Yes, I'm referring to the Online Betas. The NSTC one was actually a purchase from a user on this site. I had agreed to buy it from him a while ago but it fell through due to me, but I contacted him from a different site recently and it all worked out. He got it years ago from PlayStation Underground but had no internet, so it just sat in his desk sealed all these years. Trying to comb through Yahoo Auctions, thank god Chrome automatically translates pages in foreign languages. I'm always searching under the Toys and Games category, do they typically list GT stuff anywhere else?
Yeah I think they're pretty much exclusively listed under Toys and Games. I wonder if there are any other Japanese auction websites like Yahoo, where you can pick up stuff like this...
The only other auction site FromJapan offers support for is bidders.co.jp, and when I searched グランツーリスモ using FJ I got no results. If only there was a granturismocollectorsitemsforcheap.co.jp.
Sort of a bump, but also an update on my collection. Finally got around to photographing it and compiling it into one album. The first link below is the collection as of last week and the second is an update with two new items I got in the mail today from Yahoo Auctions Japan. http://imgur.com/a/1hwfq http://imgur.com/a/OT9Yj Missing a lot in comparison to some of the gods of collecting *cough Edward cough*, but I'm proud of it. GT collecting is a small hobby I've only been pursuing for a bit more than a year, so I think it's respectable in its current state.
Been a while, here's a bump. In case anyone cares I've been updating my collection thread here: http://www.assemblergames.com/forums/showthread.php?50241-Skier-s-(Small)-Gran-Turismo-Collection