June 2010 Finds

[Ryaan1234]

I stopped by a sale, whose most notable item in the ad was "Precious Moments figures"

Ummmm.... well, I was stopped dead in my tracks when I saw a box with an Xbox 360 sticking out of it.

The Xbox had a $5 price sticker on it, obviously RROD. It's one of those early stripped-down models, with no onboard memory and only A/V out (no HDMI). It had a 64mb card attached.

Anyway, when I looked in the box I saw a more goodies, took it up to the checkout table and asked what they'd do for the whole box. It was $20 for the whole box, and I grabbed 2 360 games for a buck a piece. I got:

Slim PS2 with power and A/V (People at the sale told me all it needs is that "2 circle" style dongle for it's power, and it's working otherwise)
Fat PS2 with power and a broken disc drive door (don't think it's working)
Xbox 360 with power brick, A/V cables, and 64mb memory card. (RROD)

Not bad, considering a broken fat PS2 is worth $15 and a working slim is worth $30 (perhaps more) when I couple controllers with it. I may try to do a RROD fix on this Xbox. I still have that $3 Xbox that I put a RROD fix on, and all it needs is an outer shell.

They had a bunch of PS2 games and a few 360 games, but they were mostly Madden and NHL games. Ghost Recon and Over G Fighters were the 2 360 games I got for a $1 each. When I powered on the 360 NHL 07 was in it. And Madden 08 was in the slim PS2.

That's really it, it's been a really Texas Instruments-y week for me. Thursday I found a neat 80s TI calculator, yesterday I found a boxed Speak & Spell in good shape for $1, and today I found the "Holy triad" of Texas Instruments: A Speak & Read, Speak & Math, and Speak & Spell (earlier button version) in beat up shape for $0.25 a piece

[InsaneDavid]

Is that an ORIGINAL animation cell from the series? If so then you either got insanely lucky or the price of those things really dropped off in recent years. I would have thought something like that would have cost a ton more.

Yes, it's original. As with most things (somewhat like video games actually) prices vary amazingly widely. I've gotten higher median value cels for less and I've paid over market for low value cels many times. I don't think the market has dropped off but I do think there's a much wider gap between the affordable and the insane these days. With the series' that I enjoy getting older that rift is only increasing in size. There are also fewer large scale collectors that used to inject the market on a regular basis with pieces they were selling. So you basically have really nice cels that come up in the sub $20.00 range from time to time, and then others that are priced in the $200.00+ range that people sit on for years. Gone really are the days of the market and lower level collectors deciding the value, at least for old anime cels. The stuff I passed up years ago for pocket change... There are still a few sources that keep things in the $30.00 - $100.00 range which is nice for people just starting out or those like myself that only buy a few cels here and there (Pac-Man and the bank breaking Mr. DNA not shown).

[Shadow Kisuragi]

Play-N-Trade, Buy2Get1 + 10% off

Sega 32X
Blackthorne (Everything but game - already had game) - $11.25
Kolibri (CIB) - $35.99

Sega CD
The Animals (CIB) - $1.80
Double Switch (CIB) - $2.69
FIFA Soccer (CIB) - $0.89
Heart of the Alien (CIB) - $35.99
NBA Jam (CIB) - $0.89

Sega Saturn
Frank Thomas Big Hurt Baseball (CIB) - Free
Warcraft II (CIB...probably reseal) - Free

TI-99/4A
Pole Position (Box + Cart) - $5

...TI-99 boxed cart?! Now I have something to play on my TI-99!
Also, Kolibri(!) and Blackthorne packaging for my loose cart (that I picked up for $4)

[darkslime]

Yard sale finds:

Trivial Pursuit SNL
Trivial Pursuit 90's
Wizard of Oz Trivia
$3 total. All sealed. I figure if they're not worth much Bookman's will give me more than a dollar

The Best of Smackdown DVD set
Duma Key - Stephen King paperback
EA Active Wii in big box w/ everything
$6 total. The Stephen King book is for me to read, I grabbed smackdown because I thought wrestling DVDs were worth something, looks like I can get about 6 bucks for it so not too bad.

http://www.amazon.com/Psychology-Con...6984124&sr=8-1 for a quarter. Not bad. I took schultzed on CAG's recommendation of buying text books.

PS2 w/ Network Adapter, cords and 3rd party controller - $20

a decent emerson stereo w/ speakers for $10

Domino PSP movie and one of those things that let's you plug in an ipod to a casette player - $1 total

Goodwill:
MS Office Student & Teacher x2 (one in DVD case, one in big box) - $14.99 ea
Windows XP Upgrade - $24.99
PC Buzz Buzzers (Thought they were for PS3) - $5.99

Bookman's:
Alice CIB in big ice wand box - $20
Zone of the Enders 2 - $8

Also a shitload of packages from Hastings B2G1 glitch and some things from GS B2G1, will post my haul from that later when I go to all the stores.

[Videogamerdaryll]

Garage sales all over the place but I didn't have time to stop,just drive bys..

Flea Market.
A rush through as I had a job to do today so we blew through it...I totally missed two isles.,

NES...$20.00..Trade..I bought a Dreamcast For $15 and the vendor asked if I'd trade him..OK..

NES Zappers 2 for $5.00

Pac Man $10.00

Playstation PsONE with Shrek Game $5.00..

XaviX PORT,plug.. with Bowling ball $5.00

Nerf Rifle $3.00
Nerf Gun FREE
Nerf ammo pack $1.00

Halo Vehicle $1.00

Plsyboy book $1.00

Star Wars Figures 3 for $5.00

Licence Plate CAG 392(Hemi) $1.00

Bike Part $2.00(for wifes bike)



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My Dad also bought an awesome bonsai tree for $22.00

[FOnewearl]

I uh. Actually find their stuff pretty often. I only picked it up because it had a DVD. >_>

I guess that shows how bad my area is (I'd at least like to find and replace my lost Pork Soda CD as far as Primus goes), I did find a Revolting Cocks CD at a yardsale a few years ago which surprised me and is probably the least expected to find CD that I've ever bought at a yardsale. I can't even find Sublime (selftitled) 3 times I've ran into it at yardsales only for the case to be empty



4x PSP Game Cases, 2x Xbox Duke Controllers & 15 Playstation Games - $10ish

First sale I went today and got to it right after 8 as it advertised some of the video game stuff & Garbage Pail Kids. I only say $10ish as I paid $10 for this stuff and a few other minor things not pictured most notably 90 some GPK from series 1 & 2. PSP cases you can probably see the IAP in the picture, Dukes were $3 for both and the PS1 games said $1 each or $5 for all. I set out the worthwhile games and the other 9 are sports games, probably should have just grabbed the good stuff for the same price or less but I always feel a little more like spending first time I see something worthwhile at a yardsale for fear of the rest of the day being little or nothing.

Mario Party 5
Super Smash Bros Melee

(Both Complete) $7

I went to this sale pretty early as it advertised games, PS2 system for $35 and mostly bad Wii games for $5 each. $5 each took $7 for both.

7 Playstation Games - .25 each

No story here except that they had PS1 games marked cheap at .25

4x N64 Controllers - $1

Unadvertised sale, I only pictured 2 of the 1st party controllers the other 2 were generic 3rd party goodness. No price took my offer of a buck.

Resident Evil Director's Cut (Complete, GH) - $1

Had a boxed PS1 with about 6 games for $10. Asked about this $2 and took a buck.

N64 With Hookups - $1

Found this at a street sale in a box of stuff with no price took my offer of a buck.



10 Atari Computer Games, Dig Dug (7800), Sam & Max (Disc Only), 2x The Punisher Guns (PS1, Saturn) & Misc Nintendo Stuff - $5

This was at a church sale that also had some people set up on the lawn like a flea market. The one lady selling had this stuff and I ended up taking everything I got for $5.

Intellivision With 5 Games With Some Misc Manuals, Overlays In A Boxed Video Game Storage Center - $5

Asked about games at a sale and this was brought out, offered $5 which was taken.

[Scrimble]

Picked up a box of stuff on Craigslist for $50




Xbox w/ 3 controllers, power cable
Sega Saturn with 4 controllers, cables
SNES mini with controller, cables and 8 games (SMW, DKC, Super Punch Out)
N64 with controller, exp pak, cables and 1 game
Genesis with controller, cables and 6 games

There are 4 PS1s with 4 controllers, cables and an Xbox Thrustmaster wheel and pedals in the box which I forgot to put in the picture. The SNES, N64 and Genesis were thrown in for free because they were "broken" but after I cleaned the carts they work perfectly. There also a few extras in there like a few PS1 games, an NES controller, Metroid for NES, Sega RF cables and some sort of famiclone controllers and carts.

[FOnewearl]

Phantasy Star 0
Mario & Luigi: Bower's Inside Story
Yoshi's Island DS

(DS And All Complete) $33

Craigslist around here isn't that great but a few times a year I'll find something of interest to me from somebody that is actually serious (and reasonable) about making a sale. In order listed was asking 15,20,5 and I shot an e-mail offering $35 for the three. Meet up and everything was good but the guy didn't have a $5 for change from $40 and I could only do $33 without getting change back with the bills I had.

Small world as this actually ended up being the same guy I bought about 50 Genesis games from last year at his yardsale. This was last September IIRC but they actually did the street sale today which I passed on since I was at it last year and BSing with the guy he wasen't selling anything today and it sounded like he wasen't in this year as they didn't have much around the house to sell.

[brykasch]

snagged halo 3 finally from the weekend sale at gamestop 14.99

also snagged kung fu panda for the 360
maximo for the ps2 and gradius III and IV, in the buy 2 get one free sale

got a 25 card in the mail for doing surveys, so total outlay was 4 bucks or so for everything.

[ScourDX]

Last week pickup



O story PS2 - $6
Scandal PS2 - $6
WWE PS3 - $15
PSP Hannah Montana Bundle - $99.96
Defenders of Oasis GG - Free

This week pickup



Crackdown - $4
Project Snowblind - $0.25
Prey - $10
SOCOM Guide - $0.01
Mario Kart DS - $10
Super Mario DS - $10
Magician Quest - $9.98
Legendary Starfy - $15

[GLP]

Vikings rule!

[jeffg]

I had some good Gamestop Finds with the buy 2 get 1:

Ninja Gaiden Sigma Collector's Edition PS3 with Special DVD still Factory Sealed
CMT Country Karaoke complete
Xenosaga black label complete
Xenosaga II black label complete
Ephemeral Fantasia complete
Alien HOminid complete
Klonoa 2 complete
Skygunner complete
Lost Kingdoms GC complete
Lost Kingdoms II GC complete
Batallion wars complete
Tetris Worlds GC complete
Star Fox Assault GC complete
Bomberman Jetters GC complete

all 14 games $70 total

[Fatalstar64]

I got myself Bust-a-Move CIB and Kirby's Dreamland 3. There was also a garage sale that had NES SNES and N64 games for $2 each, unfortunately for me some guy just bought everything at the start.

[Shadow Kisuragi]

Funny find...
Going through my cartridges, I found my Joshua: The Battle of Jericho NES cartridge. I was looking at it and saw some kid had written something in pencil on the cartridge. It reads...

** Fuck uu Joshue **

Epic.

[garagesaleking!!]

Finally Decided to stop being lazy and post pics of my finds from this weekend for the first time this summer. This was a really good weekend for me, kind of unexpected. Plus I actually had some gaming related finds.


The 360 games were 25 total.
The jedi knight disc 1 and 2 were $1 total,both are mint
The snes games were .50 each, the highlights being final fantasy III and secret of mana
Metal gear solid was $3


The michelob sign I bought together with a art x-15 ultrafoot guitar accessory and the sgx t2 guitar amp thing, I paid $50 for the sign and guitar stuff, also got a boss ds-2 distortion pedal for 5. The guitar stuff is worth about $150 to $175. The sign I might keep or sell, Im not sure.

The ps1 games were $1 each
Stubbs for xbox was asking $5, I got it for $3.
The tamagotchi was .25, its the gold colored one, I bought this thanks to the other one I saw on dp a little while ago and thanks to my droid incredible with internet, haha.
The ti 83 plus was $2
the minidisc player was $5, yes those are actually minidiscs in what look like cassette cases




The gilmore girls were $5 total for all 7 seasons. The rest of all the seasons I paid $85 for 19 sets. There is csi 1-5, ncis 1-3, that 70s show 1-3, family guy vol.1-4, weeds 1-4. A pretty good week I must say, The guitar stuff I got is really nice, Im pretty happy about that.

[Videogamerdaryll]

Awesome..michelob sign.
....

Last night I was cleaning a similar sign I have and broke it..I dunno,I touched the glass and poof it went..

I should of left it dirty..

[Xexyz]

My finds were so dismal today I decided not to post a pic for the first time in years. All I got at my local flea market was Little League Baseball (NES) with a dust sleeve for $2. That's it.

This place used to be a goldmine for me but now it's just the same common sun baked NES carts I've been sifting through for the past 5 years and a whole lot of overpriced PS2/Xbox/current gen junk vendors.

[FOnewearl]

Baby Pac-Man Marquee - $2 (IAP)

Super Bust-A-Move (PS2, Complete) - $2.50

Super Bust-A-Move was marked $4 and I also had a CD that was marked .50. I offered $3 for both which was taken so I'm figuring the discount into the PS2 game.

[sixwayshot]

Went to Gamestop today. Bought these GameCube titles:

Harvest Moon: A Wonderful Life
Harvest Moon: Magical Melody
Mario Golf: Toadstool Tour
1080 Avalanche
Bomberman Jetters
F-Zero GX (Had to re-buy this, as my old copy stopped working)

[poloplayr]

Hit a craigslist rummage during lunch today that advertised a PS2 and “MANY video games”. Didn’t look like much when I pulled up, but as I walked over, I saw a PS2 slim system sitting on top of a small table. They wanted 50 bucks for it, so I really didn’t give it a second look. What caught my eye instead was the clear plastic tub under the table with stacks of PS2 games in it, and especially the game on top…

Shin Megami Tensei: Devil Summoner - $4.00

That’s nice for a change, I thought as I bent down to go through the bin, the good game on top of all the sports titles. It was complete and in great shape, so I put it aside to start a keep pile next to the bin. Only thing was, the next title in the stack wasn’t a sports game either…it was Disgaea 2, then Grandia III, and Tales of the Abyss, plus Odin Sphere, and MANY, MANY more!

Almost everything in the bin was a quality RPG, complete and well-cared for, ranging from $1 to $5! A few were a bit more, but they came with guides, and there were also some quality Gamecube titles. I left behind a few common RPGs I already had in my collection, but pretty much just took up the entire bin and didn’t even try to haggle. Final damage was $121.00 for 32 games and 3 guides (but I did get him to throw in the bin for free ). I’m pretty sure that this is the most I have ever spent at a rummage sale on video games, but think I came out okay…

Baten Kaitos Origins (Gamecube)
Beyond Good and Evil
Disgaea 2: Cursed Memories
Escape From Monkey Island
Final Fantasy X
Fire Emblem: Path of Radiance (Gamecube)
Grandia III
Kya Dark Lineage
Magna Carta (Deluxe Boxed Edition)
Makai Kingdom
Metal Arms: Glitch in the System
Odin Sphere
Okami
Onimusha: Dawn of Dreams
Primal
Radiata Stories
Resident Evil (Gamecube)
Resident Evil Zero (Gamecube)
Rogue Galaxy
Shadow Hearts: From the New World
Shadow of the Colossus
Shin Megami Tensei: Devil Summoner
Shining Force EXA (w/ guide)
Shining Tears (w/guide)
Tales of Legendia
Tales of the Abyss
Valyrie Profile 2
Wild Arms 3
Wild Arms 4
Xenosaga II
Xenosaga III
Ys The Ark of Napishtim (w/guide)

WOW! Amazing find and the seller had great taste in games!