Official 2009 Yard Sale Thread

[Chairman_LMAO]

@Bioshocked: things falling apart

I got them all, plus a Gamecube with three controllers and three memory cards, Donkey Kong 64, and an N64 MLB game for the grand total of $8. The lady said her son just wanted to get rid of it. The vinyl is fucking PRISTINE, too. Looks like it was never played. The outer box for the SP singles is flattened, though.

[Bioshocked360]

Nice, finding vinyl is one of the reasons I want to start going to yard sales more often.

[Mizzou75]

so jealous. congrats Chairman.

[Chairman_LMAO]

Thanks guys.

[ex_eBay_buyer]

I don't typically look for records. Any tips on what records are rare or valuable or anything?

[Chairman_LMAO]

I don't really look for value, I just pick up stuff from artists I like. I got lucky this time.

[Kuros]

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Genesis model 2 w/ 3 controllers, hookups, and Dynamite Headdy, Altered Beast, Mega Turrican, Super Street Fighter 2 (2 copies), Sonic Spinball, Taz Escape from Mars and Genesis 6 Pak - $10

Rugrats Movie (gbc) - $.25

Assorted PS1 controllers - $5 (The wireless controllers don't have the adapter. :( )

Street Fighter 4 TE stick - $97.xx (From Fry's on sale today)

[FOnewearl]

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Legend of Zelda: Twilight Prince, The (GC) (Complete) - $5

Got this at a sale starting at 9 probably shortly before 9 as they were still setting up. Asked about games and under some VHS tapes in a box was a GameCube ($30) this and disc only Resident Evil 4, $5 was the IAP.

Mario Paint With Dust Cover & Mouse - Free
Game Gear With Baseball Game In System & Wide Gear, missing battery covers - .25

Mario Paint was in the free box at a sale & I got the Game Gear at almost 11, it was marked .75 but the lady wanted everything gone so everything left was .25, she mentioned some other games that sold eariler, I'm guessing Game Gear games.

2 Old 3½ Floppy PC Games & Some Magazines - $1

Everything was marked .10 but I got 20 items for a buck. The Spellcasting Party Pak wasen't even out the guy just gave it to me. I'm thinking he didn't want it out for kids to see since it seems to be some sort of adult game. I only took a picture of the one old Nintendo book and some other Nintendo related stuff the rest was newer like a few last gen EGMs I picked out. This is the first time I've ever found Nintendo Power Magazines at a yardsale.

Non Find BS

Got out the door today just after 8 and was out till about 11:30, got to about 35 sales.

Didn't see many games not even newer ones today, 2 or 3 sales had a decent selection of PC games & one sale told me I missed a Playstation with some games. Just very little of the typical stuff today like we sold that years ago or we still play that etc. Only reason I actually bothered to take a picture today is bacuase of some of the old mags I found today.

[darkslime]

What happened to my posts. Did MSI Magus's rude comment cause a shitstorm or something?

[ShadowHero10]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RYLsyNBnE5M

[ex_eBay_buyer]

ha ha ....... ....

[ex_eBay_buyer]

Damn it I just checked all the games I had bought the other day, and for one of the PSP games the disk is missing. There goes 2 bucks. "ex_eBay_buyer, you have to remember to check things before you buy them at yard sales!!! So far you have lost $2.50 not doing that and almost another $3 (if the calculator hadn't worked after I put in new batteries)." Damn it damn it damn it.

[phoenix529]

ex_eBay_buyer, you have to remember to check things before you buy them at yard sales!!! So far you have lost $2.50 not doing that and almost another $3 (if the calculator hadn't worked after you put in new batteries).

Just trying to remind you. :D

[darkslime]

SWAP MEET:

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Genesis Lot: $10
1 genesis model 1
2 genesis model 3
various cords
arcade stick
The Punisher boxed
Mario Lemieux Hockey complete
Sonic boxed
Toy Story cart
Taz cart
Road Rash 2 box + manual only
Desert Strike box only
Beavis and Butthead box only
genesis system instruction manual

That lot was worth it for The Punisher. Plus I've never had a model 3 before.

And not pictured: (my camera is being weird)

PS1 disc only lot: $5
Digimon World 3
Resident Evil 3

Pokemon Pinball missing battery cover - $1

Pokemon Blue - $3

Zero The Kamikaze Squirrel SNES - $3 (worth about 20 bucks on ebay last time I checked)

Shadow of the Colossus
Digimon World 4
Star Wars KOTOR PH
All complete and $15 for all 3.

[Chairman_LMAO]

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Xbox controller - $1

Yeah, I probably overpaid, but I don't have one that works, and it's the big controller, which is my favorite.

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VHS - The Who and Ranma 1/2 - $.25 each

I've never seen Ranma 1/2. Ever.

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Genesis - Aladdin (CIB), Toe Jam and Earl
SNES - Spindizzy Worlds (CIB) - $2

First time ever seeing a CIB SNES game at a yard sale.

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Gamecube w/ 3 controllers, 3 memory cards and all hookups
Donkey Kong 64
MLB Triple Play 2000
Smashing Pumpkins - Siamese Singles
Smashing Pumpkins - Disarm/Siamese Dream
Smashing Pumpkins - Not Worth Asking/Honey Spider II
Velocity Girl - Your Silent Face/You're So Good To Me
Helmet - Primitive/Born Annoying
Nine Inch Nails - Things Falling Apart
Smashing Pumpkins - Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness

$8 for all

Score of the year for me, considering how much these records are worth. The GC is extremely dirty, though. It looks like it was literally buried in the dirt. I really only bought it for the memory cards, though, and I could use some extra controllers.

[ex_eBay_buyer]

i appreciate the originality, phoenix. thanks for all the time and effort put in to coming up with that ;]

and by the way, jesus christ chairman. GREAT FIND! i think if you ebay everything you should be able to get at least $150 + for the smashing pumpkins records alone(im not expert though)

[Chairman_LMAO]

Possibly as much as $300

[ddrisgood137]

Got some good stuff today.

Battle Arena Toshinden 3 (PS1) - $1
Bushido Blade 2 (PS1) - $1
Forgetting Sarah Marshall DVD - $1

Game Boy Color with:
LOZ Link's Awakening DX
Pokemon Pinball
Some other crap game I forget
$3

Today's highlight, however...

A brown paper bag full of old games, notable ones being:
N64: Smash Bros
Goldeneye
LOZ: Ocarina of Time
LOZ: Majora's Mask
Perfect Dark
Jet Force Jemini
three or four other crap titles

SNES: Super Mario World
Lagoon
Donkey Kong Country 2
LOZ: Link to the Past
three or four other crap games

Genesis: Sonic and Knuckles

Game Boy/GBC: LOZ: Oracle of Ages (W00t! Been looking for this one for ages! Haha, get it?!?!! But seriously, I'm stoked to have found it.)
Dragon Warrior 1 and 2
Some random Japanese Mahjong game and two or three other crap games

PS2/Xbox: seven or eight crap games including these that I can remember:
Enter the Matrix
State of Emergency

Wii:
Wii fit (Disc only)

All for $5. Yay me.

[darkslime]

Nice chairman! At first I thought they were CDs and was wondering why you called it your greatest find.

[oscargrouch]

I didn't have anything spectacular this week. This is two weeks in a row of barely anything.

Only things I found were Halo 2 Complete for $1
Shadow of the Colossus Complete NON GH for $1

Kind of discouraging

[leftwing1018]

Only had two yardsales in town today :( both had nothing... so i went to the flea market and picked up a couple dvds:

Donnie Darko
War
Total: $5

2x Dualshock 2 Controllers - FREE
Madden 09 Official Guidebook - FREE

Not really worth taking a picture of the stuff, pretty boring day.

[ex_eBay_buyer]

Got nothing today. The sale that had advertised the train I went to but didn't see the train. I started to ask but the lady ignored me and started talking to someone else. Then I asked a different person running it if they had any video games / video game related things, and the answer was no. Went to a different yard sale but there was nothing where it said it was gonna be. Don't you hate when people do that??

[erehwon]

I had a good day Friday. There weren't a lot of sales, so I started off in my neighborhood sale.

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New ATI Radeon X700 Pro $5
Clone Wars volume 1 $1
Clone Wars volume 2 $3
Super Nintendo with Super Mario All Stars and Super Mario World $2
Bag with Super Nintendo mouse, mouse pad, and nintendo av cable $0

The video card is brand new. It wasn't marked, so CIF $5 and she took it. She said it was new because switched from her desktop to a laptop and didn't need the card anymore. I can't use the card since my computer uses AGP, but I think I'll keep it around in case I can pick up some other cheap parts. The clone wars disks are the one by the guy who did samurai jack. Volume 1 is a little scratched up, so I CIFed for a $1. Volume 2 I picked up from Goodwill brand new for $3. The nintendo was marked $3, but I talked them down to $2. I'll likely trade or sell that once I get around to testing it.

I also checked out another neighborhood. The only thing I found was this bag with the nintendo mouse. I was doing some talking with the lady running the sale and she said I could just take it. I didn't see much else in that neighborhood. I ended up going to see District 9 after that with a free movie ticket I had gotten.

Last Weeks Finds
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Ultima 9 LE complete $1
Thunder Force 3 $0.50

I didn't do quite so well last week.

[ex_eBay_buyer]

you all are so lucky. i still have no doubt that there is not going to be one yard sale in my town where they are even selling good video games. i only found 1 this whole weekend out of about 8 selling any video games at all, and the games were not good.

QUESTION: how far from your house do you go garage sailing? i see good sales but they're all about an hour away driving. would you go to one like that if it had video games?

[phoenix529]

My town's pretty big, so my only rule is I stay in city limits. Unless a sale on CL looks very promising.

[ohram]

Went to yardsales all day yesterday and there wasn't a single yard sale that had even anything electronic. Just a bunch of clothing and knicknacks. Though my final hit of the day did give me something kind of good. Everything was winding down and I found two broken 360's. Asked the guy how much as he was packing everything in and he told me to just take them.

One had rrod and the other had a bad dvd drive.I cracked open the dvd drive one and it wasn't too bad. A little bit of dust here and there. But the second one... My god. I wish I had my camera ready. Filled to the gills with dust. It covered everything. But that's not so bad, right? Wrong. The dust was moving. It was filled with maggots, like they spilled something inside of it.

Back to the xboxes. I switched out the motherboard of the rrod with the dvd drives motherboard. Then put the rrod's dvd drive into the case. Now it'll turn on but it still has a lot of trouble playing games. But still, a semi working 360 for free.

It'll bring up a message telling me to put in an xbox 360 game even though it is an xbox 360 game. It does it a lot but it'll still randomly read games.

[ex_eBay_buyer]

i live in a small town. i guess i should make my limits my area on craigslist but like i said some of the sales there are an hour or more away?

[SaraAB]

More stuff for me today! Another scorching hot day but at least today there was a breeze so I survived a little better than I did yesterday.

Sega Master system with 2 controllers, light gun, quickshot joystick and all hookups and games

Double Dragon
Monopoly
Outrun
Captain Silver
Alien Syndrome
Spy VS Spy (game card)

2 GBC games

Elmo's ABC
Scooby Doo Classic Creep Capers

All for $11

Ms. Pac Plug N Play $1

A couple old radio shack handhelds for 50 cents and 25 cents

REALLY happy with this find as I bought a master system once but it turned out to have a bad chip inside and hasn't been able to be fixed yet (its at a friends house) but it looks like I can tell him to just keep it now that I got this one. I didn't spend a lot on the previous master system and I have extra games and controllers left over from it so no worries there.

[ex_eBay_buyer]

nice! i've never owned a master system.

[lude21]

i wonder whats wrong with my SMS, found a boxed one a couple months ago...things looks new. Unfortunately...it doesnt even power on.

[oscargrouch]

i wonder whats wrong with my SMS, found a boxed one a couple months ago...things looks new. Unfortunately...it doesnt even power on.

Did you make sure the power supply still worked? That was all that was wrong with mine.

[cranguy]

Mao, I just sent a link to your find to one of my online friends who's a huge Smashing Pumpkins fan. We've had many conversations where he basically said he would kill to have Mellon Collie on vinyl. (I'd love to have it too, but I think I'd love the money even more.)

Here's his response.... Warning: strong language behind the spoiler
[21:20] The grace and charm. It world improve the man but deterio rate the dog. There are no ordinary dogs.: wow... you stting down?
[21:21] Saeed: yeeaahh?
[21:21] The grace and charm. It world improve the man but deterio rate the dog. There are no ordinary dogs.: http://www.cheapassgamer.com/forums/showpost.php?p=6189065&postcount=1519
[21:21] Saeed: whyy??
[21:21] The grace and charm. It world improve the man but deterio rate the dog. There are no ordinary dogs.: look what somebody found at a yard sale this weekend
[21:22] The grace and charm. It world improve the man but deterio rate the dog. There are no ordinary dogs.: pics behind 4th spoiler tag
[21:22] Saeed: WHAT THE FUCK!
[21:22] Saeed: WHAT TE MOTHER FUCKING FUCK!
[21:22] Saeed: WHAT THE MOTHER FUCKING CUNTING FUCK!
[21:22] Saeed: EIGHT DOLLARS?!
[21:23] Saeed: who ever threw that yard sale TOTALLY ripped themselves off!

Well done you lucky dog.

[SaraAB]

i wonder whats wrong with my SMS, found a boxed one a couple months ago...things looks new. Unfortunately...it doesnt even power on.

My first one was found to have had a bad chip in it, the symptom was that the control pad would not move to the right but the controllers worked fine on other systems. I had my friend look at it but we could never find another system to pull a chip from to fix it.

Whats funny about this one is that the people who owned it had those plastic stickers still on the controllers (I think you are supposed to take them off when you get the system) so I pulled those off and the controllers look brand new. Haven't tested the system yet.

Its also amusing that the gun does not have an orange tip and as of right now its illegal to sell any kind of toy gun in NY State.

There were more games that I did not buy

Genesis with 1 game for $10
Gameboy Color, have enough of these, not worth much
Game Gear, missing battery covers, didn't look too good, one baseball game 5$
2 PS1 systems loose, one with power supply, didn't feel like getting more playstations

[Diosoth]

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An indoor flea market opened VERY close to me. Most of their game systems were overpriced, moreso than a used game store- $40 Dreamcast, $30 Genesis 2, etc.

But I found the above box tagged at $5. 1 round button 21-pin cable Saturn, 1 controller, 1 3rd party controller, 2 fighting sticks, 3 games, stack of manuals, and power cord. No TV cable or battery cover.

I own an oval button Saturn already so I was able to test this, it works perfectly. I have... plans for this Saturn.

[darkslime]

QUESTION: how far from your house do you go garage sailing? i see good sales but they're all about an hour away driving. would you go to one like that if it had video games?I don't have a car, and go garage saling using my bike / the bus. I will generally take the bus to one area, and bike around it, find all the garage sales etc. In a fairly big city, so I don't have to go that far.

[kube00]

Great find on that $5 Saturn.

[Jedi1979]

today i blocked some guy (99.9% sure a reseller) from lowballing at a sale, he must of gotten there a minute before me...there was 64 nes games and he kept offering $30 for them... they came back with $40 and he wouldnt budge from $30, so from behind him , I offered $50 and then he quickly agreed to match my offer.

I wish i could have offered more but it doesnt bother me too much since i did not see any of the more expensive titles and i couldnt really afford more at the time. i would not have had a problem getting into a bidding war for the right titles;). surprisingly he didnt even say anything to me probably since he knew it was still a good deal

[Chairman_LMAO]

Mao, I just sent a link to your find to one of my online friends who's a huge Smashing Pumpkins fan. We've had many conversations where he basically said he would kill to have Mellon Collie on vinyl. (I'd love to have it too, but I think I'd love the money even more.)

Here's his response.... Warning: strong language behind the spoiler
[21:20] The grace and charm. It world improve the man but deterio rate the dog. There are no ordinary dogs.: wow... you stting down?
[21:21] Saeed: yeeaahh?
[21:21] The grace and charm. It world improve the man but deterio rate the dog. There are no ordinary dogs.: http://www.cheapassgamer.com/forums/showpost.php?p=6189065&postcount=1519
[21:21] Saeed: whyy??
[21:21] The grace and charm. It world improve the man but deterio rate the dog. There are no ordinary dogs.: look what somebody found at a yard sale this weekend
[21:22] The grace and charm. It world improve the man but deterio rate the dog. There are no ordinary dogs.: pics behind 4th spoiler tag
[21:22] Saeed: WHAT THE FUCK!
[21:22] Saeed: WHAT TE MOTHER FUCKING FUCK!
[21:22] Saeed: WHAT THE MOTHER FUCKING CUNTING FUCK!
[21:22] Saeed: EIGHT DOLLARS?!
[21:23] Saeed: who ever threw that yard sale TOTALLY ripped themselves off!

Well done you lucky dog.

:lol: thanks. The funny thing is, I probably could have gotten it for less. $8 was all I had in my pocket. I got everything together and asked how much it was (nothing was labeled), and the lady asked me how much I wanted to pay. As they were her son's, she didn't care what they were worth, she just wanted it gone. I dug in my pocket and pulled everything out and she just took it.

I wanted to go back today an see if there was anything else, but I was afraid her son would be there with a baseball bat or something :lol:

[ex_eBay_buyer]

I don't have a car, and go garage saling using my bike / the bus. I will generally take the bus to one area, and bike around it, find all the garage sales etc. In a fairly big city, so I don't have to go that far.

good idea. i dont have a car either.

[ex_eBay_buyer]

Damn it I just checked all the games I had bought the other day, and for one of the PSP games the disk is missing. There goes 2 bucks. "ex_eBay_buyer, you have to remember to check things before you buy them at yard sales!!! So far you have lost $2.50 not doing that and almost another $3 (if the calculator hadn't worked after I put in new batteries)." Damn it damn it damn it.

SCREW THAT the calculator isn't turning on now. $5.50 and counting.

[oper8r00]

Last weekend was an aweful haul I didn't even bother with pictures, all I scored was an Atari 2600 with games and a fat playstation 2. I sware I'm never buying a PS2 at a yard sale again unless its dirt dirt cheap. I paid $25 for it and a couple games and was told everything works great... of course it doesn't. :bomb: This year out of 5 playstation 2's ive bought, only 1 worked worth a darn.

This weekend was much much better, my hauls are below, I'm still trying to play with photo bucket and pictures.

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2 x Dual shock playstation controllers
IAP was $4 each, CIF'd $5 for both was taken.

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Myst 10th Anniversery DVD Collection - complete
Myst IV + Strategy Guide
IAP $3 each + $2 for the guide
CIF'd and accepted $5 total

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Original Xbox with AV/Power Cable and 1 controller
PS1 Games - Harry Potter, Crash Team Racing, Spyro the Dragon, A Bug's Life, Bob the Builder, Peter Pan, and Bomb Islander
IAP was $1 each on the games and $5 for the xbox
CIF'd and accepted $10 for it all.

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Genesis Games: Mickey's Ultimate Challenge, NBA Basketball, NHL Hockey, Lion King, Aladdin, Jurassic Park
PS1: Final Fantasy Origins (complete)
3 PS1 memory cards, 1 PS2 memory card
Futurama Season 2 box set :D
Young Frankenstein DVD
Misc manuals
CIF'd and accepted $10 for it all

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Still not sure if I got a good deal at this sale or not. But here goes
PS2: Shadow for Collosus, Jak and Daxter, Jak II, Jak X
DS: Spyro the Dragon, MySims, Sims 2 Pets
Playstation: Dragon Warrior VII (missing manual) PM me if you have one to sell
5 x PS1 memory cards
IAP was $5 for each PS2 and DS game, $1 each on the memory cards, $25 for Dragon Warrior VII.
CIF'd $50 for it all.

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Game Boy Color
$2

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Sega Saturn with 2 controllers, power cord, hard case and Tetris
Dual Shock 2
IAP was $20, left and came back the next day CIF'd and accepted $10.

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Asked for games at this one and the lady said she had some, but didn't have the "player" and didn't know what they went to.

Genesis: Prince of Persia, Golden Axe, Frankenstein, NBA JAM TE, Sonic 2
SNES: Super Mario World, Zelda, Tom & Jerry
Paid IAP of $3 total

9. http://i200.photobucket.com/albums/aa247/oper8r00/IMG_2962.jpg
Asked for games at this one too, the two ladies looked at each other and went into the house and pulled out a box of treasures!

Genesis 1, 3 controllers, 22 games
Sega CD: Cobra Command, Chuck Rock, Black Assault, Joe Montana Football, SEGA Classics/Sherlock Holmes
Game Boy: Dr. Mario, Tennis, Monopoly, Radar Mission
Asked for what they wanted for it.... $6 for everything.

[ex_eBay_buyer]

if you want i can buy Jak and Daxter from you.... I just bought a PS2 at a sale and i need a game to test on it.

[phoenix529]

oper8r00

Jesus! Nice finds! Wish I could find an Xbox that cheap. And that Genesis/assorted lot. One thing, though, you got Final Fantasy Origins on PS1, not Anthology. Anthology is V and VI. Origins is I and II.

[ex_eBay_buyer]

if you want i can buy Jak and Daxter from you.... I just bought a PS2 at a sale and i need a game to test on it.

sorry nevermind i just picked one up for 3 bucks at a local CD / video games store.

[slowdive21]

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Smashing Pumpkins - Siamese Singles
Smashing Pumpkins - Disarm/Siamese Dream
Smashing Pumpkins - Not Worth Asking/Honey Spider II
Smashing Pumpkins - Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness


Are the 7inches the colored vinyl versions? If so, that is insane.

Just to put it into perspective for people who are not familiar with the box set. It was a UK release on hut records and the box and the rocket EP were only available in small numbers (I think it was 1,500 or 1,000). The first 3 singles came out and the box and the rocket 7 inch came out last. The same way that Anime is released, but in reverse (if that makes sense).

I have only seen this box set once and I bought it (for $12 used), but mine are the non colored editions (which are the reissue).

I don't even want to comment on Mellon Collie, but I think I passed an opportunity to buy it when it came out at the record store (but I am not sure). I think it was $50 or something when it came out but i could be wrong.

[allyourblood]

The first four finds below are from weekend before last. Everything else is from Sat & Sun. Click the pics for larger photos.


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GEN Hardball
GEN James Pond: Underwater Agent
GEN Populous
GEN Star Control
GEN Shining in the Darkness, $5 for all

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PSX Air Combat
PSX Hot Shots Golf
PSX Marvel Super Heroes
PSX Rayman
PSX Saltwater Sportfishing
PSX Dance Dance Revolution Konamix, $3 for all

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DS Pokemon Platinum Version, $5

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CD Stabbing Westward - Darkest Days
VB Galactic Pinball, $2 for both

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XB Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic (missing manual)
XB Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic II: The Sith Lords (missing manual), $3 for both

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PS3 Heavenly Sword (complete)
BD The Departed
BD We Own the Night, $11 for all

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SNES Prince of Persia
SNES Star Fox
SNES Donkey Kong Country
SNES Super Ghouls 'n Ghosts
NES Final Fantasy
N64 Conker's Bad Fur Day, $6 for all

http://www.killedaway.com/images/yardsales/3gc1ps2tn.jpg (http://www.killedaway.com/images/yardsales/3gc1ps2.jpg)
PS2 dotHack//G.U. Vol. 2 Reminisce (missing manual)
GC Eternal Darkness: Sanity's Requiem
GC Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door (missing manual)
GC The Legend of Zelda: Collector's Edition, $8 for all

http://www.killedaway.com/images/yardsales/lostcontrollerstn.jpg (http://www.killedaway.com/images/yardsales/lostcontrollers.jpg)
XB360 Wireless Controller (x2)
DS Lost in Blue (empty case), $6 for all

http://www.killedaway.com/images/yardsales/projectmilleniumtn.jpg (http://www.killedaway.com/images/yardsales/projectmillenium.jpg)
DC Moero! Justice Gakuen (Japanese Project Justice, disc only)
DC Millennium 2000 Smoke Grey Controller, $2 for both

http://www.killedaway.com/images/yardsales/jedizeldatn.jpg (http://www.killedaway.com/images/yardsales/jedizelda.jpg)
GC Pokemon Channel (missing manual and e-Reader cards)
GC Star Wars Jedi Knight II: Jedi Outcast
GC Viewtiful Joe
GC The Legend of Zelda: Collector's Edition, $12 for all

http://www.killedaway.com/images/yardsales/pokemonbreathtn.jpg (http://www.killedaway.com/images/yardsales/pokemonbreath.jpg)
GB Pokemon Blue Version
GB Pokemon Special Pikachu Edition
GBA Breath of Fire, $4.50 for all

http://www.killedaway.com/images/yardsales/darkconkerstn.jpg (http://www.killedaway.com/images/yardsales/darkconkers.jpg)
XB Baldur's Gate: Dark Alliance II
XB Conker: Live & Reloaded (missing manual), $5 for both

http://www.killedaway.com/images/yardsales/dwviitn.jpg (http://www.killedaway.com/images/yardsales/dwvii.jpg)
PSX Dragon Warrior VII, $3


Had a great past couple of weekends, with the majority of the good stuff coming from the last two days. My favorite finds are the Stabbing Westward CD, the Millennium controller (my second one!), Dragon Warrior VII, and Jedi Outcast, which I've seen on more than one occasion, but it was either disc-only or priced too high.

Almost everything was haggled down in price except the six Playstation games (50¢ each), and the DC game and controller ($2 was fine by me).

Dragon Warrior VII is so perfect, so completely "like new" (the discs are 100% perfect with zero scratches/fingerprints/anything), that it almost makes me sad that it's opened. It's like someone opened it and never played it. Oh well, I will!!

What's weird is that I see I got some of the same stuff as some of you folks, like the Pokemon Blue Version and even weirder, Marvel Super Heroes (which I'd never seen until the day I bought it). That's awesome!

[wheels]

A couple months ago I nabbed a Turbo Grafx 16 with 2 controllers, multi-tap, and 16 games for $20. I found it only 2 blocks from my house, i was stoked cuz I sold my turbo grafx years ago and regretted it. 2 of the games were Neutopia and Neutopia II, and ended up reselling those on ebay and gained my $20 back plus some and now I have a turbo grafx in my old school systems collection again, garage sales rule.

[cranguy]

allyourblood, your finds make me ill with jealousy. Well done.

[Bubbakja]

i appreciate the originality, phoenix. thanks for all the time and effort put in to coming up with that ;]

and by the way, jesus christ chairman. GREAT FIND! i think if you ebay everything you should be able to get at least $150 + for the smashing pumpkins records alone(im not expert though)


I talked with my buddy at work today. He said that Mellon Collie LP is extremely rare as well as the singles. Up until they released their discography digitally there were two tracks you could only get on the LP.

[Sinnbox]

The first four finds below are from weekend before last. Everything else is from Sat & Sun. Click the pics for larger photos.


http://www.killedaway.com/images/yardsales/5genesistn.jpg (http://www.killedaway.com/images/yardsales/5genesis.jpg)
GEN Hardball
GEN James Pond: Underwater Agent
GEN Populous
GEN Star Control
GEN Shining in the Darkness, $5 for all

http://www.killedaway.com/images/yardsales/6psxtn.jpg (http://www.killedaway.com/images/yardsales/6psx.jpg)
PSX Air Combat
PSX Hot Shots Golf
PSX Marvel Super Heroes
PSX Rayman
PSX Saltwater Sportfishing
PSX Dance Dance Revolution Konamix, $3 for all

http://www.killedaway.com/images/yardsales/pokeplatinumtn.jpg (http://www.killedaway.com/images/yardsales/pokeplatinum.jpg)
DS Pokemon Platinum Version, $5

http://www.killedaway.com/images/yardsales/stabbingvirtualtn.jpg (http://www.killedaway.com/images/yardsales/stabbingvirtual.jpg)
CD Stabbing Westward - Darkest Days
VB Galactic Pinball, $2 for both

http://www.killedaway.com/images/yardsales/knights1and2tn.jpg (http://www.killedaway.com/images/yardsales/knights1and2.jpg)
XB Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic (missing manual)
XB Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic II: The Sith Lords (missing manual), $3 for both

http://www.killedaway.com/images/yardsales/heavenlybluraystn.jpg (http://www.killedaway.com/images/yardsales/heavenlyblurays.jpg)
PS3 Heavenly Sword (complete)
BD The Departed
BD We Own the Night, $11 for all

http://www.killedaway.com/images/yardsales/nessnesn64tn.jpg (http://www.killedaway.com/images/yardsales/nessnesn64.jpg)
SNES Prince of Persia
SNES Star Fox
SNES Donkey Kong Country
SNES Super Ghouls 'n Ghosts
NES Final Fantasy
N64 Conker's Bad Fur Day, $6 for all

http://www.killedaway.com/images/yardsales/3gc1ps2tn.jpg (http://www.killedaway.com/images/yardsales/3gc1ps2.jpg)
PS2 dotHack//G.U. Vol. 2 Reminisce (missing manual)
GC Eternal Darkness: Sanity's Requiem
GC Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door (missing manual)
GC The Legend of Zelda: Collector's Edition, $8 for all

http://www.killedaway.com/images/yardsales/lostcontrollerstn.jpg (http://www.killedaway.com/images/yardsales/lostcontrollers.jpg)
XB360 Wireless Controller (x2)
DS Lost in Blue (empty case), $6 for all

http://www.killedaway.com/images/yardsales/projectmilleniumtn.jpg (http://www.killedaway.com/images/yardsales/projectmillenium.jpg)
DC Moero! Justice Gakuen (Japanese Project Justice, disc only)
DC Millennium 2000 Smoke Grey Controller, $2 for both

http://www.killedaway.com/images/yardsales/jedizeldatn.jpg (http://www.killedaway.com/images/yardsales/jedizelda.jpg)
GC Pokemon Channel (missing manual and e-Reader cards)
GC Star Wars Jedi Knight II: Jedi Outcast
GC Viewtiful Joe
GC The Legend of Zelda: Collector's Edition, $12 for all

http://www.killedaway.com/images/yardsales/pokemonbreathtn.jpg (http://www.killedaway.com/images/yardsales/pokemonbreath.jpg)
GB Pokemon Blue Version
GB Pokemon Special Pikachu Edition
GBA Breath of Fire, $4.50 for all

http://www.killedaway.com/images/yardsales/darkconkerstn.jpg (http://www.killedaway.com/images/yardsales/darkconkers.jpg)
XB Baldur's Gate: Dark Alliance II
XB Conker: Live & Reloaded (missing manual), $5 for both

http://www.killedaway.com/images/yardsales/dwviitn.jpg (http://www.killedaway.com/images/yardsales/dwvii.jpg)
PSX Dragon Warrior VII, $3


Had a great past couple of weekends, with the majority of the good stuff coming from the last two days. My favorite finds are the Stabbing Westward CD, the Millennium controller (my second one!), Dragon Warrior VII, and Jedi Outcast, which I've seen on more than one occasion, but it was either disc-only or priced too high.

Almost everything was haggled down in price except the six Playstation games (50¢ each), and the DC game and controller ($2 was fine by me).

Dragon Warrior VII is so perfect, so completely "like new" (the discs are 100% perfect with zero scratches/fingerprints/anything), that it almost makes me sad that it's opened. It's like someone opened it and never played it. Oh well, I will!!

What's weird is that I see I got some of the same stuff as some of you folks, like the Pokemon Blue Version and even weirder, Marvel Super Heroes (which I'd never seen until the day I bought it). That's awesome!

DUDE! your finds always remind me of the good old days before resellers over ran my paradise...

[erehwon]

DUDE! your finds always remind me of the good old days before resellers over ran my paradise...
I'm also jealous of finds like that. I never really had finds that good, but it has been pretty bad the last year. I do some reselling, but I hardly find enough for my own collection. I consider myself lucky to find one or two good items for me and maybe one thing to sell.

[kube00]

great finds!

[phoenix529]

Jesus Christ, ayb. I miss good finds.

[Kuros]

No pic this time

Bare PS2 with 1 memory card and Network Adapter plus a Black Game Boy - $40 (only bought it so I can resell the Network Adapter on ebay and then mess with the resulting parts)
Pikmin 2 - $5 (game and case)
Dreamcast w/1 controller, hookups and VMU - $13
HDMI Cable - $1

[SaraAB]

Update, my master system works perfectly. Its the version with 2 built in games, hang on and some light gun game. My other one didn't have that. This one also has controllers with a solid d-pad on my other controllers there is a hole to insert a joystick. I can finally play all the master system games I have had hanging around here for forever!

[Bubbakja]

Are the 7inches the colored vinyl versions? If so, that is insane.

Just to put it into perspective for people who are not familiar with the box set. It was a UK release on hut records and the box and the rocket EP were only available in small numbers (I think it was 1,500 or 1,000). The first 3 singles came out and the box and the rocket 7 inch came out last. The same way that Anime is released, but in reverse (if that makes sense).

I have only seen this box set once and I bought it (for $12 used), but mine are the non colored editions (which are the reissue).

I don't even want to comment on Mellon Collie, but I think I passed an opportunity to buy it when it came out at the record store (but I am not sure). I think it was $50 or something when it came out but i could be wrong.

They look colored to me(look at the one he blew up in his photos its gold/yellow). I had no idea that the mellon collie LP was worth so much either, much jealousy on that grab.

[Chairman_LMAO]

Are the 7inches the colored vinyl versions? If so, that is insane.

Just to put it into perspective for people who are not familiar with the box set. It was a UK release on hut records and the box and the rocket EP were only available in small numbers (I think it was 1,500 or 1,000). The first 3 singles came out and the box and the rocket 7 inch came out last. The same way that Anime is released, but in reverse (if that makes sense).

I have only seen this box set once and I bought it (for $12 used), but mine are the non colored editions (which are the reissue).

I don't even want to comment on Mellon Collie, but I think I passed an opportunity to buy it when it came out at the record store (but I am not sure). I think it was $50 or something when it came out but i could be wrong.

The Disarm/Siamese Dream one in the second pic is on colored vinyl, the ones in the box are not. The box set release was a limited edition (I think around 6,000) and are not on colored vinyl. In fact, if you ever see a box that has the colored vinyl, it's a fake, as the colored versions are much more common. Even so, it's worth much more than the $12 you paid for it.

The Not Worth Asking/Honey Spider II 7" was from the original vinyl release of Pisces Iscariot. I looked for the album at the sale, but found nothing.

[slowdive21]

In fact, if you ever see a box that has the colored vinyl, it's a fake, as the colored versions are much more common.


I do not think this part is right. I am pretty sure the singles were released separately (on colored vinyl) and the rocket one came with a box with a sticker on it to self assemble a set. This is what I have been able to find.

http://www.spfc.org/songs-releases/discog.html?discog_id=15

This is referring to the colored versions.

The Black versions that you and I have are here:

http://www.spfc.org/songs-releases/discog.html?discog_id=16


I am pretty sure the colored rocket ep is the most sought after SP record. (At least it was in the late 90s).

Here is confirmation on ebay:

http://cgi.ebay.com/Smashing-Pumpkins-Rocket-Peach-Wax-Siamese-Singles-Box_W0QQitemZ400067197999QQcmdZViewItemQQptZMusic_ on_Vinyl?hash=item5d25dcfc2f&_trksid=p3286.c0.m14

[Chairman_LMAO]

Ah, you're right. I was going by this:

This box set is comprised of the four singles from Siamese Dream, packaged in a purple box. The singles are all pressed on black vinyl from the original acetates, and come in the original sleeves (minus CR's numbering). Some unscrupulous dealers have attempted to sell the box set in 2 variants:

All black pressings except for Rocket, which is peach
All original colored pressings



and I didn't see the page about the Rocket single.

[pyoobez]

Just skimmed through the Thursday paper hoping for some yardsales tomorrow. A total of one is advertised in my town. Nothing on craigslist. Hopefully there's more tomorrow. Ah well, at least it's only two blocks from my house... and there's a yardsale at the local Moose on Saturday.

[phoenix529]

Went to a community sale today. Didn't have anything of interest, except for one thing, which I bought.

Got a Crash Bandicoot plushie for $.50. Picture upon request.

[Chairman_LMAO]

^ request.

[Himeh]

How far do you guys usually drive to get to these yard sales? I want to start getting into "yard sailing" but looking at Craigslist a lot of the sales around here are pretty spread out and you have to drive kind of far to get too. I live in a pretty big city with lots of suburbs around it.

[pyoobez]

How far do you guys usually drive to get to these yard sales? I want to start getting into "yard sailing" but looking at Craigslist a lot of the sales around here are pretty spread out and you have to drive kind of far to get too. I live in a pretty big city with lots of suburbs around it.

I walk since I don't have a license, so I'm pretty much limited to just my town. I'm on one edge of it and I've been to the other edge on occassion (roughly three miles away although probably more since I couldn't walk in a straight line).

I was out today to the one advertised... girl clothes. I found another one advertised... girl clothes. I saw another one advertised and the street name looked familiar but I couldn't place it. Got home and my sister said where she thought it was and it clicked. I'll probably hit it up tomorrow along with another one.

[SlammedNiss]

I walk since I don't have a license, so I'm pretty much limited to just my town. .

how do you carry all your loot?

[pyoobez]

how do you carry all your loot?

If it's something really heavy like the 27" TV I got, then I'll buy it and get a ride from my mom or great aunt and uncle. Despite being incredibly skinny, I'm just used to carrying heavy stuff home (I hold all weight on my forearms). Video games and even systems are relatively light compared to other stuff I've carried around two twelve packs of catfood or laundry detergent or whatever. The other weekend I was carrying a boxed NES, and then an SNES and a little PSOne with some other stuff for a mile or so and it wasn't bothersome in the least.

I think the two that were the worst were the Mountain Dew XBox I carried about a mile home and an office chair I carried a little after I moved about a mile too (the office chair I managed to "back pack"). Both were great deals so I didn't care.

Plus, I tend to feed off the looks I get when I casually walk down the street with an office chair on my back or a snow shovel or sled over my shoulder in the middle of the summer.

...I'm weird as hell, though and have an overactive thyroid so I'm always energetic. :bouncy:

[Trocar]

Plus, I tend to feed off the looks I get when I casually walk down the street with an office chair on my back or a snow shovel or sled over my shoulder in the middle of the summer.

...I'm weird as hell, though and have an overactive thyroid so I'm always energetic. :bouncy:


That is hilarious, cracked me up.

[Shazyzang]

If it's something really heavy like the 27" TV I got, then I'll buy it and get a ride from my mom or great aunt and uncle. Despite being incredibly skinny, I'm just used to carrying heavy stuff home (I hold all weight on my forearms). Video games and even systems are relatively light compared to other stuff I've carried around two twelve packs of catfood or laundry detergent or whatever. The other weekend I was carrying a boxed NES, and then an SNES and a little PSOne with some other stuff for a mile or so and it wasn't bothersome in the least.

I think the two that were the worst were the Mountain Dew XBox I carried about a mile home and an office chair I carried a little after I moved about a mile too (the office chair I managed to "back pack"). Both were great deals so I didn't care.

Plus, I tend to feed off the looks I get when I casually walk down the street with an office chair on my back or a snow shovel or sled over my shoulder in the middle of the summer.

...I'm weird as hell, though and have an overactive thyroid so I'm always energetic. :bouncy:
You should bring a backpack around, for little stuff.

[erehwon]

http://img190.imageshack.us/img190/7974/1008711reduced.th.jpg (http://img190.imageshack.us/i/1008711reduced.jpg/)

Thursday Finds
6 airsoft guns $3

I found these at a sale in a small church. They were $0.50 each. I got the two pictured for myself. I went back and got 4 more for my brother.

Friday Finds
Nintendo WiFi adapter $4
2 Star Trek DVDs $1

Sales have died down here till the fall sales. There was only one neighborhood sale. I didn't find anything there. I checked several other sales on the way home. The only finds were at one of the last sales. The dvds were $0.50 each. He did have the several good PC games like spore and sim city 4 and the psp god of war game. I passed on those since he was wanting $15 each. I found the wifi adapter sitting with some pc stuff. Is there supposed to be a disk with the wifi adapter?

[czissis]

http://img190.imageshack.us/img190/7974/1008711reduced.th.jpg (http://img190.imageshack.us/i/1008711reduced.jpg/)

Thursday Finds
6 airsoft guns $3

I found these at a sale in a small church. They were $0.50 each. I got the two pictured for myself. I went back and got 4 more for my brother.

Friday Finds
Nintendo WiFi adapter $4
2 Star Trek DVDs $1

Sales have died down here till the fall sales. There was only one neighborhood sale. I didn't find anything there. I checked several other sales on the way home. The only finds were at one of the last sales. The dvds were $0.50 each. He did have the several good PC games like spore and sim city 4 and the psp god of war game. I passed on those since he was wanting $15 each. I found the wifi adapter sitting with some pc stuff. Is there supposed to be a disk with the wifi adapter?

The fact that you bought the airsoft guns at a church makes the find so much better.

[dodgeme]

My grandpa picked up these games for me for 5 dollars. Ninja Gaiden was 2 or 3 weeks ago but it's in the picture.

http://i29.tinypic.com/rsymtl.jpg
http://i30.tinypic.com/1z3ysya.jpg

Has to be the first NES stuff I've seen at garage sales in a long time.

[Ye0ldmario]

5 for all i'm guessing, good score. Good luck tomorrow to all of you.

[dodgeme]

Yeah 5 for all. Im going out tomorrow with my grandpa. Hoping to find a few more things.

[camelking6969]

one yardsale today on a whim. picked up fallout 3 for xbox 2.00 i was happy and went home

[leftwing1018]

^^ nice find, I've been trying to find Fallout 3 cheap all summer!

[LilPaintballer]

My grandpa picked up these games for me for 5 dollars. Ninja Gaiden was 2 or 3 weeks ago but it's in the picture.

http://i29.tinypic.com/rsymtl.jpg
http://i30.tinypic.com/1z3ysya.jpg

Has to be the first NES stuff I've seen at garage sales in a long time.
Before you play any other game, you HAVE to play Milons Secret Castle, its really fun

[Krullwolf]

Went to about ten sales today, only 2 advertised video games.

Got the following SNES games:

Super Mario Kart
Super Mario All-Stars
Mortal Kombat 3
Sunset Riders w/ manual (Been looking for this game forever)
Super Street Fighter 2
Super Punch Out
Super Ghouls n' Ghosts
Super Mario World
Final Fight 2

All for $20, probably overpaid a little but the labels on the cartridges were in PERFECT condition.

[oscargrouch]

I had the EPIC FIND finally today. Pics and story soon!

Ok so yesterday night my wife said she didn't feel well and didn't want to go sailing today. I was pretty beat too, so I agreed. About 6 am I got a "Honey, can we go to this yard sale. They have games." So I got up an we ended up hitting about a dozen.

http://i269.photobucket.com/albums/jj62/minibossman/IMG_2515.jpg

Got these for $1.50. Little girl about 10 tried to charge me $20 for the game, and I said I think I can get it at GS for like 5. My wife said $1 and the girl bit.

http://i269.photobucket.com/albums/jj62/minibossman/IMG_2513.jpg

Got this for $20. Top Loader is in excellent shape. Super Metroid is flawless. Is Mega Man X worth anything?

http://i269.photobucket.com/albums/jj62/minibossman/IMG_2512.jpg

Haggled down to $22 for these. Just need a little cleaning.

And for the EPIC FIND:

Lady was cleaning out her son's crap. I would have bought a lot more stuff from her, but she was missing power cords and controllers like crazy. They had Steel Battalion controllers but no game (that they could find). Got all of the below for $30. $1 a game and $10 for the two Super NES.

http://i269.photobucket.com/albums/jj62/minibossman/IMG_2516.jpg

Unfortunately the Crono Trigger is not complete. There is no manual. But mint otherwise. And for $1 who cares?

http://i269.photobucket.com/albums/jj62/minibossman/IMG_2517.jpg

[dodgeme]

I got a few things today. Just gotta get some pictures up.

[lolwut?]

Nice finds oscar! Odd that Chrono Trigger is the only one with a box, but I'm sure you're not going to argue :D

[Ye0ldmario]

Went to about ten sales today, only 2 advertised video games.

Got the following SNES games:

Super Mario Kart
Super Mario All-Stars
Mortal Kombat 3
Sunset Riders w/ manual (Been looking for this game forever)
Super Street Fighter 2
Super Punch Out
Super Ghouls n' Ghosts
Super Mario World
Final Fight 2

All for $20, probably overpaid a little but the labels on the cartridges were in PERFECT condition.

Everything there is worth almost double you paid.

[leftwing1018]

Grats on those finds oscar!

[PotatoGuy]

found a really nice Mic stand for 6 bucks. needed it for work but i could argue that it can be used for rock band.

[pyoobez]

Went to about ten sales today, only 2 advertised video games.

Got the following SNES games:

Super Mario Kart
Super Mario All-Stars
Mortal Kombat 3
Sunset Riders w/ manual (Been looking for this game forever)
Super Street Fighter 2
Super Punch Out
Super Ghouls n' Ghosts
Super Mario World
Final Fight 2

All for $20, probably overpaid a little but the labels on the cartridges were in PERFECT condition.

Yeah man, you hardly overpaid. I'd easily have dropped $20 on those... even with having All-Stars ($1.50) and Punch Out ($2.50). I really wanna find Final Fight 2 and 3 someday. Unless prices have dropped... you could sell All-Stars or Final Fight 2 and cover it (and possibly others)

Today was a bust for me. I walked all around finding unadvertised yardsales with nothin but junk. I hit up an advertised one where they had PSOne games in those car CD sleeves. There were around 10 discs. At least half were PS Demo Discs, then ther was Rayman (w/ manual), Ford Racing 2 for the XBox and Disc 1 to Driver. I asked how much and was told $1 each if I bought them all. I turned and left.

Next door there were some crappy PS2 games like Power Rangers and that ATV Off Road for $5 each.

At another one, as I walked up a lady looked over at me approaching and then asked the woman for Nintendo games. The woman said they got rid of those years ago. I probably ran into her before, although I never bother asking. I just snag whatever's laying around at good prices.

I prob. should've grabbed some shotglasses as the Moose was selling a bunch off 5 for $1. I already have like two, though, and one's a double shot with markings on it to measure a half, one, one and a half and then two on it.

[schultzed]

ATV Off Road for $5 each.



I saw this game at a sale today. There wasn't another videogame item in sight except ATV Off Road . . . its like finding Madden 2003 :-(

[dodgeme]

Well, over all not a bad day for me. All of my finds were at only 2 sales but I took all the video game stuff I saw.

At the first sale, this kid was selling off some of his older gaming stuff. I ended up spending 12 dollars for all of it. Heres the pics of the items. Not pictured are 2 3-button 1st party Sega Genesis controllers.
http://i26.tinypic.com/m93jpy.jpg
http://i26.tinypic.com/10nt2d5.jpg
http://i27.tinypic.com/2lx9uf4.jpg
http://i32.tinypic.com/14j59hy.jpg

At this sale I really didn't expect to find anything at all. Then I saw a box of PS1 games. Which turned out to be all sports games and Myst. And their were 3 random psp games as well. I figured what the heck and paid 5 bucks for all this.
http://i31.tinypic.com/2hro0gx.jpg

Then I told my grandma to look out for certain things and she came home with a Super Nintendo Bundle. I was going to take it but I had no need for another console. So I left it at her house so my cousin could use it. I did snatch these games from the bundle though. I think she paid 15 dollars and It had 3 other games that I left.
http://i31.tinypic.com/do9zs3.jpg

So overall a pretty good day. I have never seen the genesis stick before so it was a cool find.

[cranguy]

Yard sale finds today:

SNES with about 12 games (including Super Mario and LTTP) - $5

Pokemon Battle Revolution Wii - $5

Futurama Xbox - $1

PC Strategy 3-pack with Worms Armageddon, MechCommander Gold, and Civ II - $1

I was dead tired and only spent about an hour and a half out, but I'm pretty satisfied with these finds.

[SaraAB]

Bust for me today, but I have been getting a lot of stuff so I can't complain. I really didn't get anything gaming related because most of the sales I went to were repeats today. I got a few other things, but just a few. These people are paying $30 for an ad when they just ran their sale a couple weeks ago, very stupid IMO. People weren't even coming to the sales. I think I cleaned out a bunch of houses here LOL!

[FOnewearl]

http://img513.imageshack.us/img513/7321/yardsales82209.th.jpg (http://img513.imageshack.us/i/yardsales82209.jpg/)

Tarzan (PS1, Complete) - $1
Atari Paddle Plug & Play - .50
Animaniacs (GB) .25

Small finds all from different sales. First two were IAP and Animaniacs was .50 but took .25, looks bad and the label is missing but figured I'd take a chance for a quarter since I don't have it.

Earthworm Jim
Mario's Early Years: Fun with Numbers
Super Mario All-Stars

$6

Asked about games at a house and they brought out these 3 and Frogger which I passed on. Started at $5 each then said how about $3 each and took my offer of $6 for these 3.

Playstation 2 With Hook-Ups, System Stand & 2 1st Party Controllers - $5

No price and when I asked the guy said to make an offer so I told him I'd give him $5 which he didn't hesitate to take. I'm guessing it doesn't work but if this is so I'm hoping I can easily fix it.

Genesis/Sega CD 2 With Hook-Ups, 3x Controllers (2 Generic, 1 1st Party), Universal Cleaning Kit (Missing 2 Parts) & Web Browser 2.0 (Dreamcast & Sealed)

Games & Empty Game Cases

Eternal Champions (Cart)
Haunting Starring Polterguy (Cased)
Lotus II (Cart)
Maximum Carnage (Cart)
NBA Jam (Cart)
NFL Football '94 (Cart)
Puggsy (Cased)
Samurai Shodown (Cart)
Sonic Spinball (Cart)
Super Monaco GP (Cased)
Streets of Rage 2 (Complete)

Contra Hard Corps (Case Only)
Last Battle (Case Only)

$10

Offered $5 but they were asking $20 but said they could do $10 which I took. Oddly enough this is the first time I've seen Streets of Rage 2 in the wild since you could still find it new but was happy that it was complete as I only had a cart only copy.

Non Find BS

I only went to one sale in my town on Friday between the rain scare and not many sales in any one neigborhood on Friday. Saturday the rain held off and I got to almost 35 sales between 3 areas.

[BlueSwim]

http://www.cheapassgamer.com/forums/picture.php?albumid=69&pictureid=8939

Best gaming pick-up I've had at a yard sale in years. The labels on the games are marker & sticker damaged, but everything works. I've rarely come across anything actually worth buying, but I lucked out big-time.

--Hardware--
Sega Genesis(First Generation Model) - 1 Official Sega 3-Button Controller, Power Adapter, No A/V Cord, but I was buying it for the games anyways.
1 Fighter Stick SG-6 by Asciiware - Everything seems to be in working order. It's in pristine condition.
1 Power Clutch SG by Asciiware - Also seems to be in working order. Some small scuffs on the buttons.

--Games--
Sonic The Hedgehog - Already had it.
Taz in Escape From Mars - Ditto, but not as badly drawn on.
TNN Outdoors Bass Tournament '96 - Again, Ditto. Fair-sized rip on the label.
The Incredible Hulk - Got a portion of the sticker off, but not all of it.
The Lion King - Has the name "Zack McKelvey" written on it.
Mortal Kombat - Price written on label.
Toy Story - Store sticker.
Mighty Morphin' Power Rangers - Price written on label.
Earthworm Jim - Store sticker left the word "VOID" after removing it.
Aladdin - Marker damage.
Mickey's Ultimate Challenge - Popped it in to test it out and saw the credits about 15 minutes later. No exaggeration. I feel so bad for any parent who paid $60 or more for it.
Batman: The Video Game - Price written in marker on label.

--CD's--
Avril Lavigne's "Let Go" - Great album judging by the three tracks I knew beforehand and what little I've listened to otherwise.

I ended up paying $11 for everything. I paid $1 for the CD and haggled the Genesis stuff down to $10 from $15. Very pleased with my haul.:bouncy::bouncy::bouncy:

[schultzed]

Pretty poor weekend. 2 hours on Friday yielded very little. 3 hours on Saturday turned up some really nice books but only a little gaming stuff.

I don't know about toy or models . . . is this stuff any good?

http://i823.photobucket.com/albums/zz154/schultzed/082209toys.jpg

I CIFed $3 . . . covering the $8 tag on one box.

This stuff was all .50 to $2--but it was gleaned from many sales.

http://i823.photobucket.com/albums/zz154/schultzed/082209misc.jpg

I paid $2 for GH but it goes with a guitar and GHII and GH80s picked up in previous weeks.

The GB games were 3 for $1.

The RE guide and DC TR were 2 for $1.

The season seems to be winding down here :-(

On my way home from an errand (later in the afternoon) I did spot this:

http://i823.photobucket.com/albums/zz154/schultzed/082209NES.jpg

Marked $3 but she took 2. The system is missing the power block but is otherwise nice (no games) in the original styrofoam. The box is very rough. It was folded flat with the system on display but it looks like the box was left out in the rain and smells a little like mildew . . . may have to toss it :-(

[leftwing1018]

Very early/quick morning for me. I set out at 7am and am back now at 8am lol. I hit my $25 cap very quickly because of some GREAT loot. Here is what everyone wants to see.. the pictures!

Platinum Gamecube
1x wired controller
1x wavebird (no receiver tho :( anyone have one they wanna sell???)
1x controller extension cord (i think)
MarioKart Double Dash (missing manual)
Mario Party 5 (complete)
The Legend of Zelda: Four Swords (complete)
The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina or Time/Master Quest (complete)

Total: $20

http://img8.imageshack.us/img8/5103/picture218mfe.jpg (http://img8.imageshack.us/i/picture218mfe.jpg/)

Mario's Time Machine
Super Mario World 2: Yoshi's Isand
Yoshi's Cookie
Kirby's Avalanche

Total $5

http://img29.imageshack.us/img29/4894/picture217v.jpg (http://img29.imageshack.us/i/picture217v.jpg/)

I would mark today as VERY successful! :D

[schultzed]

Very early/quick morning for me. I set out at 7am and am back now at 8am lol. I hit my $25 cap very quickly because of some GREAT loot.


Very nice . . . most times I see a GC they want $50 (with no games).

[Jmclark]

So upset I didn't go yesterday. Friend of mine got an N64 w/ 11 games, Zelda: TP, and SSBB for $20. Too bad I spent all my money on a Dreamcast and Wii games. :(

[schultzed]

I totally forgot about this bad boy . . .

http://i823.photobucket.com/albums/zz154/schultzed/082209ACflighstick.jpg

I got this for $1 on Friday. I didn't know what it was and assumed that it was for the PC. Now I see that it is for the PS2 (forgot about the USB port on the PS2). As I looked it over this morning, I was thinking . . . "too bad I don't have the game, or do I . . ." Turns out I had picked it up almost 3 years ago. The game was $10 (at Half Price Books) and came bundled with the guide. I sold off the guide (for $30!).

I'm going to try it out.

UPDATE:

It appears to work fine but I think there is a steeper learning curve than I'm willing to put into it.

I wonder what it would sell for.

[Ye0ldmario]

couldn't do much yesterday because we got some of the remnants of hurricane bill up here

[schultzed]

I totally forgot about this bad boy . . .

http://i823.photobucket.com/albums/zz154/schultzed/082209ACflighstick.jpg

I got this for $1 on Friday. I didn't know what it was and assumed that it was for the PC. Now I see that it is for the PS2 (forgot about the USB port on the PS2). As I looked it over this morning, I was thinking . . . "too bad I don't have the game, or do I . . ." Turns out I had picked it up almost 3 years ago. The game was $10 (at Half Price Books) and came bundled with the guide. I sold off the guide (for $30!).

I'm going to try it out.

UPDATE:

It appears to work fine but I think there is a steeper learning curve than I'm willing to put into it.

I wonder what it would sell for.


Not much to compare . . .

This guy gave it away . . .

http://cgi.ebay.com/PS-2-Ace-Combat-...d=p3286.c0.m14

This provides some clue . . .

http://cgi.ebay.com/NAMCO-Ace-Combat...d=p3286.c0.m14

I just found a copy of Ace Combat 4 (my backlog is HUGE). I'll probably put the flightstick with AC4 and AC5 on ebay in early Dec.

Maybe I can get near this one . . .

http://cgi.ebay.com/Ace-Combat-4-5-a...d=p3286.c0.m14

[Sinnbox]

I had to work friday and then untill noon on saturday, but I had to run and pick up some games I had won in an online auction afterwork so I headed off towards the town I had won the games from and saw a sale so I stopped. Here is what I found there at 2 P.M.!! They were under a huge stack of worthless PS1/2 Sports games thankfully i moved a copy of some crap NES from the side of the pile and saw these on the bottom.
http://joelsinn.googlepages.com/101_0384.JPG

I got all that for $20, He was askign $6 a game so I CIF'd a $20.

I then headed off for the games I had won online. they ended up being at a storage unit place, a local hoarder had been keeping his stuff there and didnt pay his rent, they were selling all his games for $4 apiece, or $2 if you buy a lot....They told me some guy had just spent around $1000 on games!!! I saw a pic online of what the guy got....tons of sealed RPGs most rare, tons of other sealed games, tons of open rare games.....amazing!!! I ended up getting this for $22

http://joelsinn.googlepages.com/101_0385.JPG

If I would have just gotten there 2 hours ealier I would be $1000 poorer, but alot happier!!!

[lolwut?]

Damn, nice finds guys.

Sinnbox, did you pick up that Wii component cable to use or flip?

[Sinnbox]

Damn, nice finds guys.

Sinnbox, did you pick up that Wii component cable to use or flip?

I'm not sure, It was a spur of the moment purchase...I tend to do that with gaming items. I'm trying to decide If I want to keep it or not, I dont use my Wii that much, and I'm not even sure if the Wii's graphics will be that much better with component.

[leftwing1018]

Great find Sinnbox on those complete SNES games!

[N3UROP0D]

Yesterday it rained for like ten minutes at 8 AM which was enough to make most people cancel their sales. Those that remained were just horrible.

But today I was on my way to the store and noticed a few signs that weren't there yesterday, so I stopped at 3 sales and got some stuff. Nothing legendary but it sure lifted my spirits after yesterday's crapfest.

Game guides $1 each: Half-Life (PS2 version), Devil May Cry 3, Jak & Daxter
Half-Life (PS2) - $3
Cherry picked these from a huge stack of mostly mediocre PS1/PS2 game guides. Asked for games and they brought out many of the games the guides were for and I decided to grab Half-Life.

Super Dragon Ball Z (PS2) - $3
At another sale. Figured what the hell, why not.

Silent Hill (PS1) - $2
Complete black label copy, but the disc is scratched to hell. Maybe I'll find a nice disc-only copy some day.

So yeah, not fantastic stuff but pretty good for 3 PM on Sunday.

[Eagle3ye]

Went to a yardsale today and got
Fable Xbox
BattleField 2 Modern Combat Xbox
Assasins Creed Xbox 360

All for 4 bucks (i wanted assasins creed anyway so i saved quite alot of money on that and got 2 extra games so im happy):bouncy:

[SlammedNiss]

I'm not even sure if the Wii's graphics will be that much better with component.
I have a 65" RP HD tv, and the difference between 480p and 720p was VERY obvious.

Ya got em' cheap, I'd say use them.

[allyourblood]

I have a 65" RP HD tv, and the difference between 480p and 720p was VERY obvious.

Ya got em' cheap, I'd say use them.

Just remember, even over a component connection, the Wii will still only output at 480p. It doesn't display any higher.

[schultzed]

I have a 65" RP HD tv, and the difference between 480p and 720p was VERY obvious.

Ya got em' cheap, I'd say use them.

allyourblood is right

The difference would be between 480I and 480P but you're dead on . . . its a noticible improvement. The same was also true with the Gamecube.

[Kuros]

http://i326.photobucket.com/albums/k413/Kuros2/finds082309.jpg

Interesting items for today:

Mega Man 1, 2 ,3 and Super Mario Bros 3 - $4 each. A bit more than I'd like to pay but I know these games get a bit more than that.

Lufia 2 - $13. Good price, I'd like to trade it for the first Lufia.

Lethal Enforcers 1 & 2, X-Men Children of the Atom, Jackie Chan Stuntman and King of Fighters 95 - $15

Dragon Quest 4, Arc the Lad 2, Arc the Lad 3, Grandia, Ridge Racer Revolution and 2 games I don't know what the are - $15. Odd, I almost never see Japanese items, but this guy had these in quite good condition.

PS2 network adapter and 2 network adapter discs - $13. For ebay.

[Dokstarr]

Dragon Quest 4, Arc the Lad 2, Arc the Lad 3, Grandia, Ridge Racer Revolution and 2 games I don't know what the are - $15. Odd, I almost never see Japanese items, but this guy had these in quite good condition.



Not to sidetrack to much - does anyone know of any place to find values of import games. I have a few boxes full of PS1 and PS2 imports (some good ones like Arc the Lad, the PS1 final fantasy's, parasite eve 1 and 2, and a bunch more) and I really have no idea where I would go to find out if they are worth anything like the American counterparts are. I checked eBay for someone but I would see none on there or like just 1 in the last 90 days.

[oscargrouch]

Little bit OT but the Final Fantasy IX I picked up has a disc 3 that has been buffed. Is there a way I can test it short of playing through the first 3 discs?

[LilPaintballer]

Do you have a ps3? You could find a save file online thats up to disc 3 put it on a flash drive and continue from there.

[allyourblood]

Little bit OT but the Final Fantasy IX I picked up has a disc 3 that has been buffed. Is there a way I can test it short of playing through the first 3 discs?

You can rip it to your computer twice using CD copy software and then run a file compare. If the two files are identical, you're all set. If not, there may be playability issues.

[GoldenfrankO]

Didn't pick up much... 2 days ago I picked up...

Zelda Ocarina of Time Official Guide - $.50
Donkey Kong 64 Official Guide - $.50

[oscargrouch]

Good ideas lilpaintballer and allyourblood. Thanks

[slowdive21]

Not a game, but I like it! Wanted $10 CIF $5

http://img35.imageshack.us/img35/2497/voltronr.th.jpg (http://img35.imageshack.us/my.php?image=voltronr.jpg)

Intellivision $5 for all. I like the $68 original price tag on the voice system.

http://img33.imageshack.us/img33/3703/intell.th.jpg (http://img33.imageshack.us/my.php?image=intell.jpg)

http://img44.imageshack.us/img44/6734/intell2.th.jpg (http://img44.imageshack.us/my.php?image=intell2.jpg)


http://img190.imageshack.us/img190/5259/intell3.th.jpg (http://img190.imageshack.us/my.php?image=intell3.jpg)

D2 guide and Zelda guide .50 total



This one has a story. I looked at the PS1 and the guy running the sale told me he "just reduced" the Ps1 to $15 (from $25) I told him I would be interested in a few of the games (silent hill, dino crisis, and Legend of Dragoon).
I said "How much for the games?"
He said "$3 each or You can make me an offer for everything".
I said "Ok. $5"
He said "$12"
I said "$6"
He said "$10"
I said "$6 and the PS2 games" :)
He said "Man...You are a good negotiator!" (and took $6 for everything)


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http://img44.imageshack.us/img44/8226/ps1lot.th.jpg (http://img44.imageshack.us/my.php?image=ps1lot.jpg)

[SlammedNiss]

allyourblood is right

The difference would be between 480I and 480P but you're dead on . . . its a noticible improvement. The same was also true with the Gamecube.

OOps, my mistake. Just forgot I guess. It is STILL worth it IMO to se them.

[oper8r00]

Can definitely tell the yard sale season is winding down in my part of the neighborhood. Sales are becoming more spread out. I still hit about 50 sales between Friday and Saturday. Busted out on Friday for games but Saturday was a bit better. Below are my finds.

Sale 1 http://i200.photobucket.com/albums/aa247/oper8r00/IMG_3033.jpg

Genesis Controller
.50

Sale 2 http://i200.photobucket.com/albums/aa247/oper8r00/IMG_3032.jpg

Nintendo 64 - 2 controllers, av cables, power cable
Games - Wayne Gretzky 3d Hockey, Quarterback Club 98, World Cup 98, Command and Conquer, Banjo Kazooie, Goldeneye 007
IAP was $20 for the console, $10 for the games. Offered $12 for it all, ended at $18.

Sale 3 http://i200.photobucket.com/albums/aa247/oper8r00/IMG_3031.jpg

N64 Games - Wave Race 64, Shadows of the Empire, Tony Hawk, Tony Hawk 3, MRC, Ready to Rumble boxing
IAP was $2.50 each, CIF'd $10 for it all.

Score of the weekend was fantastic. I asked for games at the sale and the tells me he has an old Atari, while he gets it down out of his garage, I see in the box some other treasures. Everything is below - I split this up because its a biggie :D

http://i200.photobucket.com/albums/aa247/oper8r00/IMG_3035.jpg

Atari 400/800 - BlackJack, Super Breakout, 3-D Tic-Tac-Toe, Video Easel, States & Capitals, Basketball, Intro to Programming 1, Hangman, Computer Chess, Master Diskette, ET, Qix - All complete

http://i200.photobucket.com/albums/aa247/oper8r00/IMG_3036.jpg

Atari 7800, complete, 2 joysticks, 2 2600 joysticks, 2 paddles, 21 Common games

http://i200.photobucket.com/albums/aa247/oper8r00/IMG_3038.jpg

Sony Playstation 1001, av cables, 2 controllers, power cords - works great
Longbox games (all complete) - Wipeout, Twisted Metal, Road Rash, Street Fighter Alpha, Need for Speed, Loaded, NFL Gameday, NBA In the Zone
Other games - Resident Evil 2, Gameday 99, Apocalypse, Syphon Filter, 2xtreme, Lost world, Twisted Metal 2, Madden 97, Tekken 2, Mortal Kombat 4

The Jewels of the Lot! http://i200.photobucket.com/albums/aa247/oper8r00/IMG_3037.jpg

TurboGrafx 16 - complete in box, still has film over the controller and unit
TurboStick - complete in box
TurboExpress with TurboVision and ac adapter
Games - Darkwing Duck, Ninja Spirit, World Class Baseball, New Adventure Island, Keith Courage, Tiger Road, Kick Boxing, Sidearms, Devil's Crush, Bonks Revenge, Splatterhouse, Legendary Axe II

The guy wanted to break it all up and price it all out by system, initially wanted $100 just for the playstation. Another guy came by and started rifling through the games while I was going through them so I knew I needed to act fast.
I offered $100 for it all, which was balked at, he then came at me with $100 for the playstation with games and said he wanted $250 for it all. We finally ended at $175 for the lot and said if he found more he'd call me.:whee:

[Dazz]

holy smokes, awesome score on the TG-16 lot

[dodgeme]

Now thats a nice find lol. I would love to find a Turbografx.

[oscargrouch]

Sweet turbo find. Wish I still had mine.

[slowdive21]

Here is part 2 my finds...Yes there is a part 3


It was an intellivision weekend! Paid $7 for all the intellivision stuff and the DVDs, Bluray, Demo discs.



http://img198.imageshack.us/img198/1859/inte5.th.jpg (http://img198.imageshack.us/my.php?image=inte5.jpg)

http://img40.imageshack.us/img40/8255/inte4.th.jpg (http://img40.imageshack.us/my.php?image=inte4.jpg)

Yes another intellivoice
http://img39.imageshack.us/img39/2047/inte3.th.jpg (http://img39.imageshack.us/my.php?image=inte3.jpg)

http://img268.imageshack.us/img268/3153/inte2.th.jpg (http://img268.imageshack.us/my.php?image=inte2.jpg)

http://img268.imageshack.us/img268/9325/integsp.th.jpg (http://img268.imageshack.us/my.php?image=integsp.jpg)


DVDs

http://img39.imageshack.us/img39/3646/dvds.th.jpg (http://img39.imageshack.us/my.php?image=dvds.jpg)


Tetris and Nintendo sleeves .50 for everything

http://img39.imageshack.us/img39/5074/91461660.th.jpg (http://img39.imageshack.us/my.php?image=91461660.jpg)


The granddaddy of consoles.

I give you the APF TV Fun

http://img268.imageshack.us/img268/4926/apfj.th.jpg (http://img268.imageshack.us/my.php?image=apfj.jpg)

Paid $1

[allyourblood]

Didn't get as much stuff this week, but still not bad:

http://www.killedaway.com/images/yardsales/2snes1gbtn.jpg (http://www.killedaway.com/images/yardsales/2snes1gb.jpg)
SNES Super Mario World
SNES Donkey Kong Country
GBC Tetris DX, $2 for all

http://www.killedaway.com/images/yardsales/2xboxswtn.jpg (http://www.killedaway.com/images/yardsales/2xboxsw.jpg)
XB Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic
XB Star Wars Jedi Outcast: Jedi Knights II, $5 for both

http://www.killedaway.com/images/yardsales/mightmagictn.jpg (http://www.killedaway.com/images/yardsales/mightmagic.jpg)
GEN Might and Magic: Gates to Another World, $1

http://www.killedaway.com/images/yardsales/ffviiitn.jpg (http://www.killedaway.com/images/yardsales/ffviii.jpg)
PSX Final Fantasy VIII (missing manual and disc 4), 50¢

http://www.killedaway.com/images/yardsales/4xboxtn.jpg (http://www.killedaway.com/images/yardsales/4xbox.jpg)
PS2 Star Ocean: Till the End of Time (GH, missing manual)
PS2 Red Faction
XB ToeJam & Earl III: Mission to Earth
XB Jade Empire Limited Edition, $5 for all

http://www.killedaway.com/images/yardsales/gdariustn.jpg (http://www.killedaway.com/images/yardsales/gdarius.jpg)
PSX G. Darius, $2

http://www.killedaway.com/images/yardsales/nevermindultimatepinballtn.jpg (http://www.killedaway.com/images/yardsales/nevermindultimatepinball.jpg)
CD Nirvana: Nevermind
GBA Action Replay Ultimate Codes for Pokemon
GBA E-Reader Pinball (new), $2 for all

http://www.killedaway.com/images/yardsales/simpsonstubbstn.jpg (http://www.killedaway.com/images/yardsales/simpsonstubbs.jpg)
XB Stubbs the Zombie: Rebel Without a Pulse
DVD The Simpsons: The Complete Second Season, $4 for both

http://www.killedaway.com/images/yardsales/smb3guidetn.jpg (http://www.killedaway.com/images/yardsales/smb3guide.jpg)
GBA Super Mario Advance 4: Super Mario Bros. 3 Strategy Guide, 50¢

http://www.killedaway.com/images/yardsales/npower00tn.jpg (http://www.killedaway.com/images/yardsales/npower00.jpg) http://www.killedaway.com/images/yardsales/npower01tn.jpg (http://www.killedaway.com/images/yardsales/npower01.jpg)

http://www.killedaway.com/images/yardsales/npower02tn.jpg (http://www.killedaway.com/images/yardsales/npower02.jpg) http://www.killedaway.com/images/yardsales/npower03tn.jpg (http://www.killedaway.com/images/yardsales/npower03.jpg)
Nintendo Power issues 1-75 (sadly missing issues 34, 36, 65, 68, 70, 71, 74)
Misc strategy guides and catalogs, $5 for all


This past weekend was pretty light. It was sprinkling/raining on Saturday, so there weren't many sales. Anyway, this week's favorite finds were G Darius and the Nintendo Power magazines.

G Darius is in the same condition as Dragon Warrior VII from a couple weeks ago: that is, it's in "like new" condition; you could have unwrapped it yesterday for how nice it looks.

The Nintendo Power magazines were a real highlight for me. Found at a "block sale", they were sitting in a box and I almost didn't see them as they were covered in Beckett price guides. I happened to notice a hint of color peeking around one of the Becketts so I started digging. I was excited to find a handful of Nintendo Powers underneath. As I kept looking I found more and more. I grabbed the whole box and headed up to the seller, asking how much he wanted for all of them. He said, "Um...", so I said, "How about five bucks for the whole thing, and you can keep the Becketts and baseball stuff?" He hesitated, but then said okay. I left and headed to more sales down the same side of the street. Finding nothing, I headed back to my car. As I was passing his house, he waved me over to him. He handed me a huge stack of more Nintendo Power magazines! I asked if he wanted anything else for these, and he said no.

I'm bummed that a few issues are missing, but it's still a beautiful collection. I can't wait to go through and (re)read some of these.

[schultzed]

I found a TurboGrafx last year at a resale shop for $15. It was almost complete in box . . . it was missing the instructions and the pack-in (Keith Courage). I thought of keeping it . . . but I don't have a "room of doom" so I got a complete copy of Keith (off Half.com for $4-5 including shipping) and sold it the system on ebay last holiday season for something between $100 and $150.

[zero_bit]

Fantastic find on the TG16. I had one as a kid but my sister destroyed the console after I owned it for only 4 days.

[oscargrouch]

And your sister Is still alive?

[SlammedNiss]

TG-16 FTW! I have one NIB I picked up on ebay several years back. Easily one of the most under-rated consoles ever.

[slowdive21]

Here are the last of my finds this week.


GC with 27 games including DDR Mario mix CIB. Wanted $120 CIF: $50


http://img268.imageshack.us/img268/1126/gclot3.th.jpg (http://img268.imageshack.us/my.php?image=gclot3.jpg)

http://img268.imageshack.us/img268/4240/gclot4.th.jpg (http://img268.imageshack.us/my.php?image=gclot4.jpg)


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http://img199.imageshack.us/img199/839/gclot.th.jpg (http://img199.imageshack.us/my.php?image=gclot.jpg)

http://img5.imageshack.us/img5/4074/gclot2.th.jpg (http://img5.imageshack.us/my.php?image=gclot2.jpg)

[Bubbakja]

Didn't get as much stuff this week, but still not bad:



http://www.killedaway.com/images/yardsales/npower00tn.jpg (http://www.killedaway.com/images/yardsales/npower00.jpg)


I remember all those covers besides the kirby one. I'll never forget receiving the issue with Mega Man III on the cover, I don't know why but that was a prominent game for me. I think my first issue was the one with chip and dale on the cover. Awesome find

[phoenix529]

^My first one was Killer Instinct. :D

@slowdive21: You fucking asshole. Your Gamecube collection now looks exactly like what I've spent a year and a half building mine into. Nice score.

[Kuros]

A pretty expensive couple of days.

This whole lot was $40 on Craigslist. Only the games and accessories were advertised, but the guy tossed in the system (although he said the system wasn't working, if so, the box and everything are mint), the controller, the movies and the anime figures.

What am I gonna do with anime figures? Anyway, neat lot as I don't see too much in the way of japanese items. Well, typically considering this weekend then this lot:

http://i326.photobucket.com/albums/k413/Kuros2/finds082609001.jpg

http://i326.photobucket.com/albums/k413/Kuros2/finds082609002.jpg


$50 for the following N64 games + system with expansion, hookups and 3 controllers. Another from Craigslist. A bit more than I'd like to pay, but I can make it back from the system and some of the games I already have.


http://i326.photobucket.com/albums/k413/Kuros2/finds082609003.jpg


$100 for a 360, HD and power brick. I already had the faceplate and I put it on because this system is modded. It's so I can tell the difference between my vanilla 360 and this one.

http://i326.photobucket.com/albums/k413/Kuros2/finds082609004.jpg

[allyourblood]

Kuros, that's hilarious:

I saw the Japanese game lot and passed, because I figured I'd never play them, but I remembered your Genesis lot from earlier and I said to myself, "Watch, Kuros is gonna post this up in a day or two."

:lol:


Also, I was tempted by the 64 lot, but I have almost all the games already. You have a lot more drive than me, that's for sure!

[Kuros]

Kuros, that's hilarious:

I saw the Japanese game lot and passed, because I figured I'd never play them, but I remembered your Genesis lot from earlier and I said to myself, "Watch, Kuros is gonna post this up in a day or two."

:lol:


Also, I was tempted by the 64 lot, but I have almost all the games already. You have a lot more drive than me, that's for sure!

I don't have a few of the games. I figured I'd keep what I dont have and sell the rest on CL.

[oscargrouch]

Anyone going to Wombat's garage sale? Would be kinda funny if someone CIF'ed him for something.

[LilPaintballer]

Anyone going to Wombat's garage sale? Would be kinda funny if someone CIF'ed him for something.

He lives in massapequa, right? I could if i wanted to....

[slowdive21]

Only a few sales were listed today and I only made it to one. Picked up 2 turbografix 'turbosticks' for $1 each.

[Jmclark]

Meh, no sales were advertised today, and basically all the ones tomorrow are postponed because of possible bad weather. Just gonna hit up the flea market and some stores to look for clearance stuff instead I guess.

[FOnewearl]

Fat (Broken) PS2 With 1st Party Memory Card & A Wired Guitar Hero Guitar - $5

Told me this was broken, was asking $15 but took my offer of $5.

Black GameCube with Hook Ups, GameBoy Player, 1st Party Controller & Madden 2006 In The System - $5

Went to this sale late (about 12:30) after I was done yardsaling since I was passing by, I would have went earlier but it wasen't on my list since they just started advertising on Friday. I do my route list up the day before so I would have everything from the Thursday paper on my route. $5 was the IAP.

Not many sales today so I only went to 8 sales between my town and the next town over. I went out to 2 more sales later on, one advertising something good which I'll get to and the one I got the GameCube at since it was on the way back. No pictures today either just because my finds were that dam boring :D

The one area of town I normally go yardsaling at if it has a decent number of sales I passed on today as it only had two sales and they were spaced out at that. I saw them relist on craigslist last night probably fairly late as I didn't notice it when I rechecked craigslist last night for any newly added sales and didn't notice it until about 10:30-11 this morning after I was done yardsaling and they added some details of what they would have and this caught my eye.

Games - Super Nintendo system (and games), GameBoy and games, Sega Genesis and SEGA CD! with games, Nintendo 64, board games, computer games


Right about the time I saw this it started raining so I finished up some stuff I was doing and figured I'd make a special trip out to see if anything was left when the rain cleared up. I got to the sale at about 11:30 and didn't see anything, asked about older games nope a few different guys wiped them out of everything probably by about an hour or two after they started this morning. The worst part is that the lady mentioned some of the stuff they had and mentioned a Virtual Boy which wasen't mentioned in the ad. She said that they probably didn't pay enough for the games so I'm guessing they might have had them marked and got offered left and took it, like if they had it marked at $25 for a system with games which they felt was cheap but took $10-15.

This same thing happened to me last Sunday also at a yardsale I stopped at on the way to the Flea Market. Had a few systems that all sold Saturday from a few different guys that ended up buying everything between them but they had an Xbox to Sega so I'm guessing it wasen't as rich in the older stuff that interests me more so. This sale I also didn't go to as I wasen't yardsaling in that area Friday or Saturday since I went the other direction from where I live to go out last Saturday because more sales were going on in those towns.

If nothing else this proves that yardsaling has a lot to do with luck as the areas I passed on since I didn't have a good chance of finding anything because of less sales ended up having the motherloads.

Besides the stuff I missed at the one sale I made a special trip out to the sale I hit on the way back that I got the GameCube from mentioned having a Playstation, GameBoy (I'm guessing Advance since they still had a soft case of some sorts for GBA) PSP that must have been at least fairly cheap as it sold (note - the only PSP(s) I can recall seeing this year where over $100) and GameCube games which were all gone.

[karkyco]

I then headed off for the games I had won online. they ended up being at a storage unit place, a local hoarder had been keeping his stuff there and didnt pay his rent, they were selling all his games for $4 apiece, or $2 if you buy a lot....They told me some guy had just spent around $1000 on games!!! I saw a pic online of what the guy got....tons of sealed RPGs most rare, tons of other sealed games, tons of open rare games.....amazing!!! I ended up getting this for $22


If I would have just gotten there 2 hours ealier I would be $1000 poorer, but alot happier!!!

Sinnboxx, how did you find out about this storage unit auction and/or these online games you won?

I've heard many a story of hit or miss storage unit auctions, mostly they are "bid or pay X amount for the sight unseen lot of stuff that's in the units, or sometimes you get to look inside and bid that way.

How the hell did this particular sale work???

[erehwon]

Sinnboxx, how did you find out about this storage unit auction and/or these online games you won?

I've heard many a story of hit or miss storage unit auctions, mostly they are "bid or pay X amount for the sight unseen lot of stuff that's in the units, or sometimes you get to look inside and bid that way.

How the hell did this particular sale work???
I've also wondered about those sales. I've never really had the chance to go to one.

I had a good day, for me anyways. I spent spent $11.50. I came away with 2 super nintendo system, a superscope, and 8 PC games. I grabbed fallout, a thief game, a jedi knight game and expansion, diablo 2 and expansion, and I forget what else. I'll post pics tomorrow. I like picking up PC games since people in my area usually price them very cheap compared to console games. I'm not sure when I'll get to these, but at $1 each, I couldn't pass on them.

EDIT
http://img199.imageshack.us/img199/1586/1008738reduced.th.jpg (http://img199.imageshack.us/i/1008738reduced.jpg/)

Here's my PC game haul:
Baldur's Gate
Baldur's Gate: Tales of the Sword Coast
Baldur's Gate 2
Diablo 2 Expansion (Diablo 2 was also in box)
Jedi Knight Dark Forces 2
Jedi Knight Dark Forces 2: Mysteries of the Sith expansion
Fallout
Thief: The Dark Project

[schultzed]

fuck
I'll report my findings later on. I should've known better here is the tale of the one that got away.

I stopped at sale that was just starting (person still setting up) and there was no one in sight (no one). There was an NES (with hookups) and a big pile of games (probably 20) mostly utter crap. Anyway, the owner wasn't near . . . so I played it cool and looked at some stuff across the street only to come back 2 mins. later and find a guy buying it for $15 (I was going to try $10). I really didn't see any other customers but I did buy a profitable box of books at the other sale.

Not a big deal overall because he looked poor (this was a low-income street) and I have enough of this stuff--and I'm guessing he wanted it to play it. Still . . .

NEVER take your hands off something you might want to buy!

[slowdive21]

I did buy a profitable box of books at the other sale.


Do you use one of those price scanner services? If so which one?

[dodgeme]

Well in between dancing through the rain drops I hit a few sales today. A lot of them had pc stuff but I really don't buy pc games. First couple of sales I found absolutely nothing but out of no where a box of genesis stuff appeared. Yet another Model 2 with a bunch of crappy sports games and with a 15 dollar price tag I decided to pass.

As I continued my day a lot more of nothing but I finally came across some stuff. Went to a sale filled with everything and found these 3 Xbox 360 games. Nothing great but at 5 dollars a piece their not that bad.
http://i25.tinypic.com/vq1tu8.jpg

Next sale I can across a little game boy pocket. Had a lot of sharpie on it and it's missing the battery cover but it was only 2 bucks. So now I can bundle it with my spare gameboy games. LA's Totally Awesome cleaning solution really comes in handy. It ate the sharpie right up.

http://i27.tinypic.com/358xk77.jpg

Finnaly I came across another Sega Genesis. This time a model 1. It had probably 12 games or so all in box but still a lot of sports stuff. I asked how much and the lady said 10 dollars so I didn't argue. Snatched it right up. But I already have 2 genesis's so I gave it to my cousin and just took the stuff I wanted out of it. Heres what I took.

http://i30.tinypic.com/2i21naf.jpg

While it wasn't a great day for sales I didn't do too bad. This is probably my last time out before school starts back up too.

[ddrlenz]

i just got the best deal ever today i tell you what! This guy sold me 3 tanks of propane for $1! Now that's just asinine! But it's good for me cause now i can give them to mr. Strickland and he'll be happier than i was when i became senior manager!

lol?

[FOnewearl]

Xbox With Hookups, 1st Party Blue & Green Controllers & 17 Games In A Small CD Binder some Disc Only Some Disk & Manual

Games

4 Sports Game, Aracde/Mechassault 2 & OutRun 2 Demo, Blitz The League, Bloodrayne, Conflict: Dessert Storm II: Back To Baghdad, Dead Or Alive 3, Forza Motorsport, Ghost Recon, Hunter The Reckoning, Hunter The Reckoning: Redeemer, Mechassault, Mega Man Anniersary Collection, Splinter Cell, Spy Hunter, World Series of Poker

$5

One of the last sales I stopped at today which was unadvertised, asked about games and they had an Xbox on the porch that they didn't put back out after carrying it back out of the way of the rain on Friday. I left as I wasen't particularly interested but I decided to go back and ask how much since I have been meaning to get a backup if it was cheap enough incase my only Xbox were to break. They said they were asking $5 which I wasen't going to argue!

Was lazy and didn't get out the door until just after 9 but got to about 24 sales in two areas and a few more near my house when I got home. The theme of my finds this week for me was cheap last gen backup systems :D

Barely any games today for 24 sales total not even some of the usual dreck everyone tends to see sitting around at yardsales, besides my Xbox find I saw 1 Xbox game left at a sale and a Wheel of Fortune Handheld if you can count that has a video game, I seem to see one of these not selling at a yardsale almost every week. I also saw the one Atari Plug & Play new but marked at $10.

I only had 2 sales today which mentioned selling video games already when I asked about "Old Nintendo Games Or Any Other Kind of Older Video Games" but they seemed to take that has just video games in general so it was probably just something like some last gen games & didn't describe what was say an old NES with some games or anything like that.

[Jmclark]

No luck for me today. Only hit up 2 because of the rain.

Next week should be good.

[Scorch]

A "Not For Resale" Smash Brothers on the Cube?

What in the world is that from? It wasn't bundled with systems or anything, IIRC.

[Shazyzang]

A "Not For Resale" Smash Brothers on the Cube?

What in the world is that from? It wasn't bundled with systems or anything, IIRC.
I'm pretty sure it was bundled.

[lewcy]

Yard Sale in TN during the World's Biggest Yard Sale Week in Early August.

I got a working Dreamcast with 2 first party controllers, 1 VMU and Tokyo Extreme Racer 2. Paid 10.00 for everything.

Thanks !

[slowdive21]

A "Not For Resale" Smash Brothers on the Cube?

What in the world is that from? It wasn't bundled with systems or anything, IIRC.

It's a target exclusive bundle. I bought 1 (copy of the game) for $5 early in the season and now I got another one in my big GC lot.

[schultzed]

If I hadn't fucked up that NES lot (still bugging me) this would've been a pretty good weekend. As is, not too bad considering it was rainy and cold for both Fri and Sat and I was only able to go out for about 1 1/2 hours each day.

http://i823.photobucket.com/albums/zz154/schultzed/082909AF3.jpg

50 cents on Friday . . . only worthwhile because its complete

http://i823.photobucket.com/albums/zz154/schultzed/082909Gen.jpg

Friday . . . marked $5 paid $3 . . . I'm not sure why I got it . . . since I didn't jump on the NES with the big pile o game :-)

http://i823.photobucket.com/albums/zz154/schultzed/082909elmo.jpg

50 cents . . . How often do you find a sealed GBC game . . . figures its a crappy one.

http://i823.photobucket.com/albums/zz154/schultzed/082909ps1.jpg

Marked $10 . . . I asked how much and the kid said $3 . . . so I counted with $2. The reset button is jammed down (cuz of something that looks like soda . . . I'll have to soak it with alcohol and see).

http://i823.photobucket.com/albums/zz154/schultzed/082909superC.jpg

Nice find for 25 cents

http://i823.photobucket.com/albums/zz154/schultzed/082909DDRmario.jpg

Funny after seeing Slowdive's GC post, I was thinking it would be cool for find one of these. It was marked $10 and I CIFed $5 but the old lady said it was her daughter's . . . who wasn't around. I pushed her to take $6. Complete but I haven't tested it.

http://i823.photobucket.com/albums/zz154/schultzed/082909rocket.jpg

I threw this pic in just for fun. I find these kits and its worth the $2.50 just for the engines. Fun to blast off with my kids.

[slowdive21]

If I hadn't fucked up that NES lot (still bugging me) this would've been a pretty good weekend.

You just have to tell yourself "I will see another lot"!

Here is my hard luck story from last week.

I went to a GS advertising comic books. I got there 20 minutes early and their sign was up, but the garage door was not open. I hit another nearby sale and came back to the original sale and it had started.

I got up to the sale saw the comics and started looking through them (.25 each BTW). I separated about 8 or 10 books and I ask how much for all of them. The lady says "They are my son's and he is in the shower, but he will be out in a few minutes". So I continue to look through them as a guy walks up to the sale. He literally starts picking up items left and right and asks the lady to make a better deal pretty much on everything he picks up. He tells the lady he will be back later and he leaves.

I am still looking through the 3 comic boxes and I notice someone is looking over my shoulder. AS I turn around the kid wlaks into the garage and the guy who said he would be back is behind me and yells to the kid "How much for all of your comics"? The kid says "I don't know $25 bucks" The guy gives the kid the money and takes the box I am looking at. I still had the ones separated, so I kept those, but I was pissed. If it was more awake I would have started something, but I am trying to let it go.



http://i823.photobucket.com/albums/zz154/schultzed/082909DDRmario.jpg

Funny after seeing Slowdive's GC post, I was thinking it would be cool for find one of these. It was marked $10 and I CIFed $5 but the old lady said it was her daughter's . . . who wasn't around. I pushed her to take $6. Complete but I haven't tested it.


Has anyone else noticed that some of us have been finding items in "pairs". I know there was someone who was finding something and then I would find the same thing the next week. Maybe it was the grue or the guy who had gloop or gleep from the herculoids on his avatar.

I am hoping I will find a JVC x-eye like schultzed found!

[FOnewearl]

If I hadn't fucked up that NES lot (still bugging me) this would've been a pretty good weekend.

That's exactly how I am whenever I think about something I could have done better. I keep thinking if I only double checked Craigslist the night before right before I went to sleep I could have made that one sale that had the Virtual Boy and a few other systems my first stop.

Fat (Broken) PS2 With 1st Party Memory Card & A Wired Guitar Hero Guitar - $5

Told me this was broken, was asking $15 but took my offer of $5.

I tried out all of the last gen systems I got this weekend and the xbox just needs a little push usually to get the DVD tray to close and the PS2 to my surprise worked and had a copy of Guitar Hero II in the system, GameCube worked also.

It's funny to think that I paid about $700 for all of these systems new when I got them (Xbox at $180 other two the day they came out) and ended up buying backup systems of each all on the same weekend for $5 each.

[allyourblood]

http://www.killedaway.com/images/yardsales/ps2memcardstn.jpg (http://www.killedaway.com/images/yardsales/ps2memcards.jpg)
PS2 8MB Memory Card (x2), $3 for both

http://www.killedaway.com/images/yardsales/gbamicrotn.jpg (http://www.killedaway.com/images/yardsales/gbamicro.jpg)
GBA Game Boy Micro w/power supply
GBA Advance Wars 2: Black Hole Rising
GBA The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past/Four Swords
GBA The Legend of Zelda: The Minish Cap, $10 for all

http://www.killedaway.com/images/yardsales/4xbox2tn.jpg (http://www.killedaway.com/images/yardsales/4xbox2.jpg)
XB Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic
XB Phantasy Star Online: Episode I & II
XB Baldur's Gate: Dark Alliance II
XB Star Wars Jedi Knight: Jedi Academy, $10 for all

http://www.killedaway.com/images/yardsales/smslottn.jpg (http://www.killedaway.com/images/yardsales/smslot.jpg)
Sega Master System/Power Base (no cables)
16 games: After Burner, Bomber Raid, Choplifter, Enduro Racer, F-16 Fighting Falcon, Global Defense, Great Basketball, Hang On/Safari Hunt, The Ninja, Pro Wrestling, Rambo: First Blood Part II, Shinobi, Space Harrier, Thunder Blade, $10 for all

I only hit a few sales this weekend, because it was too hot. I'm glad to have found what little I did, considering just how few sales I visited.

For some reason, I keep running into Star Wars games for almost all systems. I have no idea why, but after months of never running across them, I'm now finding them all over the place. Weird.

[schultzed]

Nice finds.

I'd love to get a cheap GB micro . . . just to play Warioware Twisted on it.

[dodgeme]

I'd love to find a master system lol. All i find are genesis's

[ex_eBay_buyer]

I also would have loved to get that Game Boy Micro...I've never even seen a real one in my life. They're getting relatively rare. Would have been awesome if you'd snatched a 20th anniversary edition gold/red one.

[slowdive21]

They had game boy micros on clearance at Target (about 6 months ago). I saw 4 of them for $30.xx each in the case, but I didn't know what they were. I came back after researching them and they were gone.

[ex_eBay_buyer]

damn thats less than what they go for used now

[SaraAB]

Has anyone else noticed that some of us have been finding items in "pairs". I know there was someone who was finding something and then I would find the same thing the next week. Maybe it was the grue or the guy who had gloop or gleep from the herculoids on his avatar.

I am hoping I will find a JVC x-eye like schultzed found!

As for finding items in pairs:

I found a colecovision then I found games about a couple weeks later.

I found 2 copies of Mario Party N64 at the same house, after some cleaning both worked. Dunno whats up with that especially considering the retail price of N64 games. The person at the house said she bought everything new and paid a fortune for it. Its a party game so many people can play on one save file (plus there's more than one save on the file), its not like Pokemon where its beneficial for each person to have their own cartridge because they only hold one save each.

[ajh2298]

Quick question for all you guys that hit a lot of sales every week. Do you see a lot of "Thomas the Train" toys and if so what are the prices normally on the items. My son really started to like the Thomas toys but they are way too expensive at the stores and most of the Craiglist listings are for huge lots of cars and tracks.

[Shoagie]

Reading through this just made me remember that I have a NIB 20th anniversary micro in the other room. I really need to go through there and debate on selling some stuff.

[ex_eBay_buyer]

I'll buy the micro from you....... ;)

[Kuros]

Technically from last month but...

Nip Tuck Seasons 2 and 4, Ren & Stimpy Seasons 1&2 - $25
Capcom vs. SNK 2 EO in a RE4 box - $3
Road Runner - $2
Super Mario 64 - $1
World Neverland (jp ps1) - $2
Genesis system + hookups and controllers (not pictured) plus Chuck Rock 2, Sonic 1, Columns, Taz Escape from Mars, Toy Story 2 and the box for Toe Jam and Earl - $10

http://i326.photobucket.com/albums/k413/Kuros2/finds083109.jpg


Robocop (blu) and Tales of Vesperia - $25

Every other game shown + Gamecube system and hookups, 2 PS1 systems and hookups, SNES and hookups and Genesis and hookups - $60

http://i326.photobucket.com/albums/k413/Kuros2/finds083109001.jpg

http://i326.photobucket.com/albums/k413/Kuros2/finds083109002.jpg

[Ye0ldmario]

I see fuck in there! :applause:

[Chairman_LMAO]

I spy a few Japanese games. :gc: PSO and DBZ Super Butoden 2

[dnstapes]

hey kuros, nice bat.

[dodgeme]

An odd day to find garage sales but I found four in a row within 3 miles of each other. Didn't get much just a bunch of 10cent controllers. I got 3 Sega Genesis controllers and a NES Max controller.

[Eagle3ye]

Went to a couple garage sales last weekend and picked up this


Black N64 console complete with 3 controllers and a memory card and
Yoshis Story
Duke Nukem 64
Goldeneye
Mario Party
Madden 2000
1080 Snowboarding
Knockout Champs
-All for just $5.00:bouncy:

[ex_eBay_buyer]

wow you could make back what you spent + $$ by selling just one controller.... would have killed for that bundle! nice find.

[neiname]

Quick question for all you guys that hit a lot of sales every week. Do you see a lot of "Thomas the Train" toys and if so what are the prices normally on the items. My son really started to like the Thomas toys but they are way too expensive at the stores and most of the Craiglist listings are for huge lots of cars and tracks.

DO NOT BUY THOMAS STUFF AT RETAIL. There is way too many parents out there who purchased tons of it and would rather just get rid of it so will sell at pennies on the dollar.

[Jmclark]

No school tomorrow, so figured I'd give yard saling a try. How much luck do you guys have with finding them on Fridays? There's none listed on CL for tomorrow, and I have to wait for my mom to get home with the paper to look there.

[Mizzou75]

yeah i was hoping to get out tomorrow too but theres barely any advertised, and those that are dont look to promising in terms of finding games

[Sinnbox]

Sinnboxx, how did you find out about this storage unit auction and/or these online games you won?

I've heard many a story of hit or miss storage unit auctions, mostly they are "bid or pay X amount for the sight unseen lot of stuff that's in the units, or sometimes you get to look inside and bid that way.

How the hell did this particular sale work???

This one ended up being someone that has decided that they get more money if they part out the storage unit, so they make small lots out of each unit, or simply sell the items singaly. The unit they had that week was either a hard core collector, or someone wanting to open a store.
I went back the next week and got a Turbo Duo CIB, a box of about 100 game cases with manuals(including Panzer Dragoon Saga) with no discs, several NEW DS and PS2 games and about 60 Earbud headphones, and several expensive Robotech episodes. All for under $50 I sold 8 of the ear buds to a local game store for $20 so I am half way to paying it all off. I have been without internet for about 2 weeks though so I should have pics of that haul and a 40 game Saturn haul up soon.

[ex_eBay_buyer]

No school tomorrow, so figured I'd give yard saling a try. How much luck do you guys have with finding them on Fridays? There's none listed on CL for tomorrow, and I have to wait for my mom to get home with the paper to look there.

my town doesn't seem to have many sales on fridays.. (although I always hope). though I have seen ads for Friday sales. Good luck (not sarcasm)

[erehwon]

my town doesn't seem to have many sales on fridays.. (although I always hope). though I have seen ads for Friday sales. Good luck (not sarcasm)
My town is different. Most yard sales are on friday and game stuff is usually gone very quickly. It'll really suck when I get a job and can't go yard saling anymore. I really enjoy looking for game stuff. I've gotten almost all the game consoles that I want.

[pyoobez]

Just getting ready to head out. There's two 8 am starts that don't look great (I'm walking so I won't be there right away), but there's one advertising specifically that they have consoles and games. Hopefully I catch a break.

Last week, I only ended up picking up a sealed George Jones CD for .50 (for my grandfather).

[Mizzou75]

debating on going out to about 10 or so sales. none looked that promising...decisions decisions

[pyoobez]

Woo!

Quick backstory... I started heading to a yardsale out a ways and passed the street for the console one, around 8:30 (it opened at 9). I headed down the little side street and the lady and her mother let me in and were selling all games $1 a pop. As soon as I picked up Castlevania: Bloodlines for the Sega (second copy) some dude who was there already starts buying up boxes of them. I beat him to every box minus PS2 (which I don't know much about) and snagged all the good-great finds. Luckily he was an idiot and didn't know the Gamecube is backwards compatible with the Wii as he said his kid sold the Gamecube to buy a Wii.

All in all I dropped $16 on the following...

http://i32.tinypic.com/2yjzepd.jpg

(The SNES ones are a little blurry, but they're Zombies Ate My Neighbors and TMNT IV. I have ZAMN already (well I did... my bro might have it now as he says he has a copy he got at a yardsale and I couldn't find mine in the attic) and the 16th missing one in SMB:All-Stars which I got for my dad as I have a copy already. (T2 is for my friend as I have a copy and my friend bought the arcade).

EDIT: All disc games are complete. Only defect is Marvel vs. Capcom for the Dreamcast is in a broken case and has sharpie markers on it. The case is no big deal as I have a stack of blank ones I bought at a thrift store for .25.

I hit up another yardsale and picked up the Stan Lee/Kevin Smith "Mutants, Monsters and Marvels" DVD for $3. I was a little late, sadly, as the old lady was going to sell the DVDs for .25 but her daughter showed up. I had a nice handful of decent titles, but put them back as they weren't worth it to me. Hit up another yardsale with $1.50 DVDs but they were pretty much all chick flicks.

Finally stopped at a final one as they were setting up. They had DVDs/PS2 sports titles for $5 a piece. The DVDs were actually decent/newer stuff like Death Race, butagain I passed at $5.

All in all a great day. I'm pretty sure I've paid off Halo 3:ODST and L4D2 now. :)

[lolwut?]

Nice pick-ups pyoobez!

I would've snagged almost all the same stuff

[SaraAB]

Quick question for all you guys that hit a lot of sales every week. Do you see a lot of "Thomas the Train" toys and if so what are the prices normally on the items. My son really started to like the Thomas toys but they are way too expensive at the stores and most of the Craiglist listings are for huge lots of cars and tracks.

I haven't seen them around here other than the odd item or 2. If you have thrift stores that have piles of toys check those, as sometimes people will donate the stuff there. You would probably spend less on a huge lot of cars and track then you would on just a few toys at retail depending on the prices people are charging for it. Almost every Xmas I see them on sale at Target after Xmas, so if you can't find any used, you could always go that route.

[Bubbakja]

I found Secret of Mana, Breath of Fire III and IV and Black Label FFVII sans manual at a sale for $6 total, all discs are near mint condition. I saw secret of mana out in the open, then looked around and didn't see anything else. In another area I lifted up an old adam sandler cd and found the three ps1 games. I asked if they had anymore games, he said no they sold most of them yesterday. I can't really fathom what was there...

http://i148.photobucket.com/albums/s22/Bubbakja/Picture24.jpg

[N3UROP0D]

Pyoobez, is it true that if I kill you, I become you?

[sighrex]

Got all of these for $1, didn't complain:
Sega CD - Ecco, complete, perfect condition
Sega CD - StellarFire, complete, perfect condition
Sega Genesis - Street Fighter II Special Champion Edition, complete, perfect condition
Sega Genesis - Battletoads DoubleDragon, complete, perfect condition

Any one want these? PM me.

Saw two other Sega CD games, not in great condition, a whole bunch of other genesis games (about 12, a genesis, and a joystick were all listed for $50, lucky to get those two for $20).

[pyoobez]

Went back out with my sister who wanted to check the rest of the SNES at the awesome yardsale. Everything else gaming wise was gone outside of an NES (deck only... and the flap was cracked and missing a small piece) and a stray baseball game I think someone overlooked.

We hit up another three and I found another small PSOne for $5. No cords, but two controllers (one original, one third party) and a Pizza Hut demo disc.

[schultzed]

wow, pyoobez . . . I'm floored by your great haul.

[Skuttie]

Not super amazing but I picked upa N64 Memory Card + and a wii Rockband Guitar for $8. I wish I had more they had an atomic purple N64 controller but all I had was $10.

They also had a Link gold cart for NES but it was in horrible shape so I put that back.

[phoenix529]

^Damn to the GCN games. I found a haul similar today, but she wanted $4 each so I passed. Almost got her to agree to Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney for $5 but she said to come back tomorrow when her son's there.

Nothing video game-related today, but a backstory first: a few weeks ago I got my wife books 2, 4, and 6 of A Series of Unfortunate Events for $4.50 just one week after my car was broken into and my CD Player was rendered completely unusable(they tried to steal it, but broke it and therefore left it).

So, at a yard sale today, I found a box full of the Series of Unfortunate Events books labeled $2 each. Apparently there are a lot of them. I was able to pick up hardbacks of 1, 3, 5, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, and 13(which is titled "The End", so now she's only missing book 12). I CIF'd $5, was scoffed at by the girl, but her boyfriend said sure, and she reluctantly got my change.

Hit up quite a few crap sales today, but I managed to find Breaking Benjamin's "We Are Not Alone" for two bucks, started to buy it before a Pioneer CD Player caught my eye labeled $10. I asked 'does this work?' and the girl said 'yep', and I said 'are you absolutely positive?', she said 'yep, he just got a new one, the buttons are just a little worn'. I said 'so, will you take $5 and throw in the CD?' She didn't even hesitate and I handed her a $5 bill.

[ex_eBay_buyer]

ive got 3 phoenix wright DS games all complete if anyone wants them. i could do all 3 for $45... i know its not the best of prices but on ebay ive seen each go for over 20 so. :)

[SlammedNiss]

ive got 3 phoenix wright DS games all complete if anyone wants them. i could do all 3 for $45... i know its not the best of prices but on ebay ive seen each go for over 20 so. :)
Uh, wrong place for this buddy.

[ex_eBay_buyer]

yeah yeah i know but phoenix was saying how he almost got a phoenix wright game at a yard sale, so i figured if anyone is interested...
plenty of people list their finds then say anyone wanna buy em...for example right on this page someone listed what they got then said "Any one want these? PM me."

[schultzed]

Better weather today! And I did better than I have in on recent Fridays but not much gaming stuff :-(

Things started very slow and I picked up a few books and CDs and then found this . . .

http://i823.photobucket.com/albums/zz154/schultzed/090409saturn.jpg

marked $13.99 . . . offered $1 and paid $2. Might come in handy if I can find a complete one but the system dosen't work.

http://i823.photobucket.com/albums/zz154/schultzed/090409RE4.jpg

Paid $1.50 for this . . . I think I was desperate to find any games.

After 10 am things started to improve. I asked how much on this . . .

http://i823.photobucket.com/albums/zz154/schultzed/090409GC.jpg

He said $10 and I said how about $8. He laughed and said sure but then I came back with $15 for the cube and the PS2

http://i823.photobucket.com/albums/zz154/schultzed/090409PS2.jpg

So, I got both for $15.

Then I saw this . . .

http://i823.photobucket.com/albums/zz154/schultzed/090409360HD.jpg

Marked $20 with these . . .

http://i823.photobucket.com/albums/zz154/schultzed/090409movies.jpg

Offered $10 and the guy winced . . . but he thought and countered with $15 . . . so I paid $13.

Wouldn't have thought to buy this if it weren't for this thread . . .

http://i823.photobucket.com/albums/zz154/schultzed/090409TI83.jpg

Was $5 but I paid $3 . . . I should flip this ASAP.

Lastly, my son has been into Monopoly lately (don't ask me why) so this was a nice bonus . . .

http://i823.photobucket.com/albums/zz154/schultzed/090409mono.jpg

Its minty and I paid $1.

Some nice books, DVDs, CDs, and videos along the way.

[Sinnbox]

Today there was nothing, my new town sucks, they have literally no sales!! The onlything I found was some old lady trying to sell $20 PS3 games.

[schultzed]

Today there was nothing, my new town sucks, they have literally no sales!! The onlything I found was some old lady trying to sell $20 PS3 games.

How big is your city? Mine is around 100,000 . . . so there are more sales than I can reach (in the 4 hours that I commit).

The other factor is competion. I saw the guy who bought the NES with games last week. If he buys only gaming stuff he's probably beating me to many cool items because I move pretty slow checking all kinds of media.

[Chairman_LMAO]

Got to a few today, but didn't buy anything. The one sale that had games wanted top dollar. Old PS2 games for $10 and such. They kept a copy of Pokemon Battle Revolution with the guide in a bag near the register, and they want $35 for it. Yes, they had a register. They have the same sale about 5 times a summer, and every time I go, that game is still there, with the same price. I offered $10 last time, which is far too much for that game, even with the guide, and was shot down.

Anyway, since this is kind of late in the season, I'm gonna go back on Sunday and offer $5.

[RobMinhas]

im holding my one yard sale tomorrow, through up on the ad that i will trade my stuff for games, gt some emails telling me what they have and almost a quarter of the stuff has been acounted for, post more details on sunday with the results

[schultzed]

Anyway, since this is kind of late in the season, I'm gonna go back on Sunday and offer $5.

Its kinda fun to lowball just for the hell of it.

The sale where I got the Saturn today had some really crappy junk. There were a few sports games. So I took a 360 Madden 09 (with the traitor on the cover) and said . . . "would you take $1 for this." She shot me down and said that's $15 its a recent game . . . I pointed out that Madden 10 had just come out and left.

[Sinnbox]

How big is your city? Mine is around 100,000 . . . so there are more sales than I can reach (in the 4 hours that I commit).

The other factor is competion. I saw the guy who bought the NES with games last week. If he buys only gaming stuff he's probably beating me to many cool items because I move pretty slow checking all kinds of media.

MY town is about 10,000, so pretty small, but for the ammount of people it should be haveing alot more sales. I think the killer here is that the whole town has a city wide in the spring and there are usualy around 200 sales, streets are packed and resellers come in from every where.

The town I used to live close to is only about 20 minutes from me now, but they usualy have 20-40 sales a weekend and Its super easy to blow $100-$200 and drive away with tons of games almost every week. I may just ahve to drive there, the main problem is since it is such a hot spot resellers have been moving in like crazy, and you have to get there early for deals...and I'm not the person to wake up 30 minutes to get there before 8:00 on a saturday.

I met a local garage seller at the game shop today, I'm guessing he is my main competition, I went to a sale at his house 2 years ago when I was in town and CIF'd him $100 for games he had marked for over $700, he was wanting a PS3 and it was late in the day whe I got to his house, I told him he couldnt get those prices unless he e-bayed the games then threw a $100 on the table and he melted. I'm kinda glad he didnt recognize me!! he acted like he runs a reselling business so I'm kinda worried about that.

another thing, my old town has like 5 thrift shops, 2 that get sweet games in all the time, this town has one that has tons of old lady clothes and only poor people inside. Is that normal?

[N3UROP0D]

Sorry there's no pictures but today put me in a shitty mood.

Game Guides: Diablo II and Mario Kart 64 - $.50 each
Both mint, I already have a D2 guide but it's falling apart.

Gamecube games: $10 for all (most are complete)
Maro Superstar Baseball
Super Smash Bros. Melee
Mario Party 7
Smashing Drive
Disney Sports Soccer (no manual)
Disney Sports Skateboarding (no manual)

This sale had a bunch of EGM's so I asked if they had any games to unload. The mother tries to subtlely tell the kid to say no, but being a kid he doesn't get it, and says he has some gamecube games. Brings me the discs and they're alright. I ask how much, he calls his dad, who comes out and says $1 each. Then mom drags dad inside and starts screaming at him, it was super awkward. But in the end I got them all for $10.

Genesis games: $4 for all
Mortal Kombat (no manual)
Hardball '95 (complete)
Mortal Kombat 2 (cart only)

RANT AHEAD. This sale had an ad in the local paper, and mentioned "game systems". I was somewhat excited because it's right near my house. And like all potentially-awesome sales right near my house, it started at 10:00. Well, I drove by at 9:00 but there were no signs of activity so I figured

A) Someone already bought them out :roll: or
B) They just weren't going to set up until later

So yeah, it's a shitty position to be in. We all know 10:00 is INCREDIBLY LATE in the world of yard sales, so my choices were to stay and wait (assuming the sale would actually happen at all, and thereby missing anything else that might be out there in town) or just go to the other sales and check back later.

So yeah, I decided to check back later. Too many unadvertised sales kept me from getting back until 10:30, and you guessed it, everything was gone. She said she had a Dreamcast, PS1, N64, NES, etc, and tons of games, and someone bought them all. So in conclusion, I'm an idiot who missed out on probably the last and only major score of the year.

[schultzed]

RANT AHEAD.

Damn, that's a tough story and I know how you feel. And, if you're like me, you'll never quite get over it. :-)

[Eagle3ye]

well today i went to some yard sales and i didnt spend a penny however i did get some free stuff :)
-Working Genesis 2 (no hookups) used my own gen2 hookups and it works
-Ms. Pac Man- Genesis
-Taz in Escape from Mars- Genesis
and a -Super Mario World instruction booklet

so id say i was pretty successful:bouncy:, but the sale i got the booklet the guy said he just sold a lot of SNES stuff so that was dissapointing because i dont have one yet:whee:

[crazedracerguy]

Blah. I don't know how you all find these great sales. All I ever do is end up watching my wife buy a bunch of country Americana crap for the house. I have yet to see any old systems or games.

[Ye0ldmario]

When they mention game systems or old games in a garage sale ad specifically like "we'll have old game systems and games! it usually means they're gonna want a fortune for them.

[Sinnbox]

When they mention game systems or old games in a garage sale ad specifically like "we'll have old game systems and games! it usually means they're gonna want a fortune for them.

not always, somtimes yes, but most of the time around here people list them because they know it will drive people to their sales.

[shabby]

I got an xbox 1 and some games and 2 controllers for 20 bucks.

[mdc921]

Long time lurker, first time poster.

Went to a few sales yesterday and today. The one ad that mentioned video games was overpriced for me. Old Xbox games and the like. Example: NCAA Football 2007 (Xbox) - $15.

Only other interesting sale had early-mid 90s Marvel comics that everyone already owns.

[kube00]

Had my own yard sale today made around $400

[Sinnbox]

Here are the pics I promised from my saturn haul last week, I got all this for $80

http://i728.photobucket.com/albums/ww289/Sinnbox/saturn034.jpg
http://i728.photobucket.com/albums/ww289/Sinnbox/saturn035.jpg

[rtooby]

Apparently there's a road in my city that has two of the exact same house numbers.. guess which one I waited at? The one that wasn't having the massive game sale :( Got to the correct house as a couple people were taking boxes down the drive way..

Got:
La Pucelle Tactics ($4)
Tony Hawk Pro Skater N64 ($1)
Monopoly N64 ($1)
Xmen 3 Blue Ray Sealed ($3)
Pokemon Pearl/Diamond Guide ($1)
Kiss Psycho Circus sealed toy ($1)
bunch of Time/Life Magazines from 1940's ($2)
French art magazine from 1948 ($1)
Box of hockey/baseball cards each with hard & soft protective casing ($3.. around 150 cards, some of value)

So today wasn't bad, but could have been much better.

[kipz]

Sealed Halo 2 for PC $2

[SaraAB]

Back with more finds (the past week or so have been pretty dry with lots of repeat sales)

PS2 games:

Dynasty Warriors 2
Midnight Club
Devil May Cry
Summoner
The Bouncer

PS1 Games:
Monster Rancher 2
Tomb Raider 2 (disc only)
Playstation mag vol 22 (disc)
Tekken 3 (disc only)
Dragon Ball GT Final Bout

Empty Tetris case for PS1

All of the above for $6

PS1 memory card - 25 cents
World Championship Poker (disc only) - 25 cents


2GB Invion MP3 player with color screen - $3, had 5$ on it but got them down to $3, I really needed a new MP3 with more space so I am really happy with this, it works perfectly!

[schultzed]

Apparently there's a road in my city that has two of the exact same house numbers.. guess which one I waited at? The one that wasn't having the massive game sale :( Got to the correct house as a couple people were taking boxes down the drive way..



Ouch

[donut]

yeah yeah i know but phoenix was saying how he almost got a phoenix wright game at a yard sale, so i figured if anyone is interested...
plenty of people list their finds then say anyone wanna buy em...for example right on this page someone listed what they got then said "Any one want these? PM me."

Just pm the member, don't start this crap and then liken it to the above occasional scenario stemmed from an actual garage sale find. :shame:

last weekend stopped by a sale with lots of toys but no games, two young men drag themselves outside with "bed head" helping mom and dad...so I ask them, any video games?
mom sends them in to look and I wait, and wait...all the while dad is quoting crazy high prices for literally junkie items...so I'm losing patience with the time and hope for a reasonable price...the boys come out with a few meh PS2 games and 5 complete minty ds games...;) so I ask how much were you thinking and they call over dad...sigh...dad looks at them...some still have $39.99 price tags from GS...he says $1 each! (lol) and I take the DS games...the youngest laments "$1??? dad look at how much these cost..!" dad stays with his price but is a lil meek, hence I only took the DS games...Heroes of Mana, DK Jungle Climber, DK Racing, Naruto, and Deal or no Deal...

[schultzed]

2GB Invion MP3 player with color screen - $3, had 5$ on it but got them down to $3, I really needed a new MP3 with more space so I am really happy with this, it works perfectly!

Sara that's pretty cool . . . I like it when I find stuff I need or can use at sales. Like phoenix529 picking up a car stereo the other day.

I've got to relay my meager findings later. I was only out for 2 hours on Sat. and didn't find much.

[Chairman_LMAO]

@SaraAB: If you're willing to get rid of DBGT, I'll take it off your hands. Name your price.

[pitfallharry219]

Which mod moved this into the trading forum?

[genfuyung]

As a few of you might remember my last post was mostly bitching about never finding anything good at sales and marveling at someone elses saturn find.

Well today I went to a few sales and it was worse than last time. On the way home I decided o stop by goodwill to see if they had any new snes games and saw a sign saying everything in stor was 50% off. So i walked back to where I'd seen an N64 a few weeks ago and lo and behold...a Sega Saturn. It was marked 15 but because of the sale it was 7.50 and the only thing it didnt have was a power cord.

I got home and plugged it in using my Dreamcast power cord and it works perfectly. The internal battery still works even. Now the bad news... I had surgery on my hand yesterday and can't play the damn thing. Oh well, I'm glad to have it.

[slowdive21]

On the way home I decided o stop by goodwill to see if they had any new snes games and saw a sign saying everything in stor was 50% off. So i walked back to where I'd seen an N64 a few weeks ago and lo and behold...a Sega Saturn. It was marked 15 but because of the sale it was 7.50 and the only thing it didnt have was a power cord.

I got home and plugged it in using my Dreamcast power cord and it works perfectly. The internal battery still works even. Now the bad news... I had surgery on my hand yesterday and can't play the damn thing.

It's like a Twilight Zone episode!


No sales yet for me this weekend, but there is one that starts today that says gamecube and games.

[SaraAB]

Sara that's pretty cool . . . I like it when I find stuff I need or can use at sales. Like phoenix529 picking up a car stereo the other day.

I've got to relay my meager findings later. I was only out for 2 hours on Sat. and didn't find much.

Mind you that was the only cheap MP3 player I have seen all summer, you would think more people would have them around. They said they were getting rid of it cause it had no instructions and they didn't know how to use it, it was also missing the USB cable but I have plenty here. Gotta love technology phobic people (there are a lot of them in my area since we have tons of older people here, anyone over 35 here doesn't want to bother with technology other than cell phones). One scratch on the screen but its not distracting at all. Its not really worth a lot because I just saw one on ebay sell for around 1$ with shipping so I feel the price I paid was appropriate :)

I have seen people selling a lot of nice stuff here for cheap for all things, gotta love people who overbuy then either have to sell to pay the bills or just because they don't want it anymore. I think you see this pretty much everywhere though.

Car stereos are everywhere here, some houses even have boxes full of them, never figured out what was up with that.

I am not selling anything until I sort through all the crap I brought home this summer (and I don't want this to turn into the trading forum).

[ex_eBay_buyer]

Had a yard sale today and yesterday. Yesterday was a big hit for non-video game things, although I only sold one system and a few games (I had SO many games for sale). I did make a bunch of extra cash selling my familys stuff and taking a profit. Today was pretty much dead. I really thought the video games would sell quickly or at least get offers... the good news is that means I don't have much competition in town.

[erehwon]

I didn't get much this weekend.
http://img2.imageshack.us/img2/5959/1008767reduced.th.jpg (http://img2.imageshack.us/i/1008767reduced.jpg/)
$5
MS Flight Simulator 2004
The Dig (complete)
Omikron: The Nomad Soul

I picked up the flight sim game since I that is the most recent one I've seen at a garage sale and I haven't played one in a while. I'll probably see The Dig and Omikron.

$7.50
Compaq computer

I didn't get a picture of this find. It has an Athlon XP processor, so it is a little old. They said the hard drive is died, but it could just be corrupted. I won't know till I check it out. I'll fix it up, and either sell it on craigslist or see if a older relative needs a computer for emails.

[phoenix529]

Revisited an old sale today out of desperation, and they had brought some decent PS2 games out. I grabbed:

Baldur's Gate: Dark Alliance
Baldur's Gate: Dark Alliance II
Clock Tower 3
Final Fantasy X

for $10. And passed on:

Katamari Damacy
Summoner
Summoner 2
Final Fantasy XI Online
and a couple Lord of the Rings games

at $3 each.

Are any of these games worth anything?

[orcafan8]

these are from yesterday:
first off a lot from a local dealer's wife that was having a yard sale for $17 i got:
http://i745.photobucket.com/albums/xx93/orcafan8/th_DSC00243.jpg (http://s745.photobucket.com/albums/xx93/orcafan8/?action=view&current=DSC00243.jpg)
http://i745.photobucket.com/albums/xx93/orcafan8/th_DSC00244.jpg (http://s745.photobucket.com/albums/xx93/orcafan8/?action=view&current=DSC00244.jpg)
http://i745.photobucket.com/albums/xx93/orcafan8/th_DSC00247.jpg (http://s745.photobucket.com/albums/xx93/orcafan8/?action=view&current=DSC00247.jpg)
3 genesis game (no manuals) beavis and buthead, wiz and liz, ariel the mermaid
1 genesis 1st party controller
1 genesis multitap
1 ps1 controller
1 ps2 dvd remote adapter
1 n64 with all cords
2 n64 controllers
1 n64 memory card
1 adapter for gb games (im not exactly sure what this does)
1 madden 64 game to "test" the system
1 n64 rf adaper

at another yard sale i found:
http://i745.photobucket.com/albums/xx93/orcafan8/th_DSC00241.jpg (http://s745.photobucket.com/albums/xx93/orcafan8/?action=view&current=DSC00241.jpg)
Settled on $7 for this box, its plywood, and has some scratches/tears in the pictures around it but overall in pretty good condition

[mission42]

at another yard sale i found:
http://i745.photobucket.com/albums/xx93/orcafan8/th_DSC00241.jpg (http://s745.photobucket.com/albums/xx93/orcafan8/?action=view&current=DSC00241.jpg)
Settled on $7 for this box, its plywood, and has some scratches/tears in the pictures around it but overall in pretty good condition

Hey, I have one just like this except it has no scartches/tears. It came from a garage sale years and years ago when I was maybe 8 years old or so, I think my mom paid like $2 or something for mine and I've kept it all these years. I can't hardly find out any informaton about these things as they seem pretty rare. You know anything else about these by chance? I know they made a couple other versions, a TMNT one I know of for sure.

[Chairman_LMAO]

I know they made a couple other versions, a TMNT one I know of for sure.

I have two. My mom bought them for my brother and me when we were little. The lid on one fell off because the hinges are so flimsy.

[georox]

Revisited an old sale today out of desperation, and they had brought some decent PS2 games out. I grabbed:

Baldur's Gate: Dark Alliance
Baldur's Gate: Dark Alliance II
Clock Tower 3
Final Fantasy X

for $10. And passed on:

Katamari Damacy
Summoner
Summoner 2
Final Fantasy XI Online
and a couple Lord of the Rings games

at $3 each.

Are any of these games worth anything?

I wouldn't have been able to pass on Katamari and the two Summoners at 3 each...

[phoenix529]

Well I passed on Katamari because I already own it, and I passed on Summoners because I didn't know if they were worth anything. I'm far from knowledgeable about PS2 game rarity aside from ICO. The sale will still be on tomorrow. I should grab the Summoners?

[SaraAB]

I don't know anything about PS2 rarity but most people around here sell PS2 games for 5$ each even old sports games so I know when I see non sports games for $1 each that I should definitely buy especially if the condition is good and they are complete like the lot I ran into over the weekend. I don't even have a PS2 and I don't want to buy one at a yard sale because they are too unreliable and would probably be broken (ok unless its really cheap like $5 then I would buy LOL). From my experience you can sell games in lots on ebay and if your paying $1 per PS2 game your bound to make a profit if you sell what you have collected throughout the summer at Christmas time.

If its like $3 or under and you think you will play it then you should probably buy it, old sports games aside which I see wayyyy too many of here.

[pitfallharry219]

Hey, I have one just like this except it has no scartches/tears. It came from a garage sale years and years ago when I was maybe 8 years old or so, I think my mom paid like $2 or something for mine and I've kept it all these years. I can't hardly find out any informaton about these things as they seem pretty rare. You know anything else about these by chance? I know they made a couple other versions, a TMNT one I know of for sure.

These were fairly popular back in the late 80s. They had all kinds of designs and patterns on them, not just characters. I know for sure they had a WWF one.

[Bubbakja]

These were fairly popular back in the late 80s. They had all kinds of designs and patterns on them, not just characters. I know for sure they had a WWF one.

Yea,that artwork is def from the Super Mario Bros. Super Show. Link is the same as the friday show.

[ex_eBay_buyer]

School's starting up again for me tomorrow so not as much garage sailing anymore :( (not only because the summer season is over but because since I can't drive yet it is time-consuming and I'll have work to do on the weekends that I should spend my time on). *Sigh*.

[schultzed]

Saturday's take

Not much doing . . . I was only out for 2 hours.

Paid $1 for

http://i823.photobucket.com/albums/zz154/schultzed/090509KH2.jpg

No instructions and the disc is scratched. I'll probably polish it on my Simo and sell my complete and nicer copy. I don't mind trading down.

http://i823.photobucket.com/albums/zz154/schultzed/090509N64.jpg

50 cents . . . the power adapter makes this a deal. I have some controllers and the AV cord is easier to replace.

http://i823.photobucket.com/albums/zz154/schultzed/090509junk.jpg

I asked about games at a sale where a guy was setting up and he dragged out this milkcrate full of ugly carts (damp with dew). I took a look at it and offered $5 . . . and he agreed. They'll need some cleaning. 30 games and hardly worth the $5. There is a GBA in it and its so fucked up that it is trash.

[darkslime]

What I love about Tucson is that its so dry you never find any damp, moldy, or rusty carts. :D

Plenty of dirt caked ones though, but that's easier to clean off.

[FOnewearl]

http://img233.imageshack.us/img233/6407/9409.th.jpg (http://img233.imageshack.us/i/9409.jpg/)

World of Warcraft Guide - .50
GameBoy System - $1
Donkey Kong Happy Meal Toy x2 - .25 Each

Small finds from different sales All IAP.

Black GameCube System (Legend of Zelda: Collector's Edition Bundle) New And Sealed - $20

This was just put out as I was looking around, I figured it was just a boxed system but picked it up and looked at it and the lady mentioned how she got it for her husband for Christmas one year and he never opened it. Was asking $30 and I said I was thinking more like $10 and asked about meeting me in the middle which she agreed on.

Not too many sales around today (Friday) so I only got to about 15 sales in 2 areas. Another week of not very much, the only other games I saw at all besides what I bought was a few PC games (some being WOW) at the sale I got the WOW guide at.

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Mario vs. Donkey Kong & Pokemon Sapphire Version - $5
Atlantis: The Lost Tales In Double Jewel Case With Manual - .50

Forgot to include this stuff in the picture with the Genesis stuff from Saturday. The GBA games I found at the second sale I went to (that was unadvertised) had about 20 PS2 & GC games marked at $5 each, nothing I was intereted in but I asked about games to which 4 GameBoy games were brought out. I passed on one of the Mega Man Battle Network 3 games & Pokemon Pinball. Wanted $3 each and $5 for the Pokemon game and took my offer of $5 for both.

Atlantis was found pretty late (probably about 11:30) with some other PC games, was asking $1 took .50 no problem.

50 Sega Genesis Games, NES Controller, NES Starmaster Joystick - $35

Forgot To Put In Picture - Cliffhanger, Madden NFL 98 & Sub Terrania
Boxed Games With Glare - Sonic, Sonic 2 & Taz Mania
Cart Games With Glare - Shining Force, Sonic & Sonic 2

Game List

Cart Only

Bubsy
Deadly Moves
EXO Squad
NBA Live 97
NHL Hockey
NHL '94
Phantasy Star II
Phantasy Star IV
Shining Force (Just Noticing That The Save Battery Is Loose)
Sonic The Hedgehog
Sonic The Hedgehog 2 (Mega Drive)
Sonic Spinball
Super Battleship
Technocop
Valis III

Boxed

Bio Hazard Battle
Doom Troopers
Ecco The Dolphin
Fatal Fury 2
Jurassic Park
King of The Monsters 2
Last Battle
Puggsy (Fuck Had To Be Boxed Again)
Madden 97
Mighty Morphin Power Rangers
Road Rash 3
Shadowrun
Sonic The Hedgehog
Sonic The Hedgehog 2
Taz Mania
Tommy Lasorda Baseball (Sega Classic)

Complete

Animaniacs
Bram Stoker's Dracula
Chakan
Cliffhanger
Last Action Hero
Light Crusader
Madden NFL 98
Maximum Carnage
NHLPA Hockey 93
NHL '94
Phantasy Star III Generations of Doom
Pink Goes To Hollywood
Pitfall: The Mayan Adventure
Shinobi III: Return of The Ninja Master
Spot Goes To Hollywood
Street Fighter II' Special Championship Edition
Strider
Sub Terrania
ToeJam & Earl In Panic On Funkotron

It was late in the day when I got this, probably shortly after 11. I actually found it at a 2 block sale and was surprised it was still around. Table full of Genesis games that was priced $1.50 a game. I offered $20 for all of them which was countered with $50 but could go to $40 and I asked if he'd meet me in the middle at $30 from $40 and he said $35 and I agreed with the controllers added in.

Looked like a handful of games sold but not much before I got to it, I'm thinking that the guy must have been asking more (I'd guess $3 per a game maybe $2) and marked them down after a few hours if they weren't selling too well. He might not have been as willing to deal I'm thinking if it was earlier.

Got out the door late today (about 8:45) was out for about 4 hours and went to a ton of sales today, had about 27 sales on my list in 3 areas including a 2 block sale which ended up only being about 5-10 sales. I also ran into about a dozen sales (possibly being one of the last nice weekends this year) that weren't advertised in the paper so I probably hit about 45 sales total today.

The guy with the Genesis games would surely qualify as a collector. He mentioned that he had about 150 NES games talking to him a bit but said that if (sounded like he was considing) he got rid of them that he would probably look into it online since he seemed to realize that Nintendo stuff typically holds it's value a little better then some of the other old systems that were popular. Looking back I should have left him my number or e-mail incase he wanted to get rid of some of the NES stuff at some point locally if it was too much trouble for too little money to sell all of them online. I also ran into another collector at an unadvertised sale (he was wearing a mario shirt) and he wasen't selling anything but when I asked about old games he mentioned that he collects games and has about 400 himself.

Right before the sale I got the Genesis stuff at one house I asked about games at, at the block sale a guy mentioned having an Atari with paddles and about 30 games but his wife was like it's somewhere lost in the attic. I said so it's not something your interested in getting rid of? And he replied back with how he would look it up online. This proves what I think about some people I ask about games at yardsales. Sometimes when they have video games they don't have an interest in playing they will mention what they have but don't really want to sell it until they dig it out and get some time to do some research on what they have. (Thank you for this eBay :D)

I didn't see too much video game-wise that I passed on and the only way overpriced thing I can think of was one of the Guitar Hero DS games for $25 complete. 2 sales mentioned that I missed video games but didn't mention anything in particular so I'd guess that it was just something like last gen games.

Completely unrelated to video games but one sale I was at had a small trampoline for 1 person, a lady asked how much it was to which the seller (a lady probably about 30 years old) said it was $5. Another lady (probably about 50 and the mother of the lady that said it was $5) acted all disgusted and said that it was a $70 item undermining her and making a stink as if it has to be more. This seemed like a perfect example of what pyoobez called (if IIRC) backseat negotiating :D

[FOnewearl]

These were fairly popular back in the late 80s. They had all kinds of designs and patterns on them, not just characters. I know for sure they had a WWF one.

I'm only guessing but I'm thinking they probably had a few for the WWF. I know I saw one at a yardsale that had the Rockers on it back in June and if they made one for them it's hard to imagine them not having one for the Hulkster :D

[ex_eBay_buyer]

Wow nice find with the $35 bundle, Fonewearl. Oh and on that Game Cube! The cheapest Game Cube I"ve seen at a yard sale is $15 and that was a used blue one with no controllers/hookups (which I passed on). Congrads!

[pitfallharry219]

I'm only guessing but I'm thinking they probably had a few for the WWF. I know I saw one at a yardsale that had the Rockers on it back in June and if they made one for them it's hard to imagine them not having one for the Hulkster :D

I only remember ever seeing one. It had the Rockers on it, and Hulk Hogan and Ultimate Warrior as well. They had five sides to work with, so two more people were on there.

[schultzed]

Black GameCube System (Legend of Zelda: Collector's Edition Bundle) New And Sealed - $20

This was just put out as I was looking around, I figured it was just a boxed system but picked it up and looked at it and the lady mentioned how she got it for her husband for Christmas one year and he never opened it. Was asking $30 and I said I was thinking more like $10 and asked about meeting me in the middle which she agreed on.


Nice find.

I love how absolutely random the whole rummage experience can be. Someone probably was looking for games just before she put this out. Maybe a CAGer asked about games 30 min. earlier and she said "sorry" but then started thinking about that GC taking up space in the cabinet. On the flipside, just think of the things that we miss out on because someone beat us to it :-(

As the season ends (its a long break here in Wisconsin) I'm going to miss the hunt

[SaraAB]

Saturday's take

Not much doing . . . I was only out for 2 hours.

Paid $1 for

http://i823.photobucket.com/albums/zz154/schultzed/090509KH2.jpg

No instructions and the disc is scratched. I'll probably polish it on my Simo and sell my complete and nicer copy. I don't mind trading down.

http://i823.photobucket.com/albums/zz154/schultzed/090509N64.jpg

50 cents . . . the power adapter makes this a deal. I have some controllers and the AV cord is easier to replace.

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I asked about games at a sale where a guy was setting up and he dragged out this milkcrate full of ugly carts (damp with dew). I took a look at it and offered $5 . . . and he agreed. They'll need some cleaning. 30 games and hardly worth the $5. There is a GBA in it and its so fucked up that it is trash.

If you have a tri-wing screwdriver you can easily excise the button pads, buttons and any other salvagable parts from it, which are useful for repairing other systems, if you buy a lot of stuff from yard sales extra parts come in handy. If you don't have a tri-wing then you can get one for like a buck from dealextreme. That looks like a decent lot of NES games again, if you have the tools to open them all they will come clean. I would pay 5$ for that no questions asked.

[dodgeme]

Lol sandpaper works wonders on old cartridge games. Five scrapes on each side and all my old games work like their new.

[FOnewearl]

I only remember ever seeing one. It had the Rockers on it, and Hulk Hogan and Ultimate Warrior as well. They had five sides to work with, so two more people were on there.

I was probaby wrong and would guess that's the one I saw only noticing the Rockers on it. I couldn't find a picture of it online but I'm guessing as your explaining it that one of the sides had the Big Boss Man on it lol

Wow nice find with the $35 bundle, Fonewearl. Oh and on that Game Cube! The cheapest Game Cube I"ve seen at a yard sale is $15 and that was a used blue one with no controllers/hookups (which I passed on). Congrads!

Thanks I usually see high priced last gen systems myself. This is the first year I've been able to find any last gen systems (this gen) dirt cheap.

Nice find.

I love how absolutely random the whole rummage experience can be.

Thanks I hear what your saying about the randomness of some of the video game stuff you run into at yardsales. I have seen video game stuff I passed on at yardsales on eBay and have also ran into a few faces in the wild some that I know will take a chance on buying video games for resale if they are dirt cheap but don't really know video games like a gamer would. The funniest one would be an old lady that over heard me asking fro video games and started doing the same but from what I understand she mostly wants GameBoyish type stuff for the grand kids. She did snag a DKC 3 for the GBA from right under me last year that I didn't notice and got it for .50 lol

[Ye0ldmario]

"Legend of Zelda Collectors edition" promotional disc for the gamecube. This one a good seller, as in, still selling high? Might have stumbled across something I'll let all of you know in a few days.

[SlammedNiss]

"Legend of Zelda Collectors edition" promotional disc for the gamecube. This one a good seller, as in, still selling high? Might have stumbled across something I'll let all of you know in a few days.
If you're able to get it for a good price, it makes for excellent flipping material.

[phoenix529]

Yeah the price is pretty variable on it, but it's almost always high. You won't get less than $25, but you won't get higher than $50.

[ajh2298]

If any of you hardcore yardsalers want to keep a eye out for "Thomas the Train" items I could buy whatever you pick-up. I am only looking for the character trains and other character vehicles. I dont care if they are the wooden or the die-cast versions, but would like them in good condition. I could pay up to $2.00 an item plus shipping depending on the piece and would like to buy in bigger lots like 5 plus items at a time. I dont know how often you guys run into these items and how much most people charge for them but if this is a dumb idea just let me know and I will delete my post.

Thanks,
ajh2298

[BlueSwim]

Back in my day, "Thomas The Train" was called "Thomas The Tank Engine" and his show had segments featuring Ringo Starr of the Beatles and the late, great George Carlin. Growing up in the 90's was awesome. Thomas, Animaniacs, Pinky & The Brain, Sailor Moon, Power Rangers...*Continues on for 20 more shows*

[Ye0ldmario]

yeah I used to watch that show all the time on PBS in the early 90's. Ringo starr was one of the voices, I think the conducter.

[N3UROP0D]

I see that stuff on CL all the time, just check the toys & games section every now and then.

[ajh2298]

I see that stuff on CL all the time, just check the toys & games section every now and then.

Problem with that is most times the craiglist lots include the track pieces and even sometimes the whole train table which we dont need.

[allyourblood]

I kinda dragged my feet in posting this past weekend's stuff, but here it is:

http://www.killedaway.com/images/yardsales/vbconttn.jpg (http://www.killedaway.com/images/yardsales/vbcont.jpg)
Nintendo Virtual Boy Controller, $1

http://www.killedaway.com/images/yardsales/shoriginstn.jpg (http://www.killedaway.com/images/yardsales/shorigins.jpg)
PSP Silent Hill Origins, $3

http://www.killedaway.com/images/yardsales/incredibletacticstn.jpg (http://www.killedaway.com/images/yardsales/incredibletactics.jpg)
PSX Incredible Crisis
PS2 La Pucelle Tactics, $8 for both

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DVD The Incredible Hulk: The Complete First Season
DVD Night of the Living Dead (1990), $4 for both

http://www.killedaway.com/images/yardsales/digiworld2tn.jpg
PSX Digimon World 2, $2

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XB Crimson Skies (includes unused 2 month Live card), $3

http://www.killedaway.com/images/yardsales/spwavetn.jpg (http://www.killedaway.com/images/yardsales/spwave.jpg)
Nintendo GBA SP carrying case
GC Wavebird controller (no receiver), $1 for both

http://www.killedaway.com/images/yardsales/ps2icotn.jpg (http://www.killedaway.com/images/yardsales/ps2ico.jpg)
PS2 ICO (missing manual), $2

http://www.killedaway.com/images/yardsales/ps2networkadaptertn.jpg (http://www.killedaway.com/images/yardsales/ps2networkadapter.jpg)
PS2 Network Adapter, $2

http://www.killedaway.com/images/yardsales/pokemarioguidestn.jpg (http://www.killedaway.com/images/yardsales/pokemarioguides.jpg)
Pokemon Diamond & Pearl strategy guide
Super Paper Mario strategy guide, $1 for both

http://www.killedaway.com/images/yardsales/3swxboxtn.jpg (http://www.killedaway.com/images/yardsales/3swxbox.jpg)
XB Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic (x2)
XB Star Wars: Jedi Knight - Jedi Academy, $7 for all

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Nintendo Super Nintendo console, 2 controllers, RFU, AC adapter
SNES Super Mario Kart, $6 for all

http://www.killedaway.com/images/yardsales/7randomtn.jpg (http://www.killedaway.com/images/yardsales/7random.jpg)
GEN World of Illusion starring Mickey Mouse and Donald Duck
SNES The Addams Family
SNES Super Scope 6
SNES The Adventures of Dr. Franken
SNES Demon's Crest
GEN Zombies Ate My Neighbors
N64 Jumper Pak, $3.50 for all

http://www.killedaway.com/images/yardsales/kotor2disctn.jpg (http://www.killedaway.com/images/yardsales/kotor2disc.jpg)
XB Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic - The Sith Lords (disc only), $1

http://www.killedaway.com/images/yardsales/gbaartn.jpg (http://www.killedaway.com/images/yardsales/gbaar.jpg)
Game Boy Advance Action Replay, $2



The person selling the VB controller didn't know where the rest of the system was, and that was a massive disappointment. Oh well, at least I have a controller in case I find a system without one someday.

I think my favorite finds were Silent Hill Origins, Night of the Living Dead, and Demon's Crest for SNES (been wanting this one for a long time!).

Also, I have no idea why, but these Star Wars games are just absolutely coming out at me from all sides.

[Ye0ldmario]

Yeah the price is pretty variable on it, but it's almost always high. You won't get less than $25, but you won't get higher than $50.

OT but anyway I found somewhere that is selling complete copies of it for around 7-$8 total, and, let's just say, it's a place right under all of ours noses that we'd least expect. I'll let everyone know how it turns out in a few days. You guys who are interested pm me and i'll tell you but wait a few days first. Checked ebay and it's getting between 30-40 especially complete copies.

[ex_eBay_buyer]

Flea market a few blocks from my house this weekend. I'll let you know if I find any video games... my luck hasn't been good lately with finding any. There are also some sales listed in the paper / Craigslist but none look promising. They do list "games" which could go either way...let's hope!