.jp does ship everywhere, but their international items use a separate warehouse, and sometimes items are only stocked in the domestic one(s) and are unavailable for international shipping.
You can get a proxy shipping address via Tenso (different service but iirc same company as Buyee) and then have stuff shipped there from Amazon.jp & consolidated and shipped to you.
I used it successfully for all the cheap and/or rare second hand books available on Japanese Amazons that Amazon will normally not ship internationaly (as its actually a miriad of small sellers listing the via Amazon and often only shipping domestically).