Originally Posted by doodmandood I know I am setting myself up for failure but I would love to walk into a pawn shop and find New Super Mario Bros and NSMBWii for like $5 bucks haha.

I used to see Super Nintendos in my shops all the time. The moment I decided I wanted to buy one, I never saw another one again. It's like Tetris. If you want the line piece, you have to not want the line piece. Otherwise you never get that shit.

LA Noire complete, $15 from a new pawn shop that opened recently. Had both DLC and the Badge Pursuit negatives in there too.

Good stuff today.

Went to my nearby pawn shop and got tekken 6, sims 3, fable 3, banjo kazooei & viva pinata double pack for 360, CoD WaW for the wii, and Demon's Souls for PS3 for $30 even. Solid deal.

Went to another and bought two modern warfare 2's, a black ops, and dance central for $40 even. Dance Central is extremely good if you find one <$15 for a flip; with the pre-order bonus and PUR I got $28.


EDIT: Wow not a lot of activity in this thread. To avoid a double post:

Dragon Ball z Burst Limit xbox 360 with the bonus dvd for $5, and Ninja Gaiden Sigma 2 for the PS3 for $13. Not a fantastic deal, but considering this is like a $20-ish (sometimes $20+) game, I think it's decent.

Also bought Super Mario 64, Mario Kart 64, and Diddy Kong racing for $6.50

Found some PS1 games at a pawn today but the guy wanted to look up ebay prices. Still snagged FF VIII, FF IX, Silent Hill, RE 3 with the Dino Crisis bonus disk, and Futurama season 1 DVD set for $45. Not the best deal, but they were all in pretty nice shape and are ones I still needed. He wouldn't take cards though, so he set them aside and I need to come back with some cash :/

You're stronger than me. I would have just walked out as soon as he looked up ebay prices. Well not walked out but thanked him kindly and then walk out.

You have to chat them up. If they see you repeatedly and they form a relationship with you they're more likely to deal. I also try to get them to spill what they paid for them, I got him to blurt out that he paid $5 for the whole box (about 15 games), so I used that as a battering point and cherry picked everything that wasn't junk.

Originally Posted by aptanor You have to chat them up. If they see you repeatedly and they form a relationship with you they're more likely to deal. I also try to get them to spill what they paid for them, I got him to blurt out that he paid $5 for the whole box (about 15 games), so I used that as a battering point and cherry picked everything that wasn't junk.

Yeah it sucks real hard when they go to eBay. The other day my dad went to a generally crappy pawn shop to ask about a compressor they had. After being given a price of $130, another employee told him he could go down to $100.

The manager saw this and got pissed for some reason, and told him that he can ban him whenever he wants. The prices there are ridiculous though, they never sell ANY GAMES. When you ask about unpriced games they immediately rush off to their computer to find what Gamestop has it for, and doesn't adjust accordingly; that's the exact price they put, and they never go down (rule of Pawn Shops for the uninitiated: NOTHING is set in stone).

Interesting that they don't rush off to check how much Gamestop gives in trade-in though Some poor sucker got a $1 for LA Noire when they could have at least gotten like $18 cash (back when it was still fairly new).

Went to two pawn shops today.

Thousands of oxbox games.

The horror.. the horror.

^ Don't understand, sounds like a potential jackpot to me. I don't know of too many rare Xbox games, but a few standouts are the Fatal Frame games.

Haha! Went back today. Decided not to get RE3, but I got Silent Hill and FF VIII and IX for 30. Saw a few NES games I wanted but his prices were even worse than the PS1 game prices. Good thing he doesn't value last gen at all, I got Zone of the Enders for $5. He also had Conkers, but it was disk only and completely destroyed :(

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Originally Posted by The Holy Pretzle ^ Don't understand, sounds like a potential jackpot to me. I don't know of too many rare Xbox games, but a few standouts are the Fatal Frame games.

I looked.

Thousands of Madden games.

Originally Posted by doodmandood thousands of madden games.

09?

Originally Posted by Doomstink 09?

Oh wow, I just googled that. What is it, like the NCAA 2k3 of the xbox?

^ Man I hate learning about rare sports games, makes me wish I always look through them wherever I go, I saw a huge pile of sports games at the flea market the other day, will have to check it out Saturday.

Found some more stuff yesterday:
Metroid Other M, Super Smash Bros Melee, Drawn to Life (the sequel for the DS), Mirror's Edge, Bayonetta, and Naruto Ultimate Ninja Storm 2 for $40 out the door.

Assuming Naruto still has a $15-ish tiv, that'd be a nice flip, and now that I have a Wii I can finally play Other M.

Just got back from a Super Pawn. Hadn't been in for a few years, but it was next to a 7-11 so I wandered in to look at games.
Found an R4 card for my DSL for $5, and it came with a bonus 1gb microsd inside.

I also picked up a Wii console for $80. Its a black one with the motion plus extras, that included Wii sports and Sports Resorts. My wife opened it up in the car (it came in the box), and inside was an extra remote.

I don't know if they came that way, but it made us happy. So my son gets a Wii and we get another netflix player in the living room. Just wanted to share this with all.

Yesterday I took a drive out of town to visit a few pawn shops. I was having a very dry day and I think it was the forth or fifth pawn shop I went to I finally found somewhere that had a bunch of older games. Well I asked to see his N64 games since I did not see anything in the snes or nes box. and he handed me a bunch of games. In the bunch I found zelda OOT, Mario cart, Mario 64, and bad fur day! I asked how much he was selling the 64 games for and he told me 5 each I picked out them 4 games took them to pay he looked at them and said I cant sell these 2. In my head I was thinking bad fur day lol. The two he could not sell was mario cart and mario 64. he told me he could not sell them since he has to look up the price. I took home bad fur day and Zelda OOT for 10$

that madden 09 is unreliable. depends on who you have looking for it at the time

http://item.ebay.com/130578927216
$5
http://item.ebay.com/260849419411
$45

http://item.ebay.com/370544872733
$20
http://item.ebay.com/270822231372
$5
http://item.ebay.com/140592657153
$15

I'd say go for it if you find it for a few bucks but don't go crazy over it.

Originally Posted by jer7583 that madden 09 is unreliable. depends on who you have looking for it at the time http://item.ebay.com/130578927216 $5 http://item.ebay.com/260849419411 $45 http://item.ebay.com/370544872733 $20 http://item.ebay.com/270822231372 $5 http://item.ebay.com/140592657153 $15 I'd say go for it if you find it for a few bucks but don't go crazy over it.

Yeah. Makes a huge difference that you could buy it on 360 also and there are subsequent versions. 2K3 was literally the last college basketball game on a Nintendo system if Im not mistaken and there were not many made.

Originally Posted by aptanor Oh wow, I just googled that. What is it, like the NCAA 2k3 of the xbox?

Not that gamestop is the end all be all. I remember when that thing came out the employees looked at me like was nuts asking for it on the normal xbox (obviously thinking im the dumb ass because it only came out for 360) and I only remember ever seeing it at a non-gamestop store, and this was when it first came out. Can't remember now where I found it.

Originally Posted by X3R0102 Yesterday I took a drive out of town to visit a few pawn shops. I was having a very dry day and I think it was the forth or fifth pawn shop I went to I finally found somewhere that had a bunch of older games. Well I asked to see his N64 games since I did not see anything in the snes or nes box. and he handed me a bunch of games. In the bunch I found zelda OOT, Mario cart, Mario 64, and bad fur day! I asked how much he was selling the 64 games for and he told me 5 each I picked out them 4 games took them to pay he looked at them and said I cant sell these 2. In my head I was thinking bad fur day lol. The two he could not sell was mario cart and mario 64. he told me he could not sell them since he has to look up the price. I took home bad fur day and Zelda OOT for 10$

It's REALLY hard to find a great deal on Mario pretty much anywhere. I go hunting at the flea market and Pawn Shop to hunt for games ALL the time, and everyone's pretty wise to the value of Mario games. The Wii ones at least. $5 is pretty fair for those though, you REALLY knocked it out of the park with that Conker, wish I could find that one of these days.