Itachi, Sasuke comic-con figures.

[pikacheeka.livejournal.com]

Is anyone interested in the Comic-con Sasuke and Itachi figurines?

I bought a set from someone on eBay, but they packaged them poorly and the wires got screwed up; they just threw all the pieces in a large box. They refused to reimburse me and at this point, it's probably easier for me to resell them. (I had to hunt down a functional pair because I'm anal-retentive).

They're worth about 100$-150$ new. Because they don't light up anymore and don't have their boxes, I'm asking maybe 70$.

Everything is included except the boxes. I'll even send the wiring and light bulbs, but I don't think anyone will be able to work it out (it looks like one of the wires had been cut). Otherwise, they're in perfect condition.

They're about 7-8 inches tall, have functional ball points at various places (different on both), and are highly detailed/accurate.


I fail. The lighting in my room is too light for flash, too dark for no flash.







PM or comment if you're interested. Price is negotiable.

Comments

[kaphinated.livejournal.com]

Oh me me me! I'll take them.
Can you post them to an address in the UK please? How is $70 inc postage?

[pikacheeka.livejournal.com]

Looks like it will be about 23$ shipping first-class international. It's saying 21 now, but if I'm sending it overseas, I want to add extra padding. Priority mail is 32$. If the difference between what I charge and what it is is 2$ or more, I'll return the difference to you. Does that sound good?

[kaphinated.livejournal.com]

Yeah, that is fine - First class rather than prioroty is fine as I am currently stuck in Japan unable to get home due to this whole volcanic ash cloud over Europe thing and there is a good chance it will home before I do!

How would you like me to give you my details and pay?

[pikacheeka.livejournal.com]

Well Japan isn't a bad place to be stuck as long as you have the extra funds to stay somewhere. =D

Paypal works for me. What about you? And it might still be really fast.... I shipped something to Australia last week and it showed up yesterday. XD

[kaphinated.livejournal.com]

Pay pal is fine - I have an account, but I don't really use it much, so I am not super sure how it all works - can you send me a payment request and Ill fulfil it?

Japan is awesome, just the uncertainty about having to call the airline and watch the new everyday is getting old really fast... Still, lots more time to hit Akihabara etc. is never a bad thing.

[pikacheeka.livejournal.com]

Sure. Send me your PP addie and I'll send a request over.

I want to go this summer. Fully planned to but financial troubles have complicated matters. Still a good chance I'll say fuck it and go anyway. XD I know I'll never have the time when I'm older.

[kaphinated.livejournal.com]

Done, via PM.

I would highly recommend it; I have been here for 3 months after planning to come here for about year and a half, and I too nearly reconsidered due to the economy and maybe not ahving a job to come back to and all that blah, blah grown up stuff.
However I didn't cos I am stubborn and have found that every single thing I have chosen to do, even if it was expensive, far away, or needed me to get up super early has been totally worth it. I have written some journal entries about my experiences, with links to photos etc, so feel free to check them out if you want some inspiration or whatever.

[pikacheeka.livejournal.com]

Ohhhhh don't you need a visa after 3 months? XD I wonder if people who can't fly are running into problems with that.

Are you staying in Tokyo? I plan on staying at a guesthouse there for 4-6 weeks. I originally wanted to travel (spend a week in Tokyo, a week in Hokkaido, etc etc), but this is my first time traveling alone so I decided that some stability would be best.

[kaphinated.livejournal.com]

My paypal needs me to enter new account info, so I have got the request and will pay it as soon as they have approved my new account.

I travelled from Hokkaido down thru Tohoku to Tokyo (took about 2 weeks), where I got a "gaijin house" from an agency called Sakura House (you can find them on google really easy - there is also Oak House, which is basically the same but spelt different.) My room was in Shinjuku and I shared the kitchen and bathroom with 3 other bedrooms. I had japanese style room with a futon, but you can get western beds too, which also had a balcony, free internet, a TV and good wardrobe space.

The awesome thing about Japan is the rail pass; they are cheap and the rail network is so good that you can get to most places from Tokyo in a few hours as long as you get up early, and get back the same evening. But then if you want you could have an overnight somewhere and just take a small bag, leaving the rest of your stuff at the flat, you can do that too.

Hokkaido is awesome - lots of ppl miss it as its not really "Japanese" - yno with kimonos and temples etc, but its well worth it - the food is epic and the ppl are superfriendly, and the natural views/parks etc are amazing. I went in Feb when there was thick snow and the Ice festival in Sapporo, but I also would like to go back in the summer when you can hike and the flower plantations are in bloom.

[pikacheeka.livejournal.com]

Okay sure.

How do you like SakuraHouse???? They're the ones I plan on staying with. I'm just kind of stressed because I can reserve now, but they won't give me a listing of available rooms until 10-15 days before I leave. I'd kind of like to have a set place before that.

Dumb question about SakuraHouse... do Macs work on their internet? Their website says you need to bring your own PC to go online, but I can't tell what they mean by that... XD

I'm a little confused about the rail pass, I admit. That's the Japan Rail Pass, right? So I can use that to go all over Tokyo? Their public transportation is so insanely complicated. When I lived in Rome, I paid 30 Euro (or 20 even) a month and rode on all buses and subways for nothing. Trains out of Rome cost money, but that was all. I couldn't find anything like that for Japan.

Yea I'd love to travel everywhere. But again, first time alone. So I think staying put would be best.

[kaphinated.livejournal.com]

I threw up some stuff about the JR pass here:
http://kaphinated.livejournal.com/54787.html

I'll write something about Sakura House soon when Nii-san isn't waiting for me so we can eat ...

[kaphinated.livejournal.com]

I had the same thing with Sakura House - as I was travelling in Hokkaido before I arrived in Tokyo, I wasn't sure how much internet access I would have.
I registered with the quick reservation thing and got some emails about places before then, but I also kept a look out on the website each week and when I saw a place listed as "available from the xx/xx" which was just a few days before I wanted it, I emailed them and requested it and they gave it to me. That was about 2 months before I wanted it.

When you have a place you have to give a minamum of 3 weeks notice to move out, so they can put it up for the next person from about then, at the latest.

As for the internet, they have wireless router for the house or a LAN cable in each room (should say on the property details), so as long as your Mac (laptop?) has a wireless card you should be fine. They give you a piece of paper with the WEP key & password etc on it so you can connect the first time, and most laptops/PCs will have a "automatically connect to this network when available" tick box on their network thing, so its pretty easy from then on. They don't provide a common PC or anything like that.

As for being alone, I wouldn't worry about it too much in Japan; its a really safe place - most people don't even bother to lock up their bicycles even in central Tokyo, and I have seen Pizza delivery guys leave the keys in their cars/bikes when they go into a building. People are really friendly, if you ask for help or directions people will try to help you even if they don't speak English. One time I asked a bus driver which stop was best for my hotel and he said the bus didn't go that far - at the last stop he told me to stay on after, and then when everyone else had gotten off he drove me right up to the door! And thats just one example I could give of how nice Japanese people are.
Obviously, you don't want to wave cash around or get too drunk on your own or tell strangers your PIN number (^__*), but I feel more safe here walking around or on the subway at night than anywhere else I have been, and I have travelled quite a lot.

Do you speak any Japanese?

[pikacheeka.livejournal.com]

Ohhhh so you were able to actually reserve it that far in advance? Hrm.... that's interesting. I will have to see if I can do that because I'm nervous about waiting so long. Oak House has an 8-day thing. I will probably go with Sakura, as it seems more open to foreigners and prefers them, really.

That's good about the wireless. I live online (seriously...it's horrible) and I can't imagine a month without it, regardless of where I am.

I'm not worried. My parents are. My biggest hurdle in going will probably be convincing them. Right now they say they're fine, but they don't believe me that I'll actually go. I want to buy my ticket in the next week or two, so it's getting kind of awkward. XD I went to Italy with my class for a while a few years back and had a breakdown, and they think the same thing will happen. They don't realize that last time, that was the first time I'd ever traveled or been away from home for more than 2 days. I've been away 3+ months now in another country, so I think 4-6 weeks will be okay (and I'm older anyway). I figure if worse comes to worse, I'll come home. But I want to try.

I have about 1 semester worth self-taught, and I am taking another semester class (it's one of those 6-week intensified ones) before I leave this summer, so that should be enough for me to get by I think. I can read Hiragana and Katakana already, which is a start reading-wise.

[kaphinated.livejournal.com]

Oh BTW - feel free to add me on MSN (if you use it) with the same addy as my paypal if you have any questions etc - I am loving my trip and would love to pass on some ideas for places to go, stay etc.

Or just Naruto-based squee-age. Me and Nii-san tend to flap about it like 14 year old girls - very OOC - but nevermind...

[pikacheeka.livejournal.com]

Oh haha okay. I'm not on msn too much but I can add you. I don't publicly flash my name and I'm too lazy to log in for a PM, but I will give it to you soon.

And are you a member here?
http://forums.narutofan.com/member.php?u=163083
There's an ItaSasu FC and everything.

[pikacheeka.livejournal.com]

Have you seen any ItaSasu doujin there? I'd consider a partial trade if it's anything I don't have... Don't go looking for it. I'm just curious as to whether or not you've seen any.

[kaphinated.livejournal.com]

LOL. Me and Nii-san have spend many an hour trolling thru thousands of KakaIru to find Uchihacest gold - so I have found a good few. I just posted them all home (too many for baggage alloance to take), via Airmail, so I don't know when they will arrive.
I think I want to keep them all in hard copy, but I can give you a list and scan any you are interested in?

There is some - there is far more SasUKExKakashi and SasuNaru, but the amount of KakaIru is just staggering! Most Akatsuki/non-Konha stuff tend sto be KakazuHidan. Or so I've found.

[pikacheeka.livejournal.com]

Oh awesome!!! Definitely keep me updated. ItaSasu isn't so popular in doujin for some reason, which sucks. Mutsumix has a lot and other than that, there isn't so much. Sucks because you can go so many ways with it, and it can be taken as canon in some of those ways. I wish it were more popular.
I recently bought this: http://hi.baidu.com/h0rus/blog/item/937045c38256b05fb319a8de.html
It's MadaIta with a little ItaSasu on the side. <3 I think it's the only Madara-centric doujin out there.

Last con I went to here in America was ALL KakaIru, 4 KakaSasu, and 2 NaruSasu. So I had to buy all the KakaSasu. XD I have some KakuHidan. Rauhreif kind of owns that fandom and her stuff is really good (she has a few looooong, as in 200-page-long doujin about their history together that are very sad). But yea I was hoping for some ItaSasu. No such luck.

[kaphinated.livejournal.com]

Yeah, its such a sad fact that there is so little good ItaSasu. Done well, it is so, so good, but unfortunatly there isn't that much full stop, and that there is can be very emo or have too much of the crying, blushing Sasuke which I'm not really a big fan of.

Nii-san and I have resorted to making our own ... Which is here; http://s279.photobucket.com/albums/kk150/kaphinated/cosplay/Uchihacest/

[pikacheeka.livejournal.com]

I prefer the assertive and kind of creepy Sasuke.... The pairing is very hard to write though because there ARE so many levels to it. And honestly, Itachi being a 'good guy' in the end only made it more complicated and fucked up, seeing as he essentially tortured Sasuke out of love.

I have nobody to cosplay Naruto with. I was ANBU Itachi all by myself. ;_;

I have one posted fanfic: http://www.fanfiction.net/s/5793253/1/The_Game_He_Always_Wins and a bunch of ones I haven't typed or posted because they are bleh.

[aubreywitch.livejournal.com]

You know you can dispute that through paypal if the seller is being disagreeable.

[pikacheeka.livejournal.com]

I already opened a dispute/claim through eBay and was told I could get a partial refund back. Of 10$, which was maybe 11% of what I paid unless I could work something else out with the seller. The guy agreed to accept a return finally, but has ignored my continual emails asking for his return address, as it was private on Paypal. In short, I could have tried through Paypal, but the result would have been the same probably. ._.

[aubreywitch.livejournal.com]

Hmm, if you say that the seller wont respond to your emails that usually guarantees paypal opting in your favor. Try calling someone at paypal and making your case, they should award you more than 10 dollars out of the total amount for damages and his/her refusal to work with you.

[pikacheeka.livejournal.com]

Well I have someone here who is interested in it. I'm losing some money but it's less of a hassle and this way, someone who really wants it is going to get it. If the sale falls through, I guess I might. Going through eBay was such a pain and got me nowhere though.