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You wanna know how much some online doujinshi sellers are gouging (or attempting to gouge) buyers for? The Zaraki-schoolgirl one I just posted about is on eBay for $24.99 plus shipping from Japan.
You know how much I paid for it, used, in Mandarake? 420 yen. That's approximately four bucks. I'm sure it was probably twice that new, and I've got no problem with sellers tacking on a little extra to cover their time and hassle involved in getting it and running auctions and suchlike, but $24.99 is ridiculous.
I've got a couple I'll probably eBay, but I'm going to put the starting bid as the cost I paid plus how much it cost to ship it from Japan ($1.50 each: I shipped 49 books for $70). There's about 3 or 4 books that cost me a lot because they were new (I think one was 2800ish yen, and one was 1200ish yen), but most were 800 yen or below.
You know how much I paid for it, used, in Mandarake? 420 yen. That's approximately four bucks. I'm sure it was probably twice that new, and I've got no problem with sellers tacking on a little extra to cover their time and hassle involved in getting it and running auctions and suchlike, but $24.99 is ridiculous.
I've got a couple I'll probably eBay, but I'm going to put the starting bid as the cost I paid plus how much it cost to ship it from Japan ($1.50 each: I shipped 49 books for $70). There's about 3 or 4 books that cost me a lot because they were new (I think one was 2800ish yen, and one was 1200ish yen), but most were 800 yen or below.