As the CAG Wiki states "When you get home...Report your finds in the CAG Official Yard Sale thread. Not only do member enjoy reading about your adventures, but it also encourages other to get out there and start hunting!". Well I actually got encouraged and decided to go do this today. Well I had already said I would go in my last post but anyways, here is what happened. I got my local newspaper from my neighbor (I cant really afford the newspaper) and she glady said I could even keep it. I looked through the whole thing and found 5 yard/garage sale ads. 2 of them my grandma and I had no Idea were located at, so we narrowed it down to 3. There was 2 garage sales and 1 Multi-Family one. The Wiki stated that these are combined yard sales, but I didnt understand it really, untill I got there.
it was amazing...it was a medical clinic parking lot, a church and somones yard sale all in one. You could even walk in the resident (They were selling there house) and could buy anything that was in there. Well I was browsing and I came into the "kids" room and it was as if the clouds opened up over this pile of SNES games and I could of swore I heard the angelic chorus, lol. Anyways, as I started to head over there, this stupid kid cut in front of me and was like "Mom I'm gonna buy these" even though she was in another room of the house. Another thing the CAG wiki states is "When at a sale, if you are interested in something, then pick it up and hold it. Do not put it down unless you are sure you do not want it. Someone else may be just waiting for you to put it down and "think" about it (while they pick it up and buy it).", and thats exactly what happened. When he left, I guess to get his money, I snatched up the games and ran to the cashier outside (I almost knocked down an old lady XD), and thats where my next adventure started. I was like "Ma'am, how much for these? (I clearly saw the tag of $5 each, there was 7) shes like "Well there $5 each" and I'm like "But, you may not know this, but these are imported from japan, they rarely have any value in the U.S.", and she replied "Oh, I didnt know that". I said "I wouldnt expect you would sell them at $5 each, how about 50cents a piece?" and she replied "Err..I tell you what, how about $1 a piece, and you got yourself a deal". I was like OMG yay! I paid the lil ol lady and met back up with my grandma. She was like "Did you find anything intresting?", and I was like "Yeah, look" and we gladly walked back to the car. On the way back I saw the kid (I was holding the games with my hands, no bag) and he's like "OMFG j00 have me games", and I'm like "Tough luck kid, I paid her first
", and he walked off. Pfft what a loser, he was like 17. So I got home and looked at my 7 SNES games. Of course I was reading the CAG Wiki, if you hadnt noticed yet, and it said I should check if they all work and clean them. Well I checked to see if they worked, it took a little blowing and slamming into my console, but they all worked. Here is what I stole, lol.
For $7.00 - All for SNES
Secret of Mana
Lufia & The Fortress of Doom
Gradius III
StarFox
NBA Jam
Captain America and the Avengers
Killer Instict
Secret of Mana and Lufia were almost to mint condition...almost makes me wonder
I also went to 2 other yard sales, but didnt find anything. I found a complete mint speaker system for $15, yu-gi-oh, spiderman, crashbandicoot and tomb raider for playstation, but they were like $10 a piece. And I also found what looked like a just open PS2 controller but I forgot to ask about it. I bet its still there, so I might go back, but I doubt it.
So thank you CAG for encourgaing me to get my butt out there and hassle people, its fun and exciting when you haggle people and get bargains and find games. Now I just have one question as I've never had more than 1 SNES game (I only have Super Metroid). If you look at the top of cartridge, to the top right, there is a bar, its either purple or red. What do those mean? And how would I go about cleaning the cartridges without a Mr.Clean? I have some alchohal, but it says 70% iso-whatever and IIRC, I had used alchohal (or maybe it was nail polish remover) on my gameboy games and it made the grey turn ugly white. I dont want that to happen, espically to my Killer Instict. Another question, why do the Indents on some SNES games differ from others? On Super Metroid the indent go's down, while on Starfox its a roundish indented line that goes from side to side.
Again thanks, cant wait till next weekend. Oh and dont forget, I saw other garage sells on the way, so there are always some not advertised, so if you dont see any in the paper, just go driving around. I saw about 3 un-advertised (I didnt really go that far).