I don’t sell them, because it’s too much hassle and most of them I got second hand, but I am happy to give them away (and a few have found a new home with a fellow Viennese natively user). However, unless someone passes through Vienna and takes them off my hands, they will probably eventually just end up in one of the little libraries around here…
Hear me out: (I swear I’m not sponsored or paid or anything by the app lol) but if you put them up on Vinted (I’m eyeing かがみの孤城 上・下 and 世界のニュースを日本人は何も知らない ) it works the same as when you return an item to Amazon. You toss them in a box and drop them at your nearest post office or delivery/return locker box. No need for you to pay for shipping as a sender or fee for using their service or anything. That’s all handled by them (and paid by me when ordering).
Again, not affiliated with them whatsoever, just putting it on the radar for fellow EU readers. I got 傲慢と善良 for like €1,50 (shipping was domestic, so I paid another euro for that) and I’m currently waiting for my beautiful copy of 夜は短し歩けよ乙女 for €3,50 (shipping was around 4 euros extra since it’s from France).
Of course there also people selling their regular used 500 yen copy of 君の名は for €50, but that’s beside the point
I know some family members that use it for clothing, didn’t know it was so convenient for books. I might offload my unwanted books cheaply then. I’ll investigate this weekend.
As long as it’s not a hassle like eBay, and get into disputes, and having to end up returning the money and loosing the shipping cost, that’s fine.
I bought used japanese books over at https://www.medimops.de/ for very cheap. Unfortunately their search is kind of cumbersome to use and the shop itself is only available in German or French afaik. But according to their shipping FAQ they ship everywhere inside Europe?
I just put 3 books as a test for a couple EUR and they were take off my hands almost instantly . I’m going to be busy this weekend making space for other books.
Vinted sounds like a great idea, I’ll try it to find books.
For selling in the EU, momox is very easy (it’s the partner to medimops that yukitanuki mentioned). Scan the books, and they give you a barcode to print for shipping. I’ve sold English and German books and gotten a fair price, but so far they haven’t offered me a good price for selling back Japanese books. I swear I’ve navigated the site in English (but I’ve only used it in German, so double check the region on these before buying/selling):
Among what I’m selling, I found the odd book that sold for 6EUR. But the rest is either no-buy or 0.15EUR. Making it impossible to arrive at the 10EUR threshold (not that I’d send it for 0.15 a book anyway, I’d rather put it on vinted for 1€)
Today I got 人間失格, but an edition published by East China Science & Technology Press.
Still have no idea how they ended up publishing a handful of Japanese books. However, they did, and the books they publish seem to be classics in either full furigana, or full furigana side by side with chinese translation.
For 人間失格 it’s just full furigana, which is a pretty handy way of making it a bit smoother for me to read. (Although I do wonder if the furigana on obvious stuff, 私、父 etc. will end up being annoying). In any case, kinda interesting that it exists!
エイティエイトを2でわって | L27 volume 3 (not added yet) - haven’t gotten to the second volume yet, but the first was good.
https://learnnatively.com/book/ce5b573b97/ - no idea if it’ll be any good, but I had to buy it for the ridiculous premise. This girl has always wanted to be a magical girl. A magical creature appears and says she’s been chosen and offers her a wand to become a magical girl, but her dog grabs it first of becomes a magical girl instead.
By the way, CD Japan raised their shipping prices and customs processing fee to the U.S. since the last time I ordered by about 2300 yen total. Really sucks.
Well, I chose the one that includes the fee upfront instead of paying the delivery company directly. Previously that option was way cheaper, but now it’s the same or more compared to the others, though still more convenient.
CDJapan has fallen so much, I was a very good/avid customer since 2009, and I was excited about the DDP to get rid of AmazonJP. But the fees are ridiculous. Also last time I ordered something, they sent me an email that they wanted 10000JPY more because they miss-calculated shipping to my location, and then went ahead and refused to process the refund, “because I was in a contract to buy the thing”.
Feels bad after all those years, probably more than the employee that replied me that dumb thing has been in the company, had to end up with a PayPal claim. And then somehow they deducted me processing fees that I couldn’t claim through.