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    Default Good/best thrift store raids

    My best so far was a few weeks ago when i bought a few genesis games, lunar 2 sega cd and 4 cd's
    My rotating want list http://www.digitpress.com/forum/showthread.php?t=101550

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    anyone have stories about this
    My rotating want list http://www.digitpress.com/forum/showthread.php?t=101550

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    I suppose my favorite is also my most recent. A friend and I were crawling the pawn shops/thrift stores trying to run across some decently hard-to-find NES games. We hadn't found anything spectacular, but hey, it's all in the chase.

    We made a stop by one of our favorite book/movie/gaming/comic shops, and asked to see the NES games. It's always a trip to check out the NES games there because they're stored in the back room, tucked away behind rows of shelves. It's required that an employee come with you, since it's their storage room. They don't display NES games out front, either, because they're not big sellers, and they're pretty cheap (this place sells every NES game, regardless of rarity, for $5)

    This time one of their lights had burnt out. The entire corner with the NES games was really dark. So I pulled out my Zippo and started browsing the games by firelight. Everything was pretty normal, and I was casually chatting with the employee about NES and SNES games. He had mentioned that a few of the games in the corner of one shelf were off-limits, but after talking for a while, he asked another employee that had come into the room when "Mr. Nintendo" last showed up. It had apparently been a while since this other NES collector had dropped in, so the games he had set aside were now available to us. Looking through the stack (using my Zippo as light, mind you) I caught a glimpse of Pro Sport Hockey, one of the NES games I've been digging for for a while now.

    We ended up buying that and The Immortal (just for fun. ), and left pretty darn happy. Honestly, I think it's the whole experience of digging through shelves of games in near-darkness and finding a small chunk of gold that really makes me pretty happy.

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    I found a sealed Mario all stars for 10 dollars @ salvation army.. I later sold it on ebay for 170 dollars!

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    Quote Originally Posted by muffinman943
    I found a sealed Mario all stars for 10 dollars @ salvation army.. I later sold it on ebay for 170 dollars!
    Nice profit

    I have been quite uncessful at goodwill here lately, Best find (sadly) was Operation Europe, for GEN complete... just not many video games around these parts for some reason


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    Quote Originally Posted by Mattiekrome
    Quote Originally Posted by muffinman943
    I found a sealed Mario all stars for 10 dollars @ salvation army.. I later sold it on ebay for 170 dollars!
    Nice profit

    I have been quite uncessful at goodwill here lately, Best find (sadly) was Operation Europe, for GEN complete... just not many video games around these parts for some reason
    At least you guys have Salvation Army stores and Goodwill stores near you. I have to settle for a pawn shop with almost no games in it. Otherwise, the internet is my best bet.


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    i envy you guys , my local thrifts are usually dry as hell....i found a mint boxed atari 2600 once with 10 mint games...for 15 bucks...that was a while ago...and i can say in 4 years thats the only good thrift find
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    Default Pawn shops

    I have a good Pawn shop by me that always ends up getting stuff.

    I went in there once and a guy must have unloaded a huge PS1 collection.
    I got all these for $6.00 each and complete/mint
    Suikoden
    Suikoden II
    Xenogears original
    Final Fantasy Anthology original
    Final Fantasy Chronicles original
    Intelligent Qube
    Star Ocean
    Dragon Valor
    and some other rpgs that I can't remember off the top of my head

    At this same Pawn Shop I got the following also
    Secret of Mana cartridge only $5
    Chronotrigger cartridge only $5
    Dragon Warrior IV cartridge only $2
    NES Top Loader $20
    Atari 7800 $15
    Ogre Battle 64 complete and mint $6
    Worms Armageddon complete and mint $6

    Also the owner had a Sega Saturn and 8 games that he couldn't get the Saturn to work. I am always in there so they gave it to me for free.
    No really good games but I put a new battery in the Saturn and it started working. Not bad for free

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    heh i was just going to make a thread about this.

    So yesterday (the 31st) me and my friend joel decided to raid our local salvation army. Long story short I got

    Dreamcast sports edition 20 bucks with controler

    {genesis}Richard scarrys busy town 1.95

    {n64} Perfect dark 1.95

    {n64} kobe bryant in nba courtside 1.95

    {n64} pokemon snap 1.95

    Gameboy color game genie thing 1.95

    A record for .95

    a popstar karoke mic with Nsync Britney spears Backstreet boys and Ricky martin songs built in (there MIDI equivalents) for 3.95

    Madcatz huge ass arcade controler (thats what i call it cause thats what it looks like ) for the n64 for 5 bucks

    Nes controler for 1.95

    Zapper for 1.95

    n64 official controler for 1.95

    n64 3rd party controler for 1.95

    2 parallel cables and a pc power cord for 2.95

    And the satisfaction of knowing i helped the Salvation army priceless

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    A guy I work with just called me and told me he picked up Bubble Bobble Part 2 for the NES for $5.

    He says it's mint and he doesn't want much to do with it and figured I'd be better off with it, since I collect. Now, I'd pay about $50 for it, but he did only get it for $5. Should I be nice and pay him what it's worth, or should I talk him into $10?
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    It's a tie between finding 13 boxed complete NES games for 2.99 each at Goodwill. Some of the highlights included Maniac Mansion, Kid Icarus, Ultima, Crystalis and The Battle of Olympus. These were all so minty that they still had the plastic bag on the games.
    Or...
    An SMS at the local Salvation Army Thrift store. It came in a clothing bag with 16 boxed complete games. They were awesome, all for 15.00.

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