and you think we R2J-ers are crazy?

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well, just go to Jungle (http://jungle-scs.co.jp/cgi-bin/cart_e.cgi) and search for

Macross Flash Back

If you can't find it anymore, the short of it is somebody paid 18000-yen for FB-2012 dvd first-ed.

Considering what that anime dvd is, I'm sure the fan who waited (for quite a long time) and paid for it for that much is finally happy just to get it.

No, I'm not the one who bought it. I wouldn't and couldn't, anyway. /images/graemlins/relief.gif

edit:

Took down the pic so as not to violate their stuff. /images/graemlins/sweat200.gif

[Falcon_73]

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treatment said:
Considering what that anime dvd is, I'm sure the fan who waited (for quite a long time) and paid for it for that much is finally happy just to get it.

No, I'm not the one who bought it. I wouldn't and couldn't, anyway. /images/graemlins/relief.gif

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It's a better price than I've seen on auctions of late. It's the one that I still need to get after all these years. However, I have yet to connect the dots on this one. It's hard to justify this kind of expense on a 30 min music video even as a Macross fan.

At least I finally have the M+ R2 movie on the way.

Thanks for the link.

[Tomcat]

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If you can't find it anymore, the short of it is somebody paid 18000-yen for FB-2012 dvd first-ed.

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Been there, done that. Not with Macross, and not with only 30 minutes of content, but still quite abit on singular and rare R2J content.

-TC

[ZenAmako]

Even at 5,800 yen, I thought this was expensive. I ended up getting it from sazuma.com's 50% off sale a few years back (thanks to an AoD post, as I recall) for about the price of a R1 DVD. /images/graemlins/happy.gif The thing is, I think it might be hard to convince a buyer it's not a bootleg since it's coded for region 0. Even if I could, I think I'd regret selling it, despite also having the laser. Too much nostalgia involved with this title. /images/graemlins/wink.gif

I wonder why it went out of print, though.

[KShinjo]

I knew there was a premium on the Macross Flashback 2012 DVD but that price is crazy. I can't believe Anime Jungle is charging that much for it. I can understand the buyer paying up though (when you gotta have it, you gotta have it - and for a Macross fan, Flashback 2012 is a MUST have).

I know it's out-of-print but... I don't recall it being so rare that a used copy should go for 3-times the original price. Wow.

Edit: Falcon_73 is right. Anime Jungle's price is actually pretty decent. I just checked Amazon Japan. Some of used sellers there are selling it for an additional 10,000 yen. Yikes.

[ZenAmako]

I remember that the Lodoss War OVA set used to go for some serious bank (like 70,000 yen). I wonder how much that's worth now that the set is being reissued soon.

Just FYI:

as of 8/3/2006

¥18000 = US$156.15

[treatment]

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ZenAmako said:
Even at 5,800 yen, I thought this was expensive. I ended up getting it from sazuma.com's 50% off sale a few years back (thanks to an AoD post, as I recall) for about the price of a R1 DVD. /images/graemlins/happy.gif The thing is, I think it might be hard to convince a buyer it's not a bootleg since it's coded for region 0. Even if I could, I think I'd regret selling it, despite also having the laser. Too much nostalgia involved with this title. /images/graemlins/wink.gif

I wonder why it went out of print, though.

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I think that was the primary reason why it went OOP rather quickly. Once everybody found out that nobody needed an R2-player for it, fans were more than willing to buy it even at the original 5k-yen price.

[Skywise]

Yeah I also got it cheap from sazuma. Since I do know what it is now (I didn't fully at the time), I think I would pay a premium to get it again. 10k yen easily - 18k is a bit hard to justify since I have other stuff I want, but would be doable. Once something becomes OOP there's a bit more flexibility in the pricing, since then you're dealing with something that's essentially a collectible.

[Njr Scrawl]

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Kiggy said:
Just FYI:

as of 8/3/2006

¥18000 = US$156.15

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Not too bad at UK exchange rate of £1 = US$1.81 approx. Had I seen it I'd have bought it, but would be happy with a LD for less.