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Got Fallout in the mail today. Looks good, but due to the long weekend, actually took 6 regular mail days, usually shows up in 5 lol.

Been doing it a while, and usually, people are pretty good, but it's summer, no risking it if I ain't a-working lol. Now I'll have some money, the extra $430. July and August, here we come. Might get into trying harder at the comp, but recently, been off of it. Got 2 need for speed underground 2's in jewels to list, transformers the war of cybertron, meh. Let life take me on a drift, so maybe I catch a better drift. Universally coding in...and out, I guess? Nah lol

was going to buy some more weed from the store the next day, and someone replied to my inquiry. I wasn't going to post every deal here, but the second part is why I'm posting. Got an age of empires in box pc game for $15, was close just had to go around differently, all one the lone 3.30 fare in a 2 hour window. Little bit etched/slightly crushed in on front where the top left corner is, and disc does have some scratches. But I figured I might get $50 - $60 out of it, minus the $15, now I realize the last number is a stretch with all the loose box and manual boxes of this game saying no cd. The game must not be worth that much, but apart from those 2 things, it's nice.

So what do you think I should do. Said June 29th, he'll be shipping it today, and reply with the info after 5pm. I was available at 7something pm. I think people that don't reply a lot, are a way to avoid. But there have been some that did just that that proved worthy. It just seems too long, not to get a reply back. It's July 7th. Should I put in a resolution centre thing, I think they might be waiting 21 days to release, but why say something, than just disappear. He disappeared before, than said, was out of town. But I mean, I said I'll wait til Monday/Tuesday, than I want my money back. The thing is, if he replies with, I was going to wait the 21 days, than send, but why not say something, at that point, I have to be like, I just want my money back. And how it's all been, I think it's not going to happen. That was the deal with strife and diablo I shown you. I dunno, but I used to have more faith in it all, now it seems to be testing me, or grounding me to my own water shores lol

Just got back from a weekend of yard sales in New York. First couple of finds:

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These Displate pieces are brand new and were $15 each.

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Got these in a thrift store. Paid about $10 for the lot. Never found CD-i games in the wild.

The rest of my stuff is in my mom's car and will get it this weekend when she comes down.

Porksta wrote:
Nice finds.

Magnetic posters are pretty cool. Also unique in the sense that you can pretty easily swap posters on your wall. No need to knock in nails or use tape/etc.

No video games at yard sales this weekend and I won't post a picture because it's a little NSFW but I did find something rather interesting: rare smut! There was a yard sale nearby with a decent-sized free piles so I grabbed a nacho dish, salsa pot, some chili pepper string light and, most importantly, a softcore movie called "Sumo Vixens" because that's a legit funny premise for a movie to me. Turns out it's out of print and pretty pricey because of that, so I'm passing it along to a friend who collects weird cinema. I watched it the other night and it's basically a live-action 90's anime but with topless scenes and it is VERY campy. One of the funniest things about it is the voice cast - it has a lot of mid 90's/00's anime voiceover artists doing the English dub, with the main villain and secondary female lead being voiced by the folks who voiced Jet and Faye from Cowboy Bebop, respectively.

I made a $10 offer on this PEZ Hander, and the seller bit. $20.somechange altogether, the cheapest on eBay. Jar Jar’s tongue hands you PEZ candies when you press the button!
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(Photo from Google Images, not the exact one I bought.)

I’m a Prequel fan, and this obscure scene is so strange to see turned into a full product. It’s bounced around the back of my mind for years and years, and I was feeling frisky last night. Besides, I have nieces who love candy and will find this fun when they come over!

SupremeSarna wrote:

I'm happy that you got something you like, but also disturbed that such a cursed item exists.

Gildon_Dancypants wrote:

Whatever you do, don't search, "Jar Jar tongue candy."

Picked up this bad boy for $30 at the thrift:

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SupremeSarna wrote:

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Frank wrote:


Dang it, I've seen those before but had completely memory-holed it. Excellent job on reviving it, sir.

$100 PS5 w/Broken HDMI port: roach infested

Didn't know about the roaches until I smelled them as I drove a couple of miles, bought this to practice soldering, Had to buy a bug bomb from the closest hardware store, luckily I already had box to tape everything up in when I set the bomb off.

So yesterday I went to the flea market that sets up near my home. About a third of the regular booths didn't set up, probably because it was hot as hell at 9 AM - most people were already leaving by 10:30. So I figured, "I'm not gonna find anything today."

And then I got to the lady that brings stuff from Northern California - source of most of my movie purchases - and found she brought down EIGHT bins full of movies. It turned out that four of them were stuff that I'd already seen over the past month, but four were new. And boy did I hate her.

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One of the bins was full of library copies of various Blurays, but it was nothing I was interested in. A lot of other things were water damaged, missing art, or the discs. So I just dug around and found the above. Paid about $12 for them (and something I put aside for selling.) Mr. Bill and that Michael Jordan set supposedly have games in them so I'm keeping them for my project.

And Nine Lives... I've been trying to get a copy of that movie for a year. It's in good shape but I don't know if it has the digital code (not like it matters, I don't use them.) The HD DVDs are as always, a gamble, the 300 disc didn't look weird so I dunno. Maybe it'll work?

Gildon_Dancypants wrote:


Unique item @SupremeSarna

Is it battery operated, or purely mechanical?

Local store here was running a sale this weekend. Walked out with all this (for way less than sticker of course).

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Gypsy wrote:
Might be interested in Trinity Universe if you're willing to part with it.

Sent you a pm but in general most of this stuff is available as I already have most of it. I had a buyer for Fragile Dreams in advance so that is sold. I'm keeping PN03, Luigi's Mansion and this copy of Double Dash specifically. I will be selling my old copy of Double Dash which is the version without the bonus disc.

Mom came back down from NY today so we spent the day thrifting. Here's what I found:

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Blu-Rays were $2-$3 each, Judy is sealed. PS1 games were $3 each - unfortunately the disc is gone from Crash.

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Crash was $18 and is in really nice condition. Other games were about $3 a pop. Just Dance 2018 has the 2015 disc inside.

I went berry picking with my family on vacation, and there was a garage sale happening immediately to the right of the patch. It was all old clothes and furniture (a knit hat of Grumpy Cat was the highlight), so I didn’t buy anything, but it’s still cool I found a garage sale in a convenient spot while on vacation. That’s probably the first time that’s happened for me.

Went to a community yard sale in upstate New York last weekend. Haven't been to it in six or so years, and wasn't really expecting to find anything. Actually had some great finds:

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Very first sale of the day had video games for $1 each. A guy ahead of me grabbed Final Fight and another SNES game, but I guess he didn't feel like flipping through the disc only games. These were $1 each, Resident Evil was from a different seller for $2.

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Seasons 1-5 of Bones for $5. Seasons 2-5 are sealed.

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Mario Kart was $10. Star Wars and Project Runway were $.50 each, the others $2.

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Always see Youtubers picking up vintage snapback hats so I figured I would give it a shot. Hats were $1 each. Other items I got at the very last sale of the day for $20. I guess they were still there at 2pm because people thought they were just crappy licensed games for $10?

... okay, how old is that Kid Rock CD? I thought it was one of those licensed songs for kids albums at first.

Edit: Holy cheeseballs, it's from 1990?!

It is one of his first albums I believe. I find them from time to time. They usually go for $10-$15 so I pick them up when I can.

SupremeSarna wrote:
We need more details on the berry picking :)

What kind(s) of berries?

Are you allowed to eat them as you pick them?

Porksta wrote:

It's actually his first solo album. Sorry, the art just caught me off guard.

Porksta wrote:
I'm interested in that PS2 Urbz, if you're willing to part with it Porksta.

Porksta wrote:

I was in serious need of that Wii Sports Resort disc a few weeks ago. Not anymore.

nonamesleft wrote:

Yes, we could eat them as we went—the owners didn’t care. They were all blueberry bushes, though I’d have preferred raspberries or blackberries. The bushes were pretty barren, but we had some fun with it and got a pound or so. My nieces had a lot of fun, and it was nice talking with the other pickers.

My last finds from the NY trip. Went to a flea market out in the country, so unfortunately my phone had no service. Still think I did alright:

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Games were 3/$5, movie was actually $1 from a local Goodwill.

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Games here were $3 a piece. I knew some wrestling games are worth money so with no phone service I just bought them all.

I had more thrift finds than yard sale finds this past weekend, but still grabbed some decent stuff for a decent price! I came home with everything in the pic below for $40.

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4 Heroes of Light is available, if anyone is interested.

Gildon_Dancypants wrote:
Wow. Nice! Where do you find these things? Don't think I've seen even 1 yard sale this summer.

Miss!

Box of Gamecube & Xbox games all going for $2 each at a popup flea market

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Slept a little too late and just missed it, will never know what the titles were

EclipseLion wrote:

If they were displayed like that probably a box of old sports titles

That's exactly what I was thinking. In fact, that front 360 game looks like the NBA 2K game with Jordan on the cover - 12 I think.

I hope so guys :/

The last time I missed a deal to another guy, he posted them for sale (for full market value) the next day. It was those 3 switch games (marvel ultimate alliance 3, tmnt shredders revenge, and hyrule warriors calamity) for dirt cheap. So I I’ll be looking out for an odd GameCube and Xbox listing

Y'all ever get what feels like a bait & switch on fb marketplace? This guy makes an ad for a $50 Apple Watch 6 with no charger. I tell him I'll take it barring any issues (like iCloud locked), and they say they can't accept the listed price since they woke up to several offers, they can meet me right away but i'd have to pay over $100 now

Feels like that darth vader meme about altering the deal

EclipseLion wrote:
Pray he doesn't alter it any further.

Sounds like a stolen/bricked device to me.

Or a fake one. There's lots of counterfeit watches that barely function out there. I'd steer clear of it.

I was all scheduled to meet someone the next day to pay his asking price for two cameras. Location agreed, time set, phone numbers and car descriptions exchanged.

Morning of he messages me to say "Sold it to someone offering more"

I agreed to his asking price.

I hate that stuff.

I spent Saturday morning hitting up a large community yard sale near me. I found a lot of kitschy stuff but no games, though I'm hoping to get a call back about some later. I won't bore you with pics of that stuff, but here's what I found right around the corner from my house when I was just out and about in my neighborhood - Pokemon Ruby, Golden Sun, and Super Mario Strikers. Total spent on the games was $41.

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My PEZ hander arrived! I cleaned it out and bought a boatload of PEZ, then gave it a test run. Someone pick a flavor: cherry, strawberry, lemon, grape, orange, or raspberry.

SupremeSarna wrote:
Pick a flavor, as in for you to try? Strawberry and lemon at the same time. 😋

nonamesleft wrote:

For the sake of reducing the number of PEZ packs I have to open (I've already used up two and will use another tomorrow), I'll just pick strawberry. But props for thinking outside the restriction.

@nonamesleft Viola! Jar Jar is helpful. https://youtube.com/shorts/9Y5OVvLRVts?feature=sha...

SupremeSarna wrote:
:) Thanks. Appreciate it. So that's how it works. That's much more satisfying than a regular pez dispenser. Worthy purchase.

Went to a few garage sales and estate sales over the weekend. I got a $2 copy of NBA2k for GameCube, and this bad boy for $35...

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3D glasses have been ordered.

Is that the Playstation 3D TV?

Porksta wrote:

It sure is. I've been wanting one for so many years. I never thought I'd find a working one this cheap out in the wild.

Here's a better photo
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Oh wow. Really cleaned up nice.

Frank wrote:
Nice. I know very little about the PlayStation 3D TV. Makes me think of a giant PSP. What can it do/play?

@Frank that is super cool. I used one once to play motorstorm against some random on a kiosk in GameStop back when this came out. We were both blown away, it felt like black magic at work

The 127 Yard Sale is next week, so I figured it would be best to come visit my parents a week early - work from home and do some shopping before all the dealers show up. Found the following:

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NES games were $5 for both. Found them in the back corner of a dirty flea market booth.
DVD and Dark Souls were Goodwill finds. I'll be damned if I am going to pay those sticker prices (and 10% sales tax to boot!) so I waited until yesterday and took my mom so I can get the 20% senior discount.

nonamesleft wrote:

I love that it looks like a giant PSP Go screen. So it's a 3D display, so by nature, it can be used for 3D movies, as well as some 3D-supported PS3 games. Theoretically, I could also play the few PS4/360/XB1 games that support 3D on it as well.

The coolest feature for me, which was encountered similarly to @bumsplikity, was eliminating split screen. The TV has the ability to have Player 1 and Player 2 see different images on the screen. I got to demo Call of Duty Zombies, with this feature, at GameStop back when this thing was new. My mind was blown.

I've also been wanting a 3D TV, but couldn't justify taking up space to have a full size. This was the perfect score, and it fits in well in the Game Room. I'll probably eventually move it next to the PlayStation Stuff. But for now it's okay where it's at.

Did some antiquing/thrifting with my mom in Knoxville yesterday, had a pretty good day:

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These were all from an antique mall. Booth was a video game vendor, not sure if I caught him sleeping or what. Everything was priced as marked. The PS game is Spider, and Earthworm Jim has no manual. Lollipop Chainsaw was $4. Movie was $3 and from a different booth.
Will go back and do a deeper dive in this booth tomorrow as I will be going solo.

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Grabbed these from the various thrift stores we hit up. DVD was $4 and sealed, Action Replay is also sealed and was $2. Rampage was $3 after military discount.

One more find from the antique store Saturday! A mystery box!

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I wonder what could be inside! The booth was half off, so $100 worth of games for $25? I'll give it a shot:

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Wow, what a score! If anyone wants all of this for $75 let me know! Oh, Halo 4 is missing disc two, Halo 2 is apparently a 360 game, and Bioshock 2 case contains just Bioshock.

At least GTA will get me $5 at Gamestop.

Fast forward to Sunday:
Even though the 127 doesn't start until Thursday, people set up early. My mom and I set out and I found a few things:

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Got all of the disc games for $1. Golf was also $1. Genesis games were $5 each, Wii Sports and NFS were $5 for the pair. Batman was $3.

Porksta wrote:

9 Xbox games not hitting $100 or $50 market value? Crazy. It's almost like if your prices are good you don't have to hide them or something

Well, getting my money back was easy. They immediately put the money in my account. I took some pictures mentioning his emails where he told me to send and the fact he never gave me a tracking number. Stubhub usually pays that way, so I don't know if it's due to that, they did it. I thought there'd be an investigation. Maybe the account was already flagged...who knows.

The other deal, the person getting married. Either a real wedding crasher, or I shared a good deal lol. Whenever I let a good deal slide, the equation in my head seems like a multiplier of energies, not quite synnergies, but a code to get through life. Sometimes no matter how good something is, you just sometimes go fudge it, based on something inherent. I don't think much of it, but sometimes, it's not all about lining your pockets with dollars. Maybe I'm just strange. That $400 went by so fast haha. Time to do some chores while enjoying summer. Anything for money is a chore in my opinion. Everyone had some sort of slave labour. LOL.

All good, not finding any deals, but haven't really been searching. Taking to the outdoors better, but inside, it's like, this again. Ah well, no choice. The dolphins with the green light in miami need to download their brain, and do something to sustain the time or 5th element the google wizbot. No idea. Some kinda babbling crazies left in my brain from all the tripping with no meds haha

Has anyone been to the 127 Yard Sale in the past? Is it worth going to? How far have you gone out of the approx. 690 mile path have you covered?

Hit up the pawn shops Monday, think I did alright:

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Everything here was $15

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Got all of this for $45.

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These last two photos were from two different stores, but each item was only $2.

Porksta wrote:



The return you get alone on Splatterhouse should just about cover all of this

So I took a rather long hiatus, but somehow that's how this year started...lol...trying to feel like a kid having a summer. But no more slacking. Ha ha, did a contest run, no luck to reward me yet. and than started browsing for deals 3 days ago

got my first hit. This is an old friend, or at least we did this before, he did say best offer, than had it for free, so I said how much would you like? he said free. I texted him, thought I was too late, than got on and went there. Found a place that either sells cheap single bic lighters or has a deal on crush grape bottles but who knows when I'll be back lol

here's what I got, the two worlds demo is still sealed, as is lego masterpiece rock raiders. Also have a manual to gruntz not pictured, and one for worms armaggedon. Also not pictured is exotic japan a guide to japanese culture and language by Nikki Yokokura

https://freeimage.host/i/HZZOHas
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https://freeimage.host/i/HZZOFwl
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https://freeimage.host/i/HZZOBM7
https://freeimage.host/i/HZZOqnS
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free is good, I'm pretty broke lol - time to start doing more tomorrow

PS/EDIT: Keeping revolt and gta 2 for my collection. Was about to pay $20 for both, but it didn't pan out. I hate having to pay out of pocket for collection, when I'm not really a collector. Just a photo or word nostalgicator that seems to keep me keeping some things around. I guess it somehow makes a little sense lol. Also had the sims in jewel and an add-on to it. Realized it when I stepped on it on the floor, prob one case is gonzo lol.

Hit up a couple local pawn shops/thrift stores yesterday:

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Four on the left were $5, 24 was $6 and is sealed.

Sale officially starts tomorrow (Thursday) but I popped in yesterday (Tuesday) to the main strip to check out the vendors that set up early. First tent got me this:

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All for $75 (plus $1 for the VHS). Cords included. Lady said it was tested and working. When I asked if there was a controller she went into her RV to look. Came out with no controller but a handful more games.

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Same lady showed this to me and asked if I knew what it was. Looked it up and saw it is a train controller for PC games. She asked me to make her an offer. Told her I would do $40 but she could probably get more. Offer was accepted as it is pretty heavy and she didn't want to deal with it.

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Wipeout 3 was from a different vendor and was $3. It is sealed. Paid about $16 or so after tax for the other items at various thrift stores.

Wooo Wip3out!

While the 127 officially starts Thursday, the unofficial first day is Wednesday. I found some cool stuff:

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Everything on the top row was $1 each. MX was also $1 and is sealed, but is R3. NCAA and Beyond were $10 each, and GoW was $5. Beyond is the steelbook.

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Everything in this photo was $30. I have found a lot of PSP games during this trip. Didn't buy them all, but have seen a lot for sale.

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All of this for $22. Noragami is sealed.

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This is probably my favorite find. Paid $25 for it and it works. Unfortunately the artwork is the only thing Mario related about it. Typical pinball noises when you play it.

Nice haul! I've always wanted Fantasy Zone II: The Tears of Opa-Opa on the go, but I could never find a copy for a desirable price. As for that Mario 64 game, wowzer! It's so cool! They made one for Kirby's Pinball Land that I'd kill for, but I've never seen one sold.

Yesterday was the official first day of the sale, but all it did was rain. Did find a few items in between showers:

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Indiana Jones was $5 but is missing a few items (including a disc). I have always wanted to see Zombieland 2, and the code is still good! The black thing is a radar detector.

Nice timing on the Digimon CD, Discotek is releasing the movies on Bluray.

Hi, I have a question here to someone with more knowledge on the subject. I got in my pc game lot a game called Yu-Gi-Oh : Power of Chaos Yugi the Destiny. I see various prices, but most don't include the cards. Mine has the sealed cards, I believe it's a 3 (Nope, 5-) pack. Anyone know if they're rare on the top of your head. I see 2 selling for more with the cards, but maybe they just priced it as such. Thought it someone knows they can easily let me know something.

https://www.ebay.ca/itm/225136197324?chn=ps&norove...

well, did some searching, and see it's prob $50-60 for the cards alone at a reasonable sale time. Not interested in keeping them. Anyone know a little more about them, and can say for sure, what a fair price for them is. Thx in advance if you know more than I do, most people do...haha, nah

nevermind, just typed the exact title and searched finished auctions, and saw it sell on ebay for $100, than $169 crossed out...guess I'm usually too tired to really do too much at once, but realize giving questions or expecting others to figure it out, is like leaving the board blank and expecting something to happen. Someone break the internet across the world, we need some time off haha

I finally caught a break! $5 for everything...

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That is a score.

Holy crap

Yesterday was the last day of the sale for me. Weather was great. Fields were a bit muddy from the previous day's rain, but no big deal. Did see a few cars get stuck.

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Admiral was $3 and Lost was $5, each are sealed. The two 4k were $1 each. Zapper was $3 and Street Fighter was $15. Other four were $10, but Fortune Street is case and manual only.

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Found a video game vendor, not sure why people like him set up. I don't go out at 9am in 90 degree weather on muddy fields to pay $100 for boxed NES games, but I suppose if he wasn't making money he wouldn't set up. He had a $5 or 3/$10 table so I picked up a few things. L4D2 gets $9 cash money at Gamestop, he must be new to the selling game.

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Genesis controller was $5 from the video game vendor, completes my bundle from a few days ago. Skylanders were from a different sale and were $2 each. Didn't know Crash had figures, that is pretty cool.

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I was so close guys.
I was the first one to contact him.
I also just happened to live right around the corner from him, so I was there immediately when he asked for me to “come through”, and came through cash in hand.
He still sold to someone else and gave me the runaround as I waited for him in my car (he said “ I have a lot of people asking e right now first come first serve”)

tarzanpat wrote:
I've played several Yu-Gi-Oh video games, but I don't think I've heard of that one. It's a PC Yu-Gi-Oh game?

JesterScott wrote:
Wow. Awesome. Local sale?

Frank wrote:

You don't understand, I was on his doorstep with over $200, texting him "Hello, I'm here at the address you gave me cash in hand" and all he could say after 15-30 minutes of waiting is oh I have a daughter and I can't get away at the moment. I was nervous I was gonna be robbed or something but I should have shown a picture of the money along with having already said I have cash in hand.

EclipseLion wrote:

Oh wow, that's a really shady situation. He obviously held you up for something else. I wonder if he actually found another buyer, or just realized he had more than he initially thought.

Either way that really sucks. It's situations like that, that make me leery of using either Facebook Marketplace or Craigslist anymore.

Porksta wrote:

A while back I bought a bag of Skylanders, JUST because I saw the Crash and Neo Coretex figures.

I don't play Skylanders, but I really dug these figures and wanted them on my shelf. I appreciate their size.

Frank wrote:

Yeah, after about 5 minutes of waiting, I sat in my car, letting it run with the doors locked, I live in an area that's near constantly patrolled by cops so that was some relief, This early afternoon he apologized, and tried to offer a messy black wii with cables with pictures taken from the backseat of his messy car. This kinda has me hoping the consoles in those boxes were in bad shape, so I wouldn't have wanted them anyway, and...I know even the Nintendo boxes have value, just let me have this lol