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6524178 No.6524178 [Reply] [Original]

how do people find this shit? this guy is sitting on what looks like a pallet of brand new genesis power supplies.

https://www.ebay.com/itm/NEW-Official-SEGA-GENESIS-MK-1602-POWER-SUPPLY-for-Genesis-1-CD1-2-Master-Sys/223579707919

anyone know of any stories of people stumbling on piles of new old stock that don't involved Tim Atwood?

>> No.6524192

That's hilarious because a few years ago I was desperately searching for one of those. I couldn't find any that were both in good condition and not hideously overpriced. I consider that to be the latter but since it's new old stock I'd be more receptive to purchasing it. I ended up buying a fucking atari jaguar power supply instead after reading on forums that it is basically the same thing and works just as well.

>> No.6524235

>>6524178
That's not what a pallet "looks like" champ. But it is possible to deduce some things based on what it does look like. As for how people find shit like this, the answer that should be obvious is that there are literally millions of boxes of old shit sitting in warehouses.

>> No.6524287
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6524287

I always wondered where those dozens of brand new/sealed F-Zero games came from, as well as these boxes of Canadian Kirby's Adventure.

>> No.6524302

>>6524235
Found the condescending dipshit
I obviously didn't mean a LITERAL pallet. It's obviously not a pallet in that photo. I meant he has a shitload of them, like he seems to have so many that he found a pallet of them.
And they were OBVIOUSLY found in an old warehouse. You're a real fucking modern day Sherlock Holmes. What I was asking was, do people just visit random warehouses, looking for new old stock, or is there a "old shit in my warehouse" secret newsletter that people subscribe to?
Fuck off mate.

>> No.6524307

Wholesale auctions. Warehouse acquisition. Several ways that involve knowing things about supply chain beyond ebay.

>> No.6524387

>>6524302
>i didn't mean what i said
Found the literal dipshit
There's a secret newsletter but to subscribe you have to do a recaptcha identifying images of pallets. Afraid you're SOL kiddo.

>> No.6525234

aks Professor X

>> No.6525243

>>6524287
Cataloging errors, usually. Say a store big enough to have a warehouse orders a box of Kirby's Adventure. Someone puts it on the wrong shelf. Then when they go back to look for it later, nobody knows what the fuck happened to it and there are too damn many boxes to comb through thousands and thousands of boxes on the off chance that it's in there somewhere. Then it just sits there for 30 years because nobody pays attention to which boxes are on the shelves unless it's the one they're looking for. My guess is that someone finally found them when they were converting the store's stock to digital.

>> No.6525248

>>6524287
Cute box of Kirby :)

>> No.6525262
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6525262

>>6524178
Game Boy fanny packs

https://www.deadpanrobot.co.uk/amazing-official-game-boy-carry-case-bum-bag-fanny-pack-new-old-stock-from-the-90s-bumbag

>> No.6525358

>>6524178
I wish I could find some older controllers.
JP saturn and SNES especially. maybe gamecube

>> No.6525492

at this retro convention some dude had new old stock game guides for N64 games. I had already spent my money and didn't feel like going to an ATM but he sold them for like 7 bucks which was very fair.
Seeing the OoT one made me very nostalgic!
Pity!

>> No.6525501

>>6524178
I have tons of sealed console and accessories from closeouts and store liquidations. Nobody will ever get these.

>> No.6525541

>>6524387
Do you know what hyperbole is

>> No.6525946
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6525946

>>6525358
Nintendo has been making new gc controllers since smash4?

>> No.6525957

>>6525262
those are back in fashion now i think? always worth keeping hold of shit i guess

>> No.6525968

>>6524287
I remember seeing those two games in Canadian wal marts well into the late 90s

whoever was in charge of buying video games for wal mart probably bought way too many of them

>> No.6526097

>>6525541
He may be autistic, this is /vr/ after all

>> No.6526132

>>6524235
>there are literally millions of boxes of old shit sitting in warehouses
Truth. And this stuff is often boxed up and forgotten in some corner. For example, a company doing a warehouse clearance in the south-east of England (Kent, I think) in early 2013 found thousands of mint Doctor Who novels spanning roughly a 20 year period, still packed in publisher's wrappers*. They'd just got stored and forgotten, and another 20 years later, the current tenant or the owner needed all the detritus cleared out. This is where new-old stock in bulk comes from. How it gets to market is a different matter - hearing it from a contact, finders selling to companies who retail or wholesale it out, job lots in commercial auctions... It's often handled through the same mechanisms as bankrupt stock sales or liquidation sales.

(For anyone wanting to find out about the books and what happened next, here beginneth the blogpost:)
* - This story, incidentally, has a happy ending. A worker at the company told a fan friend, and a group of fans banded together to pay the recycling value of the books - then handed them out for free to school libraries around the UK and overseas to encourage kids to read, to celebrate Doctor Who's 50th anniversary. The project was called Target Who, and it got some media coverage at the time.

>> No.6526164

>>6524307
This. One of my former boss's used to own some storage and would often buy "mystery units" from his competitors and would get the contents appraised/identified and sell it in auctions.

>> No.6526183

>>6525946
They are bad

>> No.6526185

>>6526132
I had a friend get an offer to buy thousands of unique, unreleased KISS band statues (dont know what was wrong with them exactly). He declined the offer and a year later the owner of the warehouse got sued into oblivion by Gene Simmons for some contract breach.

>> No.6526397

>>6524287
I've got box of Vegas Stakes and one of Space Channel 5.

>> No.6526527

>>6525541
>Do you know what cope is
Yes

>> No.6526690

>>6525946
try finding them now

>> No.6526717

>>6524178
I have cases of shit. Mostly old retail returns, sales samples, shit my dad took from the office. Liquidators get this stuff all the time. Sometimes a company has a whole bunch of boxes that fall out of inventory and they just sit there for years until someone counts them again.

>> No.6526754

>>6525541
Maybe speak like an adult if you want to be treated as one.

>> No.6526862

>>6525957
Not so much anymore since phones can do multiple functions and they can fit in a pocket, and in the case of game consoles, games can be stored digitally instead of cartridges. Maybe to carry small tools at a job, like a boxcutter or a pen.

>> No.6527896

>>6526183
The Switch ones are bad, but the Wii U ones were good.

>> No.6528698

>>6526862
LOL mate he was clearly referring to the funny pack/bum bag, not the game boy.

>> No.6528795

>>6528698
LOL mate this is mini-/v/, where reading comprehension isn't a thing

>> No.6528832

>>6526754
Im not even that anon you're just weirdly autistic about words

>> No.6528908

>>6528832
It's weird that zoomers think using words correctly is autistic. I'd say "stay in school" but that's probably where you're being taught to be retarded.

>> No.6528918

Anyone who's worked in a warehouse will tell you that plenty of shit gets completely forgotten about if no one frequents that specific section or gets put into overflow. And that doesn't even begin to scratch the surface of shit like people trying sneak stuff out and getting fired before they do, stuff that plain old falls behind/under big inventory, stuff that's mislabeled and stored in the wrong area, and etc.

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6528938

Never underestimate shitty stocking policies. Pic related was allegedly found at the back of a Walmart's electronics inventory a couple of years ago. The kid who ordered it for layaway never picked it up, it got stuck in the back, and was subsequently pushed further and further behind decades of shit until they had to clear inventory and one of the employees found in.

>> No.6529037

Storage auctions
Seriously

There are 3 things you find in storage units. Bags of cheap clothing, shitty furniture, and fucking weird and crazy shit.


One unit I won had a full NYPD uniform, NYPD raincoat, and a shotgun in a fucked up configuration that you absolutely can not have in NY.

Another guy in the area won a storage unit, and it ended up belonging to a science lab, and had a literal cadaver inside.

He didn't take it, because what the fuck are you supposed to do with a "legal" dead body? So the guy who won the auction got blacklisted. You are required to take everything, no exceptions.

>> No.6529087

how do you know shit like this isnt counterfeit?

>> No.6529101

>>6529087
You don't completely. But there's a few markers to look for. One, being something like power supplies, is way more likely than a box of untouched consoles. Common low price peripherals are highly likely to have sat around unnoticed compared to anything else. Also things that were planned to have far more compatible games than actually did. Like the dreamcast fishing rod, at least last year, could be purchased untouched from Amazon.

>> No.6529340

>>6528908
It's really not surprising when they use shit like "based" and "thicc."

>> No.6529359

>>6524178
>30 fucking dollars

>> No.6529396

>>6529087
I don't think those old 90s wall wart power supplies are being made anymore. Everything is cheap light switching power supplies. When I went to buy a power supply for my Genesis all the forums I read recommended against using those. If you wanted to make a proper counterfeit you would either need to find a bunch of old compatible wall warts and make a run of new shells for them or weight down the new ones and do the same so they feel real. Not worth the effort even for this kind of profit.

>> No.6529404

>>6529396
There's still 3rd party supplies being sold in that shape shell, but they're mostly hollow. Otherwise yeah, even making them heavy enough to pass would probably cost more than it's worth.

>> No.6529497

>>6529037
18+ redditot

>> No.6529561

>>6524178
Things can just get lost, didn't someone buy a Sonic Game Gear game from Walmart in like 2018 because they somehow found one in a box and decided to just sell it?

>> No.6529661

>>6525957
They were popular again for a few years with drug dealers (hard to lose your bars when they’re right there on your chest), but I think they’re on their way out again

>> No.6529686

>>6529661
They'll always be around in some format until type 1 diabetes can be cured.

>> No.6530979

>>6529037
The worst mass shooting in Canada the guy was wearing a police uniform

>> No.6532073

>>6524192
I own a jag and power supply and am missing my model one ac adapter. you're telling me I could've been using that all along? no issues?

>> No.6532137

>>6532073
Yup absolutely flawless.

>> No.6534669

>all the forums I read recommended against using those.

most consoles have a linear voltage regulator that steps everything down from 5-24v to 5v. so i'm not sure voltage spikes would really kill the console.

anyways i wrote a whole post about using instrument/guitar effect PSUs if you want low noise power because they tend to be quality with good filtering or there would be hum and noise but literally ever model on amazon is a switching supply. I still grab ones that look like good ones from thrift stores. They always have that bin that has them for $1-3. anything 9-12V 500ma+ is good.

>> No.6534672

>>6534669
Nobody said it would kill the console just that it would result in video quality issues and other weirdness. I can believe that because some power supplies I tried to use with my super famicom had that result but it's fine with one cheap switching adapter I use.

>> No.6535370

>>6524192
>That's hilarious because a few years ago I was desperately searching for one of those
Literally why? A modern generic power supply would do the same job but be smaller and generate less heat.

>> No.6536072

>>6534669
Or you could just buy a Triad power supply from Digikey for twelve bucks.

>> No.6536639

>>6535370
>Literally why?
Literally downs

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