Weekend Finds - 11/28 - 11/30

[WiseSalesman]

Anyone start this one yet? No? Then allow me the honors.

Being that i had already stayed up until 3:30 in the morning working on this damn protfolio, I decided that I might as well go hit up some sales. No one will be there 2 horus ahead of time, I thought. Wrong.

But anyway, after spending two hours in freezing rain and wind w/o an umbrella, I walked out of BestBuy with -

100 700MB CDRs - free
Chicago on DVD (for mom for christmas) - $11
20th Century Masters Johnny Cash x 2 - $10 ea.
120GB 7200 RPM Maxtor HD - $49.99
Lite-On DVD-R/RW +R/RW combo drive - $79.99

Also, although I was the 35th person in line, I was the first person out of the store, according to the news guy that was there! Let's here for crazed shopping runs! WOO!

Anybody else hit up the black friday sales, or just get some cool crap this holiday weekend?

[RoboticParanoia]

A mess load of water that's dripping from the ceiling.

[scooterb23]

I stuck to the smaller stores today...most of the big sales items I was interested in are still on sale tomorrow...so I'll just get them then

Circuit City - 128 MB Thumbdrive - $35 ($10 MIR to send in later)
CompUSA - 52x24x52 CD-RW drive - $49.99 ($30 MIR to send in)
Comand & Conquer Collection PC- $15
Star Wars Galactic Battleground Saga PC - $10

That's all I bought today...going to hit Best Buy and Target tomorrow...

[KirbyStar27]

6 SNES sports games at gamestop $4
4 used rock cds at WhareHouse Music for $8

[Querjek]

I went with my parents to various places for BF deals... I'm too lazy to post the things they bought here (a lot to list), but here's what I got:
Midway Arcade Treasures: $14 at Target
At Best Buy, spent $0.24 total:
6 SCII guides
1 Silent Hill 3 guide
5 F-zero GX guides
3 Donkey Kong Country (GBA) guides
4 Wario World guides
5 Prince of Persia demos
I felt good handing the cashier a quarter and still getting change

[Six Switch]

Klonoa for PS1 for $7 at Blockbuster.Not too bad considering it was complete with no stickers on it.

[Griking]

I picked up a few things at my local Gamstop today taking advantage of their "buy 2 get 1 free" promotion.

I purchased;
Complete Chocobo's Dungeon 2 - PS1
Complete Thousand Arms - PS1 This even came with a card of stickers and a Hologram.

Got free
Complete X-Com: UFO Defense - PS1

[Castelak]

NES:
Joshua
Double Dragon
Bases Loaded
Home Alone 2
Contra Force (YAY!)
TMNT Arcade
Megaman 6 (YAY!)

$10 total.

SNES:
SNES Console 1 + hookups (yellowed)
Super Mario World

FREE

Good week good week, finally got a SNES!

[Looter]

I walked out of Best Buy with (Despite the 1 &1/2 hour line around the whole store):

GC:
Crazi Taxi $9.99 (Great game)
Burnout $9.99

PS2
Ace Combat 4
Midnight Club
both for $14.99

I also got the Simpsons DVD Season One Sets for $11.99 @ 3 which makes for great ebay fodder.

Circuit City:

GBA SP w/ Mario Kart @ $99 for girlfriend

I'm suprised more people did not pick up on this deal... people were scavanging for the GBA SP + DKC dealat Target

Target: I missed the Indiana Jones Box Set for $39.99 and also Mario & Luigi: Superstar for $24.xx. I ended up finding Castlevania: Aria of Sorrow for $14.98 so that made my day... It was misplaced with the clearance PC titles.

I still have the fleas too tomarrow.

[WiseSalesman]

also got the Simpsons DVD Season One Sets for $11.99 @ 3 which makes for great ebay fodder.

Why the hell didn't I think of that? I hate the simpsons, but I could have made some damn money.

[Querjek]

As it turns out, the Best Buys in central Ohio were the only ones that did not have that deal. The 2 that my family went to had ~50 copies apiece, all at $32.

[PackratMarty]

Local thrifts:
Today I got:
NES with 2 reg controllers, 1 arcade controller and cords
SMB3 hiding inside
Adven of rocky and bullwinkle
digdug2
Tengen Pacman
Ducktales
Galaga in box

$19 (only really needed the rocky and bullwinkle but I got the rest to trade)

Yesterday got a 5200 console without cords and the 5200 trackball controller for $4 each and a gamecube controller for 1.91, a guy had just beat me to the controllers and cords that were bagged up seperate.

[Videogamerdaryll]

Around 110 Various Nintendo Carts in Sleeves..16 I didn't have...
(Big Box)

1 Boxed Genesis...Excellent Cond.(Never used)
With 26 boxed Games and 15 loose carts(Some Rare titles)Super Smash TV,Phelios boxed.
These are the ones I got to play today...
Street Smart
Abrams Battle Tank
Super Smash TV
Marsupailami
Dynamite Headdy
Quack Shot
Cosmic Space Head
Tom And Jerry
Zombies ate my Neighbors
Starflight
Alien Storm
Warrior Of Rome
Sword of Sodan

1 Boxed Nomad with plug....Sweeet!!

1 boxed Super Nintendo (Never used)Excellent Cond.
1 loose Complete SNES Faded/dual color
14 Loose SNES carts with Sleeves...Super Mario Kart..etc.

Yellow ...Odyssey 300 w plug,,(damn it's big)
Frogger Coleco Tabletop Mini Arcade Machine..(like I have already)

(and a vintage Harmonica... x_x )To sell on Ebay..Listed...I'm not into Harmonicas..

I got this all FREE!!!!Today

My Uncle bought all this stuff today CHEAP and gave it to me Free with the agreement that I sell what I don't want and give him the money..
I put some of it on Ebay already..

[Castelak]

Dang, thats just plain cool!

...Can I have some.

[Videogamerdaryll]

Dang, thats just plain cool!

...Can I have some.

This has been going on for years..I have him to thank for a lot of contribution to my Collection.
I also do this with others..But I don't always post about it.

This is what I do everyday..besides run the Day Care Center..
I buy & Sell video games etc for myself and others..

I'm on the Phone a lot talking to people who get games cheap,They bring them to me and I sell them..on and off EBay.
......................................
It works out well for the both of us..and whoever else I sell for.

For Instance..with my Uncle

Say he gets the games for less then or $1.00 Each..
I sell them for $2.00 each or more..keeping some games...then giving him his spent money back + profit..All I'm doing is listing and shipping..
All the costs of listing and shipping come out of the sales..
(All I'm doing is doubling his spent money..I keep the rest...
I could get a game from him and sell it for $600.00..and still give him the money we agreed on (doubling his spent money)
He doesn't care what I make in final profit..no body does..

(I Sell some of it..I give him the cash profit and get to keep a bunch of it)
If one game is of rarety and I own it already..this one game may pay the whole lot off..+ my Uncle isn't pushy for money,so I give it to him when I feel like it.

So out of this lot I kept All The Genesis games.
The boxed Genesis system..

The boxed Nomad.

A kept few of the SNES games I didn't have.. 6-7 are listed on Ebay others I sold off Ebay.
I only kept 16 of the NES carts...The others are on Ebay and being listed daily+ being sold to people off Ebay.

I listed both SNES systems but kept the box for one of my SNES systems.

The Frogger Tabletop..I put it on the table with my others.

My Uncle's always on the hunt too..Tomorrow he'll bring some more stuff.
He's got strorage bins filled with gaming stuff I still need to get rid of,and check out..

The only downfall for me is..it keeps me up late doing this selling/deals/listing/typing and takes away from my actual game time.

[YoshiM]

I avoided Black Friday like the plague. People in this town are bargain maniacs and would probably kill you if you try to get in their way. Laugh, but a guy drove 50 miles to save 5 cents as the store I worked at couldn't legally adjust the price of the advertised item.

I DID get to do some thrift shopping and I picked up Pitfall II for the Atari VCS for $0.99.

[Castelak]

Well videogamerdaryll, you're sure running a profitable hobby there, I need to get to the point where I'm making money off my collection and still adding things to it.

[soupforare]

Nothing super exciting for me,
A bare saturn for $5 ;D
a pokemon colour gameboy
Solar fox for 2600

More importantly, I traded in one of my unused racksynths for some shiny new condenser mics ^_^

[Balloon Fight]

Toe jam & Earl- $2
Misc Sega Cd manuals-$1

[liquidmetal]

damn nice find on that toe jam and earl