Garage sale day finds...

[charitycasegreg]

Edit, added the last picture plus one from the stuff I found a week later. Parents took really long to send me those 2 pics.

I don't know why, but I just felt like making my own thread for this like some other people do even though it may not be that great.

Well I finnaly got the pictures up from the garage sale day in my town:

SNES boxes and manuals came from ebay for $12 total. Nes games came with the nintendo powers and the toploader. Boxed nes games I got for $2 bucks total. GAmeboy games got for free. Atari games some guy game me for free at a sale.
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v444/gregdoh/10_3.jpg

Top loader with all the nes games was $100. About 6 nes games I got at a different sale for .50 each.sega was free, atari stuff was free. The figures were .10 each at a sale. TMNT lunch box at sale for .25. The powere pad was from another sale for .68 or so.
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v444/gregdoh/10_1.jpg

I like this one the best. On was on my way to garage sales with my friend and I saw a random kid. I asked "you guys skatebaord?" They said yes, then I asked if they had nintendo. The kid said yes, took me to his house, and brought this out. Gave him 12 bucks.
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v444/gregdoh/100_0895.jpg

Paid like $5 for this the week after garage sale day.
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v444/gregdoh/100_0896.jpg

Also got a box full of 98 Nintendo powere magazines, all in great condition with the posters and all are issues between 15-103 then a couple other game mags.

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[Ninja Blacksox]

Yow.

Nicely done!

I'd say it's worthy of its own thread...

...if you didn't overpay, that is.

-A Boy

[tholly]

well that was a hell of a garage sale find....i dont think i ever even found 1 nes game...let alone a huge find like that at a garage sale

[unbroken]

dang props on that top loader and all those mint looking snes games. Ive never had a find that good.

[autobotracing]

I could go yard saling for 2 days in gainesville and 3 or 4 other towns and would probally come home with a 10th of that.


Gainesville yard sales suck because its a college town and everone wants $60 for there beat up ass nes system with 30 dead roaches in it and the blinking problem.


Even you goodwill there is twice as high.

:angry:



Nice finds for you though :roll:

[Kilik Kurosawa]

dude....did you seriously buy someone's underwear? TMNTurds!!!!

[Jehuty]

And I thought finding Ten boxed games at a garage sale was a big find.

[TRM]

That looks really nice......especially all of the NES stuff.

[GrayFox]

Damn, where in the hell in Wisconsin was this?!

Nice finds tho :P

[Nesmaster]

@_@

very nice, but i have to ask.....how much?

[DigitalSpace]

One question about those SNES boxes - do they have games or are they just the boxes?

Either way, nice finds!

[vintagegamecrazy]

I had a huge haul like that once and it was great but that hasn't happened to me in a while, very nice finds, finds like that really warm your heart. :D

[-hellvin-]

Heh...I never undestand it...people always bring home huge systems lots and game magazines and all kinds of shit and all I find are old shitty antiques and junk that no one would want to buy. Nice finds.

[Cauterize]

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[NESaholic]

Looks mega nice, what ya pay for it>>anyway must be cheaper then here in Europe, here shit is twice as much.

[Videogamerdaryll]

Awesome finds.... @_@

[davidleeroth]

Even if I'd combine all my wild finds, I doubt I could top that. Nice stuff!

[Geddon_jt]

Heh...I never undestand it...people always bring home huge systems lots and game magazines and all kinds of shit and all I find are old shitty antiques and junk that no one would want to buy. Nice finds.

Weren't you the guy who found the $5 Stadium Events someplace not long ago?

I think a find like that automatically precludes you from complaing for a good 18-24 month period, at minimum!... LOL ;)

[Cauterize]

so how much did it cost then greg?

[charitycasegreg]

No I wasnt the guy who got stadium events, this stuff was at like 5 different garage sales. I will explain more when I get to school. I gotta add the last pic tonight too. I spent about $160 total but the stuff included on the next pic will make up for it.

[Cauterize]

No I wasnt the guy who got stadium events, this stuff was at like 5 different garage sales. I will explain more when I get to school. I gotta add the last pic tonight too. I spent about $160 total but the stuff included on the next pic will make up for it.

ace, i think the guy mean Hellvin got Stadium Events!

[charitycasegreg]

by the way I would have got a complete chrono trigger, megaman x, secret of evermore, secret of mana(loose) in there too if I would have had money with me the first day. Because the lady I got the NP from and the nes and all those nes games, had those but then looked then up on the internet after I left to get money. She also had some strategy guides for chrono, secret of evermore. I may go back there someday to get her colecovision(boxed), her secret of evermore, and her atari 400.

[The Manimal]

BOXED and minty looking redesigned NES plus all those games, including the LE Tecmo Super Bowl 2 plus a ton of other BOXED games? Wow. I wish I could find something like that. LOL

[rhiohki]

Dude...where do you live? I think I may have to come visit. That's some nice stuff you got from those garage sales. Hopefully you got some swee deals on the price.

[Chainsaw_Charlie]

i have never seen anybody walk away from a garage sale with a haul like you did
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[Maddrox]

Is that all from garage sales? Cause the snes boxes and other stuff looks like a ebay auction i once saw... Just wondering...

[Jibbajaba]

Is that all from garage sales? Cause the snes boxes and other stuff looks like a ebay auction i once saw... Just wondering...

Really??? You once saw an eBay auction with BOXED SNES GAMES in it?!?!? DAMN!!!!

Chris

Hint: Sarcasm

[sisko]

nice!

I would have passed on the TMNT undies, but thats just me :)

[Chunky]

oh you paid for it, i was gonna ask, how did you steal all that at once.

[long_shawn_silver]

I'm not trying be out of line here but I don't even believe that this all came from a garage sale or even 5 of them, sounds more like hey look at this pic of someof my stuff I have. Even at yard sale prices it would be more than 160.00 bucks AND anyone with that much stuff even divided by 5 would still have to know it was worth more than an average of 32 dollars worth of pay out per yard sale, but hey nice find if that is what it really is. Just seems a little to hard to believe IMHO. But I guess stranger things have happened. O_O

[sniperCCJVQ]

I'm not trying be out of line here but I don't even believe that this all came from a garage sale or even 5 of them, sounds more like hey look at this pic of someof my stuff I have. Even at yard sale prices it would be more than 160.00 bucks AND anyone with that much stuff even divided by 5 would still have to know it was worth more than an average of 32 dollars worth of pay out per yard sale, but hey nice find if that is what it really is. Just seems a little to hard to believe IMHO. But I guess stranger things have happened. O_O

Not hard to believe, alot of people on this board got this kind of lot when hunting for game. It happed 2-3 times in the past for me.

[sisko]

I'm not trying be out of line here but I don't even believe that this all came from a garage sale or even 5 of them, sounds more like hey look at this pic of someof my stuff I have. Even at yard sale prices it would be more than 160.00 bucks AND anyone with that much stuff even divided by 5 would still have to know it was worth more than an average of 32 dollars worth of pay out per yard sale, but hey nice find if that is what it really is. Just seems a little to hard to believe IMHO. But I guess stranger things have happened. O_O

You haven't been hunting long enough. There are weekends that I've come out with more stuff than this for $50.

[downfall]

Firstly, great finds!

Secondly, though it doesn't happen all the time, it does happen. I've come away with about half that stuff for $20 before, so it can be done. You just gotta get out there and do it - don't skip any houses, and spend some time, and you'll come away just as well off.

[long_shawn_silver]

Oh no, I'm not saying I haven't got great games in the wild. Hell I have found 2 ATARI 2600 Rare9 games in the last 3 months alone (Spider Maze & Bearenstien Bears) but just the volume of this lot is what I had a hard time grasping. I know there is lots of great shit to be found just don't see it myself like this EVER, and especially for a bill sixty. But anyhow is this guys selling any of it? Thereis some nintendo shit there I would buy. :D

[charitycasegreg]

the snes boxes have no games in them. But now Iused them to make my games complete. It was an ebay auction. And the main thing was, none of this stuff was out at the garage sales but the tmnt jammies. The rest was from me asking "do you have any old video games?"

[charitycasegreg]

I'm not trying be out of line here but I don't even believe that this all came from a garage sale or even 5 of them, sounds more like hey look at this pic of someof my stuff I have. Even at yard sale prices it would be more than 160.00 bucks AND anyone with that much stuff even divided by 5 would still have to know it was worth more than an average of 32 dollars worth of pay out per yard sale, but hey nice find if that is what it really is. Just seems a little to hard to believe IMHO. But I guess stranger things have happened. O_O

You are extremely incorrect, all cost me between 150-170 bucks TOTAL within a few garage sales and a random kid I asked for games (pic for that coming soon.)

Why the heck would I lie about stuff I get? LOL Havent you seen my past pics of finds? I ususally just take pics of stuff from within 2 weeks or so. And it ocmes out to this amount. This was a weekend of about 90 houses having garage sales. I went or called about 60 and asked evey house for stuff and got this from about 5. A couple houses has a couple games so maybe about 7 total then.

Do you think that guy that got stadium events actually just bought it off ebay for $500? Well then think that, your day may come, just gotta hunt and get lucky!

[EricRyan34]

Wow!! Nice findings!

[Videogamerdaryll]

I'm not trying be out of line here but I don't even believe that this all came from a garage sale or even 5 of them, sounds more like hey look at this pic of someof my stuff I have. Even at yard sale prices it would be more than 160.00 bucks AND anyone with that much stuff even divided by 5 would still have to know it was worth more than an average of 32 dollars worth of pay out per yard sale, but hey nice find if that is what it really is. Just seems a little to hard to believe IMHO. But I guess stranger things have happened. O_O

You haven't been hunting long enough. There are weekends that I've come out with more stuff than this for $50.

Ditto..
I guess he hasn't been checking the weekend finds threads,I can understand that.

Practically every weekend I come home with a ton of stuff(same type stuff) from either one flea market..various garage sales or other misc flea markets going on.
Spending less then $100.00 and I pass a lot of stuff up..

This is nothing new to me but it's a very nice find..

Congrats again..

[Balloon Fight]

Great finds greg. If you don't need that toploader box, send me a PM.

[long_shawn_silver]

Sorry for seeming out of line, I guess my city is just too small and I was to close minded on this topic, my apollogies :( . I guess I just get lucky that my small finds have had really rare games. Out of the 30 people I got games from this summer the best I got in the wild was 2 rare9 ATARI 2600 games and a tabletop NES PC10 arcade machine from a laundry mat the was closing down. All the best to ya and you finds guys, hoping it happens to me soon, I could use the boost in my personal collection alone!!! :P

[Barbarianoutkast85]

When there was a whole time yard sale thing I only found 7 video games none complete...So Kudos to you

[Famidrive-16]

Hey, are those Game Genie code books? I've got some of those, I used to get them in the mail looonnnggg ago...

[charitycasegreg]

Hey, are those Game Genie code books? I've got some of those, I used to get them in the mail looonnnggg ago...

correct, I use to get these in teh mail too!... then I lost them... :(

[-hellvin-]

Heh...I never undestand it...people always bring home huge systems lots and game magazines and all kinds of shit and all I find are old shitty antiques and junk that no one would want to buy. Nice finds.

Weren't you the guy who found the $5 Stadium Events someplace not long ago?

I think a find like that automatically precludes you from complaing for a good 18-24 month period, at minimum!... LOL ;)

I wasn't complaining. I'm just saying I've never seen hauls like that at garage sales. I hardly go to garage sales though but since I'm off saturdays I plan to make it a constant trip. I'm perfectly sure I'll bring home a haul that large one day. Just gotta keep trying ;D.

[charitycasegreg]

just updated it with the other pics my parents finaly sent me.