One weekend a few months ago, the last yard sale I went to around 11:00 had a couple of older games for a fair price. The older gentleman told me he just sold an old NES with a bunch of "cassettes" about 15 minutes earlier. I have no clue what the games were or the prices, but I felt sick after that.
If I were in your shoes, I honestly can't imagine the dread. It would have been far worse than that yard sale experience and even that was tough. This... is almost unimaginable. (#firstworldproblems)
If I were in your shoes, I honestly can't imagine the dread. It would have been far worse than that yard sale experience and even that was tough. This... is almost unimaginable. (#firstworldproblems)
Yeah honestly it kind of sucks, but that's just how it goes. Fortunately I'm a pretty level headed guy so I know I'll be fine haha.
I'm sure this near miss will come back around to me at some point and I'll score again. Plus it eases the pain a bit knowing I was lucky enough to scoop up some gems from the early batch of this collection that was put out there on Saturday. So many games he got though that I've been wanting for a long time and kills me to think they were all probably sitting in the back room when I was there. He wants to try to set up a possible trade with me later on for a game I got that I don't need, which is nice of him.
Originally posted by: MrWunderful
Wow pretty wild. I know the scores are "still out there" but this is the exception even in this case.
Happy its going to a collector too.
Yeah absolutely. Stories like this give renewed hope, but at that same time this is a once in a lifetime exceptional find.
Second note: Salvation Army is great. At my local SA, if it's a game, they slap $3 on it. No eBay checks or anything. It's ran by a bunch of older ladies, so they don't care. Of course, that does mean that their shelves often include many over priced sports titles but, sometimes, you see something nice. I have a bit of report with them too. The let me know when they have new stock in too, so sometimes I get first-pick. B-)
I've never seen anything like this, though. Not by a long shot. This is probably the most amazing thrift shop find I've ever seen (by quantity of items.)
This particular Sal Army does usually overprice the games, but in this instance the buyer said there was just so many and he offered to buy everything right there and then that they didn't want to bother trying to price everything. So not only was it an amazing find, but also even more amazing because he was able to circumvent their normal pricing policy. The whole thing is just mind- numbing to me and i am trying my best to cope right now. He showed me the receipts and turns out i stopped in there a half hour after he bought it all. I feel like i might need counseling or something lol. It's like my million dollar jackpot lottery ticket was off by one number.
+1 for Salvation Army $3 games and ladies who don’t care about gamezzzzz running them love my local sal.
Wow... I guess some old widow somewhere couldn't wait to dump her late husband's "crappy old junk" the minute he kicked the bucket... Looks like she just threw away 10 grand into the shitter!
No she didn't. It was worth $0 in her hands because she didn't know how to sell it.
Wow... I guess some old widow somewhere couldn't wait to dump her late husband's "crappy old junk" the minute he kicked the bucket... Looks like she just threw away 10 grand into the shitter!
No she didn't. It was worth $0 in her hands because she didn't know how to sell it.
Exactly.
This should be a reminder to all on here to keep this sort of thing in mind. Jobber comes to mind as a recent example.
In the event that you kick the bucket (remember that things like brain aneurysms can happen without any warning what-so-ever), make sure that your loved ones have good information in-hand about how to optimally liquidate your collection to help with expenses (assuming that this goes along with your wishes...)
In Jobber's case, there was some kind of link between NA and his family, such that the NA folks were able to step in and help with the process. My wife, for example, knows that there are resources out there to assign values to collections, and that a quick wholesale post on craigslist isn't going to get the maximum return. I've strongly encouraged her to pursue an auction house / estate sale organization should I bite the dust, given the size of my collection.
Nobody likes to think about these sorts of things. And seriously, it was hard relaying the value estimates to my wife (who was quick to say, "sell now!"). Just make sure your ducks are all in a line, that's all...
Wow... I guess some old widow somewhere couldn't wait to dump her late husband's "crappy old junk" the minute he kicked the bucket... Looks like she just threw away 10 grand into the shitter!
No she didn't. It was worth $0 in her hands because she didn't know how to sell it.
Exactly.
This should be a reminder to all on here to keep this sort of thing in mind. Jobber comes to mind as a recent example.
In the event that you kick the bucket (remember that things like brain aneurysms can happen without any warning what-so-ever), make sure that your loved ones have good information in-hand about how to optimally liquidate your collection to help with expenses (assuming that this goes along with your wishes...)
In Jobber's case, there was some kind of link between NA and his family, such that the NA folks were able to step in and help with the process. My wife, for example, knows that there are resources out there to assign values to collections, and that a quick wholesale post on craigslist isn't going to get the maximum return. I've strongly encouraged her to pursue an auction house / estate sale organization should I bite the dust, given the size of my collection.
Nobody likes to think about these sorts of things. And seriously, it was hard relaying the value estimates to my wife (who was quick to say, "sell now!"). Just make sure your ducks are all in a line, that's all...
This is why my family has a list of every game I own worth over $100. Although even if they didn't, they would take it to the local game store, not Salvation Army.
Amazing but not surprising really. For every one out there who knows the value or is a poser who thinks if it's old Nintendo they're gold bricks, there's still quite a few more who don't care and don't want to look into what some old crap from the 80s and 90s is worth. To them knowing in general on things, value doesn't go up until decades later and they may not realize the bad behavior in the gaming market so they just let it go.
I've made it clear here I have stuff of value but I don't go into more than that, just that if anything happens get as much as possible that it's anything but worthless.
This somewhat saddens me because I think about how such a great collection could get donated and the only conclusion I can come to as that the collector died and their parents had no idea these were worth anything and just donated them.
Or. A collector got divorced from / broke up with a significant other and this was a revenge donation.
This somewhat saddens me because I think about how such a great collection could get donated and the only conclusion I can come to as that the collector died and their parents had no idea these were worth anything and just donated them.
Or. A collector got divorced from / broke up with a significant other and this was a revenge donation.
Either way.
I'm leaning toward the collector being dead, since in a divorce, the whole collection probably tallies up to a big enough number that it would have had to been counted as assets to be divided or sold off.
Well it's a jerk move but if you knew a divorce was coming you could sell the lot of stuff to a dollar to a third party, and if things started to look bad before it could be accounted then have your third party donate it. Odds are it was a death over some revenge.
So as I mentioned before I was trying to work a trade with him. Really nice guy by the way, which makes the whole thing more awesome that this massive lot went to someone cool. He got a lot of really great SNES games that I wanted, and he's more interested in completing his NES set, so we worked a deal for the NES games I got from the Salvation Army before they put the big lot out. I relinquished a Princess Tomato, and Dragon Warriors II, III, and IV for these:
I've been wanting a copy of Wild Guns for longer than I can remember, and so many times I was close but it somehow got away from me. Finally have it! Also, I can say I helped him get a bit closer to a complete set of NES. .
Those are tough to find in good shape too. Wild Guns is still one of my favourite games on the system... Serious Fun TM
Serious fun you're not kidding. I popped it in to test it out and played for over an hour.
They are both definitely in excellent condition. The label on Wild Guns is a bit off center though. But I must say, of all the games that were in that giant find, the majority were in beautiful shape. Aside from a few that were previous rentals and had stickers on them. Whoever that original owner was they took care of their stuff.
In the past I've had Wild Guns. Very unique, almost an acquired taste but if you enjoy it the game offers up a unique and fun experience. I kind of miss it but as we know it's upper crust so I just everdrive the game.
Those are tough to find in good shape too. Wild Guns is still one of my favourite games on the system... Serious Fun TM
Serious fun you're not kidding. I popped it in to test it out and played for over an hour.
They are both definitely in excellent condition. The label on Wild Guns is a bit off center though. But I must say, of all the games that were in that giant find, the majority were in beautiful shape. Aside from a few that were previous rentals and had stickers on them. Whoever that original owner was they took care of their stuff.
Those are tough to find in good shape too. Wild Guns is still one of my favourite games on the system... Serious Fun TM
Serious fun you're not kidding. I popped it in to test it out and played for over an hour.
They are both definitely in excellent condition. The label on Wild Guns is a bit off center though. But I must say, of all the games that were in that giant find, the majority were in beautiful shape. Aside from a few that were previous rentals and had stickers on them. Whoever that original owner was they took care of their stuff.
off centre is nothing for a wild guns
I wasn't really thinking about the value being affected if that's what you mean. I'm just a bit on the picky side about condition in my collection. It doesn't bother me too much though, and honestly considering what i traded for it i paid very little so i shouldn't complain.
Those are tough to find in good shape too. Wild Guns is still one of my favourite games on the system... Serious Fun TM
Serious fun you're not kidding. I popped it in to test it out and played for over an hour.
They are both definitely in excellent condition. The label on Wild Guns is a bit off center though. But I must say, of all the games that were in that giant find, the majority were in beautiful shape. Aside from a few that were previous rentals and had stickers on them. Whoever that original owner was they took care of their stuff.
off centre is nothing for a wild guns
I wasn't really thinking about the value being affected if that's what you mean. I'm just a bit on the picky side about condition in my collection. It doesn't bother me too much though, and honestly considering what i traded for it i paid very little so i shouldn't complain.
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If I were in your shoes, I honestly can't imagine the dread. It would have been far worse than that yard sale experience and even that was tough. This... is almost unimaginable. (#firstworldproblems)
Happy its going to a collector too.
If I were in your shoes, I honestly can't imagine the dread. It would have been far worse than that yard sale experience and even that was tough. This... is almost unimaginable. (#firstworldproblems)
Yeah honestly it kind of sucks, but that's just how it goes. Fortunately I'm a pretty level headed guy so I know I'll be fine haha.
I'm sure this near miss will come back around to me at some point and I'll score again. Plus it eases the pain a bit knowing I was lucky enough to scoop up some gems from the early batch of this collection that was put out there on Saturday. So many games he got though that I've been wanting for a long time and kills me to think they were all probably sitting in the back room when I was there. He wants to try to set up a possible trade with me later on for a game I got that I don't need, which is nice of him.
Wow pretty wild. I know the scores are "still out there" but this is the exception even in this case.
Happy its going to a collector too.
Yeah absolutely. Stories like this give renewed hope, but at that same time this is a once in a lifetime exceptional find.
Second note: Salvation Army is great. At my local SA, if it's a game, they slap $3 on it. No eBay checks or anything. It's ran by a bunch of older ladies, so they don't care. Of course, that does mean that their shelves often include many over priced sports titles but, sometimes, you see something nice. I have a bit of report with them too. The let me know when they have new stock in too, so sometimes I get first-pick. B-)
I've never seen anything like this, though. Not by a long shot. This is probably the most amazing thrift shop find I've ever seen (by quantity of items.)
This particular Sal Army does usually overprice the games, but in this instance the buyer said there was just so many and he offered to buy everything right there and then that they didn't want to bother trying to price everything. So not only was it an amazing find, but also even more amazing because he was able to circumvent their normal pricing policy. The whole thing is just mind- numbing to me and i am trying my best to cope right now. He showed me the receipts and turns out i stopped in there a half hour after he bought it all. I feel like i might need counseling or something lol. It's like my million dollar jackpot lottery ticket was off by one number.
+1 for Salvation Army $3 games and ladies who don’t care about gamezzzzz running them love my local sal.
Wow. Those snes games too. Still seems to be amazing finds a few times a year on here and this would be one of them.
They all look perfect too
Wow... I guess some old widow somewhere couldn't wait to dump her late husband's "crappy old junk" the minute he kicked the bucket... Looks like she just threw away 10 grand into the shitter!
No she didn't. It was worth $0 in her hands because she didn't know how to sell it.
Wow... I guess some old widow somewhere couldn't wait to dump her late husband's "crappy old junk" the minute he kicked the bucket... Looks like she just threw away 10 grand into the shitter!
No she didn't. It was worth $0 in her hands because she didn't know how to sell it.
Exactly.
This should be a reminder to all on here to keep this sort of thing in mind. Jobber comes to mind as a recent example.
In the event that you kick the bucket (remember that things like brain aneurysms can happen without any warning what-so-ever), make sure that your loved ones have good information in-hand about how to optimally liquidate your collection to help with expenses (assuming that this goes along with your wishes...)
In Jobber's case, there was some kind of link between NA and his family, such that the NA folks were able to step in and help with the process. My wife, for example, knows that there are resources out there to assign values to collections, and that a quick wholesale post on craigslist isn't going to get the maximum return. I've strongly encouraged her to pursue an auction house / estate sale organization should I bite the dust, given the size of my collection.
Nobody likes to think about these sorts of things. And seriously, it was hard relaying the value estimates to my wife (who was quick to say, "sell now!"). Just make sure your ducks are all in a line, that's all...
Wow... I guess some old widow somewhere couldn't wait to dump her late husband's "crappy old junk" the minute he kicked the bucket... Looks like she just threw away 10 grand into the shitter!
No she didn't. It was worth $0 in her hands because she didn't know how to sell it.
Exactly.
This should be a reminder to all on here to keep this sort of thing in mind. Jobber comes to mind as a recent example.
In the event that you kick the bucket (remember that things like brain aneurysms can happen without any warning what-so-ever), make sure that your loved ones have good information in-hand about how to optimally liquidate your collection to help with expenses (assuming that this goes along with your wishes...)
In Jobber's case, there was some kind of link between NA and his family, such that the NA folks were able to step in and help with the process. My wife, for example, knows that there are resources out there to assign values to collections, and that a quick wholesale post on craigslist isn't going to get the maximum return. I've strongly encouraged her to pursue an auction house / estate sale organization should I bite the dust, given the size of my collection.
Nobody likes to think about these sorts of things. And seriously, it was hard relaying the value estimates to my wife (who was quick to say, "sell now!"). Just make sure your ducks are all in a line, that's all...
Well said and excellent point.
I've made it clear here I have stuff of value but I don't go into more than that, just that if anything happens get as much as possible that it's anything but worthless.
Or. A collector got divorced from / broke up with a significant other and this was a revenge donation.
Either way.
This somewhat saddens me because I think about how such a great collection could get donated and the only conclusion I can come to as that the collector died and their parents had no idea these were worth anything and just donated them.
Or. A collector got divorced from / broke up with a significant other and this was a revenge donation.
Either way.
I'm leaning toward the collector being dead, since in a divorce, the whole collection probably tallies up to a big enough number that it would have had to been counted as assets to be divided or sold off.
I've been wanting a copy of Wild Guns for longer than I can remember, and so many times I was close but it somehow got away from me. Finally have it! Also, I can say I helped him get a bit closer to a complete set of NES. .
Those are tough to find in good shape too. Wild Guns is still one of my favourite games on the system... Serious Fun TM
Serious fun you're not kidding. I popped it in to test it out and played for over an hour.
They are both definitely in excellent condition. The label on Wild Guns is a bit off center though. But I must say, of all the games that were in that giant find, the majority were in beautiful shape. Aside from a few that were previous rentals and had stickers on them. Whoever that original owner was they took care of their stuff.
Those are tough to find in good shape too. Wild Guns is still one of my favourite games on the system... Serious Fun TM
Serious fun you're not kidding. I popped it in to test it out and played for over an hour.
They are both definitely in excellent condition. The label on Wild Guns is a bit off center though. But I must say, of all the games that were in that giant find, the majority were in beautiful shape. Aside from a few that were previous rentals and had stickers on them. Whoever that original owner was they took care of their stuff.
off centre is nothing for a wild guns
Those are tough to find in good shape too. Wild Guns is still one of my favourite games on the system... Serious Fun TM
Serious fun you're not kidding. I popped it in to test it out and played for over an hour.
They are both definitely in excellent condition. The label on Wild Guns is a bit off center though. But I must say, of all the games that were in that giant find, the majority were in beautiful shape. Aside from a few that were previous rentals and had stickers on them. Whoever that original owner was they took care of their stuff.
off centre is nothing for a wild guns
I wasn't really thinking about the value being affected if that's what you mean. I'm just a bit on the picky side about condition in my collection. It doesn't bother me too much though, and honestly considering what i traded for it i paid very little so i shouldn't complain.
Those are tough to find in good shape too. Wild Guns is still one of my favourite games on the system... Serious Fun TM
Serious fun you're not kidding. I popped it in to test it out and played for over an hour.
They are both definitely in excellent condition. The label on Wild Guns is a bit off center though. But I must say, of all the games that were in that giant find, the majority were in beautiful shape. Aside from a few that were previous rentals and had stickers on them. Whoever that original owner was they took care of their stuff.
off centre is nothing for a wild guns
I wasn't really thinking about the value being affected if that's what you mean. I'm just a bit on the picky side about condition in my collection. It doesn't bother me too much though, and honestly considering what i traded for it i paid very little so i shouldn't complain.
oh no, just saying most of them look like this:
It's a tough game to find in good shape