Opinions Wanted

[hideincarnate]

So I haven't done it in a while but there are things I have been trying to sell and I rearranged how I was storing them this morning and I pulled out everything that wasn't in English.
So I am wondering, these Japanese magazines, manga, CDs, and DVD, should I just take them all back to Japan and take them to a used store, or should I try to sell

Comments

[morbidprose]

sell here on LJ or ebay if you can. you'll find buyers faster that way.

[hideincarnate]

For certain things I certainly have! I suppose I will just wait until I come home in April to try ebay and specific communities.

[morbidprose]

people have sold things on the XJapan community B4 and im sure there are other communities to sell stuff on too.

[hideincarnate]

Oh there is, for sure. Some things don't seem to have communities though, like the band Southern All Stars, so I'm just going to take it back to Japan and to a used store. Or like the manga series called Kuitan - there are only communities for the ACTORS, not the actual story. So I'll be taking that back to Japan too to take to a used store. I checked ebay too for some of them and if there was nothing there, then I knew that no one was really interested in selling or buying.

[lukadron]

Wouldnt it be too much a hassle to carry all this stuff over back to Japan?

I'd have to go with morbidprose: LJ or ebay seems like the best solution to me. Unfortunately I don't know of any community for that purpose :(

[hideincarnate]

Perhaps. There really isn't much of it though...but perhaps a bit much to carry back to Japan in my suitcase.

Well I do and I have tried them. These are essentially the leftovers - things that haven't managed to sell. I haven't tried ebay yet though. I suppose I should leave it all here and try it again in April...I just worry that if I donate it (because I eventually will if they just never get bought) here in the US that they will throw it away some time because the average person doesn't read Japanese or listen to Japanese music...

[hollywood666]

I don't have any experience with selling on LJ or craigslist, but I also think that eBay is worth a try. There used to be a good market there for Japanese music and other Japanese pop culture stuff, though I don't know what it's like now and whether the market has saturated yet. Still, might as well give it a shot if you can't seem to sell the leftover items on LJ?

[hideincarnate]

It depends on the title and item on ebay. Like manga and anime DVDs - tons for sale and no buyers.
Yeah, for sure. I'm just trying to decide what to do about the stuff that's just in Japanese, like manga I don't want or care about. Some things don't have LJ communities, and some do, so I posted them to there. But I'll check ebay to see how it is with a few things - I'd like to sell them if possible. Less in my suitcase = happier me!
How have you been doing anyway?

[hollywood666]

Oh, pretty good, thanks-- how about you?

Another thing you might try (if you haven't already) would be selling them to brick-and-mortar used stores in the US. Comic book stores might take the manga and possibly the anime-related stuff, even the ones in Japanese, and music stores would probably take the CDs, music DVDs (if there are any), possibly the anime DVDs, and maybe music-related merch stuff depending on what kind of store it is. At least, I've seen all this kind of stuff around here in completely American not-at-all-Japan-oriented stores. I don't know if they'd give you much for it, but at least you could (if they accept it) unload it without taking it back to Japan and at least it wouldn't get thrown out.

[hideincarnate]

Better now that I am back home, but I have to go back in a few weeks. Being in the US is a lot less stressful than being in Japan.

That's a good idea! I'll have to look into it. I probably wouldn't get much for it in Japan either. Thanks for the suggestion!