in this video I'm gonna go undercover
and take you guys inside Japan's
ticketing jobs
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have you guys ever seen his shops like
this walking around Tokyo it look kind
of like a mystery and a little bit shady
but I wanted to take time out in this
video to explain what they're all about
so I found out something recently how
the ticketing systems worked I didn't
know before the reason I found out is
when I did my top ten Shinkansen train
hacks I came across these Campion shops
essentially they sell this gun to train
tickets varmint or vouchers Disneyland
tickets and movie passes even McDonald's
coupons pretty much any show or anything
that needs a ticket in Japan they sell
and they sell it at a discount you might
wonder how they get it at a discounted
price and in this video I wanted to show
you guys how they do it and in order for
me to do that I'm gonna have to go
undercover and the way I'm gonna go
undercover today I've got my backpack
can you guys see that I got my GoPro
right there all right let's go so at
this point I'm a bit nervous the whole
business practice of buying and
reselling tickets seems a bit shady to
me as I've heard that criminals use
these shops to resell stolen or
counterfeit tickets and some companies
use these shops to evade taxes by
cashing out business expense tickets but
the truth is these shops are quite legal
and operate under the law and in plain
sight they're even required to register
their shops with a police
I know collection keeping this up
thinking of what it is look about the
depositor got cut
I feel funny got paid by eating on
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he's really just like you and actually
he's a lot nicer than I thought he would
be
he's even kind enough to write down the
exact ticket I needed to buy at the
train station great customer service
anyway still kind of worried I won't get
my money back so I opted for the
cheapest available ticket so the key
point here is to use my credit card to
buy the train tickets then afterwards I
resell the same tickets to the shop for
instant cash back kind of like a two
step ATM machine all right so just got
this ticket I've made 17 seven hundred
yen for these six tickets I initially
thought I had the by Shinkansen ticket
but in fact it's these PI suit Ken which
I think translates to like commuter pass
from one station to one station they
said illegal they'll give me 96%
whatever this value is and what they do
is they sell these individually to their
customers and they sell
little bit of a product that you can use
it is from November 2nd to March 2nd so
yeah it's about three months you can use
these tickets
let's go cash these in so in my
anxiousness to get the ticket I wondered
why these ticket shops don't buy the
tickets themselves but I quickly
realized that they make a small
percentage when buying the tickets from
people like me in this case four percent
good little business now that I have the
tickets in hand I'm getting more worried
that I'm not gonna get my money back one
because I might have bought the wrong
tickets and two we may notice that I'm
filming and they may refuse to buy the
ticket for the video sake let's hope
this all works out at this point I'm
just thinking please please accept the
tickets
Yokoyama
Oh juice your competition
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huh-ha it worked I got the cash or
percent less but I was still able to use
my credit card to get hard cold cash now
it probably won't be doing this again
one because I lose money on the deal and
two because it still feels kind of shady
so this is basically the receipt that I
bought it and here's the cash that I got
figure that so a total of and a total of
sixteen thousand nine hundred and eighty
n if you need cash right away that's
pretty good if you only lose four
percent what I notice on the wall itself
is that they have a list of tickets that
you can buy and they had it like a chart
so you have great tickets ranging from
seventeen thousand yen to plus one
hundred thousand yen which is like more
than a thousand dollars and then on
those tickets they had a chart saying
you get to get from ninety seven percent
all the way down to ninety three percent
and depending on what taking you buy you
can choose the payback rate you would
get yeah if you're strapped for cash I
can see why Japanese people do this
you got digit against you got from
someone you got some department store
vouchers like even baseball tickets are
like show tickets whatever I like
tickets you get and you can't use them
it's a way to get cash for those so
that is an odd website did you learn how
to notice saying that they don't accept
reuse or resold tickets the fact is when
you buy them from the kink in shops
there's no way to tell that it's been
resold there's that basically just says
they won't accept it if they find out
that it was a resold ticket but the
likelihood of them finding out is slim
to none and that's pretty much with the
rest of the tweed suit because they
don't really mark them because they got
them from customers or then they don't
like to show that you know it's been a
quarter of a discounted ticket shop it's
kind of surprising to me that I've been
here for fifteen years and I'm just
finding out about this now so it's
something that's not a lot of people
know about and I thought I wanted to
share with you guys one of the things my
friend told me the reason why he did it
is he needed a cache but a lot of
Japanese people they'll get sent off to
like Osaka Fukuoka on business on a
train and some of them won't actually go
on those trips and though what they'll
do is they'll take those train tickets
and they'll just sell them to the kink
in shops I don't know like how legal
this is so
you know don't do don't do this again
I'm not recommending you guys do this by
any means I'm just trying to explain how
the system works all right let me know
what you guys think about these tickets
shops would you guys use them are you
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