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Holy crap, now just upgrade the hard drive and you are set!

Good finds at the GW by my house tonight. I'm glad we stopped.



MW3 = $20
Skylanders bundle = $10
Silver 360 controllers = $14 for both

Both games were ringed, but a little TLC under the bench buffer fixed them right up, and both installed 100%. As for the controllers, one was priced $9 and the other $5, but the only thing missing from the $5 one was the AA battery housing and the play and charge manual. Both came with rechargeable batteries and the play and charge adapters. Both controllers are PRISTINE and work perfectly.

I saw an official USB Sony PS3 Chat Headset at GW today. Thing is, I can't find any listing for it anywhere. Single earpiece, boom mic, and inline volume/mute controls. They only want $10 for it, but I've got no idea if that's even a decent price. Anyone ever used one?

Wednesday is Target Returns day at Goodwill here. Usually it's a lot of junk, but sometimes I get some fantastic video game deals like the $15 copy of Star Fox 64 3DS last month. Today's score was a beat up copy of Cabela's: Survival Shadows of Katmai with the light gun for PS3 for $25. The outside box was a little beat up, but everything inside is pristine. I hooked it all up and played this evening for about 10 minutes, seems like fun if you like light gun shooters, I don't, I can't hold the gun in position long enough without my arms starting to kill me. Regardless, I should be able to flip this for about $50 - $60, since it's $80 brand new

Originally Posted by spmahn Wednesday is Target Returns day at Goodwill here. Usually it's a lot of junk, but sometimes I get some fantastic video game deals like the $15 cope of Star Fox 64 3DS last month. Today's score was a beat up copy of Cabela's: Survival Shadows of Katmai with the light gun for $25. The outside box was a little beat up, but everything inside is pristine. I hooked it all up and played this evening for about 10 minutes, seems like fun if you like light gun shooters, I don't, I can't hold the gun in position long enough without my arms starting to kill me. Regardless, I should be able to flip this for about $50 - $60, since it's $80 brand new

That must be the case with my GW too. All of the stuff I got tonight was Target Def Salv.

Oh yeah. Brand New. $4 each.

FF9 is the only one there that appeals to me, but still a very nice score. I had actually forgotten what sealed PS1 games look like.

got an Original XBOX console only today at a goodwill for $7.99, tested and works. They had 3 of them for this price.

Another good day for Target closeouts. Picked up the Uncharted 1 & 2 GOTY set for $20. Also last weeks Cabella's set sold for $52, so not a bad flip either.

My only find today was Toy Story 2 Special Edition Blu/DVD combo set for $4. Very happy.

Picked up copies of Ecco: Tides of Time and Judge Dredd for Genesis. $6 each so not exactly cheap, but they are complete and in excellent condtition, which justifies the cost IMO.

These are some recent finds at my favorite local thrift store. I went in about a month ago and checked the video games, found nada. Shopped a bit, came back to the video games as I was leaving, and found some SNES games that had just been put out. I picked up anything decent, left behind some junk. They were $1.90 each. Highlights included Super Mario Kart, Super Mario RPG, and Super Mario All-Stars. Everything worked and saved fine.

Went in yesterday and found some gamecube games just put out. At first, I found the Mario Party 7 case/manual with the Mario party 6 disc in it. Was going to pass on it, but then a few minutes later a worker puts out a few more gamecube games, along with Mario party 6 case/manual with the Mario Party 7 disc in it. I switch the discs and decide to pick both up, along with Mario Baseball. All 3 games were complete and near mint. I passed on a case/disc only Mario Kart Double Dash and Mario Tennis, mainly because with the Gamecube games being $6.90 each, I only really wanted complete games at that price. Also got Warcraft II and Ecco for 90 cents each.

Walked around a bit, checked the video games (which are mixed in with DVDs and CDs) again as I was leaving. An old guy with a scanner was poking around in there, picking stuff up randomly and scanning it. I noticed a freshly put out copy of FFVII (complete with mini guide and all discs) and snag it before he figures out its worth. He leaves about a minute later for another part of the store without saying anything. Not sure if he even knew my score or not, but I'm just glad I got it first. Paid 90 cents for FF VII.

Overall had a pretty good run lately at my local thrift (privately owned, not a SA or Goodwill). They get new stock daily, as opposed to Goodwills around here, which tend to have most of the same junk time after time (though I've made some great finds at Goodwills as well).

I just got a brand new Chameleon GameCube controller from goodwill for $5. Last time I was there I got a very scratched, but still working complete copy of Super Mario Sunshine for $4. It wasn't even in the game section it was on the floor by the Christmas dishes.

Found this among the $1 cds at family thrift center:

Originally Posted by schuerm26 Oh yeah. Brand New. $4 each.

Is it wrong that I know that the price stickers on those two GH PS1 games are from Blockbuster Video?

Originally Posted by IAmTheCheapestGamer Is it wrong that I know that the price stickers on those two GH PS1 games are from Blockbuster Video?

I had to spend 3 minutes thinking of how familiar those stickers looked until I realized they were from BBV. Probably bought and stashed away and forgotten. Unless those are actually from a BBV and they were clearing out the back and noticed some sealed PS1 games

Originally Posted by Link927 I had to spend 3 minutes thinking of how familiar those stickers looked until I realized they were from BBV. Probably bought and stashed away and forgotten. Unless those are actually from a BBV and they were clearing out the back and noticed some sealed PS1 games

That's like a few of the Kmarts around here that up till like 2007 or 2008 had PS1 games sitting in one corner or another of their cases, including copies of FF VII(GH) and FF Tactics(GH). Of course, I didn't really realize how sought after FFVII was until those copies of it disappeared from said Kmart.

Originally Posted by IAmTheCheapestGamer That's like a few of the Kmarts around here that up till like 2007 or 2008 had PS1 games sitting in one corner or another of their cases, including copies of FF VII(GH) and FF Tactics(GH). Of course, I didn't really realize how sought after FFVII was until those copies of it disappeared from said Kmart.

I know exactly how you feel about sealed FFVII, coincidentally at my Kmart. I remember seeing a sealed copy but passing it because you could still buy it then used at GS. Back then I wasnt too much of a "collector" though, I would have picked it up in a heartbeat today.

Originally Posted by Naruto Uzumaki Found this among the $1 cds at family thrift center:

My favorite rpg of all time, such an awesome find

you, naruto, for finding Suiko2 at a thrift store, for liking naruto, and for not resizing your blurry ass photo.

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