Don't really trust eBay sellers on such a finicky console and also not a huge fan of eBay prices either. So I was hoping that maybe a member here that is in Japan would be willing to help me out. Might not be worth the trouble but wanted to ask.
I only need a working system. Don't need any controllers or cables.
Shipping is killer. I just patiently kept an eye on eBay until a cheap enough unit came up. In the end, I decided that I'd rather risk a used original model system than pay a premium for one of the later models.
Yeah shipping is going to suck. I'm willing to do budget options there but eBay sellers don't really want to of course, and I can understand why. The US sellers tend to bake Japanese shipping into the cost of the unit and I'd rather order from Japan than support some random asshole that imports systems in bulk.
As long as it's not the first motherboard I'm pretty much good with it. I'd even take one w/o HDMI. Of course, asking Japanese sellers to check what revision the console they have for sale hasn't yielded any responses yet which is also a big part of what drove me to make this thread.
I got mine from Opethian for dirt cheap. Good luck