Word: secondhands
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...Electrical Appliances and Materials Law (PSE), designed to prevent electrical fires, will prohibit the resale of 259 types of electrical goods made before April 2001?including some of the most coveted video-game machines. "It's stupid," fumes retro gamer Hiroshi Yamano, while shopping at the Super Potato secondhand-game shop in Akihabara, Tokyo's nerd mecca. "Who do they think they are protecting...
...Musicians and audiophiles, who swear by the warmer sound of older, analog equipment, are also up in arms. Hiroki Kimoto, manager of a shop selling secondhand music gear in Tokyo, says half of the guitar amplifiers in his inventory fall under the PSE. "We don't know what we're going to do. It's ludicrous. I have never heard anyone having safety problems with these machines, but the whole music culture could be affected." Ryuichi Sakamoto, one of Japan's most famous musicians, has moved to the forefront of a group lobbying for the law to be revised...
WHAT HAPPENED TO THE STIGMA ABOUT SECONDHAND GOODS? The Internet allows you to be anonymous in your purchasing. It's not like you're rummaging through someone's garage. When you walk out of your home in that designer dress, no one will know it was previously owned. Also, some things are being sold on eBay with the tags...
...Protestant mother and a Catholic father, Bono describes his faith as "promiscuous." He quotes Scripture and counts meetings with Pope John Paul II and Billy Graham among the most significant of his life. "I try to live it rather than talk about it because there are enough secondhand-car salesmen for God," he says. "But I cannot escape my conviction that God is interested in the progress of mankind, individually and collectively...
...years, Marktstrasse?the 0.5-km-long aorta of Hamburg's Karoviertel quarter?was a graffiti-covered jumble of secondhand shops and broken-down squats. Today, however, it is gentrifying rapidly. The designer boutiques are moving in and the area's refurbished pre-War fa?ades and newly planted square are becoming the stylish backdrop for Hamburg's pretty young things...