Tips selling large Urusei Yatsura collection

[Lum]

I was considering to sell off my Lum goods. Any right way to go about this? I'd rather not have to deal with finding an ebay trading assistant. Darn DSR program cut me off.

Unfortunately on top of that, I'm in the US. It could be difficult to find an interested audience here...

I've got things like:
Complete Music Box CD set
some individual CDs (real & bootleg)
the 50 TV DVD volumes
movie 1-6 DVD
figures & gashapons
five of the laserdisc movies
plushies, clock, watch, cushions, poster, t-shirts, etc
many of its US manga & comic volumes
a few other random items

[Yakumo]

If there are any such things as comic cons near you that would be a good place to sell stuff.

Yakumo

[Lum]

Once in a while cons reach Seattle or something. Probably not close enough for the effort. Hmm.

[XerdoPwerko]

Man, it makes me sad when a person has to sell the items related to their favourite series or movie or hobby in general...

I hope you don't need to sell them, but if you do, maybe other forums that have specialised audiences, and yes, comic cons, will be your ticket, I guess.

Still, though, it's really sad that people nowadays don't know what Urusei Yatsura is anymore. That series used to rock.

[Yakumo]

I had a load of Maison Ikkoku stuff at one point including cells, CD box sets, laserdiscs, VCDs and so on. I had to sell them all when I fell on hard times. At least I still have the series on DVD.

[Lum]

Eh. I dunno. I gather stuff in phases, moving from one series to another when bored. It's like how many of us were after the Pokemon or pro wresting crazes settled down.

Who knows. Maybe it'll be Gundam next for me? TMNT or Sonic? Or even something else. No one can really say.

[Yakumo]

I never did see what was so great about Pokemon. Even now I don't understand the appeal. The show is a load of crap as with most TV animes. Poor animation and same story each week. My son watches it so I have too with him :(

[mazonemayu]

Urusei yatsura is imo one of the best animes of all time, I've been watching it on & off since they came out (in fact I've just seen ep 174 again last night) . we were lucky enough to have it translated & broadcasted in the 80's in Europe (later I discovered it in japanese which made it even better) & I've been in love with it ever since. we even went as far as to put a pic of baby Lum on the card when our own daughter was born

[Lum]

I never did see what was so great about Pokemon. Even now I don't understand the appeal. The show is a load of crap as with most TV animes. Poor animation and same story each week. My son watches it so I have too with him :(

Yup. It's very hard to write a series with such heavy handed apparent executive meddling. Almost impossible to have new developments go anywhere.

So from what little I've of seen this decade's Pokemon episodes, it's better when they DON'T try to incorporate plot. Of course the non-story approach to anime was mastered years earlier by none other than urusei yatsura. <_<

[ASSEMbler]

Complete Music Box CD set
some individual CDs (real )
figures



I'll take these, and any 80's vintage uy toys.

[Lum]

Complete Music Box CD set
some individual CDs (real )
figures



I'll take these, and any 80's vintage uy toys.

Tough part will be packaging. Some of the larger figures have their boxes. (not yet shown)
Biggest one is taller than Xbox 360, not even counting its box. Really.

I've taken a few starter pics to help this topic out.

http://smg.photobucket.com/albums/v5...ails/8-7-2011/

[ASSEMbler]

Those figures all look like reissues.

LMK about the CD / price. I will take them.

[Lum]

That's fine. It's the small figures I'm less confident about. I'll separate unclear ones whenever I get around to post an ad somewhere.

I don't know how I could price this type of CD. Not exactly orthodox music. I seem to recall Complete Music Box being very expensive though.

[Yakumo]

just look on Yahoo auctions for a price guide :)

[XerdoPwerko]

Your stuff is pretty cool, and I'd get at least a bit of it if I had the cash.

Gundam is always cool to collect if you do so in a non-serious manner. But serious Gundam collectors, man, that's crazy stuff.

[Lum]

just look on Yahoo auctions for a price guide :)

I suppose. It'll take poking with translations. Yup weird, an actual US born English speaker who knows about this series.

[GaijinPunch]

Probably only weird if you're older than Yakumo or I (early-late 30's). It was pretty big I recall, back in the VHS days. I just never got into it, but I might give it a shot one day. Was always more of a Maison Ikkoku fan.

[Lum]

Maison Ikkoku has its moments at first, but I'm not sure I'd want to sit through past box set three. I'm not much for down to earth stories. All that character development later on might start getting dry.

[XerdoPwerko]

. Yup weird, an actual US born English speaker who knows about this series.

No, not weird at all, actually. When I was a teenager in the 90's, we got all our classic anime from US based catalogues, and we'd get a lot of info in English from the U.S. (aside from all the 70s and 80s anime that aired on Mexican TV in the 80s and early 90s. That was awesome.)

I guess it's an age thing. If you were a nerd at a certain decade, you probably know Urusei Yatsura and Maison Ikkoku. We saw a lot of 80s anime in the 90s down here, on bootleg VHS copies that we got from comic stores and conventions. Man, what I wouldn't give to live in those times again...
I think that being a fan of anime was more common in Mexico at some point, because we had stuff like Ranma and Sailor Moon on TV before you guys, and it was translated directly from Japanese, without the American "adaptation", but still, I found out about many anime concepts through the English part of the Internet and American imported magazines, and by swapping VHS tapes with people met through message boards or conventions.

It was so much fun back then, and today's young people are really missing out.