2014 Dumpster Dive Thread
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1. The Hamster cover art is the best cover art ever
2. The second disc for Batman is the DLC disc. Pass it around to all you friends!
That poetry is just amazing.
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found a 360 controller at mine without the battery pack. The bottom is a little cracked so batteries dont make the best contact. Luckily I had a spare battery pack and some super glue, and presto, works great.
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Finally found a few things for the first time in months! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iW5uyssV3ss
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This may not be in spirit of the thread but I saved these games from a local BestBuy from being thrown away.
A lady walked in with all these and wanted to recycle them. I got in touch with the manager in the store and instead of more or less throwing them away I was allowed to take them. They were already in the recycle bin the store had in the back so it's possible I missed some but I got all the ones I could find.
The list is
Gameboy Color *some of the batteries are dead and games cant be saved*
Pokemon Gold x2
Pokemon Blue
Pokemon Red
Star Wars Obi-Wan's Adventures
Nintendo 64(I don't have a N64 to see if these work)
Mischief Makers
Knockout Kings 2000
Aerofighters Assault
Superman 64
Mario Party 2
Donkey King 64
Super Mario 64
WCW/NWO Revenge
Glover
Pokemon Stadium 2
Wrestlemania 2000
WCW VS NWO World Tour
Ready 2 Rumble Boxing
Wave Race
Pokemon Stadium
Starfox 64
MegaMan 64
Nintendo 64 Jumperpak
All the N64 games could be broken but they all seem to be in great condition
All games are only the games with no boxes or manuals
A lady walked in with all these and wanted to recycle them. I got in touch with the manager in the store and instead of more or less throwing them away I was allowed to take them. They were already in the recycle bin the store had in the back so it's possible I missed some but I got all the ones I could find.
The list is
Gameboy Color *some of the batteries are dead and games cant be saved*
Pokemon Gold x2
Pokemon Blue
Pokemon Red
Star Wars Obi-Wan's Adventures
Nintendo 64(I don't have a N64 to see if these work)
Mischief Makers
Knockout Kings 2000
Aerofighters Assault
Superman 64
Mario Party 2
Donkey King 64
Super Mario 64
WCW/NWO Revenge
Glover
Pokemon Stadium 2
Wrestlemania 2000
WCW VS NWO World Tour
Ready 2 Rumble Boxing
Wave Race
Pokemon Stadium
Starfox 64
MegaMan 64
Nintendo 64 Jumperpak
All the N64 games could be broken but they all seem to be in great condition
All games are only the games with no boxes or manuals
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That's an awesome catch. Saves some of this stuff from getting essentially thrown away. I had a similar, though not anywhere as good, find at gamestop a while back. Someone tried to trade in a bunch of GB/GBA/Game Gear games to Gamestop and I saw them sitting on the back counter, the employees let me have them instead of chucking them. Got a free Pokemon Blue and Pokemon Sapphire (? I think?) and some neat Game Gear games.
If you aren't interested in the 64 games I'd take some of them off your hands, or alternatively if you want to play them I've got a spare system. Let me know.
I found this in a gamestop dumpster a while back. Had to find a new way to affix the shelves, and it's missing two of the magnetic Starcraft 2 signs (which, if you have one, let me know! I need the one on the front and the one that matches the one you can see in the pic to go on the other side.) but it's an awesome heavy duty metal shelving unit.
Saw a copy of this at Pittsburgh Comic Con over the weekend...for 35 bucks! Nice find!
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and to think i almost tossed my Day One box lol looks like i will be putting it up this weekend
I need to find someplace new to do this. I havent in years or thought about till I ran into this thread.
Last time I did was when hero clix were still made by wiz kids and they had a distribution center near me I went to every Thursday evening. I found like a dozen cthulu clix in there I sold for 85 each on ebay and kept one and assorted boosters I kept cause the box was a little mashed and sold the dupes of rares I got and some other assorted stuff.
Last time I did was when hero clix were still made by wiz kids and they had a distribution center near me I went to every Thursday evening. I found like a dozen cthulu clix in there I sold for 85 each on ebay and kept one and assorted boosters I kept cause the box was a little mashed and sold the dupes of rares I got and some other assorted stuff.
You guys gave me the drive to stop by my local Gamestop dumpster myself. I'm out at midnight 4 days a week, and the gamestop is on the way home, so I guess I will be making more stops in the future.
Snagged a few items:
-Call of Duty Ghosts Strategy Guide
-Fable 3 for 360 complete with game
-Kinect Adventures for 360 complete with game
-NBA 2k12 for PS3 generic case with game
-Lego Starwars for Xbox complete with game
-Twilight Scene-it for Wii complete with game.
First dumpster dive of my life, not to shabby... I actually haven't played Fable 3, so that alone made it worth it.... going to hit it up tomorrow and see if there's anything new. Thanks for the motivation guys!
Snagged a few items:
-Call of Duty Ghosts Strategy Guide
-Fable 3 for 360 complete with game
-Kinect Adventures for 360 complete with game
-NBA 2k12 for PS3 generic case with game
-Lego Starwars for Xbox complete with game
-Twilight Scene-it for Wii complete with game.
First dumpster dive of my life, not to shabby... I actually haven't played Fable 3, so that alone made it worth it.... going to hit it up tomorrow and see if there's anything new. Thanks for the motivation guys!
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I found 2 more Day One boxes, its like finding $100 bill in the trash.
I also found a ton more posters/game boxes, finally got an Sunset Overdrive poster.
10 Lego Batman 3 posters in the roll, other 5 is Ninjago. I am still looking for anything LBP3.
I also found a ton more posters/game boxes, finally got an Sunset Overdrive poster.
10 Lego Batman 3 posters in the roll, other 5 is Ninjago. I am still looking for anything LBP3.
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I'm sorry, WHAT?!?!?! This was in the dumpster aswell!?!? A PS3, a million Touch's, a game cube, a PSP, a PSOne, what I assume to be a blu-ray player, and all those games and movies!?!?Got the other stuff next to GS.
Exaggeration FTW.
Maybe you found that stuff... maybe you didn't. But Xbox One "Day One" boxes are selling for like $30-$40 on eBay.
http://www.ebay.com/itm/Xbox-One-Day-One-Edition-Box-only-and-Day-one-achievement-No-Console-/181491176021?pt=Video_Games&hash=item2a41b79255
http://www.ebay.com/itm/Xbox-One-Day-One-Edition-and-Regular-Edition-BOXES-ONLY-no-consoles-included-/221513845956?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0&hash=item3393410cc4
Finding a $100 bill in the trash is like finding $100 bill in the trash.
arsenalcrazy8
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but they Wiiu PS3 etc (last pic) were not from a dumpster right? you actually bought those right?
I hit my GS dumpster today for the first time in months.
Got an N64 AV cable
Mario Party 4 CIB
Mario Party 5 disc only which was also inside the mario party 4 box
arsenalcrazy8
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:shock: :shock: even still...thats crazy...the iphones should be repairable no? used parts at the least on those. Very Very good find.
zekeike
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Stuff found in the dumpster next to Gamestop dumpster. Ton PS1 squaresoft rpg's
Stuff found at Gamestop
New GTA V Display and new box of GTA V cubes.
Hard Plastic Mario Kart 8 sign, MK10 Promo posters
World of Warcraft Warlords of Draenor Standee, thrown out Brand New in Box a day before the game releases.
Stuff found at Gamestop
New GTA V Display and new box of GTA V cubes.
Hard Plastic Mario Kart 8 sign, MK10 Promo posters
World of Warcraft Warlords of Draenor Standee, thrown out Brand New in Box a day before the game releases.
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Are those season passes activated codes?
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nice find... i sold my patch for 7.50 dlvd so get on that lolFound another WOW standee and this COD launch kit
zekeike
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Cool. I see one patch and lanyard go for $15. There is 25 patches/ 5 lanyards in there.
Listed 5 sets of the lanyard/patch combo, as well as 20 patch lot on Ebay.
http://www.ebay.com/itm/171544809165?ssPageName=STRK:MESELX:IT&_trksid=p3984.m1555.l2649
Listed 5 sets of the lanyard/patch combo, as well as 20 patch lot on Ebay.
http://www.ebay.com/itm/171544809165?ssPageName=STRK:MESELX:IT&_trksid=p3984.m1555.l2649
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Do you guys ever get stopped by someone when you are going behind a strip mall or anything? I feel like the cops could see it and it would look suspicious. I remember getting stopped when parking with a girl when I was like 17 behind a strip mall. This would be even worse since I'm in my late 20's and would be by myself. I'd think people would think you are trying to break in or something.
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WTF man, you are one of the luckiest guys ever to have that go-to store lol. Square RPGs??? do they work or were they tossed cause they were too scratched? I see Final Fantasy VII and Tactics; what other ones were there?
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These companies are 
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ing wasteful.
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I'm not just talking about the useless shit - look at some of the games being thrown out. I don't see the point of throwing out games like Final Fantasy VII and Xenogears in playable condition when they could be sold. That is wasteful.
Can you explain this post, Spmahn?
Ok, let me settle some things. (Not sure if someone else covered this but here goes)
1. Marketing(Adverts)
*Most of the time these are sent to all stores regardless of the size of the store or if they even have anywhere to display it.
*Some of them were probably used, however Gamestop changes marketing 1-4 weeks at a time depending on the time of year.
*Standees are the worst, Gamestop has no floor space yet they want you to cram a standee on the floor. I always threw mine away right away if I had no where to place it.
*If you want the marketing its best to check sunday nights, as they are required to setup the new marketing after close on sunday.
2.Merchandise
*The Policy for anything thrown away must be destroyed. Knowing this I personally wouldnt waste my time checking the dumpsters. However it seems some people have been lucky and found good stuff.
*Any actual item that is marked for field destroy(thrown away), must be verified by the District Manager, destroyed by said DM, and then discarded into the dumpster. (So you must have a shitty DM looking over your Gamestop if you find something of value)
*Occasionally items get pennyed out($0.01), when this happens the Store Manager is required to remove the item immediatly, destroy and thrown away. A common item here is Strategy Guides, the SM is supposed to rip off the cover.
Gamestop has deals with their vendors, which is why this happens. Basically a customer returns a controller for whatever reason claiming it is defective. The agreement that Gamestop has is instead of shipping back the controller to the vendor they mark the item as field destroy, and then the District Manager is to verify the item is broken, if it isnt it gets moved back to inventory marked shopworn 10% off or is moved to used. Once the field destroy report is cleared, any items that are "destroyed" and thrown away the vendor then pays Gamestop X amount per item to compensate Gamestop for selling them defective merchandise.
As for the games, Gamestop will also field destroy games on their own accord. This typically happens if a game looses its value and their is a huge surplus. For example Sports Champions for the PS3, this game is worthless now and each Gamestop has probably 50 or more copies. So they will decide to keep X% of them, destroy the rest. and then usually will stop taking it in. Sometimes they will continue to take the game in trade however they will only give you a small amount for it ie.. $0.02, to help compensate for their losses as some of the discs Gamestop paid for originaly could be upwards of $30.00 and the disc just sat in the draw because the game sucked or so many people trade the game in.
Hopefuly this clears up some questions.
1. Marketing(Adverts)
*Most of the time these are sent to all stores regardless of the size of the store or if they even have anywhere to display it.
*Some of them were probably used, however Gamestop changes marketing 1-4 weeks at a time depending on the time of year.
*Standees are the worst, Gamestop has no floor space yet they want you to cram a standee on the floor. I always threw mine away right away if I had no where to place it.
*If you want the marketing its best to check sunday nights, as they are required to setup the new marketing after close on sunday.
2.Merchandise
*The Policy for anything thrown away must be destroyed. Knowing this I personally wouldnt waste my time checking the dumpsters. However it seems some people have been lucky and found good stuff.
*Any actual item that is marked for field destroy(thrown away), must be verified by the District Manager, destroyed by said DM, and then discarded into the dumpster. (So you must have a shitty DM looking over your Gamestop if you find something of value)
*Occasionally items get pennyed out($0.01), when this happens the Store Manager is required to remove the item immediatly, destroy and thrown away. A common item here is Strategy Guides, the SM is supposed to rip off the cover.
Gamestop has deals with their vendors, which is why this happens. Basically a customer returns a controller for whatever reason claiming it is defective. The agreement that Gamestop has is instead of shipping back the controller to the vendor they mark the item as field destroy, and then the District Manager is to verify the item is broken, if it isnt it gets moved back to inventory marked shopworn 10% off or is moved to used. Once the field destroy report is cleared, any items that are "destroyed" and thrown away the vendor then pays Gamestop X amount per item to compensate Gamestop for selling them defective merchandise.
As for the games, Gamestop will also field destroy games on their own accord. This typically happens if a game looses its value and their is a huge surplus. For example Sports Champions for the PS3, this game is worthless now and each Gamestop has probably 50 or more copies. So they will decide to keep X% of them, destroy the rest. and then usually will stop taking it in. Sometimes they will continue to take the game in trade however they will only give you a small amount for it ie.. $0.02, to help compensate for their losses as some of the discs Gamestop paid for originaly could be upwards of $30.00 and the disc just sat in the draw because the game sucked or so many people trade the game in.
Hopefuly this clears up some questions.
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Do some Gamestop stores trash the extremely old 360 games that no one wants anymore, whether they have a large amount in stock or not? I noticed that none of my local stores have any of the really cheap old ass sports games like NBA Live 06 in stock whereas further away stores often have a surplus of copies. I couldn't imagine them wasting money and effort shipping them out to other stores.
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1. There is no way those PS1 games were thrown away by Gamestop. No Gamestop has carried any PS1 items in at least 10 years. They were most likely tossed by someone who thought they could trade them in and found out they can't.
2. I'm not a troll. Why is that word thrown about so liberally these days? The word has a very specific meaning, and just because a person is saying something you may not agree with does not make them a troll. When a person has to resort to argumentum ad hominem in order to continue a debate, then the debate is over.
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1, Ok, but this isn't just a Gametop dumpster diving thread and there's been other good things thrown out by other stores (not just outdated marketing materials or copies of Madden 08 that no one wants).
P.S. I bought PSX games from Gamestop in 2007.
2. I looked up the definition of troll and got this:
"a mythical, cave-dwelling being depicted in folklore as either a giant or a dwarf, typically having a very ugly appearance."
So I was wondering as to why you were called that since that is the specific meaning.
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Ahem, from Urban Dictionary:
In case you two are not being silly and don't know what term is being thrown around.Urban Dictionary said:
Two angry camels in a tiny car!
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Yes, they will trash those games. However it is only when there is a large quantity and it is usually a one time deal for the stores. It is possible for copies to be redistributed as they have an internal system that determines stock balancing.
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