What is the best deal you have ever gotten?

[quote name='wbc1228']huh?!
a dumb/rich friend?[/quote] I took advantage of walmart and Target. During December, Target messed up their ad and said that a DS was $99.99. At the same time, Walmart had a confusing ad that made it look like Seinfel season 5 & 6 were on sale for $10. I go to walmart, show them the ad, they believe the ad and I get seinfeld 5 & 6 for $20. I immeadiatly sell them on ebay for $100 total. 100(money made)-20(how much the DVDs cost)=80 100(DS)-80(profit)= 20
 
[quote name='pop311']I took advantage of walmart and Target. During December, Target messed up their ad and said that a DS was $99.99. At the same time, Walmart had a confusing ad that made it look like Seinfel season 5 & 6 were on sale for $10. I go to walmart, show them the ad, they believe the ad and I get seinfeld 5 & 6 for $20. I immeadiatly sell them on ebay for $100 total. 100(money made)-20(how much the DVDs cost)=80 100(DS)-80(profit)= 20[/QUOTE]

Wow
Nice
Awesome luck
 
[quote name='pop311']I took advantage of walmart and Target. During December, Target messed up their ad and said that a DS was $99.99. At the same time, Walmart had a confusing ad that made it look like Seinfel season 5 & 6 were on sale for $10. I go to walmart, show them the ad, they believe the ad and I get seinfeld 5 & 6 for $20. I immeadiatly sell them on ebay for $100 total. 100(money made)-20(how much the DVDs cost)=80 100(DS)-80(profit)= 20[/quote]

That's an extremely round-about way to say that you purchased a DS for $20. Hell, back when the CC $5 sale was going on, I bought a Marvel vs. Capcom 2 for Xbox and sold it on eBay for $60. I also bought two more the next week from FYE for $30 each and sold both for around $55-$60 each. So, if I used that $100 profit towards 2 brand new games, I could say they were free.

My point: you bought a DS for $99.99 +tax. The other deal was distinctly separate.

Back to the topic at hand, the best gaming deal I have ever had was probably the Christmas that I received my NES as a gift. :cool:
 
This is easy- I found a copy of Suikoden 2 during Gamecrazy's first Classic Plastic sale- 5 bucks for a disc-only copy ain't bad!
 
bought earthboudn cart only at a mom and pop shop for 14 bucks, traded it to someone for a complete chrono trigger.


A close second would be me selling my complete copy of megaman x on ebay for 102 dollars, when every other auction for it was goin for 20 BIN
 
the best deals I've gotten have only come recently,

Lunar: Silver Star Story Complete ($35 used/complete)
Lunar 2: Eternal Blue Complete ($35 used/complete)
Metal Gear Solid 3: Subsistence (Limited Edition) ($30, used, Existence sealed)
 
There's not really a single deal that stands out in particular, but there was a week when I got Grandia III for $15, Grandia II for $25, SMT: DDS Deluxe for $20, and DDS 2 for $20... oh, and those were all new and sealed. There might've been some others I got that week (I had a thread about it) but I forgot them.
 
[quote name='PRMega']Nintendo DS for about $8. And quite a bit of patience.

Anyfreegift.com paid off eventually ;)[/quote]

if we are taklking about those kind of sites....i can add in
a 20gig ipod, 1 gig ipod shuffle, PSP, DS, and soon xbox 360(or $400 gift card). :lol:
 
Either Time Crisis 2 w/ Guncon 2 for $7.44 at Target or a bunch of 128 MB Duo memory sticks for the PSP for free from Toys R Us.
 
I'd would say either the summer 2004 Circuit City $5 clearance or the Great $6 Target TV Show price mistake of August 2005 (Sister got Friends S1-9 for $54, Sex in the city Seasons. I got Band of Brothers, Looney Tunes golden collection, Third Rock, Spongebob, Jaws 30th Anniversary, Batman the Animated Series, etc.)
 
I got a DS for free. I found it at the hospital I worked at. I took it to security for lost and found and they didnt want to bother doing the paperwork. He told me to just keep it.
 
I've gotten so many great deals that I can no longer pick one out as the best. There was an indy game store in my hometown(which recently closed) that sold copies of Chrono Trigger, Mario RPG, Earthbound, FF3, etc. for $10 when they had them in stock. I bought a lot of the more expensive SNES games that I didn't have there, including those mentioned.

During the GC 3 for $15 deal I probably bought 25 PS1 RPGS for $5 each. I also found a lot of great N64 games during that sale. A few months ago I bought a poorly listed lot of 5 SNES games on eBay that included Aero Fighters for about $20 total.
 
Marvel vs Capcom 2 for XBOX = $10.00 A gamestop deal. Highest priced used Xbox game. I wanted this game sooooooo bad now.....mission complete(Win quote from Kevin"Garou-Mark of the Wolves").
 
Really good working PS2 with cords
5 crap games
Sony brand Controller
Sony brand Memory card

All for 15$, best part is that this PS2 works better than my old one.
 
1 - I found a copy of Zelda Collector's Edition guide at TRU for a penny.

1a - I also found a sealed copy of World of Outlaws: Sprintcars 2002, put it on eBay. 2 bidders got in a bidding war and it ended up selling for $128. Guy paid that same day.

1b - Found a copy of REZ and traded it for a complete copy of Suikoden 2. The copy of REZ only cost me $29.99
 
I won a Nintendo Micro from Cartoon Network thanks to this site.

Otherwise, I haven't been able to take advantage of a good sale/deal.
 
Well, I have several:

Taking advantage of the trade-ins at Gamerush been able to spend around $500 cash and was able to get 2 DSs, a 360, and many games for PS2, Xbox, and PSP. Kuon, Echo Night Beyond, Galleon, and Red Ninja are the main reasons why I was able to get so much credit. Those that frequent the Gamerush thread know what I am talking about.

Being able to take advantage of Gamestop/EB many times with their deals and finding out about them before some of the employees.
 
Probably either when I got Metal Gear Solid 2: Substance for PS2, new at Circuit City for $5, or when I got my disc-only copy of Tales of Destiny for $5 at a pawn shop.

And I can't forget the time I found a copy of Tony Hawk's Pro Skater for Game Boy Color. Can't beat that! And the game is actually pretty fun, to me.
 
I work at Game Crazy & last month my boss called me saying that some lady just traded in some NES & SNES games......all like new with the boxes & instructions. I headed straight up to work (thinking they might be easy to find games or cheap sports games) and found out almost all of them were RPGs. I bought up most of what she traded in right away. Here is some of the highlights of what I picked up:

SNES (boxed w/ instructions & cart like new):
Final Fantasy II ($7.99)
Final Fantasy III ($7.99)
Ys: Wanderers from Ys III ($10.39)
Secret of Mana ($3.99)
7th Saga ($1.59)
Box & Instructions for my current mint Zelda: Link to the Past (FREE, because we throw them away anyhow)

NES (boxed w/ instructions & cart like new):
Bard's Tale ($6.39)
Zelda II ($1.59) *cherry condition gold cart
Zelda, Legend of ($1.59) *cherry condition gold cart
Castlevania II: Simon's Quest ($3.99)
Castlevania III: Dracula's Curse ($2.39)
Dragon Warrior ($3.99)
Dragon Warrior II ($15.99)
Dragon Warrior III ($15.99)
Dragon Warrior IV ($19.99)

These are just some of the games & when it was totaled it was very pricey, but I could pass them up at such a cheap price (complete).
Some other deals in the past have been (not neccessarily at Game Crazy): $20 for Sega Saturn (friend), $20 for Sega Gen w/ Sega CD attatched (GameCrazy), XB Marvel vs Capcom 2 for $5 (CC), Ogre Battle 64 for $15 (CompUSA), SNES Illusion of Gaia for $1 (Deals). That's about all that comes to mind.
 
i got dragon warrior iii and iv for free from a friend, he found them when he moved and said he had no idea whos they were and where they came from
 
--used PSP for $100 at a pawn shop (some dumb kid was only going to get 70 for it, so he gave it to me for $100.) I still got rid of it, not enough to keep me interested for now.

--New DS $60 after selling some cheap stuff.

--Zelda Windwaker with OOT included - $5

--JVC X'Eye- Free. Found it at a rummage sale. I couldn't find the hook ups (which are the same as Genesis hook ups) and was buying a box full of NES stuff. I threw the X'Eye in there and asked for it for free.
 
I got this book about a year ago, and it was a checklist of things to do before you die.

Lets just say the threesome check-box got checked off for only $500 well worth, life changing dollars.
 
- XBOX 360 LIVE Kits for $15 after PM
- GameRush trade-in deals...too many to state, paid for my 360
- FREE DVD's back in the day with coupons
- Walmart price mistake on DVD's a long time ago (got Nightmare on Elm Street, Austin Powers Trilogy, House PArty box set and a few others for maybe $50 shipped).

I'm sure there are more....
 
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I've had two fantastic deals that I can't decide between.

I traded Unreal Tournament (worth about $8 at the time) for Quake 3 Arena, Super Mario RPG (cartridge only), Zelda: A Link to the Past (cartridge only), and Super Mario All-Stars (cartridge only). The guy probably just thought that all SNES games were worthless as it was an old system.

Another time I bought a Sega Nomad, Phantasy Star IV (complete), Phantasy Star II (complete), Shining Force (cartridge only), Vay (Sega CD, complete but manual was torn up), Lunar The Silver Star (Sega CD, complete), Streets of Rage (complete), Streets of Rage 2 (complete), Sol-Feace (Sega CD), Sherlock Holmes (Sega CD), Sega Classics Arcade Collection (Sega CD), and Ys III (complete) all for $90. I didn't really care about the games so I've sold most of the games for over $150. So I basically got the Nomad (which generally are around $60-$80) for around negative $60.
 
I'd have to say my two best deals have been....
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$5 ea last summer at a yard sale. Rhapsody was in crispy mint condition. This was before the reprint, so I eBayed it for $114. I kept Dragon Warrior and Brave Fencer, although they're both missing booklets and BFM is missing the FF8 demo.

My other deal was the Chrono Trigger Players' Guide for $1.99 at Gamestop shorlty after Final Fantasy Chronicles was released (someone probably bought the PSX version and traded in their SNES gems for dirt... their loss)
 
[quote name='cranguy']I'd have to say my two best deals have been....



$5 ea last summer at a yard sale. Rhapsody was in crispy mint condition. This was before the reprint, so I eBayed it for $114. I kept Dragon Warrior and Brave Fencer, although they're both missing booklets and BFM is missing the FF8 demo.

My other deal was the Chrono Trigger Players' Guide for $1.99 at Gamestop shorlty after Final Fantasy Chronicles was released (someone probably bought the PSX version and traded in their SNES gems for dirt... their loss)[/quote]

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Oh yeah... I forgot that a year ago or so I got Contra III for a penny on Ebay... shipping was $3, but still a pretty good deal...
 
Almost Mint, complete, Panzer Saga for $2 at a garage sale on Long Island. Also from another garage sale, about 6 NES, 20 controllers, a new, boxed 32x, 10 complete SNES games (Notably Mortal Kombat II, Zelda, Final Fight 2), 30 or so NES games, 3 complete genesis games (Insector X, Forgotton Worlds, Zombie At my Neighbors) AND an atari XE system for $20 beans.
 
[quote name='IkilledLassic']Almost Mint, complete, Panzer Saga for $2 at a garage sale on Long Island. Also from another garage sale, about 6 NES, 20 controllers, a new, boxed 32x, 10 complete SNES games (Notably Mortal Kombat II, Zelda, Final Fight 2), 30 or so NES games, 3 complete genesis games (Insector X, Forgotton Worlds, Zombie At my Neighbors) AND an atari XE system for $20 beans.[/quote]
Wow, you're lucky to find such STUPID people.
 
Just recently I was browsing the electronic section in my local craigslist and ran into a guy selling his gamecube for $15. In his post it said that he wanted to get rid of it and was pretty much giving it away. I already own a gamecube but for $15 I might as well get a backup. I came to pick it up and noticed that it also came with a memory card and two wireless controls. That must have been the best deal I've had in a while, right next to paying $230 for my bigger video game deal of a Sony PS2 w/2 controllers, memory card, MGS 3: Subsistence, shadow of the collossus, I love katamari, katamari damacy and a Nintendo Gamecube w/2 wireless controllers, 3 regular controllers, 2 memory cards, Animal Crossing, Pikmin 2, Mario Tennis, Skies of Arcadia, Super Monkey Ball 2, Skies of Arcadia Legends, Zelda Collector's Edition, and Megaman Anniversary. So Now I'm stuck with 3 gamecubes, and 2 PS2s after these deals.
 
[quote name='yukine']Wow, you're lucky to find such STUPID people.[/quote]


The Panzer was with about 10 other Saturn games and a beat up console that looked like a dog pissed and shat on it for about 6 years. But the game was in a somewhat mint condition, which I always thought was odd. The other deal was late in the day, and I guess the women wanted to get rid of her stuff. Im sure there was more at the sale, in fact I remember seeing a 2600 with a bunch a games in a suitcase, but I was late to work and had to roll.
 
My best deal had to be with the gilitch was Harvest Moon: Another Wonderful Life for $0.01 ! :)
Best non-mistake, back in the day, would be a brand new Sega Nomad for $60 from TRU!
Though not a good deal, but good for me since I can't order online, complete Dance Dance Revolution: Konamix for $30 and Namco Museum Vol. 4 for $4
 
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