I'm glad I don't live in Japan

[Bwall]

http://www.akihabaranews.com/news-11230-X.html

[Bio-Hazard]

That has to be one of the stupidest laws I've ever heard of...........

[Dragon_Slayer]

i wonder if that affects ebay sales from japan?

[Dragon_Cooler]

there will deff be a lot more of them!! that would really suck to be there

[Kerii]

i wonder if that affects ebay sales from japan?

As far as I know, eBay doesn't operate in Japan. I have no idea why.

They have other options like Yahoo! Auctions though.

[T-Shirt]

They think this will make for more new sales, but instead people will just stick with what they have, since they can't legally sell it to get some money back.
Bad idea, and only encourges illegal trading ("I gift to you my old PC, and you gift me 50,000 yen")

[-mogwai]

horrible idea. that will just cause enormous amounts of waste and cause, i believe, a growing economic disparity between classes.

[PuterPrincess]

"Imagine the folly of allowing people to play elaborate games which do nothing whatever to increase consumption. It’s madness. Nowadays the Controllers won’t approve of any new game unless it can be shown that it requires at least as much apparatus as the most complicated of existing games."

"Like everything else, government controls the games people are allowed to play. The priority here is not only that people enjoy themselves, but that the economy also benefits"

"Ending is better than mending. The more stitches, the less riches."

[allenpan]

lol...ebay of course none existent in japan, if u from that part of world u should know http://auctions.yahoo.co.jp/ dominated in japan or any yahoo auction dominated in asian, taiwan for example is http://tw.bid.yahoo.com/ so on