Craigslist ad for a garage sale containing "SNES, N64, Sega, PS1, PS2, etc" and "some games". I show up right at 8 when it was supposed to start. Of course, ask the lady and she says she just sold everything to someone. A few blocks over I ask someone else if they have any games, and they say that someone just bought all her games. And yet again, one more guy a few more blocks over has a few SNES sports games, so I ask if he has anything else, and he says someone else just bought a whole bunch of stuff from him. What the hell! How is it that someone else just happens to be following the same path as me just a few minutes ahead?
I originally posted this over in the eBay gripe thread, but its relevant here to:
"I used to try and stick to the listed start time at yard sales, arriving 10-5 minutes beforehand. I eventually gave that up because I found more often than not, my competitors were arriving an hour early and picking the place clean. Now when I go yard sailing, I try to hit promising sales an hour before they open. The worst that can happen is either nothing is set up yet, or someone tells me to come back later. In the latter case, I smile, thank them, then either wait or go hit a nearby yard sale. Once 9am hits, I might as well go home because anything worth grabbing from a retro-game standpoint has already probably been grabbed."
So this guy posts an SNES and 20 games on CL for $40. No pics. I text him and he sends me pics. Mostly sports games, but Chrono Trigger, Final Fantasy 2, and Mega Man X are among them. I say I'll take it for $40. He says oops, I meant to put $80 on the post, $40 for the games and $40 for the system. I say, OK, I'll still take the games for $40. He says, no, he just wants to sell it all at once. I literally don't have $80 to spare right now, so I try to get him to sell me just the games. I noticed the CL ad now says $80 for the games and $40 for the system, or $100 all together. He says he increased the price because of "demand" but he would still honor the $80 for me, since I was first to inquire. It's not my fault he doesn't know how to post a CL ad correctly. I realize he's just trying to get more money, but that's kind of jerkish that he's not even trying to work with me, especially since he's now willing to separate apparently, but not when I was asking.
man had the worse luck in my life thrifting last week.
Roll in see a mario party 7 in the case, get the lady to open er up, reach for it, no game but it had a animal crossing and sonic disc in the mp7 case, wouldve got that but discs were beyond repair.
Go to another place, start seeing all these ps1 games, someone stole em, since they leave ps1 in the music/software shelf out in the open. WAIT WHAT! Digimon ps1(the rare one), nice case and manual? Open er up..NO DISC!
craigslist ad for gba (missing battery cover, but damn good condition) and 4 games, pokemon blue and 3 junk games, all for $15. contact the person, they still have it, begin to set up a meeting place...and that's the last I heard from them. they just all of a sudden stopped replying, and after 2 hours, the post was taken down. the hell, man?
I've had two really close calls from CL in the last month. I think at least one was a troll though. I keep up pretty much daily with checking my local CL but the other morning I didnt get a chance to get as thurough as I normally do. So on my lunch break I check it out and see a virtual boy come up... under the free section. It said posted 5 hrs ago. Figured I was too laye to the party but still sent a message. Never heard back
Second one could have been a troll, basically labled old video game or something like that. It looked like a kid may have wrote it. No caps, everything was abbreviated like plz=please and cuz=because. They said they had found an old unopended video game in the basement and that they hadnt looked it up. The name of the game was contra force. No pics of course on either one of these to confirm.
They did right back and say they had sold it to a game store in PA called Just Press Play for $6,500... So I guess its provable, just dont know that I believe it.
This one hurt, bad. I was about 10 minutes late. It was a $75 Gamecube collection on Craigslist with the system, Melee, Windwaker, Mario Sunshine, Mario Strikers, Mario Tennis, Mario Kart, and about 10 more games I can't quite remember. Also a Gameboy player, 3 controllers, congos, and this was the worst part...HD component cables. Sigh. I just keep telling myself that they weren't the cables I'm thinking, since that was the only thing he didn't have a picture of. Even without the cables, that woulda been a hell of a deal.
This one hurt, bad. I was about 10 minutes late. It was a $75 Gamecube collection on Craigslist with the system, Melee, Windwaker, Mario Sunshine, Mario Strikers, Mario Tennis, Mario Kart, and about 10 more games I can't quite remember. Also a Gameboy player, 3 controllers, congos, and this was the worst part...HD component cables. Sigh. I just keep telling myself that they weren't the cables I'm thinking, since that was the only thing he didn't have a picture of. Even without the cables, that woulda been a hell of a deal.
oh, god...no no no, they just couldn't be THE cables, had to have been regular cables...right? in any case, man, everything else...tough break, man.
Got to a Flea Market late on Saturday (purely because I'd had amazing luck at the previous one, pics coming soon...) and found a reseller tent with a boxed Pal-B of Blues Brothers marked up at 1550 DKK (about £167). Laughing it off I left, found a stall with Snes games on and bought some. While chatting to the guy, he said he'd sold said Blues Brothers for 100dkk to the guy before realizing he was a reseller... If only I'd have gone at set up ;_:
This is officially my worst loser's weepers ever. So this weekend was the Classic Game Fest here in Austin, a retro game convention. Literally in the next room over in the same building, there was a Citywide garage sale. I usually go to this garage sale every time they have it, about once every other month or so. Never find anything too great, so I decided to head to the Game Fest first and hit the Garage Sale after a couple hours. Well, it turns out one of the only ladies that ever has game (and usually charges about $10-$15 for crappy PS2 games) had a whole little bin of SNES games for $5 each. Included were gems such as Mario All-Stars, Mario Kart, Link to the Past, etc, etc. Oh, and Earthbound. Yep, Earthbound for $5. I was about an hour too late, since I decided to hit the game convention first. Worst part is, I would have been able to live my life in blissful ignorance, but the guys who got the deal just so happen to be a couple of the guys who were at the convention and I follow on facebook. So of course I see the video this morning and instantly recognize where they were and now I hate myself and kinda wanna die a little. Goes to show you, if there is a garage sale next door, hit that before going to your gaming convention. Here's a link to the damn video.
Got to a Flea Market late on Saturday (purely because I'd had amazing luck at the previous one, pics coming soon...) and found a reseller tent with a boxed Pal-B of Blues Brothers marked up at 1550 DKK (about £167). Laughing it off I left, found a stall with Snes games on and bought some. While chatting to the guy, he said he'd sold said Blues Brothers for 100dkk to the guy before realizing he was a reseller... If only I'd have gone at set up ;_:
That's the nature of swap meets. And yes, always hit the garage sale before the gaming convention. Don't worry though, there will be similar finds out there if you keep hunting.
Just got backdoored on another good BIN for a SNES and 13 games. Apparently everything was run over by a truck and everything is completely destroyed. His horrible spelling and grammar made it all the more believable.
I saw a minty copy of the original Zelda for NES at a local store for 4.99, I picked it up to replace my crapy copy. the kid behind me said to his mom "that guy got zelda, ive been looking for that for a long time." I felt bad since i already had a copy so I let him take it. he then turned to his mom and told her that he could get alot for it on eBay... no more Mr. nice guy for me.
When Paul was here a while back, we hit up a PnT in Raleigh. The guy behind the counter started crying about the prices of his Game Gear games being wrong and that he was pissed off at his employees for pricing them incorrectly. They were all priced $.89 each, which is all they were worth to me, but this guy acted like he gave away the store.
It pisses me off when store owners like that. atlest he was fair and let you have them at that price. Sore owners should really make sure that the people that rice the games know what theyre doing. It's his fualt for not training his employees correctly.
I picked up a minty copy of lunar Complete once for $5 and the owner took it out of teh case and marked it at $75 in the back before bringing it to me at the counter... then tried to make me think that I had just misread the label. It's pretty obvious that he changed the price. he didnt even get close to covering the old label with the new one. lol. It sat at the store for $75 for 2 years befrore he sold it.
I saw a minty copy of the original Zelda for NES at a local store for 4.99, I picked it up to replace my crapy copy. the kid behind me said to his mom "that guy got zelda, ive been looking for that for a long time." I felt bad since i already had a copy so I let him take it. he then turned to his mom and told her that he could get alot for it on eBay... no more Mr. nice guy for me.
What dafuq? lol
Dats some natural merchant skills. Obvious future banker knowing how to profit and sell with other peoples money
I saw a minty copy of the original Zelda for NES at a local store for 4.99, I picked it up to replace my crapy copy. the kid behind me said to his mom "that guy got zelda, ive been looking for that for a long time." I felt bad since i already had a copy so I let him take it. he then turned to his mom and told her that he could get alot for it on eBay... no more Mr. nice guy for me.
What dafuq? lol
Dats some natural merchant skills. Obvious future banker knowing how to profit and sell with other peoples money
yeah, ive never wanted to punch a kid so bad in my life.
I saw a minty copy of the original Zelda for NES at a local store for 4.99, I picked it up to replace my crapy copy. the kid behind me said to his mom "that guy got zelda, ive been looking for that for a long time." I felt bad since i already had a copy so I let him take it. he then turned to his mom and told her that he could get alot for it on eBay... no more Mr. nice guy for me.
What dafuq? lol
Dats some natural merchant skills. Obvious future banker knowing how to profit and sell with other peoples money
yeah, ive never wanted to punch a kid so bad in my life.
Quoted for awesome. That kid is a little shithead if he actually sold it on ebay.
Yard sailing today leaned more towards looser weepers. I overslept this morning and arrived twenty minutes later than I intended to a local collector's video game yard sale. I got there just in time to see the place being picked clean by half a dozen guys. It seemed today I couldn't shake the "one minute too late" of any yard sale I hit. I did grab a small score, but overall today was a bust compared to what could've been.
Special mention goes to one yard sale I came across that had a GBA SP 101 model lot with 14 games. The lot of games was not bad: Pokemon Ruby, Mario Kart GBA, among a few other decent titles. Only problem was the price on the lot was $100 FIRM. I decided to swing back around near the end of the yard sale, I was betting the lot would still be there and she might be more willing to haggle. I get there at 1pm, GBA lot is still there (surprise!) I ask the women: "Hey, would you be willing to take $40?"
Her response: "NO. I'd rather donate the lot to Goodwill than settle for $40."
.....ok then. I thanked her for her time and left. I can't respond to that.
So there was a yard sale ad that listed PSP, DS, NES and a bunch of other systems and games. I get there maybe half an hour after it starts...EVERYTHING was gone save for the PSP, a shitty sports game for it and a holding case for it.
I ask her if she sold it as soon as she opened...guess what she said? "Oh no, actually I sold it an hour before hand to this guy who was waiting." Oh...god damn filthy neckbeard resellers. AN HOUR BEFORE?! I bet I know exactly who did it to...I've bumped into this waste of space before.
*sigh* Whatever..just means next time I'll beat him to a deal.
I went to a flea market and I thought I struck gold! NES, SNES, Saturn and N64 games, including rare ones! However the guy told me that his son had the prices and he was not there. We then agreed to meet later so I can get the games. However, later I remembered that these were the same exact games as the ones some jackass tried to sell me at prices belonging to the "Seller Silliness" thread. *insert Price is Right losing horns*
Yard sailing today leaned more towards looser weepers. I overslept this morning and arrived twenty minutes later than I intended to a local collector's video game yard sale. I got there just in time to see the place being picked clean by half a dozen guys. It seemed today I couldn't shake the "one minute too late" of any yard sale I hit. I did grab a small score, but overall today was a bust compared to what could've been.
Special mention goes to one yard sale I came across that had a GBA SP 101 model lot with 14 games. The lot of games was not bad: Pokemon Ruby, Mario Kart GBA, among a few other decent titles. Only problem was the price on the lot was $100 FIRM. I decided to swing back around near the end of the yard sale, I was betting the lot would still be there and she might be more willing to haggle. I get there at 1pm, GBA lot is still there (surprise!) I ask the women: "Hey, would you be willing to take $40?"
Her response: "NO. I'd rather donate the lot to Goodwill than settle for $40."
.....ok then. I thanked her for her time and left. I can't respond to that.
At least there's at least *some* bit of logic in that. I've heard, on a few different occasions, people who have said they'd rather trash something than take below their asking price. That, to me, is just about the stupidest thing I've ever heard.
...after a bit of a drought in terms of hunting for games, I thought I struck gold with a deal on craigslist.
guy posts some pics. included:
n64 (original color, missing a/v cables), 3 official controllers,
and 8 games, amongst them ocarina of time (grey cart) and goldeneye, the rest just sports games.
all that for $40.
I text them, they reply, the deal sounds like it's going down, I ask when and where to meet up...and that was a day ago. no word out of them, no replies, not even a "sorry, changed my mind," "sorry, I checked and this is worth more," or even a "sorry, someone made a bigger offer," they just dropped off the map...
...after a bit of a drought in terms of hunting for games, I thought I struck gold with a deal on craigslist.
guy posts some pics. included:
n64 (original color, missing a/v cables), 3 official controllers,
and 8 games, amongst them ocarina of time (grey cart) and goldeneye, the rest just sports games.
all that for $40.
I text them, they reply, the deal sounds like it's going down, I ask when and where to meet up...and that was a day ago. no word out of them, no replies, not even a "sorry, changed my mind," "sorry, I checked and this is worth more," or even a "sorry, someone made a bigger offer," they just dropped off the map...
I've had that happen before, then a week later the guy e-mailed me back asking the same price, with the good games picked out.
a kid in my town that had been hoarding games at sales just went to jail, some guy got over 1000 games at his parents garage sale for under $100... the one day that I skipped garage sailing.
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Mario Galaxy
Mario Galaxy 2
Mario Party 8
Mario Party 9
New Super Mario Bros. Wii
Mario All-Stars
Zelda Skyard Sword
Sonic Colours
Wii Sports
Just Dance Kids
Could have been mine for 120
Originally posted by: dj5kjlara
Craigslist ad for a garage sale containing "SNES, N64, Sega, PS1, PS2, etc" and "some games". I show up right at 8 when it was supposed to start. Of course, ask the lady and she says she just sold everything to someone. A few blocks over I ask someone else if they have any games, and they say that someone just bought all her games. And yet again, one more guy a few more blocks over has a few SNES sports games, so I ask if he has anything else, and he says someone else just bought a whole bunch of stuff from him. What the hell! How is it that someone else just happens to be following the same path as me just a few minutes ahead?
I originally posted this over in the eBay gripe thread, but its relevant here to:
"I used to try and stick to the listed start time at yard sales, arriving 10-5 minutes beforehand. I eventually gave that up because I found more often than not, my competitors were arriving an hour early and picking the place clean. Now when I go yard sailing, I try to hit promising sales an hour before they open. The worst that can happen is either nothing is set up yet, or someone tells me to come back later. In the latter case, I smile, thank them, then either wait or go hit a nearby yard sale. Once 9am hits, I might as well go home because anything worth grabbing from a retro-game standpoint has already probably been grabbed."
What i hate now is that instead of being happy about my boxed B&DD, I'm thinking about that fresh copy i missed.
Fuck this I'm going to the gym...
Roll in see a mario party 7 in the case, get the lady to open er up, reach for it, no game but it had a animal crossing and sonic disc in the mp7 case, wouldve got that but discs were beyond repair.
Go to another place, start seeing all these ps1 games, someone stole em, since they leave ps1 in the music/software shelf out in the open. WAIT WHAT! Digimon ps1(the rare one), nice case and manual? Open er up..NO DISC!
Second one could have been a troll, basically labled old video game or something like that. It looked like a kid may have wrote it. No caps, everything was abbreviated like plz=please and cuz=because. They said they had found an old unopended video game in the basement and that they hadnt looked it up. The name of the game was contra force. No pics of course on either one of these to confirm.
They did right back and say they had sold it to a game store in PA called Just Press Play for $6,500... So I guess its provable, just dont know that I believe it.
For Sale:
Gameboy SP
Super Mario Advance
Final Fantasy I & II
NES Classics Super Mario Bros
Mario Golf
Super Mario Land
Tetris
Pokemon the Red one
Price: $25
Immediately shot off an email when I saw the listing, no dice.
Originally posted by: dj5kjlara
This one hurt, bad. I was about 10 minutes late. It was a $75 Gamecube collection on Craigslist with the system, Melee, Windwaker, Mario Sunshine, Mario Strikers, Mario Tennis, Mario Kart, and about 10 more games I can't quite remember. Also a Gameboy player, 3 controllers, congos, and this was the worst part...HD component cables. Sigh. I just keep telling myself that they weren't the cables I'm thinking, since that was the only thing he didn't have a picture of. Even without the cables, that woulda been a hell of a deal.
oh, god...no no no, they just couldn't be THE cables, had to have been regular cables...right? in any case, man, everything else...tough break, man.
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Originally posted by: Fheonix
Got to a Flea Market late on Saturday (purely because I'd had amazing luck at the previous one, pics coming soon...) and found a reseller tent with a boxed Pal-B of Blues Brothers marked up at 1550 DKK (about £167). Laughing it off I left, found a stall with Snes games on and bought some. While chatting to the guy, he said he'd sold said Blues Brothers for 100dkk to the guy before realizing he was a reseller... If only I'd have gone at set up ;_:
Wow thats disgusting
I saw a minty copy of the original Zelda for NES at a local store for 4.99, I picked it up to replace my crapy copy. the kid behind me said to his mom "that guy got zelda, ive been looking for that for a long time." I felt bad since i already had a copy so I let him take it. he then turned to his mom and told her that he could get alot for it on eBay... no more Mr. nice guy for me.
Originally posted by: Dain
When Paul was here a while back, we hit up a PnT in Raleigh. The guy behind the counter started crying about the prices of his Game Gear games being wrong and that he was pissed off at his employees for pricing them incorrectly. They were all priced $.89 each, which is all they were worth to me, but this guy acted like he gave away the store.
It pisses me off when store owners like that. atlest he was fair and let you have them at that price. Sore owners should really make sure that the people that rice the games know what theyre doing. It's his fualt for not training his employees correctly.
I picked up a minty copy of lunar Complete once for $5 and the owner took it out of teh case and marked it at $75 in the back before bringing it to me at the counter... then tried to make me think that I had just misread the label. It's pretty obvious that he changed the price. he didnt even get close to covering the old label with the new one. lol. It sat at the store for $75 for 2 years befrore he sold it.
Went into same Goodwill this morning, original Xbox with no cables for $50 in the glass case with a big sign saying "WORKS!!"
Just goes to show you how much price discrepancy there is at Goodwill stores. It totally depends on who's pricing the stuff.
Originally posted by: Sinnbox
reseller tricks...
I saw a minty copy of the original Zelda for NES at a local store for 4.99, I picked it up to replace my crapy copy. the kid behind me said to his mom "that guy got zelda, ive been looking for that for a long time." I felt bad since i already had a copy so I let him take it. he then turned to his mom and told her that he could get alot for it on eBay... no more Mr. nice guy for me.
What dafuq? lol
Dats some natural merchant skills. Obvious future banker knowing how to profit and sell with other peoples money
Originally posted by: rjsn83
Originally posted by: Sinnbox
reseller tricks...
I saw a minty copy of the original Zelda for NES at a local store for 4.99, I picked it up to replace my crapy copy. the kid behind me said to his mom "that guy got zelda, ive been looking for that for a long time." I felt bad since i already had a copy so I let him take it. he then turned to his mom and told her that he could get alot for it on eBay... no more Mr. nice guy for me.
What dafuq? lol
Dats some natural merchant skills. Obvious future banker knowing how to profit and sell with other peoples money
yeah, ive never wanted to punch a kid so bad in my life.
Originally posted by: Sinnbox
Originally posted by: rjsn83
Originally posted by: Sinnbox
reseller tricks...
I saw a minty copy of the original Zelda for NES at a local store for 4.99, I picked it up to replace my crapy copy. the kid behind me said to his mom "that guy got zelda, ive been looking for that for a long time." I felt bad since i already had a copy so I let him take it. he then turned to his mom and told her that he could get alot for it on eBay... no more Mr. nice guy for me.
What dafuq? lol
Dats some natural merchant skills. Obvious future banker knowing how to profit and sell with other peoples money
yeah, ive never wanted to punch a kid so bad in my life.
Quoted for awesome. That kid is a little shithead if he actually sold it on ebay.
Special mention goes to one yard sale I came across that had a GBA SP 101 model lot with 14 games. The lot of games was not bad: Pokemon Ruby, Mario Kart GBA, among a few other decent titles. Only problem was the price on the lot was $100 FIRM. I decided to swing back around near the end of the yard sale, I was betting the lot would still be there and she might be more willing to haggle. I get there at 1pm, GBA lot is still there (surprise!) I ask the women: "Hey, would you be willing to take $40?"
Her response: "NO. I'd rather donate the lot to Goodwill than settle for $40."
.....ok then. I thanked her for her time and left. I can't respond to that.
I ask her if she sold it as soon as she opened...guess what she said? "Oh no, actually I sold it an hour before hand to this guy who was waiting." Oh...god damn filthy neckbeard resellers. AN HOUR BEFORE?! I bet I know exactly who did it to...I've bumped into this waste of space before.
*sigh* Whatever..just means next time I'll beat him to a deal.
Originally posted by: teh lurv
Yard sailing today leaned more towards looser weepers. I overslept this morning and arrived twenty minutes later than I intended to a local collector's video game yard sale. I got there just in time to see the place being picked clean by half a dozen guys. It seemed today I couldn't shake the "one minute too late" of any yard sale I hit. I did grab a small score, but overall today was a bust compared to what could've been.
Special mention goes to one yard sale I came across that had a GBA SP 101 model lot with 14 games. The lot of games was not bad: Pokemon Ruby, Mario Kart GBA, among a few other decent titles. Only problem was the price on the lot was $100 FIRM. I decided to swing back around near the end of the yard sale, I was betting the lot would still be there and she might be more willing to haggle. I get there at 1pm, GBA lot is still there (surprise!) I ask the women: "Hey, would you be willing to take $40?"
Her response: "NO. I'd rather donate the lot to Goodwill than settle for $40."
.....ok then. I thanked her for her time and left. I can't respond to that.
At least there's at least *some* bit of logic in that. I've heard, on a few different occasions, people who have said they'd rather trash something than take below their asking price. That, to me, is just about the stupidest thing I've ever heard.
guy posts some pics. included:
n64 (original color, missing a/v cables), 3 official controllers,
and 8 games, amongst them ocarina of time (grey cart) and goldeneye, the rest just sports games.
all that for $40.
I text them, they reply, the deal sounds like it's going down, I ask when and where to meet up...and that was a day ago. no word out of them, no replies, not even a "sorry, changed my mind," "sorry, I checked and this is worth more," or even a "sorry, someone made a bigger offer," they just dropped off the map...
Originally posted by: marvel8797
...after a bit of a drought in terms of hunting for games, I thought I struck gold with a deal on craigslist.
guy posts some pics. included:
n64 (original color, missing a/v cables), 3 official controllers,
and 8 games, amongst them ocarina of time (grey cart) and goldeneye, the rest just sports games.
all that for $40.
I text them, they reply, the deal sounds like it's going down, I ask when and where to meet up...and that was a day ago. no word out of them, no replies, not even a "sorry, changed my mind," "sorry, I checked and this is worth more," or even a "sorry, someone made a bigger offer," they just dropped off the map...
I've had that happen before, then a week later the guy e-mailed me back asking the same price, with the good games picked out.