2018 Yearly Finds

[Gameguy]

As things were drying up years ago, I found that garage sales were pointless unless you went fairly early. By about 10 I would almost never find anything. Also, a lot of people start them on Wed or Thurs, and you really need to get there on the first day.

Usually yes but not always. A few years ago I went to a sale in my neighbourhood around noon or 1:00pm, I ended up finding a Super Famicom with a floppy based game copier along with floppies, a Game Gear with several games(imports from what I remember), an original Gameboy with some games(possibly imports too), and a modded PS1 with a bunch of backups. All for $20. I have no idea how it was all still there by the time I got there, but I was happy and carried a large box with it all back home as it was that close. The Super Famicom just needed a new video cable, although I still haven't tested the portables yet so they might be broken. It was pretty early in the year for garage sales so that might why.

Also if a place doesn't unpack their boxes properly you can still find stuff. I went to one place maybe around 10:00am and found out they sold a bundle of Atari 2600 stuff right at the start, but I managed to find an original Gameboy with a handful of games for $2 that was buried in a box full of random junk.

I know when we'd have a sale and I'd put a general "video games" in the listing and there would be people fly into the driveway, jump out of their car, run up to us and ask if we had any games left.

I went to one sale in my neighbourhood maybe last year that was advertised as a video game garage sale, all of the flyers basically made it look like it was from a professional dealer. I still went a bit late but managed to find a handful of N64 games for $5 each, and an Xbox for like $10 but it came with the High Definition AV Pack, I think a couple of cheap Wii games too. It seems most people avoided it thinking that there wouldn't be any deals because the ads made it seem like a dealer, but it was just somebody getting rid of his games which were mostly Xbox, 360, and Wii stuff.