Still, this does seem like a shonky way to sell your wares does it not? If he has no problem selling the toy regularly at 18,000 yen - why start dicking about with this method? 18,000 is quite expensive in my book, he must be making some good profit on that, surely. If your toy is red hot and 'sought after' why would you need to try this sort of thing? For the hype?