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I was just wondering today when someone was going to start this. Not that I've gone out since a week or two before Thanksgiving =P

I'll have to reconstruct my sick estate sale pick-up from the week before Christmas once I get done liquidating most of it. Some snipers got there an hour before me and picked up about a dozen games--judging from what was left behind I'm certain they snagged a Lunar Eternal Blue + Silver Star Story and probably a Star Ocean the 2nd Story.

If you're curious, here's some of the items I scored and that went right back out the door:

Guides
Final Fantasy Tactics Advance
Final Fantasy Tactics A2
Star Ocean 2
Final Fantasy 12 LE

Artbook
Trigun (Japanese Import)

Games
Monster Rancher 2
Gradius 5

I paid about $10 for the guides (stack of 18) and $60 for everything else. In with the games I also picked up goodies like Breath of Fire 4 (disc only, with guide), Zone of Enders the 2nd Runner, Pokemon Red Version, about five-ish video game soundtracks (including Final Fantasy X, hack. sign, Zone of Enders, Lunar 2 Eternal Blue, Grandia 2) about $15 bucks worth of screamo music flips, Puni Puni Poemy DVD, Legend of Zelda Windwaker Strategy Guide for the collection (yes!), a Phantom Brave guide, a Sega Gamegear w/ battery expansion and 3 games, just too much to list.

Oh wait, there's more:
Monster Hunter (Brady Guide) - Flipped to NorAm for $11
NBA Jam Tournament Edition Longbox
Phantasmagoria 2: A Puzzle of Flesh - Minty discs. I actually didn't like this game once I tried it out, so I sent my scratched up copy (bought for $10 elsewhere) back to Goodwill and sold the good one to cut some of my losses.
Diablo 1 and 2 Complete with both expansions.
Berserk Manga 1-3 (Nice! These are good reads)

Okay, maybe $200+ worth of stuff when all is said and done. This sale wasn't all gravy though because they were somewhat disorganized with lots of empty cases and a binder full of PS2 games (which upon closer inspection were furnished by Memorex). I got suckered on a PC case which I thought was Command and Conquer 3: Tiberium Wars for PC but turned out to be an unusable Pre-order deal. Gotta have a keen eye for this sort of thing!

Happy New Year! Good luck to all for 2011.

I'm already longing for rummage. Right now, its 10 degrees outside in WI. It will be 5 months before sales before sales kick in.

My total for my video find from last June was close to $900 in sales value:



I sold 2 $50 ones near the holidays. I have some left but I figure they won't sell.

My original post is here:
http://www.cheapassgamer.com/forums/...248036&page=29

Originally Posted by schultzed Happy New Year! Good luck to all for 2011. I'm already longing for rummage. Right now, its 10 degrees outside in WI. It will be 5 months before sales before sales kick in. My total for my video find from last June was close to $900 in sales value: I sold 2 $50 ones near the holidays. I have some left but I figure they won't sell. My original post is here: http://www.cheapassgamer.com/forums/...248036&page=29

I had a lot of surprising sales over the holidays too; however I'll say you take the cake pulling in that much from VHS

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Sold one of those (single) Pilates DVDs for $15 on amazon.

Yeah, its gonna be a while before I start reporting finds here since the sales don't start until April or May here and don't really go full force until after Memorial Day.

Originally Posted by slowdive21 Sold one of those (single) Pilates DVDs for $15 on amazon.

Was this a Winsor Pilates? I find that stuff I set aside in June is more valuable on Amazon in Dec-Jan.

I sold 8 of the 3-disc sets in the last 2 months (at an ave. of $26). I buy them through the year and dump them in Dec-Jan.

Yup! This one:

http://www.amazon.com/Winsor-Pilates...4796191&sr=8-7


Edit: mine was used form a G-sale.



I would like to add I am addicted to the show "Storage Wars" about storage space auctions. I wanted to get into those, but now everyone will be there.

My cousin is into that and he makes good money, I know I wouldn't be any good at it though.

I do love those storage, pawn shop, antique shop, reseller-type shows. Sure are a lot of them cropping up, makes sense what with the economy I guess.

this thread motivated me to go yard saling this saturday. i have a car now and will be able to get to more sales than i did via bike.

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Auction Hunters is another show like Storage Wars. I actually heard about it as somebody was telling me about an Atari that was mentioned on it (S1E4 Strated For Cash).

It seems as if it's always Atari 2600 on any of these types of shows and I figure because it was the first really popular home console system.

Details about the Atari found on the show - They win a storage space with what was mostly computer stuff, as they are checking it out they find a box 2600 in the back of the mess of stuff. Don't show them selling it but mention twice that it's worth $250 (one time saying "up to $250"). I was thinking it would only sell for that much to somebody if it was sealed and what price they could stretch it for would depend on the condition of the box.

Last I checked, my 2600 with box is like 10% of that. But my box looks like it was taken out of a dumpster.

haha no yard sales here til at least May or April :(

i love reading these threads and what people find.

It sucks I barely got out at all last year. Would like to go this year a bit more but I've honestly started to grow bored of some of it all.

Originally Posted by FOnewearl Auction Hunters is another show like Storage Wars. I actually heard about it as somebody was telling me about an Atari that was mentioned on it (S1E4 Strated For Cash). It seems as if it's always Atari 2600 on any of these types of shows and I figure because it was the first really popular home console system. Details about the Atari found on the show - They win a storage space with what was mostly computer stuff, as they are checking it out they find a box 2600 in the back of the mess of stuff. Don't show them selling it but mention twice that it's worth $250 (one time saying "up to $250"). I was thinking it would only sell for that much to somebody if it was sealed and what price they could stretch it for would depend on the condition of the box.

I remember seeing a hefty price like that on Pawn Stars or the like for a working Atari console with 40 games. I think for pricing like that they just assume that they can jack up every pennied out game up to $4 and that they can get a premium if they can show the customer it's working...other than that they can let the bundle sit until the right middle-aged collector with a padded wallet comes along.

I actually know a guy like this who's into the Atari stuff; where I can get something like $20 for systems of unknown virtue and $1.50-$2 for cart fodder, no questions asked. Makes him happy because he gets stuff at 50-60% of what he's used to paying, makes me happy because the local market for this stuff is more like 5-10%

And my .Hack Sign Original Soundtrack 2 is a bootleg from Taiwan, made by a company called Alion International. Very educational and hard-to-detectable, but unfortunately not sell-able.

Still got my health, skills, and a tidy $80 profit so far. Looking forward to the spring thaw!

Originally Posted by slowdive21 I would like to add I am addicted to the show "Storage Wars" about storage space auctions. I wanted to get into those, but now everyone will be there.

I need to check this show out--this seems like a real adventure. My wife told me about an NPR story about this a while back . . . you can here the story here:

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/s...ryId=104521902

I don't think I could handle doing storage space auctions . . . I don't have the room or time for so much ebay-type stuff. I've been doing some basement cleaning . . . damn I have a bunch of systems to unload.

In one box I found a nice Platinum GBA SP that I just unloaded for $44 and a copy of Metroid Fusion that went for over $10. I cherry picked from the best of my left over rummage and sold off most stuff on Amazon during the holiday blitz . . . so its amazing to find stuff that I forgot I even had.