Was out from about 8 till 3 with about a half hour break early in the afternoon. This really shouldn't be done and today the last 9 sales I went by were all done for the day but I have had a bad habit of going by all of the sales I have on my route instead of calling it a day shortly into the afternoon like I should and just skipping out the end of my route if it's getting late. I did at least find the Genesis games when I went back out making the risk of going out for nothing pay off. I need to start calling it a day shortly after noon or between 1-2 on a late day at worst if I get carried away.
Was out for a long time today mostly because of a big community sale, this was the first community sale in the last 5 years that I've been to where they actually were handing out maps. This was the same area in which I found Chrono Trigger 2 weeks ago and while usually nothing earth shattering I normally end up with a better video game per a yardsale purchase in this area then anywhere else around me. I was in this neighborhood alone for about 3-3 1/2 hours.
I was as prepared as I could have been as I even brought along a printed up list of all of the sales I kept track of being to in this area and crossed off a few right off the bat that were repeats. The whole map idea makes sense on paper but it was a bit overwhelming and I felt kind of like I was going around like a chicken with his head cut off and actually just went around for the most part and didn't follow the map much. It would have been better if they had a way to get or print up the map a day or so in advance as I would have done much better doing up a route through town if I could have sat down at home and figured it out instead of figuring it out in between trying to drive and getting in and out of the car. 33 sales total on the list 20 of them I've either been at before or got to today and 13 I missed. 21 sales I went to that weren't on the map and 3-4 I went to that were advertised by themselves in the paper or CL. About 40 sales total in this area and 64 sales total today.
Right before I got my map a lady heard me at a sale asking about older video games and started telling me to go here then another place making it sound like they had tons of what I'm looking for. This was were I started to act like a chicken with it's head cut off as I Made it top priority to hit up the area she was telling me about and didn't find anything of the likes or close to nor any stories of mountains of games that were just sold, I think she might have heard "video" and figured a sale with say a pile of a dozen DVDs or a bunch of VHS tapes was what I was looking for. I did notice that I missed a sale that mentioned "X Box Games" but if that was the sale it was probably just Xbox games and wouldn't have been a huge tub of old cart games like I pictured if this lady understood what I meant by "Nintendo Games" and wasen't what I can't help but picture just maybe being and seeing say a huge tub of cart games with a good probability of some hidden gems for a buck or change each and willing to go lower if it means getting them all out of the house.
I went to about 64 sales total, 40 at the community sale and the rest elsewhwere. Tons of sales today with a few block/community sales around. I passed up a good sized street sale that goes for a few blocks & a small housing development just West of the community sale I was at today as I've been to both of them a few years ago but might end up at them again some other year as I can't remember if I asked about video games.
The first sale I went to today was one near where I live in town as Friday when I asked about video games a lady that didn't live at this house told me she had a box with what sounded like an Atari and something Nintendo and she said she would bring it tomarrow and got the vibe that she didn't care about it and wanted it gone. When I got to the sale today she couldn't find it. I rarely ever mention stuff like this or giving out my number (which I seem to do 0-3 times a week) since it rarely pans out into anything and I always feel like I'm going to jinx it if I mention it before getting anything.
The biggest nothing that never happened score was a lady I've seen twice over the last few years, 1st time elsewhere and last year at her place. Both times mentioned having about 100 NES games in some drawers but she wasen't eager to go and get them and like some people do made it sound like a hassle to go get or find video games instead of taking a few minutes to get the stuff or at least take a quick look. They didn't even bother putting out an Xbox they had advertised last year IIRC lol This lady also sells at the flea market from time to time and shortly after seeing her at her yardsale last year I saw her selling at the flea market and she had a PSP & DS that were her kids but the prices were about 80-90% of what new retail was at the time so I couldn't help but think that part of the reason she wouldn't want to get the stuff was because she would probably want to try and figure out what the NES stuff was worth and would probably end up coming out the gate with a price of about $300 I would guess if it's about 100 NES games and what I was told was a system that didn't work.
The only thing I was told about missing today was some PS2 games at one house and I don't even remember seeing stuff priced so high that it wouldn't sell anywhere let alone a yardsale. Most of the stuff was pretty reasonable even if nothing particularly special for example I remember seeing a PS2 for $15 and a few PS1 games at the same sale for a buck each.
Has mentioned before much of finding something good at a yardsale is all about luck. I didn't have as good of a video game per a yardsale ratio today in the community sale as I usually do in this area but the neighborhood I got to late just north of that area I only went to 3 sales all on the same block, 2nd sale found the N64 stuff sitting out and possibly missed by somebody that would have been interested since it was all in a bag and the 3rd sale right after that found the Atari stuff. 3 out of 4 of my big finds today came outside of the community sale I went to most of my sales at.
The only other thing I remember that was non find was passing on a broken DS. It's kind of funny as I was told by another shopper (over heard me asking about video games) about this across the street before I got to the sale and another younger lady overheard and pretty much replied with a oh really type response and hurried across as to beat me to the punch. I wouldn't have minded beating this lady to the DSs incase it was dirt cheap but she was doing a speed walk thing so I would have felt like a
ing idiot if I did the same to try and get to the stuff first or started running like a mindless Black Friday shopper who would fight to the death for a deal that ain't that great. It ended up being a Pink DS Lite for $75 or a White broken DS Lite for $25 both with chargers. After hearing the prices the lady didn't buy. I checked out the White DS Lite which I was told it turns on but doesn't turn off right with the power switch or something like that. The top screen had some scatches on it and it looked dirty and maybe even kind of a rusted look on the metal parts. Didn't turn on and trying to charge it for a few minutes didn't change that. I didn't feel like waiting around any longer incase it would have turned on after charging for a while and left but in retrospect I should have been bold enough to offer $5 which probably wouldn't have been taken since it belonged to somebody that they made a quick call to as to see what exactly was wrong but I wouldn't have wanted to risk much more then that since it could have been completely shot and I'm guessing if it was a simple fix needed a new battery.
Animal Crossing: Wild World - $5
Conker: Live & Reloaded CIB
