The merch there is very cheap, even at resale shops, but I gotta scour Yahoo auctions and HOPE a single standee or keychain drops below $150USD it's so sad :/ I'd love to go to Japan for several reasons but it must be so insane to find rare doujins or whatever for less than $10 USD. Unfathomable.

Granted, a lot of the things we CAN get (with insane shipping costs), but for a lot of things--like the popup shops/cafe stuff, it took MONTHS for prices to drop. Even now there's relatively new merch on the web that's impossible to find because nobody wants to resell.