Last week wasn't great, but this week was just terrible. The worst part is that I have no idea why it was so bad. There were a ton of garage sales open this weekend and the weather could not have been better, but I found virtually nothing the entire weekend. Usually I can attribute a bad weekend with bad weather or a holiday or just not being able to go saling. But none of that was the case for the garage sales on Friday or Saturday.
This week was so bad that I had serious doubts of whether or not I wanted to do a blog entry. As you can see, I decided to go ahead and do one anyway, but with a slight twist.

This was my entire haul from garage saling on Friday. A somewhat CIB Burnout Dominator for $1. I say 'somewhat' because the case has a generic insert from Blockbuster instead of the original. The disc looks good though and doesn't have one of those stickers rental places usually put on discs, so I felt I could deal with not having the original artwork.
Does anyone know if that's the original manual? It looks (and feels) legit, but it's black and white instead of color like any other PS2 manual I can think of.

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And this was my entire haul from garage sales on Saturday. It was originally marked $3 but that was crossed out and replaced with $1, so I offered $0.50, which was accepted.
Also at this sale we got a nice load of drywall pieces. The guy bought a stack of them because they had "forklift damage" from the store, used what he needed and had the rest marked $5 for all of it. We ended up getting it all for free. There was even one sheet that was nearly full, most just had the corners busted off or were left overs from cuts. We're going to be putting it in a tiny bathroom so we don't have room for full sheets anyway, so they'll work perfectly for us.

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This was the only thing I got on Sunday, and it wasn't even from the flea market. When I woke up on Sunday morning, it was raining, so we weren't planning on going to the flea market, but the rain stopped by 8 AM and the sun came out, so we went ahead and went. The flea market was nearly deserted with the last 3 rows which usually have probably 50 vendors in each one, having maybe 20 combined.
These all came from a garage sale on the way home. The sale had tons of 1970's and 80's collectibles, everything from comic books to Star Wars to Transformers. I picked up the stack of PS magazines for $2, I tried going lower but she wouldn't budge on the price. Then as I was leaving I noticed the strategy guides mixed in with a stack card playing game books/magazines. I picked out the four strategy guides and offered her 'half a buck' for them. When she agreed, I gave her two quarters, said thanks and started leaving. The she said "that's not a dollar" and I look at her puzzled. And she says "what did you offer me?" and I replied "HALF a buck" and she "oh, well that's fine I guess".
Also on Sunday I got two sets of RCA cables from a garage sale on the way to the flea market. They're brand new (the guy was a cable installer) and they're the good kind with a nice thick, shielded video cable, so I can replace some of my not so nice cables coming out my switchboxes next time I set up my consoles.

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These came from a trade with fellow RFGen member, SnowKitty (an excellent trader BTW). The DKC box has the cardboard insert, manual, inserts, and plastic baggie for the game in it, so my formerly loose copy is now CIB. The other things are stuff I needed to complete other games I had. I traded him 3 PSOnes for all that plus some PayPal money.

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Since I didn't buy much this week, I thought I would describe my recent foray into selling my duplicates on eBay. I just started selling on eBay in an attempt to get rid of some of my duplicates quickly, and it's working pretty well so far. With everything I've sold so far (4 auctions thus far) I've made more than enough to break even for the entire month of June.
I sold a Vader 2600 with hookups, controllers and 3 common games for around $21. A little lower than I wanted, but whatever, it's out of my hair now.
Next was a lot of 2600 joysticks (mostly nonworking) and 2 set of paddles (refurbished) that sold for $3.69. A lot lower than I wanted, but again, I'm just glad they're gone.
I also sold a yellowed SNES setup with 5 games for $33. A reasonable price IMO.
And finally, a refurbished NES setup with a blue power LED and 10 common games for around $50. I thought that was good price to get for it considering the system is pretty yellowed in the back.

Best Deal of the Week?

Burnout Dominator for $1

Wireless PS2 controller for $0.50

PS magazine and strategy guide lot for $2.50

DKC box and other inserts for trade

Getting poll results. Please wait...

This should be another close poll, as they're all pretty mediocre finds, one does stand out for me, but what do you think was the best deal of the week?


As of this posting, I have 2,142 total games, 1,786 unique games, and 356 duplicates. Which means I have 16 less total games, 1 more unique games, and 17 less duplicates since the last Treasure Hunt Chronicle.

So far, I've spent $464.61 this year ($4.00 this week) on gaming related stuff, and I spent $0.00 this week to ship stuff for trades and I brought in $116.05 from selling stuff, so I am down 59.50 this year. The total spent (amount spent on games plus amount spent on shipping for trades) this year, is $547.26

To sum up this year's stats, I have 220 more total games, 308 more unique games, and 88 less duplicates. And I have a "loss" of $59.50 for the year.

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Comments

Crabmaster2000 said on 6/29/09 7:58 PM   It finally happened. You've purchased all the gaming related items in your town. It was bound to happen eventually though.

Sirgin said on 6/29/09 8:07 PM   The magazines and strategy guides for $2.50 is a great deal, so that's what I picked.

gamepopper101 said on 6/29/09 8:14 PM   Well, you're not the only one, last Sunday was terrible, I only went home with a set of headphones and a VHS tape. Shame since the week before I got 9 games and two VHS films.

ga5ket said on 6/29/09 8:34 PM   This is how the hunting's been for me for about 2 months now, which is why I've not been updating my blog. I don't know if it's the state of the economy that's causing it, but I've had to resort to eBay to get stuff.

Link41 said on 6/30/09 2:16 AM   @ga5ket:I am in the same situation

BadEnoughDude said on 6/30/09 2:52 AM   That Valkyrie Profile guide is pretty darn valuable. I'd be pretty extremely happy if that was my only find of the weekend

NES_Rules said on 6/30/09 4:32 AM   @Crabmaster2000: I sure hope not. I don't know what I would do with almost entire weekends with nothing to do. @BadEnoughDude: I knew the FF7 was worth something, but I didn't check the VP guide to see if it's worth anything. I see one went for $62 on eBay, but another went for $10, so I don't know what mine is worth, but at least it's more than what I paid. I forgot to mention (because I left it in the truck when I wrote up the blog) I also got a paperback book with the guides titled "Secrets of the Video Game Super Stars" by Len Albin from 1982. I can't wait to read about the "amazing video games of the future".

BadEnoughDude said on 6/30/09 4:53 AM   The FFVII guide was probably the least valuable of all the ones you got (other than Tomb Raider). I recently sold my FF8 guide for more than $20 (don't remember exact price...). That $10 price for Valkerie Profile is a total outlier - I've never, ever seen it sell for anywhere near that. Must have just been one of those auctions that slipped through the cracks. I would say that it has a pretty solid price floor of $40, and obviously good potential to go far beyond that. It would be interesting to see whether they had the game for that, too? I'm guessing they did, at least at one point or another. It might be worth asking, if you see a sale there again.

NES_Rules said on 6/30/09 5:33 AM   @BadEnoughDude: They had a couple PS1 games but they were all missing either the manual, the back of the case or both, and there was no good titles anyway. I asked if there were more games, but she said there wasn't anymore.

Ghost Soldier said on 6/30/09 5:13 PM   Nice grab on the mags and strat guides.

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