Great bargains from E-bay / Garage / Yard / Car boot sales

[Doodad]

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*sigh* I just bought a GameCube off Craigslist for $35 w/cables n everything. Sounded like a good deal to me…right after I buy it, some other dude I contacted on Craigslist sends me an e-mail back saying he’ll sell his GC (w/cables n stuff) for $15…

FUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU

 

[Prog]

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Good deal?

Gamestop offers a better deal than that.

Gamestop!

 

[Doodad]

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Good deal?

Gamestop offers a better deal than that.

Gamestop!

Does anyone know how to tie a noose?

Ugh, I'll just look at this as a LEARNING experience to make sure I check ALL options before hastily buying something...

I just found that I could have bought one off of amazon for cheaper than gamestop's. I don't think I'll buy anything off Craigslist anytime soon, it felt like a friggin drug deal. We met at a parking lot, he handed me the bag with the goods, I handed him the money. God, I hope this GC isn't stolen or something. XD

 

[Ashen]

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Scored a top loader NES with hookups and controller + 7 games for $20 today at a yard sale that I just happened to walk by.

 

[Doodad]

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Just got an Atari 7800 for $10 at a yardsale. Had a bunch of different controllers, and games. It didn't come with a power supply and since they're pretty expensive me and my dad made one ourselves haha. The thing works like a dream now. The yardsale also had snes, and a n64, but they were in pretty bad shape. I probably could've got both for $5 lol, but unfortunately I had very little money on me and spent it all on the atari.

Bought:

Atari 7800 w/controllers, and tons of games: $10

Estimated value: $80 - $100 DDD

 

[ttsgeb]

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I went to goodwill yesterday, got a 25 y/o black&decker waffle iron. Not only that, but it works... like perfectly, and is perfect condition, and came with the manual. How awesome is that? I'm now the proud owner of a waffle iron. and proud certainly describes is.

Thought I'd mentioned that I'm still pretty stoked about this...

 

[XCVG]

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Super Famicom ~$30 from Super Potato

Also some cheap $1 game to build an adapter. They must have thought I was crazy digging through all the cheap games looking for one with all the pins.

I've been trying to get out of this sort of thing for a while since I never play any of these old games, but I've wanted a Super Famicom for quite a while now, and it's not like I can just go out and buy one. Call it bragging rights.

 

[Zero]

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If you widen the cart slot a bit you don't need the adapter.

 

[XCVG]

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I bought it for looks, there's no way I'm taking a saw to it.

 

[Zero]

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More like a file.

 

[bic]

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Or a screwdriver to temporarily remove the top cover? (You might want to do that anyway; it's amazing what cleaning the plastics in a bucket of lukewarm water and dish soap can do for secondhand electronics.)

 

[bic]

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Went on a junk store crawl today and dug this junk up:

Some games on compact disc!

You Don't Know Jack volumes 2 and 3, SimCity 4 Deluxe Edition (both CDs) - $1 apiece

A stupid babby toy!

Beat-up Leapster. No cartridges or anything, but I figure it might have some fun guts. $3
e: Initial teardown reveals:
- Glop-top chips
- Resistive LCD touchscreen
- Various components
- 5 tact switches
- 2kbit serial EEPROM
- 16 ohm .25w speaker
- 4 almost-new lithium AAs! (Broke even!)
e2: Crap, LCD cracked. Oh well, the touchscreen part still works! The LCD itself was just a passive matrix China special anyway; all its control guts live in one of the glop-top ships on the motherboard anyway!

And a very high quality piece of software that is essential to 20th century home computing and productivity!

Microsoft Bob. Gonna run it on DosBox on my smartphone for the Heck of it. $1

edit: Went back today and snagged a Linksys E1000 802.11b/g/n router for 6 bucks. I flashed DD-WRT, and I'm going to see if I can add an external antenna jack.

 

[epicelite]

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I was at goodwill today, found:


NGC Controller Top half is purple, bottom is clear plastic. Kinda beat up but I never saw one before so I got it. $4.99
This interesting PS1 controller with digital analog sticks, 2 big red IR sensors or something, figure I'd let someone here toy with it? $4.99

Sim City 4 - $2.99

The coup de grâce?
Xenogears
Black label
$3.99

In pretty much mint condition, small crack in the case. Manual looks like its never even been read!

 

[Mr. Hooker]

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Picked up a few things from yard sales and thrift stors this morning.
1 yellow N64 controler (the stick feels as good as new) $2
1 Spider-Man Game Cube controler $5
2 small 3rd party wireless ps2 controlers with resever $5
1 Vtech Vflash controler $1
1 plug and play Atari $3
1 plug and play sega genesis $5
1 plug and play EA sports $2
1 PixTer thingy with no scraches on the tuch screen. $2
1 portiable VCR & 5" TV that plugs into a cigaret lighter 8$

 

[Mister Nickels]

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Pictured: the best thing I've ever bought with $5.

I'm going to have to get some better speakers, of course. But $5. Great condition. All the manuals. It sounds spectacular.
Also, PS2 for $5.

 

[Caredo]

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Got up early this morning for my 9:45 blood donation appointment. After being drained of a pint of O-, I stopped by a thrift store on the way home. I got a $5 gamecube last time I went there, so I was hoping to find something like that again. None of the electronics caught my interest, but I bought a pan with a specific shape I'd been looking for and a glass jar that I'll probably fill with some sort of candy and keep on my desk. Something like $6 for both.

I wandered around the store for a little longer, looking at books and stuff. Wound up wandering back to the electronics section. Apparently one of the employees had restocked the shelf, because there was a Wii with a controller included. Pricetag? $9.99. I was almost certain there'd be something wrong with it, since nobody would donate a fully functional Wii to a thrift store unless there was an issue. It was $10, though, so I figured I'd have a shot at it. No big loss if it's completely broken.

Took it home, hooked it up. Booted fine. Menu and all that worked. Still skeptical, I tried inserting a disc, which it refused to take. Googled the issue and found out that one of the disc drive's gears were probably out of place. Opened the Wii up, and oh boy.

Oh boy.

Inside the disc drive were two Nintendo DS games: Animal Crossing and Gardening Mama. Somebody's kid had probably jammed them into the Wii's disc slot. I could not contain my laughter upon discovering this.


tl;dr: I got a Wii and two DS games for $10

 

[superben51]

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5$ gamecube? pfft we can do better then that. Come on guys lets go put a wii up for 10$!

I think this is something like the conversation went in the back of that thrift store.

 

[Abyss]

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I just got Half-Life 2: Episode 1, Diablo II, a CD, and some supa dank parchment style paper for $4.88 at Goodwill. Diablo II is missing the third disc and has an illegible CD key, but now that I own it I'll just grab a keygen or something.

This may not be nationwide, but every Goodwill in my area is 50% off the entire store today and every first Saturday of the month. You may want to check it out.

 

[bic]

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If you don't have a key, you don't own the software. HL2:Ep1 is tied to Steam, anyway.

Please don't steal from Valve.

 

[Abyss]

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If you don't have a key, you don't own the software. HL2:Ep1 is tied to Steam, anyway.

Please don't steal from Valve.

Valve is one company I wouldn't steal from. So I didn't get such a good deal after all?