Official 2008 Yard Sale Thread

[Trikip]

I have a question. When you guys don't see any video games and ask for them and they have them, what kind people and age group are they? I feel awkard asking for games at a sale with people that don't look like video game people.

[Captain_Insano16]

I have a question. When you guys don't see any video games and ask for them and they have them, what kind people and age group are they? I feel awkard asking for games at a sale with people that don't look like video game people.


You should ask at pretty much any yard sale. You never know who will turn out to have some..... even if they are not "video game people" - they might have kids/grand kids/family that are. I ask at most yard sales I go to and have been really surprised when random people have cool old game stuff and just don't think to pull it out for the yard sale...... The worst they can say is no

[Link927]

I also have a question, how large are the cities you live in? Population wise.

[Mirpkered]

Finally had a HUGE HUGE weekend for me since it has been dry for a bit...

This was a nice find. I originally found this and almost didn't get it but decided I would since it had an accessory I have been looking for. I found:

N64 Game system w/ power + A/V
Hey You Pikachu
N64 Microphone adapter AND microphone

I was most excited about the microphone. I got some books for my wife and I CIF'ed $3 for all I had and she took it.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/mirpkered/2665443701/

This has not big story to it. I ended up going to this sale at 2PM on my way back home and stumbled across this sale. There was a bin of junky playstation game but there was this gem mixed with it as well. I picked up:

Mega Man Legends

The game is complete and I CIF'ed $2 for it instead of the $5 price tag and she took it.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/mirpkered/2665446361/

I pull up to this sale with my Dad and found no game related items. However one again the power of asking prevails. The guy running it said he had a Sega still so I was excited about it and still was even when he brought it out. I received:

Genesis Core System (CIB)
Madden '96 (CIB)
PGA Tour 2 (CIB)

The games weren't the best but I'll trade them in. I gave $7 for it and feel I did alright.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/mirpkered/2666272762/

This was thw only thing I found during all the Friday sales I went to. I pulled up and started loking and I found the Jeff Rovin book so I thought that video games might live here too. Wrong. However, I did find a large stack of manual for NES, SNES, and N64 games. Notable games include:

DCK2
Pocky and Rocky
RoboCop
Mystical Ninja Goemon

Just to name a few. I got him down to $1.25 for all of it and it was well worth it.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/mirpkered/2666275380/

I pulled up to this sale and saw quite a bit there. There were a few PS2 game and DS games but none that struck my fancy. I did grab a DS game and a PS game and I was about to pay when I asked if they had any other games. She responded tellimg me that she had a Super Nintendo with some games. She brought it out and I saw was it was immediatly. I picked it up without hesitation. I ended up with:

SNES Mini System w/ power + A/V
Yoshi's Island
Super Mario World
Super Black Bass
Jungle Book
DCK2
Speedy Gonzales los Gatos Bandidos
Bass Masters Classic Pro Edition
Scooby-Doo Mystery
Aladdin
Timon and Phumba's Jungle Games
Pokemon Troezi (DS)
Blasto (PS)

I CIF'ed $20 since the games were priced and she accepted.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/mirpkered/2665557331/

This was a great find in the way of games. I went to this sale and started looking aroung and found a single N64 game and 3 GBC games. I was about to finish up when I decided to ask if there were any more games that weren't out. The kod overheard me and brought out a stack of N64 games and told me they were a quarter each. Needless to say I bought them all. However, the game boy games were $4 each. Not sure how that worked. After all was said and done I ended up with:

Turok: Rage Wars (GBC)
Turok 2: Seeds of Evil (GBC)
Q*Bert (GB)
Aero Gauge (N64)
Mario Tennis (N64)
Zelda: Ocarina of Time (N64)
Super Mario 64 (N64)
Diddy Kong Racing (N64)
Nascar 99 (N64)
Goldeneye (N64)
All-Star Baseball 99 (N64)
Triple Play 2000 (N64)
NBA Courtside 2 featuring Kobe Bryant (N64)
Ken Griffy Jr.'s Slugfest (N64)

I CIF'ed him $6 and he finally decided to take it. Pretty good haul.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/mirpkered/2665560275/

This was a MAJOR score my dad found while he was out yard sailing where he lives. He called me at work a couple month ago and said that he found a huge box of game magazines and some boxes. He said it was $20 and I told him go ahead and pick it up and I would pay him back next time I was in town. Well, I picked it up today and this is what he had scored...
20+ SNES,N64 and NES game boxes with notable mentions:

TMNT Tournament Fighters (NES)
DKC2 (SNES)
DK64 (N64)
Final Fantasy (NES)

to name a few. Then, there were over 100 nintendo power magazines with a few surprise strategy guides thrown in. These include:

Final Fantasy 3 (SNES)
Final Fantasy (NES)
Super Metroid (SNES)
Zelda: Ocarina of Time (N64)
DKC2 (SNES)

Then the best was was hidden in the bottom... The around 150 Nintendo Super Power Club trading cards in the official Nintendo Power binders... Amazing. definitly all worth $20.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/mirpkered/2665605201/

This was a MAJOR score my dad found while he was out yard sailing where he lives. He called me at work a couple month ago and said that he found a huge box of games for regular nintendo and indeed he did. He said it was $20 and I told him go ahead and pick it up and I would pay him back next time I was in town. Well, I picked it up today and this is what he had scored...

Adventure Island 2
Faxanadu
Fester's Quest
Metal Gear
Who Framed Roger Rabbit?
Bubble Bobble
Castlevania
Robocop
Donkey Kong Classics
Dragon Spirit: The New Legend (x2)
Mega Man
Mega Man 5
Ducktales 2
Addams Family
SMB/Duck Hunt (x2)
Paperboy
Milon's Secret Castle
Joe and Mac
TMNT
Gargoyle's Quest 2
Legend of Zelda
Wizard and Warriors
TMNT Tournament Fighters
Jurassic Park
Bignose the Caveman
Super Mario Bros. 2
Gyromite
Tom and Jerry
Adventures of Dino-Riki
Wheel of Fortune
RoadBlasters
Legacy of the Wizard
Jeopardy!
Tetris

HUGE score! Amazing what you can find for $20.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/mirpkered/2666432168/ part 1

http://www.flickr.com/photos/mirpkered/2666426272/ part 2

[willc23]

^^ Nice volume!

Earlier question, my town is 35,000ish.

[theGrue]

I have a question. When you guys don't see any video games and ask for them and they have them, what kind people and age group are they? I feel awkard asking for games at a sale with people that don't look like video game people.

I'm pretty good about asking at every sale, except for old people with nothing but antique dishes out for sale. Current gen games are the best indicator of classic ones, other things that I had as a kid can be a good sign... Baby clothes usually means no, but once in a while there's a new dad who's ready to move on.

I also have a question, how large are the cities you live in? Population wise.

Around a million in the "metro area", according to Wikipedia.

[Mirpkered]

I also have a question, how large are the cities you live in? Population wise.

My town is only about 2500 but the neighboring town is around 16,000

[kube00]

100,000

[TiKi2]

2 million

[allyourblood]

over NINE THOUSAND

[jaysapathy]

I think this very easily gets the award for most retarded post in this entire thread.

over NINE THOUSAND

[PaddyTheChump]

I think this very easily gets the award for most retarded post in this entire thread.
More like best post.
Over Nine Thousand isn't something he just made up... there's a background to it.

[snotknocker]

Saturday's finds

http://img297.imageshack.us/img297/7076/1001558jn9.jpg

FFVII complete, other than a couple of very light surface scratches on disc 1, this baby is in impeccable condition . - TOTAL: $3

This sale had several PS1 games, the lady said the single disc games were $3 and double disc games were $6. I CIF'd $3 for this and the lady came back with oh ! that's Final Fantasy that one is $8. I told her (cause she seemed kinda clueless) "do you know this game is over 10 years old?" she seemed surprised and said really? I said yes mam sure is and added are you sure this works? She looked at the $3 still in my hand and said OK I'll take the $3 but all sales are final OK? I took the $3 gamble and it paid off.

Another RE DC and Atari arcade (PC) - TOTAL: $2.00
This sale had a PS1 console only, 2 ps1 games and 1/2 dozen or so PC games. She wanted $10 for everything, I asked how much for a game or 2 and she came back with $2 each. I CIF'd $2 for both which she took. This RE had a cracked case but looks like it was never played disc and book are flawless

[allyourblood]

I think this very easily gets the award for most retarded post in this entire thread.

not even close. stick around, you'll find much worse.

[snotknocker]

Population (2006) - Total 22,264 - Density 4,747.4/sq mi (1,833.9/km)


Latino
http://www.muninetguide.com/muninet/images/px-orange.gif 23.4%

White
http://www.muninetguide.com/images/px-green.gif 57.3%

Black
http://www.muninetguide.com/muninet/images/px-purple.gif 9.5%

Asian
http://www.muninetguide.com/images/px-aqua.gif 8.3%

Other
http://www.muninetguide.com/muninet/images/px-rust.gif 1.3%

[DaftPunkFan37]

over NINE THOUSAND

You sir win the internet

I live in a 1Million populated State, so probably not too many in my town

[darkslime]

Where I live hit a million last year. The population is like 80 percent mexican.

[Sinnbox]

My town has about 10,000, but as of two weeks ago i went from the only Garage saler to one of many...so im... Fucked.

[slowdive21]

Where I live hit a million last year. The population is like 80 percent mexican.

You must live in Mesa. (AZ)

[jaysapathy]

Mexizona.

We get your overflow. And they all have yard sales. But never anything good outside of flambouyant Mexican jewlery.



You must live in Mesa.

[darkslime]

Tucson, not Mesa.
There's lots of yard sales and pawns because so many people are poor and need to sell stuff.

[Sinnbox]

^we are starting to get that around here, but people hold onto games.

[FOnewearl]

over NINE THOUSAND


I think this very easily gets the award for most retarded post in this entire thread.

Go back and read the first few posts in this thread. The CAGs that were serious about reserving an early post in this thread win!

My borough was close to 5,000 for the 2000 census. I usually don't go yardsaling outside of the borough with gas prices the way they are unless I see something advertised of interest.

[jaysapathy]

Picked up an original Xbox wireless adapter for a few bucks. That's been my best grab in quite some time.. And that's not saying much :P

Local thrift store had a pile of Genesis games and Sega Master System stuff, but nothing out of the normal.

[Sinnbox]

I got my first good haul in a few weeks today, I got Fianl Fantasy VII(Black, Complete) Marvel Super Hero's(no Manual), and Super Double Dragon. for $10.

[jaysapathy]

Hah. I bought Marvel Super Heroes a while back and has disc + cover. No back label. :/

[theGrue]

I decided I was tired of hearing that people sold everything on Friday, so I went to some yard sales this morning before work. I was rewarded with a Genesis, 32X, and a shoebox full of games with boxes for $20. Spider-Man: Web of Fire was one of those games. :)

[Segasonic01]

i hate all of you finding SM:WoF. There's way too many people in my city to find games and when you do, they're always sports.

[allyourblood]

...I was rewarded with a Genesis, 32X, and a shoebox full of games with boxes for $20. Spider-Man: Web of Fire was one of those games. :)

i don't think i've ever even seen the box! care to share?

nevermind: i just swiped this from some site -- http://img116.exs.cx/img116/2183/spiderman7ma.jpg



it still kills me that Sega switched to cardboard towards the end of the Genesis/32x era. endless Crusader of Centys, Shining Force IIs and Spiderman WoF all cart only as far as the eye can see. what a shame.

[Derock]

Hey guys, this is my first post here. I found this forum and read about the great deals people were getting at garage sales so I figured I could make some extra money this summer checking out garage sales.

Today was my first day and I went to about 8 or so sales. My first sale I got a N64 (one controller and chopper attack) and a playstation 1 (two controllers, case, no a/v cable) for $10 total. It was a young guy so I was a little worried he would want more money, so I offered 7 CIF. He said he was going to do 10 for each and I said I'd do 10 for both. He was apathetic and after a second took the deal. It wasn't the best deal, but I just wanted to walk away with something at the end of the day. Sadly, the N64 doesn't work. It starts up but I get a brown or green screen. I don't know if it's the game (it only came with chopper attack) or maybe dirty connections. I tried another s-video cable from my SNES and had the same problem.

The last sale of the day I got a playstation with one controller and cables for $3. It was an older lady and her granddaughter. It was marked 25 so I was worried about going too low but the young lady accepted 3 right away. It came with an a/v cable so I was able to test both playstations out. They work but both are fuzzy which means it has to be the one A/V cable I was using for both of them.

I also asked a lady about video games and she said her husband used to work at gamestop and has a garage full of stuff. I'm going to call her in a little bit. He probably knows how much each thing is going to be worth, but if I'm lucky he'll just want to get rid of it.

EDIT: I talked to the guy and he mostly has xbox sports titles (not needed), strategy guides, and PC games. No older stuff and the newer stuff his kids use. He did say he had some cables and stuff for PC and consoles so it sounds like a good source for getting some cheap replacement cables when consoles are missing them. They are fairly limited in quantity though.

I also asked a guy and he said he had an atari 2600 with like 40-50 games that he gave to someone to sell on ebay. I gave him my number and email and he acted like he could sell it to me after he did some research. That means he probably won't cut me a great deal, but maybe if there are some rare games I could luck out. Are there any games I should look out for and what would be a good offer to turn a profit for this assuming it's all common stuff?

By the way, I've spent a lot of time reading this thread and its great to see what others have done to work as a guide for my own deal making. I appreciate you guys taking the time to do this. I'll post pictures if I get anything worthwhile. Tommorow there should be a bunch of garage sales.

[willc23]

Did a run on the way to work.

Star Wars Battlefront GH (PS2)
Star Wars Starfighter GH (PS2)
Wario Land 3 (GBC)
PS2 Network Adapter & Disc
$10

Animal Crossing Cartridge (DS)
Dragon Quest Joker Cartridge (DS)
$6

Not sure how hard I am going to hit it tomorrow. Good luck to everyone else.

[Mirpkered]

These are some NES games that I picked up off the local forum. In the lot I got:

Fester's Quest (x2)
Mickey Mouscapade
X-Men
WWF WrestleMania Challenge
Frankenstein
California Games
Ninja Gaiden 2
Yo Noid
Totally Rad
Sesame Street 123 (x2)
Wrath of the Black Manta
Karate Kid
Mach Rider
Skate or Die
Sesame Street ABS
Bart vs. The World
Jaws
Gauntlet (Tengen)
Snoopy's Silly Sports Spectacular
Ren and Stimpy: Buckaroo$
NFL
Star Trek the next Generation (Genesis cart)

I ended up scoring all these for $12

http://www.flickr.com/photos/mirpkered/2680029147/

This was a find I had today and it seemed to be the only find unfortunatly. I picked up a complete N64 in the box with an atomic purple controller in the box as well. It was originally was $15 but I CIF'ed $7

http://www.flickr.com/photos/mirpkered/2680027567/

[FOnewearl]

The Stone Cold Truth book (hardback cover)
Chibi Robo complete and surpisingly mint (GameCube)

$5

Went to about a dozen yardsales around town and didn't buy anything until the last sale that I noticed a sign for about a block from my house on the way home as it wasen't advertised in the paper. This sale had about 15 last gen games mostly PS2. Chibi Robo was marked $5 and the Stone Cold book was marked $2 offered $5 for both which was taken.

[darkslime]

Today was a good day for sales.

At the first one I picked up:

Star Fox Assault Player's Choice Mint + complete
PS2 Black complete
disc only Megaman X6
Asking $1 each, CIF'd $2.

The next sale I found video games at was good. I got:
SNES (very faded on the top) + manuals
all cables + AV cable
2 controllers
Super Scope + manual
Super Mario World + manual
Super Scope 6 + manual
Extra Innings + manual
NBA allstar challenge
Super Play Action Football
SMB 3 manual and NP strategy guide no game
NES advantage manual only
2 dust protectors

Wanted $10 for the system and $2 a game. CIF'd $8 for all and he took it.

Got a SNES last time I went GSing also, and might give one to a friend. How likely are they to fail on me? Would it be good to keep an extra one?

[cranguy]

http://www.gamehoarders.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/07/img_4973-300x225.jpg

Some OK stuff today, nothing major (Zelda Collector's edition being the best find). Prices and rundown are at GameHoarders (http://www.gamehoarders.com/).

As for the guy who sold me the Genesis games last week, I found his eBay auctions. He's selling a Nomad, mint in box! :cry: sell it to meeeeeeeeeee dammit

I'm still praying to find a Nomad and an NES top loader one of these days. :pray:

[Cmosfm]

I also asked a guy and he said he had an atari 2600 with like 40-50 games that he gave to someone to sell on ebay. I gave him my number and email and he acted like he could sell it to me after he did some research. That means he probably won't cut me a great deal, but maybe if there are some rare games I could luck out. Are there any games I should look out for and what would be a good offer to turn a profit for this assuming it's all common stuff?

Ataris usually sell for a dime a dozen at yard sales, personally I wouldn't pay over 20.00 for it, because they don't sell for a lot so you won't be making a ton of profit. You may be able to piece out some games, such at Pitfall 2 or something for about 10 bucks. As for rare games, GOOD LUCK! The odds of finding actual RARE atari games is something that's going to be very VERY hard to do. I have bought so many atari lots over the years, even bought a collection from a guy that had literally 500+ games, and out of that lot only a couple were rare, and they didn't sell for much more than 30.00 each. All the other lots I've bought over the years, nothing rare at all in them.

[theGrue]

http://img172.imageshack.us/img172/8573/dsc04685ov7.jpg
http://img386.imageshack.us/img386/4190/dsc04686ph8.jpg

Here's the complete haul I mentioned earlier, the reward for fitting in some yard saling before work...

Sega Genesis Model 1 w/ Hookups, 3 Controllers
Game Genie
Batman Forever
Batman Returns
Disney's Aladdin
Dr. Robotnik's Mean Bean Machine
Earthworm Jim
Grind Stormer
NHLPA Hockey '93
Sonic The Hedgehog
Sonic The Hedgehog 2
Sonic and Knuckles
Toy Story
Sega 32X w/ AC Adapter
Knuckles Chaotix
Spider-Man: Web of Fire :hot:
The Jungle Book (NES)
The Little Mermaid (NES)
Jade Empire
Panzer Dragoon Orta (Demo)
Total: $20

And oh yes, Web of Fire is complete. I'm just not sure if I should flip it now, or hold on to it and see if it keeps going up in value.

Hit a bunch of sales today, but didn't find too much.

http://img504.imageshack.us/img504/7832/dsc04687xj5.jpg

Mischief Makers
Atomic Purple Controller
Controller Pak
Total: $5

Cherry picked these from two N64 bundles. Mischief Makers is pretty great, but boy was it ahead of it's time. It's not until now that you can make a true game about shaking things. :)

Does anyone know a great source for the connector from the Genesis to the 32X? All I can find is one on eBay for $20.

[slowdive21]

I only hit a couple of sales this weekend, but I managed to get an official Zelda Majora's Mask Nintendo Power guide for $0.08 today (I bought 13 gamemags/guides for $1).

[Sinnbox]

I hit several sales today, but only found stuff i didnt want, Ie. Gamecubes, common PS2 stuff. I did find one sale that a lady brought out 12 NES games, they were all super common stuff so i gave her $4 for them. I was at a sale that had several GC controllers marked $2.00 for the lot but no one was in the yard and no one came out so i left.

My last stop was a local Flea/thrift, I picked up The outfit(360) and The Screwtape Leters(book) for $4.80

[IAmTheCheapestGamer]

i don't think i've ever even seen the box! care to share?

nevermind: i just swiped this from some site -- http://img116.exs.cx/img116/2183/spiderman7ma.jpg



it still kills me that Sega switched to cardboard towards the end of the Genesis/32x era. endless Crusader of Centys, Shining Force IIs and Spiderman WoF all cart only as far as the eye can see. what a shame.

Did you notice the title on the postcard though? Sega Saturn Registration. I wonder if that's the original postcard that came with the game?

[m3talst0rm]

Does anyone know a great source for the connector from the Genesis to the 32X? All I can find is one on eBay for $20.

I got one from here a while back. It is not original but it works. You need a 9-pin male to male cable. I checked and their prices have increased. It is now nearly $10 for the cable and 3 for shipping. Could save you some money.
http://www.stockcable.com/products.php?pid=17&detail=true

I originally found the site through Racketboy (Awesome for retrogaming) in this thread: http://www.racketboy.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=3915&highlight=

[Derock]

Ataris usually sell for a dime a dozen at yard sales, personally I wouldn't pay over 20.00 for it, because they don't sell for a lot so you won't be making a ton of profit. You may be able to piece out some games, such at Pitfall 2 or something for about 10 bucks. As for rare games, GOOD LUCK! The odds of finding actual RARE atari games is something that's going to be very VERY hard to do. I have bought so many atari lots over the years, even bought a collection from a guy that had literally 500+ games, and out of that lot only a couple were rare, and they didn't sell for much more than 30.00 each. All the other lots I've bought over the years, nothing rare at all in them.

That's good to know. Thanks for the reply and as I figured, I'll probably only buy something if it's rare and he's asking a low price.

[Derock]

After hours of yard sales I got next to nothing. I CIF'd a N64 with like 8 -10 games for $15 which I thought was a good deal and they declined saying they could sell it at gamestop. I reminded them they couldn't and they decided their kids would rather keep playing it sense they marked it at $30. I believe their kids made the asking prices and the parents just went along not knowing its value even after I explained you could get a N64 for $5 at other garage sales.

In the end I picked up zelda OoT, Mario Party, and a memory card for a PS for $1.25 over the entire morning.

I search craigslist for sales, is there any strategy to finding games other than lucking out or emailing the sellers ahead of time?

[SaraAB]

Bunch of stuff for me today (electronics and gaming), most is not relevant to this forum

Juice Box player with a load of stuff plus MP3 player and adaptor- 2$

DS Lite Case .75 cents (brunswick ALS case), with the price these are going for in stores, you can't beat under 1$.

[cranguy]

theGrue -- Knuckles Chaotix is a fairly rare title too, $30-$40 complete last I checked.


I bought a copy for $0.50 at a yard sale last year.

[Mirpkered]

This was one of the few finds for the day. This DVD box set was sitting on the table at this sale and was marked $3. I CIF'ed $2 and picked up Dark Angel Season 1.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/mirpkered/2684805739/

No major story on this one. Walked up to a sale and picked up the only PS game they had. I am now the proud owner of Namco Museum Vol. 3 for $1.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/mirpkered/2684803383/

This was a good find but it was unfortunate that it was in a thrift store and not a yard sale. However I picked up 6 master system games for $2 each. I got:

Rambo: First Blood Part 2
The Ninja
Super Tennis
Great Golf
Parlour Games
Hang On / Safari Hunt

It was $12 total but not to bad since I hardly ever see these anywhere.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/mirpkered/2684800801/

[Sinnbox]

does anyone know where Moitey and evil max went? They havent updated their site in forever.

[darkslime]

Went to the flea today, but only had $5 because I'm a poor kid with no job. >_<
What sucks is that someone had a complete fire emblem gc game and complete pikmin 2 but they wouldn't go lower than 7 fucking dollars each! I was 2 dollars short! FUCK!

[Sinnbox]

^ how did it let you say fuck? Gratz on breaking the system!!

[Scorch]

^ how did it let you say fuck? Gratz on breaking the system!!

it doesn't censor it if you capitalize it.

[Link927]

Went to the flea today, but only had $5 because I'm a poor kid with no job. >_<
What sucks is that someone had a complete fire emblem gc game and complete pikmin 2 but they wouldn't go lower than 7 fucking dollars each! I was 2 dollars short! FUCK!

Im just saying, even if the flea market may have great deals sometimes, you should still bring more than $5. No offense, but what were you trying to buy with only $5?

[kewlrabbit]

First time in a month or so i went to yardsales, i got some ok stuff:
-GBC games- Pokemon Gold, Pokemon Puzzle Challenge, Arthur (for my little bro) and mary kate & ashley - $3, marked $1 each.
- Pokemon XD: Gale of Darkness- $10, marked $15. A little higher than i'd usually pay, but i want to play it and haven't been able to find it for under $25.
-Mario Kart Super Circut, GBA, Sealed. - Marked $10, CIF'ed for $5.
-NES-deck only - Marked $5, CIF'ed $2.

Non Videogame related, I bought 7 cd's for $4. Cd's are surprisingly good for reselling. Last group i got were 6 for $3, which i sold to FYE for $26 credit.

[yourlefthand]

Not incredibly stellar, but I drove around while out of town this weekend. At one sale I found Wave Race: Blue Storm and a sealed Hello Kitty Roller Rescue. They were marked $5 each and I actually didn't even try to pay less because the family seemed nice and I knew it was a good deal. The HK game goes for over $20 used on ebay, so I was happy.

[darkslime]

Im just saying, even if the flea market may have great deals sometimes, you should still bring more than $5. No offense, but what were you trying to buy with only $5? I'm only 14, and don't have a job. I had just paid for 2 movies, some yard sale stuff and a concert this weekend and only had $5 left.

[Kuros]

Stuff for this weekend + today:

http://i326.photobucket.com/albums/k413/Kuros2/finds300k230fk.jpg

Pikachu N64 system - $38.50 after shipping from Ebay.

Been wanting this and this was a pretty good deal considering other prices I've seen the system for on Ebay.

Tonic Trouble, Tetrisphere and Lode Runner 3-D - $9.xx from the Goodwill

NES w/ 2 controllers, wireless multitap, hookups and zapper plus

Loose Games:

Willow, Contra, Fast Break, Skate or Die, Baseball, Double Dragon, Renegade, Karate Kid, Goal, SMB/DH, Golf

Complete games: Ice Hockey, TMNT 2, Mega Man 3, RC Pro AM, Operation Wolf, Guerrilla

Boxes and Manuals: Mega Man 4, Gauntlet 2

Total cost was $35 for the lot. Great deal over all, it gave me some excellent condition complete games. :)

Metroid - $3

Balder's Gate Dark Alliance 2 and Vampire Night - $14

[Tribblewars]

I usually shop some sales on Sat morning on the way home from work. Two Saturdays ago was pretty much a bust except for some baby books for my son, and some baby toys. This last Saturday was a lot better for some good haul.

My first sale was pretty meager, clothes, crappy dishes, etc

Second Sale: some CDs and PS2 GTA Vice City and PS2 Liberty City Stories. No price so I asked the kid (mom was with another guy) how much? He was like $1 CD, $2 per PS2 game. I wipped out $3 and CIF'd him. He kinda hesitated but seeing that money, the haul was mine.

Third Sale: A good selection of electronics, TVs, and clothes, and I saw an N64 with like 8 games and the system had three controllers. Upon closer inspection it looked like the system had been made sweet love to by a cat, dust, and hair. The games weren't in mint condition, but a hell of a lot better than the N64. I asked how much, she said $5 for everything. Wasn't bad, but the system made me queasy. Trying to clean that was way to much work. I offered .25 cents a game and gave her $2. Got Goldeneye, Star wars Shadow of the empire, Diddy Kong racing, and some sport games.

Fourth Sale: Some old lady saying she had tons of stuff, which she did, selling off her daughters and daughters boyfriends stuff (for Meth or whatever). I first noticed a TI-83. Now I had one for high school years ago and I asked how much. She replied $1 or $2, i hesitated then she responded with a $1. I walked around and noticed an upside down game manual. I flipped it over and behold FFVII. (I had noticed a PS1 slim, but she wanted $15 and it was pretty beat up.) I inquired about games but she didn't know. Underneath the manual was a CD book. I flipped through it, some decent CDs, but in the back two pages was FFVII discs 2 and 3. Score, but where was disc 1. I remembered the PS1 and went to open the lid, and behold disc 1. I placed the disc in the binder and showed her the binder. She said $10 for the binder, I CIF'd $5 for the manual, CD binder, and TI-83. She bit, I said thanks and left.

Fourth sale: some PSP cases, PSP headphone jack, and nifty armband - .40 cents

Pics -

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[Link927]

Nice find on the TI-83 and FFVII. Always check the disk tray I suppose ;)

[sokmaster]

Armband made the haul fantastic.

[darkslime]

Yeah, if there's a PSX or something with no games I always check the disc tray of it hoping to find something like that. ^_^

[Mirpkered]

Yeah, if there's a PSX or something with no games I always check the disc tray of it hoping to find something like that. ^_^

Very true indeed. I actually found Bushido Blade in a PSOne at a garage sale. Always check Playstations and front-loader NES systems

[Bioshocked360]

I bought an NES once for $1 and when I got home I found Kirby's Adventure in the system!

[Sinnbox]

90% of the CD based systems, and NES frontloaders I get have games in them. Just this saturday I found a PS1 and asked for games, another buyer at the sale said "Hey kid look in the system" sure enough there was a Crash game in there. Salvation army is bad about not checking systems for games, there are always games in the sytems they sell, once there was a PS1 with like 5 games stuffed in the drive.

[allyourblood]

90% of the CD based systems, and NES frontloaders I get have games in them. Just this saturday I found a PS1 and asked for games, another buyer at the sale said "Hey kid look in the system" sure enough there was a Crash game in there. Salvation army is bad about not checking systems for games, there are always games in the sytems they sell, once there was a PS1 with like 5 games stuffed in the drive.

this happens with game cases too. i recently bought Strikers 1945 and inside the case (along with Strikers) was Marvel vs. Capcom:

http://www.allyourblood.com/images/mvcstrikerstn.jpg (http://www.allyourblood.com/images/mvcstrikers.jpg)

[allyourblood]

and this past weekend's finds:

(http://www.allyourblood.com/images/presten.jpg)
http://www.allyourblood.com/images/prestentn.jpg (http://www.allyourblood.com/images/presten.jpg)
BD The Prestige, $8
HD DVD The Ten, $4


http://www.allyourblood.com/images/generallibertytn.jpg (http://www.allyourblood.com/images/generalliberty.jpg)
GEN General Chaos (complete), $2
GEN Liberty or Death (w/manual, no map), $3


http://www.allyourblood.com/images/chrononestn.jpg (http://www.allyourblood.com/images/chronones.jpg)
PS Chrono Cross (complete), $3
NES P.O.W.
NES Tetris
NES Zelda II: The Adventure of Link
NES Captain America and the Avengers, $2 for all 4


(http://www.allyourblood.com/images/monster.jpg)http://www.allyourblood.com/images/monstertn.jpg (http://www.allyourblood.com/images/monster.jpg)
Monster In My Pocket, 20 figures, $2


http://www.allyourblood.com/images/gbatobaltn.jpg (http://www.allyourblood.com/images/gbatobal.jpg)
Nintendo Grape Game Boy Advance (missing battery door), $2
PS Tobal No. 1 (case, manual, FFVII disc, missing Tobal disc), .50c


http://www.allyourblood.com/images/riddickgctn.jpg (http://www.allyourblood.com/images/riddickgc.jpg)
DVD Riddick Trilogy, $3
GC Spice controller, $2


http://www.allyourblood.com/images/psptn.jpg (http://www.allyourblood.com/images/psp.jpg)
Sony PSP w/Pursuit Force demo disc, $55


http://www.allyourblood.com/images/debugtn.jpg (http://www.allyourblood.com/images/debug.jpg)
Sony Playstation Debugging Station, $3 (shot of the back here (http://www.allyourblood.com/images/debugback.jpg))


total: $89.50
the PSP really pushed my usual total quite high this week. it was bordering on too expensive, but for some reason i've been wanting a PSP again (sold mine not long after launch) and this just appeared at the right time.

unbelievably, the Debugging Station is my second! (some of you thread veterans may remember i found one about 1-2 years ago with a bizarre beta disc.) i now have two. the first time i found one, i thought i'd never see another again, yet here we are. the downsides: this one is missing the blue Reset button (i'll have to replace it with a grey one), and it's also missing its power adapter. normally that wouldn't matter, but for some reason, this particular model uses a rather unique barrel-type plug, unlike my other model, which uses the typical two-prong plug. since it was missing the Reset button, i managed to haggle the price down from five dollars to three. as a matter of interest, this Station must have belonged to Midway at some point, as there is a Midway sticker on the bottom of it with a serial number. i won't know if it works until i can test it, which i can't do without the fancy power plug. i'm still very happy. for those who don't know, these were used by many developers to test alpha/beta builds of games and it'll play burned discs right out of the box, without modification.

also, the General Chaos is probably the most mint copy i've ever seen; it looks like someone just unwrapped the thing, and is complete with crisp and mint manual, registration card and EA poster. i love this game, so finding one in this kind of condition was a treat.

[refusedchaos]

^ remember that!!

[Link927]

Wow....just wow. I doubt I'd ever find something like that, but just keep on trying I guess.

[erehwon]

Those are some nice finds. I'd love to come across a ps1 debug unit. I'm a little jealous of the psp. I've been wanting to get one of those for a while. Though, I'm wondering if I should be cheap and look for an older one or get the slim model.

[Gumby the Green]

and this past weekend's finds:

(http://www.allyourblood.com/images/presten.jpg)
http://www.allyourblood.com/images/prestentn.jpg (http://www.allyourblood.com/images/presten.jpg)
BD The Prestige, $8
HD DVD The Ten, $4

http://www.allyourblood.com/images/riddickgctn.jpg (http://www.allyourblood.com/images/riddickgc.jpg)
DVD Riddick Trilogy, $3
GC Spice controller, $2


http://www.allyourblood.com/images/debugtn.jpg (http://www.allyourblood.com/images/debug.jpg)
Sony Playstation Debugging Station, $3 (shot of the back here (http://www.allyourblood.com/images/debugback.jpg))

serisously man where do you live? how many sony developers can you hit with a rock. Those are some great finds, i also like the blu-ray, riddick, and GC controller. I would never find anything like that in my area (hence my slowing down of yard saling) but congrats on those finds.

[allyourblood]

thanks gang. it's been slow lately, so i think i was due for a nice haul.

i found my old Debugging Station, so i put the two together for a couple photos. the one on the left in the top photo (the same one that's on top in the second photo) is a DTL-H1001, manufactured in October 1995 and uses the standard AC adapter. the other is a DTL-H1101, manufactured in August 1998 and requires the aforementioned DC barrel plug.

the older system obviously sat in a window as the top and some of the sides are a little faded. it's not quite as bad in person as the photos make it out to be, but there is a noticeable difference when you look at them side by side. that i know of, these never had a matching blue controller. rather, they include a dark grey controller that i've never seen (in the wild), but hope to stumble across one day.l

http://www.allyourblood.com/images/debugstn.jpg (http://www.allyourblood.com/images/debugs.jpg)


http://www.allyourblood.com/images/debugsbacktn.jpg (http://www.allyourblood.com/images/debugsback.jpg)

[darkslime]

thanks gang. it's been slow lately, so i think i was due for a nice haul.

i found my old Debugging Station, so i put the two together for a couple photos. the one on the left in the top photo (the same one that's on top in the second photo) is a DTL-H1001, manufactured in October 1995 and uses the standard AC adapter. the other is a DTL-H1101, manufactured in August 1998 and requires the aforementioned DC barrel plug.

the older system obviously sat in a window as the top and some of the sides are a little faded. it's not quite as bad in person as the photos make it out to be, but there is a noticeable difference when you look at them side by side. that i know of, these never had a matching blue controller. rather, they include a dark grey controller that i've never seen (in the wild), but hope to stumble across one day.l

http://www.allyourblood.com/images/debugstn.jpg (http://www.allyourblood.com/images/debugs.jpg)


http://www.allyourblood.com/images/debugsbacktn.jpg (http://www.allyourblood.com/images/debugsback.jpg) 0_0 I've seen a dark grey controller. Just thought it was a faded PS2 controller or something and didn't give it much thought. Gotta go see if its still there.

[Derock]

After reading a lot of these threads I'm getting and idea of the rare games to look out for. Is there a good list anywhere of what to look for in terms of valuable games that aren't extremely uncommon?

[kewlrabbit]

I just got back from yardsaling, (I went on friday because a few were open and I can't make it Saturday) and i got a pretty nice little haul from the first one i went to:

-Genesis game, Arcade Classics, boxed but no manuel: 50 cents
-Sega Genesis Model 2, no cords (x3): $1 each
-Sega Genesis Model 1, two power cords, no a/v or rf cords, two controllers: $2
-Super Nintendo, no cords or controllers, little flap that covers the game conectors missing: 50 cents.

This was all marked the prices i paid. The prices were too good to try and haggle. I was shocked to find a super nintendo, even without cords, for 50 cents. I left behind a Nes w/o cords for $2, because unlike the other systems, i don't have cords to test it, and a playstation one with two controllers (and possibly cords, i wasn't too interested and didn't give it a second look) for $5.

Also, i found a two Nes games at a yardsale on Wednesday (yep, my town has yardsales on Wednesday) that i didn't think were strong enough to post by them selves:

-Kirbys Adventure & Snake, Rattle, and Roll, cart only. Marked $3 each, offered and accepted $3 for both.

I found these in a box with two nes controllers and 5 other games: three sports, Kung-fu, and a simpsons one. It was marked $3 each, so i offered $10 for all. He countered $15, which was more then i wanted to pay ($10 was actually the most i wanted to pay, so it probably wasn't a good price to start with.) I cherry picked these two and offered $3, which he accepted after a second. In retrospect, i probably should've CIF'ed $5 for the games and a controller, but I keep hoping i find a nes with controllers and cords at a yardsale. I haven't seen too many nes'es at yardsales this year.

[Jesus_S_Preston]

There are three Riddick movies?

[allyourblood]

There are three Riddick movies?

not exactly. the Dark Fury segment is an animated short (35min). i actually haven't seen any of the three, so i'm hoping to have some time this weekend to relax and watch.

[kube00]

Just an overpriced SNES with Starfox, DR Mario/Tetris, Super Mario World, crappy sports games, and Killer Instinct $85
Overpriced Genesis version 1 very dirty, with Sonic 1,2 and 3 $75

I walked away.

[allyourblood]

Just an overpriced SNES with Starfox, DR Mario/Tetris, Super Mario World, crappy sports games, and Killer Instinct $85
Overpriced Genesis version 1 very dirty, with Sonic 1,2 and 3 $75

wait -- you bought those, or just saw them?

[deadlykeyboard]

Haha nice. He goes back and edits it right after you quote him so you look like an ass.

[Sinnbox]

this happens with game cases too. i recently bought Strikers 1945 and inside the case (along with Strikers) was Marvel vs. Capcom:

http://www.allyourblood.com/images/mvcstrikerstn.jpg (http://www.allyourblood.com/images/mvcstrikers.jpg)

I bought a copy of Driver for PS1 teh other day and found Suikoden, Sonic Mega Collection+, DDR:MAX, and DDR:MAX2 all in the case!! Great Deal or what?

all I found today was a new mini-fridge for my game room for $15, tomorrow is my big day though so wish me luck.

[kube00]

No I look like the ass for not clarifying :)

[punkmaggit]

Haha nice. He goes back and edits it right after you quote him so you look like an ass.
troll harder :imwithst:

[Jesus_S_Preston]

not exactly. the Dark Fury segment is an animated short (35min). i actually haven't seen any of the three, so i'm hoping to have some time this weekend to relax and watch.

Ah. I'm not a big fan of them, but my dad is (big Vin Deisiel fan), and to the best of my knowledge there was only two films. But now I get it.

[Macheezmo]

okay, it wasn't really a yard sale, and I didn't want to make a new topic, but while me and my fiancee were out picking up her wedding dress, her dad called and said he had stopped by to see us, but since we were gone he left some stuff on our porch for us.

We got, a small TV, a VCR, some Juice and M&Ms, and Golden Compass for the 360.

It's a crappy game, but it's a free game. Someone he knew bought it thinking it was the movie, then gave it to him, but since he only has a regular Xbox, he gave it to us.

[Maromi]

I was just wondering, since I'm very new to yard sale shopping: where does everyone usually look to find info on yard sales in the area/state? Any good links?

[willc23]

Pretty slow day for me, but was able to find a few things. Will have a bigger post in the Craigslist thread in a couple of days.

Yesterday I was able to pick up an old Nintendo Gameboy, Gameboy Pocket and around 18 Gameboy games, Gex for N64, and Family Guy Stewie's Story DVD for $30.

Today was able to find a fat PS2 w/ clear blue DS controller, Burnout, Burnout 2, Spiderman, NFL 2k3, & College Hoops 2k3 for $20.

Also picked up a NES w/o any cables and several games (Super Mario 2 & Contra) were the notables for $5.

I am absolutely bulging at the seams w/ NES systems. I need to get off my butt and get new pins for them and get them out the door.

[BlueLobstah]

Today kind of got out to a slow start, due to the fact that it started to pour at around 7:30am, so I started late because I wasn't sure if the rain was going to clear.

I only had time to go to about 8 yardsales, but finally found a Genesis with Sonic 1, and F-Zero, and Ocarina of Time (Gold Cart). They wanted $10 for all, but I CIF for $8 and they took it. Not a great deal, but it made a somewhat dismal start somewhat better. The genesis is a little dirty, and the cartridge takes a little bit of tweaking to get it to work, but I think those are both easily solvable problems.

http://files.simgaming.net/genesis.jpg

[DerangedHermit]

I was just wondering, since I'm very new to yard sale shopping: where does everyone usually look to find info on yard sales in the area/state? Any good links?

Craigslist, classifieds section of your local paper, those free weeklys you get in the mail (here in my area on LI, it's the Yankee Trader, Pennysaver, This Week and a few other ones...)

[Yokihana]

Pretty good day;
SNES Mario Paint mouse-$1
SNES system with box and everything-$20
Parasite Eve-$5
Conkers Bad Fur Day-$2
Zelda: Majora's Mask-$2

[Sinnbox]

MY finds today were:

Rockband(complete) X360 - $40
DDR Mat X360 $10 - CIF $5
Lethal enforcer gun GEN(CIB) - $5
Final Fantasy Tactis PS1 - $4
Futurama Season 1 DVD set -$3

[theGrue]

http://img155.imageshack.us/img155/9122/dsc04693qh9.jpg

Nintendo 64 w/ Hookups, 3 Controllers, Rumble Pak
Destruction Derby 64
Diddy Kong Racing
FIFA '98
Fox Sports College Hoops '99
Goldeneye 007
Kirby 64: The Crystal Shards
Lego Racers
Mario Kart 64
Mario Party
Mario Party 2
Mario Party 3
Mario Tennis
NASCAR '99
NHL Blades of Steel '99
PGA European Tour
Pokemon Puzzle League
Pokemon Stadium
Pokemon Stadium 2
Power Rangers: Lightspeed Rescue
Rayman 2: The Great Escape
Rocket: Robot on Wheels
StarFox 64
Star Wars Rogue Squadron
Super Smash Bros.
Super Mario 64
Triple Play 2000
WCW/nWO Revenge
Star Wars: Rogue Leader (Needs some serious cleaning)
Universal A/V Cable for SNES/N64/GameCube/PS2/Xbox
GameCube Power Supply
Total: $10

Doesn't really get much better than this, walked up, saw a box full of stuff, asked what they wanted, they said $10, and I was on my way. I didn't get to look at everything until I got home, so it was kinda fun to look through it all. Sadly, no sign of the two N64 games my collection lacks most, Killer Instinct and Conker.

http://img244.imageshack.us/img244/7355/dsc04694zw1.jpg

Metroid Prime: $1
Power Stone
Aladdin
Dynamite Headdy
Ecco the Dolphin
The Lion King
Sonic Chaos
Sonic The Hedgehog 2
Taz-Mania
AC Adapter for Game Gear or Genesis
Pokemon: Special Pikachu Edition
Total: $10

Found Metroid Prime at a big neighborhood sale, not much in the way of games, but at least I got some good exercise walking around. The other bundle of things was found at another sale, I quickly spotted Power Stone with a Dreamcast and another game. I wasn't too interested in the Dreamcast since I already have a couple, so I asked if they'd separate. They wanted everything gone more, but I found other game stuff and worked out a nice little deal. I never see Game Gear stuff, but I feel like if I ever got one, these would be some pretty sweet games to have.

Not a bad week!

[cranguy]

http://www.gamehoarders.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/07/img_5000-300x225.jpg

List and prices at GameHoarders (http://www.gamehoarders.com)

Some salers in this thread insist that you should stop at every sale, even if it looks like old junk. While I'm not a fan of following this rule (it usually is just old junk), I'm happy to report that I got my first copy of Vandal Hearts (PS1) today at a sale that was advertising "glassware and antiques." This was at 11:30 too, pretty late in the morning.

Also got a couple of PS2/Xbox kiosk demos. If anyone knows what's on the Xbox demo, please leave a comment, as I don't have an Xbox to check and Google turns up nothing.

theGrue--- quite a lot of quality 64 titles you got there!

[darkslime]

I didn't wake up 'til 9:00 and only went to 2 sales. The first one said someone bought all the games already. The second one had nothing out buy baby clothes, but when I asked about games, they came out with these, all for PS2. They all have cover art but none have manuals.

Power Rangers Dino Thunder
Metal Arms Glitch In The System
Pac-Man Fever
Fight Club
Shadow Man Second Coming
Medal Of Honor European Assault
Sonic Mega Collection Plus
The Nightmare Before Christmas Oogie's Revenge (with manual)
Turok Evolution
Frogger's Adventures The Rescue (+manual)
Cabela's Dangerous Hunts 2
The Legacy Of Kain Soul Reaver 2
Dark Alliance
The Incredibles
Pac-Man World 3
Fantastic Four
Fantastic Four Rise Of The Silver Surfer
MVP Baseball 2005
Crash Bandicoot The Wrath Of Cortex (Case only, no game)

Told me to make an offer, I CIF'd 10 and she took it with hesitation.
Just noticed they're pretty scratched, so I hope they work.

[Undrallio]

Haven't been out in a while before today. Not much in the way of gaming, but I did get a few...

Factory sealed Ty The Tasmanian Tiger (gamecube) for four bucks, they wanted 5 and would not go any lower than 4. Stubborn old folks, oh well I've been looking for it.

Sonic and Amy 13" Sonic X plushies, a buck a piece. I didn't wanna pay that much..but it's not often I find sonic stuff.

That was it...there was a Barbie and Ken Star Trek edition set where Barbie was the busty blonde chick who's name eludes me...and Ken was James T. Kirk. I wanted it...but for $10 and previously opened....not so much.

[Captain_Insano16]

Saw the deal of the year today... I walked up to a sale and saw a purple GB color and about 8 games marked $50!?! I talked with the seller for a few secs about old games and found out she wanted $50 for just the GBC system (not counting the games) - the games were $4 each... and she was very firm with the pricing and believed that it was a good deal?!?! Too bad too as the GB games were actually decent titles (marios, zelda, etc)

What were these people smoking?

On the better side of things.....

I found a Sega Dreamcast system with cables, 1 controller and Test Drive: Le Mans Complete for $1.50 total; and a few NES games for $2 (Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade, CastleQuest and Metroid).

[Anti Lifesaver]

Hey guys first timer here.

I must say I am so impressed with everything on this site and thecoverproject. I am really looking forward to rebuilding my collection again.

First time doing garage sales and flea markets.
Probably stopped at 20 or so GS and sadly only got Super Mario Bros/Duckhunt, Super Mario Bros 3, and Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles for the NES.
Total: $5 Tried to go 3 but firm at 5.

Next at the flea market I got a PS1 with cables but no controller for $4.
It's in good condition, I just need to clean it up.


Very frusterating for a first time. However I did meet a old white guy who had a garage full of boxes and said he had about 100 NES games, 4 NES consoles, a Sega Genesis with a few games, and a Playsation with soem games. He said drop by next friday he should have them out, if not then I can leave him my number and he will call me when he does find them.

I also left my number with the girl who sold me the NES games, she has alot of NES and SNES somewhere in the house she just couldn't find them, that was another reason why I paid $5 and didn't wanna be to cheap.


Any suggestions on where or when is the best time to go for this stuff? I went from 7-10.

[SaraAB]

I ran into a bunch of real winners today, first was the lady who had the nerve to shout in my face ITS GOING FOR 50$ ON EBAY!!! when I inquired about a price on a GBA SP that wouldn't even turn on but they claimed it worked. Yes it probably needed a charge but if you want to get full ebay price for your items at a yard sale I suggest you charge your systems BEFORE the yard sale, not just tell people it works and then ask 50$ for it. GBA SP's are also getting old and there's a good chance the battery was worn down or barely working. I didn't even mention a price I just asked how much they wanted.

Then at another sale I saw a pile of hardcore anime porn VHS tapes... the sale was run by an old man... I won't say any more.

Then I run into a couple SNES games for 2$ each where the lady won't budge on the price, they were filthy dirty on the connectors and nothing great so I passed.

Overall I brought home a bunch of toys as usual and a cheat code book for the PS2/PSP for 25 cents. I like to collect guides.

[Dokstarr]

http://i149.photobucket.com/albums/s46/Dokstarr/CIMG1916.jpg

here's a link to what I got today. It was my first time out and I didn't get out my door until 10:15 which I know is late and after all the good stuff is gone, but I had to help family members pack a van and leave for a trip to Canada.

I got from first place a Sci-Fi book called The City: 2000 AD - It is a collection of stories describing how strange and wondrous the year 2000 will be! The person said they didn't have change and wanted a buck. I said how about 50 cents, and they said okay.

Another place later on had some DVDs that looked okay but they wanted a bit to much. There was a bucket of DVDs that said 3 dollars and I saw Family Guy Volume 1. I was going to get that but then a sticker said 10 (because it was 4 discs). I passed on it.

But they did have some good books at the same place. I got 2 Neil Gaiman books for 2 bucks total. One looks in excellent condition and the other looks brand new (not even the faintest crease on the spine). I was going to buy these books eventually anyways, so that was good.

Another place had some video games. They had NES games for 3 bucks a piece, I offered 2 a piece and they took it. I got Metroid, Metal Gear, Ninja Gaiden 1 and 2, and Castlevania. I actually can't remember if I have Ninja Gaiden and Metroid already; I will have to check. Ninja Gaiden 2 and Metroid came with manuals, so that was kind of cool. I will have to test the games, but I have a very tempermental NES that I haven't used for 2 years. This same place had a Game and Watch system called Climbers. Its in the box and it looks in good condition. The person wanted a buck for it, but I gave them 50 cents. I don't know if it works though. It had a battery in the box with it and I tossed it in and I got some music but nothing on the screen so I'm going to guess it's dead. It's cool looking though, maybe I can modify into something someday.

One last place I stopped at had a Garfield pencil box on the table. They wanted a quarter and I gave it. It's cool looking but not in the picture.

I did see some crappy sales though, First place I went to had an original X-box for 150 bucks firm. Few other places just had junk. I guess I will have to get up earlier next time to find some of the deals you guys get.

I wonder how you guys manage to hit so many yard sales in a morning though. I started at my first one @ 10:30 and kept going until about 1:30 or 2. Takes a while going place to place.

EDIT:
Just found Metroid packed away.. Whoops.. so I guess I will have to put it on my tradelist or ebay it or something. I couldn't remember if I had it or not. I'll have to keep checking for Ninja Gaiden. I also found out that I own Mega Man 2. I had no idea.

[SaraAB]

I go with my family so I have to go when they get out of the house which can take a long time, I do my best to get them out of the house early but its hard so I end up going later in the day too, however I find that later in the day you get cheaper prices because people will do anything to get rid of their stuff! You gotta get done by like 2pm though, because most of the sales will end at that time, either that or the sellers just pack up because the people stop coming. Not sure if thats for every area though but when I had a yard sale last year the shoppers were heavy around 9-12pm and dropped off after that, no one came after 2pm. Also no one will come on Sunday so your better off doing a one day thing.

[darkslime]

Just tested about 5 of the games, and they all have worked so far. Other than Dark Alliance, that person had terrible taste in games. That Pac-Man Fever had a $29.99 EB price sticker. Who the fuck would pay 30 bucks for a piece of shit like Pac-Man Fever?!?

[erehwon]

Then at another sale I saw a pile of hardcore anime porn VHS tapes... the sale was run by an old man... I won't say any more.

This is why I keep a bottle of hand sanitizer in my car.

[Link927]

This is why I keep a bottle of hand sanitizer in my car.

That reminds me, my bottle ran out ages ago, I should get a new one soon.

Not much on the YS front today, hit up only about a total of a dozen posted and hidden sales, nothing to report but old antiques and clothing.

[Sinnbox]

I forgot to mention that I missed a game i have been lookign for forever today, Starcraft 64!! the guy decided at the last minute to keep it!! BTW as i pulled up to the sale i smelled Pot then i looked and the lasdy runing the sale had a huge joint in her hand. talk about retards they will lock you up for pot here.

[darkslime]

I forgot to mention that I missed a game i have been lookign for forever today, Starcraft 64!! the guy decided at the last minute to keep it!! BTW as i pulled up to the sale i smelled Pot then i looked and the lasdy runing the sale had a huge joint in her hand. talk about retards they will lock you up for pot here. Lol. I've been at a ton of sales where the games smell like pot. I was at GS once when the person was priceing something and pot fell out of the manual.

[lakers310]

Lol. I've been at a ton of sales where the games smell like pot. I was at GS once when the person was priceing something and pot fell out of the manual.

did you keep it and sell it?;)

[cranguy]

Lol. I've been at a ton of sales where the games smell like pot. I was at GS once when the person was priceing something and pot fell out of the manual.
Did Gamestop give them $0.50 in store credit for it, and then sticker it for $29.99?

[Trikip]

Did Gamestop give them $0.50 in store credit for it, and then sticker it for $29.99?

I don't think so, they probably used it themselves.

[SaraAB]

I usually stop at a store after my yard sale run to cool off and get something to eat, so I wash my hands then, I am a pretty big hand washing freak so I don't usually touch things that are suspect. Not a big fan of hand sanitizer here either, it burns and I don't like the smell.

[FOnewearl]

http://img329.imageshack.us/img329/5642/yardsale72608kr8.th.jpg (http://img329.imageshack.us/my.php?image=yardsale72608kr8.jpg)

GameCube Games
Capcom Vs. SNK 2 EO (Complete) - $2
Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time (Complete) - $2
Resident Evil 4 (Complete) - $5

Playstation Games
Point Blank (Disc Only) - $1
Capcom Vs. SNK Pro (Disc & Manual) - $1
King of Fighters '99, The (Disc & Manual) - $1
Marvel Super Heroes Vs. Street Fighter (Disc & Manual) - $1

First sale I went to which I got to at about 8:15. Everything was IAP I didn't even try and haggle has the prices were good for a yardsale IMO and I saw my one friend's bother at the sale when I got to it as it was one of his friends that was selling the games.

Einhander - .75

Saw a CD wallet at this sale that had a sticker on it that said 17 Playstation games and was marked $15 for all. I looked though it and was only interested in Einhander which was the last game in the book. I took it out and asked the lady about just buying that and she said .75 which I paid. Looking back I should have also grabbed the disc only Battle Arena Toshindin 3 I saw in the book.

Diddy Kong Racing
Mario Kart 64
Super Mario 64

$5

Asked about Video Games at this sale and they brought out an N64 with about a dozen games. Wanted $20 for the system & $2 a game. I ended up offering $5 for these 3. It was kind of funny as they had trouble understanding me as their english wasen't very good. The guy went in and got this stuff and the mother of the house was basicly coming up with the asking price off the top of her head. At first she said 3 and put her hand up with 3 fingers, wasen't very clear I though they wanted $3 for everything and gave them 3 ones to which they were confused when I went to get everything and were basically like no no and then I ended up with what I did for $5. Only decent game I passed on was Mickey's Speedway USA.

Non Find Stories

Just missed a good sized N64 bundle - http://www.cheapassgamer.com/forums/showpost.php?p=4663960&postcount=52

I stopped at a sale today that advertised DS, GB & GBA games. Everything was too expensive. Fable for Xbox $8, for a cheaper Xbox game Legends of Wrestling at $4 and about 20 GBA, GB games even some complete but mostly kids games and all marked about $7, $8 from what I saw just looking over the crap stuff quickly. I was thinking about getting Super Mario Bros. Deluxe and Rayman Advance before seeing the prices but picked them up and saw the prices on the back $11 and $7 respectively. I was at this sale today (Saturday) and the sale started yesterday (Friday) and they were lucky if they sold anything at these prices which it looked like they didn't. I don't even want to try and bother offering something like $1-3 per a game at sales when I see prices like this.

[IAmTheCheapestGamer]

Lol. I've been at a ton of sales where the games smell like pot. I was at GS once when the person was priceing something and pot fell out of the manual.

LOL I remember the one time my one friend rented a car from a company around here called "Rent-A-Wreck"(which actually has nice cars and not 'wrecks')and I was like 'the car smells like weed'.

We opened the middle console/glove compartment thing and there was a half smoked joint in there. I just kind of laughed and said 'I guess they didn't clean this car too well, huh?'.

[dodgeme]

I haven't been out in a while but i went to a village wide in the town of randolph near me and there was almost nothing. At most 20 sales. I did however find a Texas Instruments TI-83 calculator for 5 bucks and a Sega Game Gear for a dollar. Not sure if the Game Gear works though.

[Mirpkered]

I had another decent weekend again. Here are the hauls.

I picked these up at an interesting sale. There were no games she knew of but was surprised when I found Super Mario 3 with all her books. I offered her $0.25 for 4 comic strip style books and the game and she took it with no problem.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/mirpkered/2708483582/

I pulled up to this sale and was immediatly discouraged by the amount of baby clothes there were. However, as a devout gamer, I followed my instinct to ask about games. She immediatly said no but then she loked over at ther freind also assisting with the sale and asked her. She came back with a large box of games. I looked through it quick and offered $7 for the box and she took it. I got:

Yobo NES (no cables)
NES Controllers (x2)
NES Zapper
Alien Syndrome
Klax
Rygar
Legend of Zelda
Karnov
Thundercade
Metroid
Skate or Die
SMB/DH
Terra Cresta
Dragon Warrior
Clash at Demonhead
Bionic Commando
Contra
Kid Icarus
Ikari Warriors
Legendary Wings
Jackal

I was excited when I got this since I noticed kid icarus and terra cresta after I got home with the box. Fantastic!

http://www.flickr.com/photos/mirpkered/2707636109/

I have never seen VIC-20 games before until I went to this Goodwill. I picked up four Vic-20 games:

Dig Dug
Gorg
Omega Race
Centipede

I gave $12 for all of them but was not disappointed. Pretty awesoem find I felt.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/mirpkered/2707569537/

I went to a thrift store I visit often and found a few games hiwever only 2 stood out. I picked up Legend of Legaia and Red Alert. There was a catch though... Legaia was just a case and the Red Alert game only had disc 2. I gave $2 for both since I have a disc only copy of Legaia at home and disc 1 for Red Alert. Worked out quite well.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/mirpkered/2707566791/

This was a good find for starting out. I went to the sale as it advertised a playstation, so I went to the sale in hopes that There would be some games there. However when the asking price for a complete boxed PSOne was only $5, I bit. I also Picked up the Bon Jovi CD 'This Left Feels Right' which is a decent album. I gave $5 for both and was on my way.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/mirpkered/2708381802/

I went to a pawn shop that was open and found some cool stuff. Most of all though, I picked out 5 games to add to my colleciton.

TMNT Tournament Fighters (Genesis)
Boogerman (Genesis)
Worms Armageddon (PS Disc Only)
Treasure Master (NES Cart Only)
Shinobi 2 (Game Gear Cart Only)

I ended up giving $6 for all of it. No other real story except it was a good deal.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/mirpkered/2707561273/

I found this at another goodwill in the town I was staying in this weekend. I picked up a complete copy of Solstice for the NES. It was only $4 as well.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/mirpkered/2707558319/

I went to this sale but no games were in sight. However, I asked and was rewarded. This lady brought out 5 games she had, all of which were sports. However I picked out 2 that were special sport games:

Mario Golf
Mario Tennis

I CIF'ed $2 and was on my way to another hopeful YS score.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/mirpkered/2708372268/

[Kuros]

http://i326.photobucket.com/albums/k413/Kuros2/finds903jf23kk001.jpg

Stuff for the weekend:

Saturn Games: Cyber Speedway, Sega Rally International Rally, Congo - $5

Stubbs the Zombie - $6

FFX and Jak 1 - $8

Metroid - $3

Sealed Quattro Sports - $3

Popolocrois - $5

[Martinmz]

i just went to a sale and scored these titles
Blitz the leauge
perfect dark zero
fight night round 3
tony hawks project 8
smackdown Vs. RAW 2007

[Martinmz]

got these games for the 360
blitz the league $4
smackdown Vs. raw $4
tony hawk project 8 $4
fight night round 3 $4
perfect dark zero $4

[antman157]

Tomorrow the weekend yard sales begin! w00t .. Hope I score some nice swag

EDIT - Bought a rare stuffed Club Mickey Mouse for 25 cents
Also got NCAA 08 PS2 for 4.00
They had a PS1 with 4 games (pamela anderson game and Res 3) were the only good games for a FIRM 30 bucks .. Not sure if I should go back and get it .. My town has a small community 'yard sale' on Thursdays I just found
They also had an Xbox for 75 (i passed)

UPDATE: Worlds largest yard sale begins Aug 7 - 10 .. From West Unity, Ohio to Gadsden, Alabama...
www.127sale.com

[karkyco]

Tomorrow the weekend yard sales begin! w00t .. Hope I score some nice swag

EDIT - Bought a rare stuffed Club Mickey Mouse for 25 cents
Also got NCAA 08 PS2 for 4.00
They had a PS1 with 4 games (pamela anderson game and Res 3) were the only good games for a FIRM 30 bucks .. Not sure if I should go back and get it .. My town has a small community 'yard sale' on Thursdays I just found
They also had an Xbox for 75 (i passed)

UPDATE: Worlds largest yard sale begins Aug 7 - 10 .. From West Unity, Ohio to Gadsden, Alabama...
www.127sale.com (http://www.127sale.com)

That PS1 for $30 is NOT a good deal at all, unless the other 2 games are really valuable (complete FFVII black label, Dragon Warrior 7, Ogre Battle, Tactics Ogre, Suikoden 2, etc.). I assume the Pam Anderson game is VIP (unless they made one for Barbed Wire), pure trash. RE3 is not hard to find.

[dodgeme]

Tomorrow should be interesting. I've got my own village sales to go to and hope to snag something good again like last year.

[Trikip]

I'm very excited for tomorrow. This is only my second time going yard saling all year and there are lots of sales including two multi-family sales, so it should be a pretty good day!

[antman157]

It aint lookin good for my town tomorrow.. Only 1 advertised .. We'll see though .. Next week is the mack daddy of all yard sales .. Longest in the US

[Link927]

Hmm, thinking of hitting up a yardsale, the advertised ones seem to be in a concentrated area about a 20 min drive or so, not sure if I wanna just drive around my area or go there.

[darkslime]

Yay! I showed my friend with a car the amazing finds I've gotten and he's gonna give me a ride yard saling. ^_^ No more biking this week.

[willc23]

Complete strike out today. Saw a PS2 for $50, PS1 for $15, and a NES for $2. Already have too many NES.

[m3talst0rm]

Only yard sale find: Cib super scope six for $1. After I purchased this, I was walking back to the car and found the top of the box was splattered with bird poop. It smelled of cat, too. Good find!?!

[antman157]

Yard sale finds .. Nothing this week
Flea market sale: Nothing AT ALL (Flea market I went to wanted 50 bucks for any old system(PS1, NES, SNES, N64, Atari) only no cords or controllers.. they wanted 20 for SNES 15 for NES and 50 for N64 games .. RIP OFF ...) They did have the running pad for the NES for 50 .. Passed..

No luck for me this week .. Maybe next week

[darkslime]

Its really weird, but I only found like 5 sales. One had for sale a 360 XBOX SNES
NES and 32x. They were asking 5 for the 32x but it was missing the power cord and the thing to put it on genesis 1 which I have so I didn't bite. Everything else was outrageous prices, but I managed to get these games for $3 total.
SNES: Mega Man X
The Pagemaster
Street Fighter II
Gradius III
All cart only

[PaddyTheChump]

Complete strike out today. Saw a PS2 for $50, PS1 for $15, and a NES for $2. Already have too many NES.
You can never have enough NES's :p

As for me, rained out today, hopefully I'm hitting up the flea market tomorrow.

[shabby]

I got a sega genesis with sonic and all the cords and stuff, 1 nes controller, a nes power supply, and a box full of misc. wall warts and phone chargers for 2 bucks.

[4tygames]

Friday

I picked up Ridge Racer (PS1) and Street Skate (PS1) for $0.50 each

A Sega Genesis Model 1 with 3 games (RC Pro Am, Sonic 2, and Super Monaco II) and 3 controllers + a complete n64 with two controllers and boxed games including LoZ: OoT (Collector's Edition), LoZ: MoJ (Collector's Edition), DK64, Diddy Kong Racing, and the W-golf game all for $20. The lady was also selling a Gamecube with games for $25. The games were Star Fox Adventures, LoZ: Ocarina of Time, and LoZ: Wind Waker (K-Mart Edition) and all were in mint condition. I asked if she would just sell the games. She replied with $5 and I took it immediately which was stupid. When I got home, both discs in Star Fox and OoT were fine, but the disc was missing in the Wind Waker case! I bet it was in that boxxed GameCube and I forgot to check it, because I was already too excited with the Genesis and n64 finds.

Microsoft Return of the Arcade $0.50

Halo 3 $5.00 <- The guy's 360 red-ringed and he was selling that as well. I was hesistant on making an offer. Buying a used 360 scares me even though I know I can get it fixed.

Duke Nukem 3-D (CD version) - $0.10

Dragon's Lair, Cliffhanger, Joe Montana Football (Sega CD, Complete with no scratches on the oversize CD boxes!) - $5.00

Eye Toy Play (PS2) - $0.50

Saturday

Fallout (PC) - $0.50

Roger Clemen's MVP Baseball (NES, Complete with box) - $1.00

Illusion of Gaia (SNES) - $1.00

Legend of Zelda: Link's Awakening (GB) (Brand New) - $0.50

Super Truck Racing (PS2) (Brand New) - $0.50

Sim City 2000 and Black Bass with Blue Marlin (PS1) - Free (It was just the cases)

Intec GameCube LCD Screen (Purple) - $10 <- I've been looking for one for a long time. I came up on the sale and asked the little kid how much. He said $10. I told him that I would take it and gave him the $10. The little kid grabbed the box (it was complete) and gave it to me. Now, there was a woman looking through some overpriced GameCube sports games which was right next to the screen. Once the little kid handed it to me she said "You know I was going to buy it. I had my hand on it (she didn't)." Another shoulda, woulda, coulda. My response was, "Well I had the money :) " I then left.

I passed up a n64 today for $3. I would have bought it but there were no hookups. That wasn't the real problem though. I started looking at it closely and saw electrical tape around the power cord. When I looked at the power switch it was also in pretty bad shape and must have been handled roughly.

[dodgeme]

Saturday: Village Wide Yard Sales.

Overall i could consider them a bust but then i hit the jackpot at one garage sale.

Yardsale 1:
1 USB to Micro Usb adaptor. Needed badly for psp.






Yardsale 2: (Jackpot)

I had to throw some suspense in right.

Pictures will fallow later.

1x Sega Genesis Model 1
2x Genesis Controllers
All of the hookups
Games:
Bubsy
Sonic the Hedgehog
Sonic The Hedgehog 2
Earthworm Jim
Madden 96
688 Attack Sub

$10

1x Sega Saturn Model 1 with Oval Buttons
2x Sega Saturn Contollers (1 third party)
1x Sega Saturn Eclipse Arcade Stick
1x Sega Saturn Backup Cartridge
All the hookups

$10

Games for Saturn:
Daytona Usa
Virtua Fighter 2
Virtua Cop
Last Gladiators Virtual Pinball
Pebble Beach Golf
World Series Baseball 2
Vr Golf 97
NFL 97

Sega 32x games
Pitfall Miyan Adventure

Sega CD games
NBA Jam
WWF King of The Ring

All Games for $10

Overall i consider it a good deal. They were just looking to get rid of the stuff. I missed their Sega CD model 1 and 32x by a few minutes however they guy ran out of money and couldn't buy it all. I still got the games as i may get the 2 eventually.

[willc23]

You can never have enough NES's :p

As for me, rained out today, hopefully I'm hitting up the flea market tomorrow.

Tell that to my wife.

[theGrue]

http://img385.imageshack.us/img385/2874/dsc04701ul9.jpg

NES Console w/ Hookups, 2 Controllers
Super Mario Bros. / Duck Hunt
Super Mario Bros. 2
Super Mario Bros. 3
Bases Loaded
Tecmo Bowl
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles
The Simpsons: Bart vs. The Space Mutants
Super Mario World
Top Gear
Paperboy
Taz in Escape From Mars
X-Men 2 in Clone Wars
The Next Tetris
Tony Hawk's Pro Skater
Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 2
Namco Museum vol. 1 (Empty :cry:)
Gran Turismo (Empty :cry:)
Total: $10

Friday morning before work find! They advertised video games, and I was not disappointed. Games were 50 cents each and systems were $5. Unfortunately, what was there was all kinda dirty and most of the games were sports. I grabbed everything non-sports and an NES and offered $10 for all, which they gladly took. The empty cases were a little disappointing, but at the end of the day, I still got $12 of stuff for $10, rather than $13 of stuff for $10. I can live with that. I left behind a PS1, SNES, two Genesises, and lots of sports games.

http://img182.imageshack.us/img182/8103/dsc04702vp7.jpg

Sega Visions and other magazines
Total: $1

Kind of an interesting find, this sale had this stack of magazines and a few Atari and Coleco games. Contains 7 issues of Sega Visions, the 1994 Genesis Games Directory, a Sonic 2 poster, and a Sonic 2 strategy guide-ish thing.

http://img359.imageshack.us/img359/6539/dsc04703tq0.jpg

Automobili Lamborghini
ActRaiser 2
Dennis the Menace
Total: $5

Asked about games at a sale and the guy brought out a box of things, but he was still pretty attached to most of them, which I completely understand. I picked out a few that I didn't already have, and he decided to keep a couple and sell me these. I didn't miss out on anything rare, and it was my first and only game find of the day, so I was fine with it.

[kewlrabbit]

Found:

Rocky for the Gamecube, Complete- $1
Cars for the Xbox 360- $5

Atari 5200 w/ 2 controllers and Pac-Man
Super Nes w/ one controller, Donkey Kong 3, Super Mario World, and Tetris 2
-$22 for both.

[FOnewearl]

All of this stuff is actually old finds not from this weekend

http://img225.imageshack.us/img225/4889/miscgamestuffkg3.th.jpg (http://img225.imageshack.us/my.php?image=miscgamestuffkg3.jpg)

Bugs Bunny Crazy Castle 2, The (PC) - .50?

I bought a generic portable system soft case about 2 to 3 years ago at a yardsale it was marked a buck I think I offered .50 maybe .25. I never noticed until this past winter that it had Bugs Bunny Crazy Castle 2 hidden away inside!

Defender

This is from the Atari 2600 bundle I bought at a yardsale about 2 months ago.

http://www.cheapassgamer.com/forums/showpost.php?p=4393875&postcount=691

I found Defender in the back of the car about a month afterwards and keep forgetting to add it in one of my yardsale pictures. All of the 2600 games were in a shoe box and Defender somehow fell out.

SNES Console Only and Broken
Donkey Kong Country
F-Zero
Maximum Carnage
Star Fox
Super Mario World

Free

This isn't really a yardsale find but I'm putting it here anyways since I don't think it's worth the trouble of starting a new thread. Friend let me have this stuff a few days ago. He couldn't get the SNES to work so I told him to bring it down to my house and I'd have a look at it so he brought down just the system since he knew I had all of the cords and he also brought down all of the games he had with it. I tried it out and it did the same thing for me (just a black screen when you turn it on) so he said I could have it since it's broken and he has no use for the games.

Non Find BS

First sale I went to today (Saturday) advertised a SNES & GameBoy games. I got to the sale only 2-3 minutes before it started as it said no early sales. SNES looked like it had all of the cords and included a Super GameBoy & a SNES Advantage and was marked $50[!]. Beside it was a box with about 20-25 regular GameBoy games each marked $5 but little to nothing that I needed. I would have grabbed a few if they were cheaper since they all had cases and a good chunk of them had manuals. I picked up Star Wars & Empire Strikes Back which were the only decent games I didn't own. I went up and offered $5 for both which was countered with a simple no so I put them back. This easily sets a record for me on the highest IAP on individual GameBoy games & on a SNES at a yardsale.

[Superfan]

Got a gamecube with all cords and controller for $5. It was really beat up and missing everything. Literally. No circle at the top with icon and no covers for either of the bottom slots but it works perfectly. Will have pics up soon.

[Sinnbox]

Today was totaly crap as most weeks have been lately, This time last year i could fill up the back seat of my car with games each week for $50. Now there is some lady who buys games for her 2 sons to sell at the fleamarket on fridays, and some guy has been going around CIFing $100 bills and taking whole collections of games!!

90% of the sales I went to today gave me the we sold those yesterday bit, i will check at the fleamarket tomorrow and see what i missed.

All i got today were:

Animal Crossing Wild World - $4
Harvest moon: Save the Homeland - $6
Goldeneye and Bomberman Hero - $5
Presario(P I) 2 gig HDD, 48 MB RAM - $3
Bluetooth Keyboard and mouse - $10

Flea Market Finds:
PS2 Controller - $1
all $4 apiece

Super C(NES)
DKC2(SNES)
DKC3(SNES)
Super Mario Kart(SNES)
All*Stars+World(SNES)
TLOZ: A Link to The Past(SNES)
Oblivion(360)

[dodgeme]

Lol im in competition with my local game store guy. But he skipped my town as he is kinda overstocked. Thats how i was finnaly able to get my stuff.

[Sinnbox]

Lol im in competition with my local game store guy. But he skipped my town as he is kinda overstocked. Thats how i was finnaly able to get my stuff.

Nice, I am in competition with the local guy here also but lately he is too hungover to get out before 10 or 11, so i'm lucky.

[erehwon]

I didn't much on Friday. I got out late due to some work I had to do. I only managed this.
http://img178.imageshack.us/img178/236/1007831reducedmc4.th.jpg (http://img178.imageshack.us/my.php?image=1007831reducedmc4.jpg)
$0.50

There really hasn't been much here lately. I didn't go till around noon today. I made a few good finds.

http://img361.imageshack.us/img361/2774/1007836reducedvv6.th.jpg (http://img361.imageshack.us/my.php?image=1007836reducedvv6.jpg)
Golden Sun - $5 complete
Castlevania: Circle of the Moon - $4 missing instructions

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$2 for all these guides, magazines, and a book

The GBA games and the guides were all at one sale. I couldn't pass on the GBA games since I've hardly gotten any good game finds lately. That and you don't seem them boxed like that very often. Now I have to decide if I want to keep them or ebay them.

I'm rather happy to add a couple more RPG guides to my collection. The guides I found were in this huge pile of magazines. The pile was mostly NP, EGM, some gamepro, and tips and tricks. I grabbed those two NP magazines since I figured some collector might have an interest in them.

[punkmaggit]

Yay SaGa Frontier II!!! Great find my friend!

[dodgeme]

Lol one thing i hate about this year is the amount of Gamecube's. While not a bad thing. These are all the leftovers from people getting Wii's and keeping Games and controllers. Ive passed up 2 this year. A Jet Black with no controller but did have GBA Player and a Silver that was beat up for a few bucks. Neither came with controllers i was thinking WTF. BTW ill have pictures of my Saturn/Genesis Monday. I gotta show pictures.

[Dokstarr]

I grabbed those two NP magazines since I figured some collector might have an interest in them.

That one with Mario on the cover is probably my favorite Nin Power. The best 100 games of all time was a real good read 10 yrs ago. I'll have to dig mine out again and look at it.

[SaraAB]

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I got these 5 N64 games for 7$, the girl was asking 2$ each but at least I got her down a little, I tried to CIF 10$ for the whole lot of them which would have been amazing but she didn't bite. Needless this is a very good find of top titles.

The DS game was 1$!!
The GBA games were 1$ each they are going to ebay with other games or to my cousins. These were bought at a different house than the N64 finds, however at this house it was funny because she had high prices on junky toys (10$) that were clearly labeled from the sharper image (they went bankrupt) however when I asked about the games they were cheap!

I saw a pretty weird site at a church festival, it was a Sega CD and Genesis in a blockbuster rental case, it looked complete but who knows, they were asking 15$ so I didn't buy. It was also sitting in the direct sun for a few days. I find that things I get that are donated do not work because no one would donate a working system, at least in my area, so therefore I don't usually trust systems that are bought at church sales or the Salvation army.

I haven't seen any gamecubes yet. Last year I hit on a lot of gamecube games but haven't seen any since them. I have to watch the prices because gamestop sells a lot of cube games pretty cheap so I have to be careful that I don't overpay. However a stash of first party games would be nice to find!

[Sinnbox]

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By saraab87 (http://profile.imageshack.us/user/saraab87)


I got these 5 N64 games for 7$, the girl was asking 2$ each but at least I got her down a little, I tried to CIF 10$ for the whole lot of them which would have been amazing but she didn't bite. Needless this is a very good find of top titles.

The DS game was 1$!!
The GBA games were 1$ each they are going to ebay with other games or to my cousins. These were bought at a different house than the N64 finds, however at this house it was funny because she had high prices on junky toys (10$) that were clearly labeled from the sharper image (they went bankrupt) however when I asked about the games they were cheap!

I saw a pretty weird site at a church festival, it was a Sega CD and Genesis in a blockbuster rental case, it looked complete but who knows, they were asking 15$ so I didn't buy. It was also sitting in the direct sun for a few days. I find that things I get that are donated do not work because no one would donate a working system, at least in my area, so therefore I don't usually trust systems that are bought at church sales or the Salvation army.

I haven't seen any gamecubes yet. Last year I hit on a lot of gamecube games but haven't seen any since them. I have to watch the prices because gamestop sells a lot of cube games pretty cheap so I have to be careful that I don't overpay. However a stash of first party games would be nice to find!

That's whats nice about Gamecube, there are a ton of First party stuff out there.

[Sinnbox]

I had a strange run in today at a gas station beside the Salvation army, I saw a local guy that is always at garages sales and he motioned me over to his truck and told me that he knows i buy games at Garage sales and told me that he always buys game lots but onlyplays sports games(WEIRD!!) he had a bunch of games that he was getting ready to donate to the SA so he gave them to me, I also gave him my number so he can call me to git rid of his other non sports games!! how sweet is that?


He also told me about a sale i passed over yesterday that was sellign $4 360 games!!!

[antman157]

^^^^ pics of the games please

[juangrande386]

No yardsales again (had yardwork yesterday/ hungover today) but I did get a snes Super Scope gun in the original box with styrofoam, new batteries, sensor, and booklets for $4 at Goodwill. Didnt have the game though so i ordered it off Google for $6. Also got a Dlink Dl-514 wireless router from Goodwill for $4. Pretty well spent $14 I would say.

[Sinnbox]

^^^^ pics of the games please

Sorry, they were all commons, I usualy only borrow my parents camera(Mine was stolen) if i come across something rare.

[dys006]

One of the earlier sales I went to on Saturday, I saw a cloth bag on the ground, with a NES controller peeking out, so I'm looking in the bag, it's random video game stuff, couple cart games, cords. I ask the lady if there's more video game stuff, she says she has no idea about the stuff, it's from her niece or something. I offer her a buck for it, she's happy and I take it off her hands.


NES power adapter
RCA video cable
NES RF switch
Genesis RF cable
power adapter from a 2WIRE device (likely AT&T DSL)
NES controller
Genesis controller
N64 - Hercules (horrible, filthy condition)
N64 - NBA Live 99 (horrible, filthy condition)
Tesserae for Gameboy
a bunch of dirt

I picked up NCAA 06 for PS2 at another sale for 50 cents, good trade 5 filler at GS.

And I found the unreasonable expectations sale too:

The next sale, within walking distance, I didn't buy anything. There's a big sale, with one lady at a table taking payments and whatnot. At one end, there is an old woman guarding a bookcase full of PS2 games and crap PC games. On the table next to it is one of those metal travel game cases, with a GBA SP in it, along with a light for it and some other accessories, and about 20 games. I ask about it, $200 firm, I ask if selling games separately, No. Then she starts talking about how expensive the games were to buy as I'm walking away. As we browsed the rest of the sale, it was weird, she seemed borderline hostile to almost everyone asking about or looking at the games.

[SaraAB]

Wow, thats worse than the one I went to where the lady shouted in my face that the GBA SP she was selling was worth 50$ on ebay.

Does anyone else find that the huge yard sales that have a ton of stuff left are the ones that are the most overpriced? I seem to do better at the small fly by style sales where they only have a couple tables in front.

[FOnewearl]

Does anyone else find that the huge yard sales that have a ton of stuff left are the ones that are the most overpriced? I seem to do better at the small fly by style sales where they only have a couple tables in front.

Yep sounds exactly like the kind of people that don't realize that yardsales are about taking a day or two to get rid of unwanted stuff that isn't being used and think that they are going into business like a store right in the front yard!

Funny story dys006 about the lady guarding the video games, they could use her at a store like K-Mart to prevent people from stealing the disc out of bargin bin games :)

[smaaug]

Not too many sales and almost none with video games but I did have one really good sale, nothing particularly rare but good volume

NES with 2 controllers and hookups
N64 with 2 controllers and hookups
2 Gamecube Controllers

N64 Game
NBA Courtside 2


NES Games
TMNT
Cleaning Cart
Snoopy's Silly Sports
Loopz
Ghosts n Goblins
Zelda Gold
Clu Clu Land
Ice Climber
Jaws
Baloon Fight
Pac-Man
Pro Wrestling
Tecmo Baseball
Metroid
T&C Surf Designs
Gumshoe
Wizards & Warriors
Pinbot
RBI Baseball
Wheel of Fortune
Jeopardy
Krusty's Funhouse
Heavy Shreddin'
Mario/Duck Hunt

SNES Games
Mortal Kombat
Super Godzilla
Gunforce
Earthworm Jim
Super ROTJ
Super ESB
The Tick
Samurai Shodown
Power Rangers
C2: Judgement Clay
Mario All Stars
Family Feud
Timon and Pumbaa
Spiderman
King of the Monsters 2
Super High Impact
Super Off Road
Super Mario World

GC Games - All scratched to hell
Mario Kart
Kirby
Mario Golf
Mario Party 7 Case and Insert Only

All for 16$ not too shabby

[Sinnbox]

Yep sounds exactly like the kind of people that don't realize that yardsales are about taking a day or two to get rid of unwanted stuff that isn't being used and think that they are going into business like a store right in the front yard!

Funny story dys006 about the lady guarding the video games, they could use her at a store like K-Mart to prevent people from stealing the disc out of bargin bin games :)

They could be like the people around here that buy on thurday and friday and resell on saturdays. I don't know why poeple do that!!

[SaraAB]

There are a few houses that have "permanent" yard sales here (and no they don't throw stuff on their lawn, they have it in the garage). These are always the most overpriced but after a while you get to recognize the houses and addresses so you can avoid them. A lot of the merchandise I find at these permanent yard sales is stuff that target or another retail store discarded or was on clearance very cheap at some point, either that or its stolen. I don't go to yard sales to buy merchandise that was discarded by a retail store, there is a reason the stuff didn't sell in the first place!!!

I even found one yard sale where I know all the merchandise they were selling was stolen. I don't know about anyone else but if I had a ton of stolen merchandise I wouldn't be sitting out on the lawn trying to hock it, all it takes is one person to blow you in.

I am really savvy and I have spotted the exact same merchandise at several different houses even, there might be a few people in my area that are running a yard sale business or something, lol. I see a few of the same people selling at different houses yet its the same merchandise. The thought of that is pretty funny. I think it would cost more in gas and transportation to do that than even if you sold one or 2 of your overpriced items. I am not sure who would go into business buying stuff at yard sales and then trying to sell it at your own sale. People go to yard sales to buy low priced items, they don't go expecting to find a retail store on your front lawn. As another person mentioned, the point of a yard sale is to get rid of the junk you have in your house. I also don't know how these people afford the $25-30 per week the paper charges to place an ad for a yard sale and all of the ads we find for these are in the paper.

Then there are the people that have the same merchandise year after year at the same prices. I don't even know where they store the stuff and I don't want to know. I can't imagine leaving your whole garage filled with yard sale stuff so you could open it up to the general public for a couple days year after year, methinks that space could be used for something better! These people usually have tons of stuff that never sells, and its the same stuff every year. They act as if it magically gets more valuable as the years pass.

[dodgeme]

Heres pictures of my saturday find. I spent 30 bucks in total.http://i36.tinypic.com/ivy5bq.jpghttp://i37.tinypic.com/314pgsw.jpg

[FOnewearl]

Then there are the people that have the same merchandise year after year at the same prices.

I see a fair amount of this in my town and have gotten to know which houses have a yardsale once or twice a year now. This last week was pretty weak for me as I went to about a dozen sales and about 6-8 of them were sales I've been to before. I will stop at a repeat sale just incase anything new of interest is out but will usually pass on taking the time to ask about video games at a sale that I've been to before.

[Sinnbox]

Heres pictures of my saturday find. I spent 30 bucks in total.

Did you get those in the decatur, IN area? That looks exactly like the set i traded into the book nook 4 years ago!!

[allyourblood]

finally got around to grabbing some pics of this past weekend's stuff:

(like always, click to make big)

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NES Fester's Quest (missing sleeve and manual), $2
60 Crazy Bones, all for 50c

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Xgaming X-Arcade Two Player w/PC and PS1/PS2 adapters, $10


if it isn't obvious, this was a tremendously uneventful weekend, yard sale-wise. not much to say about the NES game and Crazy Bones. the X-Arcade was lying amongst a bunch of clothes. i asked the family selling how much they wanted and one of them said they were selling it for a friend and he wanted $10. i tried to get them to go lower, but they wouldn't budge, reminding me that it didn't belong to them. i bought it anyway, of course, asked if they had any games (they didn't), and then split. i have it hooked up to my PC right now -- it works great!

here's hoping for bigger and better finds next weekend...

[Sinnbox]

if it isn't obvious, this was a tremendously uneventful weekend, yard sale-wise. not much to say about the NES game and Crazy Bones. the X-Arcade was lying amongst a bunch of clothes. i asked the family selling how much they wanted and one of them said they were selling it for a friend and he wanted $10. i tried to get them to go lower, but they wouldn't budge, reminding me that it didn't belong to them. i bought it anyway, of course, asked if they had any games (they didn't), and then split. i have it hooked up to my PC right now -- it works great!

here's hoping for bigger and better finds next weekend...

It may have been uneventful, but that X-Arcade is a one in a lifetime GS find!!

[allyourblood]

It may have been uneventful, but that X-Arcade is a one in a lifetime GS find!!

oh, i'm definitely not snubbing that deal. the X-Arcade is one of those items that i'd always look at with longing and say, "you know, someday i'll just go nuts and blow a wad of cash on one of those...". then i'd come to my senses and find something else to obsess over. now that the thing has landed in my lap, i can honestly say that the quality, response and construction are easily worth the retail price, if you plan to use it often. they aren't lying when people say it's "just like the real thing". it's also easily the most heavy-duty gaming accessory i've ever owned.

for the record, i have mostly ire in my heart for joystick accessories, since 93% of them suck, horribly. this one definitely resides at/near the top of the other 7%. if you like a traditional US arcade feel, you would love this thing.

[DaftPunkFan37]

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60 Crazy Bones, all for 50c

Lucky! I have such a huge collection of that stuff (I was a slave to Corporations as a Child)

[somahead33]

Not really a yard sale find, but I am looking for assistance from the "yard sale minded." A friend of mine at work is cleaning out his house and wanted to unload some videogame stuff and knew I would take it off his hands. He said not to woory about money but I figured i would give him a reasonable price for the following items:

SNES Control Deck (redesign, in box, looks to be played about one time)
Superpad Controller (InterAct)
SuperPad Controller (original packaging, InterAct, licensed by Nintendo)

SNES Games
Brunswick World Tournament of Champions
F-Zero
Jeopardy
Killer Instinct
Madden NFL 95
Pilotwings
Super Mario World
Super Off Road: The Baja
Super Pinball: Behind the mask
Super Punch Out
Top Gear
Wheel of Fortune Deluxe Edition

NES Games
Karate Champ
Super Mario Bros./Duck hunt
Super Mario Bros.
Golf

What would you all pay for this at a yard sale? Of course we would all pay a dollar, but I am looking for a reasonable amount to offer the guy. All the SNES games are in great condition but no boxes. The SNES system and box could be passed of as brand new, it seriously looks that good.

[theGrue]

Not really a yard sale find, but I am looking for assistance from the "yard sale minded." A friend of mine at work is cleaning out his house and wanted to unload some videogame stuff and knew I would take it off his hands. He said not to woory about money but I figured i would give him a reasonable price for the following items:
Nothing too valuable for games, but with the SNES redesign, I'd probably go $40 or $50. But then again, I missed one on craigslist by about an hour this weekend for $20, so I'm looking for one a little more than I was before.

Anyone got a comparison pic of the original SNES next to the redesign? I've looked and looked but couldn't find one. Just how much smaller is it?

[willc23]

Yard sale offer would be not much more than $10. Can't really compute a real offer. I'm sure in reality the SNES is worth a little, and the redesign probably a little more. My used game store sells the originals for $50 and I have sold them for $30.

My suggestion, take him out to a good lunch or dinner instead. Especially if he really means not to worry about the money.

[allyourblood]

Yard sale offer would be not much more than $10. Can't really compute a real offer. I'm sure in reality the SNES is worth a little, and the redesign probably a little more. My used game store sells the originals for $50 and I have sold them for $30.

My suggestion, take him out to a good lunch or dinner instead. Especially if he really means not to worry about the money.

this entire post takes the words right out of my mouth. i agree completely. used, i wouldn't value the stuff anymore than $10. buy him lunch, tip your hat to him, and call it even.

[allyourblood]

Lucky! I have such a huge collection of that stuff (I was a slave to Corporations as a Child)

thanks! these are the first "Bones" i've owned, but i'm a freak for small collectible toys (especially from the 80s), since they don't take up much space and there's usually a lot of unique characters.

i plan to pick up more Bones as i find them. fun little guys. oh! and i just found out (by coincidence) that 3 of them glow in the dark!!!

[SaraAB]

Getting the collectible toys at yard sales is the best way to get them! Even if you have to get them after they are popular at least you got to experience what they were all about without spending the cash. Most people and parents here have so many toys on their lawn that they are practically giving them away and are very glad when someone comes by wanting to buy toys.

[somahead33]

Thanks for the input everybody. I really appreciate the help.

[Trikip]

NES Fester's Quest (missing sleeve and manual), $2

Wait a minute... every NES game came with a sleeve? I thought it was an accessory.

[karkyco]

Wait a minute... every NES game came with a sleeve? I thought it was an accessory.
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LOL, I think some or all of the games at the end stages of the NES's life stopped coming sleeves (and also, the blank sleeves came with third party games adn the Nintendo marked sleeves came with first and maybe second party games). Cost cutting measure.

Same as how Sega Genesis games stopped coming in plastic boxes and switched to cardboard, SNES games stopped coming with the dust sleeve eventually, and Playstation games stopped coming in the long/tall boxes fairly quickly.

[Sinnbox]

Getting the collectible toys at yard sales is the best way to get them! Even if you have to get them after they are popular at least you got to experience what they were all about without spending the cash. Most people and parents here have so many toys on their lawn that they are practically giving them away and are very glad when someone comes by wanting to buy toys.

I found a huge(like 1.5 SQ ft!) tote of old G.I. Joes and ninja turtles, as I was getting the $5 to pay the lady she said, oh wait, im gonna just put this on Ebay. It's probably still sitting in her garage!!

[SaraAB]

I am referring to modern toys here, people around here just don't think they have any value when their kid has already played with them. Plus the kid often has so many toys, they just don't know what to do with it and they just want it GONE! There are certain things you can find that are worth money on ebay that will only cost you a few cents or dollars at yard sales.

[darkslime]

I am referring to modern toys here, people around here just don't think they have any value when their kid has already played with them. Plus the kid often has so many toys, they just don't know what to do with it and they just want it GONE! There are certain things you can find that are worth money on ebay that will only cost you a few cents or dollars at yard sales. What old fad toys are actually worth money? I don't think crazy bones are...

[allyourblood]

What old fad toys are actually worth money? I don't think crazy bones are...

CBs aren't super-valuable, but look 'em up on Ebay -- they ain't exactly free, either.

and as for valuable old fad toys, pretty much anything from the 80s. He-Man, Transformers, Micro Machines, etc... depending on what you've got, a lot of that stuff is worth big bucks.

[karkyco]

CBs aren't super-valuable, but look 'em up on Ebay -- they ain't exactly free, either.

and as for valuable old fad toys, pretty much anything from the 80s. He-Man, Transformers, Micro Machines, etc... depending on what you've got, a lot of that stuff is worth big bucks.

Yeah there are collectors for everything, especially from the "pre collecting" days before EVERYONE started collecting and keeping sealed, mass produced toys (think the 90's and the return of the Star Wars figures).

Stuff from the 80's and earlier - toy collecting actually exploded with the baby boomers, who started paying huge money for their old toys, board games, lunch boxes of the late 40's, 50's, and 60's on - all in an attempt to recapture the nostalgia of their childhood, relive their unit and find their inner child. Much of those toys came from overseas emerging/postwar economies in southeast Asia (though much was still being manufactured and quite well in the good ol' USA), and used to be considered junk.

LOL - I mean it started with the Japanese after the war, and early on their stuff was mass produced cheap knick knacks and considered pure garbage, and they progressively improved the quality and now they are considered to have the best quality products in the world, then the cycle went to Taiwan, South Korea, China and on it goes...

Anything that is tin, aluminum, thin steel sheet, alloy or made of metal/iron/die cast and old is generally very collectible. Old board games. Old pre-plastic lunch boxes with characters/shows/toys of the 80's and earlier. The toys themselves, especially the better the condition and if it has all accessories, original packaging, no discoloring/fading/broken pieces etc.

BTW I don't know about Crazy Bones, but Battle Beasts >>> Crazy Bones and those little mini pink Japanese wrestlers from the 80's. Battle Beasts were the BOMB. I regret selling my set of 40 or 50 or so complete ones for a couple hundred on eBay (same with some of my vintage, old school die cast giant robots). But I needed to thin the toy collection. I still have a ton of original Micro Machines - are those actually worth something?

[darkslime]

0_o I didn't realize all of those toys were worth alot. Thanks. ^_^

Also, I found a place that'll buy disney VHS tapes for $2.50 in store credit that I can use to buy video games, and constantly see those for cheap at Garage sales. Anyone know if any of them are worth more than that?

[Samus]

Old fisher price toys can go from $20 to $50 depending on how complete they are. Little People are the main ones.

[antman157]

Depends .. Song of the South is VERY rare (especially if you have it in box) ..


0_o I didn't realize all of those toys were worth alot. Thanks. ^_^

Also, I found a place that'll buy disney VHS tapes for $2.50 in store credit that I can use to buy video games, and constantly see those for cheap at Garage sales. Anyone know if any of them are worth more than that?

[Trikip]

Song of the South is rare? Seriously? My old music teacher in elementary school had it.

[antman157]

Yea, to find an original copy is pretty hard to find .. In box .. Anyone can copy the VHS tape.. But to have an original is hard to find.. Im a SUPER HUGE Disney fan and the price for the original VHS in box is around $50 bucks

Song of the South is rare? Seriously? My old music teacher in elementary school had it.

[SaraAB]

I second the fisher price toys, I sold all of mine from the 80s a couple years ago on ebay and considering they have been through like 3 generations of children including my parents, me and my young cousins they looked VERY good. We got a ton of use out of those toys and then we got money back for them in the end on ebay! However only certain things are worth money, and in good condition, the typical worn out stuff you find at yard sales will only net you .99 and shipping costs on ebay.

I also did well selling a tuff stuff shopping cart (orange and yellow), I got almost 50$ for it, shipping it was a pain but the item was worth a decent amount so I put up with it. I am sure my mom only paid 10$ for it when I was a kid.

Some of the VHS tapes are rare, I also agree with you there. I collect old VHS tapes because face it you can get them for 25 cents at most sales around here, and there is always something I want. I collect old nickelodeon tapes when I can find them, some of them go for a lot of money depending on what you get. The problem with this is its hard to value something you found, like I found a VHS of The Litt'l Bits (Volume 3) at the SA for 1$ its nearly new and includes the coloring book however I can't seem to get a value on it from anywhere and Amazon doesn't have it listed in the product catalog. Also, I have a feeling that people are completely overvaluing stuff on Amazon when it comes to VHS.

Another thing you can pick up for cheap at yard sales is children's bedding, it sells well on ebay, just make sure it has some outdated character on it that is not being sold in retail stores anymore.

[DaftPunkFan37]

Song of the South is rare? Seriously? My old music teacher in elementary school had it.
Ya, Disney basically ignores the fact it exists because of how a black man is portayed in the movie

[allyourblood]

my parents have that on VHS. they were collecting them from yard sales some years ago when the tapes were valuable. once DVD hit, that sorta bust, but they still have a bunch of those silly cassettes kicking around.

i think i was too old when i finally caught Song of the South. snooze-fest.

[karkyco]

my parents have that on VHS. they were collecting them from yard sales some years ago when the tapes were valuable. once DVD hit, that sorta bust, but they still have a bunch of those silly cassettes kicking around.

i think i was too old when i finally caught Song of the South. snooze-fest.

It's just good ol' "all in good fun" racism, a total trip. I didn't think Disney actually released it on DVD, or at least HEAVILY edited it. I thought the only DVD copies were bootlegs.

It's definitely a movie everyone should check out, and understand that it was a different time and place when it came out. Same with Birth of a Nation.

[allyourblood]

It's just good ol' "all in good fun" racism, a total trip. I didn't think Disney actually released it on DVD, or at least HEAVILY edited it. I thought the only DVD copies were bootlegs.

It's definitely a movie everyone should check out, and understand that it was a different time and place when it came out. Same with Birth of a Nation.

oh, i didn't mean to imply that SotS was released on DVD. i just meant that when Disney films in general made the move to DVD, the VHS values plummeted and folks were no longer very intent on collecting them.

[FOnewearl]

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ICO Complete - $5

Only went to 5 sales in town today got ICO at the first sale I went to which I got to at 8 or just before, I went to this sale first as it advertised PS2 & Xbox games in the ad. When I got to the sale 3 people were already looking though the games 2 of which I've seen around before including the guy that just beat me to an N64 bundle a few weeks ago. They had a ton of PS2/Xbox games probably about 100 with about 2/3 being PS2 & 1/3 being Xbox, easily the biggest lot of PS2/Xbox games I've ever seen at one yardsale around here. Looking over the games I saw some good ones but nothing really worth anything or that I didn't have and the only one I picked out was ICO. It's a safe bet that I didn't miss any gems (something like Marvel vs Capcom 2 for example) I saw one guy had about 4 games to which I saw he had Brothers In Arms or a similar game on top and the guy that beat me to the N64 bundle recently was on his phone asking somebody what games they were interseted in, he had 4 games he picked out all Xbox racing stuff like Project Gotham Racing. I went up and paid without trying to haggle as I was more concerned with getting to the next sale before the competition then trying to shave off a few bucks on a PS2 game that was still a good deal at $5 even at a yardsale.

Game Gear System
X-Men (Game Gear) - not pictured as it's in the system
NES Advantage
NES Zapper
SNES 1st Party Controller
N64 Transfer Pack
Xbox 360 Wire Controller
Super Mario Kart DS (Which was in the case for Bust-A-Move DS)
Grand Theft Auto Double Pack (Missing the disc for Vice City)

$2

Found this at the second sale I went to. All of it was in a box on the ground that was labeled "Nintendo accessories $2" The Grand Theft Auto probably should have been in a box right by this one that had a few other Xbox games in it. They let me have the Grand Theft Auto with the box lot since it was missing a disc. I didn't even take notice to the 360 controller until I was leaving the sale and the DS game was under the advantage which I didn't even notice till I got home. Odd lot with old stuff and new stuff added in that was out of place and still holds some decent value but these people knew little to nothing about games as when I asked about video games the lady said she thinks they threw out some games as they didn't know what they were and she though they were GameBoy games thinking back about it when I asked about video games.

[allyourblood]

hey, good scores there, FOnewearl. i've been waiting patiently to trip across Ico at a yard sale myself. i'm sure it's gonna happen... just a matter of time.

[omg itz adam]

Well its was a long day garage saleing woke up at 7:30 got to some sales at eight first three were duds until we found one with 5NES maybe more and a complete NES two controllers and i CIFed her with two dollars then the next sale we went I got another four or so NES games for 4 bucks with an NES no chords (had some at home)

Then drove 15 miles to this pawn shops to find my surprise chrono trigger SNES 3 bucks.......

Then one more sale I stopped at on my way back I picked up Mario Kart 64 for 3 bucks

Pic.......

http://img186.imageshack.us/img186/2492/garagesaleav7.jpg

Games picked up

Super Mario Two
Mario Duck Hunt x2
Mario Kart 64
Chrono Trigger
Ninja Turtles 1 x2 ,2,3
Kirbys Adventure
Zelda
Gumshoe
Rush'n Attack
Heli whatever gave that to friend
Spy Hunter
Kung Fu
Baseball
Ninja Gaiden
Dr Mario

Total Spent 11$$

[karkyco]

oh, i didn't mean to imply that SotS was released on DVD. i just meant that when Disney films in general made the move to DVD, the VHS values plummeted and folks were no longer very intent on collecting them.

Ah! Yes, very true. I wouldn't mind getting an uncut/uncensored copy on DVD (from Disney, not a bootleg), because it is very interesting to step back and see these works, to get an idea of the times.

So much has become politically incorrect, a lot of it rightfully, some not so much. But these sorts of things are always interesting from a historical and sociological perspective.

[Sinnbox]

Well its was a long day garage saleing woke up at 7:30 got to some sales at eight first three were duds until we found one with 5NES maybe more and a complete NES two controllers and i CIFed her with two dollars then the next sale we went I got another four or so NES games for 4 bucks with an NES no chords (had some at home)

Then drove 15 miles to this pawn shops to find my surprise chrono trigger SNES 3 bucks.......

Then one more sale I stopped at on my way back I picked up Mario Kart 64 for 3 bucks

Pic.......

http://img186.imageshack.us/img186/2492/garagesaleav7.jpg

Games picked up

Super Mario Two
Mario Duck Hunt x2
Mario Kart 64
Chrono Trigger
Ninja Turtles 1 x2 ,2,3
Kirbys Adventure
Zelda
Gumshoe
Rush'n Attack
Heli whatever gave that to friend
Spy Hunter
Kung Fu
Baseball
Ninja Gaiden
Dr Mario

Total Spent 11$$

So far the best find of the week award gos to you!! GRATZ!!

[SlammedNiss]

Went to an sale that advertised PS1 games, and they were already gone. However, I did manage to pick up a sealed copy of Windows 2000 Professional for a whopping $3.

This sucker is going to ebay.

http://www.members.cox.net/msheppard8/ebay/windows_02_small.jpg

UPDATE:

Went out again this morning, albeit raining like crazy. Spent another $1.35 on a purple Gamebody Advance w/ 2 games, an electronic dartboard, and another Windows 2000 disk. This one is OEM and says it's a preinstallation kit. Anybody know if this is a full version or not?

I passed on several $5/ps2 games and a $7 SNES console that was missing a controller. I was short on cash and wanted to save my $$ in case I found something I really wanted.

[willc23]

Picked up a SNES w/ one controller, and video cables, no power cord, and 16 of the junkiest decent Nintendo games. Pretty bad shape, stickers ripped and contact points on games are FILTHY. Who knows if they will work or not. Figured I will at least break even off of the SNES. Took a flier.

Zelda Ocarina of Time & Master Quest (GC)-Case is in horrible shape, but disc is decent
Donkey Kong Country (SNES)-Chip pressed up into cart
Donkey Kong Country 2 (SNES)-Something broken in case
Donkey Kong Country 3 (SNES)-Torn Label
Yoshi's Safari (SNES)-Torn Label
Zelda A Link to the Past (SNES)-Torn Label
Mario is Missing (SNES)-Decent
Super Metroid (SNES)-Dinged up Label
Super Metroid (SNES)-Best of the Bunch
Super Smash Bros (N64)-Mangled Label
Mario Party 3 (N64)-Ink Pen on Front, Torn Back
Paper Mario (N64)-Dirty Label
Pokemon Puzzle League (N64)-Faded Label
Didy Kong Racing-Torn and Faded Label
Zelda Ocarina of Time (N64)-Faded
Zelda Majora's Mask (N64)-Decent
$30

I am going to have to thoroughly clean the contacts, they all look pretty corroded. Waiting to get my screwdriver tool so I can break into them to do some hard core scrubbing.

Good luck to all this weekend!

[Samus]

That's a sick bundle of games though. Too bad they're so banged up. But a bit of cleaning should hopefully spruce it up to a more sellable condition.

[Derock]

A week or two ago I got a snes and genesis console with a couple games like super mario and sonic (the regular, not the "not for resale") for $7. I got a snes game genie and cartridge cleaner which was kind of cool. I was there at the start which was 6:30 and a young guy was already there picking up a bunch of snes games. I ended up getting all the manuals and if he got what there were manuals for, it looked like he picked up the first two Donkey Kong games. He also had an N64 which I tried to get in the deal. Even after explaining how cheap N64s go at garage sales, he said he could ebay it for a lot more so I didn't even bother. I already have one and just wanted to resell. I tested all the stuff and it works fine.

At another sale that day, I asked if they had any video games and a guy got some of his old xbox games. I just picked out what I actually wanted which was halo2, star wars republic commander (like new, barely played), and mortal kombat deadly alliance. None have too great of resale value except maybe star wars, but I got them all for $5 which he quickly accepted. I have halo 3 but I will play the halo 2 campaign before getting into the halo 3 campaign to go through the whole story. (I beat the first one). Too bad MK DA doesn't work on my 360 which is all I have. ($140 with games, hookups, and 2 controllers on craigslist for the xbox 360)

As far as recently, it seems the yard sales are dwindling down here. I guess it's quality over quantity though. I went to about five sales today and only one had anything worthwhile. Luckily for me, it was a PS2 system and some PS1 and PS2 games. I only had twenties on me but I found Final Fantasy VII Greatest Hits version, Parasite Eve (didn't know if it was worth anything, but I figured it was better than the other stuff), and I got the system with a memory card and controller plus all hook ups (only missing a back plate) for $20 CIF. I know they've gone cheaper at yard sales, but I could only CIF what I had and the guy was younger which worried me. He happily accepted and I double checked to make sure the system worked and had everything. I kinda wished I would have offered 15 or something because he probably would have taken it, but I'm happy. I don't have a PS2 and 20 for the working system is hard to beat elsewhere not to mention a great game.

I just tested all of it and it all works. Both games are complete with cases and manuals. They are a little scratched but seem to work ok.

http://i532.photobucket.com/albums/ee322/ddoepker/gamelot2weeks.jpg

[omg itz adam]

Thats a pretty good deal man you can flip FF7and get your money back and then some

[IAmTheCheapestGamer]

I second the fisher price toys, I sold all of mine from the 80s a couple years ago on ebay and considering they have been through like 3 generations of children including my parents, me and my young cousins they looked VERY good. We got a ton of use out of those toys and then we got money back for them in the end on ebay! However only certain things are worth money, and in good condition, the typical worn out stuff you find at yard sales will only net you .99 and shipping costs on ebay.

Another thing you can pick up for cheap at yard sales is children's bedding, it sells well on ebay, just make sure it has some outdated character on it that is not being sold in retail stores anymore.

I think I still have a Fisher Price parking garage or something around here from when I was a kid. I used to coast my Matchbox cars down the ramp(and also see how many I'd have to cram into it to lock up the working elevator for the cars). That is, unless my family gave it(like they gave my tabletop Pac-Man and Mario's Cement Factory mini arcade machines)away to the assclown who shoddily built our house for his lil brats.

I think I also have my old Transformers sheets lying around here someplace too. They're REALLY old school(Generation 1).

[theGrue]

http://img389.imageshack.us/img389/2296/dsc04745zy8.jpg

Cruisn' World
Duke Nukem 64
Total: $5

Body Harvest
Wipeout 64
Kameo: Elements of Power
Total: $10

Excitebike
Sonic Spinball
Vectorman
Total: $2

Slept through my alarm today and was a little worried I'd miss everything, but I didn't. Because it was all overpriced. N64 and games for $50, fat PS2 with a Madden game for $100, SNES and N64 games at $10 per cart... Oy. Grabbed the first two N64 games from a guy who had a ton of things, but wanted some pretty high prices. $25 for a Master System, $75 for a SNES and games, et cetera. Talked him down from $20 total on Cruisn' and Duke. Not great games, but they were the only ones I didn't have already.

Second two N64 games and Kameo came from the sale with the $100 PS2, I managed to talk her down from $10 for each N64 game after a while, and Kameo was bought as marked. The disc is pretty dirty, but doesn't look scratched at all. Just lots of fingerprints.

The last 3 games came from the only sale with decent prices, $1 per game. Which is a little high, but most of it was Genesis stuff complete in box, just nothing too interesting.

[darkslime]

Genesis + cords + 2 controllers (one first party, one 3rd party. 1st party one is broken) +Virtua Racing cart only + NES cords

IAP $5, CIF $2, and she said 3, which I agreed to. Already dumped everything to a used game store and bought a disc only FFVII to ebay for $10 extra.

My Neighbor Totoro VHS in big white box
IAP $2, CIF $1 and it was accepted.

Totoro is a good movie, even though I already have the DVD from pepsistuff abuse, and I'm curious if its worth anything.

[FOnewearl]

Primus - Tales From The Punch Bowl - $1 (IAP)

Kingdom Hearts (GH) (Complete)
Jak II (Complete)
Rayman 2 Revolution (Complete) (PS2)
Ninja Gaiden (Missing The Manual) (Xbox)

$15

I went back to the sale I got ICO at yesterday. I figured I'd stop by at noon today to see what they still had since I knew they were going to have a ton of stuff left and though they might even mark it down if they were serious about getting rid of all/most of it. They still were asking $5 each and I could tell that they weren't going to budge much from that price per a game if at all. I asked what's the best they would do to which the guy asked how many I was interested in, $20 for 5 I ended up grabbing four and offering $15. Not as cheap as PS2 games are sometimes at a yardsale but I figured I'd go back and grab a few since I'll probably never see this many PS2 games at a yardsale again, I was hoping they'd do $3 a game if not better and would have grabbed Dynasty Warrirors 3 also.

It looked as if they only sold about 20% (maybe up to 25%) of the games that they had when they started yesterday. I even counted the games today when I stopped by at noon and my guesstimate on how many games they had was off. I counted just over 100 PS2 games still left and just over 40 Xbox games so I'm guessing they had fairly close to 200 PS2/Xbox games for sale when they started!

[darkslime]

A quick question about genesis:
The one I bought at a yard sale and my friend's both say HIGH DEFINITION GRAPHICS on the circular part around the place where you put the carts in. Mine doesn't. Is it a different model or did the text on mine just rub off?

[Sooku]

Great deals at the garage sales. First up is the best:

Pikmin (Gcube)
Smash Bros Melee (Gcube)
Spider-Man: Ultimate Carnage (SNES)
Final Fantasy: Mystic Quest (SNES)
Mega Man 3 (NES)
Kid Icarus (GB)
The Amazing Spider-Man (GB)
Pokemon Gold (GB)
Super Mario Land (GB)
The Flash (GB)
Wario Land (GB)
The Legend Of Zelda: Link's Awakening (GB)
Batman: The Animated Series (GB)
Batman: Return Of THe Joker (GB)
Final Fantasy Legend 2 (GB)
Final Fantasy Legend 3 (GB)
Mega Man III (GB)
10 assorted CIB intellivision games

All for $16. Pikmin and Smash alone will double the price I payed, I'm keeping most of the rest. Some friends that were with me got Metroid II for $0.50 and both Kingdom Hearts games for $6. I really wish I had grabbed more though. That sale was a goldmine. The rest of my finds were rather typical:

Anticipation (NES)
Gotcha! The Sport! (NES)
CIB Star Strike (2600)
TOTAL: $1

CIB Crusi'n Velocity (GBA)
Sealed Ozzy & Drix (GBA)
TOTAL: $1.50

Two Sealed NES "Super Controller" Dongles. Basically a set of two joysticks for your NES pad.
TOTAL: $1

[SaraAB]

Nintendo 64 system with super mario 64 today for 5$. I am very happy as I have been looking for Super Mario 64 forever and did not want to pay ebay prices for it. Its just the standard black system with gray controller and it also came with a very nice memory card that has a slot to replace the battery inside of it. The controller is in good condition too and doesn't have the loose joystick. It was missing the expansion pack but luckily I have an unused jumper pack here which I will stick into it. I also got some DS game cases and a GBA wireless adapter for 50 cents. Also a PSX game called ball breakers for 25 cents, its complete.

The fisher price parking garage was one of the items I sold on ebay, so if you still have it, you should sell it too. I got like 20$ for it and it wasn't even in the greatest condition. I also used to coast hot wheels cars down it, it was really good for that.

I had pound puppies sheets and little mermaid sheets as a kid however they were so worn that I don't think anyone would have wanted them. I think those were the only 2 characters I had. The pound puppy sheets were used for blankets, beach towels etc so they were really really worn. I still have the pillowcase that goes to the little mermaid set. I think I still have a pound puppies blanket laying around here somewhere but believe me the condition is very bad, I think we used it to lay stuff on for sale at our last yard sale.

[Derock]

Thats a pretty good deal man you can flip FF7and get your money back and then some

Yeah, my thoughts exactly. I always hear about finding FF7s and this was the first time I've seen one at a garage sale, but I've only been going for a few weeks. Even though consoles always catch my eye, high demand games are the best for resale with higher prices and the lowest/easiest shipping.

Now I just have to play through it and beat it before I can actually get rid of it.

[Dokstarr]

Today I found Smash Bros for Gamecube and Red Steel for Wii. 10 dollars for both. Person wanted 5 dollars per game so I took it. Had a copy of Call of Duty 4 too, but when I looked under it was mint except for a big deep circle scratch all around it. I'm gonna guess thats the big scratch that happens when you move a 360 with a game in it. Guy seemed very surprised that it was there. Other games look very good.

Aside from that very tough day. Out of 5 yard sales I went to only 1 had these games and I had to ask and they went inside and dug em out out of a closet. One other place said they had games but they were sold right before I got there.

I'm a little pissed about the number of non-yard sales from places that said they were having them on craigslist. The few times I've gone out on Sat morning theres usually a few of these but there was 7 today that I went by with nothing there, and this is at 9:10 - 10:30 am this morning.

Seems like I wasted a lot of gas, but oh well. I'm gonna try and email the people from the yardsale and tell them if they find some other games to email me.

I'm not gonna bother with a picture of the 2 games, you all know what they look like. Not exciting enough.

[darkslime]

I'm gonna try putting up a sign in my neighborhood saying I want to buy old video games and see if anyone calls.

[Link927]

I'm gonna try putting up a sign in my neighborhood saying I want to buy old video games and see if anyone calls.

You'd probably get some crap offers, but good luck with that. Reverse YSing...them coming to you?

[antman157]

Today I got:

Dreamcast, 2 controller, gun, and browser for $20
Metal Gear Solid: VR missions for $1
Bunch of Disney Golden Books $1 each
2004 Halloween edition stuffed Mickey $1
Davey Crocket stuffed Mickey $1
Peaches $8 for basket

And tomorrow I continue yard selline

[Derock]

I'm gonna try putting up a sign in my neighborhood saying I want to buy old video games and see if anyone calls.

I see signs for people wanting to buy junk cars and what not. I'd love to hear if this could actually work. Too bad I live in an apartment.

[SaraAB]

I'm a little pissed about the number of non-yard sales from places that said they were having them on craigslist. The few times I've gone out on Sat morning theres usually a few of these but there was 7 today that I went by with nothing there, and this is at 9:10 - 10:30 am this morning.



This happens to me a lot too, and these are listed in the paper where they pay for the ad, I am not sure if they just misprint the address or the people just don't put anything out and cancel the sale. I have drove by a ton of supposed yard sales with no sign of any merchandise anywhere.

[Mirpkered]

I didn't get a chance to post last weeks finds so I am going to recap my last 2 weeks on here. Here it goes:

This was nothing to special. I pulled up to this sale way out and they were selling PS2 games for $1 each and DVDs for $2 each. I picked up the following goods:

Tomb Raider (PS2)
Tiger Woods 07 (PS2)
Pirate of the Carribean 3 (DVD)

I CIF'ed $2 and left with goods.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/mirpkered/2748717018/

While on the way home from yard sailing I stopped across 1 more sale. While there I asked if they had any games since none were out. They said they did and I was handed a handful of NES games after a couple minutes. I was handed:

Mickey Mousecapade
Adventures of Lolo
SMB/DH (x2)
Roger Clemens MVP Baseball
TMNT
Tetris
The Chessmaster

I tried to CIF $2 but we settled on $3 so wasn't to bad.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/mirpkered/2747881861/

Not a bad score here. I managed to pick up the 1st season of Spongebob Squarepants for $3. Good Enough

http://www.flickr.com/photos/mirpkered/2748713434/

The was the last sale I went to today. I ended up stopping even though I was tired and ready to take a nap at home. While there I initially spotted an NES. It had a $5 tag on it so I CIF'ed $3 and got with it:

NES (Complete w/ 2 controllers)
Robocop 2
SMB/DH

$3 NES? Yeah, I'll take it.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/mirpkered/2747878113/

This was the first sale I went to today. I managed to find nice items. I ended up seeing a table with N64 games marked $3 each and GBA games marked $2 each. I grabbed 3 N64 I didn't have and all 3 of the GBA games on the table. I picked up:

Aidyn Chronicles (N64)
Resident Evil 2 (N64)
Mace: The Dark Age (N64)
Pokemon Ruby (GBA + Manual)
Pokemon Sapphire (GBA)
D&D Eye of the Beholder (GBA)

I CIF'ed a $10 for all of it since I just came from the ATM and it was taken quickly.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/mirpkered/2748707774/

This was by far one of my better scores in a while. I pulled up to this sale that was supposed to start around 6 AM but was started late and thank god... I started looking around and noticed thatthere was a playstation with no games. upon inquring about games, I was told there were no playstation games but that some nintendo games were there. I went back to the garage with the guy running the sale and he started handing me SNES games in the box. 7 in total. I asked how much for each game and I was told that they were $2 each. The games I was holding were:

7th Saga
Robotrek
Lufia 1
Lufia 2
FF: Mystic Quest
Uncharted Waters: New Horizons
Breath of Fire

All of these in the box with what I would give an 8/10 rating on condition of the boxes. I CIF'ed him $10 and I left quickly before he might have realized what he sold. Awesome addition to the collection indeed.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/mirpkered/2747876187/

[Yokihana]

We had a Yard Crawl where I live and I managed to get a couple of games;
http://i40.photobucket.com/albums/e208/Hana_Chann/Picture267.jpg
All for $3
+NES with all cables (haven't tested yet)
+Joystick
+Dragon Warrior WITH explorerers handbook, map & instruction book (no box)
+The Legend of Kage
+Guerllia War
+Rescue Rangers (edit: Sorry, I bought it somewhere else for $3)
+Guerrilla War
+R.C. Pro-AM
+Goal
+Double Dragon
+Super Mario/Duck Hunt (x2)

http://i40.photobucket.com/albums/e208/Hana_Chann/Picture266-1.jpg
+Kirby's Avalanche-$9
+Top Shop: Board Game (sealed)-$1
+Pokemon puzzle league-$5
+Grabbed by Ghoulies (sealed)-$2
+NES cartiage converter-free

[Sinnbox]

Nice going everyone, The local mystery man hit again this week and grabbed up games from almost every sale, I went to my usual competition's place after i got done sailing and he had the same luck i did. We think a major reseller must have moved into the area.

[cranguy]

http://www.gamehoarders.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/08/img_5078-300x225.jpg

A $5 copy of FFVII turned a mediocre yard saling day into a great one!

Prices and larger pic on http://www.gamehoarders.com

[cranguy]

Yea, to find an original copy is pretty hard to find .. In box .. Anyone can copy the VHS tape.. But to have an original is hard to find.. Im a SUPER HUGE Disney fan and the price for the original VHS in box is around $50 bucks

As far as I know, Song of the South was NEVER released in America on VHS.

Most of the VHSes on eBay are copied/dubbed from the PAL release, as there was a VHS release in Europe (incompatible with NTSC players).

I could be wrong, and if so, please provide sources, but I research this stuff constantly.

It was also released in Japan on laserdisc (under the title Minami no Uta), which is the "best quality" commercially available.

And as others have written above, the odds of Disney ever releasing this movie again are basically nil.

[Derock]

http://www.gamehoarders.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/08/img_5078-300x225.jpg

A $5 copy of FFVII turned a mediocre yard saling day into a great one!

Prices and larger pic on http://www.gamehoarders.com

Nice, I just got my first copy of FF7 only mines the greatest hits. It's great the way one good find can make your whole day.

[willc23]

To all those out there finding old NESes out there on your yard sale trips, I want to recommend a seller on EBay for 72 pin replacements. If it is bad form to post this here let me know and I will edit it. The seller is videogamesupply and he/she has a storefront. I bought 6 replacements w/ combined shipping for aproximately $55. I have installed 3 so far and it brought each one back from the dead. Not trying to be a shill or spammer just want to recognize a good seller. I have about 6 or 7 more to fix now.

[allyourblood]

I bought 6 replacements w/ combined shipping for aproximately $55.

ouch. the black plastic piece with all the pins right? a couple years ago, there was a guy here who was selling them at the flea market for a dollar apiece. i bought two (he was pressuring us to buy them 20 at a time, and lowering the price to fifty cents each), thinking that for that price, they must not be that hard to find or profitable. guess i missed the boat there.

i used one to repair one of my NES systems, but the thing still seems kinda fidgety, so i haven't even bothered with the second. i should've just bought every one the guy had and gave them away on here. if i see him again, that's what i'll do.

[karkyco]

A quick question about genesis:
The one I bought at a yard sale and my friend's both say HIGH DEFINITION GRAPHICS on the circular part around the place where you put the carts in. Mine doesn't. Is it a different model or did the text on mine just rub off?

There were at least 3 different models of Genesis, so yeah it's possible. Mine says it, and mine is pretty much a launch/first generation one.

[SaraAB]

They were probably poor quality connectors, most ebay sellers stand by their connectors and if they don't work they will send you a free replacement. Last time I bought a connector it was about 6$ shipped I think.

[allyourblood]

They were probably poor quality connectors, most ebay sellers stand by their connectors and if they don't work they will send you a free replacement. Last time I bought a connector it was about 6$ shipped I think.

well, i considered that but i'd be curious to know whether there was that much of a market for replacements -- profitable enough for there to be competing manufacturers, and further still, some make high-quality replacements while others make inferior ones?

like you said, sellers will often send you a free replacement if the first doesn't work. that makes it sound like they're assuming a decent portion of them are expected to fail, which would make the overall quality sort of "hit or miss". if they can afford to ship one out for six bucks, still make money and not bat an eye if the thing needs to be replaced, it's likely the same product that i bought for a buck.

[PaddyTheChump]

well, i considered that but i'd be curious to know whether there was that much of a market for replacements -- profitable enough for there to be competing manufacturers, and further still, some make high-quality replacements while others make inferior ones?

like you said, sellers will often send you a free replacement if the first doesn't work. that makes it sound like they're assuming a decent portion of them are expected to fail, which would make the overall quality sort of "hit or miss". if they can afford to ship one out for six bucks, still make money and not bat an eye if the thing needs to be replaced, it's likely the same product that i bought for a buck.
There are different quality connectors.
And if you know that most of a product will work perfect, you would say that you can get a replacement if it doesn't work.

[mrblinG22]

I havent been to a sale in ages, I am hopefully hitting one up right next to where I live at 7:00 am on my bike. I am 15. I saw the ad on craigslist, wish me luck!

http://sfbay.craigslist.org/eby/gms/793803866.html

[chimpster1313]

Just got back from a townwide sale that was seriously populated with a lot of rednecks. Disturbingly so. Games were pretty sparse (saw Nascar 98 through 2001 for PS1 marked at $15 for all 4. Yikes). Did come across a few sweet things, though.

Buzz Lightyear wall clock -.50
Stool for drumming (Been looking for a cheap one for playing RB) - $3
Kiss album Destroyer (has Detroit Rock City, Shout It Out Loud, Beth among others) - $2
3 frisbees - .35

After striking out in games for a while, I hit a sale that had a few games, but the only good one was RE4 for PS2 and it was a greatest hits copy for $5. I didn't bite, but I did get the God of War stratgey guide (minus the DVD) for $2. Next sale I hit, got Rise and Fall of ECW DVD for $4.50, which I've also been trying to find for less than $10 and finally did. Final sale of the day I found a GREAT surround sound system, brand new and working, for $20. I put $5 down and am going back to get it tomorrow. I was quite happy, considering how the day started.

Total spent (including the $15 I haven't yet paid for the surround sound system) - $32.35

[sundaysuit]

i got super mario rpg at a yard sale for $2.
not bad, huh?

[darkslime]

i got super mario rpg at a yard sale for $2.
not bad, huh? Great find. I'm meeting someone on CL in like an hour to sell one for 60.

[TehMuff1nM4n]

Eh, not the greatest I don't think but not bad I guess.

Final Fantasy Tactics- $5
Metal Gear Solid 2 for Xbox-$3

[SaraAB]

I am doing 2 days of yard sales this weekend, so for day 1 it was rather dry however I did pick up a disc only resident evil 3 nemesis for the PSX for 1$. They had 3$ on it but I got them down to 1$ cause it was really scratched. They had other PS2 games however I don't have a PS2 and there were no other recognizable rare titles there. I also got a pokemon backpack and the usual load of toys for 3$.

[Sinnbox]

Today was awsome!! I got off work a hour early and went GSing, I found a sale with about 40 various games, the lady was asking $2.50 a game but when i asked how much for it all she said $20!! I'll get a full story and Pics up tomorrow.

[karkyco]

Today was awsome!! I got off work a hour early and went GSing, I found a sale with about 40 various games, the lady was asking $2.50 a game but when i asked how much for it all she said $20!! I'll get a full story and Pics up tomorrow.

Very nice!!! I'm salivating on the details. And the Mario RPG for $2 score - outstanding!!!

[Dokstarr]

good luck everyone with the yard sales this weekend.

Its raining here now, but even if it stops tonight I'm not sure if I will bother going out. Last weekend it rained friday afternoon / evening and half the yard sales were no shows Sat monring even though it was like 80 degree and sunny. I may just save the gas.

[Sinnbox]

I said I would post this tomorrow, but I decided to tonight.

As I said earlier I got off work early so i decided to go Sailing in the town i work in, usualy I cant find anything here but when i do i find gold. Today i got tons of no's but after driveing down 1way streets for what seemed like forever i pulled up to a house and asked for games, the lady said over here so i walked to where she was and to my suprise there was a stack of NES and N64 games I asked how much and she said $2.50 apiece so i replied I mean all together she paused for a minute and replied how botu $20, I probably could have gotten her down to $10 but all i had on me was a $20(not good CIF bait) and the games were easily worth that or more in trade bait. So I grabbed up the 15 games on the table and started to walk awany and she yelled there are more boxes so i went back and saw a box of SMS stuff, and another full of NES stuff. I nearly crapped myself when i saw Megaman 5 on top of the NES stack, I have been looking for it forever!! Here come the finds.
http://joelsinn.googlepages.com/100_1701.JPG
Sega Master System Base with Power, AV, 2 controllers
NES controller
NES Dogbone(I have been wanting one)
NES satilite(Looking for this too)http://joelsinn.googlepages.com/100_1703.JPG
Does anyone know what these are, They seem to be for some System by Texas Instruments.http://joelsinn.googlepages.com/100_1705.JPG
Here are the Atari 2600, 7600, N64, and SNES games from the lot. Good titles include Megaman 64, My brother and i have been looking for this forever!!
http://joelsinn.googlepages.com/100_1707.JPG
Some Sega Master system games!! I have been looking for games for my Master System but they are hard to come by.
http://joelsinn.googlepages.com/100_1706.JPG
Here are the NES games from the Haul, for some reason one of the previous owners(Ben T. -You Suck) felt like numbering and putting his name on his carts. My Magic Eraser will take it off though.

I'm glad to say that there were some NEs games here that I didnt have a copy of yet, It seems that I have only been finding duplicates lately.

Sorry for the image quality.

[Sinnbox]

P.S why do people think that taking a Black Marker and marking out someone else's name looks better than taking the time to clean the cart?? I keep finding carts like the Spy Hunter above.

[pulsar0510]

I http://joelsinn.googlepages.com/100_1703.JPG
Does anyone know what these are, They seem to be for some System by Texas Instruments.
Texas Instruments TI-99/4A. Basically the same idea as a Commodore 64. They are on ebay, prices vary. I picked one up at a yardsale last year with about 10 carts for $3. Sold it in a bundle a few months later when I decided I had too many nonsense systems.

[Sinnbox]

^Thanks for the info, I dont need them, are there any collectors on these?

[Cmosfm]

Planescape Torment - PC - 33 cents.

Got some other stuff too but this was by far the "stand out" of the bunch.

[Derock]

Nice find sinnbox! I would have needed a clean pair of pants if I stumbled accross that.

[Powerfu]

Going to some sales tomorrow, haven't been to one in a long time, hopefully I score something good. Oh, BTW nice find sinnbox.

[Derock]

Not much luck today. I had a guy who I believe was a reseller buy a PS2 and some games right as I was getting to a sale for $35. The guy asked for 45 and the costumer countered with how he picked these up for like 25-35 and the seller accepted a lower price. I checked out the other games and there wasn't anything good.

Another sale a guy had a really dirty PS1 with a 3rd party controller. Before I could make an offer he said twenty. I said I can give you a few dollars for it and he declined. I couldn't have sold this thing on ebay, craigslist, or anywhere else for $20 and he wants $20 at a yard sale when I don't even know whether it works. Needless to say, I just walked away without even bothering to reason with him as I wanted the cables more than the system.

The last sale I went to had a couple worthless xbox games. The sellers weren't even there. Everything was just left out even though the sale had started.

Other then getting some kitchenware, I didn't find anything.

[erehwon]

I didn't go to too many sales yesterday. The only thing I picked up was these two EB Ice devices for a $1. They're coolers with pumps in them. You put ice and water in and it pumps cold water through a pad you can put on a knee or back. I thought they looked interesting. If I don't like it, I can sell them on ebay for around $45. I'm tempted to do that anyways. It would put me closer to picking up a PSP.

[PaddyTheChump]

My dad went to a few yardsales, and I got him to ask for games for me since I couldn't go. One house said they had some games, and he asked if they could get them, but they said they're saving them for their street's yardsale. There's a sale about 10 houses away tomorrow, so I'll visit that.

[darkslime]

Nice find sinnbox. You seem to have great luck GSing.

My day was average. I couldn't get a ride, and there was only one sale in biking distance. I got there at like 6:30, and the lady there said her friend is coming in 10 minutes and she might have one game to sell. I had nothing to do, so I waited there and helped the lady unpack the stuff for the sale, because she was old and couldn't move the heavy boxes.

Her friend came, and had this box of games and DVDs IAP $2 each. I CIF'd $5 for all and she took it. They looked perfect but in the light of my house scratched as hell. But I've tested a few and they've worked. I got:

Games: (All complete)
:ps2:Final Fantasy X
:ps2:Lord Of The Rings: The Return Of The King
:ps2:Ford Racing 2
:ps2:Crash Bandicoot: The Wrath Of Cortex GH
:ps2:Spawn Armageddon
:ps2:Madden 2004 (Hollywood video box and no manual)
:ps2:Hypersonic Extreme (no coverart)
:gen:Sonic 2 (I finally have a non NFRS one, no manual)
:pc:Nancy Drew
:pc:Monopoly
:pc:Where in The World Is Carmen Sandiego?


DVD:
:dvd:Ocean's Twelve
:dvd:The Spongebob Squarepants Movie
:dvd:Flyin' Ryan
:dvd:Walking Tall
:dvd:Shrek 2
:dvd:My Scene: Jammin In Jamaica
:dvd:Spiderman (In the box for Antz)
:dvd:Boiler Room
:dvd:Starsky And Hutch
:vhs:Veggie Tales Sing Alongs (In the box for Yellow Submarine)

And on the way out, the other lady handed me $5 for helping her, so they were free. ^_^

[bunnybum]

Hit up two yard sales today. Found the following at the first one:

GBA (cart only):
Beyblade V-Force
Duel Masters Sempai Legends Limited Edition
Fire Emblem
Mario & Luigi: Superstar Saga
Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl
Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles 2: Battle Nexus
Warioland 4

GBC (cart only):
Pokémon Crystal Version

Went to the next yard sale and found nothing, decided to go back to the first one and found even more GBA games:

Fantastic 4
Kong: The 8th Wonder of the World
LEGO Star Wars: The Video game
Lilo & Stitch 2: Hamsterveil Havoc
Power Rangers: Dino Thunder
Sims 2

And the cutest orange kitten ready for pickup at the end of October! :D

The funny (?) thing is this: When I got home and tested the games, Warioland 4 had the Mode 7 cracktro, and Prince of Persia had a Eurasia cracktro! (which, according to my research, is for the US release of the game) :-k Wow, did I just pick up a lot of pirated games or what? I'm not really disappointed or anything, as I believe finding pirated games in the wild in Denmark is pretty uncommon.

[Sinnbox]

Nice find sinnbox. You seem to have great luck GSing.




Lately I have been running into alot of Resellers so my luck has been dying, but today i did manage to find a tote with 4 2600's, 1 telegames, 1 mini 2600, a coleco, a NES, a SNES, and about 150 games(%99 of them Atari games) They were asking $50 but i CIf'd $20 and settled on $25. They are beat to heck, but there was a Mint condition All*Stars + World and a SMB 3 in it so i felt it was well spent. Sorry, I'm too lazy to take a pic.

[omg itz adam]

sinnbox good job bro


I went to a bunch of sales I think probably 14.........


A few had games but they were either sports games or 20 dollar xbox platinum hits games I passed up a pokemon silver for five bucks oh well......

[Sinnbox]

Gotta love the slow days, did you try CIFing? one thing i sometimes try is going back to sales at about noon and CIF ask the people if they are interested in dropping the proce abit.

[darkslime]

Lately I have been running into alot of Resellers so my luck has been dying, but today i did manage to find a tote with 4 2600's, 1 telegames, 1 mini 2600, a coleco, a NES, a SNES, and about 150 games(%99 of them Atari games) They were asking $50 but i CIf'd $20 and settled on $25. They are beat to heck, but there was a Mint condition All*Stars + World and a SMB 3 in it so i felt it was well spent. Sorry, I'm too lazy to take a pic. 0_o Take a pic of that. That's a huge haul.


If anyone wants to send a couple bucks for shipping and stuff, I'll send them a disc only spiderman widescreen dvd or a veggie tales vhs that came with my yard sale haul. (used store won't buy them without coverart)

[kube00]

Lots of sales
But I only found a copy of strange brew $3 and a small hand vaccum with a hose for $7

Passed on a Gamecube for $25
Passed on several crappy xbox titles
Pass on disc only copies of Vagrant Story, FFVII, and FFTactics. Why would I pass? A (no case or manual), B in poor shape and c, he wanted $8 a piece, and wouldn't come down. I thought $3 CIFed a piece was fair, discs were smudged and there were no cases. Oh well

[darkslime]

Lots of sales
But I only found a copy of strange brew $3 and a small hand vaccum with a hose for $7

Passed on a Gamecube for $25
Passed on several crappy xbox titles
Pass on disc only copies of Vagrant Story, FFVII, and FFTactics. Why would I pass? A (no case or manual), B in poor shape and c, he wanted $8 a piece, and wouldn't come down. I thought $3 CIFed a piece was fair, discs were smudged and there were no cases. Oh well Dude, you could've resurfaced that FFVII for probably $3 for all 3 discs, then listed each disc on ebay for $25 each BIN and sold them. Kind of high for a GS, but you would still be making $64.

[Sinnbox]

0_o Take a pic of that. That's a huge haul.



Sorry, It's a huge tangled mess, and some of the carts are dirty and soem have the covers comming off, I did count and there were 169 carts and some chips, Im not sure if the chips ar eprototypes or if someone just thought it was cool to take the cart off the board. I'll post pics of them later in their own thread.

[Sinnbox]

Dude, you could've resurfaced that FFVII for probably $3 for all 3 discs, then listed each disc on ebay for $25 each BIN and sold them. Kind of high for a GS, but you would still be making $64.

So true, that's what i was thinking, I purchased a disk only FFVII earlier this year, Selling Disk only is a great way to make cash, Disk one will sell for a good $25-$30, With games like FFVII that are multiple disk games the frst disk is the most used so it gets the most scratches and needs replaed the most so on and so forth with the second, the third disk isnt quite as hard to find, I think mine sold for $8. But ya, you probably should ahve grabbed it, I dont blame you for leaving the others, I cringed when i picked up a Disk only FFT 3 weeks ago.

[darkslime]

Sorry, It's a huge tangled mess, and some of the carts are dirty and soem have the covers comming off, I did count and there were 169 carts and some chips, Im not sure if the chips ar eprototypes or if someone just thought it was cool to take the cart off the board. I'll post pics of them later in their own thread. That's pretty awesome. I hope to find a haul like that.

You could opening a SMB/DH or something shitty like that and switch chips to see what they play...

[Sinnbox]

They are all Atari stuff, and they all have the titles on them in masking tape. The only non atari games in the lot were the SMB 3 and the Allstars+World, not as impressive as my haul from yesterday though!!

P.S. does anyone know where Snotknocker and Moitey went?