Where to import japanes and european games to united states from

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t_jay17

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Does anyone know where I can buy Japanese and European games and get them shipped to the United States for a reasonable price? I want to get Gundam Extreme Vs and Saint Seiya Sanctuary Battle on the ps3.
 
Reasonably priced, no where. The dollar has been hurting bad against the Yen for a while now, and importing from Japan is prohibitively expensive and generally not worth it IMHO. www.ncsx.com is the place to go if you're really interested in importing though, I've always had great service from them.
 
Despite the awful exchange rate, there are decent prices if you know where to look, especially since many Japanese games drop in price pretty quickly after release. Amazon.co.jp is worth checking out, but you'll need a proxy to buy games from there (dv8CAG is a forum favorite).

A couple alternatives, both of which you can order games from directly:
- Play-Asia: a great and very popular import store which also carries some hard-to-find items. The thing I don't like the least about them is the high shipping rates (a consequence of them being in Hong Kong), but it's not as bad for games as it is for books and figures.
- AmiAmi: mainly a figure store, but also carries a lot of games. Their sale sections have some deeply discounted stuff, and are updated on a regular basis. Located in Japan.

For European games, there's, again, Amazon (.fr, .co.uk, etc.), but their policies on mailing games overseas might be the same as with .co.jp's; in fact, I'm fairly sure this is the case with .co.uk. Third-party sellers on the Japanese and European Amazon sites can be a different story, though, as some of them will ship worldwide.

Play-Asia also carries some European games, but not many.
 
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i used play-asia.com. its the cheapest place i saw max anarchy on the internet (about $90) but yeah, nowhere are you gonna find jpn imports that arent expensive. and for european, use ebay.
 
Solarisjapan is usually awesome for Japanese imports. Their prices range from better than playasia, to worse than playasia. lol It's always a good idea to check there before ordering elsewhere.

UK has a few good options:
365games / Zavvi / Shopto.net / HMV

All of those are good options with reasonable shipping and good service. If it's a boxed game, though, (like an LE) you want to get that off of ebay UK. The aforementioned sites always ship in bubble mailers. I know some people have gotten lucky and not had items damaged, but why even risk it? I've never had a boxed game come in a padded envelope that wasn't damaged, even domestically.
 
[quote name='Vinny']"Where to import japanes and european games to united states from"... what the fuck did I just read here?:whistle2:?[/QUOTE]

For a second there I thought the thread was made by slidecage.
 
I got Last Window: The Secret of Cape West from a UK seller on Amazon's website. I guess some 3rd party sellers do list on the U.S. version of Amazon. Currently trying to save up for the PSP version of Breath of Fire III.

How about some must have Japanese and European exclusives?
(I'm leaning towards exclusives that don't require you to learn Japanese or already have English as an option.)
 
Thanks for the help I was able to fins Saint Seiya sanctuary battles pal for the ps3 now to find Gundam extreme vs ntscj for the ps3
 
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