Ayu in Chinatown

[waterballoon]

The only bootlegs I see around here are at Pasar Malams lol...

@mcluva: Omg your icon is gorgeous.

[gothicayu]

i would never buy a bootleg because the quality is so crappy. the woman must have raize up the price when she saw you , they use to have many in china town LA for 3$ ( no mather how good of a deal it was i never bought it i rather support ayu )

[sakumadrops]

don't buy bootleg! just download it from the DL section lol~ just kidding.

Originally Posted by gothicayu

i would never buy a bootleg because the quality is so crappy. the woman must have raize up the price when she saw you , they use to have many in china town LA for 3$ ( no mather how good of a deal it was i never bought it i rather support ayu )

yup that is so Chinese style! they probably would sell it for $5 but they just said "oh it's $10, but i'll sell it to you for $8". the normal street smart reply would be "$8?! are u kidding me? i saw these up the street for $3 *walk away leaving*". then, the clerk will go "fine fine, i sell it for $5". lol~

[Hachimitsu]

I understand you're glad you found them, but it's better to support Ayu by buying original copies..

[ownsarai]

I don't really like bootlegs either, but it is cool that you found something Ayu related. I remember going to Koreatown and Little Tokyo in LA and seeing Ayu stuff everywhere. I was so broke then. I wanted to buy everything. xD I went to a small shop in Little Tokyo (which wasn't there the last time we went) and they had A BEST 2 -BLACK- for like $50.00

[gothicayu]

Originally Posted by sakumadrops

yup that is so Chinese style! they probably would sell it for $5 but they just said "oh it's $10, but i'll sell it to you for $8". the normal street smart reply would be "$8?! are u kidding me? i saw these up the street for $3 *walk away leaving*". then, the clerk will go "fine fine, i sell it for $5". lol~

i agree no mather where you are you can bargain and as soon as they see you leaving they go down on the price . honestly i dont like that because if you are white they give you a high price and if you are chinese you get great price .
in china its even worse the difference of price depending of were you come from.
that s why even with a bargain , its stil feel like you are getting ripped off

ownsarai---> you must be talking about that small book store upstairs . i went there too , everything is so overpriced , especially everything that's school related or cute stuff like phone strap , they double the original price. i never buy anything there because i refuse to pay so much for an item i know i can get cheapper somewhere else that will be exactly the same .

[AyUta]

Originally Posted by Hachimitsu

I understand you're glad you found them, but it's better to support Ayu by buying original copies..

well some of us don't really have the money, so we either go for cheap or just downloading. we try to buy ayu's material when we can . i know i do.

[emikoishida]

Well, it was marked as 10 dollars originally but I should've bargained wit her. I asked her what DVD region it was and she said her English no good. I basically just figured 'screw it' and bought it anyway. I figured it was because it was Chinatown and no one came to buy Ayu DVDs and it wasn't like she was a store known for selling Jpop DVDs/CDs. Like, clearance.

I played the I Am... CD and the quality is not good on a CD player. Some songs don't play and I played it a second time the songs that didn't play and the other ones that play will not. XD I'm thinking of just downloading the songs and burning a CD and sticking it in the booklet.

[emikoishida]

Originally Posted by AyUta

well some of us don't really have the money, so we either go for cheap or just downloading. we try to buy ayu's material when we can . i know i do.

Yeah, my mom is unemployed right now and refuses to buy anything off the Internet so I can only buy the ones on Itunes or if I buy an itunes gift card or my friend gives me an Amazon gift card. It's not like I'm sixteen and can get a job.

[usako168]

sorry, I would NEVER pay for a bootleg.