Official 2009 Yard Sale Thread

neon signs are the best cause u can see them by a mile away.

card board signs suck cause u cant read the dam text.

neon tape works well on cardboard signs.. lol
 
Odd day for a garage sale but my grandpa hit one while I was at school and picked up a dreamcast w/ controller, no hookups for $1.50. No idea if it works and he said it's quite dirty but hey a 1.50 is a 1.50.
 
[quote name='Samus']What kind of stuff do you guys even sell?

I think it's my location. I'm middle class but I live around a lot of upper middle class/high class homes who probably aren't interested in going to yard sales.[/QUOTE]

I live in Western New york and nobody has money so we usually do really good. Plus i sell off my extra video game stuff and put it really high so i won't sell it and somebody buys it anyway. For example i got my 1st super nintendo with 15 games for 20 bucks and sold it for 80 at a yard sale. I was shocked lol. Sry about double post. Forgot i posted.
 
Hit up a couple this morning that were advertised on craigslist as having some games. First one was a complete disappointment--just random casual-type Nintendo DS games that were all over-priced. Second sale was a little better. Had two Sega Genesis consoles with about 20 games (mostly sports). I passed on those but for $12 I did pick up a toaster-style NES console with no flip-cover, 2 controllers, and 22 games:

Dragon Warrior
Roger Clemens MVP Baseball
Top Gun
Karate Champ
Dragon Warrior III
Punch-Out
Gyromite
Pro Wrestling
Urban Champion
Ice Hockey
NARC
Captain Skyhawk
Tecmo Baseball
John Elway's Quarterback
Bases Loaded
Ultimate Basketball
NES Play Action Football
NFL Football
Double Dragon II
Twin Eagle
3-D Worldrunner
Ninja Gaiden

I had a few doubles out of that set, but figured that Punch-Out, Dragon Warrior III, and Double Dragon II made the set worth it. Tested at home and the console is pretty finicky, but does work with a good number of games. Likely to give it away though, as I have a trusty top-loader already.
 
[quote name='Ye0ldmario']good deal there phatty, DW 3 is worth a pretty penny. Cart only though right?[/QUOTE]

Yeah, everything in the lot was cart only. Label on DW 3 was peeling a little too, which would probably affect resale. Planning on holding onto it for my collection though.
 
Well my 1.50 dreamcast was pretty bad. The power adapter was broken off the board. So i had to resolder to new points. Got it to turn on but it wouldn't read games, so i adjusted/calibrated the laser and got it to read. Now it needs a good cleaning.
 
Not much today, got out late due to work...

360 Dead Rising (complete, good shape) $5

lil red nintendo game keychain (needs battery) $.25

and this brown wooden box that has a top that slides open like a roll top desk...across the front in black is just the word nintendo (I'll post a pic soon), curious what this is... $1
 
Very busy day today:

NES with: hookups, 85 games, 4 zappers (one CIB), sealed 4 Score, NES joystick and magazines - $120

Overall pic

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Loose games 1

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Loose games 2

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Loose games 3

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Complete games

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Anyone know anything about this magazine?

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Traded Ocarina of Time and Majora's Mask for these

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$20 for this Neo Geo Pocket lot

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Trying to save up, prob wont hit up yard sales for 2 weeks or so.
going to the swap meet to buy beach stuff on sunday though.
 
There's apparently a yard sale down the street from my house tomorrow. I'm highly doubtful that I'll find anything worth while. Where I live, I'm lucky to even see something game related. But, I can always hope!
 
FINALLY found some gaming related stuff at a local flea market today. Everything in working condition:
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A Nintendo 64 w/ all hookups
Controller w/ rumble pak

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Nintendo 64 games:
Diddy Kong Racing
International Superstar Soccer '98
Legend of Zelda: Majora's Mask
Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time
Super Mario 64

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Nintendo 64 expansion pak w/ manual
Manuals for the two Zelda games

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PlayStation w/ all hookups and two controllers and a memorycard that's falling apart. The lid doesn't close but I found that it's just the closing mechanism that needs to be fastened.

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PlayStation games:
Bomber Man (Complete)
Bugs Bunny & Taz: Time Busters (No cover)
Crash Bandicoot (Platinum)(No cover or manual)
Crash Bandicoot 2: Cortex Strikas Back (Platinum)(No manual)
Donald Duck Qu@ck Att@ck?*! (No cover)
Fifa 99 (No cover or manual)
Hugo 2 (Complete)
Klonoa: Door to Phantomile (No cover or manual)
LEGO Racers (No manual or back cover)
Pocket Fighter (Complete)
Scooby-Doo and the Cyber Chase (No disc)
Spec Ops Airborne Commando (Complete)
Spyro: Year of the Dragon (No cover or manual)
Tarzan (Complete)
The Simpsons Wrestling (No manual or cover)
Walt Disney World Magical Racing Tour (Complete)

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A FamiClone of sorts? Haven't given it much testing yet. Does anyone know anything about this company (Mebe Teck)?

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Multi cart for the clone.
 
[quote name='Kuros']Very busy day today:



Complete games

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I'll love to have your boxed Megaman 2 :) at least the box and booklet
 
Hehe so only saw two or three game related items and none of it worth buying. However did see a PSX that someone had put a sticker on and scribbled in market "early Xbox 360 prototype model v0.00001"

Got a good laugh out of that.
 
I'm not sure if you'd consider this real good, but I found some stuff game related for once.
At sale one, I only got three DVD's(The Visitation, Rescue From Gilligan's Island, and The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy) for $2.
At sale two I found a pile of NES carts with a Super Nintendo cart on top, all marked 25 cents. Decided to buy all except one, which they said I could have for free. Then I noticed a Dreamcast sitting all alone in the corner with only a controller. I asked if they had the cords, they found them. They also found some cords for an NES, which I got for free. Whole bundle cost me a dollar. Went to the car, opened the Dreamcast, found some demo disc called "Generator Vol. 2." Total damage: $2.75
Sale three was a community sale with over 15 stands and I only got some camera for $1.:cry:
Sale four rewarded me with the special edition set of the original Star Wars Trilogy and Celtic Christmas music(?). Damage: $2
At last sale I picked up five VHS movies for $3: Godzilla, Mortal Kombat, Men In Black 2, I Know What You Did Last Summer, and Urban Legend.
Overall, I don't think it was that bad.

NES Games
The Goonies II
Deja Vu
World Class Track Meet
Total Recall
Dragon Power
(free)Dance Aerobics (WTF?)
(SNES)Super Mario All Stars + Super Mario World
 
[quote name='TalixZero']I'm not sure if you'd consider this real good, but I found some stuff game related for once.
At sale one, I only got three DVD's(The Visitation, Rescue From Gilligan's Island, and The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy) for $2.
At sale two I found a pile of NES carts with a Super Nintendo cart on top, all marked 25 cents. Decided to buy all except one, which they said I could have for free. Then I noticed a Dreamcast sitting all alone in the corner with only a controller. I asked if they had the cords, they found them. They also found some cords for an NES, which I got for free. Whole bundle cost me a dollar. Went to the car, opened the Dreamcast, found some demo disc called "Generator Vol. 2." Total damage: $2.75
Sale three was a community sale with over 15 stands and I only got some camera for $1.:cry:
Sale four rewarded me with the special edition set of the original Star Wars Trilogy and Celtic Christmas music(?). Damage: $2
At last sale I picked up five VHS movies for $3: Godzilla, Mortal Kombat, Men In Black 2, I Know What You Did Last Summer, and Urban Legend.
Overall, I don't think it was that bad.

NES Games
The Goonies II
Deja Vu
World Class Track Meet
Total Recall
Dragon Power
(free)Dance Aerobics (WTF?)
(SNES)Super Mario All Stars + Super Mario World[/QUOTE]

I'll recoup you the entire $1 (+ shipping) you spent on the NES/SNES games if you send me the Super Mario All Stars/Super Mario World. :)
 
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Thursday and Friday's finds:

Day of the Tentacle (PC CD-ROM): $2

Nintendo 64 System w/ Hookups, Controller
Star Fox 64
Madden NFL 2000
NHL Breakaway '98
Total: $6

NES Power Pad
NES AC Adapter
Nintendo RF Adapter
2x SNES Controller
Total: $6

Mario Power Tennis
The Legend of Zelda: Collector's Edition
Total: $18

Day of the Tentacle was Thursday's only find, the rest came from sales on Friday. Not a very good day from the ratio of sales I hit to actual finds. Came across an N64 bundle with Paper Mario, Mario Golf, Micro Machines 64 Turbo CIB, Donkey Kong 64 CIB, and Pokemon Snap CIB, but asking price for everything was $80! As much as I wanted those first three games, I just couldn't get them to come down to a reasonable price. Oh well. The GameCube games were from a pawn shop that I checked out for the first time, not bad prices but pretty disorganized inside, and not much retro stuff.

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Saturday's finds:

PS1 Memory Card: $2

Tetrisphere
Donkey Kong Country
Donkey Kong Country 2
Donkey Kong Country 3
Mortal Kombat II
Mortal Kombat 3
Ultimate Mortal Kombat 3
Super Mario All Stars
Super Star Wars
Indiana Jones Greatest Adventures
Wario's Woods
Super Mario Kart
Mega Man X
Mega Man X2
Tetris & Dr. Mario
Total: $30

Another disappointing ratio of sales to finds, but I'm pretty happy with these. They actually belonged to my girlfriend's boss! We talked about games and whatnot, and how he just eBayed his Ninja Gaiden Trilogy, Mario RPG, FF3, etc. But oh well, he still left some nice games behind for his sale. The price on the PS1 memory card was a little high, but I need some to bundle with systems that I'd like to sell, so $2 now to get a bundle out the door beats waiting to find one for less.
 
I decided to go out to a few community/neighborhood yard sales around west LA. There was one listing with TONS of video games that was supposed to start at 6 am, but I got to the address around 7 and there was nothing and no one:

http://losangeles.craigslist.org/wst/gms/1207750065.html

http://losangeles.craigslist.org/wst/gms/1206206689.html

Ah well, even if I had gotten there, I'm sure anything good and at a good price would have been long gone.

So at the first community yard sale, in Torrance, I got a few decent things and left tons of "meh" crap behind.

Cart only Zelda Majora's Mask, gold cart with holographic label. Kid had a bunch of games for different systems, along with a typed up price list with most games $5 each. Majora's Mask was the only standout; his list had it for $5. I CiF'd him $1 and he took it without hesitation. I was somewhat surprised he bit, and so quickly, but I really didn't want to spend more than a couple bucks max on it even though I can get some decent coin for it.

Found another guy, around my age, selling game guides and all sorts of game related posters, Nintendo Powers, etc. Of course, no games. I must have asked 50 different people today if they had games, and of course, it's either "nope" or "already gone". Ah well.

So the guy just wants to get rid of these, I CiF him $2 for the pile and he says sure. There's a bunch of anime posters and stickers, also some Nintendo Power stickers and cards and posters. The game guides I can remember (they're in my car) are:

Mario Paint
Super Mario 64
Donkey Kong 64 (1 Nintendo official, 1 Versus)
Super Mario for Gamecube
Final Fantasy 8
Goldeneye
Super Mario Advance 2 x2, and I think one for Advance 3 or 4
some other Nintendo guides, Pokemon something
About half a dozen Nintendo Powers

That was all I got from this community sale, it generally sucked although I did get there about half an hour after it officially started.

Jumped on the 405 and headed up to a community sale near Brentwood/UCLA, and got the following:

20 Disney VHS tapes for $3 bucks, lady wanted $.25 each for VHS tapes so I figured why the hell not, ended up cherry picking all the Disney ones that I figured I could flip. Nothing rare that I know of, just the usuals like all the princess movies and 90's movies, Fox and the Hound, Sword in the Stone, Fantasia 2000, stuff like that.

And the big score for me was at a sale where this clueless chick was selling her husband's camera, it's a Canon Rebel 2000 EOS, yeah it's not digital but takes film but it's a good camera, I ask her how much and she goes "$8"...but her friend and friend's husband at the sale say "no way, ask more are you crazy"...so she goes "$10?". They are flipping out and saying she should ask like $25 at least, blah blah but she has no clue. So I pull outa five and 4 ones and CiF her telling her "$9's what I got, take it or leave it". She took it. Batteries are dead, but there was a new one in the case it came with. It's in perfect condition, the 28-80 mm lense it comes with is perfect. I checked on amazon and the cheapest one is $105 plus shipping. Not bad:

http://www.amazon.com/gp/offer-list...?ie=UTF8&qid=1244315238&sr=8-1&condition=used
 
I went to 3 yard sales this morning around 8 and all were bone dry, between the humidity and fatigue, i almost passed out on the sidewalk.
 
Went to 4 today didnt see anything gaming related.

A few over priced pc games Sims stuff for $10 a piece, I saw a few xbox 360 faceplates

Ddin't feel like driving 15 miles away for a few good sales

But i did get a
Sahara on dvd $1
Saint VHS $1
3 Halo Novels .50 (these will go my TL, before I take them to the used bookstore in town)

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[quote name='karkyco']

So at the first community yard sale, in Torrance, I got a few decent things and left tons of "meh" crap behind.

Cart only Zelda Majora's Mask, gold cart with holographic label. Kid had a bunch of games for different systems, along with a typed up price list with most games $5 each. Majora's Mask was the only standout; his list had it for $5. I CiF'd him $1 and he took it without hesitation. I was somewhat surprised he bit, and so quickly, but I really didn't want to spend more than a couple bucks max on it even though I can get some decent coin for it.

Found another guy, around my age, selling game guides and all sorts of game related posters, Nintendo Powers, etc. Of course, no games. I must have asked 50 different people today if they had games, and of course, it's either "nope" or "already gone". Ah well.

So the guy just wants to get rid of these, I CiF him $2 for the pile and he says sure. There's a bunch of anime posters and stickers, also some Nintendo Power stickers and cards and posters. The game guides I can remember (they're in my car) are:

Mario Paint
Super Mario 64
Donkey Kong 64 (1 Nintendo official, 1 Versus)
Super Mario for Gamecube
Final Fantasy 8
Goldeneye
Super Mario Advance 2 x2, and I think one for Advance 3 or 4
some other Nintendo guides, Pokemon something
About half a dozen Nintendo Powers

That was all I got from this community sale, it generally sucked although I did get there about half an hour after it officially started.

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No wonder I can't find anything in the Torrance area, I got Karkyco as competition :D. I really don't go yard sailing unless there a lot in a certain area and from my little experience, Torrance is pretty dry. The beach area (Redondo, Hermosa, Manhattan) is pretty good for games but I always get the "just sold them" over there. I do find a lot of cheap dvds though.

And good find on the camera!
 
thats a damn nice nes haul. I went to 40+ sales all around and didnt find a damn thing. i'm actually quite pist about the whole thing. oh well so it goes. This year has been shit for me.
no sales next weekend as i'll be Bonnaroo Bound! good luck next weekend.
 
I found games today but the prices were horrible and the people were unwilling to negotiate so I just didn't buy any. There was a dreamcast bundle for 35$ with 2 controllers and a couple games, nothing really noteworthy for games stuff like sega bass fishing. Everything was in loose condition no boxes. I passed.

Some ps2 games for 5$ each, some more for 10$ each (GH games mind you), and some Xbox games for 5$ each all people who were unwilling to negotiate. The games were nothing spectacular just run of the mill stuff so I bought nothing. Oh and a gamecube for 50$ (no games) again unwilling to negotiate. The same sale with the cube also had the MC grooves dance game and a generic dance pad, this cost 20$ and I was not paying that much for it, especially since I can't really use it.

I did find a couple interesting things though, a battery charger for 25 cents, energizer brand and it works perfectly. Then I bought a spongebob plug n play game for 1$ at a sale and when I got home I found 4 energizer rechargeable batteries in it (talk about a bonus). I have loads of rechargeable batteries but now I have more! I also bought a dickies purse that looks brand new for 50 cents and a microsoft brand wired optical mouse for 50 cents, both look good, the purse probably costs about $25 or more in the stores and I really like it so that was a very good find.
 
Sorry about the crappy picture since you can't even make out all of the game titles, if anyone has a legitimate interest in seeing a better picture of the games just let me know. I didn't think it was worth taking another pictures when I noticed how bad this one was since all/most of the games are rather common.



GameBoy Advance (Flame) System Boxed - $5

Got out the door late today (left my house at about 8:30) found this at the first sale I went to $5 was the asking price.

Pac-Man Handheld (By MGA) - .50

Asking a buck took .50

One-On-One (Julius Erving, Larry Bird) C64 Game Complete? - $1

Atari 2600 with 2 AC Plugs, 2 regular controllers, A Set of Paddle Controllers, Some Odd Controllers I have Shown In The Picture & Some Plastic Thing That May Not Even Be Atari Related.

Games

Armor Ambush
Asteroids
Berzerk (Missing Top Label)
Casino
Chopper Command
Combat
Defender (Missing Top Label)
Dig Dug
Dodge 'Em
Donkey Kong
E.T. The Extra Terrestrial
Enduro
Freeway
Jungle Hunt
Missle Command
Ms. Pac-Man
Pac-Man
Pole Position
Raiders of The Lost Ark
RealSports Football
Solaris
Space Invaders
Space War
Spy Hunter
Star Raiders
Star Voyager
Super Breakout
Swordquest: Fireworld
Vanguard
Video Pinball
Yars' Revenge

$7

I saw 1 On 1 out at this sale and had to look at it for a few seconds before I figured out what computer system it was for. This is the first (and probably the last) C64 game I've found in the wild. 2 older ladies were running this sale and when I asked about games the one said she had something but wasen't sure exactly what system it was and brought out the box with this Atari stuff in it. I looked it over and offered $5 which was countered with $7 I in turn offered $7 for the Atari stuff with the C64 game included and ended up just paying $7 for the Atari stuff and coughing up the extra buck asking price for the C64 game since it belonged to the other lady running the sale.

NES System With RF Adaptor, AC Adaptor & 2 1st Party Controllers

Games

10-Yard Fight
Battletoads
Cobra Triangle
Excitebike
Ice Hockey
The Legend of Zelda
Life Force
Marble Madness
Metroid
Popeye
Super Mario Bros. (x2)
Super Sprint
(Also 6-7 sleeves with the games)

$20

Saw this sitting out at a sale (behind some PS2 sports games) that wasen't advertised in the paper that I ran into. I looked it over and offered $5 since it didn't have a price on it. The lady said they were asking $20 and wouldn't do it, I tried again this time CIFing a $10 bill, no go didn't phase her one bit. I asked her what the best she was willing to do was and it was pretty apparent that she wasen't dropping the price on the NES with games one cent and I ended up jokingly letting her know that she was killing me at $20 as I paid her since I only had about a dozen in 1s left now and some change.

PSOne With Hookups & 1 1st Party Controller - $2

Didn't even bother to include this in the picture. They were asking $5 and took $2 when I pointed out that the lid didn't latch shut right, I probably would have left it behind but my one friend has been asking me to grab a PSOne if I run across one cheap and I figured I'd take a chance on this one at $2.

Twisted Metal: Black - $2

Asking price was $2, saw about a dozen games at this sale late in the day only other game I remember that wasen't crap or really common was Rygar. This is really no big deal but it was a nice little find for me since it'll replace my copy without a manual which was really bothering me since I only have a few PS2 games missing manuals.

Non Find BS

Right before I got the Atari I was at a sale that said they just sold an Atari (this was probably about 9 AM) so it was interesting how I ended up lucking into one right after that.

All of this stuff was from Saturday since I only went to 3 sales around town Friday since it rained. The first 3 finds were from the same neighborhood I had some decent finds in last week.

Out of 10 yardsale in my borough this weekend only 1 of them was a house I've never been to so for today (Saturday) I made a route that went through 3-4 other nearby areas but even with it being more work it ended up working out since I did pretty good. I was probably lucky that it didn't end up being a dry week on a week were I spent more time out in one day (4 hours) and more time doing up a yardsale route.

Not much else this week typical we still play (N64, NES etc. etc.) kids didn't want to part with any games or something I that I missed out on that probably wouldn't have been of much interest to me like Xbox games.

A few things I forgot about that is partly why I stopped going all around outside of my town every week yardsaling.

1) The unattended sale, I ran into 2-3 of these today and notice that it's usually the worse areas in town that I tend to run into these at more often.

2) Sales I can't find, couldn't find a few sales and I usually circle around for a few minutes wasting time & gas when I should probably just move on. I'll have to double check but I had a relatively good idea of where 2 of the sales were that I couldn't find the street for and think that google maps was probably off.

3) The famaous sign following game as somebody mentioned a few days ago. I should just ignore signs and only go to actual sales I see that ain't on my list as I see signs poorly done that I can't read while driving by and who knows it's usually a sign for a sale on my list (when I stop and read them or if I'm on foot) or could even be a sign that wasen't taken down from a sale last week or even longer ago :D
 
well you also have assholes on craigslist posting fake addresses in the garage sale section

anybody can post saying theres a yard sale at so and so's house, address is ___________, go here here here there here then back over there, until you get to the house.
 
Well, I had to work this saturday, and will for the rest of the month, but I did hit 2 sales on friday durring my lunch break in the town I work and hardly ever garage sale in. I found
(360) COD 4
(360) C&C 3: Kaynes Wrath
(360) Gears of War
(DVD) Twilight

Total $20.
for some reason I find quite afew 360 games in this town as compared to my normal saturday town.
 
I pretty much skipped going out this weekend. Most of the neighborhoods near me don't usually have much and I've been a little drowsy in the morning.

Here's what I got last week


I think I spent around $5 that weekend.
2 NES games
3 Nintendo guides
FFVII loose
antenna (for $0.50 it's good to have an extra)
 
DANG!! I just found out that the week that I have to work on saturday my GS'ing competition were out of town!!! GRRR.
 
I had a pretty successful yard saleing day yesterday.



* Nintendo Power #173 with Eon Ticket intact -- $0.10 (This should be good for a modest profit.)
* Kessen III -- $2.50
* Sonic Mega Collection GC -- $2.50
* Paper Mario GC -- $2.50
* Upwords board game -- $1
* Banjo-Kazooie -- FREE (lady said she didn't know if it worked)
* Jade Cocoon PS1 (missing manual) and Time Commando disc -- $2.50
* Super Mario World SNES -- $0.50
* The Beatles Yellow Submarine (OOP) -- $0.50
* The Wizard of Oz (OOP) -- $2
* New PS2 replacement power cable -- $0.50
* 3x Xbox store kiosk demo discs -- $0.50 ea
* Myspace Tribute to the Smashing Pumpkins promo CD -- $1
* Box full of "junk" including a Sega Master System II and a Master Gear Converter (play Master system games on Game Gear) -- $5 for all
* NES controller -- $0.50
* Ape Escape -- $2.50
* Nightmare Creatures II soundtrack -- $0.50
* Casio fx-7400G Plus graphing calculator -- $5 (August back-to-school flip)
 
So I went back to that yard sale that I posted yesterday, the one that was non-existent yesterday. This was because I emailed the guy last night, had half a mind to chew him out but I'm glad I didn't, because he said because of the "rain" (drizzle, really), he didn't have the sale yesterday and was definitely going to do it today. I got out there about 7 (he told me he was starting at 6, yeah right), and the dude was just pulling stuff out.

Not only that, when I first pulled, up, I thought it was bullshit because once again no one was there. And this was in a GHETTO neighborhood, I mean tagging on the walls and the houses. I thought, shit, someone is either trying to set up some 211's, or fucking with the people that live at the property listed. Anyway, since the ad said 13450 I took a chance (no way am I driving out of the way twice for nothing) I knocked on the house in front that said 13450 and the old man said that someone in the back unit was supposed to be having the sale. So I go way to the back and there he is.

His stuff was in generally standard ghetto light to medium "beat to shit" condition, so first thing I ask about is the Wii, how much. "$300 for everything" :roll:. The Wii games sucked, so no way was I paying that and didn't really need one. He wanted similar ridiculously high amounts for the other systems, all of which were boxed (boxes beaten up a bit). $50 for the SNES + SF2, $40 for the Genesis, $80 for the PS2 slim with scratched to shit disc only games. I really didn't want to bother with negotiating for some questionable systems, especially with the IAP so absurd. Dude was definitely smoking something.

Anyway, he had a box of roughly 50, maybe 55 NES carts. I took a look, and the quality of the lot was generally decent. A lot of quality/higher demand carts I could resell. He has no idea what he wants for all of them, so I CiF him $20. Nope, he was thinking at least $80. Ridiculous. But a few are complete (Adventures in the Magical Kingdom, 3 Simpsons games, Ninja Gaiden 2, and Rygar) that I definitely want. Anyway, he says he'll take $50 for the lot of NES games, otherwise he wants $2 a game because of all the usual excuses - "these are worth more, I could sell these on ebay for a lot more, I got a lot of emails about the games, blah blah blah". Sure they're worth more...because you have to go to the trouble of selling them - listing them, shipping them, dealing with the ebay hassles and fees, and I don't care about anyone else, as I'm standing there with cash in my hand. Anyway I'm using every trick, showing the damage on a couple of the carts, their age, I can emulate them for free, the anti-ebay arguments, all of that and dude is just not having any of it.

Dude was EXTREMELY resistant to CiF. I mean I am a DAMN good negotiator and damn convincing. I upped my offer to $33 for the the lot, and he still said no. So I said fuck it and cherry picked the best and most valuable games out of the box, 25 or 26 total and gave him $25 which he finally agreed to.

I got all the boxed and complete games, SMB3, River City Ransom, TMNT 1 and 2, Zelda, Dragon Warrior 1-3, King's Knight (Square game, cart has a small cigarette burn on it, is this game any good? I can't remember it), and some other games. I don't have them in front of me so I can't remember all of them. Anyway, a bit more than I would have liked to pay for them, but a coupe of them will pay for themselves.
 
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I hate hate HATE when people don't let you haggle. You feel like slapping the hell out of them because it's overpriced anyways with or without a discount!

I saw a bunch of NES carts today as well, all sports except for a few decent games like double dragon II, dungeons and dragons, some other weird RPG i never heard of before, rad racer, etc. etc. Only problem? $5 each. No way.

I did get the replacement restorized NES i wanted though.
 
Edit: And with this update, I'm up to over 2000 games

A lot of good stuff for Sunday, but before I start, I'd like to mention I got to haggle with an 8 year old kid over the Genesis lot. It was rather amusing since I had tried to haggle with his mom (she offered me half price for the Genesis lot if I took the kid :D ), but when I tried to haggle her, she told me that her son was selling it. I asked his price, he said $10, I offered $5 and he shot back right away with $7. I paid his price, rather impressed that he didn't back down and instead haggled back. Smart kid.

Genesis lot with 2 controllers, hookups (not pictured) and the following games: Sonic 1, Sonic Classics, Vectorman, Frogger, Gunstar Heroes, Taz in Space, Primal Rage, Toy Story, Jurassic Park, Krusty's Super Fun House, Sonic Spinball, MK2 and Tiny Toons Buster's Hidden Treasure. - $7

Suikoden (disc only) - $4 (Anyone have a box & manual for this?)

Super Street Fighter 2 Turbo HD/ RE5 Theme codes for the 360 - $3 (sweet deal, costs 1450 points otherwise, I got them for 240)

System Shock cd rom version - $2

Guitar Hero Aerosmith Bundle x3 (2 bundles not pictured, 360 versions) and Guitar Hero 3 (360) - $30

Lot of 3D0 games including: Need for Speed, Road Rash, Space Ace, CPU Bach, Shockwave, Microcosm, Theme Park, and Immercenary - $20

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I almost never find any good games at yard sales. :(

Got for 25 cents each today: Formula One and Ren & Stimpy: Quest for the Shaven Yak for Game Gear today.
 
Finds from the last 2 full Saturdays and 1 half Saturday. No real super stories just the typical CIF $1 or 2
GRAND TOTAL FOR ALL OF THE FOLLOWING - $77
:D:D:D:D:D:D:D
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DOOM 32X - $1
AC/DC DVD -$1
DKC sealed - $3
Wario Woods and cleaning kit sealed - $3
QBillion sealed - $2
3 Tiger hand helds - .25


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FFVII - $2
FFII (no instructions) found in bottom of old toy chest - .25
FF Tactics - $3
Yoshi - 1
PS1 (SCPH-1001) - $1


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MP6 - $1
Luigi & Namco (Don't know what I was thinking here) - $5
SIM Earth (For some reason I thought this was worth more) - $3


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N64 and GEN 2 lot IAP was $15 CIF'd $5 - $5


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NES lot - $3 Asked for games at this sale and the lady was like "Oh I have a bin in the attic, I was going to throw them out"
she then prceeded to try and get $10 bucks outta a me as I CIF'd $3 and said "you were going to throw them out and you
won't take $3? She thougt a moment and took the money


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Donkey Kong lot - $10



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Game boy color lot (IAP $5 CIF'd $3) - $3


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Everything $1 each ( Guy had $1 marked on the Nomad and $5 marked on a common (Sonic I think) game. Needless to say
I passed on the game - go figure


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Gradius, MMX collection, MGS3 - $5 for all
Sonic - $2
FVII Demo - .25
FF Tactics (disc only) - .25
Stackers - $2 (pricey but not a very common game)


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FLEA MARKET FINDS
Dead Rising - $10
Obscure - $5
 
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[quote name='karkyco']So I went back to that yard sale that I posted yesterday, the one that was non-existent yesterday. This was because I emailed the guy last night, had half a mind to chew him out but I'm glad I didn't, because he said because of the "rain" (drizzle, really), he didn't have the sale yesterday and was definitely going to do it today. I got out there about 7 (he told me he was starting at 6, yeah right), and the dude was just pulling stuff out.

Not only that, when I first pulled, up, I thought it was bullshit because once again no one was there. And this was in a GHETTO neighborhood, I mean tagging on the walls and the houses. I thought, shit, someone is either trying to set up some 211's, or fucking with the people that live at the property listed. Anyway, since the ad said 13450 I took a chance (no way am I driving out of the way twice for nothing) I knocked on the house in front that said 13450 and the old man said that someone in the back unit was supposed to be having the sale. So I go way to the back and there he is.

His stuff was in generally standard ghetto light to medium "beat to shit" condition, so first thing I ask about is the Wii, how much. "$300 for everything" :roll:. The Wii games sucked, so no way was I paying that and didn't really need one. He wanted similar ridiculously high amounts for the other systems, all of which were boxed (boxes beaten up a bit). $50 for the SNES + SF2, $40 for the Genesis, $80 for the PS2 slim with scratched to shit disc only games. I really didn't want to bother with negotiating for some questionable systems, especially with the IAP so absurd. Dude was definitely smoking something.

Anyway, he had a box of roughly 50, maybe 55 NES carts. I took a look, and the quality of the lot was generally decent. A lot of quality/higher demand carts I could resell. He has no idea what he wants for all of them, so I CiF him $20. Nope, he was thinking at least $80. Ridiculous. But a few are complete (Adventures in the Magical Kingdom, 3 Simpsons games, Ninja Gaiden 2, and Rygar) that I definitely want. Anyway, he says he'll take $50 for the lot of NES games, otherwise he wants $2 a game because of all the usual excuses - "these are worth more, I could sell these on ebay for a lot more, I got a lot of emails about the games, blah blah blah". Sure they're worth more...because you have to go to the trouble of selling them - listing them, shipping them, dealing with the ebay hassles and fees, and I don't care about anyone else, as I'm standing there with cash in my hand. Anyway I'm using every trick, showing the damage on a couple of the carts, their age, I can emulate them for free, the anti-ebay arguments, all of that and dude is just not having any of it.

Dude was EXTREMELY resistant to CiF. I mean I am a DAMN good negotiator and damn convincing. I upped my offer to $33 for the the lot, and he still said no. So I said fuck it and cherry picked the best and most valuable games out of the box, 25 or 26 total and gave him $25 which he finally agreed to.

I got all the boxed and complete games, SMB3, River City Ransom, TMNT 1 and 2, Zelda, Dragon Warrior 1-3, King's Knight (Square game, cart has a small cigarette burn on it, is this game any good? I can't remember it), and some other games. I don't have them in front of me so I can't remember all of them. Anyway, a bit more than I would have liked to pay for them, but a coupe of them will pay for themselves.[/QUOTE]

Some people are taking the money here when I basically shove it in their face, which is what you are supposed to do, but some other people just won't take it even if you tell them its not going anywhere at that price. Mind you I have also been CIF'ing with change because I have so much of it, at least it is being taken. On the contrary I ran into a couple houses this weekend giving stuff away for free because they were sick of sitting there and wanted to be rid of the stuff! Stuff that is not priced just does not sell, because no one wants to deal with back and forth haggling and most people won't even try.

Every house is different here but it seems its either one extreme or the other, someone will be really really cheap, or someone will be extremely overpriced. There were houses that had everything for 25 cents and it still was not moving.

There are some things you just won't sell, even if its free people won't take it.

CIF also seems to work best at the middle or end of the day when things are slowing down, or if the person has had next to no business at their yard sale. If its at the beginning they will say they have a whole day ahead of them and won't take the money.
 
[quote name='SaraAB']
CIF also seems to work best at the middle or end of the day when things are slowing down, or if the person has had next to no business at their yard sale. If its at the beginning they will say they have a whole day ahead of them and won't take the money.[/QUOTE]

This is very true, but unfortunately more often than not it works against you as a buyer because if you wait until the end of the day, it is far more than likely that anything that is remotely good will be long gone at that point.
 
Damn snotknocker, I'm jealous of your gameboy lot. Buying that on ebay would be like 15x what you paid for.

Hey Kuros, what do you do with all your findings? You sell them or something? You always have a lot from garage sales.
 
[quote name='FusionHype']Damn snotknocker, I'm jealous of your gameboy lot. Buying that on ebay would be like 15x what you paid for.

Hey Kuros, what do you do with all your findings? You sell them or something? You always have a lot from garage sales.[/QUOTE]

Well, if he's anything like me (and no doubt the rest of us), he adds and upgrades his personal collection - say I found a complete game that I previously only had a cart only copy of, I would compare the conditions of the carts, select the best one and add that along with the box/instructions/etc. to my personal collection, and sell the lesser cart only copy. Then, with everything else that was extra, it would go onto my tradelist, ebay, amazon marketplace, craigslist etc.

Congrats on hitting 2,000! I'm probably up around there, but I've never really counted.
 
[quote name='karkyco']Well, if he's anything like me (and no doubt the rest of us), he adds and upgrades his personal collection - say I found a complete game that I previously only had a cart only copy of, I would compare the conditions of the carts, select the best one and add that along with the box/instructions/etc. to my personal collection, and sell the lesser cart only copy. Then, with everything else that was extra, it would go onto my tradelist, ebay, amazon marketplace, craigslist etc.

Congrats on hitting 2,000! I'm probably up around there, but I've never really counted.[/QUOTE] That's pretty much what I do, except I only collect games I like, and sell the rest, so my collection probably isn't as big as yours, only a few hundred.
 
[quote name='karkyco']Dude was EXTREMELY resistant to CiF. I mean I am a DAMN good negotiator and damn convincing. I upped my offer to $33 for the the lot, and he still said no. So I said fuck it and cherry picked the best and most valuable games out of the box, 25 or 26 total and gave him $25 which he finally agreed to.[/QUOTE]

I'd say you did good. Sure it wasen't $10 or less for a solid older system with games but it's good to hear that it worked out for you in the end and you got some good stuff cheap even if you had to go through a ton of shit from a guy that was basically trying to open shop on his lawn and not looking to have a yardsale to get rid of unwanted stuff.

Before last year I never paid more then $10 for an NES with games at a yardsale but it seems like every year deals like that are becoming fewer and further between.
 
[quote name='darkslime']Well, if he's anything like me (and no doubt the rest of us), he adds and upgrades his personal collection - say I found a complete game that I previously only had a cart only copy of, I would compare the conditions of the carts, select the best one and add that along with the box/instructions/etc. to my personal collection, and sell the lesser cart only copy. Then, with everything else that was extra, it would go onto my tradelist, ebay, amazon marketplace, craigslist etc.[/QUOTE]

Yep, I do the same. I just got done making an Excel file of everything I have, its completeness, and condition so if I'm out and see something for a steal, I can just pull out of my phone and see if it's superior to what I have.
 
I went to a flea market this weekend. Saw a lot of overpriced games and a lot of sports games. I was able to find a vendor selling a few boxed NES games. A lot of them were in pretty bad condition and were bad games (Ex. Home Alone with a sunfaded/torn box). But I did find a couple of pretty good games in pretty good condition. So I picked up Mappy Land and Kiwi Kraze both with original boxes for $8. My first NES boxed games WOO HOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO
 
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