Resellers are one of the many banes of the gaming industry. They buy all of the good stuff dirt cheap and inflate the market. Then when most of their stuff doesn't sell because they have it listed for retail, it all gets trapped in a basement for yet another 20 years.
My friends dad is a reseller and I've been going out with them for years. Oh the stories I can tell......
Looks like your son is a natural! I cant wait to have kids and have them go G-saleing with me!It was a good weekend. My son did just about as good as I did as you'll see.
This sale has been bringing stuff out for a while as they have been cleaning out a few storage units. This time was a good sale as I left happy. I ended up picking up:
Model 1 Genesis System
Model 2 Genesis System
RF Adapter (x2)
Power adapter
Genesis wireless controller (x2)
Genesis wired control (x2)
Sonic & Knuckles (Gen)
NBA Live 96 (Gen)
Sportstalk Baseball (Gen)
Sonic the Hedgehog 2 (Gen)
College Football 96 (Gen)
Tecmo Super Bowl (Gen)
World Series Baseball (Gen)
Coach K College Basketball (Gen)
Super Game Boy (SNES)
Flintstones: Treasure of Sierra Madrock (SNES)
The 2 SNES games were !4 wach and he was asking $15 for the Genesis lot. I offered him $10 for everything and he countered with $12 so I took it.
This was a find I would have never expected. I was hitting a couple sales before work and came across this one with a bunch of DVD sets and other misc. Then I spotted these items! I picked up a Dungeons & Dragons: The Legend of Drizzt board game and then a Pathfinder Beginners Box. As an avid pathfinder player I picked it up in hopes of some cool figs but the box used cardboard tokens instead. After all was said and done, I ended up paying $6 for the pair!
Total luck at this sale. I pulled up and the seller had marked all the games and DVDs as $1 each. The only thing I found was what I thought to be LEGO Batman 1 for DS. I gave the guy the $1 and then checked it as I left and found there was actually LEGO Batman 2 3DS in it!
First sale of the day and Avin was off to a good start. He immediately found a barrel full of monkeys and I picked up Tactics II by Avalon Hill and an extra battery for my tools. Not sure if it is the right type but I figures it's worth the game. I ended up giving $2 for everything.
Avin scored again at this sale. Immediately we saw there were RC helicopters. Since the last one we picked up recently was a bust I figured I'd try again. I asked how much and they were a quarter each! Then Avin saw the lunchboxes and since he loved 'How to Train Your Dragon' I went for them too. In the end, I offered $1 for everything and we left happy.
Avin game out way ahead on this sale day! He found a brand new Chuck Truck set and it was marked $5. I ended up asking the lady if she'd take $3 and it was accepted!
This was a totally random find at 2PM in the afternoon well after I was finished for the day. I only stopped as my wife and I passed it and asked if I went there. I said no and we stopped real quick on the way back home from town. Not really much of a story though. The guy had a Street Fighter II Turbo Promo VHS tape and I was going to pick it up. He then offered me the box that it was in but I wasn't interested. Then I saw the box of PC stuff stuff and asked how much for the box. He was looking for $5 but I offered $3 with the tape I had. He took it. Here's what was in it:
Street Fighter II Turbo Promo VHS
AC/DC Back in Black CD
Red Hot Chili Peppers Californication CD
Freedom Fighters
Fantasy Pack: Disciples II
Fantasy Pack: Prince of Qin
Fantasy Pack: Dragon Throne
Fantasy Pack: Robin Hood
Medal of Honor Allied Assault
Black & White Deluxe
Duke Nukem 3D Atomic Edition
Duke Xtreme
Duke!Zone
Heretic: Shadow of the Serpent Riders
Unreal II: The Awakening
American MaGee's Alice
Age of Empires Gold Edition
Age of Empires II: The Age of Kings
Age of Empires II: The Conqueror's Expansion
Empire Earth
Empire Earth: The Art of Conquest Expansion
SWAT 3
SWAT 3 Elite Edition
Myst
Rainbow 6 Rogue Spear
Rainbow 6 Rogue Spear: Black Thorn
Rainbow 6 Rogue Spear: Mission Pack Eagle Watch
Rainbow 6 Rogue Spear: Mission Pack Urban Operations
Baldur's Gate II: Shadows of Amn
Hulk
XIII
Also with all these, I got the manuals for most of the games as well. Not a bad deal!
Im so incredibly jealous of this. This is the #1 thing on my list of things I want to find. Nice score.
OH yeah! Crisper Gameboy games on my tv would not be worth spending $80 on a cable though!
You wish you could get one for $80.
http://www.ebay.com/itm/Official-Nintendo-GameCube-HD-Component-Cable-OEM-RARE-/400524680219?pt=US_Video_Game_Cables_Adapters&hash=item5d41219c1b
I wonder if it was a mistake and decided to resell it. Same guy, same item V
hmm, could be, I didn't think redoing a listing resulted in a "sold" listing, don't they normally say "this item is no longer available for sale" ?
Sniper Elite (CIB), Morrowind: GOTY (missing manual) and 
Legacy of Kain: Soul Reaver 2 (CIB) for $10 total. I will probably be selling these since I realized I have all three on Steam already lol.
Vampire Savior: The Lord of Vampire
Always ask! I ask regardless of who it looks like is running the sale. That is how I got boxed vectrex games.
^ So jealous of this find!
After cleaning out 3 storage units in 3 days leading up to Saturday, I was thrilled to drive around and buy one thing at a time. Yesterday was one of my better days of the year. For only the 2nd time this year I found some decent game stuff (been REALLY dry by me).
At my first yard sale a kid was selling a bunch of his unopened lego sets for $2-3 each. This older guy, definitely a dealer was buying a few when I got there but hadn't touched a few of them. So I took a look. I picked up a Star Wars set and the guy said "I'm buying that." I asked if he already bought it. He dodged the question. Just very rude. I asked the child's mother if the item was sold because the man wouldn't tell me. She said no, and I bought it for $2. I went to look at another set and the guy just says "you're too late on that one." I enjoy yard sales too much for one smug person to ruin it at all for me. Anyway.. the finds.
Power Rangers Board Game, Goosebumps Board Game & Micro Machines Super Auto World- $4 total
Fireball Island board game (complete!)-$4
N64 Console w/ 2 3rd party controllers, Mario Kart, Mario Party 1 & 2, and a few other games- $35
Pink DS Console w/ 4 games (one was Mario Kart), Brand New 22" LG Super LED Monitor, and Acer Netbook- $75 total
Another DS console complete in box- $20
Box w/ slim ps2, 2 psp 1000s, a TI-82, and a bunch of games- $10
There was a bit of a lull where I didn't find much, then around noon when I decided to head home hit one last yard sale and found..
Tomba 2 & Digimon 1 for PS1- $2.5 each
Huge Game Gear Lot; console, car charger, spare battery pack, extra wide gear, power cable, ~25 games, and most of the manuals. -$25
& Hero Quest Board Game (missing one figure)- $2!
Thrilled to finally find a wild Tomba and have a reason to post on this board.
yes, you overpaid, but if these are titles you will play, don't sweat it.
But wouldn't it be cheaper, or the same price, to just get a Wii with a component cable and play the GC games on the wii? Are people really paying $160 just to be able play Gameboy and GBA games in HD?! I would think the video quality on those wouldn't improve that much anyway since the picture is already being stretched out so much.
in' pushes me out of the way and literally pulls the box out of my hands and just takes every damn game out! It took me a second to process what was even happening, it was so bizarre, it was like being in a car wreck....I had a feeling like "did that seriously just happen?!"Before I even had a chance to realize what happened and go off on the guy, I hear him ask the price on the games and the seller wants $20 each for crappy N64 games that I wasn't even interested in, so I immediately didn't care anymore. I was like 5 seconds away from suplexing this idiot through a table right there in the driveway. The even dumber part was he actually ended up spending $150 on 8 common n64 games that weren't even worth 1/4 of what he paidEhhh... you definitely over-payed, but you could make your money back. Try not to jump on games just because you find them. Be patient, you'll eventually hit some good deals. Most of those games are pretty lackluster.
The Essex/Dundalk area of Baltimore is absolutely lousy with these people. Most of them don't even care about the games, they're just looking for something they can buy at 6am then take to the local flea markets to resell (there's like 5 or 6 in the area). Unless you're willing to get up at 5am and shove people out of the way, it's just not worth it to venture down there.But wouldn't it be cheaper, or the same price, to just get a Wii with a component cable and play the GC games on the wii? Are people really paying $160 just to be able play Gameboy and GBA games in HD?! I would think the video quality on those wouldn't improve that much anyway since the picture is already being stretched out so much.
I went to a sale this weekend and this a-hole reseller I always run into was there. He is the guy that is ALWAYS showing up like 1-2 hours early to every sale and buying everything. A few years ago I found a stack of SNES games and as I looked thru them he says "I already bought those" then 5 minutes later he actually pays for them, so technically I could have still bought them but he straight up lied to make it sound like he paid for them already. Anyway, I came across another sale last weekend and there he is sitting in his car, at 8am for a sale that starts at 9am. The seller already had everything out in the yard so I just walked up and started looking, then of course the second I do that he RUNS out of his car and finds me looking through the box of games and he yells out "oh god DAMN it!" As I am digging through the box to see whats in there he is standing there with his arms crossed, huffing and puffing because he wants me to hurry up and leave. Eventually he
Holy shit!!! What happened to you?I'm back. I am about a year behind on my posts. I'm on page 5 of this thread and I am looking forward to reading it all. I may even post *ahem* a 'few' things.
