YouTube - May 2024 Hard Off Visits! Searching for Portable MiniDisc Stuff!

Hello and sorry for the long delay!

Hopefully you were able to see some of my posts on Instagram about my travels in Japan and my visits to Hard Offs!

I finally got a chance to get some of my pictures and footage together from visiting Hard Offs in Japan.

If you haven't been to Hard Off before, definitely find some time! Hard Off is just one set of stores (also Book Off, Off House, etc.) that focus on reuse of goods so they don't end up in a landfill. Think about it like a Goodwill in the US, but WAY cleaner and nicer. Most of the goods for sale are actually in like-new or very good condition at decent or cheap prices.

There is a lot of fun to be had in their pure "Junk" section as well! Here you can dig through shelves or bins full of old, incomplete items and see if you can find a diamond in the rough. I visited a few Hard Offs (and a Book Off) to see what I could find...

Check out the video to learn more and I'm going to dump the rest of my photos here as well if anyone's interested.

My next quest will be to visit the most remote Hard Offs I can find during my next trip to Japan!

Hard Offs - Akihabara and Okachimachi

Hard Off - Kazuokan

Hard Off - Hisayama

Hard Off - Fujisawa

Book Off - Tsunashima

Hard Off - Tomiokahigashi

Giveaway #9 - 800+ Subscribers on YouTube - Sony MZ-E810SP + MiniDiscs directly from Japan!

Thank you all for subscribing (if you haven't already, please consider it!) to my YouTube where I try my best to repair some of these great old devices. 800 subs ago I never thought this would get this far! Thank you again for your support and I hope I can continue to help the great MiniDisc global community in some form. To celebrate 800 subscribers, I'm doing something a little bit different this time! I'm going to give away this sweet Sony MZ-E810SP - a nice MD unit with a folding speaker dock, and I'm going to direct-ship some MiniDiscs that I won in Japan straight to you! So the winner will get two packages, one Sony MZ-E810SP, and one set of MiniDiscs from Japan! For this NINTH giveaway (completely free to enter!), use the Rafflecopter widget below to enter between October 26th and November 3, midnight US Pacific time. a Rafflecopter giveaway Please see official rules, here! Privacy policy is included here also - I don't need/wa...

Recertifying your CCIE for less than $600 (or less than $800)! Updated 2023

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YouTube MiniDisc Repair - Sony MZ-RH1 Finally Replacement OLEDs for Dead OEM Ones

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