Things out of reach

(tags purchase, Osaka, Kyoto, bag, telephone card, collector, figure)

I went to Kyoto last weekend to try to buy a Shinzaburo Ichizawa Canvas bag, but the whole store was sold out! I can't recall a time where perhaps 99% of the goods in a store are gone and the racks are totally empty. Is this normal?

Well it doesn't help that I was wandering around Kyoto looking for Animate for a hour or two in the early part of the day. I easily found Sofmap, Gamers and Super Position (a figure store) in that mall close to Hankyu Kawaramachi. There was also an interesting media store called Kikuya, where they even had a Magic the Gathering or other card game space. Animate? The cell phone directions were bad. Next time? I'm going to go to the Shinzaburo Canvas bag store directly in the morning and brave the crowds.

I headed back down to Osaka which is my "turf" so to speak... Another thing out of reach was the telephone card set for Rozen Maiden (season 1) Film Comic (volume 1, 2, 3). If you collected all 3 and entered the raffle and won it (50 sets only), you would have got those 3 cards with the same illustration on the covers of the 3 books. I saw this telephone card set going used-mint at Books Lashinbang for 150000 yen.

WTF. That like two Playstation 3 right there. Totally overvalued.

I want to just buy the third book which is nowhere to be found... So I can put those books together and make the same illustration on my weblog. Ack.

In the same shop, the SR series Suiseiseki figure was going for 16000 yen used-mint, originally 3000 yen new. I would have wanted to buy it (at that price? ugh) but it was gone the second time I checked.

Finally, that crazy price for the Nanoha A's Setting Book mint-used went down (from 15000 yen) to only 5000 yen, originally 3000 yen new.

Gotta level up on my Ebay/Yahoo auction skillz, at least for price checking. I got burned once by Books Lashinbang (no, I burned myself), and I shouldn't repeat that.