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There's a big townhome sale tomorrow, but my overall saleing is going to get cut short due to family issues. There's also the possibility of rain (in So Cal omg wut) and falling satellites.

No jackpot for you! That will be post #2.

Bought this from my 8th grade music teacher (now a retired principal) for $1. I think she convinced me to be a substitute teacher until I find a full time corporate job again.




Paid $3 total




$1 It is in pretty nice shape and it is kind of video game related.




.25 each. I was hoping the Thrill Kill Cult CD would be worth something since it is an original wax trax pressing. The flask is one of the bonuses from a gift box, but it is stainless steel and brand new.




Misc stuff $2.50. The Benny and June DVD is sealed, as well as The Pixies CD, and the pink Ps2 wireless controller is also sealed.




I paid $7 total for the next 2 pics.

Pilates DVDs are good sellers (thanks schultzed). I also got a pilates metal support ring that is not pictured. I think this is what I bought: http://www.amazon.com/Winsor-Pilates...833171&sr=8-13

I figured the books would be worth something because of the subject matter and age (even though they are not old by book standards)




Both of these are complete!




Next post will be the mini jackpot NES lot. I should clarify it is a jackpot in terms of what it is wroth to me. It may not necessarily be a high dollar value lot, but most of it is going in my permanent collection.

Originally Posted by slowdive21 No jackpot for you! That will be post #2. Bought this from my 8th grade music teacher (now a retired principal) for $1. I think she convinced me to be a substitute teacher until I find a full time corporate job again.

picked this up for $0.50 at a Salvation Army last month. i'm hitting up a community sale before work tomorrow, hopefully i have something to show for it tomorrow night!

Originally Posted by ROB64 Spring and Autumn sales are usually the best around here, since not too many people want to host a sale in the heat of summer.

I'm hoping that's the case around here. Our summers average around 113°F, so hopefully that's the main reason for crappy sales.

Well fellow CAGs, I bring to you a sad sad tale of what happened to me yesterday, for I missed out on what quite possibly could have been the best find ever for me, and it's keeping me up late at night so I figured I should make use of my time and tell someone about it. It's not exactly a yard sale story - it happened in an independent game store some friends and I visited after some unsuccessful yard and garage sales - but this seems like an appropriate place to tell it.

Story in the spoiler:

My two friends and I had no luck at the few yard sales we went to yesterday. My friend suggests we hit up the game store in the mall nearby. I say "why not, after all, it can't hurt to look." (Oh how wrong I was.)

So we get inside and I quickly spot a nice looking rack of games containing NES, SNES, and assorted Atari 2600 and 7800 games. I browse the NES games - most are overpriced and there were none I really felt like paying for. I decide to look at the Atari games, even though I own no Atari console. Most were priced from $2-5, but some had no price tags. My eyes landed on a single cart in a row on the far end - it had no end label, which was curious. I pick it up. The front displays a simple black label with white writing. The top of the label read "Loaner Cartridge". Having always been an Nintendo child I had no idea what I was holding in my hand, and I thought it might have been a peripheral of some sort - until I read the rest of the label. There were two sections on the label - the top said "Title" and was completely blank. The bottom read "Return to" and had three lines of text. I can't even remember the bottom two lines because the top one made my eyes bulge: "Prototype Lab". And the Atari logo in all its glory was stamped at the bottom.

Now even with my limited knowledge of Atari I knew I was holding something special in my hands, and my friends did too. But I quickly saw the problem here; this particular cart was not marked with a price tag. Had the cart been labeled with a simple $3 like the carts around it' I'd be singing an entirely different song to you all. The only option available to me was to take it to the counter. I said "I'd like to buy this." The clerk was baffled. He had no clue what the cart was and quickly turned to his PC and rapidly brought up Amazon, eBay, the like. I knew then I was never in a million years going to walk out of that store with that cartridge. But suddenly he looked at me. "These sites have nothing on this. Guess we'll have to see for ourselves."

I watched longingly as he hooked up an Atari 2600 Jr. console, turned on the TV, and plugged in a controller. Then the moment of truth: he flipped the switch and on the screen came: Phoenix for the 2600. He played for a few seconds then switched it off. I had a small bit of hope that I might still get to make a deal, but he went back to his PC, and when someone came up to purchase a Mario Paint cart, he even to my shock was asking the guy about it. I heard the guy feeding him words and my heart sank. "Rare." "Possibly a development cart." "Might be worth something." The clerk looked at me and said "sorry, there's no way I can sell this to you. I'd have no idea how to price it." I left empty-handed.

I may be asking for punishment, but does anyone know how much this might have actually been? My friends and I had never seen such a thing before.

someone came up to purchase a Mario Paint cart, he even to my shock was asking the guy about it. I heard the guy feeding him words and my heart sank. "Rare." "Possibly a development cart." "Might be worth something."

Quit snitchin'!

LOL Mario Paint....

Originally Posted by C0dy Well fellow CAGs, I bring to you a sad sad tale of what happened to me yesterday, for I missed out on what quite possibly could have been the best find ever for me, and it's keeping me up late at night so I figured I should make use of my time and tell someone about it. It's not exactly a yard sale story - it happened in an independent game store some friends and I visited after some unsuccessful yard and garage sales - but this seems like an appropriate place to tell it. Story in the spoiler: My two friends and I had no luck at the few yard sales we went to yesterday. My friend suggests we hit up the game store in the mall nearby. I say "why not, after all, it can't hurt to look." (Oh how wrong I was.) So we get inside and I quickly spot a nice looking rack of games containing NES, SNES, and assorted Atari 2600 and 7800 games. I browse the NES games - most are overpriced and there were none I really felt like paying for. I decide to look at the Atari games, even though I own no Atari console. Most were priced from $2-5, but some had no price tags. My eyes landed on a single cart in a row on the far end - it had no end label, which was curious. I pick it up. The front displays a simple black label with white writing. The top of the label read "Loaner Cartridge". Having always been an Nintendo child I had no idea what I was holding in my hand, and I thought it might have been a peripheral of some sort - until I read the rest of the label. There were two sections on the label - the top said "Title" and was completely blank. The bottom read "Return to" and had three lines of text. I can't even remember the bottom two lines because the top one made my eyes bulge: "Prototype Lab". And the Atari logo in all its glory was stamped at the bottom. Now even with my limited knowledge of Atari I knew I was holding something special in my hands, and my friends did too. But I quickly saw the problem here; this particular cart was not marked with a price tag. Had the cart been labeled with a simple $3 like the carts around it' I'd be singing an entirely different song to you all. The only option available to me was to take it to the counter. I said "I'd like to buy this." The clerk was baffled. He had no clue what the cart was and quickly turned to his PC and rapidly brought up Amazon, eBay, the like. I knew then I was never in a million years going to walk out of that store with that cartridge. But suddenly he looked at me. "These sites have nothing on this. Guess we'll have to see for ourselves." I watched longingly as he hooked up an Atari 2600 Jr. console, turned on the TV, and plugged in a controller. Then the moment of truth: he flipped the switch and on the screen came: Phoenix for the 2600. He played for a few seconds then switched it off. I had a small bit of hope that I might still get to make a deal, but he went back to his PC, and when someone came up to purchase a Mario Paint cart, he even to my shock was asking the guy about it. I heard the guy feeding him words and my heart sank. "Rare." "Possibly a development cart." "Might be worth something." The clerk looked at me and said "sorry, there's no way I can sell this to you. I'd have no idea how to price it." I left empty-handed. I may be asking for punishment, but does anyone know how much this might have actually been? My friends and I had never seen such a thing before.

old, but relevant. http://www.atariage.com/forums/topic...ner-cartridge/

The Men Who Stare at Goats $2
PC Oblivion goty edition $2

Originally Posted by yourlefthand old, but relevant. http://www.atariage.com/forums/topic...ner-cartridge/

That person is a liar. He apparently lives in the same town as me and I know damn well that there is nothing good to be found in this forsaken place. You just don't find cool shit like that in Bakersfield. He...I...it's not fair... I'll kill him...



Anyway, on a similar note...does anyone know if Xbox 360 green discs are worth anything? I'm not even sure why they're called "green" because they're actually silver (they look just like CD-R's) with "CONFIDENTIAL" stamped on the front. Perhaps it's just a reference to being "greenlit". Anyway, all I know is that they are test copies and Aksys Games sent me one of Agarest War Zero not too long ago. Before then, I had never even heard of these things, so I'm just a bit curious to know if they're actually valuable to anyone or if that won't happen until after the 360 is dead and gone.

Originally Posted by slowdive21 I should clarify it is a jackpot in terms of what it is worth to me. It may not necessarily be a high dollar value lot, but most of it is going in my permanent collection.

For me, these are the best finds!

I only found a few new sales listed today. One mentioned VGs and was on the other side of town. I picked up KOTOR 2 (minty complete for $3) but this was their second sale. I already cleaned them out back at the end of May:

post #642
http://www.cheapassgamer.com/forums/...283481&page=33

There were only 2 other new sales that I noted --probably others but I'm weary :-)

So, I come back for a 9am that listed "lots of books" . . . I stop at 8:30 and there is my book rival (the 70-something guy) already there. WTF. I rarely see this guy when there are tons of sales but when there are just a few . . . we constantly run into each other.

A really crappy rainy morning.

On the positive side, I was at the most electric baseball game I've ever seen. A month ago, we bought tickets for the Brewers last Friday game . . . never thinking we would see them clinch.

A thunderous chant of "MVP" was going on just before Ryan Braun cracked a 3-run HR to win the game. Then as they closed out the ninth we saw on the scoreboard that the Cubs had overtaken the Cards. They put the end of the Cards loss (that game running about 30 min. behind) on the Jumbotron . . . we all just went nuts.

So cool.

Originally Posted by C0dy Well fellow CAGs, I bring to you a sad sad tale of what happened to me yesterday, for I missed out on what quite possibly could have been the best find ever for me, and it's keeping me up late at night so I figured I should make use of my time and tell someone about it. It's not exactly a yard sale story - it happened in an independent game store some friends and I visited after some unsuccessful yard and garage sales - but this seems like an appropriate place to tell it. Story in the spoiler: My two friends and I had no luck at the few yard sales we went to yesterday. My friend suggests we hit up the game store in the mall nearby. I say "why not, after all, it can't hurt to look." (Oh how wrong I was.) So we get inside and I quickly spot a nice looking rack of games containing NES, SNES, and assorted Atari 2600 and 7800 games. I browse the NES games - most are overpriced and there were none I really felt like paying for. I decide to look at the Atari games, even though I own no Atari console. Most were priced from $2-5, but some had no price tags. My eyes landed on a single cart in a row on the far end - it had no end label, which was curious. I pick it up. The front displays a simple black label with white writing. The top of the label read "Loaner Cartridge". Having always been an Nintendo child I had no idea what I was holding in my hand, and I thought it might have been a peripheral of some sort - until I read the rest of the label. There were two sections on the label - the top said "Title" and was completely blank. The bottom read "Return to" and had three lines of text. I can't even remember the bottom two lines because the top one made my eyes bulge: "Prototype Lab". And the Atari logo in all its glory was stamped at the bottom. Now even with my limited knowledge of Atari I knew I was holding something special in my hands, and my friends did too. But I quickly saw the problem here; this particular cart was not marked with a price tag. Had the cart been labeled with a simple $3 like the carts around it' I'd be singing an entirely different song to you all. The only option available to me was to take it to the counter. I said "I'd like to buy this." The clerk was baffled. He had no clue what the cart was and quickly turned to his PC and rapidly brought up Amazon, eBay, the like. I knew then I was never in a million years going to walk out of that store with that cartridge. But suddenly he looked at me. "These sites have nothing on this. Guess we'll have to see for ourselves." I watched longingly as he hooked up an Atari 2600 Jr. console, turned on the TV, and plugged in a controller. Then the moment of truth: he flipped the switch and on the screen came: Phoenix for the 2600. He played for a few seconds then switched it off. I had a small bit of hope that I might still get to make a deal, but he went back to his PC, and when someone came up to purchase a Mario Paint cart, he even to my shock was asking the guy about it. I heard the guy feeding him words and my heart sank. "Rare." "Possibly a development cart." "Might be worth something." The clerk looked at me and said "sorry, there's no way I can sell this to you. I'd have no idea how to price it." I left empty-handed. I may be asking for punishment, but does anyone know how much this might have actually been? My friends and I had never seen such a thing before.

I wonder what the best way to go about this would have been?

Include it in a lot of other 2600 games so the clerk wouldn't think anything of it?
(not saying I condone this questionable behavior, but) Take a price sticker from another 2600 game and put it on?

On the plus side it seems like you only missed out on about $50 of resale value. (according to that forum, most common "same as released version" loaner carts only go for around $50-$75) Unless you've got a hard on for 2600 memorabilia, I wouldn't let it keep you up at night. And I certainly wouldn't have gone to the trouble of trying to scam the store by switching price tags. Maybe if it was like, an NES Championships Gold Cart or something, lol.

My finds at the church yard sale for today (and yesterday):


Yamaha Flute - $20
A bit tarnished, but definitely worth it. Tried to talk the guy down to ten, though I was willing to pay twenty for it.


Casiotone Mt-220 - $2
In decent condition. I like to snag these things hen I can find them.


N64 games - $5
The kid selling them only wanted $7, so I offered him $5 and he took it. Probably could've got away with offering $3 though.


Atari Flashback (with all cords, not pictured) - $1
Figured it was worth it as a novelty item.

Originally Posted by jer7583 I wonder what the best way to go about this would have been?

It sounds like the only thing he could've done to make certain that he got it would be to pocket it. I think this would've been very bad for his karma (not to mention the risk of getting caught).

Luckily, he did the right thing and has to just let it go.

ROB64 . . . last year I sold a Flashback 2 (in box) for $55 (I think I paid $3).

Duplex sale today didn't have shit. Only one house was selling overpriced PS2/XBox games. Only pickup today was Robot Chicken Season 1 for 50 cents.

It's funny how many people still think their PS2 sports games are worth $10 each.

Haha I know what you mean about sports games, they're usually priced higher than anything else! I went to a town-wide yard sale today that had a list of about 150 participating homes (nowhere near that many set up because of the looming rain). Anyway, I got out there early and by 8:30 I would be walking up to houses, just looking, and people would immediately tell me "We don't have any video games." I was stunned... as I normally ask. Turns out there were about a dozen or so other people soley out looking for video games!

I did manage to get some good records. Other than that I got an Ocarina of Time skateboard. I'll post a pic later if I get a chance. Make us proud CAGs! My area seems dried up for the season :(

Found my first find in weeks today. No pictures, but...

PS2 phat with all cables, two controllers, and 14 games, 11 of which were sports. 1 GTA type game that's nothing, GTA : Vice City, and thrown in Call of Duty 4 for 360. - $10

KOTOR II no manual - $1

Thought I had a bust when I came back from a Christian school sale:

Dora the Explorer: Journey to the Purple Planet PS2 - $2 (going for $3 on eBay)
Theme Park Roller Coaster PS2 (no manual) - $2 (going for $1)

Then I hit a strange bright spot:

Care Bears: Care Quest GBA (cart only) - $1 (seems to go for at least $8)
F-24 Stealth Fighter GBA (cart only) - $1 ($5-7 maybe?)

Couldn't get to anything else, had to run out & pick apples before the storm (got almost 30# for $20 - haul includes Fujis, Cortlands, & HoneyCrisp!)

Well after that unsuccessful day yesterday, friends and I agree to hit up a sale we saw on Craigslist, man did our luck turn around!

NES Stuff - stopped at this sale on the way to the big one we were planning on hitting up. Asked the woman if she had old games, she brings this stuff out in a cloth bag. We paid $20 - functional system, three standard controllers, NES advantage, Zapper, eight games, all hookups. Also had a random Batman Tiger Electronics game - funny :P

Then we arrive at this sale (about 20 minutes early but they let us grab stuff) - they had advertised games on the Craigslist ad, but little did we expect to find BOXED ones.

The N64 and Dreamcast were marked $15 each, and we quickly jumped on it. I know by some of your standards we're overpaying for this stuff but hey, we wanted it and were willing to pay. Manuals, everything is present, however Dreamcast has no styrofoam and we had to steal a cable from his PS1because the power cord was not present. (The Dreamcast games were $5 - but my friend picked up three. The web browser is factory sealed.) The N64, man is that thing pristine. Looks practically untouched. The Donkey Kong cart had one save file with EIGHT MINUTES of gameplay. The rest of the games were all sports and racing, but I don't think they had been picked over, we were the first ones there. The owner must have really enjoyed his sports. There was originally no power cord, but we went back later and the lady found it for us- nice! (She couldnt find the Dreamcast one, which was less of a loss considering the PS cord worked.)

I then on the boxed Gameboy games, picking up Pokemon Red, Mario Golf, and the Gameboy Camera. Boxes in nice shape, manuals present. $4 apiece. Tried to do 3 for 10 - she wouldn't budge. Her son had strictly told her not to, I guess. She said she was told by her son to sell these games on eBay - but she wanted the money quicker instead, I guess. She said she was already going to be in trouble with him for selling that 64 for $15. :P

Funniest thing then happened, when others showed up. A guy with a Blackberry in his hand was rapidly scanning the Gameboy games, looked at our haul and gave me a venomous look - guess it pays to come early. Haha! (He did grab a copy of Sonic Shuffle for DC we had missed under some of the other games - D'oh)

EDIT: Forgot to mention the two games to the right side are DOS games my friend picked up for a buck at Goodwill. They are also MIB.

Originally Posted by slowdive21 No jackpot for you! That will be post #2. Bought this from my 8th grade music teacher (now a retired principal) for $1. I think she convinced me to be a substitute teacher until I find a full time corporate job again. Paid $3 total $1 It is in pretty nice shape and it is kind of video game related. .25 each. I was hoping the Thrill Kill Cult CD would be worth something since it is an original wax trax pressing. The flask is one of the bonuses from a gift box, but it is stainless steel and brand new. Misc stuff $2.50. The Benny and June DVD is sealed, as well as The Pixies CD, and the pink Ps2 wireless controller is also sealed. I paid $7 total for the next 2 pics. Pilates DVDs are good sellers (thanks schultzed). I also got a pilates metal support ring that is not pictured. I think this is what I bought: http://www.amazon.com/Winsor-Pilates...833171&sr=8-13 I figured the books would be worth something because of the subject matter and age (even though they are not old by book standards) Both of these are complete! Next post will be the mini jackpot NES lot. I should clarify it is a jackpot in terms of what it is wroth to me. It may not necessarily be a high dollar value lot, but most of it is going in my permanent collection.

Your stop thief board game is definitely worth something, or at least it was the last time I checked.