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General and Gaming => Classic Video Games => Topic started by: stealthrush on August 27, 2015, 03:23:13 am

Title: where do you buy import games?
Post by: stealthrush on August 27, 2015, 03:23:13 am
Assuming you collect imported games, where do you usually shop for imported games?
Title: Re: where do you buy import games?
Post by: kam1kaz3nl77 on August 27, 2015, 06:03:03 am
Quote from: stealthrush on August 27, 2015, 03:23:13 am
Assuming you collect imported games, where do you usually shop for imported games?

If not by ebay-sellers, i usually buy my ds-games (which hold most of my imports besides snes games), i shop at local retailers nedgame or game-mania (the netherlands)
Title: Re: where do you buy import games?
Post by: dreama1 on August 27, 2015, 07:46:22 am
Quote from: stealthrush on August 27, 2015, 03:23:13 am
Assuming you collect imported games, where do you usually shop for imported games?
Some dark guy from an alleyway who wears a trench coat like the merchant from resident evil 4.
Title: Re: where do you buy import games?
Post by: turom on August 27, 2015, 08:27:21 am
I found every single import game I own on eBay, it's not like I was gonna find anything worth around here where I live.. The only shop in the big city nearby that was in niche gaming and import games closed 10 years ago, and everything else in flea markets or in game shops is PAL.
Title: Re: where do you buy import games?
Post by: thewelshman on August 27, 2015, 09:17:02 am
I live in Northeast Texas, so we have dick for import games apart from the rare instance that a Gamestop has one someone traded in. Usually they're twice as much for some stupid reason. I usually use Play-Asia, or eBay. There's another site I can't remember the name of. I've yet to buy from them, but normally just peruse the "pretty pictures."
Title: Re: where do you buy import games?
Post by: bikingjahuty on August 27, 2015, 09:41:24 am
Mostly Ebay
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Post by: abe on August 27, 2015, 09:55:18 am
Mostly eBay, with a lot of the stuff I buy coming from user Yamtoku-Classic (http://www.ebay.ca/usr/yamatoku-classic). I also use AmiAmi, which I prefer for preordering upcoming Japanese games. I like to use Play-Asia during its big sales for buying Japanese or Asian region games that have been out for a while. On occasion Amazon can be useful as well, particularly for importing European region games.
Title: Re: where do you buy import games?
Post by: olly88 on August 27, 2015, 11:08:20 am
eBay usually. In the past though I have used Play-Asia, YesAsia and VideoGamesPlus.
Title: Re: where do you buy import games?
Post by: badATchaos on August 27, 2015, 11:39:42 am
Here are the big four I go with on ebay:

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Title: Re: where do you buy import games?
Post by: gf78 on August 27, 2015, 12:14:29 pm
I get pretty much all of my imports from eBay.  No particular seller though.  I just check their feedback rating and remarks left from past customers.  Most of the sellers from Japan take lots of detailed, up-close pictures of their item(s).  If it's a generic pic and not of the actual item, I won't touch it.
Title: Re: where do you buy import games?
Post by: pacpix on August 27, 2015, 02:03:07 pm
I don't buy a lot of imports, but the ones I do own all came from ebay.  The two main sellers I have bought from are Hit-Japan and Yamatoku-Classic
Title: Re: where do you buy import games?
Post by: maximo310 on August 27, 2015, 02:29:07 pm
I use Ebay, Amazon, Solaris Japan, and AmiAmi.
Title: Re: where do you buy import games?
Post by: yancakes on August 27, 2015, 05:07:53 pm
The few times I've ever done it I literally just got people I knew in foreign countries to buy and ship me the games, lol. Being friends with globe trotters has its advantages.