This week was full of garage sales. On Friday we went to around 6 neighborhood/street sales in addition to a ton of regular garage sales. It took until 2:00 before we ran out of sales to go to in the area. Saturday was very much the same thing, but it started to rain about 1:00 and we didn't bring umbrellas with us, so we called it quits a little early. Despite the fantastic amount of sales, I didn't find much. It was better than the last couple weeks, but it still wasn't a great weekend.



Before I get into what gaming related stuff I bought, I thought I would  describe a great deal I got that isn't gaming related at all. That deal was a new bike I got. I've been looking for a good road bike for sometime now, and finally found a nice Schwinn at a sale this weekend for $20. It looks nearly new and has a really cushy, wide seat on it which is always great for those long rides. Plus, it has narrower tires than my last bike, but they're wider than something like a racing bike which is exactly what I wanted and the way it's positioned you sit more straight up than bent over so I don't have to worry about my back hurting the next day after a long ride and it has a fold up saddle bag type thing on the back so I can put stuff in it if I need to. Now, I just need to find the time to ride it and I'll be set.
Now, onto the gaming related treasures.

This was one of the things I bought Friday. The guy had a couple more 360 games but they were either higher priced or were sports games. This one was marked $6 (cheaper than the res of the good titles), so I opened it up to check the disc and found the disc missing. I assumed that was why it was cheaper and put the case back down. But then the guy said he has the discs separate. So I took the case over to him, checked out the disc and talked to him a little bit about the game (I wasn't sure if it was a Live game only or not) and offered $5 for it. I would have normally offered less, but the guy seemed nice and was obviously a gamer, so I didn't try to lowball him anymore. 

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This was the other item I bought at the flea market. It was marked $2, so I offered $1 to a girl there, which she happily accepted. The price sticker had "Nick" written on it and she didn't really look like a Nick, so I think it was her brother's which is the main reason she let me have it for half price.

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This was my sole purchase from the dozens of garage sales I went to on Saturday. They had probably 30 or so PS2 and Xbox games, all marked differently. Anywhere from $3-15, this was the only one that I wanted that wasn't a Greatest/Platinum Hits version. It was marked $5 and that's what I paid for it. It's a little more than I wanted to pay for it, but the day was so slow, I had to buy something.

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This was my first purchase for the day at the flea market. These games were all taped together in a bundle (luckily the ones on the end were facing in and didn't have the stick back label so they didn't get damaged by the tape) marked $1. I didn't even bother offering lower because the woman was really nice and they were already ridiculously cheap. The best part is that I actually needed half of them (FF2, SMA/SMW, and WoF). They're dirty and have some stickers, but they should all come clean.

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Another nice deal from the flea market. This guy had a stack of PS1 games, a stack of PS2 games and a stack of 360 games. The PS1 games were all $2 each, PS2 were $5 and 360 games were $7. Unfortunately, none of the PS2 or 360 games were any good, so these were the only things I bought. I asked if he would take $5 for three of them, hesaid he would, so I picked these ones out. FF Anthology and X-Files are ones I already had, but my copy of X-Files is loose and I'm tired of having 4 discs in slim jewel cases so I got this to replace them. FFA will probably be up for sale once I see of it's in any better shape than my current copy.

Best Deal of the Week?

Phantasy Star Universe for $5

PSX "Heater" for $1

Family Guy Video Game for $5

6 SNES games for $1

3 PSX games for $5

Getting poll results. Please wait...

I think this is going to be another close one between two deals, but maybe not, maybe one is a lot better than I'm thinking. Which deal do YOU think was the best one of the week?


As of this posting, I have 2,183 total games, 1,807 unique games, and 376 duplicates. Which means I have 12 more total games, 7 more unique games, and 5 more duplicates since the last Treasure Hunt Chronicle.

So far, I've spent $508.61 this year ($17.00 this week) on gaming related stuff, and I spent $0.00 this week to ship stuff for trades and I brought in $6.24 from selling stuff, so I am down $84.21 this year. The total spent (amount spent on games plus amount spent on shipping for trades) this year, is $591.26


To sum up this year's stats, I have 261 more total games, 329more unique games, and 68 less duplicates. And I have a "loss" of $84.21 for the year.

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Comments

Ghost Soldier said on 7/13/09 7:22 PM   Nice finds, especially the SNES games.

Tynstar said on 7/13/09 8:10 PM   The PSX gun's name is funny. Nice finds.

Wehll said on 7/13/09 8:22 PM   'The Heater.' Ha ha. Great find on the SNES games.

WompaStompa11 said on 7/14/09 9:39 AM   SMA/SMW - never knew this game existed.  Great find for $1

Sirgin said on 7/14/09 5:09 PM   The HEATER! I voted for the SNES games though.

gamepopper101 said on 7/14/09 11:03 PM   Heater FTW Actually, thinking about it. How many names for the light gun can you remember off the top of your head. Since for me, all I can remember is: Justifier Zapper Phaser GunCon SuperScope (even if it's a bazooka) Menacer (again, like a Bazooka)

Boshamp said on 7/15/09 6:21 AM   Very jealous of your SNES bundle find. I would soooo love to have that super mario world/ all stars cart. but getting one for 16.66 cents...I am very jealous. Not to mention how awesome that price is for the FFII and the Super mario world. Great finds!

NES_Rules said on 7/15/09 4:57 PM   I'm pretty surprised by the results of the poll so far. I figured the SNES bundle would win, but not by that much. I guess the PSX games weren't as good of games as I thought. I thought I should also mention something about the SNES games that I forgot about when I did the main entry. While I was buying them, the woman said she had more of them, like a box full of them. She looked around (her spot wasn't set up very well, stuff was just thrown on the ground randomly, she is probably a one time seller) for them, but couldn't find them so she asked her son if he knew where they were and he said they didn't bring any other games, they must have left the other ones at home. I think that's the most crushing thing I've ever heard from a flea market vendor. I'm just praying she is there next week with them and I'm there early enough to snag them.

blcklblskt said on 7/15/09 8:03 PM   Those SNES games are definately the best find.

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