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The current title doesn't reflect the opinion of the person being interviewed, which is more nuanced and less controversial: > "I should specify that if you’re
by david-gpu 3y ago
The current title doesn't reflect the opinion of the person being interviewed, which is more nuanced and less controversial:
> "I should specify that if you’re a tourist in Japan and buying these games because you genuinely want to play them, I don’t have an issue with you," Jia says. "It’s the people who clear entire shelves just to scalp them online when they get home that ruin the hobby here for everyone."
In other words, a better title would be: "American expat laments scalpers are emptying Japanese retro game stores".
- hinkley 3y agoI knew someone who got a retail job in Seattle. They were coaching employees to refuse to sell large quantities of things to scalpers. Like someone buying ten pairs of jeans at a go, to fly out of SEATAC to someplace Levi’s are expensive.
- vidanay 3y agoTangent of the day: A buddy of mine in high school visited the Soviet Union ca. 1987. Levis (jeans in general) were such a hot commodity on the black market there, that the number of pairs of jeans in his luggage was written on his entry stamp in his passport, and when he exited the country, he had to have the same number of jeans.
- jareklupinski 3y agoplot twist: he was smuggling luggage bags :)
- vidanay 3y agoKnowing that guy like I do, he was likely smuggling Dokken t-shirts and cassettes.