Originally Posted by elessar123 People to not steal. Unless the price was marked, and you leave at least that amount. Leaving $1 for what you knew was worth $50?

I bought a $300 network tester for $5 yesterday. Was I stealing?

Like I said, I don't think I would have done what he did, but leaving your yardsale unattended is pretty much asking people to pay you on the honor system.

Originally Posted by yourlefthand I bought a $300 network tester for $5 yesterday. Was I stealing?

That was the asking price, so no. It'd be more like if they said $50, and you put a $5 somewhere and take it anyways.

Found these for $3

I would have waited for a person to show up or left and came back later. I don't think it is morally right to leave a person the amount that you think they might have wanted.


Other news, I was at a sale yesterday that had a bunch of kids toys, boy stuff. I picked up some stuff and asked how much. Lady told me 25cents each wtf. Dirt cheap. So I got 5 things totaling $1.25. I gave the lady $2 and told her to keep the change, she would not have any of that. She wouldn't accept it, she basically put the change in my pocket.

I have yourlefthand on my ignore but I could see from elessar's quoted reply that he has the sense of logic of a 2yr old.

Originally Posted by TiKi2 I would have waited for a person to show up or left and came back later. I don't think it is morally right to leave a person the amount that you think they might have wanted. Other news, I was at a sale yesterday that had a bunch of kids toys, boy stuff. I picked up some stuff and asked how much. Lady told me 25cents each wtf. Dirt cheap. So I got 5 things totaling $1.25. I gave the lady $2 and told her to keep the change, she would not have any of that. She wouldn't accept it, she basically put the change in my pocket.

Honestly, I wouldn't have just left money either. I was just pointing out that it isn't worth tearing into the guy. I have a bigger problem with people lowballing kids or lying about items values, both of which seem to be applauded around here.

I have paid more than people's asking price before, and if I am getting a solid deal I don't ask for a lower price.

Originally Posted by pollmonster Found these for $3

wow thats awesome

Originally Posted by yourlefthand Honestly, I wouldn't have just left money either. I was just pointing out that it isn't worth tearing into the guy. I have a bigger problem with people lowballing kids or lying about items values, both of which seem to be applauded around here. I have paid more than people's asking price before, and if I am getting a solid deal I don't ask for a lower price.

Yes the lowballing kids thing is such a dick move IMO. Worse then taking crap from some idiot who Leaves their yard sale unattended.

Originally Posted by slowdive21 ^^At least he left them something...The scrappers are taking bikes out of people's yards by me. They also steal air conditioner coils and manhole covers.

Same here. A few weeks ago I had scrap metal (for my own projects) go missing from the side of my shed, which is 20' from the curb, clearly not on the curb. Happened on a garbage night, so I know it was a scrapper.

I ended up posting a rant on Craigslist, only to get a few emails from "fellow scrappers" defending the dickhead, saying that I shouldn't have had left the stuff outside, within view of the street and that the person did nothing wrong by taking it. Apparently, outright theft is advised in the scrapping community, which is what this is. State law says if it's not on the curb, it's private property, making removal of said property theft.

I've also had a well cover go missing, leaving a gaping hole in my backyard. Best thing was one night I left a few bits of metal out, and some asshole came to my door, at 10pm, asking if I had anything else for him to take. He then had the balls to ask if he could take the metal swingset in my backyard, the one I just built earlier that day for my daughter. These people are like ing meth heads around here.

I used to leave scrap out from time to time, but not anymore. I'll take it to the junkyard myself.

/rant

Scrapping got so bad here that apparently the local shop got into hot water about accepting stolen items. Now they are required to make a copy of the drivers license, take a photo of the items being turned in and take a photo of the person turning it in. Theft still happens around here, but the scrappers have to travel out of county to turn it in to shops that don't take this info. The guy that lived in the rental across the street used to scrap, he would be up until at least midnight hammering on metal items for whatever reason. Thankfully he moved away.

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Got a few things this weekend.





Spent $18 on everything pictured (board games included.)
Dragon Strike game is missing VHS tape though. :(

Got the DBZ game off a guy who had about 30 game systems for sale (Sega, NES, SNES, Atari, etc.) but they all looked like they had been sitting outside for a few years, and he wasn't in a hurry to sell 'em dirt cheap either. Still, this is more than I have found all season. I've never seen a Sega Genesis 3, so I had to get that plus all the games for $15.

Spending breakdown:
Smess - $1
Dragon Strike - $1
Wolverine Sega game - .25
Dragon Ball Z Sagas - $1
Two Sega Systems, 4 controllers, all original wires (except one had a universal plug rather than Sega), plus rest of games (18 or 19) - $15

Edit: I forgot, I made a new rival! This guy bought a few games at a yard sale that I had last week. This week, I saw him in town at a sale. Decide to head north and hope to lose him. As I'm looking at the Sega box, he comes up to me as asks if I'm getting them. I say yes and carry it around until he finally leaves. Then I haggle the seller down from $20 to $15. Overall a fun day, and some good competition.

Tons of sales this weekend, very few good finds.

This sale advertised games and started at 9pm, after getting beat out last time I arrived at 8:30 to see them still setting up.


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PS3 Batman Arkham Asylum $5
HDMI splitter w/ remote $10
DVDs $2 each, but he gave me 7 for $10.
2001: a space odyssey Deluxe collector set #124921
Gone with the Wind (sealed)
Batman Beyond return of the joker -uncut version
Ghost in the Shell
Ghost in the Shell 2 Innocence
SLC Punk
Dune 3 disc director's cut special edition
He threw in the component cable for free.

His wife came out and said "I thought we weren't opening until 9?" I apologized for being early but he said it was ok, the person that was knocking at their door at 7:30 was too early.

From various sales:


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The Xbox games and DVDs were $1 each except Police Academy which was $.50. I found many sales with cheap DVDs, one had 6 for $5 some of them still sealed. I grabbed 12. At that price I will watch them, give them away or possibly trade them in for credit.
List:

Anchorman -unrated
Apollo 13 -2-disc anniversary edition
Dodegball
Knocked up -unrated (sealed)
All dogs go to heaven
PootieTang
Superbad -unrated extended edition
Factory Girl -unrated
The last house on the left -unrated (sealed)
Children of men
Team America world police
Thank you for smoking


I take chances on old VHS every once in awhile looking for rare OOP titles.


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Struck out with these at $1 each. Anyone know where to find a comprehensive list of VHS that have not been released on DVD?

Best find of the day came from a video shop in a town I don't normally travel to.


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Fox Hunt PS1 $10. Unfortunatly it did not come with a manual. This is the first time I've ever seen a copy, was suprised it was priced that low.

I was out in the country when I found the strangest yard sale item ever; a live snapping turtle. The guy was the son of the elderly gentleman running the sale. The father was your average friendly clean cut guy.... the son, however, looked like a sleazy dirtball. He wanted $20 for him and said he would make a nice stew. Said he caught him at the pay lake a few miles down the road (I don't see people that go to pay lakes as true fishermen). I regret not trying to get him to set him loose, or at least calling a conservation officer. Pretty sure selling wildlife like that is illegal.

Originally Posted by Invicta 61 Pretty sure selling wildlife like that is illegal.

It's a massive fine in some cases. When deciding to adopt some desert tortoises, we had to become licensed and were warned that if we were caught selling, mistreating, or letting them loose, it would be a $50,000 fine. I'm not sure how accurate that is or if it was a combined total, but either way, we had no intention of finding out.

Originally Posted by Pyloric Spent $18 on everything pictured (board games included.) Dragon Strike game is missing VHS tape though. :(

I picked up a complete copy of Dragon Strike a few weeks ago for $1 and it included the VHS still sealed! It's comming up in one of my catch up posts.

He fished a turtle at a pay lake?

Originally Posted by elessar123 He fished a turtle at a pay lake?

LOL dunno, with the way he looked he probably jumped into the water after it. He probably caught it on the bank while it was warming itself.

While on a trip with my father we saw a larger one just like it in a dry ditch near a farmer's field years ago. This is the one we found.


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He hitched a ride to the creek 3 miles down the road since we were in the middle of a nasty drought at the time.

Went to a distant (30 min. away) neighborhood sale on Thur. but didn't find much (not pictured--got a KOTOR I Xbox complete for $1). As I was driving back I saw a sign in this little town on the highway . . . as I turned on the block, I saw another sign for a deeper sale . . . decided to go deep and come back. I walk into this garage and there were a ton of really nice DVDs and Blu-rays . . . I cherry picked about half of them and got a good $500 in value for $50 . . . I know, I know, you're wondering WTF! So, here is a pic of most of it:

Note that some of the Blu-rays are Critereon Collection. Some were sealed . . . all near mint.
As I was digging through the DVDs I saw a PS2 but it was marked $50. I was at this sale for 20 mins. and there wasn't another shopper. The PS2 had some mics and a guitar and crap games but I noticed it was white . . . actually thought it was a Wii. So, after I paid for the DVDs I offered $25 . . . she said she would do $30 . . . so we met at $27.

I didn't know it had any extra value until I looked it up on Amazon later. The Gungrave is flippable and the Jimmy Neutron is sealed. I also didn't know there was a Logitech wireless controller included until I got home :-)

I only went out for a few hours on Friday and the most notable game pickup was this N64:

I paid $25 and really shouldn't have bought it. I saw it marked $50 and asked if the woman would do $20 . . . I shouldn't have offered anything. She said the lowest was $40 and it would've ended there but her husband was passing by and he thought $25 would be OK (with all the games). At that point, I couldn't walk away.

On Sat. I could only stay out until 11:00 but there was a really cool subdivision sale (50 houses and the people are really nice). I had cruised by a few of the houses that started on Friday and one right in the middle said there'd be games on Sat. So I memorized the house and got there first thing at 8:00. Sure enough there was a stack of games . . . I pulled out these:

There also was a Black Ops 360 but the woman pulled it back I paid $12 for the above.

I pitched $18 for these:

My offer was accepted so fast that I knew I should've offered $12 :-)

When I saw OBO on this:

I offered $10 and the guy was so nice, that he let me have the PS3 baseball game after we agreed.

2 for $1 on these:

I keep forgetting that only the Xbox SW Battlefront II has value but the Secret Weapons (complete) will flip.

As I left the subdivision, I needed to move toward home (as I promised my wife) and had to skip many, many sales on the way home I did stop a few more and got over $500 worth of books (many textbooks) at one house and scooped up this at one my last sales:

No power adapter but has a screen protector (so I hope its clean underneath). Holds a charge and works well. Paid $10.

I forgot these (loners--each at different sales):

$1 KOTOR, $2 Club Penguin, and $4 for Mario

I saw this marked $5 (got it for $3):

Not surprised that it doesn't sell for much on ebay

But I had to buy it--so cool.

You guys don't like scrappers , best not leave and car/boat batteries out. I learned my lesson while working on my car . Left the battery next to my rear, tire was gone the next day.

That's rough man, they took your tire too?