Had some success today. Hit a yard sale that advertised games, turned out to be a black GBA SP, asking price FORTY-FIVE DOLLARS. I didn't even bother haggling, as I wasn't even going to offer half that. There were some GBA games for $5 each, but they were mostly of the girly variety - Lizzie Maguire and such.
Now I actually went by this place again on the way home, this was about 11 am, I wanted to see if it had gone. It was still there, of course. So I asked how much, (I had a $20 bill ready to CIF for it), the guy still said $45. WTF, its 11am, time to start getting real about the prices here. But guess what, some guy who was standing next to me there offered him $40 and he took it. Amazing!
So later I saw a NES and 11 games for $25. Not too great of a deal, but further inspection revealed that three of the games were Dragon Warrior I, II and III, all with manuals and maps. I asked if they wanted to sell the individual games, they said make an offer, I said $1 each, they said yeah. Sold! Deal of the Day right here.
Then finally we hit a small flea market type place, I wasn't expecting much, I saw a bunch of sports SNES and Genesis games so I figured this place had been picked clean long ago. One guy had a table with PS2/Xbox stuff, but it was obviously one of THOSE places...dusty 5 year old PS2 and Xbox titles that haven't sold, and aren't going to get sold. The alarm bells in my head went off when I saw a copy of Tekken 5 marked at $30 (Retail price is 19.99 of course), so I was about to run, not walk out of there when I saw PS2 Jurassic Park operation Genesis. Knowing this can get up to $50 on the 'bay I asked how much, expecting him to say $75 or something, but he said, strangely, $14. Why $14, no idea, but I CIFed $10, and he said no! So I said OK, thanks, and did the pretending to leave but sort of still hanging around in case he changes his mind thing, but nope. So, damn, alright bud, here's $12. And he STILL said no. So I left. But, dammit, I knew I had to have it, so I went back after having checked out the rest of the market. So I paid $14 for it. Better than EB prices anyway!