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Title: mrs.thx got me a Megadrive and some games, and mad Post by: thx1138 on April 16, 2005, 11:37:06 AM mrs.thx did a carboot sale today, with her own pitch.
A few bits of retro, and lots of books, and videos and things. She came back with £42 more than she started with, and a mk1 megadrive, 2 controllers, and 5 games, boxed Earth Worm Jim (added to my collection) and F22, Tazmania both CIB and loose Super Thunderblade and Disney collection. She sold a few of my mint/sealed Genesis game too. Apparntley an elederly person told her that she'd do well selling those on the internet. LOL - The person then went on to tell her about a nice young man who buys this sort of thing called "retro-technology" and who advertises in shop windows. ROFL Title: Re: mrs.thx got me a Megadrive and some games, and Post by: Tynstar on April 16, 2005, 04:48:30 PM Quote She sold a few of my mint/sealed Genesis game too. Apparntley an elederly person told her that she'd do well selling those on the internet. LOL - The person then went on to tell her about a nice young man who buys this sort of thing called "retro-technology" and who advertises in shop windows. ROFL :laugh: :laugh: :laugh: :laugh: :laugh: :laugh: And nice finds. Title: Re: mrs.thx got me a Megadrive and some games, and Post by: Sureshot on April 17, 2005, 06:10:50 AM Haha, nice story |D
Title: Re: mrs.thx got me a Megadrive and some games, and Post by: Izret101 on April 17, 2005, 05:06:06 PM LOL
What do you say if that lady tries to sell them back to you though? That would be even funnier. Title: Re: mrs.thx got me a Megadrive and some games, and Post by: thx1138 on April 18, 2005, 01:55:19 AM Well, this one time, a few years ago. I bought lot's and lot's of wargaming stuff at an auction. I was making three times my money back, I also bought thousands of magazines, and made over £1,500. My friend found out the contact details of the person who had put them in the auction, he's heard about someone selling a huge amount of stuff privately, and guessed it was the same person, and phoned up offering to buy the lot.
The person agreed to see us, but kept stalling. Kept putting us off for one day, or a few more days. We finally got to see her, and hger business partner. They had an entire room stacked floor to ceiling with the stuff. She held in her hand a print out, with the eBay logo on. LOL Now, she couldn't have been very computer literate, as this was on in us dollars, from the .com site. She was complaining bitterly, about someone who bought her stuff at auction, and had apparantley sold it all on eBay, for a vast profit. LOL - Little did she know that very person was standing in front of her. And., to be fair, if she'd bothered to look at eBay properly, she'd have seen my picture on my about me page. Anyway, after scrweing up and selling the stuff too cheaply at auction, she now wanted far, far too much for the rest of it. £5k in fact. We were only prepared to offer £3.5k. After much haggling, she gave me a few items as samples, and told me to think it over. I sold the samples on eBay, for £50 and went down the pub. :) I don't think that makes me a bastard, I think it's just business Title: Re: mrs.thx got me a Megadrive and some games, and Post by: Sureshot on April 18, 2005, 05:39:26 AM Lol, you should start writing 'The Collection Chronicles of THX1138'.
Title: Re: mrs.thx got me a Megadrive and some games, and Post by: Sauza12 on April 18, 2005, 06:59:47 AM :laugh:
Classic stories! :laugh: Title: Re: mrs.thx got me a Megadrive and some games, and Post by: Izret101 on April 18, 2005, 05:10:58 PM Seriously.
That is hillarious. |