Crazy Deals

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Crazy Deals Anonymous Thu Oct 24 14:44:46 2013 No.1154617 [DELETED]

Okay we're all tired of the "look at this overpriced stuff" threads full of reseller hate. Can we do a thread where we post unbelievable deals? Probably ones you missed out on but maybe ones you got. If you absolutely gotta feel superior you can laugh at how ignorant the sellers were missing out on possibly making hundreds of dollars if they'd just researched or even done an auction instead of buy it now.

Also if you find a crazy deal that's NOT already sold but it's not really something you want that would be the gold standard post.

Going to kick it off with some Amiga.

>>	Anonymous Thu Oct 24 14:48:16 2013 No.1154625 File: 137 KB, 771x1123, Amiga CD32 25 dollars.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] Only missing it's power cord. This guy found over a dozen boxed CD32s and sold them off back in August and I missed them.

Anonymous Thu Oct 24 15:02:02 2013 No.1154650

I tend to buy broken Saturns for 1-10€, most of the time I just need to blow the dust out and maybe wipe the boards with alcohol for them to work fine.

Then I get spare cables, modchip them, and sell them for 120€.

With the prices of cables and the modchip, I don't actually make much on these though. Worst thing is, I'm always low on controllers.

Anonymous Thu Oct 24 15:52:50 2013 No.1154780

>>1154650
Yeah but you're doing God's work, giving new life. These sales are just crazy. If that guy with the $8 Amiga 1200 "keyboard" had just bought a power supply and tested the thing then set up an auction it would have fetched him $400 or more.

If I had just SEEN the auction I could have plugged all my Amiga 500 accessories into it plus a simple CF card and been playing every Commodore game ever released in native hardware.

>>	Anonymous Fri Oct 25 11:53:38 2013 No.1156269 I bought an amiga 1200 a week ago for 10 without the power supply, It looks like new after I cleaned it.

Anonymous Fri Oct 25 11:57:38 2013 No.1156274

>>1156269
Damn that's sweet. I just discovered this thing called a JXD sd floppy emulator that's damn near universal though that looks like it'll solve most of my problems with my 500 as well as my C64 and work on an MSX and Spectrum and Atari ST when I get them but for some reason isn't compatible with my Atari 400 which is irritating but not a game breaker.

>>	Anonymous Fri Oct 25 18:00:03 2013 No.1156942 File: 1.45 MB, 2184x1456, IMG_1237.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] About a month ago I found all this at an estate sale for $35 >/thread

>>	Anonymous Fri Oct 25 18:08:33 2013 No.1156954 >>1156942 Dang. The seller must have finally gotten a girlfriend or something.

Anonymous Fri Oct 25 18:14:34 2013 No.1156965
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Wasn't a crazy deal, but just picked up A DS-16 and 2 kiosk NFR versions of Sonic 2 and Columns for $300. I know they weren't pack NFR because the label is a sticker that's hardly centered on the games and cases

>>	Anonymous Fri Oct 25 18:16:33 2013 No.1156972 File: 1.83 MB, 2592x1728, IMG_0647.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>1156965 The games

>>	Anonymous Fri Oct 25 18:18:21 2013 No.1156974 File: 2.13 MB, 3264x2448, IMG_0006.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>1156972 For comparison sake, a NFR and standard release Sonic 2

Anonymous Fri Oct 25 18:20:03 2013 No.1156978
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>>1156942
What's that on the gameboy's screen?

On topic, a few weeks ago I messaged someone from a local ad site; looking to buy his gba, and offered €10 for it. Went to pick it up, he had a bag of games too, looking to get rid of it real quick for some reason. I already had some of em, but asked what he wanted for the lot. "Well, euhm, you offered €10 for the gba, so, euhm, €15 for everything..?".
Had a bunch of pokemon games, a few gba games, one of which a pretty uncommon one ($35 on pricecharting), and a handful which I didn't yet own. It needed a good cleaning (see pic), but still, best deal I've had since I started collecting again.

>>	Anonymous Fri Oct 25 18:29:33 2013 No.1156985 >>1156954 No it was at an estate sale The lady who sold it to me was probably in her 60s

>>	Anonymous Fri Oct 25 18:31:34 2013 No.1156987 >>1156978 it was broken :( Everything else was in near-perfect condition though

Anonymous Fri Oct 25 18:35:33 2013 No.1156995

>>1156985
Estate sales are great for this kind of thing. Went to one recently, these idiots wanted 200 dollars for a genesis and some games, all parts included. The sale was going all weekend, I told them the price was too high and I'd come back on Sunday to buy it for 20. Sure enough, on Sunday no one had spent 200 dollars for a Genesis, and I got it for twenty.

>>	Anonymous Fri Oct 25 18:35:33 2013 No.1156994 >>1156972 >phantasy star IV >my nigga

>>	Anonymous Fri Oct 25 18:36:04 2013 No.1156997 >>1156995 I also got an Atari 2600 with like 30 god damn games, all parts included for like 40 total. I think it was worth it.

>>	Anonymous Fri Oct 25 18:39:03 2013 No.1157003 >>1156994 I picked up PS II for $10 complete with all inserts from Ebay a while back

>>	Anonymous Fri Oct 25 18:40:04 2013 No.1157006 File: 560 KB, 1600x900, qwe.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] 2 days left. http://www.ebay.com/itm/291002970648?ssPageName=STRK:MEWAX:IT&_trksid=p3984.m1423.l2649

>>	Anonymous Fri Oct 25 18:44:03 2013 No.1157013 >>1157006 >21 bids You know that's gonna skyrocket in the last 3 seconds.

>>	Anonymous Fri Oct 25 18:46:33 2013 No.1157019 >>1157006 >>1157013 Seriously. Two days is like an eternity in eBay time.

Anonymous Fri Oct 25 19:00:33 2013 No.1157035

Got a CIB NES Toploader with all 3 Super Star Wars CIB, an NES Advantage and a bunch of extra cords for $100 at an estate sale a few months back. Not an insane deal, but definitely on the better end.

Snagged a complete Majora's Mask from Goodwill for $2.99 once, and my brother scored a fuckton of PS1 RPGs and stuff for $1.99 each at Goodwill that he flipped in a lot for $400. I was stupid and didn't research the titles (since I don't like RPGs), but definitely would've kept Musashi and Alundra. Oh well...

Anonymous Fri Oct 25 19:16:34 2013 No.1157050
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This was one of my most recent finds. Got it off Craigslist, offered 40 for the Saturn and games, but I noticed the CD games poking out of the corer of one of the pictures, and she agreed to throw them in for another $10. After I took 4 of the games to a local game store my cost ended up being less than $40. Only thing is they smell like cigarette smoke, which I detest, and this woman I bought them from had no teeth. None. Not so much as a scraggly pointy little stump. Freaks me out.

>>	Anonymous Sat Oct 26 14:53:57 2013 No.1158490 >>1157006 A humble eBay seller! In 2013!!

>>	Anonymous Sat Oct 26 17:38:23 2013 No.1158856 I bought a Mega CD for £20 today. Didn't come with cables or a metal shield, but I think buying those will be around £30 or so. So I £50 for a Mega CD is pretty good. (It was the fat model 1 version)

>>	Anonymous Sat Oct 26 17:52:22 2013 No.1158875 >>1158856 On a related note, my brother got me a Model 2 Genesis with the CD add-on for $4.99. Still don't have the Model 1 Genesis power cord the Sega CD requires though :(

>>	Anonymous Sat Oct 26 17:54:53 2013 No.1158882 >>1158490 It's an actual auction. Some faglord will snipe it for $ 60.

>>	Anonymous Sat Oct 26 17:55:52 2013 No.1158883 Not /vr/ but I got a working PSP 3000 for 30 € on ebay. It also had the case and working USB cable.

>>	Anonymous Sat Oct 26 18:25:43 2013 No.1158927 >>1156942 That is fucking ridiculous.

>>	Some Mabelfag !nljAz9sNZQ Sat Oct 26 18:28:42 2013 No.1158931 File: 562 KB, 250x184, 1380299937236.gif [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>1156942

>>	Anonymous Sat Oct 26 18:56:48 2013 No.1158974 I snagged a CIB Jaguar, 13 CIB games, and 10 loose carts for $199 on eBay last year. Nothing out of this world, but it was a pretty damn great deal.

>>	Anonymous Sat Oct 26 19:10:48 2013 No.1159010 How do you guys find good deals? Just sort by ending soonest?

>>	Anonymous Sun Oct 27 00:40:22 2013 No.1159625 File: 68 KB, 626x670, $(KGrHqF,!lcFIUbwBF0uBSI4Sz4V(!~~60_3.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] Just ordered this on eBay. Got it for $25

>>	Anonymous Sun Oct 27 00:48:52 2013 No.1159665 I just got a Vic-20 with a Joystick, boxed cassette deck and a bunch of games for $30

>>	Anonymous Sun Oct 27 01:12:23 2013 No.1159745 >>1159010 Patience is a virtue. If you want it right away, you'll always over pay. i.e. the story of how I got NES Battletoads and Double Dragon. I kind of felt like an idiot for spending 45 bucks on it.

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>>	Anonymous Sun Oct 27 01:24:44 2013 No.1159767 >>1159746 this can't be real.

>>	Anonymous Sun Oct 27 01:30:15 2013 No.1159776 >>1159767 The auction sold for a dollar as far as eBay is concerned, but what likely happened is the buyer paid him an absurd amount of money privately so the seller could circumvent eBay's fees. It's very common with expensive shit.

>>	Anonymous Sun Oct 27 01:32:14 2013 No.1159782 >>1159746 I know that seller. I'm guessing they forgot to add zeroes and some dude snatched it?

>>	Anonymous Mon Oct 28 00:50:11 2013 No.1161717 >>1159776 Why even complete the auction at all then?

>>	Anonymous Mon Oct 28 00:52:41 2013 No.1161723 >>1161717 so after he doesnt send you the games you can get your dollar back duh.

>>	Anonymous Mon Oct 28 01:11:11 2013 No.1161776 >>1161723 lol exactly

>>	Anonymous Mon Oct 28 01:25:11 2013 No.1161808 >>1159746 If this was a pricing error, I bet the seller "lost" them.

>>	Anonymous Mon Oct 28 01:43:41 2013 No.1161848 File: 456 KB, 396x446, 1375975598267.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>1156942 >mfw I'll never find a deal even close to this

>>	Anonymous Mon Oct 28 01:44:11 2013 No.1161849 >>1156997 If it was a heavy sixer then you got a steal, else it's a decent deal. Atari games are cheap as dirt. I would have taken it though

>>	Anonymous Mon Oct 28 01:48:42 2013 No.1161862 >>1159625 That's not really a good deal at all anon...

>>	Anonymous Mon Oct 28 01:50:42 2013 No.1161868 File: 44 KB, 1456x288, sg.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] Old now but the game was still expensive at the time. If I recall correctly this account put up the whole N64 library loose. He might of listed them all as 1 day auctions.

>>	Anonymous Mon Oct 28 02:02:29 2013 No.1161902 File: 2.16 MB, 2560x1920, 20131027_212622.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] The gameboy SP is the AGS-101 model, got all this for 35$, I think its not bad

>>	Anonymous Mon Oct 28 02:11:11 2013 No.1161921 >>1161862 Walk into any retro game store anything with marios fucking name on it is 25$ at least, seems like a decent deal to me.

>>	Anonymous Mon Oct 28 19:49:56 2013 No.1163467 >>1157006 >>1157013 Told you so~

Anonymous Tue Oct 29 00:50:09 2013 No.1164064

Sorry guys, excuse me for a moment.

>>1157006
>Atomic Purple

I JUST FUCKING REALIZED THAT THERE IS A CAR IN RIDGE RACER 64 WITH THE SAME NAME AND IT'S NAMED AFTER THAT FUCKING CONTROLLER AND IT'S EVEN GOT THE SAME FUCKING TEXT ON THE HOOD

AND I BET EXTREME GREEN WAS THE SAME THING

GOD DAMN IT WHY DO I MISS THESE THINGS

FUCK ME

>>	Anonymous Tue Oct 29 00:58:38 2013 No.1164091 ExcellentCom just sent out a promo e-mail: $55 for brand-new Metal Slug 4 MVS kits (if you buy 10 of them, lol). $10 for brand-new Jockey Grand Prix carts w/ link cable. FUCKING INSANE. If only I still had my MVS...

Anonymous Tue Oct 29 02:20:38 2013 No.1164308
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Jumped on an ad from the local Swip-Swap group on facebook. The Action Set boxes weren't even pictured in the lot originally, but I was more than happy to take them off his hands. Paid $110 for everything in this and the next pic. Two of the NES need new 72-pins but work otherwise, and the Genesis 1 has some issues.

>>	Anonymous Tue Oct 29 02:26:08 2013 No.1164324 File: 1.83 MB, 3204x2136, IMG_5782.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>1164308 Pic 2

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