Yay, it's yard sale season around here! I tried to get things kicked off yesterday, but there were only a few sales open that weren't super far away. Then all but one of them decided not to do it. So, just one sale yesterday, which yielded:
- Radio Shack S-Video/RCA switch
- Gravis PC GamePad
- Leather office chair
Total: $6
Today kicked off with a sale at a nearby expo center, it cost $2 to enter, so I was hoping for some good finds. Passed on one of the Burger King Xbox games, some PS1 trash, and then found...
- Gray N64 controller in great condition
- 24: The Game
Total: $4
There was a super yellowed SNES, a green N64, and three or four copies of Mario Bros./Duck Hunt for $2 each, so I was glad to get these for a reasonable price. Unfortunately, 24 is super scratched and needs a resurfacing.
Found a seller with a Sega Saturn RF adapter still in the box and two Saturn demo discs. Decided to offer a buck for the three, but the seller got absolutely flabbergasted. "What? Hey, hold on, let me see these... These are video games!" "Kinda, they're just demos. $1 for both?" "No, $5 each, these are video games!" He took them from me and put them back.
"All games $5" is an interesting thing. It can be overpriced if it's lots of sports, racing, or Burger King games, but I picked out a few diamonds in the rough at another booth.
- Donkey Konga 2
- Mario Party 5
- Mario Party 7
Total: $10
Donkey Konga 2 is in good condition, but I already have it so it's for trading. Both Mario Parties were very scratched up, so I was able to argue a "Buy 2 get 1 free" deal by showing how scratched up MP7 was. Ironically, MP7 works great, but MP5 does not. I've gotta find a good way to fix this and 24.
Next was a quick and easy find. NES games at 50 cents each, so I grabbed the ones I didn't have yet.
- Baseball
- Ice Hockey
- Contra
- The Legend of Zelda
Total: $2
Next it was off to the suburbs. Found a cheap new optical mouse for $3 to replace the worn out one my family's been using for years and years. A few stops later, we came across a guy with three boxes of items that were more or less Best Buy "open items". There was an Intec Wii remote charge kit for $10, an Intec zapper knockoff for $10, but I grabbed...
- Dynex memory card reader
- Intec Wireless GameCube controller
Total: $10
Both are working great, but the Intec wireless dongle doesn't fit on top of my Wii next to the Wavebird dongles. Fortunately, I only have two Wavebirds, so player three will just be doomed to be wired.
The last few sales weren't too eventful, but I picked up a couple other fun things:
- Nyko GBA FM Tuner
- 2 10-packs of Floppies
Total: $0.50
Grabbed the FM tuner just for the heck of it, and picked up the floppies just because they were 10 cents. They said to just take the other box and get them out of there. I'm sure I'll never need them all, but my trusty few I use for BIOS flash disks and such are starting to go bad.
- Hey You, Pikachu!
- Nightmare Creatures
Total: $4
Sure, it's overpaying a bit, but I can't haggle when it's a little kid selling his old games. Also, what a ten year old was doing with Nightmare Creatures was beyond me. Snagged all is games that weren't WWF, WCW, or NWO.