Thrift

[Anonymous No.3406598]

So over about a year, just from thrift stores, I've picked up:
>Sega genesis, 1 controller w/ Sonic 2: $20 total
>N64 with 1 controller & THPS1: $20
>SNES with 1 controller and F-Zero (later picked up Super Mario World, Link To the Past, Goof Troop) about $40 total
>FF1 / Castlevania 1 & 2, Mario Golf for $2 total

Why aren't you thrifting, /vr/? also which of these sells for the most?

[Anonymous No.3406634]

sounds like you're doing very well, I'm envious.

I'm unfortunate, my only thrift shop is a goodwill, and they now go through their donations and sort out known 'easy money' items like video games to be sold online at inflated prices.

[Anonymous No.3406646]

>>3406634
Yeah Goodwill has absolutely caught on to their retro and hipster shoppers and driven prices up like crazy unfortunately. Pretty much all the consoles I got months ago before it got bad. Last one I got was the Genesis where I had to rig it a little (removed the 5$ tag from the controller and plugged it into console so it was only $10 total, had to buy AV cable from ebay)

But it's still possible, I got an N64 controller at the goodwill the other day for only 5 bucks

[Anonymous No.3406653]

>>3406598
I don't think there's any triftshops that has retro vidya on them in Argentina....well unless you want to buy pirated copies or something.
I wonder how my fellow Argentinian anons manage to collect for consoles, i've been wanting to collect for Ps1 and SNES for a while but i just know i will have to get games from America most of the time.

Seeing these threads makes me envious as fuck

[Anonymous No.3406657]

>>3406598
So far from thrift stores, I've only gotten:

-Gran Turismo 2 with original slip cards for the mail in orders and manuals, as well as Gran Turismo 1 in it
-Destruction Derby 2
-Pac Man 20th Anniversary
-Croc

And just some PS2 games with their manuals, but that's not /vr/. My thrift store sucks.

[Anonymous No.3406674]

Things get picked over almost immediately but I lucked out pretty good this week and got Might & Magic Trilogy in near mint condition with the maps and a sealed copy of Ken Griffey Jr Baseball

[Anonymous No.3406704]

Goodwill and Value Village (especially) have hopped on the hipster price hike bandwagon. I only ever find decently priced stuff at St Vincent De Paul shops but even that is a rarity today. I can't remember the last time I saw something pre year 2000.

[Anonymous No.3406942]

Just got back from thrifting

Atari branded 4 button bluetooth arcade stick $2
~30 loose Skylanders $7.50
4 wireless Xbox 360 controllers $10

Took a pass on such "retro" gems as an Atari Flashback 2 console only for $12, common loose Game Gear and VCS carts for $6 each, Hong-Kong made LED football and soccer tabletops $20 each etc

[Anonymous No.3407236]

There's 2 goodwill stores that I still manage to find deals at.

This year I've found
3 gamecubes 14.99 each.
3 first model wii ranging from 5.99 to 19.99.
Pokemon Pikachu edition .50.
ps2 fat 9.99.
Gba 2.99.
And last trip I found 15 CIB n64 games for .99 each.

This was a good year for deals.

[Anonymous No.3407350]

>>3407236
Wow those are good, even in the better times I still only managed to find 64 games for like $3 at the very least. Nice cops

[Anonymous No.3407360]

>>3406598
>Genesis 1 $10
>GBA carrying case $2
not many good deals this year, went to my local Goodwill yesterday and saw Pokemon Blue and Crystal sitting behind glass, when I asked how much they were I was told $39.99. They also had marked up a PS1 that had been sitting there half a year at $10 to $20 because one of the workers added a generic power cord.
I'm not even seeing the stuff I was surrounded by a year or two ago, no dance pads or guitar controllers, hardly any sports games even (though I did see one N64 maddon loose on the shelf at the same Goodwill)

[Anonymous No.3407363]

I got this for $10, pretty much it.

[Anonymous No.3407367]

>>3407360
goodwill and salvation army mark shit up regardless, last time i went into salvation army the books were like 30-40% off cover price.

I get lucky in Savers sometimes, they don't give a fuck.

[Anonymous No.3407371]

i got a copy of yes - close to the edge for 1$

also, a sega genesis, it didn't turn on, I opened it and there was weird blue shit coating the power jack

[Anonymous No.3407373]

>>3407367
If I drive about two hours I can get some damn good thrifting done, last time I went with regrettably little money and still came home with a shopping cart of Atari 2600 carts for >$10, a handful of PS2 games at a quarter each (Future Tactics, GH rocks the 80s), Desert Strike for $3 and even a couple 360 games for >$10 each. They had a bin of consoles though, which was equal parts wonderful and cringe-inducing as I saw a Genesis somewhere near the bottom supporting 2 dozen Wiis and PS3s.

[Anonymous No.3407457]

I dont have many good sources for older games or consoles around where i live, but there's goodwill and the occasional antique store.

In the last 2-3 years I have gotten from goodwill-
2 sega saturns, with cables and controllers.
1 nes
6 original playstations
2 ps2s, one fat, one slim
5 sega genesises
1 dreamcast
1 gamecube

I've found a few snes, nes, genesis games, but nothing super noteworthy. I found a copy of mortal kombat on the genesis still with the box manual and a poster inside.

I've also found tons of really good condition n64 controllers in different colors.

I spent probably less than $75 for all of that over the years. I think the most expensive thing i got was the gamecube for $5, it was covered in mud and dirt and i wasn't even sure if it was going to work.

Maybe a third of them didn't work when bought, but i mostly buy them to just repair them and fix them up. I just love working on old electronics like that.
Me and my friend have a ritual of going to the 2 goodwills in our area and searching for old tech, games, books, etc every other week.

I tried starting a thing where I fix up a old console and give it to a kid that wants to experience some older games they didn't get to grow up with... it hasn't been successful, but i like the feeling when someone takes one and enjoys it.
Has goodwill just gotten wise to old consoles and games? I used to always be able to find at least something, but for the past several months we haven't found a single thing... I feel like they're taking the games and consoles and selling them online at a premium or something.

[Anonymous No.3407459]

>>3407236
Out of curiosity, where do you live?

[Anonymous No.3407464]

>>3407457
also fun story.

an elderly couple in my neighborhood was having a garage sale.
They had an atari 2600 still in the box, still had the tape and everything on it. Never opened.
The elderly woman said their daughter had bought it on the cheap for her grandaughter back in the day for xmas. (im guessing the 2600 was on its way out and they just got one)
They had forgotten completely about it being hid in the attic. It sat there for years. They found it a few years ago, but never cared to open it.
They wanted $9 for it. Nobody bought it. I live in a really rural area, so nobody probably gave a crap.
I asked them to hold it while i went to get some cash for it. Even considered giving them more for it.
While i was gone the daughter came by and boxed it up with everything else they didn't sell that day, and sent it off to goodwill....

[Anonymous No.3407620]

I live in Finland. I've picked up a mint SNES with around 7 games for €5. I've also picked up an original Xbox with 10 games for €20. Wii and old PC games are selling for 50c to €1.

[Anonymous No.3407669]

>>3406598
None, all are common.
If you're buying to resell for profit you're a piece of shit.

[Anonymous No.3407672]

>>3406598
>also which of these sells for the most?
reseller faggot

[Anonymous No.3407687]

>>3407672
Do you have Asperger syndrome?

[Anonymous No.3407731]

>>3407672
Resellers aren't the problem, beta numales who are afraid of confrontation and haggling are. They are the reason prices are so high

[Anonymous No.3407762]

Its impossible for me to find bargains any more. there are so many "collectors" in my area. the kinds who either resell at a market the same day or who make youtube vids bragging about their finds then flipping them on ebay.

[Anonymous No.3407910]

>>3407464
A couple years ago I got a call from my grandma who had found and bought "some video TV game thing" at a garage sale and was second guessing the purchase in case I didn't like it. When I finally got down to see her, she had a shoebox with an NES, light gun, two controllers and a dozen games including Mario 1&2.i guess she only paid $5 and still wondered if she wasted money, lol. I've since told her repeatedly what an awesome find that was, fixing the console and getting it to turn on finally was almost as much fun as playing it.

[Anonymous No.3407925]

>>3407731
>victim blaming
I hope you get raped and admit it was your fault for asking for it

[Anonymous No.3408119]

>>3407925
>makes a rape allegory for incremental rise in price for retro hw/carts
You're an idiot. If people weren't willing to pay the prices resellers ask they'd get discouraged and lower them. As long as someone says a copy of Earthbound is worth 100+ and a buyer thinking it's not only a value but an investment says
>Ok and if I get tired of it/need money think of how much I can sell it for!
The market will abide.

The exception to the rule is sudden interest. For example back in like February I picked up a loose Pokemon Red cart for 20 usd. Granted it was trending at 30 but, that's just the market. Checking ebay now its lowest price is 40+ to 65 due to Pokemon Go getting normals to nostalgia over something they'd otherwise ignore. If it's accepted as OK then it will become a permanent thing despite the high production of these games and their availability. Call it artificial inflation. But again if the consumer is willing to pay it's not totally the reseller's fault.

[Anonymous No.3408151]

>>3407373
>Atari 2600 carts for >$10

Nobody really wants common atari stuff or any second gen really.

[Anonymous No.3408154]

>>3406646
I like to do this for people if I see shit like this in a thrift store.

Console and cables priced separately. Ill plug all the cables and shit into the console but not buy it.

[Anonymous No.3408156]

>>3407669
>If you're buying to resell for profit you're a piece of shit.

Why? Are you just supposed to ignore a good deal or a rare find?

[Anonymous No.3408160]

>>3408156
Yeah man... you should leave that $5 earthbound there. Surely the next guy to look at it will be a /vr/ bro and not a scumbag reseller that doesnt care about vidya at all, theyre just in it for the money.

[Anonymous No.3408657]

>>3407669
>>3407672
Aspie detected. I've played all the games I have on my genesis and SNES and don't feel like putting money into it anymore. It is literally retarded to not resell, if you don't someone else will. That's just how it works

[Anonymous No.3408670]

>>3408657
after seeing so many actual scumbag resellers I don't feel bad at all for grabbing something

I always sell things for fair prices, give friends bro prices, accept trades, etc

That's way better than the guy behind me who's going to put something up for $400 on amazon

[Anonymous No.3408687]

>>3408151
I did, I have fond memories of the 2600 and grabbing stuff like Pitfall and old ports like Pacman, Breakout and Space Invaders for pennies made me happy. On a happy note, I found a handful of 2600 game instructions during a clean of somebody's basement and was able to put them with their respective games in my collection.
Even if nobody else wanted them, I still felt like I lucked out getting so many for so little, even stuff like Bowling and Golf are at least a buck or two each online usually.

[Anonymous No.3408693]

>>3408687
well if you're into 2nd gen you're in luck because people just about give away their collections

[Anonymous No.3408716]

>>3408693
I grew up playing the Game & Watch stuff and other simple mindless games, so now when I play Atari games I find myself really enjoying the act, River Raid is my shit and has been forever. I even convinced a friend to give Combat a try with me and we wound up playing for half an hour and really getting into one-upping one another, was fun as fuck.
>tfw lost childhood 2600 and still haven't replaced it
Is the cart-mod for the Flashback2 difficult? I can sorta into solder and can follow directions well enough that I think I could do it if I bought the right parts

[Anonymous No.3408817]

>go to outlet goodwill
>all vidya are in cases out front or stolen

[Anonymous No.3408963]

>>3408670
Exactly. Better a real fan resell it than just some guy who does it for pure profit

[Anonymous No.3409450]

How on earth are you able to remember your thrift finds over the course of an entire year?

Honestly, if you can manage that, then you arent doing very well on the thrifting. You should be hitting the character limit in your posts.

[Anonymous No.3409625]

>>3408151
Speak for yourself, anon. I didn't even play 2600 for the first time until a couple years ago but its very quickly become one of my absolute favorite systems to collect for. A ton of fun stuff you can get on the cheap.

>>3408693
Really? Where to cop?

[Anonymous No.3410072]

>>3408119
You type the way to do because you feel the need to be smarter than other people, but I can tell by what you're saying that you're not. Have fun being arrogant with average intelligence.

[Anonymous No.3410445]

>>3408154
This. I did this in Hard Off when I was last in Japan:
Made wee sets of Famicom + Disk System + Cables from the junk sections and set them in empty rack space.

Feels nice, when I already have them myself.

[Anonymous No.3412445]

>>3406598
>Why aren't you thrifting, /vr/?
It's a lot of work to hunt around.

[Anonymous No.3412918]

>>3409625
>Really? Where to cop?

check flea markets, pawn shops, garage sales

there's a pawn shop near me that had like 30 boxed intellivision games that they would have taken like $1 each for on the shelf for months

[Anonymous No.3413053]

>>3406653
The only retro vidya stores in Arg sell games overpriced as fuck. You gotta be patient and snipe online auctions, or join some regional facebook group for selling/trading retro games. You need to grab the one or two bargains that randomly appear in that sea of pirated shit and inflated prices.

Got 5 PS2 games (Kingdom Hearts 1 and 2 included) last month for the same price I was going to pay a reseller for an original KH1. Just don't give up, sempai, from a fellow argenfag ~

[Anonymous No.3413070]

[Anonymous No.3413090]

>>3406942
You done goofed, the Flashback 2 is cool. It's actual 2600 hardware in there.

[Anonymous No.3414918]

>>3412445
If you think of it as work then its not for you.

Thrifting is a hobby to enjoy.

[Anonymous No.3415003]

>>3407236
I dont believe you about the price on the n64 games.
Not like it matters.

[Anonymous No.3415036]

I picked this up the past weekend for a buck, mainly because I don't see scart cables ever for sale. I already have a PVM and the RGB cables for my systems, but this looks odd. Does anybody know what kind of cable this is and what it's used for?

[Anonymous No.3415038]

>>3415036
Closeup of the connectors with labels

[Anonymous No.3415052]

>>3415038
>>3415036
composite breakout for scart.

scart has input and outputs, this simply breaks them out to RCA connectors.

useless, unless you use composite via scart, which is dumb.

[Anonymous No.3415057]

>>3415052
Good to know, thanks. I thought it was odd to have inputs and outputs on the same end of a cable. I still don't fully understand how it works but I don't care about Composite regardless. I don't mind because it cost me next to nothing.

[Anonymous No.3415061]

>>3415057
You could open up the scart end (easily done, we can see the screw-retainer) and rewire it to be RGBS output with just a little soldering. It has all the parts you need since I assume you already have phono to BNC adapters on your PVM

[Anonymous No.3415078]

>>3415057
>I still don't fully understand how it works
Pretend it's the 90s and euro-you has a laserdisc player and a big blurry chinese rear projection TV that you use to impress plebs even though you watch your scart crt when it's just you. You'd hook the composite ins up to the outputs of the LD and the outputs to the big screen so the signal goes from the player through the CRT and terminate in the big screen just like the loops on your PVM (probably)

I even have a similar setup right now in my living room only with component passing through the PVM and into the plasma

[Anonymous No.3415217]

>>3415061
>>3415078
Fair enough, thanks for the explanation. I'll hang on to the cable just in case I need an emergency scart composite adapter, I don't feel confident enough to resolder the connections.

I presume if you want to leave the pass through connections empty it would just as well

[Anonymous No.3415260]

>>3406598
>also which of these sells for the most?
End yourself reseller scum.

[Anonymous No.3415261]

>>3406598
I haven't seen anything video game related in a thrift store for years. I assume that either they stopped accepting it, or I'm just missing out to resellers who have some kind of deal to take that shit of their hands as soon as they get it.

[Anonymous No.3415367]

I always hate that my mum dontated my genesis with 40 games and ps1 with ff7 8 crash bandicoot and spyro to charity, all because i got a ps2.

Only good thrifts ive got was a n64 with controller for 5 dollars and a literally mint, clear gameboy in official hard case for 10 bucks or something.

Living in kangaroo island means minimal thrifting and no good thrift shops.

[Anonymous No.3416248]

Paid $60, wouldve been 2x as much but it was %50 off day..still not feeling 100% about it

[Anonymous No.3416267]

>>3416248
You did fine, 10 decent titles Plus full console.

[Anonymous No.3416271]

>>3416248
batman & robin, animaniacs, ecco 2 and toy story make it almost worth it.

[Anonymous No.3416314]

Recently saw an n64 with two controllers and a rumble oak for $200 with Mario 64, ocarina of time, Mario kart 64, Starfox 64, goldeneye, perfect dark, diddy Kong racing, yoshis story, wave race, pilot wings, Mario party and a ton of shovelware. I know it's a ridiculous price but I'm faintly tempted.

[Anonymous No.3416321]

I once found a copy of Mario Bros with Duck Hunt for super cheap. If I sit on it then I'll likely sell it for $1000 in a few years.

[Anonymous No.3416331]

>>3416248
It's kind of hard to get too excited about a Genesis 3, those are the flakiest of the bunch.

[Anonymous No.3416350]

>>3416267
>>3416271

Sadly, The sonic compilation game AND Desert Strike don't work..only did a dry qtip cleaning on the pins though.

Question: Am I reseller scum if I flip it for 80$ to buy master system games?

[Anonymous No.3416963]

>>3416321
I'm surprised there are still people like this. It's like the post-comics boom where people were buying stacks of the new marvel #1s thinking they'd be worth as much as Action Comics #1 and whatnot.

Most amusingly people did it with beanie babies too. I remember there being near fist fights because some old lady would buy out McDonalds supply of happy meal toys.

[Anonymous No.3416965]

>>3416314
Damn, you should have gotten it when you had the chance. N64 Rumble Oaks in working condition don't last long in the wild.

[Anonymous No.3417930]

Thrifting has never been fruitful for me. Garage saling is where its at once you learn how.

[Anonymous No.3417940]

>>3416350
>master system
Why tho?
Those games will work too just turn your console on and off until they do

[Anonymous No.3418253]

>>3406598
Got all this for 2 a piece last weekend
Got tons of shit since April

[Anonymous No.3418271]

>>3408670
Its always guys who are like 50+ reselling too. All this was about 2 a box, save for one game, everything was complete and mint.

[Anonymous No.3418296]

>>3418271
Goddamn that's nice, and I was feeling like a champ over my 3ds find with a couple games for $35 awhile back.

It's nice to know there's still deals out there... but yeah, I haven't actually run into any resellers yet, but one glance at craigslist will tell you my area either has quite a few, or at least a few obsessive individuals.

[Anonymous No.3418297]

>>3417930
Tips?

[Anonymous No.3418316]

>>3418296
yeah, i hit more flea markets though

gotta get there early though or else the resellers get them

i picked up a 3DS from a guy that cleans out houses, all his stuff is always dirt cheap. only paid $3 for it.

[Anonymous No.3418336]

>>3418316
Thanks Anon, you've inspired me to start looking for some flea markets, and I just found my old flea market(that has since moved a bit, I thought it just up and left, but apparently it was just because traffic was clogging the area down too much), turns out, it's literally a few miles down from where it used to be...

But get this; it's a predominately Hispanic flea market. And I think we both know how those kind of garage sales turn out(for the shut-ins out there; clothes, clothes, and more clothes, also crap you don't really care about, like old rusty tools), do you think there's still deals to be found there?

I'm a Tx Anon btw, in case you don't feel like giving tips to a potential rival.

[Anonymous No.3418381]

things I've picked up over the last year or two:

>5$ NES
>Copies of Final Fight, Donkey Kong Country 1 and 2, Mario Kart, and Street Fighter 2 Turbo all for about 20$
>A Genesis and Copies of Sonic 1 and 2 for about 20$
>2 Gameboy Colors for Free
>A GBA for 5$
>an original model DS for 5$
>a copy of Sonic 3 for 7 dollars

[Anonymous No.3418458]

>>3406598
I'm sure others are saying this but enjoy it while it lasts. Most places are price checking and charging online prices

[Anonymous No.3418669]

>>3418336
No big deal. Tips that help you out are what I'm about, been hitting flea markets for 20 years now. Got this stuff in early May, paid 40 for a GC w/ about 20 games and a 64 w/ about 10 games and a boxed complete deja vu on nes. Also manuals for the 64 stuff.

[Anonymous No.3418702]

>>3406653
why not trade burger collectors bootlegs?

[Anonymous No.3418709]

>>3409450
just take pictures m8

[Anonymous No.3418715]

>>3416321
only if you have the first nintendo ds to go with it

[Anonymous No.3418783]

I live in the Buffalo NY area and we have very few games left that do not get snatched up instantly. There are about 4 different guys that literally spend all of their time raiding garage sales, thrift and pawn shops, other vendors at flea markets, and everything else just to resell them at 10% over average eBay value. There's only 2 guys in the area with huge inventories that arnt reseller scum and generally sell everything much lower than eBay (one guy sold me Super C for $10 and Sonic 3 CIB for $8 yesterday) but their inventories are becoming just the left overs that not many care about. It drives me nuts to see this happening in the area and drives me to eBay more and more.

[Anonymous No.3418867]

>>3418783
>but their inventories are becoming just the left overs that not many care about.

this is the reason i will never open a store, you HAVE to have good games or get good shit in to stay open somehow.

[Anonymous No.3418883]

>>3418253
>>3418271
Bulllllllshit. Maybe you picked all that up for $2 a piece since April 2001. There's zero chance of a copy of Lunar on Sega CD to have remained in the wild at that price point.

[Anonymous No.3419574]

>>3418883
its called a flea market, people make the prices they want to sell it at.

i got that lunar and shit last weekend from someone i know who sets up and sells games and systems dirt cheap.

[Anonymous No.3419685]

>>3418883
Shooting myself in the foot here, but there are seriously good deals out there; just the other day I missed a guy selling two 3ds systems for cheap, but the real prize was the 5 copies of pokemon games for ds-3ds(all mainline) for only $5 each(worst case scenario, you could flip those back on gamestop(lol) for a cool $100). I also missed some guy selling a binder full of OG pokemon cards like blastoise, charizard, etc. for -one dollar- each. That left me quite salty.

I called only an hour after it was posted, and of course one of my local "buddies" snatched it up.

[Anonymous No.3419725]

>>3407762
This happens to me all the time, especially at the local flea markets. There are a few resellers that'll buy everything in site, even have guys hold stuff for them. Just to turn around and sell it same day at whatever they see on eBay.

[Anonymous No.3419741]

Literally every retro vidya i see at my local goodwills they have behind glass and you have to bid on them at their auction site. As for thrift stores, everything is ebay prices and they never budge. It fucking sucks. I just really hate seeing the things I love, become nothing more than a shitty investment money making scheme for others.

[Anonymous No.3419826]

So here's a weird thing I found at goodwill today. Guess someone brought their old playstation stuff because I also saw controllers with it but no system or games. Guessing another customer or (more likely) the staff grabbed them already.

[Anonymous No.3419898]

>>3418297
Go to every sale. I go wednesday thru sunday. Never judge from your car always get out and always ask for games. Be persistent and specific.

Best deal I got this year lady said she didnt have games when i asked. Then I rambled off my list. "Nothong like atari, sega, nintendo, playstation or xbox?" Then she got her husband he had am atari 800. I asked again and found out there was 2600 games. He brings those out and I see theres an nes. After more persistet questioning I walked away with an hd graphics genesis, snes, n64, 89 games for those systems some boxed and the first 50 nintendo powers. I paid $40. This was at a sale with no games just old lady glassware and being told there were no games the fiest time I asked. She assumed I only wanted new shit.

People attending sales will hwar you ask and often tell you if theyve seen games. Best deal last year a guy heard me asking amd saod he had games for sale. Got a top loader nes, slim ps2, a few good games for $30. Sold the copy of contra in that lot for $30.

Go to garage sales multiple times. I went to a sale twice this year. First time no games second time there was a tub of individually prices nes games and a boxed genesis. Individually priced. I picked out a few I was interested in totalling $22 haggled to $15. One of the games was a gyromite with an adapter. Sold for $25. I usually only sell a few things to break even then I use other doubles as give aways or gifts.

Practice haggling. Many people dont care. Ive picked up about 3 $5 snes since last summer. A $2 n64 with atomic purple controller. Just get out often, ask, be specific, ask a few times listing what youre looing for. I found 3do games at a sale with nothing but baby clothes out.

[Anonymous No.3419936]

>>3419898
more advice, not him though

always ALWAYS check CDs, you can find 3DO or TG-16 CD games or more in them. always ask for old games too, that will usually get people to say something like "oh, you mean atari/nes etc etc"

[Anonymous No.3419957]

>>3419685
Pokemon is not Lunar on Sega CD

>>3419574
Someone would have needed to die for that game to have been erroneously priced so low

[Anonymous No.3419971]

>>3419741
This. People just will buy as much as possible and drive up the price like no tomorrow and then there are the douchebags who sit on 3+ copies of the game. Video games became the new comic books and people want to be able to pay for college with them and shit. I JUST WANT TO OWN PHYSICAL COPIES OF GAMES I LIKE IS THAT SO MUCH TO FUCKING ASK?

[Anonymous No.3419982]

Barely started but I got xenosaga episode 1 at a used bookstore for 7 dollars

[Anonymous No.3420043]

>>3419957
dude im 100% serious
guy cleans out houses for a living, they are the BEST people to hit for shit. he sells systems for 10 and games for 2 and he gets a ton of people buying that and his other shit. its where i got my BC PS3 too

hes not dumb, he just doesn't care since he makes more money just tossing shit out at dirt cheap prices. he made near 2k last weekend, those spanish moms love to buy new pots and pans, clothes and shit.

[Anonymous No.3420048]

>>3419971
its sad since you couldn't possibly pay your way through college with a collection of games. i could buy all the games i want for about a total of 10-15k across 6-8 systems

[Anonymous No.3420162]

>>3419971
IMO owning physical copies of games in this day and age, with the proliferation of flash carts and ODEs, is a pointless endeavor. It's like owning your own copy of a book when the exact same one is at a library. We're past the point where ownership of legit games is mandatory for a great number of games. If you're buying new games to support the companies that make them, then that's great. But if you're buying something that hasn't been made for 2 decades and won't go to original devs then don't bother. Just find a reasonable alternative to play and enjoy those games. Don't buy into the cycle of stupidity.

[Anonymous No.3420179]

>>3420162
t. emulator fag that doesn't understand collecting

[Anonymous No.3420186]

>>3420162
that does make sense, there are a TON of ways to play anything 6th gen and back. my wii is the defacto emu system when i want to play something

i have been collecting like this though since 1991, so i at least have a reason, its also fun for me, gets me out of the house for a few hours and i get some cool games.

i do hate when shit doesn't go to the OG devs, but really, they already got their money back in the day, why should they get more since they probably are dead (bullfrog), broken apart (rare) or gone insane (konami)

[Anonymous No.3420378]

>>3419898
>>3419936
Good shit, thanks.

Any tips on finding them? I only know of the signs on the street posts and it can get pretty tedious, especially on days that aren't Saturday or Sunday

[Anonymous No.3420402]

>>3420162
I like having the carts nig
Suck it

[Anonymous No.3420420]

>>3420378
try craigslist, has a section for garage sales
look for local flea markets and get there early

[Anonymous No.3420581]

Most of you will probably already know this, but if you're on craigslist and see a post like..."ps3 + game- $140(this is really popular)", and they -only- have an email, google that email. Over half the time you'll find it's a scam email being posted all over the country, if you find nothing then it may be legit, but proceed with caution, and a backup email account.

[Anonymous No.3420646]

>>3420378
Driving around is best. Sales posted on facebook or craigslist have been picked thru by resllers and sharks. The sales not listed online are a safer bet. You want to be buying from moms and grandmas. Theyll think theyre ripping you off if you pay more than a few dollars. If youre lucky you wont have resellers in your area. I have several store owners I compete with. I hear about their great deals weekly. I work nights and get up later tho. But ive found great shit on sundays in the late afternoon that was some how missed. Those people just want it gone and let it go for practically nothing. I have good luck on thursdays not so many people able to g sale during the week. I have a regular route i drive that hits every intersection in my town.

[Anonymous No.3421205]

>>3418867
The problem is they sell the good shit and think the dregs will suffice to keep a physical location open.

Same shit some goodwills are doing with shopgoodwill. Theyre ruining their retail stores to put everything online.

[Anonymous No.3421208]

>>3418883
Youre litterally a fool if you believe this.

A small amount, sure.
The majority of copies are in the hands of hoarders/resellers, but not all. Its way too soon for that to be true.

[Anonymous No.3421251]

Goodwill went bankrupt, salvation army closed down last year, only value village near me is cased by multiple hoarders. I recently went to value village and saw a 3rd party n64 rumble pack with a missing battery cover on the shelf. As soon as I put it down some guy comes over and puts it in his cart. How am I supposed to compete with these shitheads?

The best this year I got was Spyro 2 and Tony Hawk 2. Cartridge games are non-existent.

[Anonymous No.3421264]

>>3419741
>Literally every retro vidya i see at my local goodwills they have behind glass
I wish Goodwill would remember that they're supposed to be a retailer to the poor, not a regular store with tax-exempt status.

[Anonymous No.3421416]

>>3406598
I've had some decent finds in the past. I stopped going though because good will and salvation army are crap and put all their good stuff online now. The one good thrift store around me is in the most depressing ghetto area of town so I don't really like to go there often.

[Anonymous No.3421424]

>>3421208
The rest of the copies are in the trash. It's been twenty years. The one and only possibility is that some prototypical forever-alone owned it since the late 90s and died without having literally anyone who knew or cared about him at all and this flea market guy got called in to clean out the house where he most likely decomposed for some weeks.

[Anonymous No.3421454]

>>3421205
Goodwill doesn't need retail locations to sell anything above garbage level. Their challenge has always been proper appraisal. You only find good shit at their retail locations because the schmuck the had sorting shit didn't know what they were lookin at. Makes finding games a pain because they tend to catch on that games sell. Still, they could basically shut down a bunch of retail locations, keep their donation centers open, and still make bank because their value is derived from people just giving shit away.

[Anonymous No.3421518]

Things I've bought at car boot sales this season (since April):

>Boxed mint SNES £20
>N64 with OoT and ram expansion decent condition £5
>Wii with everything £5, put homebrew channel on it give as a cheap gift.
>25~ common wii games which I like £1-2 each
>7 gameboy games, £1 each, including pokemon blue and red.
>3 cheapo gamecube games
>40~ PS2 games £1 each or so.
>20~ DS games I like
>2 crap NES games 50p each.
>Amiga 1200 £10, WORKS!
>200~ PC games, I'm weird I like collecting PC games in the jeweled case.
>All the big box City Builder Series (Caesar 3, Pharaoh) 50p each!
>80~ PS3 games £2-3 each
>A bunch of other games for PSP, PS1, dreamcast, etc, nothing worth mentioning.

I also buy a lot of old books, fruit, veg, meat and household stuff at the carboot.
I have spent about £1200 on carboots excluding food I buy if you include the petrol costs. If you want bargains I recommend ebay or local garage sales. Car boots are heavily scalped over these days and at 6.30am everyone is a reseller in some capacity. I have seen 0 SNES or N64 games this season except one reseller who priced way above ebay.

Charity Shops:

>Absolutely fucking nothing, and that's come from a man who collects PC games.

[Anonymous No.3421764]

>>3421264
But theyre not.

Their primary mission is to assist people with job training and shit. At least that is what they state.

I think part of the confusion comes from the old days where used goods were always cheap. every yard sale, used goods store, flea market, etc, had cheap prices. So when Goodwill opened stores and sold used goods, they priced accordingly.
Now, with ebay and the like, and a shift in people's mindset (likely because most new shit is shit from china that will break in a week or its expensive as fuck and well made), used goods are worth more and more. People realize that piece of pyrex from 1980 in a thrift store is more durable than a pyrex dish from walmart.

Goodwill realized this, over a few years, and adapted their prices to raise more money for their actual mission.

Their problem, which a lot of people share, is thinking the FMV for shit is the same locally as it is nationally. Also, not knowing how ebay pricing works. Hell, I see people in the game collectioning community misusing ebay all the time.

[Anonymous No.3421767]

>>3421424
Say this in another 30 years and youll be accurate.

[Anonymous No.3421795]

>>3421454
Didnt say goodwill needed retail locations.

I was talking about that local game store that only had common shit.
They are likely selling all the good shit online so they make the most off it.
That kind of behavior will kill a local game store environment/community.

Lets say they get a copy of a game that sells for $500 on ebay.
They could put it in the store for $400, what theyd make on ebay after fees and shit, and itll sit for weeks/months.
Or they can put it on ebay for $500, sell it in less than a week, and get that $400 now.

given time, they will start doing that with any and all games that are worth more than $50.

Eventually the people that come in to look at games will see the same shit week after week. Where their regulars would come in every few days checking out the new acquisitions, theyll start coming in every week, then every few weeks.

Sure, maybe the regulars wouldnt buy that $400 game, but they'd buy a soda and candy bar to snack on when they chatted about games. or theyd pick up that common game they were missing for a few bucks.

Now the store sees that the physical location is losing them money, so they start raising prices. Now no one comes in and they shut down and only sell online.