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Old Dec 23, 2021, 09:05 PM
Rrolack Rrolack is offline
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Originally Posted by Chris Porter View Post
Probably because of all the counterfeit Goemon albums that are all over Yahoo Japan Auctions. No one can trust whether the listing is a legit copy or not anymore, so no one's willing to drop that kind of cash on something that could be a bootleg.
I looked into this more, and found a few auctions whose descriptions can tell you how to tell the difference between real and fake copies. See the descriptions of these auctions:

https://page.auctions.yahoo.co.jp/jp/auction/r346815980
https://page.auctions.yahoo.co.jp/jp/auction/n398990519

Looking at past sales, I see that 3 of the last 4 sales of KICA-7800 are fakes! The real one sold for 70,000 yen (without obi), and the 3 fakes sold for around 25,000 yen each (all with obi). So it seems that real Ganbare Goemon albums are still really expensive, and it’s the presences of fakes that makes the average price look depressed.
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