Best Finds You Passed Up and Regret Now!

[zemmix]

I passed on a few Neo Geo carts at a thrift for $7 each. Nothing special. All I remember is a Golf game and a Baseball one.

I picked up a few sealed copies of some Bandai Pippen games at a swap for cheap. I left a lot behind though because they were more edutainment than actual games (well there was a Power Ranger game too but buying that one was just plain wrong to me then.

Another thing that is sort of along the same lines is at a CGE two years ago I was talking to a guy there that claimed to have a lot of Bandai Pippen equipment. Gave him my email address but never heard from him.

[Keir]

ANd my annual admission of shame...

Quadrun - boxed $3

What the hell scooter?!?!

Here's mine:
Exus Video Jogger (2600) for $25
Remember that one Adam? It would have been my first 9 if only I had known.

[udisi]

@another fluke...you wouldn't still happen to have one of those Bike rally/speed racer games?

[calthaer]

The only thing that comes close for me was when a local arcade was actively trying to sell their machines and they had the G.I.Joe arcade game for $300. I was in college at the time and didn't have $300 and I had no clue where I would have stored it but I do wish I had bought it...that is my favorite arcade game and last I checked MAME didn't run it very well.

[carnage6]

Lost Monkey- I remember that sale and that store. Used to love that store. Only things I got in that sale was a SNES Knights of the Round and some crappy Sega CD game. Wish I had know about that $8 sale as I came before that. When I was in that store some kid and his dad were carrying off the TurboExpress demo unit.

[Anonymous]

@udisi - Yes, I do. I have one left, which is going bye bye at CGE's annual auction per my 'selling it all' summer project. The other one went to a private sale. As far as I know, there's only one other known copy, which is loose.

[D_N_G]

I thought you were posting a copy on ebay for those who cant make it to cge?

guess some people's money is not good enough?

[scooterb23]

What the hell scooter?!?!

I didn't have an Atari 2600 at the time, so I didn't think much of it.

I got an Atari just a few days later...of course the Quadrun was gone

I didn't find out for about a year what I had missed

[Anonymous]

Yeah, sorry about that, I got an offer I couldn't pass up. eBay is a good outlet for games, but as I'm selling stuff, I want to try to get a lot of it into the hands of fellow dp folks, too.

[D_N_G]

coulda posted that an offer was on the table, maybe a counter offer was available? some of us other DP members were waiting based on your post:

Just to reply to Austin's email publically for everyone's info, There were around 32 copies of the game, in the box that games are shipped from the werehouse in.

I will be selling both copies of the game, per my "Selling It All" thread that was posted in the OT forum, so you'll both have a chance to own it. One copy will go up on the bay this weekend, the other will be an auction Item at CGE

I guess we dont both get a chance to own it? not a very good way to treat potential current/future customers. sorry just disappointed

[D_N_G]

for my first psx game i went to best buy and my decision was between the 5 copies of Resident Evil Directors Cut or the one copy DBZ Final Bout. My thoughts were DBZ wasnt popular, so I could come back the next week and get it... oops never saw it again

[Anonymous]

I really am sorry about that, DNG. I'm new to the whole 'selling stuff that lots of people want' scene, and I'm not really up on etiquette for this sort of thing. If anyone who has sold lots of rare things before wants to post a good diplomatic way of handling these deals, I'd be really appreciative. But right now I'm just a guy who is trying to sell stuff. But, for the record, everything that I've said I'll be selling at cge or ebay or in the B & S forum will go there from now on.

[/hijack]

[Jasoco]

Most Recent:

Virtua Tennis for DC
Super Hang-On for Genesis
Space Channel 5 for DC
Every game that "Sumguy" got on Sunday when I went in to pick up some Genesis games. I agreed to work an extra 40 minutes, and when I got to the store, some guy was hunched over the Genesis rack and went home with half the God damn bin. One of everything that was in it. INCLUDING THE HANG-ON I HAD MY EYES ON! I am so mad now.

Oh, and back in 1998, there was a store called "Toy Liquidators" that was selling brand new Genesis', Turbo Grafx 16's and Game Gears and such cheap. And TRU was selling off the Virtual Boy's for $20. I passed them all up.

I suck so bad.

I've finally learned my lesson.. I hope.

[Balloon Fight]

I wish i wouldnt have passed up on the DC store model (stand up DC thingie)
It was being sold for 120, but i could have gotten em down to 100.

Oh well, ill just kick myself again.

[Jasoco]

I wish i wouldnt have passed up on the DC store model (stand up DC thingie)
It was being sold for 120, but i could have gotten em down to 100.

Oh well, ill just kick myself again.

[Kicks Ballon Fight]

That was stupid!

I woulda taken it! If I were there and had the means to get it home.

[Balloon Fight]

Thats why i regret it. :/

At least i didnt pass up DBZ Final Bout.

[harmonicaman]

i had an opportunity to pick up a neo geo, and like 15 games at a flea market for $20.00 once, it was a deal among deals, but i didn't know what a neo was back in 99 (or maybe i'd forgotten about it) but either way i passed it up, and spent my money on nintendo-64 junk.

[Balloon Fight]

i had an opportunity to pick up a neo geo, and like 15 games at a flea market for $20.00 once, it was a deal among deals, but i didn't know what a neo was back in 99 (or maybe i'd forgotten about it) but either way i passed it up, and spent my money on nintendo-64 junk.

Holy crap that sucks. That is a deal among deals!

[pokobocket]

Ok here are mine. *sigh* they are really awful.

-Airball proto. I was about 8. WTF is wrong with that cart, it's all weird?

-Aladdin deck enhancer complete for $5 x_x

-Allowed granny to toss out out complete Coleco vision w/ tons of games... x_x


But this one takes the salami.

Starfox competition cart? WTF is that? I do not lie.

[MattG/Snyper2099]

Here's mine:

Guy selling atari games:
"I have this game here that I'll throw in for free but it has a homemade label."

My response:
"What's the title?"

Guyselling atari games:
"Off your rocker."

My response:
"I don't want that because it doesn't have the origional label."

It sucks because I still don't have this game. Not as bad as a friend of mine at a local flea market who passed on an Adventurevision years ago for $20. He didn't buy it because he was like, "WTF is this thing? It doesn't even have any games with it!" At least THAT wasn't me.