Sunday, April 19, 2009

A Collecting Experiment

I was recently given a little advice by someone from a forum I used to frequent about how to quickly obtain large amounts of Japanese CDs. Basically, put in vague searches on Yahoo! Japan Auctions and trudge your way through the results until you find large, cheap lots of stuff. Well...I took that advice, and here are the results.


^This is the package itself. It cost $80 to ship...because it weighed about 9 pounds and had to be shipped EMS. XD (sorry about the big black splotches - I'd rather not have internet pedophiles stealing my personal info :P)



^This is the box upon opening the lid. Everything is packed nicely, thanks to either Ohta or the seller. I'll give the credit to Ohta since he's a cool dude and bid on the auction for me, haha.



^Here's all the CDs unpacked and stacked up. 55 in all.



^And sorted in stacks. The left stack is CDs I didn't have already. Middle stack is CDs I already had. Right stack is doubles from within the box.


Here's a list of the contents of each stack:

New (34):
  • Morning Musume - Manatsu no Kousen (Original 8CM Release)
  • Taiyou to Ciscomoon - Magic of Love
  • Ichii Sayaka in CUBIC CROSS - Shitsuren LOVE Song
  • Heike Michiyo - Murasaki Shikibu
  • Morning Musume - Single Medley ~Hawaiian~
  • The Douyou Pops 1 - Christmas to Fuyu no Uta Shuu
  • Morning Musume - Best! Morning Musume 1 (SEALED)
  • Morning Musume - Koi no Dance Site (SEALED)
  • Pucchi Moni - BABY! Koi ni KNOCK OUT!
  • Pucchi Moni - Chokotto LOVE
  • Pucchi Moni - Seishun Jidai 1.2.3! / Baisekou Daiseikou!
  • MiniMoni - MiniMoni Hinamatsuri!
  • MiniMoni - MiniMoni Jankenpyon! (SEALED)
  • MiniMoni - Minihamuzu no Ai no Uta (SEALED)
  • MiniMoni - MiniMoni Telephone! Rin Rin Rin (SEALED)
  • Tanpopo - Tanpopo
  • Tanpopo - Last Kiss
  • Tanpopo - BE HAPPY Koi no Yajirobee
  • Melon Kinenbi - Amai Anata no Aji
  • Melon Kinenbi - Saa~ Koibito ni Narou
  • Melon Kinenbi - Kokuhaku Kinenbi
  • Melon Kinenbi - Natsu no Yoru wa Danger!
  • Coconuts Musume - Jounetsu Yuki Miraisen
  • Coconuts Musume - Watashi mo 'I LOVE YOU'
  • Coconuts Musume - DANCE & CHANCE
  • Coconuts Musume - Tokonatsu Musume
  • 7nin Matsuri - Summer Reggae! Rainbow!
  • 3nin Matsuri - Chu! Natsu Party
  • Sexy 8 - Shiawase Desu Ka?
  • Odoru 11 - Shiawase Kyouryuu Ondo
  • Happy 7 - Shiawase Beam! Suki Suki Beam!
  • Akagumi 4 - Akai Nikkichou (SEALED)
  • Kiiro 5 - Kiiroi Osora de BOOM BOOM BOOM (SEALED)
  • Aoiro 7 - Aoi Sports Car no Otoko

Already Had (16):
  • Fujimoto Miki - Sotto Kuchizukete Gyutto Dakishimete
  • Nakazawa Yuko - Kuyashi Namida Porori
  • Nakazawa Yuko - Shanghai no Kaze
  • Nakazawa Yuko - Futari Gurashi
  • 10nin Matsuri - Dancing! Natsu Matsuri
  • Morning Musume - Mr. Moonlight ~Ai no Big Band~
  • Morning Musume - The Peace!
  • Morning Musume - Renai Revolution 21
  • Morning Musume - Koko ni Iruzee!
  • Morning Musume - DO IT NOW!
  • Tanpopo - Oujisama to Yuki no Yoru
  • Tanpopo - Otome Past ni Kandou
  • Country Musume - Hajimete no Happy Birthday
  • Country Musume - Koibito wa Kokoro no Ouendan
  • Country Musume - Iroppoi Onna ~Sexy Baby~
  • V/A - Pucchi Best 2 (SEALED)

Doubles (5):
  • 7nin Matsuri - Summer Reggae! Rainbow!
  • Kiiro 5 - Kiiroi Osora de BOOM BOOM BOOM
  • MiniMoni - MiniMoni Telephone! Rin Rin Rin
  • MiniMoni - Minihamuzu no Ai no Uta
  • Morning Musume - Koi no Dance Site

The auction ended at 8000yen (about $80). With Ohta's middleman fees and the seller's shipping fee, the total without shipping to the US was $120. Add in shipping, and it comes out to $200. That's a little less than $4 per CD, and a little over $2 per if you don't include shipping. All of them are releases from 2002 or before, so I suppose that's not quite as good of a deal as if they were stuff from 2003 to present...but they're all in good condition, and I can sell/trade the ones I already have (which I'll be doing very soon - I already had a decent-size pile of stuff to get rid of before this monstrosity arrived XD). I'll most likely be doing that in a thread over at H!O, by the way - I'll make note of that here as well, for those who don't regular the forums and may want to make me an offer I can't refuse. ;)

All in all, I'd say this is a pretty good way to get a running start on your H!P collection (or, if you're already well on your way, to give it a quick boost and get some leverage to work with in the H!P selling/trading community). It's obviously a fairly large chunk of cash to drop in one shot, but I think it's worth it for anyone who enjoys collecting H!P stuff, or who wants to start doing so.

Now...NO MORE SPENDING UNTIL ANIME EXPO, DAMMIT. >.>
- cfb

2 comments:

Ian said...

Woah! Your lucky that box didn't end up at my house. :P

But seriously, I wish I had those! Especially the Coconuts Musume CD's. Lucky!

Jim Haku said...

Damn this is a great idea. This is like the old random boxes of comics I used to buy, you get some crap and doubles but some stuff you'd never think of buying.