RecycledGamer's RiDONKulous RPG find
I usually lurk in Finders Keepers without posting, but this find was too awesome not to share.
I saw an ad on Craigslist last Thursday for a garage sale that said it had "many video games". The sale was on Saturday and Sunday, but I was doing the wonder Northwest show in Portland so I wasn't going to be able to make it. Instead, I emailed the person asking if I could come by on Friday to have a look.
Friday evening I get a call from the guy. He starts naming titles and specifically mentions a boxed Chrono Trigger. Just to get a ballpark, I asked about price on that one game. He didn't want to commit so I suggested he do some research and call me back. Honestly I never expected to get a call back, but he called and suggested $100 for boxed CT. I didn't really want to pay that much (LOL!) and was busy setting up for the show so I told him he should go ahead and have his garage sale and email me Monday if anything is left.
Monday morning I get an email with 18 photos of just about every popular RPG for SNES, PS1 and PS2 along with tons of other games. He said he only sold 2 games at the garage sale! I think he was asking eBay prices at the sale so no one bought anything. Question was, could I make a better-than-eBay deal for everything? I think I did. You can see the entire lot in this video I just posted (about 7 minutes long) :
Skip forward to 2:20 if you don't want to hear my plug for the Seattle Retro Gaming Expo.
TL;DR: Bought giant RPG lot from guy on Craigslist.
As an experiment, please post below what you would have paid for this lot. Every game is in the video so what you see is what I got. I'll follow up later and reveal the true price. We'll see if I got a deal in the eyes of the "experts". ;-)
Chuck
I saw an ad on Craigslist last Thursday for a garage sale that said it had "many video games". The sale was on Saturday and Sunday, but I was doing the wonder Northwest show in Portland so I wasn't going to be able to make it. Instead, I emailed the person asking if I could come by on Friday to have a look.
Friday evening I get a call from the guy. He starts naming titles and specifically mentions a boxed Chrono Trigger. Just to get a ballpark, I asked about price on that one game. He didn't want to commit so I suggested he do some research and call me back. Honestly I never expected to get a call back, but he called and suggested $100 for boxed CT. I didn't really want to pay that much (LOL!) and was busy setting up for the show so I told him he should go ahead and have his garage sale and email me Monday if anything is left.
Monday morning I get an email with 18 photos of just about every popular RPG for SNES, PS1 and PS2 along with tons of other games. He said he only sold 2 games at the garage sale! I think he was asking eBay prices at the sale so no one bought anything. Question was, could I make a better-than-eBay deal for everything? I think I did. You can see the entire lot in this video I just posted (about 7 minutes long) :
Skip forward to 2:20 if you don't want to hear my plug for the Seattle Retro Gaming Expo.
TL;DR: Bought giant RPG lot from guy on Craigslist.
As an experiment, please post below what you would have paid for this lot. Every game is in the video so what you see is what I got. I'll follow up later and reveal the true price. We'll see if I got a deal in the eyes of the "experts". ;-)
Chuck
Comments
I don't do PS2 / handhelds but I probably would have gone about $600 for the SNES / PS1 stuff. That would have been my absolute max, I would have started at $300 and pushed back really hard at $500.
Still an insane amount of stuff and I'm sure you did well, but I doubt very few people are going to be able to accurately price out that lot. The reseller in me guesses you paid about $1,200 perhaps? But like I said, I'm clueless on values for at least 50-60% of that lot if not more.
Considering the seller and his situation, I'm going to guess $800?
You should make it a contest where the closest one gets a game of their choice from the lot! lol
want to sell me some of those n64 carts?
I would not have paid more than $600 for this lot.
Also are you the guy that turns Genesis Controllers into Vectrex working controllers? I emailed you on your site months ago and never got a reply!
I know the guy's running the SRGE one of them is a good friend I will be there working as a volunteer on the floor.
Ugh time to prune the collection lists of what I need!
How much did you pay? Not a bad haul couple of gems in there.
Also are you the guy that turns Genesis Controllers into Vectrex working controllers? I emailed you on your site months ago and never got a reply!
I know the guy's running the SRGE one of them is a good friend I will be there working as a volunteer on the floor.
Ugh time to prune the collection lists of what I need!
Pretty good guessers so far. I paid $700 for the lot.
Yes, I am the modded Vectrex controller guy. ;-) Sorry if I haven't responded - I've been crazy busy. I may have some of the controllers at SRGE.
Chuck
edit: i was hoping to see that you paid something crazy like $200
so, 700 for it all. or 100 for CT and 600 for the rest. that's not terrible. little rich for my blood, but not bad.
edit: i was hoping to see that you paid something crazy like $200
We didn't assign prices to individual items during the negotiations so it was one price for everything.
$200 would have made a better story, but I feel like it was a fair deal.
I lol'd at the Xenogears in the paper sleeve. How does that even happen?
It's not unheard of... I just sold a Shining Force III that I originally bought in a paper sleeve. And a Castlevania Symphony of the Night.
The company I used to work for decided to throw out any case for a system older than the Dreamcast back around 2005-2006. Sadly, that was right before I started working there, or I would have snagged all the cases. The two games I mentioned were burried in a stack of white disc sleeves.
I lol'd at the Xenogears in the paper sleeve. How does that even happen?
I know, right? Who does this? :-)
Still room for profit. I would have never gone that high, but I am extremely cheap. I bought an entire game xchange for $1500, so $700 for me would be steep. Like jone, I don't know the values on a lot of that, but I basically would have totalled up what I could get for the SNES and PS1 and discounted from there. Good haul for sure.
I hear ya. I am pretty cheap myself and bargained hard on this one. If it wasn't so many RPGs and they weren't mostly in great shape I might have passed. Based on my conservative calculations there is plenty of room to keep some games and still make more than my money back.
Is this all for your personal collection or are you going to cook up a B/T/O type thread over it?
I have a few shows this summer and I'll be holding out for those. Look for me at the Seattle and Portland retro gaming expos in May and September.
Still room for profit. I would have never gone that high, but I am extremely cheap. I bought an entire game xchange for $1500, so $700 for me would be steep. Like jone, I don't know the values on a lot of that, but I basically would have totalled up what I could get for the SNES and PS1 and discounted from there. Good haul for sure.
I hear ya. I am pretty cheap myself and bargained hard on this one. If it wasn't so many RPGs and they weren't mostly in great shape I might have passed. Based on my conservative calculations there is plenty of room to keep some games and still make more than my money back.
That's exactly what I would have done if I had the opportunity. I was probably incorrect in saying that's how I would had offered. Had I not had the chance to look anything up, I would have gone with my method. If you did your research before, then I'm sure you knew exactynwhat you were going. Really nice lot. I havent had one this huge in a while!