What's your most recent Dragonball purchase?

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Re: What's your most recent Dragonball purchase?

Post by Turtle Marked Stone » Wed Feb 09, 2011 3:15 pm

I think you're the asshole that totally beat me out of the auction for it! :lol:

Yeah it's the entire series, Boo was never on the spine.

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Post by Mountain » Wed Feb 09, 2011 3:32 pm

TheGreatness25 wrote:I just bought this off of a trusted seller on ebay (from Japan).

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So do you guys think it was worth it? I just wanted the uncut manga, I can't even read it lol But at least I'll have it. And I have the whole thing on my computer translated (but hey, at least I "supported the official release"!) and plan on getting the VizBig later on. So... was this worth it for $220? What do you guys think? It was going for $110, but shipping from Japan doubled the price.

Wait a minute, is that the entire thing? It said the "entire" 42 volume, but... I don't see any Boo on the spine.
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Re: What's your most recent Dragonball purchase?

Post by TheGreatness25 » Wed Feb 09, 2011 3:37 pm

I didn't beat anyone lol It was on the Buy Now option lol The only other one I saw got up to like a $400 bid. I was debating if I should get it for like 3 days. But if I "beat you out of it," I'm... sorry?

Thanks for putting my mind at ease over the spine art though.

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Post by Turtle Marked Stone » Wed Feb 09, 2011 3:52 pm

Ah there must have been multiple sales on the item with the same stock photo. Whoops, sorry.

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Post by MagicBox » Wed Feb 09, 2011 7:31 pm

Just finished getting all of my eBay orders in the mail... :)

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After a ton of searching, I managed to find a bunch of amazing guide/art books at great prices (about $20 per book). Shipping for everything altogether made that about 50% higher, but I still think everything was worth it. Great condition, too.

- Daizenshu #2: Story Guide
- Daizenshu #4: World Guide
- Daizenshu #6: Movies & TV Specials
- Daizenshu #7: DragonBall Encyclopedia
- Jump Anime Library Volume 1: Movie #12 Artbook
- Jump Anime Collection Volume 3: Movie #13 Artbook.

Daizenshu volumes six and seven both came with their original, rare, hard-to-find "Shen Long Times" mini newspapers, which are pictured at the bottom right of the image. Daizenshu seven also came with an old ad for "Dragon Ball: The Road to Being the Strongest," coming to theatres soon. Don't miss it! Daizenshu six came with its original obi strap, but it was really beat up and ripped, so I just put it away in my storage.

Now all I need are the three TV Animation volumes (I don't really need the Carddass volumes, but I'll buy them if the price is right) and I'll be all set!
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Re: What's your most recent Dragonball purchase?

Post by TheGreatness25 » Wed Feb 09, 2011 10:44 pm

To update, I just bought Dragon Ball VizBig Volume 1-5 for $72. I would have gotten it for about $53, but for some reason I wasn't able to update Amazon's shipping and handling to "Super Saver" even though four of the five were from the same seller. Oh well. At least they're brand new. I saw them on Ebay for $75 excluding shipping and handling (and I don't know if they were new) so seems like a good bargain. $10.30 for each ($11.30 for Volume 5) sounds like a pretty damn good price. Going to get the Z VizBigs next month when I don't have to worry about blowing up my credit card since I already killed too much money buying bottles at a club and just going out in general >_>

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Post by Kaboom » Wed Feb 09, 2011 11:09 pm

Just picked up the Remastered DB Movie 4-pack today.

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Re: What's your most recent Dragonball purchase?

Post by trunkschan90 » Wed Feb 09, 2011 11:20 pm

LeprikanGT wrote:
trunkschan90 wrote:Today in the mail I got a surprise package :D with:
Dragon Ball Z Kai: Season One, Part One
Dragon Ball Z Kai: Season One, Part Two
Dragon Ball Z Kai: Season One, Part Three
Bluray?
No, it's the regular version, I don't have Bluray player. They were sent to me by Goku's Corner, although I didn't redeem them or buy them. They just sent them to me which surprised me, perhaps extra inventory they wanted to get rid of :lol: No complaints here :D

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Re: What's your most recent Dragonball purchase?

Post by Tanooki Kuribo » Wed Feb 09, 2011 11:45 pm

I just got this gem in the mail today:

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My action figure collecting days are over but, I'm trying to collect these again, I had like 70% of them when I was a kid, but now I want to put them in some kind of a glass case or something and that be the end of my DragonBall figure/merchandise buying (besides DVD's).

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Re: What's your most recent Dragonball purchase?

Post by Tanooki Kuribo » Thu Feb 10, 2011 1:37 am

Man, every time I see that image from DragonBall Z 3, I always laugh to myself cause I picture Vegeta eating an imaginary hot dog. I mean, look at that! :lol:

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Re: What's your most recent Dragonball purchase?

Post by kei17 » Thu Feb 10, 2011 1:57 am

Tanooki Kuribo wrote:Man, every time I see that image from DragonBall Z 3, I always laugh to myself cause I picture Vegeta eating an imaginary hot dog. I mean, look at that! :lol:
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Re: What's your most recent Dragonball purchase?

Post by TheGreatness25 » Thu Feb 10, 2011 2:18 am

Yeah that was my problem too. But when I shopped around, I found that not including shipping, the price for this was a lot higher. I weighed my options and realized that $224 (including $114 shipping) was a decent price for this, original Japan, supposedly practically new, and it's not like these get printed every year, so it's pretty rare as far as I understand it. So I guess it's worth it. Now bought the VizBig Dragon Ball, so now I kinda have the different versions, the uncut original, and the edited, yet translated version, so I'm a huge leap closer to closure of this series :-)

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Re: What's your most recent Dragonball purchase?

Post by ssjtrunks51 » Thu Feb 10, 2011 2:31 am

Mountain wrote:
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Why are the numbers on the side in Chinese? I don't know much about Manga, but shouldn't it be Japanese?

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Re: What's your most recent Dragonball purchase?

Post by Tanooki Kuribo » Thu Feb 10, 2011 2:38 am

ssjtrunks51, they have manga is all different languages.

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Re: What's your most recent Dragonball purchase?

Post by TheGreatness25 » Thu Feb 10, 2011 2:49 am

So I just bought the Chinese ver@ion of it, shipped from... Japan, with the language description as being in Japanese? Ugh, nothing like feeling cheated. Oh well, as long as it's like the Japanese version with no censorship, I honestly don't mind. Still though...

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Re: What's your most recent Dragonball purchase?

Post by Tanooki Kuribo » Thu Feb 10, 2011 2:55 am

Oh man, TheGreatness25, you didn't know it was Chinese?! That's a different story. Sorry, ssjtrunks51 for that comment. :lol:

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Re: What's your most recent Dragonball purchase?

Post by kei17 » Thu Feb 10, 2011 2:55 am

Damn, maybe I am not Japanese but Chinese because I use kanji. :P

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Re: What's your most recent Dragonball purchase?

Post by linkdude20002001 » Thu Feb 10, 2011 3:00 am

Haha. Yeah, like kei17's trying to imply, Japanese uses Chinese characters too. They call them kanji.
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