Saturday I was out from 7:15 till 11:05, went to a few sales centered around 2 advertised sales then went the next town over for a townwide sale I've never been to before. I decided to head home just before 11 shortly after I ran into both of the Sega bundles, by that point I decided to quit as I felt like an overheated Excitebike that needed to pull over after running around for 3 1/2 hours, I was about 2/3rd of the way into town when I decided to call it a day. I still did manage to get to about 56 sales (48 of which were at the community sale).
I was rather pessimistic about the whole community sale thing (as I would agree with most if not all of the negatives mentioned about them a few weeks ago in the YS thread) and this is one that has been going on every year for a while. The two advertised sales were on my alternate route and I had 2 routes planed out after them. 1) spend the rest of my day in the community sale or 2) head back way in the other direction to do my normal route and as negative as I am about community sales I went with it anyways and figured it would be much easier on the gas tank and figured I'd at least try and hit up the side streets as best I could.
Didn't miss much, the house I got the 2 PC games had a page with prices including GBA games for $2 that were gone and one house mentioned something gameboy that was gone. For expensive a fat PS2 with 5 games for $100 but offered to do $75 when I was looking at the games (mentioned how they paid $300 for it).
I didn't hear as much of the usual stuff when I ask about older video games but a few that stand out. We had some but the kids "trashed" them (hopefully they didn't have IATCG's old Genesis stuff
). A guy that sold it all last year and had a "ton" of it and my personal favorite, one house a lady said her husband has that stuff and called him on the phone since he was out yardsaling - to which I was told that they are worth money and that they wouldn't be a dollar each or something like that so it certainly wasen't worth pressing the issue and waiting around for this guy.
First advertised stop I got the GoW demo, current and last gen games with different prices and a little too high especially for a yardsale on many of them (WWE 2009 on PS3 for 10 for example) 2nd advertised sale was a revist from one I did good at last year on 8-26-12, I actually showed up about 20 minutes early and passed by twice going to other sales nearby since it was in a garage and the door was shut. On the 3rd pass by just before 8 the door was up and 2 or 3 other people were around the games, an old lady tried to haggle on a 360 game and the guy basicly said sorry they looked them up or something like that (I figured haggling was out of the question when I overheard this) and she then got on the phone and was asking someone in the family about Call of Duty games as if to make sure they were interested if they were more then a few bucks. The games weren't particularly expensive but were not cheap enough to say take a chance on for the lack of a better term. Looked like 7 or 10 for a number of what was mostly Xbox 360 games. I noticed Pokemon White, Black and another Pokemon game that were all $15 each compared to 5 each asking price for the Pokemon DS games I got at this address last year, different initials on this year's Pokemon games IIRC. I noticed a guy buying a boxed cobalt blue DS Lite system that I didn't see and I'd guess he was holding already when I got to the sale but I'm guessing it wasen't too cheap.
When I got home I noticed a small sticker off to the side of the shoe box that the Genesis stuff was in marked $50 which I'm guessing was an old price from a yardsale many years past.
Nightcaster for $3. At least it was complete.
