How is game hunting in your area?

[SonicBoom]

Around were I Live (Jersey City, New Jersey) Video game hunting isn't good. 1 Goodwill that normally gets nothing (Best deal was 5 Boxed Genesis games for 2 bucks a piece) Two retail stores that overprice. (One had metal gear on the NES for 9 bucks) and one flea market that is about 20 minutes away that is okay. How easy is it to find video games were you live? And around were is that?

[jb143]

Off the top of my head, I can think of over 15 different stores in the St. Louis area that sell retro games...a few that have more uncommon stuff, and one that has a good selection of imported games. As for thrift stores around here, there are a bunch of those as well. They are pretty hit and miss as you would expect, but it's where I've found probably 80% of my collection and generally at a really good deal.

[Tupin]

Off the top of my head, I can think of over 15 different stores in the St. Louis area that sell retro games...a few that have more uncommon stuff, and one that has a good selection of imported games. As for thrift stores around here, there are a bunch of those as well. They are pretty hit and miss as you would expect, but it's where I've found probably 80% of my collection and generally at a really good deal.
STL sure is good for gaming, huh? I've found a lot of cool stuff, even though there are no flea markets around here anymore.

[Genesaturn]

It's really hit or miss in Buffalo, NY...I generally don't even bother going to Goodwill anymore as they suck - most of my finds come out of Amvets, garage sales, and the occasional estate sale.

[Polygon]

Here in Utah it just plain sucks. I get all my games online.

[Steve W]

As far as thrift store shopping goes, the Dallas/Fort Worth, TX area is pretty dry. I don't think I've found anything of interest in a while. Flea markets outside of the Metroplex are much better for me, although there's a good dedicated vendor out at Trader's Village flea market in Arlington. As far as brick-and-mortar stores go, it's a bonanza of retro gaming. There's several locations of Movie Trading Company stores, with plenty of games from the Atari 2600 onward. I love those stores, because they don't have any rarity lists for pre-NES games so they mostly get a blanket price of $1.99. And then there's "local" chains like FX Game Exchange (in Plano and McKinney) and Console Game Exchange (in Irving Mall, Stonebriar Mall in Frisco, and probably Collin Creek Mall in Plano). There's also a few Play N' Trade stores around, along with one or two independents.

[wiggyx]

We've got a TON of local shops here in Cleveland that carry old school gaming goodness. Honestly, I have to try and NOT shop too much. I'd spend a small fortune if left to explore them all.

[hellraiser]

Sf bay area sucks. Just plain sucks. I don't bother with thrift stores anymore. There's a tiny handfull of retro game shops. Inventory don't change much. Flea markets are your best bet and its spotty at best.

Sadly if it wasant for flea bay my meager collection would be half it's size.

[thebeeks]

As far as thrift store shopping goes, the Dallas/Fort Worth, TX area is pretty dry. I don't think I've found anything of interest in a while. Flea markets outside of the Metroplex are much better for me, although there's a good dedicated vendor out at Trader's Village flea market in Arlington. As far as brick-and-mortar stores go, it's a bonanza of retro gaming. There's several locations of Movie Trading Company stores, with plenty of games from the Atari 2600 onward. I love those stores, because they don't have any rarity lists for pre-NES games so they mostly get a blanket price of $1.99. And then there's "local" chains like FX Game Exchange (in Plano and McKinney) and Console Game Exchange (in Irving Mall, Stonebriar Mall in Frisco, and probably Collin Creek Mall in Plano). There's also a few Play N' Trade stores around, along with one or two independents.

Any neat finds at the flea markets? I've always wanted to go to Trader's Village, but I'd hate to go all the way out there for nothing.

Also, GameChop in Carrollton and that little unnamed place (they had a Craigslist ad calling themselves 'Classic Game Store', but I'm not sure that's the name) in Grand Prairie are pretty okay. I just wish the Grand Prairie store wasn't in an area that looks super sketchy.

[SpaceHarrier]

For cartridge based games, it sucks (unless you like paying ebay price in person, or something). Everyone is a reseller here, it seems. Craigslist is full of them. Goodwill rarely has anything. Swapmeets are good for disc based games, though.

I've never done the yardsale thing, so maybe I'm missing out on a critical element...

[cracked8ball]

That Grand Prairie store is ok. Found some semi-rare NES games there a few years back. The area is very sketchy but if you go early on the weekend its pretty dead around there. Gamechop has some very questionable prices on some of their games. 9.99 for NES commons, etc. Occasionally a good find will slip through. I've even seen some imports there as well.

Trader's Village is hit or miss. I've found some great deals there for some rare games. But then for each great deal there's about 5 sellers trying to overcharge for common items. $10-15 for sun faded SNES games, Busted ass NES's for $75. Their reasoning? "They're collector's items' Well obviously if you're going to charge collector prices then at least make sure the item is in quality condition. Also saw a few vendors assembling pirated GBA games. I found it very hard to find any real deals the past time I was out there. Still it's worth a trip every once in awhile, and there is a regular vendor who has been there for 10+ years that has a ton of games at some pretty decent prices.

Also, if anyone in the area hasn't been yet, a new Play N Trade opened up on MacArthur Rd in Irving a few months back.

[jb143]

STL sure is good for gaming, huh? I've found a lot of cool stuff, even though there are no flea markets around here anymore.

Have you been to Bam! in Mid Rivers Mall? That's the newest store I've discovered. They haven't been open too long and are where the Borders used to be. One floor is used books. The other floor is DVD's and a ton of retro games. You could easily spend hours in that store.



Here in Utah it just plain sucks. I get all my games online.
My CIB nearly mint NES came from a D.I. in Utah...3 bucks it cost.

[Tupin]

Have you been to Bam! in Mid Rivers Mall? That's the newest store I've discovered. They haven't been open too long and are where the Borders used to be. One floor is used books. The other floor is DVD's and a ton of retro games. You could easily spend hours in that store.
I've been to one of their other locations, they call themselves V-Stock now. They have a good selection, I'll admit that. Strangely enough, it's mostly the modern games that are overpriced, most PS2 games I saw were $10 at least no matter what, even if they were sports titles. Yet earlier games are cheaper.

[jb143]

I've been to one of their other locations, they call themselves V-Stock now. They have a good selection, I'll admit that. Strangely enough, it's mostly the modern games that are overpriced, most PS2 games I saw were $10 at least no matter what, even if they were sports titles. Yet earlier games are cheaper.

Yeah, we just happened upon it. I was surprised to see so many Lynx, TG16, and NGPC games...though I think I manly bought books at the time. Also it's not far from Game Trader, a pretty cool local store.

[Tupin]

Yeah, we just happened upon it. I was surprised to see so many Lynx, TG16, and NGPC games...though I think I manly bought books at the time. Also it's not far from Game Trader, a pretty cool local store.
Ah, the one in St. Charles? That's a good place to get imports.

I only went to the Pevely Flea Market once, and got Super Punch Out! and Mega Man X for $20 total. Too bad it closed.

[Jaruff]

It's always been hit-or-miss in my area (Northeast Georgia) for games.

Last week I picked up a boxed Game Boy and blue Game Gear at a local thrift. Before that? Well, unless I drive 30 minutes to one of the major population areas, I usually don't find anything. There's one pawn shop that carries vintage games but they're usually overpriced. There is a mom and pop "thrift" store (aka resale general stores) chain but outside of a 3DO marked as a DVD player, their selection has been historically terrible in the two years or so they've been opened. I sometimes find games at local thrifts or yard sales but it's pretty hit or miss. I rarely see gaming items at local auction houses but I can snatch them up for cheap when I do.

However, two of the three flea markets I regularly frequent almost always do well for me. The third flea market is very small but will sometimes have some decent merchandise.

You also have to keep in mind that I live in a town of ~2500 and a county of ~25k. I usually have no competition for games and electronics unless I travel to one of the large cities.

[SEGA_Queen]

Pretty good, considering I live in small town. There are a couple of pawn shops, various thrift stores, a collectibles/antiques place, and an independent game shop.

So yeah, I'm pretty much covered as far as game hunting spots goes.

[Pikkon]

Not to bad in my area,I usually find decent games at my goodwill,just the other week I bought 7 nes games,one was LOZ,all for 2 bucks a piece.
Then I go to my local game store that has a nice selection of import games,most of my famicom games I bought from there and some good super fami ones as well.

[BetaWolf47]

I have only been to Goodwills lately. The rule of thumb down here is that Goodwills never have anything except the occasional loose NES common (I only see about 2 a year, not exaggerating) or a CIB Genesis sports game. There's another part of the rule, being that the pawn shops are pretty good. There's a pawn chain here which is good for finding loose NES, SNES, and N64 games, and CIB current-gen games at low prices. The mom and pop pawn shops do turn up a treasure from time to time. Resellers in the area have made it more difficult the past few years though.

[Malon_Forever]

It's really hit or miss in Buffalo, NY...I generally don't even bother going to Goodwill anymore as they suck - most of my finds come out of Amvets, garage sales, and the occasional estate sale.

Amvets is awesome indeed.

[o.pwuaioc]

Sf bay area sucks. Just plain sucks. I don't bother with thrift stores anymore. There's a tiny handfull of retro game shops. Inventory don't change much. Flea markets are your best bet and its spotty at best.

Sadly if it wasant for flea bay my meager collection would be half it's size.

That's one thing I don't miss about living in SF. The retro community there is cool though, but slim pickins unless you want to go down to San Jose.

New York isn't terrible - there's a retro game store just a few blocks away from where I live, but it's very expensive. I need to hit up more flea markets, because I've found nothing in Goodwills here.

[j_factor]

Sf bay area sucks. Just plain sucks. I don't bother with thrift stores anymore. There's a tiny handfull of retro game shops. Inventory don't change much. Flea markets are your best bet and its spotty at best.

I have to agree with this assessment. It's been this way for a long time, too. Maybe more people around here are into classic games, and therefore there's more demand. Or maybe people are more savvy and never turn their stuff in to thrift stores etc. Seriously, thrift stores here NEVER have anything decent. Some of the used game shops have good stuff -- in particular, Phoenix Games in Concord and 4Jays in Antioch tend to have pretty decent selection -- but they never really have any deals. It's always priced to eBay or whatever. (In fairness, it's probably not too easy for them to acquire cheap stock.) Flea markets are the same, even when I find good games, they're usually the same price that I could get them off eBay for. Though sometimes you can haggle or they'll give you a discount for buying multiple. I've never ever had any luck with garage sales either. The one place I've had some decent finds is Half Price Books. But they're pretty limited. I haven't been impressed with Craigslist either, although I only check it from time to time.

[hellraiser]

That's one thing I don't miss about living in SF. The retro community there is cool though, but slim pickins unless you want to go down to San Jose.



What's in San Jose that I'm missing? I'm there often. They have two flea markets but last i went there was nothing to get excited about.

In regards to craigslist here, It's like a game itself ! You better check often and have quick reflexes!

[thegamezmaster]

I live in Central IL, and here it sucks eggs! No swap meets or flea markets and town wide garage sales blow chunks.

[SonicBoom]

Here in Utah it just plain sucks. I get all my games online.

I Feel bad. Online, You can get whatever you want but you will pay alot more than you should.

[SonicBoom]

As far as thrift store shopping goes, the Dallas/Fort Worth, TX area is pretty dry. I don't think I've found anything of interest in a while. Flea markets outside of the Metroplex are much better for me, although there's a good dedicated vendor out at Trader's Village flea market in Arlington. As far as brick-and-mortar stores go, it's a bonanza of retro gaming. There's several locations of Movie Trading Company stores, with plenty of games from the Atari 2600 onward. I love those stores, because they don't have any rarity lists for pre-NES games so they mostly get a blanket price of $1.99. And then there's "local" chains like FX Game Exchange (in Plano and McKinney) and Console Game Exchange (in Irving Mall, Stonebriar Mall in Frisco, and probably Collin Creek Mall in Plano). There's also a few Play N' Trade stores around, along with one or two independents.

Interesting enough, I Know alot about that area when it comes to game hunting because of a show online, The game chasers, They live around there and show them going around making deals. You should check them out.

[Jakethenub]

I live in Mid-Missouri and it kind of sucks here. There's one Good Will in Columbia I sometimes go to but the only thing I've ever found there that wasn't Genesis sports games were a few boxed NES games (Super Off-Road and Bayou Billy), and a few old PC games. There's a few game stores like Slackers but of course those places have ridiculous prices for most things. I'm thinking of going to a Flea Market near here though. Never been to one.

[Ryudo]

Very little. Of course Gamestop but I don't support them. Got a really great Play n Trade however. A new independent shop just opened up and hadn't has the chance to go yet. I also check out local thrift stores.

[Genjackson]

Now that I live in KY there's not too much. There's a CherryBomb Games in Radcliff, KY that has a great selection and negotiable prices. Across the road from it is Ol Buddies which has an even bigger selection, but might be closed now due to meth. The Bowling Green, KY flea market has some great booths. One booth has a huge selection, but knows what everything is worth. The other big one is ran by a guy who is the complete opposite (wanted 40 for a miracle piano CIB and 50 for a Sega 32x without any cords) ((Completely Confused on what everything is worth)) Rivergate, TN has a Game Trader that I miss. They have the best selection around. Every thing from NEO GEO to turbografx-16. One day I'll open a game store and blow these out of the water. One day. . .

[Steve W]

Any neat finds at the flea markets? I've always wanted to go to Trader's Village, but I'd hate to go all the way out there for nothing.

Also, GameChop in Carrollton and that little unnamed place (they had a Craigslist ad calling themselves 'Classic Game Store', but I'm not sure that's the name) in Grand Prairie are pretty okay. I just wish the Grand Prairie store wasn't in an area that looks super sketchy.

I've found some pretty good stuff at the local flea markets. Bought a boxed Milton Bradley Expansion system for the TI-99/4A Home Computer (it's rumored that there might only be around 300 of these in existence) and a Myriad 6-in-1 NES cart that's the only thing I've ever sold on eBay since I don't collect Nintendo games and systems. I also bought two boxed VictorMaxx Stuntmaster VR helmets for SNES/Genesis for $2 each, and 3DO controllers and SNES-to-3DO pad adapters for 25¢ each there also. Last year at a flea market over an hour away from the city I bought three Commavid Atari 2600 games for a few bucks each - I'd rarely ever seen any of that company's titles before, then to find three at once was fantastic. At a different market I bought a boxed Atari XEGS and a heap of early '80s electronic handhelds.

GameChop in Carrollton is okay, I've stopped there a couple of times but haven't bought anything since they tend to favor modern systems and most of their retro stuff is Nintendo based. And I hate that store in Grand Prairie. Selling old Atari 2600 consoles with a dozen commons for $100? You've got to be kidding me. It's a grungy little place that I've got problems with. They had some European Dreamcast games that I wanted, Headhunter and Evil Twin (both unreleased in the US). They didn't have a price on it, so in front of me they went onto eBay and tried to look up how much to charge me for them. But they couldn't find any copies, since they were looking on US eBay and they're British games. After a while they told me that they couldn't sell them to me. What? Just put a price on them, idiots! I mentioned to 98PaceCar that they had a whole bunch of Japanese DC imports, so he went there and bought something like 20 pristine games from them, $45 for the pile. Because the game's titles were in Japanese, and therefore they couldn't look them up on eBay to price gouge him. So he got away with a steal. I went back months later hoping they'd gotten prices on those UK games, and they did the exact same thing... look them up on eBay and then refuse to sell them to me. So screw that place, I won't be going back.

[snkryo]

In Chicago there is too much competion out there game hunting.

[Retronick]

The Northern Virginia area has a few shops of interest for retro gaming. We are actually the homebase for estarland.com! You can actually go into their distribution center and buy things directly from the rack. If you live here, you NEED TO GO THERE!

There's also a bunch of great thrift shops, Goodwills and pawnshops (especially in Manassas), that you can often find good steals in. My favorite place to look, but not necessarily "buy"? Either one of these flea markets in Central Virginia:

http://www.retronick.com/2011/04/goodwill-hunting-2-extreme-edition-day-1/

http://www.retronick.com/2011/04/goodwill-hunting-2-extreme-edition-day-2/

The Bellwood Flea Market in Reston is absolutely SWARMING with classic gaming apparel that's just hanging out in the dirt, waiting to be bought. Savvy damned flea market employees though, those bastard charge the same amount you find the stuff on ebay for. A guy in the "Dirt Mall" on the other hand, sold me that Fortress Maximus for $20. Life is a funny thing.

[Razo00]

I'm from Jersey as well. I do 99% of my shopping online ebay, amazon, forums. I got lucky once and found a guy in my town selling neo mvs games. Picked up Street Hoop and Baseball Stars 2 for 10 each. And they weren't boots either. Thats about it. Most people now are hip to what certain games cost so they just sell it online.

[redknight802]

Id say its somewhat good. I find about 75% of my finds at goodwill and about 15% at monthly garage sales inside a rec center. 5% goes to a retro store in my town, 5% at pawn shops

[Colorado Rockies]

I've never even been to a garage sale/estate sale or flea market in La Jolla.

100% of my 4000+ CIB games have been purchased from ebay/amazon

[Shulamana]

Had a chance to check out the local thrift today, they had a box with a PlayStation, 2 controllers, and 10-12 sports/racing games along with a Resident Evil Director's Cut. They had the whole box as a lot priced at $75.

Normally they price games like that at $1-3 each, and I would have considered buying a few of the titles at that price, don't know why they decided to toss it all together and then mark up the price 200% above FMV.

Will be another 2-4 weeks before I get a chance to run up there again.

[Aswald]

In a word:

Bleah.

[o.pwuaioc]

What's in San Jose that I'm missing? I'm there often. They have two flea markets but last i went there was nothing to get excited about.

In regards to craigslist here, It's like a game itself ! You better check often and have quick reflexes!

GameWorld is what I heard, there are a few others. Phoenix World in Concord, 4Jay's in Antioch. I missed out on them while I was there, regrettably.

[disorderlyvision]

It is pretty hit or miss around me. There are several thrift stores and pawn shops. occasionally they have some retro games but mostly picked through stuff. I have came across some good deals though. In the last month I picked up Winning Post for the Saturn for $2, Panzer Dragoon II Zwei for $2, Castlevania for the Genesis for $8 Conker's Bad Fur Day for $7. So, if you check regularly you can come across some stuff but it doesn't happen real often.

[mylifewithsega]

Not much going on in my neck of the woods. Do most of my shopping online. However, whenever I visit Jersey, I go to Next Level Videogames. It's in the southern part, roughly 20 minutes from Philly. Everything from Atari to Wii. Carries imports. I bought a CIB Japanese Saturn there for $80. There's another shop that's near by, but I can't for the life of me remember the name. Nice selection, and decent prices.

[wingzrow]

Chicagoland here:

At flea markets? Great. Almost anywhere else? Forget about it.

God I would kill to find ONE decent sega saturn or dreamcast game a month, or any at all for that matter.

Garage sales are generally good though so I cannot wait for summer.

This is all provided I get up early enough though. By 8AM or so all the flea markets are picked over, so yeah, there's a ton of competition in my neck of the woods.

Is it better or worse in California?

[Bloodreign]

I have a few spots here, but I've cherry picked them to stuff I don't want. Then I went to Texas, I found the motherload in San Antonio, Sunset Valley, and Austin (the one in Houston I didn't visit). The shops are called Game Over, but prepare to pay a bit on some of their games. Found out about the one in Austin from an older thread made here a few years ago.

[The 1 2 P]

Lately there hasn't been much of anything. I frequent a number of Goodwills, Targets, flea markets and yard sales and although I've found some good stuff this year it's usually only one or a few things at a time. I'm going to a big ass once-a-year flea market next month so hopefully I turn up something worthwhile.

[dukenukem]

Slim pickings in my area.the goodwill closeby has never had any games and they won't ever be selling any.Only place for any kind of retro stuff is bookman's which is over an hour away and i haven't been there in over 7 years.

[DigitalSpace]

Things are pretty decent here in the Portland area. Of course, prices can be another thing...

[Retronick]

I almost forgot! There's actually a barber shop in Sterling, VA that sells some used games and movies. I picked up a copy of View Point for the Genesis there.

http://www.retronick.com/2010/09/this-is-some-strange-shit/

[LordDarkrai]

A few stores are about an hour away which sucks, but I thinking of going to one for my birthday to get NES/SNES games. Also I considering checking at random yard sales this summer to see something interesting they might have.

[wiggyx]

We have a local chain called The Exchange/Record Exchange. They carry stuff all the way back to the NES but they aren't a specialty shop. Even so, they aren't idiots, so no copies of Earthbond or EVO for 2 bucks or anything like that, but you can quite often find pretty great deals on the lower profile retro games. I just grabbed about 20 SNES games for 35 bucks today. Nothing especially awesome, just bulking up the collection a bit. Definitely not some eBay lot with 4 copies of Mario Paint, 6 copies of Bulls vs Blazers, and 3 copies of Super Scope 6 just to get a copy of MMX1 or Mario All Stars. All titles that I am happy to have on my shelf and nothing that I would just want to throw away like in those stupid lot auctions.

Lots of independent game shops and whatnot too. It's a good town for gamers, which is good, because the weather blows, so staying inside and playing VGs is a great way to avoid whatever crap is falling from the sky at that moment.

[Mytho]

Things have been a little dry in my area as of late. The Goodwills in my area were pretty well stocked toward the beginning of the year (gotta love grabbing nearly every 90's id FPS for less than $10), but have really tapered off lately. I haven't purchased anything in the past two weeks since everything there is either overpriced, beaten up or both. A scratched copy of Crysis for $7? Yeah, you can shove it.

The indie shop here has had some real gems though. I purchased a new copy of Double Dragon Advance for $15 a month back. Good thing too, because the next week I went back, all four copies they had were sold. I also scored a copy of Magic Knight Rayearth a few days ago after asking the owner if he had any 'good' Saturn stuff. I paid a pretty penny for it, but the disc and manual are virtually flawless. :)

Now that I've graduated and am out of school, I'm hoping I might have time to go out to the flea market on the weekends. I'm not going to be taking a full-time job until the fall, so one last fruitful summer for game hunting would be a great way to cap my college career.

[Aussie2B]

There basically is no game hunting scene in NYC. Thrift stores are nearly nonexistent, and the same goes for garage sales (few people even have a garage or yard). Pawn shops aren't like what I've been to elsewhere. They're usually pretty sketchy, REALLY tiny, and only deal in stuff like gold. I doubt there's much in the way of flea markets either, although I've never really been into that aspect of hunting. So if you want older games, you're basically left with a few indie game shops scattered about, but they're all horribly overpriced. A few are kind of cool to look at like a museum, but don't even consider buying anything. But considering most of my game buying these days is for really oddball stuff, I'd have to go online anyway.

When I stay with family in Washington state, I go hunting for general game stuff, though. It's decent, but it takes a whole lot of persistence. Most places I hit usually have literally nothing or damn near close to it, and prices usually aren't spectacular (I'm jealous when I see people shopping at places that price games at 50 cents or a buck, usually where I go prices don't get lower than 2.99, if that). Most of my purchases are fairly run-of-the-mill, but every now and then I make an impressive find. "Impressive" by my standards is getting something for 2-3 bucks that is worth $30+ bucks. I know with finds topics on here and elsewhere, people get so desensitized to seeing people with amazing finds that everything is "meh" unless you find Panzer Dragoon Saga or something, but I'm not so jaded myself.

[sloan]

I live in the midwest and have been blessed. I will not divulge my exact location to keep the competition at bay.

Basically, I have built a massive collection of all the classic systems over the past three years with minimal ebay shopping. I have 8 Goodwills within a 45 minute radius of my house, 4 Salvation Army stores within same radius, 2 Catholic charity thrifts within same radius, 5 pawn shops, and 4 used game stores.

The charity thrifts have been the best deals. Found a SNES console for $5 yesterday, along with a complete NES system for $10.

A couple weeks ago, I found a rarity 9 VCS game at Goodwill for $2.

I used to live more rural, and my current collection would not have been doable because of the lack of thrifts and used game stores. Collecting by ebay alone will ruin you financially.

[camarotuner]

I am in a hunting paradise in a way and it sucks in others. On one hand I have more dedicated gaming stores around here than I'd know what to do with. How many is that? Approximately 1 dozen stores dealing in retro game stores are within 30 minutes of my house. 2 of which have what I'd consider "god like" stock available. Meaning their current inventory of retro games exceeds the several thousand cart range. The problem? 1 of those shops is basically ebay prices and the other is INSANE prices. The pricing in the other stores ranges from very good to ebay. But pretty much everything is available for virtually every console (except AES, still never seen one around here, ever) if you have the bankroll to back it up. On top of that we are a flea market mecca (close proximity to amish country) so that's a complete goldmine as well. Competition can be fierce as the number of "collectors" seems to have blown up over the last several years but it's doable. So yeah overall, I'd say this is a great area to hunt.

[wiggyx]

Stores that specialize are always gonna be pricey. They know what the stuff is worth, obviously. Flea markets are great, if you've got em in your area. Best deals ever come out of those places.

[Zama]

The places I shopped at varies. They are mostly random and sometimes you will find stuff that are worth the hassle while there are times that there are nothing worth buying. It's the life of being a treasure seeker :)