$50....and I don't get a choice???

[Gamereviewgod]

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll...category=45101

Um, I really want a set, but for $50, I want a choice..

[Darth Sensei]

Those look really cool, but there's no way I'm throwing $50 each for them.

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[video_game_addict]

@CueWarrior, You get 6 for $50, you just don't know which 6 you'll receive.

[sisko]

Thats not a bad price really, but I'd like to know what I am purchasing.

I find it hard to believe that there is absolutely no indication of whats in the box

[Darth Sensei]

@CueWarrior, You get 6 for $50, you just don't know which 6 you'll receive.

Oops. I appear to have developed a reading impairment as of late. Thanks

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[MarioAllStar2600]

Yea it's not a price to argue. But it's a deal to argue. I mean come on its like picking out of a hat, and you can get doubles.

[Querjek]

If those are Gashapon toys, then they can not tell which are which because that would require opening them, and thus they could not be sold as "sealed".

[Achika]

If they are trying to get more money for it then, that's not the right way to go about it. Even if they are the boxed Japanese toys, I know from experience having ones with open boxes go for more, because people are garuanteed to get all of them, rather than random boxes.

Sure, you can "collect them all" but I think the rate to get all of them is less than baseball cards / pack.

Case in point: I would pay more for my Rikku keychain w/open box then pay for a sealed box and randomly get Yuna, Nooj, etc..

[Darth Sensei]

Case in point: I would pay more for my Rikku keychain w/open box then pay for a sealed box and randomly get Yuna, Nooj, etc..

Posts like this make me realize how much of a noob that I am. Before finding this board I thought that I was an ubergeek. I'm humbled yet again because I have no idea what this is.

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[Achika]

Case in point: I would pay more for my Rikku keychain w/open box then pay for a sealed box and randomly get Yuna, Nooj, etc..

Posts like this make me realize how much of a noob that I am. Before finding this board I thought that I was an ubergeek. I'm humbled yet again because I have no idea what this is.

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Like the US, in Japan they have the machines where you can buy toys that are in little plastic capsules (play a bit of Shenmue, or visit Meijers and you'll see them on the way out) Anyhow, they have in Japan "gashapon" aka capsule toys. The ones that come in the bubbles you can see what you are getting. Getting them from a machine is completely random, but in the US some stores have them (Masquerade Games in Roseville) where you can see what you are purchasing and make a decision based on what's in the capsule in your hand. The toys are usually about 3-4" tall.

There is another type of random toy (I'm not sure what the proper name would be) but they come in cardboard boxes that you cannot see in. You pick up a box and buy it, hoping for the character you want. They are usually a little more expensive, but the characters inside are usually of a higher quality and a little bigger.

These are the ones I was talking about. There's a series of Final Fantasy X-2 keychain figures that come in random boxes. I only wanted Rikku, since she was my favorite character besides Lulu in FFX. I had bought a box in Ann Arbor and gotten Yuna ( ) But I didn't want to buy another, cause I really didn't want the other characters, so I took Yuna & left. I went to Masquerade a few weeks later and someone had bought some boxes looking for the whole set, any dupes that they recieved, the guys at Masquerade swapped them for more unopened boxes and just sold the open dupes for the price of an unopened box. People then knew what they were getting, even though they weren't "new, sealed" anymore, but it was nice that it wasn't random anymore. I would have paid more for the Rikku that I got from them, but luckily I didn't have to.