is it worth it to buy Ayu stuff on ebay?

[KarenPang]

buy ayumi's merch from ebay ?

I'm talking about merchanise that sellers are selling on ebay that they bought from ayumi's tours such as handphone straps , t shirts & etc .

I saw a couple of (miss)understood handphone straps that looks great but they're real pricey :S

[Melrose]

If you really want it, it's worth it. ^-^ I got an A-Nation 05 towel for my birthday and hung it on the wall. I think it's pretty cool! I wouldn't overdo it, though. Even if the stuff is cheap. With too much stuff you'll want more and more and become spoiled. If you get one item every now and then it's much more fun and you'll really look forward to stuff. That's for me anyway. XD

[Neo Daydream]

if you must have it and there's no way you can go to an Ayu concert to get it, itz pretty much the only way.

but it is so ridiculously expensive... i'm waiting to buy Ayu merch til i go to AT08

[KuroixShiroi_Namida]

I bought plenty of items from e-bay. I especially love my $1 appears, SURREAL and & CD's. It still has obi's omg *__*!

[FoObY]

Yeah, you can get some crazy deals on eBay sometimes! I bought a good portion of my ayu singles on eBay for dirt cheap, and then I just replace the cases if they're cracked or scratched.

[lfe.]

if you are a collector of those kind of ayu memorabilia id say its totally worth it. any kind of ayu merchandise will be much cheaper on ebay than any other online website

[KarenPang]

Originally Posted by lfebaggins

if you are a collector of those kind of ayu memorabilia id say its totally worth it. any kind of ayu merchandise will be much cheaper on ebay than any other online website

I'm not really fanatic when comes to artistes's merchanise . A bit of here & there's fine with me .

oh in case you're wondering which are the merch that's currently in my watch list here you go :

handphone strap with red heart - http://cgi.ebay.com.sg/ws/eBayISAPI....MEWA:IT&ih=001

handphone strap with white heart - http://cgi.ebay.com.sg/ws/eBayISAPI....MEWA:IT&ih=001

I'm feeling the red heart more than the white heart though .

[Empry]

Originally Posted by karenpang

oh in case you're wondering which are the merch that's currently in my watch list here you go :

handphone strap with red heart - http://cgi.ebay.com.sg/ws/eBayISAPI....MEWA:IT&ih=001

handphone strap with white heart - http://cgi.ebay.com.sg/ws/eBayISAPI....MEWA:IT&ih=001

I'm feeling the red heart more than the white heart though .

$25 is really not a bad price for this strap. Last I year I got one through YJA and shoppingmalljapan and I paid nearly $40 for it, not counting the shipping to Germany. Nowadays, you can get one a bit cheaper because people are selling things form their 2007 Happy Boxes which contained goodies from AT06.

[lfe.]

if its a collector's item from the m(u) concert then id say its worth buying from ebay because it will be nearly impossible to find in stores. the price seems just about right, i got a rare promo poster for the m(u) concert for around 15 U.S. dollars before shipping and taxes.

i think the strap with the red heart would look better for a girl so i think if you want to, get the red one =)

[KarenPang]

Originally Posted by lfebaggins

if its a collector's item from the m(u) concert then id say its worth buying from ebay because it will be nearly impossible to find in stores. the price seems just about right, i got a rare promo poster for the m(u) concert for around 15 U.S. dollars before shipping and taxes.

i think the strap with the red heart would look better for a girl so i think if you want to, get the red one =)

yeah I know what you mean but see how . The price's quite expensive for a handphone strap but I know what you mean when you say it's a collector's item .

I wait & see about this .

[Deneb]

they are worth it if you really want them because you can buy them from stores,but consider they got them for like 10usd from concert and sell for 30+usd on ebay. its quite overpriced.Or wait for people to put up cheap merchandises. ^^ i got some several ayupans for 1buck!!!!

[KarenPang]

Originally Posted by Deneb

they are worth it if you really want them because you can buy them from stores,but consider they got them for like 10usd from concert and sell for 30+usd on ebay. its quite overpriced.Or wait for people to put up cheap merchandises. ^^ i got some several ayupans for 1buck!!!!

I know it's a rip off that's why I try to use ebay as little as possible .

I can wait of course as I'm sure there're other cheaply priced merch that might be floating around ebay in due time !

[lfe.]

Originally Posted by Deneb

they are worth it if you really want them because you can buy them from stores,but consider they got them for like 10usd from concert and sell for 30+usd on ebay. its quite overpriced.Or wait for people to put up cheap merchandises. ^^ i got some several ayupans for 1buck!!!!

yea now that i think more about it, i agree that its kinda overpriced in this situation. if you can find stores around your area that sells ayu goodies, you can probably find phone straps that are almost as identical and arent concert tour collectibles so they will be relatively cheaper.

if you find others and decide that this one (the ebay phone strap) is the one you really want, i would say buy it because although its rather pricey, if its a collector's item it will only get more expensive in the future due to rarity. the m(u) concert promo poster that i got for 15 USD about 4 months ago, i saw yesterday that it is priced at 45 USD now

[KarenPang]

Originally Posted by lfebaggins

yea now that i think more about it, i agree that its kinda overpriced in this situation. if you can find stores around your area that sells ayu goodies, you can probably find phone straps that are almost as identical and arent concert tour collectibles so they will be relatively cheaper.

if you find others and decide that this one (the ebay phone strap) is the one you really want, i would say buy it because although its rather pricey, if its a collector's item it will only get more expensive in the future due to rarity. the m(u) concert promo poster that i got for 15 USD about 4 months ago, i saw yesterday that it is priced at 45 USD now

woah ok . Looks like you managed to snag the poster before the prices went up . You're so lucky !

[Suteisi]

If you're looking for those kinds of items, I would recommend you look up a middle-man. Earth_Maiden helped me a lot with this, and I believe that's where she gets all of her also(you can view pictures of her collection the Ayu Collection thread in the Ayu Chat-Room forum). You can find cell phone traps sold for around 500 to 800 yen each. The handling fee for the middle-man(I've been looking at Crescent Shop, they charge 500yen for everything under 4k yen) can differ, but depending how the shipping might cost you, it can come back to be very cheap compared to the stuff sold on eBay.

I made a few calculation for myself. I live in Canada, and I calculated that for one cell phone strap, the shipping would never be more than 500yen. So, 1 cell phone strap at 500yen + handling fee at 500yen + shipping at 500yen, it comes down to 1500yen, which is about 15$USD. That comes to be cheaper than most of the cell phone straps sold on eBay, which I found went from 25 to 40$USD each, NOT INCLUDING shipping.

But then again, it's totally up to you! I keep checking every week for the Ayu cell phone straps also, but have never seen any of them under 20$(not including shipping) for the past 2 months(I wasn't really shopping online before that). I think you might just need to be stubborn and keep searching in order to find descent prices on eBay.

[che0173]

Originally Posted by karenpang

buy ayumi's merch from ebay ?

I'm talking about merchanise that sellers are selling on ebay that they bought from ayumi's tours such as handphone straps , t shirts & etc .

I saw a couple of (miss)understood handphone straps that looks great but they're real pricey :S

yea
they can get quite pricy
cd's are really cheap on ebay...im not talking about them chinese bootleggers
but actual japan sellers such as dora and takasu_m
although takasu recently stopped selling ayu's cd's dora is still ^_^

[Kashoku]

I wish the shirts and stuff weren't $40. that's so expensive! It can't really be that much at concerts, is it?

[Milox]

The thing that really sucks about ebay is that while you can get cool rare items like that amazing and sexy AyumI Duty poste for 7$, the shipping cost is like 14$ lol

[Kashoku]

*gasp* the t-shirts are actually $180. Are you kidding me? It's ridiculous. Who would actually buy that?!

[mishidabo]

Is it worth to buy on ebay?

depends, i cant tell you whats worth or not,because of something called perception

is it safe?

IMO yes, i've done alot of purchase from ebay.

but i seriously do not recommend to buy ayu products, or any other japanese products from some sellers, they always overprice the items

specially those 10 cm phonestraps...