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Post recent Garage Sale/Thrift/Good Deals

Pic related, got all of these for 25$ CDN today.

>> No.3251032
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$65 a couple of weeks ago for pic related. I still feel like I over paid. Only thing retro I've gotten since then is Lords of Lore and Abomination big box PC games both complete for $2 each.

>> No.3251057

>>3251019
Christ are there seriously still people who don't know the value if their stuff? Phantasy Star is $40 alone

>> No.3251060

>>3251057
Got really lucky, guy was mid 40's. It was his personal collection. Just glad it went to a good home.

>> No.3251074

>>3251032
Thats a really cool atari case, can you throw a pic of the front of it?

>> No.3251090

>>3251019
>Phantasy Star
>Double Dragon
>California Games
>Choplifter
Can't vouch for the rest, but those alone are good. Not sure if worth the money, but if you're a collector then you did well.

>>3251032
Ebay says the games are $150 total, but given the lack of demand for Atari 2600 stuff the real value of the games is probably around $40. Throwing in the controllers and console, I'd say you did alright/got slightly ripped off.

I picked up two official 3-button Genesis controllers in good cosmetic shape that were "non-functional" for $1. One has somewhat shiny plastic and says "Made in Taiwan" on the back, the other has a flatter plastic and says "Made in China" on the back. Took them home, opened them up. The Taiwanese controller had gunk on the contacts, but otherwise appears to be in good shape. After cleaning, I think it might work. The Chinese controller had gunk on the contacts as well, but it also had corrosion under the gunk. Not in a small spot here and there either, the entire contact is corroded and probably non-functional. I plan on pulling the 74 chip and the cord off the PCB, and keeping the case and buttons since they are pretty much flawless. In the end I got nearly new looking and fully functional official 3-button controller for $1 along with replacement parts.

I love the fact that there is barely any demand for Sega hardware outside of the Dreamcast(and Saturn controllers). With some soldering and repair knowledge, you can get all kinds of cheap gear.

>> No.3251092
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>>3251019
Scored pic related today.

No cases or manuals sadly but the guy only wanted $25 for each game. Not sure if that's worth it for 3D Blast but I was A-OK paying $50 for Guardian Heroes alone.

>> No.3251093

>>3251060
>Just glad it went to a good home
Truly, the best sellers are those types of people.

>> No.3251096

Old comics for 99 cents, and a bunch of actual fucking Gameboys + ps1, 2 games for about 45-50$.

>> No.3251110

>>3251090
Where I live a Phantasy Star sells for $100 easily. I'm happy with the purchase. These are my first Sega Master games. Need to find a console. Its pretty rare to find anything Sega CD/Master here. I've still never seen a Sega CD game in the wild.

>>3251092
Very nice find.

>> No.3251112

Man I used to spend time trying to get good deals on old games at flea markets and stuff but FUCKING EBAY ruined it.

Now it seems like every dingus who gets an old game will go straight to ebay and go with the troll prices. Oh sure, $80 for your ripped label and sticky Earthbound cart. What a steal.

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Hell yeah, all NGC games are CIB and were adult owned.

>> No.3251208

>>3251161
Man I'd love to play rogue squadron again.

>> No.3251286
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>>3251057
not everyone is a reselling faggot who tries to jew an extra $20. Literally 3 lattes what the fuck.

The depths at which you poor fags will sell your soul.

>> No.3251292

>>3251090
>lack of demand for 2600
this truly explains encompasses the mindset of the average "collector". Atari 2600 is awesome! Oh James Rolfe didn't say so? Well I guess it's garbage.

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>>3251074
It needs a good clean, just like the rest of the stuff. But that is par for the course at flea markets. It was probably sitting in the dude's attic for years. There was also a bunch of paperwork and instruction manuals for a Commodore 64C.

>> No.3251863

>>3251161
how much did you pay for pikmin

>> No.3251868

>>3251292
Atari 2600 is pretty garbage desu. Most PCs/Consoles before the NES Era were.

Also didn't Jimmy have like a 5 part series on good Atari 2600 games? I could be wrong.

>> No.3251983

>>3251019
worth it just for phantasy star

>> No.3252004

Only a couple of good ones there. Most of the best Master System games were never released in North America.

>> No.3252008
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Traded in a buncha ps1 games at the retro store.
Got all these genesis games and arcade stick in return

>> No.3253430
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got this yesterday for $40cdn

>> No.3253494

>>3252008
Jungle Strike and X-men 2 are awesome. Mortal Kombat and Street Fighter are probably the best use of the fighter stick. I have one of those.

>> No.3253545
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>>3252008
I thought Jungle Strike was in those cool EA cartridges.

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>>3253430

>> No.3253704

>>3251847
Its a pretty neat find. Congrats!

>> No.3253858

>>3253545
Yeah that's gotta be a repro or something, I don't think EA ever used SEGA to manufacture games since they reverse engineered the system so they wouldn't have to pay SEGA to make the carts

>> No.3253881

>>3251292
3251090 here, I'm not complaining. Means I can still get decent games for cheap for the 2600. It's one of the 5 consoles that don't have a huge e-celeb following crowd that sold pretty well.

2600, Genesis, Game Boy, Game Gear, and PSX. All five have cheap consoles, controllers and cables, and games. Hell, you can get one plus controllers and cables plus an everdrive/harmony/modchip for less than $150. Compared to trying to get into TurboGraphix or Jaguar or Neo Geo, that's pretty damn cheap.

>> No.3253920

>>3251161
Silicon Valley fucking owns. Play the shit out of it.

>> No.3254023

>>3253545
The EA Cart was the original release, the smaller cart was with the reprint/re-release with the cardboard box/case

>> No.3255858

>>3251863
5$, same for other 2 GC games. 8$ for all N64 stuff. Some dudebros before me got Majora's Mask and a few other "gemzzz" for 2$ each basically...

>> No.3257797

I'm getting an atomic green N64 controller for $15 today and a woman is selling Oracle of Ages, DQ Monsters 1 and 2, Golden Sun 2, SH2 and 3, Eternal Darkness and Clock tower 3 among other games (Pokemon Red and Silver and SMW2) but wants $225, is that outrageous?

>> No.3257839

>>3251019
Nice catch! Others said this already, but that would've been an awesome deal for Phantasy Star alone.

>> No.3257841

>>3252008
>>Chakan and Battletech

You've done a great deal, sir.

>> No.3258283

>>3257797
Way outrageous. Fuck her.

>> No.3258380
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Got this for 70 syrup tokens, or about $55USD.

Not the best, but pretty decent.

>> No.3258509
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Where the fuck is everyone getting these deals?

>> No.3258548

>>3258283
Well see I did the math and adding up the prices on Pricecharting for each item is around 225... The lot in total is:
>Super Mario World 2
>Oracle of Ages
>Oracle of Seasons
>Space Invaders GB
>Pokemon Red
>Pokemon Silver
>Dragon Warrior Monsters
>Dragon Warrior Monsters 2: Cobi's Journey
>Yu-Gi-Oh! Dark Duel Stories
>Golden Sun: The Lost Age
>Eternal Darkness
>Silent Hill 2
>Silent Hill 3 CIB
>Clock Tower 3 CIB
>Devil May Cry 2 CIB

>> No.3258559

Hey guys a friend of mine just offered me 150 reais (41,58 dollars) for my broken and half yellowed snes, two controllers, and five cartridges: Super Mario World, Super Mario Kart, Donkey Kong Country, F-Zero, Killer Instinct + the KI soundtrack CD that comes with it. The snes and the CD are not looking so pretty but the cartridges look like they were bought yesterday. Is it a fair price?

>> No.3258570

>>3258559

Nope. Hold on to your cartridges man.

>> No.3258579

>>3258570
the snes doesn't work, i haven't played these games in 8 years and i if i wanted to i would sooner use an emulator than fix my snes or buy a new one. What would be a fair price for the items i have?

>> No.3258608

>>3258579

I just looked up the average prices, did some rounding, and added everything up.

Looking at about 109 USD for everything.

>> No.3258616

>>3258608
thanks, i offered him 200 reais (55,37 dollars) and he refused saying he would have to change the cartridge batteries and he didnt know if anything would actually work. He intends to resell it on the internet.

>> No.3258636

I paid a total of $17.50 and got the following

3 Palm Pilots (one of them retro the others not)
1 Pocket PC with box and all manuals (and a dead battery unfortunately, works though)
Palm Wireless Keyboard
a few Palm leather cases
a number of palmpilot documentation and software disks
bunch of random old phone chargers
Tetris Attack GB
Trouballs
Command and Conquer: Red Alert
Super Mario Advance
Splinter Cell Chaos Theory (xbox)

Not a lot of /vr/ but it was a nice haul anyway

>> No.3258642

>>3258616
>He intends to resell it on the internet.

...

>> No.3258648
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Found this at a pawn shop

>> No.3258664

>>3258648
that game isn't too bad, nice find

>> No.3258724
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Not necessarily a 'good deal', but I did find pic related for ~$20.
The front of the manual is a tad scuffed, but the game works perfectly.

>> No.3259352
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Picked this up the day as the place was having a 20% off sale so it was only $80 before tax.

>> No.3259409

>tfw went to garage sales all the time as a kid
>almost never found video games
>when I did it's always overpriced and not much (like a pokemon gold for 20$ or nintendo 64 no games for 50$)
>lego was always fucking retard expensive for some reason

>> No.3259426

>>3258509
Garage sales, thrift store luck, friends, who fucking knows. Just keep getting out there and soon you'll get something.

Also try online classifieds, sometimes you get lucky. Most of the time scalpers scoop up new listings asap.

>> No.3259740
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Only partially retro, but I got all of this for a total of $20 at different garage sales.

The guy wanted $10 a piece for Mario Paint and Beavis and Butthead, but I talked him down to $4 instead. Don't even have a SNES, but figured might as well for when I do get one.

>> No.3259887

What's a good price to pay for a SNES? Or should I give up and get a SuFami? Ebay prices for SNES are always through the roof.

>> No.3259915

>>3251092
damn, would've probably talked him down to 20 for just guardian heroes myself.

>> No.3259927

>>3258548
i outright refuse to pay reseller prices if i'm meeting someone in person. if i have to buy it at that price i'd rather just get what i actually want for the money on ebay where i have at least some kind of protection.

>>3258559
smw is worth that on it's own, the others are all fairly high dollar games as well.

>>3258648
oh shit, pocky and rocky kicks ass and is usually crazy expensive. how much?

>>3259887
imo the super famicom is the better buy, looks better too. you'd probably have to get a passthrough/game genie cart or take the top off to play USA region games. i think i got mine for like... 10 dollars? it was years ago though.

lately i haven't been buying much but i did grab a ps2 for 5 and an n64 for 5 a couple weeks ago. heading to some guy's house to check out a bunch of stuff too, might have some game and watch stuff and i've always found that early nintendo shit fascinating. if i can get it for a good price i'll probably hold onto it, the only game and watch i have is popeye and the screen is warped.

>> No.3259992

>32gb wii u console
>legend of zelda gamepad
>nintendo land and sm4sh
>pro controller
>GC controller adapter
>8 loose amiibo
paid $250

I know it's not retro, but it's my most recent buy and I think it was a good deal.

>> No.3260718

>>3259740
Man, Morrowind on the Xbox is virtually unplayable.

I mean, look at how shitty Bethesda games are on console today, and that is them actually trying since tons of people buy those games on console.

Morrowind on Xbox was basically an after thought.

>> No.3260730

>>3259352
Good find. I love mine. The front loaders haven't seen the light of day since I got it 6 years ago. I'm still hoping to find a few backup dogbone controllers. They're so comfy.

>> No.3261112

>>3260718
Yeah, I bought it mostly because I was nostalgic for when I first played it on the Xbox, plus it was $3 so why not?

>> No.3261135

>>3259992

make sure to set a custom DNS

>> No.3261137

>>3252008
Wait, was that from 8-Bit Hall of Fame in Bonita Springs? I recognize those stickers. I went there while I was on vacation last year, the prices weren't amazing but everything was very nicely laid out, they had some arcade machines, a TV wall with systems hooked up and some couches, comfy as hell and the owner seemed like a cool dude as well.

>> No.3261604

>>3261135
>custom DNS

why?

>> No.3261606

>>3261604

So the nintencops can't auto update your firmware when they patch the kernel exploit.

Free games on 5.5.1, duder.

>>>/vg/hbg

>> No.3261746

>>3259915
He was asking for $80 for the two of them and wouldn't separate them.

Talked him down to $50 (the $25 per game).