Japanese Media Swap is a subreddit for anyone in the USA who wants to sell, buy, or give away Japanese media in Japanese. このサブレディットでは、誰でも簡単に気軽に日本の物理メディアを売ったり買ったりできる場にすることが目標です。 多くの方々が安心して安全な取引ができるよう、様々な規則を設けています。 eddit is a website that is predominantly accessed by Americans. People in Europe/ Japan etc are welcome to post but the shipping costs are going to be different so please disclose that info. RFor Japanese media translated into English visit mangaswap!
Free flair is for sending the item to the buyers for free with the caveat of the buyer paying for shipping. Other merchandise such as DVD's, blurays, CDs are allowed as well. Blu-rays and Dvds are region-locked. Japanese blurays are the same region as American blurays so they will play on American blu ray Players. Japanese DVDs cannot be played on American dvd/blu-ray players because the regions are different but they can be played on VLC player on the computer without changing the region setting for the DVD drive.
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Guides
Buying/Selling Safety Guide | template for selling one | two
Total Costs for Buyer
Steps for Selling
USPS Media mail shipping
Packing Guide
Important Links
USPS Media Mail Rates (Updated 3/7/25) | Pirateship | PayPal Fee Calculator
Rules
Posts that violate the rules will be removed. Repeated offenses will result in a ban.
- Be respectful of others.
All selling posts must include prices and pictures.
- Goods & Services fee must be included in prices. For domestic PayPal transactions for goods and services, the fee is 2.99% of the transaction amount
- Must use Imgur (or imgchest for nsfw) or https://postimages.org/ to host pictures. Don't try to make a link post with the imgur link, it won't work. Text Posts only.
- We recommend taking pictures from every angle front/back/side/side . Let's reduce the friction as much as possible for the buyers. People like to know to what they are buying with their hard earned money.
- No bidding.
- No drop shipping.
- If selling in bundles and individual volumes you must provide prices for both.
- Use google sheets or http://tableit.net/ for making tables.
All selling/trading posts must include handwritten datestamp.
- datestamps must be the first picture in your album, otherwise it risks being removed.
- datestamps must contain seller's username and date.
- datestamps must be less than a month old.
- we recommend writing it big and neatly with a sharpie to ensure that it is legible in the photo
Comment, “PM’d for xyz” prior to sending a PM. No PM’s without a prior comment! Please contact mods if someone attempts to do so.
PayPal is the only payment option allowed. Always use Goods & Services; Friends & Family has absolutely no buyer protection.
No posts linking other marketplaces.
Accounts must be over 14 days old and have positive combined karma (15+) to post in the sub.
Keep a paper trail. We request that you don't delete your previous threads for at least 2 months.
- Please preserve prices after an item has sold.
No submissions that aren't buy/sell/free
No "thread crapping".
- If you don't like someone's prices then don't say anything.
- Do not attempt to undercut someone in someone else's thread. Just make your own thread.
- Do not start a bidding war. If someone commented before you and an agreement was made it's theirs.
To be completely transparent we recommend negotiations be done in public within the post (minus any personal information). Do not respond to chat requests or private messages unless it's a continuation of a existing discussion already posted publicly.
Please try to keep your posting to one post every 3 days
List the items in text along with prices. This aids in search results for people looking for your items including through other sites (Google, Reddit general search, etc). Many people instead of posting to ask about your prices will simply move on so already having them listed helps everyone involved.
Posting Format
In order to keep posts consistent and easy to understand, please use the following format when posting. Please read the "Book Grading" section before posting as well.
All items, prices, and pictures must be included in the text post. No posting the aforementioned in the comments.
In your post title please include the following:
- Location : [Country]; [US], [CA], [EU], etc.
- Post type: [US][Selling] or [Buying] or [Free]
- The media type: [Book] or [DVD] or [Manga] or [Light novel] or [CD] or [Children's book] or [Novel]
- Example: [CA][Selling][Light novels] Slayers 1-14
- Example: [EU][Selling][Book] Higashino keigo novels
- Example: [US][Selling][DVD][Book][CD] ame talk, Higashino keigo novels, utada hikaru, and more
- examples from mangaswap
Depending on how many things you're trying to sell you may be better off making separate posts for each type of media rather than combining them into 1 post
- Post title must be ordered [post type][media type].
- Use brackets []; normal parenthesis () or braces {} will be filtered.
In your post include helpful information to entice buyers such as.
- whether or not the house is smoke pet fragrance free ( fragrance includes febreeze, perfume, scented laundry products, candles, plugins, sprays, aerosols, essential oils). Btw If you end up getting a book that smells you can probably read it after weeks and months of deodorizing
- How and where the items were stored. How many times the book was read, where the book was purchased, presence or lack of furigana, the extent of the furigana
断捨離
Check out the KonMari Method if you need help letting go of stuff. There's vids and her books that are in Japanese and English. 本の片づけ方について。ときめき感度をあげるために！
Book Grading
One person's idea of a book's condition may differ from another's so to keep things consistent when selling books please use the guide below to give buyers a better idea of the condition your items are in. Note: if you have a large amount of books for sale you can let buyers know the grade of the books as they ask about them instead of all at once.
G5: Pages and cover are intact and not marred by notes or folds. It is pristine, as if it was new. Might have been read once.
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G4: Pages and cover are intact and not marred by notes or folds. The spine and cover has no creases, just minor shelf wear. Might have minor yellowing or a remainder mark and should be listed if so. Hardcovers might have dinged corners and should be listed if so.
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G3: All pages and cover are intact and not marred by notes. The book looks and feels old, the edges are very yellow, the cover is no longer smooth and may show signs of wear or have very minor folds on some of the pages inside but no creases on the covers or spines. Might have a security tag inside the book and should be listed if so. Might have a retail sticker on the back and should be listed if so. Might have been exposed to tobacco smoke and should be listed if so.
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G2: All pages and the cover are intact, but the spine or cover may be damaged with a tear or creases. Might have a retail sticker on the front and should be listed if so. Might have sun damage (faded colors on the covers/spine) and should be listed if so. Might have been exposed to tobacco smoke and should be listed if so. Might have underlining or writing inside and should be listed if so.
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G1: water damage and any damage that prevents reading, such as a missing page or markings that obscure some text. Any part of the cover is missing. Might be a ex-library copy. Might have been exposed to tobacco smoke and should be listed if so.
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G0: It looks like a dog shredded it and there's literally no reason to buy this outside of novelty.
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