Best Finds You Passed Up and Regret Now!

[XJR15]

I would have to say a few years ago I passed up on 2 Commodore 64's with monitors, disk drives, with lots of accessories and games for about 20$

Tell the viewers your best finds you passed up on!

[Sothy]

a mug made from Abraham Lincolns skull at a yard sale for 7 bux.

[maxlords]

the only one I can think of at all is a boxed complete Odyssey 2 with Conquest of the New World complete and Lord of the Rings complete. Other than that, nothing...I buy pretty much everything that's a deal!

[Shadysmurf]

Dragon Warrior 2 Nes 2.99 Yesterday I told me self I was gonna go back and dude behind me grabed it :(

[ubersaurus]

30 dollars for a boxed complete flintstones 2. I wish I had known it was worth so much boxed. I truly do.

[DDCecil]

All those (about 100) $5 complete NES games that were at a video rental store back in Oregon in 2000. If I had the money back then, I would have bought all of them. I did get Mermaids of Atlantis and a few others though...

[atomicthumbs]

Well, not exactly a find, but close! I regret buying a $45 copy of Dragon Warrior IV. This crazy bitch I was dating also liked the game and took it with her after we broke up... Took the cat too.
:bad-words:

[norkusa]

When I first started collecting 5 years ago, I went into a pawn shop that had a boxed Jaguar and a boxed Turbo Duo with a crapload of games. I only had enough cash on me to pick up the Jaguar, so the next day I got more money and went back to pick up the Duo. Of course it was already sold.

I'm still pissed-off about that one.

[Raccoon Lad]

I passed up taking a boxed Odyssey 1, pretty much complete, with a boxed light rifle......for free, >.<

[briskbc]

I passed up taking a boxed Odyssey 1, pretty much complete, with a boxed light rifle......for free, >.<

D'OH. With all due respect. Why turn down a free video game system? Were you not a collector at the time?

Bummer.

[Raccoon Lad]

It was a very odd point in my life, and I figured it was pretty much worthless anyway.....boy was I wrong.

[udisi]

I saw a sealed Magical chase for the TG-16, and they wanted to much for it, can't quite remember the price, but it was pretty insane....anyway, I haven't ever seen a complete one, yet alone a sealed one since..

[RetroYoungen]

That CGE I ran across an Aladdin Deck Inhancer for thirty bucks. I looked at it, thought about it, then walked away. I've kicked myself every day since.

[Zaxxon]

I remember how I could've gotten stacks of Jaguars and Jag CD units for cheap back in the day. I didn't think all these Nintendo Power reading fanboys who spent their days bashing the Jag/Atari would now be fighting each other to pay big bucks for these a few years later on Ebay.

[vintagegamecrazy]

I saw a Commodore 64 in a yard sale with everything but the monitor, it even had the printer. I told the guy I'd give him 20 for it and he agreed but I told him I would come back for it and I never did. The thing that grated on me daily is that I have well over 50 games and I can't play them.

I also got and Aladdin Deck Enhancer for free way back in the day I had it for a while then my nes broke and I gave it to my friend for free. I hadn't seen him for a while then when I started collecting I asked him about it and it had been stolen from him.

About a year ago on the bay I saw an O2 lot, system with about 20 games all complete, the sick thing there was a Powerlords in it. It went for about 80 bux. I was kind of broke and really couldn't afford it, but I should've made a way to buy it but I didn't. That really hurts me to this day. How often does that game show up? let alone complete? Man was I stupid.

[scooterb23]

ANd my annual admission of shame...

Quadrun - boxed $3

[Lost Monkey]

1994, Toronto: A videogame store called 110/220 went out of business and a liquidation company came in an started marking things down...

I went in on a Friday afternoon and picked up "New Adventure Island" and "Air Zonk" for $25 each (it was a very good price at the time...)

I went back the next day, and found they were closing up in a few hours and had reduced everything to $8....

They had a ton of Japanese imports for the PC Engine, SFC, Famicom, NEO GEO etc... Again... everything was $8.00CDN.

I took a quick look around.. picked up "Ys I&II" and "Sherlock Holmes" for the TgCD, and "TV SPORTS HOCKEY" for the Tg16. Gave the kid behind the counter $24.00, smiled to myself about my good fortune, and then walked out, ever to rue the day... >:(

[dave2236]

TRY had Startropics new for $.99 back in 1996, I was only 14 at the time and I bought 1 for myself. They probably had over 300 copies stacked around the store.

[udisi]

That reminds me of another bad one...My local wal-mart had stacks of Final Fantasy for the Nes for $10...my friend picked one up , but I didn't...they must have had close to 100 copies.

[Anonymous]

At a special sale, I came across a box of factory sealed SNES Exertainment Mountain Bike Rally/Speed Racer games. I only bought 2, the rest were tossed in the Auger.

[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 :o
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. :bad-words:

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. :frustrated:

:sob:

[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? :roll: 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. :)

[Sniderman]

I've passed up plenty of games only to find out later they were rare. But the only thing I REGRET is a Venture stand-up arcade machine at a local thrift store. This thing looked bran new. Clean, great side art, and it played like it was just uncrated. I have honestly never seen a cleaner system.

Asking price? $100. :eek 2: Reason why I didn't get it? I didn't want to bother my dad for his truck that weekend. Found out later he had been doing hauling for some friends that same weekend, and he could've picked it up and delivered it to my house that very afternoon. x_x Of course, the machine was gone next weekend.

[Saturn Sensei]

Used to work at Blockbuster and we got rid of all of our remaining SNES games for $0.99. After employee discount that came to $0.79 for a few hundred SNES games. Crappy rental stickers and missing manuals aside, the boxes were all perfect since they never leave the store. I only bought a few choice games though. d'oh. I did get Super Bomberman 2 with the multitap and two extra controllers for $0.79 though :D .

Hindsight is 20/20....................

[Lord Contaminous]

2 years ago, I saw Mighty Final Fight at (in this case, Funcoland) for 9.99. I only had so much money considering I was VISITING a far away state and was uncertain about if I saw something that really caught my eye. So I just thought about it and left.

[ApolloBoy]

A boxed TurboExpress for $20! O_O

My god, I can't believe I passed that up!

[Chromizone]

A TG 16 in good shape for 6.99 at a local thrift..just started collecting at that point and had no clue what it was. DOH *smacks forhead*

[weasel2htm]

How about a professional Sony Projector at an auction that went for one dollar!!
I almost bid but while I was trying to decide SOLD!!! I wish I got that the unit was about 2ft wideX 3ft.long. Getting it to the car would have been interesting.
On the up side I got A laser printer for $5 and a Professional Inkjet for $16. Also got 2 HP computers with monitors for $6 each K6/2 333 128MB (72pin RAM) one has a 170MB HD other had a 15GB.

At the same auction a friend bought a 333 upgrade processor in the box, but when he opened it the box contained the old P-133 instead that was pulled.

[sabre2922]

I have many nightmare gamer/collecting stories, but this is the most painful of all:
A pawnshop that I used to visit regularly had about 20 Sega Saturns, some still in boxes selling for 10$ each!
SS and Sega CD and PSX games for 3$ a piece!
I had 2 bucks to my name.
Life can be cruel sometimes :angry: :angry:

[soupforare]

C128, C64, 1571, *1581*, Bucket O' Disks.... $60
I saw the Commie pile of yummy and didn't grab it. When I went back it, of course, was gone.
I must've been high or something. I would've paid $60 for the 1581.

Also, 'bout '96/97 I had the chance to get a Lynx with a mess of games for $50. Wish I jumped on that.

Stupid Stupid Stupid

[cbroddy]

At the Grafton Flea Market I passed up on a Boxed Sears Pong System IV for $20. There was an Atari 2600 that the person also had. It came with about 10 games and 10 manuals. I got a bit overexited about it, I think it was one of the Heavy Sixer models, it did have a stamp on the back from Sunnyvale. When I went back for it the guy had it on reserve for someone else.

[Mark III]

I remember going into a local Blockbuster Video and seeing among other things a boxed Secret of Mana, Dracula X, and Final Fight Guy for the SNES for $4.99 each. Picked up the Dracula X but left behind the Secret of Mana because I already Had one, and didn't take the Final Fight either because my friend told me it sucks. No big deal, but still pisses me off to this day.

[briskbc]

I passed up 15 to 20 boxed (maybe complete) SMS games at a Value Villiage once for $4 each. They may or may not have been rare. I don't remember what the titles were. The bad part is I probably see 1 or 2 boxed SMS games each year.

[Iron Draggon]

Speed Racer: The Challenge of Racer X for Genesis. I actually saw it displayed in a store back in the good old days, and even had the money for it too, but I ended up buying something else instead because I thought that it would be around for a while since it had just come out. I went back the next day to buy it, and they told me they had all been sent back to the manufacturer because of some lawsuit or something from Sega. What a stupid decision that was to buy something else instead that day! I don't even remember what I bought, but I'm sure that it was nothing I couldn't have bought the very next day. And now, I don't think anyone even believes that game ever actually made it onto a store shelf, but I swear to God I saw one for sale. Had the chance to buy it, passed it up, lost the chance of a lifetime! Oh well.

[Ro7co]

tactics ogre for ps1 for 14.99, there were two and I only took one. I hope the other went to a collector, mine is still sealed- too valuable to play :(

[Ze_ro]

I was at Value Village once, and I saw a black system under a shelf that had a $30 price tag... I couldn't get very close to it, but it looked like a CD-i to me, and I figured that it really wasn't worth bothering with a CD-i, since I'd never bother getting games for it (the fact that this was just the system without any cables or controller or anything just made things harder). I also don't have a lot of disposable income, so I'd rather spend that $30 on other stuff instead... so I left it there.

The next day I happened to be there again, and it was half price day. At first I thought that only applied to their clothes and stuff, since that's usually the deal, but I ended up picking up some VCS controllers (I think it was my Gemini controllers, but my memory isn't what it used to be), and I got the discount on them, so I probably could have got the CD-i for $15 if I had wanted.

A week or so later, I was looking at pictures on the internet, and realized that I was completely wrong about what a CD-i actually looked like, and the machine I passed up for $15 was definitely not a CD-i.... although I'm still not completely sure WHAT the machine was, I have a bad feeling that it was actually a TurboDuo :(

--Zero

[charitycasegreg]

My neighbor was wanted an n64 a few years back and he had a lot of genesis, snes, and nes games. He had the top loader and the box for it. he had about 70 games total with boxes for most. He was goin going to sell me al the stuff for 40 bucks. I only had about 50 bucks then and I thoguht the stuff was garbage. I wasnt a collecter then. He moved a few months later and a few months after that I realized how stupid i was. I managed to find out where he lived a few weeks later but he said he sold the stuff for 50 bucks to a friend. That was my story and I'm going to go light myself on fire now.

[charitycasegreg]

He had the nes top loader in box*** and I didnt buy the stuff even though I had enough money. I needed it for sonic comics probably. lol. fire time

[charitycasegreg]

Awesome! I just bought a toploader from a kid at school with 13 games including burgertime, megaman 1, and 4(Which I already have both megamans) for 15 bucks.

[charitycasegreg]

Awesome! I just bought a toploader from a kid at school with 13 games including burgertime, megaman 1, and 4(Which I already have both megamans) for 15 bucks.

[SegaAges]

Here's a few fore me.

Wal-Mart
Nester's Funky Bowling (Clearence) - $5
Jack Bros. (In the same bargain bin) - $5

Once last summer, my friend went to a garage sale a few houses away from my house, and they were selling a big box of Genesis games (probably around 75-100 games) for $30. My friend didn't buy it for me because he "didn't know if I wanted it or not". Of course, we got there and it was gone.

[drwily008]

Plenty of sega saturn games at shop in erie, pa for $1 a piece....good stuff too (all new). He also had Turbo Grafx games for $2 but I wasnt into mine anymore (at the time). Not VG related but a guy at a garage sale had like 3 grocery bags full of 1977-1985 Star Wars figures and weapons for like $5 per bag.....I new if I went back hed'd still have them...or not.

[RedBeans]

Havent ever really regretted not getting a game, BUT when I was a kids I vividly remember my mom taking me to Circus World to buy He-Man figures. At the time they had all their Star Wars figures on sale for a quarter. My mom said "Hey! you can get a ton of these Star Wars for the same price as He-Man figures" I was like "Star Wars?? Star Wars is waaayy out Mom, duh!" So I went home with a Mer-Man and Beast Man instead of 32 Star Wars..... :angry:

[mosesshirai]

:eek 2:

I Was at my local import store and had the chance to but a tg-16 with cd and a bunch of controllers for like 30 bucks, and I didn't it took me almost two years to find one again. darn.

But here is the worst one. While working at Gamestop, a homeless guy came in the store and tried to sell me like ten pc-engine games in their cases with Hucard sleeves and everything. I said we didn't take them and he could maybe donate them to Good Will, he went away kind of sad, so I said come back around 5:30 and I would take a look at them outside the store(Company Policy) when I got off. So around quitting time i looked all over for him but we must have missed each other. The Games I remember were blazing lazers, I think Gradius, Dead Moon and Air Zonk.

So here is the kicker. About a week later he comes in again and tries to sell some PC games and a busted Genesis, So I ask him what did you do with all those games? He says: "I did just like you said, I went over to goodwill and donated them!" So off I rush to the goodwill and lo and behold there is one left: Dead Moon. Some lucky guy/gal got a bunch of pcengine for 3.99 minus 25% off. Let it be a lesson to me to check my goodwill once a week at least. Laters

[chrisballer]

I remember seeing a case full of sega nomads at miejers for $19.99 each did not buy any or it could be the time i saw a shelf full of toploaders at TRU for $19.99 and did not get any :oops:

[SegaAges]

I thought of 2 things I passed up from Toys R Us that I could have had for free. I used to work there in the back "warehouse" portion of the store, and always saw the old genesis and super nintendo display stands just sitting in a back corner. I asked one manager what they were going to do with the display stands, and she said they would probably just throw them out. I forgot to say, these still had the systems in them. I asked her if there would be anyway that I could just take them, but she said I had to ask the store manager instead of a regular manager. I spaced off asking the store manager, and one day , when they were remoddeling the store, I noticed they were trashed and put in a big freight trash thing. I could have had a genesis display stand and a super nintendo display stand (both of which still had the systems in them), for the low, low price of free.

[dracula]

I was at Value Village once, and I saw a black system under a shelf that had a $30 price tag... I couldn't get very close to it, but it looked like a CD-i to me, and I figured that it really wasn't worth bothering with a CD-i, since I'd never bother getting games for it (the fact that this was just the system without any cables or controller or anything just made things harder). I also don't have a lot of disposable income, so I'd rather spend that $30 on other stuff instead... so I left it there.

The next day I happened to be there again, and it was half price day. At first I thought that only applied to their clothes and stuff, since that's usually the deal, but I ended up picking up some VCS controllers (I think it was my Gemini controllers, but my memory isn't what it used to be), and I got the discount on them, so I probably could have got the CD-i for $15 if I had wanted.

A week or so later, I was looking at pictures on the internet, and realized that I was completely wrong about what a CD-i actually looked like, and the machine I passed up for $15 was definitely not a CD-i.... although I'm still not completely sure WHAT the machine was, I have a bad feeling that it was actually a TurboDuo :(

--Zero

I am telling you now, there is no way in hell that duo was functioning. Most likely it would play the hucard games but would have trouble loading the cds and super cds.

[Overbite]

most recent...

Ames was having a closing-the-store sale, and they had about 20 copies of Suikoden 2 for $10 each. i didnt buy any :(

a few weeks later i see that game on ebay for over $100!

so i go back and they dont have anymore :(

way back when the saturn was new, EB had a shelf full of import saturn games that i didnt buy because i didnt own a saturn. well that one makes sense. but they also had a ton of FF7 figures. i didnt buy them because i didnt own a ps1 either and never played ff7 :(

i do remember a local comic store with a big bin of sms games, but he wanted $30 for each game and none of them were that rare.

[DigitalSpace]

A few weeks ago, I saw R-Type III for SNES at Game Crazy for $3.99. I passed up on it, who knows why. I eventually came to the decision to buy it. A few days ago, I went back to the store, and it was gone. Not too much of a big deal, since I'll probably be able to get it for the same price elsewhere, but now I have to waste more time searching.

[TNTPLUST]

ahhhhhhhhhhhh you bring up bad memories. Since I work for a private school we often get "donations" for our computer lab or our thrift shop. I'm in charge of what is either kept, put in the thrift shop, or dumped. Weekly I get crappy 486's and Pentium 1's and 2's. Anyway about 2 years ago I get a call from an elderly lady that her husband had passed away and she wanted to know if I wanted his computer and monitor. I was real busy so I asked our physical ed coach to pick it up on his way home. I figured it would be useless since I asked her how old it was and she said over 15 years. Anyway we can't say no to donations so I told the PE teacher to pick it up, thank her, and then dump it in a dumpster. Anyway it turned out not to be a computer but a Coleco Adam! No the PE teacher did not throw it away he still has it and busts my hump over it all the time! :angry:

[spooie]

Back in the mid 90s, before I got my PSX, I saw 3 copies Castlevania: Dracula X for KBtoys at $19.99 in the clearance bin. I considered buying it for a long time, but wasn't really too much into Castelvania at the time and my only game, Super Castlevania 4, I hadn't played in years. I decided to hold on and come back next week for it. Well, next week turned into 2 weeks, which turned into 3 weeks, and when I went back, the entire SNES games sellection was gone.

Shortly after, KBtoys was liquidating their NES games. They had about 10 copies each of MegaMan 6 and Kirby for $15 (which I got both of), about 20 copies of Star Tropics for $10 and THIRTY FRICKEN COPIES of Final Fantasy for $10 each. If only I had known FF would take off in popularity, I could have invested $300 into a 4-year college education.

:eek 2:

[Nicola]

Sega Pico + software complete for about 10 euros...

[Kejoriv]

Not video game related, but this still pisses me off. Four or five years ago, I was at a flea market. A lady was selling a Superman record player. It was so cool. Mint condition and $20. I decided not to spend that money and spend it on something else. I find out a few months later the thing is incredibly rare and worth ...close to a grand. :frustrated:

[Darkness X]

Some of my worst videogame mistakes...

-Ogre Battle 64(complete/mint) $8 I turned it down, only to come back later and find out it was gone.

-Intellivision system(complete/box/manual/everything), 35 games(all complete) I didn't care about games that much back then so I let my mom throw all of this away!!!! :(

-Dreamcast on launch day
A week before I had got $500 from my Grandpa's will, I remember going to Wal-mart with the money and seeing the new DC systems on 9/9/99. I thought about getting a DC with some games for about 2 seconds, then I blew it all on N64 crap!!! I could of had a free DC with a bunch of games... :frustrated:

[redxix]

Hi,

I am new to the forum. I been debating whether or not i should sell my SNES games a few years; I stopped playing most of my games when I was around 14-15 '94 and '95 but i kept buying them intending to play them. Because of this I have a few games that are still sealed.

Where is the best place to auction these? I thought about eBay... but I heard that there is a specific place where I can sell Rare Nintendo stuff at an annual auction.

thanks

[DigitalSpace]

Ok, here's a new one. Last year, I was at a mall and stopped by a hobby store which mostly sold game cards (Magic and the like), VHS and DVD movies, board games, etc. They had a huge bin of unopened McDonald's happy meal toys, some dating from way back. I looked through the bin and found at least what could be put together into 2 or 3 complete sets of Super Mario 3 happy meal toys! They were only .50 cents each. Now, I wasn't collecting back then. I didn't make the big decision to seriously collect video games and video game stuff until later in the year. I thought about buying at least one of each toy, but decided against it at the time.

Flash forward to last week. I decide to go out to that mall, and see if that happy meal bin is still there. I figured since it had been a while there was a chance the toys might be gone, but you never know. At first, I thought the store had closed for good because the space it was in was closed off. But a short walk to the other end of the mall led to the store's new location. However, the store changed to selling only cards and board games. The happy meal toy bin was nowhere to be found, which meant those Super Mario 3 toys were long gone. If only I went with my instinct the last time I was there...

[jose.yoshitake]

My last:

did not buy two Odyssey 3 games in one Brazilian auction because of 2 dollars, what I considered too much to expend in that time... (2 years ago :( )