Comment on Buying a PSP from Japan: One Fault, One Easy Fix
PerfectDark@lemmy.world 4 days agoThe Vita is technically shippable, but a few years back Buyee decided they didn’t want to do the paperwork. So now it won’t be shipped through them! I thinl Neokyo (another proxy service) actually did the same a little ways back also.
That is the only handheld which you can’t order though (go figure). PSP, all Nintendo handhelds are fine. Although there is a limit on two li-ion battery limit when they ship an order, so if you get a switch, they’ll send the tablet in one package and the joy-cons in another.
Hope that helps. It is frustrating, because Japan’s prices are much more reasonable, but you’ll have to go through a local seller or eBay (where the seller bothers with the paperwork to ship the built-in Vita battery)
_Lory98_@discuss.tchncs.de 4 days ago
Ah thanks, that’s a shame, I had no idea. I just assumed they didn’t want to store some kinds of batteries. I’m guessing it’s due the 3G modem then, if other handheld are fine?
Yea the prices and especially the culture around used items where why I was interested, ebay is often a bit more expensive.
What do you mean by local seller? Should I contact the Japanese store directly instead of going through the proxy?
PerfectDark@lemmy.world 3 days ago
Sorry, I mean buying in your own country. It does cost more, but you are actually better off just finding one there. It is a shame, I went through a whole process of finding a proxy service which still ships them and can be bothered with the paperwork, From Japan which got renamed to One Map is the only one which did ship them:
www.fromjapan.co.jp/en
This was a year or two back, so maybe check them out?