A couple of portable finds and...
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A couple of portable finds and...
Celebrating my blog's milestone of 150,000 Hits!
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Had a decent find at CSS today:
One Game Boy Advance Glacier
Harry Potter and The Sorcerer's Stone (GBA)
The Incredibles (GBA)
Peter Pan: Return To Neverland (GBA)
Nothing Spectacular, but the whole thing came in a GBA case for 10 bucks so I should have no problem recouping my costs and then some.
Slim week yet again. A few days ago I found:
$6 each - 2 SNES units, no cables (one is the rarer power button lock model)
$5 - original Game Boy, no battery cover
$5 - Game Boy Color, with AC adapter but no battery cover
$2 each games -
Madden 08 PSP cib
Spiderman 2 PSP cib
Golden Axe 2 cart
Star Wars Knights of the Old Republic Xbox cib, platinum hits
Armored Core Nexus (missing disc 1...)
Also english manga Yu-Gi-Oh vol 1 for $2.
Lum fan.
I got a warning when I clicked on this page the about I might get Malware
It's an infectious virus that causes you to hoard hundreds if not thousands of video games you never intend to play. RUN! RUN WHILE YOU STILL CAN!
Found quite a few items last night (thanks to Sunnyvale) and today.
Last night I got the Wrestlemania 2000 and Nagano Winter Olympics '98 for $2 each. Also got the Left for Dead 2 (Xbox 360), Super Mario Strikers (Gamecube), Civilization (SNES), and Indiana Jones (PC) Manuals for 50 cents each. I'm only keeping the Civilization manual in case anyone wants the other stuff.
Today I picked up Taiko Drum Master (PS2) CIB and the Guitar Hero Foot Pedal for $3 each. Trading those to Sunnyvale. Also picked up 85 random Magic the Gathering cards (nothing rare) for $2, a Gamecube microphone for $1, and a TI-83 Plus calculator for $4. After spending about an hour taking apart the calculator and cleaning out all of the spilled soda inside I tested it and found out the screen is missing 5 rows of horizontal pixels. Hopefully Sunnyvale can help me fix it. I find these A LOT and this is the first one I have had with this issue.
What a crappy find!Originally Posted by MarioMania
Thrift stores aren't putting out good stuff as of late. Either that or all the eBay resellers are getting there before me (I do tend to sleep late on my days off). All I found today was a Pac-Man board game for $3.35 in a Goodwill. I'm debating whether or not to even bother hitting any thrifts in the upcoming days. It's just not worth the effort. I love the excitement and rush of finding something really great and unexpected, but most of my finds are either from game or movie stores, or from flea markets. And I'm rarely off on weekends to go to flea markets.
My personal TI-83 Plus Silver Edition (which I've had since the 8th grade, so I've had it 7+ years) has one horizontal line out in the center. Not a big deal for me since I'm never going to sell it.
I go in the morning when it opens..but I haven't found anything exciting...I hope the new year brings me luck
I don't have that problem since I live in a small area but remember with Goodwill, a lot of them are putting good stuff on their auction site now (which, for the most part, gets above eBay prices on bids for whatever reason).
Nice. I still have my original TI-86 that I got in high-school well over a decade ago. Since it's not worth much I probably won't ever sell it either. Seems the only ones I get good money for are TI-83's and TI-84's because kids are still using those in most high schools.
^ The school I went to did assign those calculators out for 8th and 9th grade but my 83+ was a savior on many exams and tests. I used that thing for nefarious purposes more times than I'm willing to admit.
Well, great finds today.
All of the NES stuff was $15, including the white box. Only real notable game is Castlevania which is going on eBay tonight.
The GC games, total was a few cents below $40. 50% sale.
$17.99 on Style Savvy (Go buy this game if your local GS has it), $22.49 on Call of Juarez, and Made Man was free thanks to a promotional buy two, get one free coupon PowerRewards members received this month.
Wireless router was $0.50, Panasonic portable cassette was $0.50, Canon calculator was $2.99, Denon single CD player was $4.99, Dreamcast controller was $0.99, and the mini tape recorder was $0.99.
Now for the white box ...
It's all in there, including the instructions. Anyone interested in this thing? When I saw the NES stuff, the guy mentioned he had another "controller in the box" and asked me if I wanted it. He dug it out from a pile of junk and handed it to me as I paid him $15 for the NES box (they were asking $1 a game but since I offered to buy everything, they told me $15). Pleasant surprise considering he just said "controller in the box". I was expecting one of those cheap third-party ones.
Last edited by Jaruff; 12-15-2011 at 05:50 PM.
Donkey Kong Classics will net you a few bucks too.
Yea, it's in decent condition but I also have a CIB copy of that which I need to sell.
Most of those games are flea market fodder at $2-3 a pop; nothing exciting but it pays the bills.
Major thanks to Doonzmore letting us know that gamecube games were half off at gamestops yesterday.
Here's my haul, I only had 2 hours to do this but I would say it went well. Hit 5 gamestops. Had I known more in advance I would have made a whole day out of it.
How much did the non-Ocarina Zelda promo disc cost?Major thanks to Doonzmore letting us know that gamecube games were half off at gamestops yesterday.
Here's my haul, I only had 2 hours to do this but I would say it went well. Hit 5 gamestops. Had I known more in advance I would have made a whole day out of it.
I think it was the same as Twilight Princess. I paid $13.49 for my copy of TP so I'm assuming that's what he paid.
I hit four gamestops last night after work. I didn't find much but more than enough to keep me happy especially for half off!!
FF: Those are some pretty nice finds! Good for you!
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