is it worth it to buy Ayu stuff on ebay?

[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.