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jgenotte
10-26-2004, 11:22 AM
There is a cool site called Craig's List that allows free want/for sale ad postings. The electronics section has a decent selection of video game stuff from people. There is a Craig's List for most major cities. Check it out!

http://www.craigslist.org/about/cities.html

-james
Jive3D
10-26-2004, 01:18 PM
I got my Saturn from there last year with a load of games for $30 bucks. Good stuff.

Check out the personal adverts and "want" ads for sexual services, absolutely hillarious.
Balloon Fight
10-26-2004, 03:14 PM
Thanks for the link. I've got yet another source for arcade games now. :D
stuffedmonkey
10-26-2004, 04:17 PM
Jive3d is right - there are some serious pervs in the personals section...

But in the electronics there are often nifty deals to be had.
morphx
10-26-2004, 04:29 PM
Doh why no linky for Richmond!

So is this a pick up auction/ad system or is it on the honor system for people to actually ship you the item.
Hovoc
10-26-2004, 05:02 PM
Doh why no linky for Richmond!

So is this a pick up auction/ad system or is it on the honor system for people to actually ship you the item.


dude lets start up the richmond section :P
jgenotte
10-26-2004, 05:03 PM
As far as I know, most deals go down face to face.

-james
Hovoc
10-26-2004, 05:08 PM
im sure youll get the occasional jackass that will try to rip you off or something, its life :(
morphx
10-26-2004, 05:40 PM
Hovoc, I whipped out the yellow pages today and went looking for pawn shops, theres like 5 in all of metro richmond...WTF don't we have people that need to hock their stuff here? In Va Beach I passed 5 just going to work, they're every freaking where down there.
AlanD
10-26-2004, 07:56 PM
Yup tons of thrifts and pawns here. Unofrtunately too many ebayers that make hunting them their occupation so I don't often find much.

On the site listed if you check under Norfolk, there were a few Richmond items. Not much but there wasn't much there anyway for this area.

AlanD



As an aside, we really need to track down all the Virginia collectors and have a meet or convention. There are quite a few around now.
Famidrive-16
10-26-2004, 08:11 PM
i've looked on there before but found nothing... maybe i should have some more looks in the future...
morphx
10-26-2004, 08:12 PM
There are a few, I think there used to be a private club somewhere in SE VA too...When I worked at funco the same guy used to come in every once in awhile and drop 100+ bucks on nintendo/genny games and said they were for his club meeting trade session...He was a little Dhalmerish so I didn't ask when/where it met.
Hovoc
10-27-2004, 01:40 AM
http://richmond.craigslist.org/


theres the richmond list, but its dead :(
delafro
10-27-2004, 09:26 PM
Seems like a good idea, but then there's always winners like this:

http://charlotte.craigslist.org/ele/47008157.html
jasonlotp
10-27-2004, 09:34 PM
Seems like a good idea, but then there's always winners like this:

http://charlotte.craigslist.org/ele/47008157.html

What a winner! LOL

I guess the cat's out of the bag now, Craigslist has been my "secret" here in the San Jose area since I moved up here (and in LA before that!). I've gotten a few good deals but for every good deal there are ten "I could sell these this on Ebay for $20 each so since you don't have to pay shipping I'm gonna sell it for $25!" Ridiculous. :angry:

-Jason
PhoeniX
10-27-2004, 09:35 PM
Definately a good site, I got a playstation and a dreamcast from it, also a broken 3DO... But all in all I have had a good experience. My gf uses it all the time for other electronic stuff and has enjoyed great success.

So much for it being my little secret... jk, it seems to be frequented by vg collectors in the greater bay area a lot; the rare stuff is often hard to get before someone else snatches it up.