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He only shows up on the weekends, and if someone found stuff then you bet someone would've told him about it today.

But the guy's prices are usually so high than they probably didn't even sell them to a normal customer at all. I bet a reseller bought them for cheap at the end of the day, and they probably wipe the drives immediately.

He should really be wiping hard drives before selling them. That's like...standard operating procedure.

Picked up some vinyl records over the weekend notably Led Zeppelin IV and The Doors. In case anyone is interested, I listed them in the General Marketplace

"Hey man, that drive you sold me had lots of gay porn on it. And pirated software. Maybe wipe drives next time before selling them?"

Sounds like a good conversation to be having.

I’d give that right back refund or no.

Closest thing I ever found was some tiny memory card for PSP and it looked like the guy from the movie Crying Game was doing selfies. A few streets down from from me where I bought it one day for a quarter. I couldn't hit delete fast enough on those pictures but you can't unsee it. I do remember telling my friends in 1992 to never watch that movie or you'll have nightmares. I'm sure many people have bought old cameras that still had film in it and still had room for more photos. And got a nice surprise or nasty nightmares after getting the film developed.

For a while I was pretty regularly buying a particular brand of Hi8 Camcorder. These almost always had a tape inside them, and about 25% of the time the tape had homemade porn on it. It was always gross.

bumsplikity wrote:

When I was really on the garage sale profit grind I was selling camcorders. NEVER looked at recorded contents once lmao.

Gypsy wrote:

Yeah it's a minefield. Verifying playback was a key component of my testing, so I'd always just play back the tape inside to make sure that part of the device worked. I now have a designated tester tape I use for this, the media in the camcorder goes straight into the garbage.

bumsplikity wrote:

I mostly avoided ones that used tape but when I did do those I listed them as for parts and stated the extent of my testing. Probably took some kind of value hit but it was still quite profitable. Good call on the tester tape.

I found Taiko no Tatsujin: Rhythm Festival at GameStop today for $10–that’s 50% off. It had, no joke, nine price stickers layered on top of each other. I guess it just wouldn’t sell.

Has a bizarre track list, too. Super Mario Bros. and Zelda aren’t crazy, but they somehow got a Kirby Star Allies medley, “Life Will Change” from Persona 5, and “MEGALOVANIA.” Like, what?

Dude. Megalovania is in friggin' BEMANI too.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yzHekKaCdug

Pop'n Music, Gitadora, DDR, and Sound Voltex. It's in a bunch of other music games, too.

So when I found that Twisted Metal PC port for @Renaissance2K, he said he'd repay me by giving me one of the games in the lot. I finally got it today: Ultraman Quiz King / Ultraman Quiz Ou:

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This is a hybrid Pippin / Power Mac CD. Pippin discs are absurdly rare, let alone one still in the box, and this is complete with the obi strip and registration card.

The game has already been preserved - it turned out to match the dump in MAME, go figure - but hey, one more game for the oddity collection.

And allegedly coincidentally, he reused the padding from the box and this was on top:

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Which I thought was neat, cuz, you know. Fox. Eheh.

Got a New Nintendo 3DS today from a store I shop at locally. They had it marked as "Damaged, AS IS" and had the price at 25 dollars. I have been looking for one of these forever, so I decided to get it and have a friend try to repair it. I get out into the parking lot and take it out of the bag and it boots right up. It's a bit beat up but works just fine. I expect that after some cleaning it will be lookin quite nice.

This exact console was a major want for me so to just find it like this was really unexpected.

https://photos.app.goo.gl/F3UrXmSsNERcZyqu5

bumsplikity wrote:

Time for you to buy a lottery ticket

bumsplikity wrote:

SCORE!

Truly bizarre, but great find.

Gypsy wrote:

Yeah I was pretty stunned. I'm wondering if an employee was trying to scam the store by marking a working console as damaged so that they could buy it off hours for a heavily reduced price. The girl checking me out said some variation "you know this is broken right?" 3 or 4 times during our brief exchange.

McKay’s? I loved raiding that place in east brainerd / Chattanooga. The best values are things they mark “very scratched” etc. they did not attempt to repair anything back then.

Feeb wrote:

Yep we have one here in Greensboro, though unfortunately it is moving at the beginning of 2024 :(

I've found a ton of good titles in that "Very Scratched" bin for extremely reasonable prices.

bumsplikity wrote:

It could be something like that. What kind of store is it?

The store here will mark down handhelds from their nm price (which is generally above market average understandably) but it's at prices that make sense and scale with the damage.

@Gypsy It's like a half priced books or a Gamestop. They buy stuff and then resell it. So people bring in their books/games/instruments to trade in and then the store buys it to resell.

I take stuff there to trade in pretty regularly so I'm always sitting on a decent amount of store credit just waiting for them to get something in I want.

Today, I bought a physical copy of Shakedown: Hawaii . Only 3000 were made, so it was a worthy purchase even if I don’t end up liking it. It contains all the updates on-cart, which a nice bonus.

Edit: 6000 copies were printed, but half of them are the more-expensive special editions that I didn’t really want.

A Savers/Unique just opened up down the street from me. When I say down the street it is super close - just a couple minute drive depending on the lights. They officially open Thursday, but had a soft opening for a couple hours today for members (although anyone could shop, only members got the email). I wanted to stay the entire time as they were restocking throughout the two-hour window, but I had other things to do. The prices were... okay. The selection though was great. I can't remember the last time I bought almost 30 items at a thrift store. Too bad I am about to leave for Thanksgiving. Will probably start popping in every day during my lunch break. Got everything for $110.

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Top row is sealed.

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I believe everything is complete except the PS2 games. Each of those are missing the manuals. Also, Super Paper Mario is in the Mario Kart case.

Apparently there's a Savers about a half hour away. I need to check it out.

That Middle-Earth II should cover at least half of what you paid. Damn.

I was able to thrift during lunch at my last job and it was amazing. Such a nice break to leave the office for an hour and do a bit of digging.

bumsplikity wrote:

That would definitely be a sick way to use up a lunch break.

I just bought Urban Yeti's box, manual, and cart tray for just under $17. That's kind of a steal for it, since that's usually worth $35.
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This'll look great on my cardboard box shelf, right next to Kirby: Nightmare in Dream Land and Game & Watch Gallery 3.

In September, I reached out to Telegames and offered to buy the IP rights to Urban Yeti. If you can believe it, my joke email was more professional than their official response.

Got a cechl01 80gb ps3 at a garage sale for $10.

The Last of Us Part II is my favorite game of all time, and I managed to win an eBay auction for the collector's edition for $99.99 + shipping. It was almost brand new. The seller opened the seal and took pictures of everything before putting it back, and all of the items inside the box were still individually sealed. I never buy collector's editions, but I love this game, and the statue of Ellie is pretty great. It's a lot bigger than I had expected.

Picked up an odd little assortment of items from a thrift store back home near my parents house.

Paid 58 dollars for a NES classic, a SNES classic, Blues Brothers and Batman Beyond for N64, and a Genesis and NES ac adapter.

https://photos.app.goo.gl/soqfcDJyGKo8xNZC8

bumsplikity wrote:

Anything available here?

I'd be interested in the power bricks and n64 games.

bumsplikity wrote:

Nice, wish I could find one of those snes classics for a decent price

bumsplikity wrote:
Nice.

@Gypsy I don't have those n64 games so i'll be keeping those, but the power bricks are definitely up for grabs.

@brian9824 It is available so if you are interested send me a PM and we can try to work something out!

Not much recently. Stopped browsing, but gave it a valiant effort 3 days ago, and 2 days ago, picked up a new in box and sealed The World of Need for Speed. I was thinking I can price it alongside the need for speed collection, but it does seem to be the rarer one out of the 2. But now that I see a collection for $200 new and sealed, mine is just kinda beat up. A bit. So I'm guessing in time if I can make back $115 off of it, it was worth waiting an hour for the guy, than meeting him about 20 minutes away. Paid $55 CAD. Price was negotiable, but he was further out, so I was like, can you come here? Lol. Than I guess the price stayed. Not the best deal, I could have used that $55 for other things haha. Whatever, I had to find something to buy and flip

Just came back from visiting my folks for the holidays, so of course we had to go shopping:

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360 games were $4 each and are clean - the condition is the only reason why I bought a couple. Damn though, 10% sales tax is a dog.
Equilibrium includes the digital code (no clue if used or not) and was also $4 - will upgrade my DVD copy.
I hate on my parent's Goodwill as it suuuucks (prices and selection) - but The Chaser is one of my all time favorite Korean films and was absolutely stoked to find it!
The DMZ arm patch was $19 and the Golden Nugget cards were $5. My family is going to Vegas in a few months and we will be staying at the Golden Nugget so I thought it was neat. Not sure if it is the same or not, but some packs seem to have sold for $80 or so.

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Games on top were $3 each. Ti-83 manual was free from a thrift store book pile.
Forza was $5, the three DVD were a couple bucks each.
PS4 games are sealed. San Andreas was $2 at Goodwill.

Some more of my finds from the holiday trip:

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All of this from a pawn shop. PS4 was $60 and sold "as-is" - they told me they were having issues installing an update. Figure if I can't get it to work, I'll just take it to eStarland and have them look. $60 for a parts only PS4 isn't horrible if that's how it goes.
The other movies/games were $10 for the lot.

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Popped in to McKay's books to trade some stuff in and bought all the items on the top row. The games were in the "super scratched" section, but look fine. Riddick was $10 and L4D2 was $3. Gex and Twisted Metal were $5 each and need a resurfacing. Croc was $.75 and the Skylander was $3.

O hai Porksta

You are tearing me apart Foxhack!