Local pickup horror stories
Today I was pretty ecstatic to see a sega cd and model 1 genesis with all the chords and hook ups for 40. It didn’t show the sega cd in full just the edge of it not hooked up just underneath. I asked the dude if that was a sega cd underneath the genesis and he said yeah do you want it. I told him hell yes I’ll come grab it.
it was 40 miles away but I don’t mind traveling for good deals. When I arrived the guy was hanging out with his buddies and gf. I asked to see the two systems and my heart sank. It was just the model 1 genesis and sega cd model 2 extra edge to fit the model 1 just so it doesn’t hang over the side. It had sewer shark as well. I asked where was the sega cd system and he said I don’t know maybe in one of these boxes.
i asked him to check a couple of the boxes but he refused. He said just buy the genesis and if he finds the cd unit he would call me. I told him I will have to pass because the cd unit was what I really wanted and left. On the 40 mile drive home my anger was at 10. I asked him specifically but he never even checked. What are your hunting losses? What happened to you that bummed you out and made you angry.
ive got worse hunting tales but this one really bugged me today for some reason maybe caused I asked him about it before the 80 mile round trip.
it was 40 miles away but I don’t mind traveling for good deals. When I arrived the guy was hanging out with his buddies and gf. I asked to see the two systems and my heart sank. It was just the model 1 genesis and sega cd model 2 extra edge to fit the model 1 just so it doesn’t hang over the side. It had sewer shark as well. I asked where was the sega cd system and he said I don’t know maybe in one of these boxes.
i asked him to check a couple of the boxes but he refused. He said just buy the genesis and if he finds the cd unit he would call me. I told him I will have to pass because the cd unit was what I really wanted and left. On the 40 mile drive home my anger was at 10. I asked him specifically but he never even checked. What are your hunting losses? What happened to you that bummed you out and made you angry.
ive got worse hunting tales but this one really bugged me today for some reason maybe caused I asked him about it before the 80 mile round trip.
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off Craigslist. It had Turrican II with manual and Dracula X and others. We had a spot to meet and halfway there i thought I better make sure we are still meeting. It was about an hour drive. Lady writes back and says "Oh sorry my husband already sold it". I couldn't believe she didnt tell me and was going to let me
waste my time to meet. Anyway, the buyer of that lot posted everything on Ebay. I ended up purchasing Turrican Ii with manual off them. Frustrating
At least I have a complete Sqoon now.
I saw an advertisement on a local Facebook group for a totally mint Sqoon box/manual for $100 and a mint Chubby Cherub box/manual for $200. I said I would take the Sqoon box but the Chubby Cherub game was only about $40 so I thought $200 for the rest of it was way too high so I passed. Someone else bought it and sold it for about $800, that's when I realized some complete games are way, way more than just double the value of the cartridge (Donkey Kong Jr. Math is another).
At least I have a complete Sqoon now.
Actually that's a special case for Chubby. The game's boxes were originally made of cheap material and most of them didn't last like other nes boxes. Making it incredibly difficult to find cib.
We were out hitting yard sales locally. We pull up to a tiny yard sale where the lady is just selling just pretty much. I always have to ask at sales, no matter what the place looks like. I asked, any video games. She said what kind. I started listing off all the big names, Nintendo, Sega, Atari, Xbox, Playstation...so on. She says she has a "Sega". I ask her about it. Says its a Sega CD, has games and so on so forth. I get excited. I ask her to bring it out so I can take a look. Says she'll have to dig it out and gestures to her garage that...honestly looked like it was a hoarders place. My heart sunk since I NEVER get call backs on shit. You have to force them to dig it out then and there or you'll never get it! But...I gave her my name and number and asked for hers as well..since I knew if I had hers I could text her for updates.
So a few days go past when she said she'd call me. I text her. She says she forgot and will dig it out later. I wait...and wait...and finally she does text me back. She found it and the games and said she'd have to go through them to make sure it was all there and such but she was ready to sell. I start asking prices, she isn't sure and I say well when can we meet up...and this is where it starts getting fishy. She said she's busy but will get back to me...ok. Few days go by and I ask her...we start planning it out. And then suddenly she won't sell them. What the fuck. I mean REAL sudden like, I'm setting a date and time and we agreed on this sudden. So I'm like...pissed off. Now, just because I'm pissed off doesn't mean I'm going to call her a bitch or threaten her or anything. Honestly I think I said that I was really let down and disappointed that she did this when we were ready to pretty much call it a done deal. And the crazy bitch texts back that I'm "threatening her" and she'll "call the police" on me...what the fuck. Like 0 to 60 here. Crazy ass bitch. Seriously if she did call the cops I'd happily show them the text convo saved on my fucking phone.
Ugh. So I just stopped texting and blocked her...what a fucking psycho.
Now that I think about it, this wasnt a horror story at all- it was actually great.
Drove an hour one way to meet a guy to buy a Sega Nomad. I get there and text the guy and he says he isn't sure he wants to sell anymore. I basically have to beg him to sell it to me but I got it so that 2 hour trip wasn't wasted.
Awhile back I found a psx lot on Facebook for $10 which had X-Men Children of the atom , Dino crisis, and a few others. I get there and the girls boyfriend wants to keep Dino crisis and X-men was in awful condition. I picked up X-men but was so frustrated at how that went down I haven't done any meets outside my time since.
It is honestly hardly worth it any more because everything I see for sale now on Facebook is in terrible condition
I found craigslist ad from a guy selling a bunch of Amiga gear, including a model 3000 that I really wanted. After agreeing on a price and time, the wife & I headed out for the 2 hour drive. Almost there when I got a text from the guy saying someone else had shown up for something else he was selling, spotted the Amiga, and offered more than our agreed-to price. Said I could match the higher offer or he'd sell to the other guy. I declined, figuring the 2nd buyer was likely a ploy just to raise the price.
Now for the good part. The drive had taken us to a rural area I hadn't been to in years, so we decided to detour to take a look at a local waterfall and stop at the nearby small town for lunch. Driving thru the town I spotted a large box sitting at the curb with 'FREE' written on the side and an N64 sticking out of the top. Did a quick U-turn, parked (love small towns- parking always available), looked in the box and spotted some other gaming stuff and so put the whole box in the back of the car and continued on with our day. Sorting thru it after returning home, there was a NES and a SNES deck, a gameboy, and about 40 games total for the various systems. Nothing rare but was still a nice consolation prize for missing out on the Amiga.
I had a Craigslist transaction for 160 NES games for $300 a few years back - there were some great titles listed so I made the half hour drive to a sketch part of town. Could tell immediately that I pulled up to a drug house. Dude led me inside and I literally had to step over a two unconscious women (not pretty - which made it worse) to get to the stairs. Mind you, its 2pm. Smoke (strange clouds as the kids call them?) was pungent and thick. Passed through a maze of 8 more people and misplaced couches. Made it upstairs, dude just had the games in a pile on the floor (floor was not pretty - which made it worse). He said "there you go". Then he realized I couldnt possibly carry all of them loose so he violently ripped a drawer out of a dresser - breaking the entire dresser - and we filled up the wooden drawer. I got outta there quick and completed the transaction.
Now that I think about it, this wasnt a horror story at all- it was actually great.
Oh hey man. Can I have my drawer back?
I go over to his house after work for another 3-4 days and finally figure out what the issue is with a dead CMOS battery and needing to set the appropriate configuration in the BIOS according to the manual. I fired it up and it worked great. I asked about the Galaga cabinet and he said he had a bar top machine he wanted me to look at, it just booted to the title screen and kept rebooting.
I took the small bar top machine home and worked on it for a few days before realizing the CMOS battery in this one was also dead but this one was integrated into the board. I had to de-solder it, take it to a local shop to have a new one welded in and then solder it back onto the board (cost me $10). I got it working great and gave it back to the guy.
I asked him about the Galaga machine one last time and he said he wasn't sure he wanted to let it go anymore. The end.
What I don't get is why people do the double offer thing...like someone offers them more...ok yeah I get more money woo hoo...but even I would draw the line there. I actually had it happen to me. I was selling a N64 set with some games locally and got so many people offering. But I did the RIGHT THING, and stuck with the guy who had asked about it first and was going to offer me a good amount, near to what I was asking. Even though several others were going to offer me more. Because I'm not an asshole. I've gotten burned like that and it freaking sucks.
Because you aren't in an online community where reputation matters, you are both just randoms. That's why people get greedy and take the larger offer.
I had a Craigslist transaction for 160 NES games for $300 a few years back - there were some great titles listed so I made the half hour drive to a sketch part of town. Could tell immediately that I pulled up to a drug house. Dude led me inside and I literally had to step over a two unconscious women (not pretty - which made it worse) to get to the stairs. Mind you, its 2pm. Smoke (strange clouds as the kids call them?) was pungent and thick. Passed through a maze of 8 more people and misplaced couches. Made it upstairs, dude just had the games in a pile on the floor (floor was not pretty - which made it worse). He said "there you go". Then he realized I couldnt possibly carry all of them loose so he violently ripped a drawer out of a dresser - breaking the entire dresser - and we filled up the wooden drawer. I got outta there quick and completed the transaction.
Now that I think about it, this wasnt a horror story at all- it was actually great.
Yeah, it was more like a pleasant story amidst a horror scene.
I had a Craigslist transaction for 160 NES games for $300 a few years back - there were some great titles listed so I made the half hour drive to a sketch part of town. Could tell immediately that I pulled up to a drug house. Dude led me inside and I literally had to step over a two unconscious women (not pretty - which made it worse) to get to the stairs. Mind you, its 2pm. Smoke (strange clouds as the kids call them?) was pungent and thick. Passed through a maze of 8 more people and misplaced couches. Made it upstairs, dude just had the games in a pile on the floor (floor was not pretty - which made it worse). He said "there you go". Then he realized I couldnt possibly carry all of them loose so he violently ripped a drawer out of a dresser - breaking the entire dresser - and we filled up the wooden drawer. I got outta there quick and completed the transaction.
Now that I think about it, this wasnt a horror story at all- it was actually great.
Did you keep the drawer or just dump them in your trunk and hand the drawer back?
Dumped them in my trunk and left the drawer in the weeds out front - it matched the neighborhood.
Sweet, thanks for the drawer dude, I was wondering who would leave behind an awesome, only partially damaged, drawer like this one! Makes a great crib for my son!
At least I got some moon over my hammy.
I got there at the same time he did, and she met us at the door, when he found out why I was there he started going through the games, and decided to keep about 75% of them. He was acting like a kid on Christmas. She had more than she had said on the phone, but with what he pulled out, it was barely worth the $200 they insisted I give them. I ended up buying the left over games for $175, and got just under my moneys worth, but I wanted something to show for driving over an hour each way.