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   Ansgar -59cobalt- Wiechers to ashez2ashes@yahoo.com   
   Re: Out of print manga volumes?   
   01 Sep 08 21:41:16   
   
   dfd58093   
   XPost: rec.arts.anime.misc   
   From: usenet-2008@planetcobalt.net   
      
   ashez2ashes  wrote:   
   > Has anyone else been having this problem?   
      
   GTO vol. 10 (German edition). Took me almost 2 years to find someone   
   selling her collection, so I could snatch it.   
      
   > About a year and a half ago I stopped buying the manga series Basara   
   > because I was a poor college student and my budget was tight. Now I'm   
   > out of college and actually have money and the volumes I need are...   
   > nowhere to be found.  Volumes 19 & 20 of Basara are suddenly the holy   
   > grail of anime fandom.  I looked everywhere online and the only place   
   > I found selling volume 20 it was going for 300 dollars!  WTF?   
      
   Right now there seems to be a price breaker over at Amazon, selling it   
   for "mere" 80 bucks. ;)   
      
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