What's this? A new Treasure Hunt Chronicles? It feels like its been ages since I last posted one of these. Last year was a little mixed for me, I had the single largest haul of my life (and most likely will never get so many games at once ever again) but I only had eight Treasure Hunt Chronicle posts. I had to quit treasure hunting early last year due to a huge research project and school in general sucking up all my time. But that's all done, and I'll hopefully be able to get back into garage saling full time. I'll be graduating in the Spring, and working an internship until then, so I'll most likely be limited to Saturdays only for garage saling from now, instead of any day there is a garage sale, so I'll have to work extra hard on the days that I do get to go saling.




Anyway, enough about me. I know what you're here for, the TREASURE! Now, since it is January, there isn't exactly a lot of people willing to stand outside to sell their junk, so the garage sales have been very light so far. In fact, I haven't gone to a single one yet this year. But, luckily for me, my dad has gone to a few garage sales, and was considerate enough to call me when he did find something worthwhile.

The sale he went to was posted on Craigslist (which I had set him up with a couple weeks earlier) and was a "moving sale". Turns out when they said "everything must go" they meant it. He said they were literally selling everything, including the kitchen sink . . . and the doors, windows, kitchen cabinets, pretty much everything that wasn't structural to the house was going.
Luckily, I have him trained well and he called me to ask if if he should buy "some Nintendo games". I asked how many there were and what the price was. He said there was about 40 and he wanted $30 for it. I told him that if he could get it cheaper, to buy it. Then he tells me that some have their boxes, and started telling me the titles. When I heard they were boxed, I just interrupted him and told him to buy them, even if it was at $30. For that price it wouldn't matter if they were all commons, plus this way I'd be surprised when he got home.

Turns out, he got them all for $20 (he's like me and can't stand paying the asking price even if its a great deal). The top row of games are loose, the second row have the manual, the third, fourth, and fifth rows are all CIB, and the rest are either just boxed games or loose manuals/posters.
And in case you can't tell, there is a Power Pad under all that.

Most of the CIB are mint or close to it. Most with the extra inserts, styrofoam, dust covers and maps/posters that came with them. I already had most of the games loose, but having them CIB is very nice.

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But wait, there's more. I also got Cabela's Big Game Hunter 2010 (Xbox 360, CIB) in a trade from member FibroFreak. I traded the case inserts and manual from a incomplete FF7 set I had for it.The deal wasn't quite as sweet as it should have been because when I shipped the case, I left the discs inside, so I paid the return shipping for those as well. Thankfully FibroFreak is a great trader and didn't try to deny the discs were there. 

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