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I am reserving a second spot so I can sell it

How much will it be?

Originally Posted by FOnewearl Yeah I hear that but you never know what you just might find in the wild if you luck out. I myself haven't found anything video game related worth that much yet but I can look over the last 2-3 years and think back to probably about a donzen things I've found for about change to $3 that are worth about $25-50ish if you ask eBay. I try to set my goals fairly low for hunting for games in the wild since nobody is going to find every rare/uncommon game even for a system that was popular like the NES. My goal for this year will be to find a sealed NES game since I don't have anything sealed for the NES. Hopefully something good but I won't complain even if it's something that is shit as long as I can get it for a buck or two

A sealed NES game eh? Good luck man, Im rooting for ya. And yes, Im selling my spot for $300.... It was a joke man.... Everyone needs to relax.

Who the hell has garage sales in January?

Originally Posted by PyroGamer Who the hell has garage sales in January?

You'd be surprised man, check out Craigslist.

It's not cold everywhere in January. Hell, it's 75 degrees here today.

Originally Posted by IkilledLassic A sealed NES game eh? Good luck man, Im rooting for ya. And yes, Im selling my spot for $300.... It was a joke man.... Everyone needs to relax.

I've ran into a few 16-bit games sealed over the last few years one even being Street Fighter II for the SNES IIRC the guy mentioned that it was a meant to be given as a gift or recieved as a gift or something along the lines of that.

I also asked about video games at one sale about 3 years ago and went over to the guys house and he had abunch of stuff all/mostly intellivision, 2600 including some accessories & IIRC a few games still sealed but he was asking $150 to start with so I ended up never following though with the deal as after thinking about it I passed as I figured I would never get to playing the games much (if ever) with everything else I have that I need to get to and it would end up being to big of a purchase out of nostalgia. I remember seeing one of the games with a tag that said .99, makes me wish I was smart enough to be trying to look for cheap/clearance game when I was younger during the 8-bit era or before.

I wouldn't expect much if I did luck out and find something sealed most likely something that nobody cared to open like Orb 3D I would hope for something really common or fairly common that I like (TMNT or Russian Attack would be nice) but being my luck if I do run across a sealed NES game the box would probably be smushed and the game would probably be Bases Loaded II.

Me go get game at garge sale this yaer

Originally Posted by Demontooth It's not cold everywhere in January. Hell, it's 75 degrees here today.

It's 2 degrees ATM.

JVC X'Eye, RF, 1 controller
TOTAL: $2.00

Picked this up at a local moving sale that was advertising games. Have'nt been out much lately due to the weather. But stopped by this moving sale cause it was close to home. There were tons of PS2 and Xbox games all way overpriced. I asked for any older stuff and the guy went upstairs and came back with this.
He said it would not read the discs but played the cartridges fine. Remembering I read somewhere about a common CD lid switch problem on these units I decided to give it a go and CIF'd $2 which was initially shot down. The guy proceeded to tell me how he paid over $400 for this new and so on and so on. When he was done I told him "The CD does'nt work, there's no plug and you do'nt have any games for it, it's basically junk unless I can fix it, I shot him a kind of c'mon look and stuck the $2 back in his face. He thought for a minute and took the cash.

Got home and sure enough the cd would'nt read. Looked around online a bit and found a site which diagramed the bypass or replacement for the CD door pinswitch. I went with the bypass option which was just soldering a piece of copper wire to the switch leads and 15 minutes later I was rocking the X'Eye

Originally Posted by whitedeath count me in

I'm with you, too!

Can't wait for the season to start in my area...

And nice find on that Xeye, you s.o.b. ;D

Damn snot, way to start off the thread.

I'm hoping to find a 3DO or a CD-i this year....I live in a backwoods community so the chances are greater of someone selling that to me for $20. However, the chances are also greater that it may not work....

I wouldn't be surprised to see more X-Box 360 or PS3 games and PS2/XBX games this year.

I'm really wanting some more dreamcast games and a turbo grafx system or sega master system.

Do I post flea market finds here?

If so:

Zelda: Majora's Mask
Mario Party
Mario Party 2
Diddy Kong Racing
and a Broken Paper Mario

=$24.00

Well, I'm hoping I'll be able to find just ONE game this year. Apparently Denmark isn't the place to be gamesaling-wise

Anyway, I'm looking forward to this thread filling up as the weather gets warmer, and hopefully I'll be able to contribute a bit this year and not just absorb the yardsaling vibe like the previous years.

Cheers, and happy yardsaling, everyone!

Ridiculous. Nice find.

Dude...Snotknocker and EvilMax/Moeity are the freaking Solid Snakes of yard sales.

But it takes a HUGE commitment and a TON of time to score those one in a million deals I've seen them post. You can easily make a decent living I'd guess, probably at least 50K a year, by being a yard sale pro 'full time'. At least in a decent area and if you have a keen eye and broad amount of knowledge over a large variety of collectible types (i.e. you should know as much about furniture as possible...and the amount to know is ridiculous, toys, glassware, porcelain, etc.)...basically, just about everything is collectible and collected by someone out there. The key is maximizing your profit...buying stuff for the best price and finding the collector who will pay the most for it.

LA just blows...too many sales every week to cover and over way too vast an area, people thinking their garbage is worth gold, too much competition. I just stick with being a craigslist deal stalker. I just do it for my own collecting mainly and not to resell (if I come across something I already have or know I could easily make a huge profit on, then I'll bite, sure - who wouldn't), especially since there is no way that doing the yard sale hunting for profit thing could ever come close to what I make in my real work.

But I have entertained the idea of doing the yard saling/flea market thing full time, since I do enjoy the thrill of the hunt and landing an awesome deal so much. But that would only happen most likely if and when I'd be retired, or if I was so vastly wealthy that it would be foolish to work.

I'm not sure if Snotknocker and EvilMax/Moeity do this for a living, but judging by the scores they've posted here and on their site, they could definitely make good money doing it full time and just reselling on eBay or whatnot. I'm SO jealous of their scores but at the same time I do realize it's a lot of hard work, wasted time running around and going all over hoping for a good score before some competition swoops on it, all day Saturday and Sunday from WAY EARLY in the morning until you are too tired in the afternoon to continue. God bless 'em. The rates of finding a particularly good score must be something close to 1 in 50 or 100.

Spot on Karkyco; Ive seen gems in areas of both affluence and areas of lesser incomes. But here on Long Island, most kids my age or younger who had Genesis, NES, SNES, etc, if they haven't already pawned them rid themselves of systems and games at very cheap prices. Funny thing, Craigslist in NY is utterly useless for video game finds, at least from my luck and recollection.

Way too cold out for anything like this.


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