Been a while since I had anything worth posting separately, but I think I do today.
So today my fiancee and I went for a drive into Dalton, GA, where I haven't been thrift store shopping in probably a month or two, perhaps a bit longer. We made a stop at the Salvation Army sometime about 2 PM, and I picked up a few things there:
Power Joy Famiclone pirate multicart, 25¢.
Steven Curtis Chapman: The Live Adventure CD, 99¢.
Atari Flashback 2, w/2 controllers, missing AC adapter, and with an unnecessary video cord, $4.99.
DDR Mario Mix official dance pad, $1.99.
My fiancee saw the Atari Flashback 2...after I looked past it o_O . The pirate multicart, CD, and dance pad were unmarked, so I had to ask for a price. At those prices, I found 'em hard to resist.
A bit later in the day, closer to 4:30 or so, we hit up Providence Thrift Store. I usually don't like going here, as almost all their electronics and video games are typically extensively overpriced ($3 each for Atari 2600 games? do people actually pay that much?). I browsed around for a bit, and picked these up:
Royal RC40 shipping scale (40 lbs. x .2 oz.) w/manual, AC adapter, and (unnecessary) Firewire cable, $19.95.
PS2 network adapter, factory-sealed, $5.
Keeping with the theme of prices, I again had to ask how much for the network adapter. At that price, again, hard to resist. They also had a Samsung Bluetooth headset for $2, but I couldn't find the charger for it, so I left it.
After getting back to my fiancee's place, she and I hung out for a bit before I had to come home. I come home, to find an orange shoebox on the dryer downstairs. Inside that orange shoebox, a package I'd been waiting on for a while. You see...I won an eBay auction on Monday (by a really short distance...my max bid was $175, and it ended for, like, $173.50, after being at $142 when I submitted my bid)... In that auction, and in the shoebox, the following items:
Lufia 1 SNES, CIB, manual and map were a bit ragged, but still largely intact, and the box has a sticker remnant on the front (otherwise nice shape) and the cart is great.
Lufia 2 SNES, CIB, box is about 8-8.5/10, manual is 9-9.5/10, and everything else is dead mint, including the registration card (which I'd never seen before for that game).
Lufia 2 walkthrough, downloaded from GameFAQs, printed, and put in a standard 2-prong paper folder.
And the gem of the lot, one of the top 5 to 10 strategy guides on the SNES for rarity, and probably #3 for price, a Lufia Official Players Guide, in great condition (barring a couple old EB Games stickers).
All in all, a wonderful day. I added 5 pics at the tail end of my Video Games photo album at Facebook to show 'em all...
Power Joy Famiclone pirate multicart, 25¢.
Steven Curtis Chapman: The Live Adventure CD, 99¢.
Atari Flashback 2, w/2 controllers, missing AC adapter, and with an unnecessary video cord, $4.99.
DDR Mario Mix official dance pad, $1.99.
My fiancee saw the Atari Flashback 2...after I looked past it o_O . The pirate multicart, CD, and dance pad were unmarked, so I had to ask for a price. At those prices, I found 'em hard to resist.
A bit later in the day, closer to 4:30 or so, we hit up Providence Thrift Store. I usually don't like going here, as almost all their electronics and video games are typically extensively overpriced ($3 each for Atari 2600 games? do people actually pay that much?). I browsed around for a bit, and picked these up:
Royal RC40 shipping scale (40 lbs. x .2 oz.) w/manual, AC adapter, and (unnecessary) Firewire cable, $19.95.
PS2 network adapter, factory-sealed, $5.
Keeping with the theme of prices, I again had to ask how much for the network adapter. At that price, again, hard to resist. They also had a Samsung Bluetooth headset for $2, but I couldn't find the charger for it, so I left it.
After getting back to my fiancee's place, she and I hung out for a bit before I had to come home. I come home, to find an orange shoebox on the dryer downstairs. Inside that orange shoebox, a package I'd been waiting on for a while. You see...I won an eBay auction on Monday (by a really short distance...my max bid was $175, and it ended for, like, $173.50, after being at $142 when I submitted my bid)... In that auction, and in the shoebox, the following items:
Lufia 1 SNES, CIB, manual and map were a bit ragged, but still largely intact, and the box has a sticker remnant on the front (otherwise nice shape) and the cart is great.
Lufia 2 SNES, CIB, box is about 8-8.5/10, manual is 9-9.5/10, and everything else is dead mint, including the registration card (which I'd never seen before for that game).
Lufia 2 walkthrough, downloaded from GameFAQs, printed, and put in a standard 2-prong paper folder.
And the gem of the lot, one of the top 5 to 10 strategy guides on the SNES for rarity, and probably #3 for price, a Lufia Official Players Guide, in great condition (barring a couple old EB Games stickers).
All in all, a wonderful day. I added 5 pics at the tail end of my Video Games photo album at Facebook to show 'em all...
Comments
Nice! But did they really ship a nearly $200 auction in a fucking shoebox? I'd be livid.
Well...it was protected by about half a million styrofoam peanuts .
Oh, and something else... That Lufia II, and the one I already had, are apparently variants...the one pictured above is "Made in Japan", and the one I already had (that, if memory serves me correctly, I bought from someone here) is "Made in Mexico"...darn variants...
You know what i like there.
are those all of your strategy guides?
and do you have/plan to get any of them bagged?
im trying to find a good bag so i can invest in bulk and do all of my guides at once and the bags i use for my magazines are too small.
Those aren't all of them, btw...I have a few more not pictured, or not exactly visible in the picture, plus about 60 or so I need to list and sell through my website (though a few good ones are listed there already).