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| Akihabara has acquired a reputation as a place to buy electronic gadgets, along with certain kinds of anime. Older tourist literature claims that Akihabara shops sell high-tech goods sold nowhere else in the world, with outstanding customer service to match. However, the older generation of kindly storekeepers have retired, and Japanese high-tech has declined in quality. Today's Akihabara is run by the storekeepers' sons and grandsons, 20-year-olds with pierced noses and bad attitudes. They will try to bully you into buying complicated products with useless "ion" or "oxygen" features. If you tell them that you just want a simple tool to get the job done, they will turn their backs to you. The stores, most of which are very small and cluttered, sell goods for at least twice the price as elsewhere in the world. American software sold there tends to be at least one version out of date, in obviously tampered boxes. The electronics may not work outside of Japan, but store clerks will claim it does. |
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