dirt cheap?

[cosmicpsycho]

every now and then i come across something at a garage sale or flea market, or whatever for next to nothing. rare or whatever, what are some of the things you guys/gals have picked up dirt cheap? just thaught it would be interesting to see....

[cosmicpsycho]

i guess i didn't leave any examples of stuff i've got recently, i got a tg-16 for 20$ and a like new complete skullmonkeys for 10$

[PSXferrari]

Back when I was in high school I didn't have a job, but I made good money buying old video game stuff for cheap (mainly from other students) and reselling it on eBay. Now that I collect the stuff, I regret some of those sales. One huge find in particular was a Colecovision with like 10 games and a bunch of other stuff-- found it at a yard sale for $5!!!!!!!!!!!!! Yes, $5 for everything. I don't remember any of the games now except for Adventure and Frogger (possibly the best home version of the game). I wasn't really familiar with older stuff at the time; this was during the Playstation era and that and the SNES/Genesis were about the extent of my knowledge. I forget how much I resold it for, but it was higher than similar Coleco auctions I saw-- so there must have been something pretty rare in there. Don't know what it was.... but either way, probably the best pickup and dumbest sale combined into one for me.

[DigitalSpace]

The rarest thing I've picked up dirt cheap was a loose copy of Joshua & the Battle of Jericho for the Genesis (R7) for 63 cents back in 2004 at a GameStop. This was when older games were being cleared out at 30% off, and it was originally marked 89 cents.

[cyberfluxor]

My best find was Crazy Climber on the Atari 2600 for $1!
I traded it on here for a few great Saturn games.

[Captain Wrong]

Laseractive w/ Genny module, remote, instructions, $25.
Panzer Dragoon Saga, Free. (Ok it was missing discs 1 and 4...still. :P)

That's the first that comes to mind, though I know there are others.

[Vigilante]

I got my wife for free, does that count?

Now I pay! and keep paying!!

Oh am I paying!!

[Wester]

Last summer, at a garage sale I got a Gamecube with 2 controllers, memory card, Super Mario Sunshine, and Resident Evil for $10, then later the same summer I picked up another GC and two controllers and mem card for $10...but the second one has issues.

[JustRob]

Goddamn. If only the people in South Florida were to be that generous/ignorant of what they have.

[PentiumMMX]

An NES (W\ 2 controllers and a copy of Tetris) for $1. It works good, but I do have to fight it at times to get it to work.

[Contrabassoon86]

I bought a rNES (toploader) with about 40 games from a friend for $20. I told her it was worth much more, but insisted that I buy it for only $20. She was a good friend... I wonder what she is doing now.

I also got a complete Laseractive system with all the PACs (including the NEC PAC) and 17 games for only $200. I consider that to be relatively dirt-cheap.

Scott

[DefaultGen]

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[erehwon]

I tend to freqent CAG alot and have learned a lot of my garage sale haggling skills on the yard sale thread over there. I don't live in a good area for yard sales, so my finds don't compare to some other guys there. Some of them have talked people down on stuff to prices I just can't believe. I have managed to make some good finds though. A few of my favorites are:

$10 Complete JVC X'Eye (box and everything)
$7 Gameboy Advance SP
$2 Vectrex (unfortunately no games)
$0.25 Suikoden 2 strategy guide
$0.25 Final Fantasy VII (pc version), which I traded with another guy for a loose Chrono Trigger

I've greatly increased my Genesis collection through garage saling and regained alot of my NES games which my parents sold. I still need to find a copy of Contra and Kid Icarus, but I haven't managed to see one of that at a yard sale yet. I do kind of dream of finding a Neo Geo AES at a garage sale, but I don't have to much hope for that.

[ecresto]

my first post was finding two turbo expresses for 20.00 each . and then i sold one on ebay for 80.00 . that would have to be my best/cheap deal finding in the wild . and also i found an Xbox-Marvel vs Capcom 2 at a salvation army complete , for 5 dollars .

[Technosis]

There's quite a few "dirt cheap" finds I can think of. Some of the bigger ones for me were at garage sales, such as a 7800 console + 87 assorted 2600 & 7800 games for $8 (this was in the late 90's) and a boxed TG-16 with 20+ games for $15 (a few years ago). It's not that unusual to see people get rid of stuff just to make room...and basically almost give it away

[exit]

Man every time I see garage sale signs, I either have no money, or have to goto work. I guess I need to start planning ahead.

[DefaultGen]

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[Steve W]

I didn't put a lot of effort into thrift store hunting all that much, and when I was about to give up on the whole thing, I came across a Vectrex. No controller, but it fired up fine. They had no idea what it was, and asked me about it. I told them it was a black and white game console from the '70s and '80s era, which kept it kind of vague and didn't let them know how excited I was. They only charged me $5! After that, I started hitting the thrifts fairly regularly.

Another good find was coming across a strange NES cartridge at a flea market last year. It was off-white and was shaped differently from standard carts. Got home, looked it up online, and discovered that this cartridge, the "Myriad 6-in-1", was one of the most rare NES games out there. I've never been a Nintendo fan, but I was planning on keeping it for my collection, and then my car started having problems. Videogame Collector's Magazine placed it's value at $150, DP's Rarity Guide placed it at $350, and I ended up getting $660 on eBay for it. Not bad for a $3 cart.

[dlopez9069]

well i think my best find was an nes with 2 controllers the advantage grey gun connections and about 15 games for free at a salvation army

[coinheaven]

i actually found crazy climber in my parents basement in a box of about 50 games they picked up at a flea market. i put the whole lot on ebay and after getting about 10 emails about the crazy climber, i took it out of the lot and sold it for 85 bucks! that was when i realized how much money can be made reselling games.

Laseractive w/ Genny module, remote, instructions, $25.
Panzer Dragoon Saga, Free. (Ok it was missing discs 1 and 4...still. :P)

That's the first that comes to mind, though I know there are others.