Well, overall, today didn't meet expectations, but I managed to find some decent goodies. Some I'm going to keep, some of them...not. Here goes...


GTA3, GTA San Andreas, Mortal Kombat - $2
007 - Nightfire - $2
Capcom vs. SNK 2 EO (Xbox) - $5
Might've overpaid for CvS, but I can get rid of my GC version now...boy, that controller sucks for fighting games.


Paid $5 each for Castlevania II, StarTropics, and StarTropics II. Yeah, overpaid a bit, but I never see them at garage sales or stores...so I figured, what the hell.

These I did a little bit better...

Paid $3 for everything. Didn't think too much of it until I realized that both Warcraft III and its expansion pack were NEVER OPENED. I'm going to keep a few of them, but I'm willing to sell or trade the others here.

And here's my find of the day...


Paid $13 for everything. The Pokemon Gold is complete, with the box and all the inserts.

So overall, not such a bad day.

First time going out this year. It was a community sale not too far away, and I was already up. GF asked if I wanted to go, and decided to, since I wanted to head that direction to recycle some electronics anyways.

First sale, each game was $1, and the book was 50¢:


Need to see if I have Armada 2 or not so I can sell it.

Rest of the sales didn't have much, and I was bored an hour and a half later.

Did see a Kinect bundle for $250 (bleh), and a DS with Mario 64 and non-noteworthy games without a charger for $25. Was trying to haggle, but since it wasn't theirs, and they couldn't reach the owners, I didn't bother.

Had a cat emergency and had to be at the vet when they opened. :(
Got to stop by about 5 sales afterwards though. Lots of Xbox/Gamecube/DS games, all sports/shovelware, all $5 each. Also saw a DSi for $55. Thought about that one, but I didn't trust this seller.

Ended up just getting two Wind Waker guides for $1 each. Hope for better luck next weekend.

I went to a small street sale before I had to go to a zombie walk for work .

My only gaming find. $3 for both. AoE 3 is a father's day gift for my dad. I swear he has more hours logged into AoE 2 and C&C: Red Alert than I have into my whole collection, but he only plays at night.



The rest was really random stuff that I bought, but at the prices I couldn't turn down. DVDs, comics, etc spoiler.


Paid $10 for all these DVDs. These are DVDs I would never have thought to see at a yardsale.


$5 for all these comics.

Vampyres II: The Undead is a limited run of a portfolio by Bill Sienkiewicz and is signed. I can not get a gauge on the price for this since neither ebay nor Amazon have anything. Any of the booksellers on here know where I can check?

An InFocus projector for $1. Needs new bulb...


And spoiler within a spoiler for item that is no way, shape or form nerdy.

$2 for this wicker picnic basket set. My girlfriend has been mentioning she wanting one of these.

Originally Posted by TheHeef I live in Oswego. My plan is to go as far as like Earlville or Mendota. There's a flea market in Leland I wanted to look up and a small game store in Sandwich where I've had some luck. Not looking forward to the heat, but I figure I'll take a cooler of water and some extra sunblock. Not a great plan, but I haven't freestyled in a few months.

Oh wow, I live right by Ottawa and Mendota!

Originally Posted by white3er PS1 Rpg - The games are all mint; seller knew what they were worth - $60 for all and $10 for the ps2 game (sealed) Game Boy adv, color, SP Printer, Camera LOT - $ All games were $2.00 each. She had 90 total games in the box. I tried to buy them all for $1.50 each but she would not budge on the price. She said if I bought them all for $2.00, She would give me a $3.00 discount. I cherry picked out the good ones. The sp systems were 10 each and the printer, camera, and paper were 15. The printer and camera both have their factory seals intact Uploaded with ImageShack.us

man, i need that DK for GBA to complete my NES Series collection. is it CIB? Nice finds!

Originally Posted by Tsel Oh wow, I live right by Ottawa and Mendota!

I only got out as far as Leland today. Thought about going out farther, but I wasn't having a lot of luck, so I turned around.

I got a text from my Mom, who had stopped by a yard sale while she was out, and she found this for $5...



A Mini Super Nintendo! It didn't have any cables, so I asked her to try to haggle it down to $2(I was going to jump on it for $5 anyways). They accepted the offer. I hooked it up using my own SNES cables, popped in Tetris Attack and it came right up! Can't wait to take out the plastic tabs in the cartridge slot so I can play my Super Famicom games on it.

I actually managed to get out fairly early today and hit a few yard sales. There must not be much competition out there because I didn't get out until almost noon and there were still tons of games and consoles everywhere, but most of it was either stuff I already have (and I don't have the patience for flipping) or stuff I didn't want. The stuff I ended up buying pales in comparison to what you guys normally go home with, but this is seriously the best yard sale day I've had in years. And I believe this is the first time I've ever gone to a yard sale in this town that had more than just sports games. Anyway...


$2 each (they wanted $3 each). Probably not the best possible deal, but they're some of the cheapest NES games I've ever bought and they're all worth at least twice as much. This same sale also had a few PS2's, a GameCube, and various PS2 and GBA games (and more NES), but these were all I really cared about. I also picked up an awesome LeapFrog alphabet toy for my son for $3. I probably could've got it for less, but they put in new batteries for me, so I didn't mind paying it.


Got these at a moving sale. $6 total for the three airsoft pistols and 3000 pellets (plus the pellets included with each gun). Almost walked away with nothing because I already owned all of the games they had for sale, but my wife happened to notice these under the table. Everything was still sealed and they work great. I don't know how much stuff like this is worth, if anything, but I highly doubt I overpaid.

EDIT: Just checked eBay and the cheapest I see one of these guns going for is $13. I don't know if they're actually worth that much, but it makes me feel good about the purchase.

^ the expensive ones are electric or gas. How many FPS 200?

Plenty of sales advertising games this weekend, unfortunatly they all started on Thursday or Friday.



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GameCube w/ 2 power chords and memory card $3.
(2) GameBoy Advance SP w/ one charge cable $5.
Leisure Suit Larry: Box Office Bust PS3 $4.
F-Zero GP Legend GBA (complete) $1.50.
Millipede/Super Breakout/Lunar Lander (complete) $1.50.

The GC had no A/V cables or controllers and the Madden disc inside had chew marks (not that I really wanted it). I mostly wanted it for the spare power supplies and memory card.

The two GBA SP hold a charge, but the blue one is beat to shit with a crack in the hinge. I'm going to use it to swap parts with one that won't charge. I found a second power supply at a sale two houses down for $1.

I didn't even know they had a Leisure Suit Larry game for the PS3.



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Battlestar Galactica Cyclon Raider $1.
Transformers $.25 each.

The Cyclon Raider is an original (1976, made in Hong Kong) but is missing the spring loaded missles. I also still have the one from when I was a kid.

I also still own all of the Transformers (except the two on the right) from when I was a kid. The guy told me someone had come and bought up all the other first gen. stuff he had. How could you leave Mirage for $.25?



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Last week everyone had cheap DVDs, this week is was cheap CDs.
The Essential Johnny Cash (3 disc) and Rush Chronicles were $2 each.
The rest were in a package deal for $15 (12 CDs, 1 VHS).

RUSH!!! nice find for only 2 bucks. also good find on the metallica garage inc. too

Originally Posted by TiKi2 ^ the expensive ones are electric or gas. How many FPS 200?

I know absolutely nothing about this stuff, so I have no idea what you're asking (to me, "FPS" = "frames per second" or "first-person shooter"). All I can see is that these are just spring-loaded and don't use carbon dioxide or anything. Which is perfect for us 'cause they won't hurt too bad if we get shot with them (although I did get a tiny welt when I shot myself in the foot).

all I saw was some guy with an NES with 30 common games for $500. The best part was it was a moving sale and according to him "everything absolutely MUST go! we HAVE to get rid of all of it!" yet he refused to come down on the price when I explained to him that what he had wasn't even worth 1/5 of what he was asking. He kept insisting "the games alone go for more than that on ebay!" I wanted to say to him okay well put it on ebay and see how much you actually get for it, then factor in their 13% fee for selling games! There needs to be a "yard sale stupidity" thread now!

I swear ebay has pretty much ruined yard sales and flea markets. It makes me wanna work at a place like on Pawn Stars so I can just stand there and tell people that their priceless family heirlooms are actually worthless all day!

This seemed to be a pretty slow weekend for everyone....I guess because of Father's Day or something?

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Originally Posted by crows in black I swear ebay has pretty much ruined yard sales and flea markets.

I once asked a guy about a mini granite chess set he had. He told me $20 or something I don't recall. Since I didn't look interested anymore in it, this dick turns to his wife and says " it's ok we'll sell it on ebay and get more for it" . I was like wtf is this dude on, I didn't even say anything. Turns out it goes for around $35 on ebay shipped. He'd be wasting his time. The people that say the word ebay will never sell on ebay.

Think about it, out of how many garage sales you guys have gone to ,how many times have you used the word ebay? Probably only time is in response to someone mentioning ebay. When I here ebay that means it is time to go.

If they want to base it on ebay prices, fine.

What's annoying to me is when they print out how much a new one costs, and price their used one at $5 less and act like they're savvy or doing you a favor.

Originally Posted by TiKi2 I once asked a guy about a mini granite chess set he had. He told me $20 or something I don't recall. Since I didn't look interested anymore in it, this dick turns to his wife and says " it's ok we'll sell it on ebay and get more for it" . I was like wtf is this dude on, I didn't even say anything. Turns out it went for around $35 on ebay shipped. He'd be wasting his time. The people that say the word ebay will never sell on ebay. Think about it, out of how many garage sales you guys have gone to ,how many times have you used the word ebay? Probably only time is in response to someone mentioning ebay. When I here ebay that means it is time to go.

I hear ebay at almost every yard sale I go to lol! Half the time the people don't even know what it goes for on ebay, they just THINK it would go for a lot on there.

The thing I really hate is that I've started selling on ebay a lot recently and you have to pay more fees for video games than anything else, its like 13% or something....yet these a-holes think they can charge the same price or usually even higher than what something goes for on ebay at a yard sale when they don't have to pay a selling fee, don't have to take pictures, don't have to type a description, or do any of the work it takes to actually sell on ebay.

This is why I've started driving about an hour away to another big city to go to their yard sales and its a night and day difference from where I live. People around where I live now think they are running an antique store out of their garage. In fact, I found one guy having a "vintage toy sale". He had literally thousands of he-man, transformers, thundercats, anything you can think of from the 80s....but he wanted like double what they go for on ebay, all the while he is selling them out of his bug infested, dirty, ten thousand degrees in the summer shed and he is in one of the most run-down, crime ridden parts of town where no one could ever afford any of that stuff. It just sickened me to see like 10 boxed Snake Mountains and Castle Greyskulls crammed into a corner with cobwebs all over them and water dripping on them, knowing that he probably paid next to nothing and told the original owners "oh these aren't really worth a lot, I'll give you 10 dollars for them", and then justs let them sit there and rot because he won't sell them for reasonable prices, and people that actually appreciate stuff like that will never get their hands on it.

Originally Posted by TiKi2 I once asked a guy about a mini granite chess set he had. He told me $20 or something I don't recall. Since I didn't look interested anymore in it, this dick turns to his wife and says " it's ok we'll sell it on ebay and get more for it" . I was like wtf is this dude on, I didn't even say anything. Turns out it goes for around $35 on ebay shipped. He'd be wasting his time. The people that say the word ebay will never sell on ebay. Think about it, out of how many garage sales you guys have gone to ,how many times have you used the word ebay? Probably only time is in response to someone mentioning ebay. When I here ebay that means it is time to go.

I just roll my eyes since I got a little calculator in my head that tells me I never have to pay more than they would clear after fees and shipping They're just your typical noobs with dollar-signs in their eyes.

Hit a few sales on Friday morning since I was going out of town Saturday. Got the following:

For 9.50:
- Black Gamecube with Gameboy Player and Zip up game holder
- Donkey Kong Beats with Drums

Came with 2 gameboy player discs and all cables.... No controllers though. I guess they had a bunch of gamecube games for 50 cents each and some lady cleaned them out... Damn!

Medal of honor collection for ps2 for $2.

2 baseball bat, 2 wheel, and 1 golf Wii attachments brand new for 2.50.

Final fantasy tactics, castlevania sotn, and mgs3, all complete for $5.

That was all I found, but then at my dads (person I learned to haggle from) mentioned he picked up a nes with some games for $4 at a garage sale so I picked those up from him for what he paid. NES was super clean with 2 dogbone controllers. Games are mostly commons, but there was one gem.... Snow Brothers. Cart is clean and I will see if it works when I get home. Can't believe I've had 2 rare nes games in the past month. Talk about luck. XD

Saturday was pretty good after a few slow weeks. Games wise I got

The Guy Game PS2 Complete
Sonic Adventure DC Complete
X-Men vs Street Fighter PSOne Disc Only
Square PSone samplete (lost mine) disc
Vandal Hearts PSOne Disc Only
Vandal Hearts II Psone Disc only
Ghost in the Shell PSOne Disc Only
G-Darius PSOne Disc Only
Metroid Fusion GBA complete, New and Sealed but box is in rough shape.

Al for $20. A bit over priced for me but the guy knew what he had and there was a lot of people there. I figure the XMen vs Street Fighter will get me my money back.

At another Yard sale I got cart only

Super mario 3 (sticker damage)
Dragon Warrior III

$4 total with two shot glasses.

At a pawn shop I got a Complete NBA Jam PS3 with a DVD for $7.

At another yard sale I got two cart only 3ds games

Super Street 4 3D
Pokemon Battle Revolution

$5 total.

I had a few non-game finds.

Superman Showcase TPB - .50 cents
Gremlins story and record - .25 cents apiece (there were 4 I bought)
V for Vendetta Special Edition (with comics) - $1
2 high quality Dog bowls - $1 apiece
2 High Quality Metal Pepsi signs for the Girlfriend - $1.25 apiece
Horrible Bosses DVD - $1

And the highlight.....

I went to a yard sale that I was at 6 months ago where the guy was selling comics. I bought a few comics from them (Dark Knight Returns 1,4, Batman 608 2nd print variant etc) and they told me they had sold Walking Dead 1-25 for $1 apiece. I had a few drinks with them and left behind a few comics I wanted. They had another yard sale this week as they were moving and I bought 29 comics for $17. They were mostly reading comics but I did get a mint NYX #3 wich is a very hard to find comic from the alst few years (1st X23).