VideoGame_Discussion

Kommie wrote:
Wait, what? $5 for that? Wish I had known. I don't mind using a usb controller and mapping it, not a big deal, but I've heard good things about the Steam controller.

nonamesleft wrote:

It’s pretty solid, I would recommend it for couch play and get the dock for the switch, that’s what I did

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got this for $40. Keep in mind it's in Canadian, didn't take long on a single bus ride and than back and fare. All in all, I wanted to try getting into my ps3. Just a bit, and thought diablo, twisted metal, big planet karting, rayman origins and shadow of mordor I'll potentially try. Little Big Planet 1 and Twisted Metal and prob another game are prob retail or current value now to what I paid. Not stellar by any means. So all in all, I prob won't keep twisted metal for too long. My mother was like oh no not diablo, I guess she didn't like some dreams I had at another time, she's like play nicer games, shadow of mordor, prob don't have the patience for. Will prob still keep diablo, big planet karting and rayman origins around for a while.

i picked up some wii games and 3ds for $25

mario kart wii, animal crossing wii, 2 wii sports, mario galaxy, xenobkades 3ds, michael jackson wii, just dance 2, 14,15
all the wii games were scratched

so i resurfaces them and traded them to gs

I found an European Steam disc for Rollercoaster Tycoon World Deluxe at the Amazon consignment store for $2. And the code worked!

Unfortunately, that also means I now own Rollercoaster Tycoon World Deluxe. Augh

CRAZY93NiS wrote:


What did GS give you?

Foxhack wrote:
:) That's a fun game. Why the "augh?"

nonamesleft wrote:

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Also it wasn't the only thing I bought. I also got a mini subwoofer amp for a buddy, a USB hard drive adapter... and a sealed Coraline 4K Steelbook. But the steelbook was... not exactly mint.

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I picked this up thinking "I can just find the normal case art and use that, then give away the case for someone to display", but then I realized... the discs have different art than the normal 4K release. Augh. At least they're fine.

@Foxhack That's a sweet steelbook! Nice find.

MISSED an amazing deal by 30 minutes:

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I found Star Wars Episode I Racer at a new game shop today. $10, clean label, complete with with battery cover. But I can't justify spending nearly $30 altogether on my SWEIR campaign just for the sake of a label and battery cover.

But on the bright side, I did score a Wii copy of Spy Fox in "Dry Cereal" for $6. If my bro ever lets my nieces play the Wii I so generously gifted his family in 2019, they'll love it.

EclipseLion wrote:

Feels fishy but if someone actually got that deal that's wild. Would think even if it was legit to begin with what happens is they get hammered with messages and realize something is up.

Yeah. I’ve seen listings like that, and then the seller basically says that was just to get attention and then lists individual prices for each game that are much higher.

Gypsy wrote:

Bleed_DukeBlue wrote:

I've ran into that before. Back when CL was more popular there used to be a lot of just straight up time wasters as well. The worst is when they would set up a meeting knowing they aren't going to show up. I ended up with a rule that if someone wasn't going to talk on the phone I wouldn't proceed. Cut a lot of the bs. The move to facebook made that not necessary. Probably because people have their name attached to it. I've not got the ball rolling with anyone local on there and had something not work out yet. I do get people from far away that message me about shipping my listings despite me having things set to pick-up only. I really only list stuff there that isn't worth shipping. Speakers, weight bench, tv stuff like that.

Gypsy wrote:

I’ve been talking with the seller after the fact and seems legit, he has other things he’s getting rid of like a PS4, a gaming vest, to a microwave, and bbq pit. He said yes he did get hammered with messages last night and this morning but he believes in first come first served and sold to the first who asked, I was the second

I asked if he wanted to know why he got so many messages this morning and when he said yes I showed him the value of Xenosaga III & .Hack Quarantine and he about flipped his lid but resolved himself to the fact that he gave someone a great deal

Today, I was willing to send $11 for: Barney Under the Sea PC Game. Was asking $4 and at most, lettermail would be $3.60 plus envelope, but I never know how much a single is at these places lol. He said $5 for shipping. Good deal, seller was selling a lot, and I knew barney vhs tapes, some are rare, no real sales if I can recollect, but there was a 30-and odd uk release, and 60-something us release. Pretty sure it's the latter and someone may take it if there is someone with a higher price. No idea lol.

Sold 3 games, little big planets, for $20, even though I later realized I wrote $25 firm. All good, got some games to try gaming at some interval or later, and some to sell. I don't think I sold a ps3 game locally yet. Is the value of most 3 for $10 now? lol. $5 per ain't bang for your buck? lol

Seems I might have missed out on a lot. I was initially going to pay the $500 he wanted, thinking the first picture would leave to more gems in the process. He mentioned there's probably close or around 1000 pieces. Lotsa software I'd have to bundle, 16 big boxes full, and not the square ones. He did have 5 No One Lives Forever in box, 1 same game but GOTY edition, No one Lives forever 2, and 2 Die Hard Trilogy in box games. That's what made me jump on it. But after seeing all the software, german language, french language, learn english, there were a few alright software but lotsa junk. He did mention lotsa jewel case games new and sealed, but when he laid them out, it seemed they were all card or something less than quality games. And games in small boxes or dvd cases, some were sealed, but like, Cake Mania 3 Deluxe or something lol. I did today say, $400, than $420, than said $450 but no more, the work scares me. I think he wants to do something else with it now after me not going through, but starting to pitch for more gas, and she was like, $50. $550, and No One Lives Forver, all of them could have averaged to $100 on ebay or more, $80 profit a piece, that would have been my money. But I like good looking lots, and don't feel like overhauling myself for a week and a half with junk, so kinda glad I changed my mind. I would have overwhelmed myself lol

I love "what if...?" Find of the week posts!

Usually I get good vibes from something when I make a deal. Today, sent $20, wasn't even an AMAZING deal, just a deal, that I thought I wanted. Thought with shipping it'd be $30 since all the games were priced at $10. I sent the money, sent the address...after my money went in, she didn't reply. She said the shipping would be $10, again, like a previous time, I thought shipping was low. Told me to send to a university email, maybe university kids don't have money, and this is what they do for beer money - make a page with lots of cheap items, some items are standout deals, and than collect and disappear. Ha ha, nah, what world is this. Hopefully she sends, but again, said tomorrow, there's now. I tend to believe people are honest unless they need something and have no way of getting to it, than they find other ways. I dunno what to think, def think shipping won't be that cheap, was too early in the morning for me, but there's no reason to assume, rather than just get some flags you don't like in terms of making deals. No response after money deposited - might be a grab and go lol. Meh, if that's the case, it's a hard lesson for me to be wiser and smarter with my money, not start spending here and there when I have some lol

Hmmm...now looking at her page, she's got lots of friends, maybe not a scammer. I would feel better if she replied, or somehow felt the full price I paid would be the cost of shipping...no idea lol

Smoked some better weed, feel better. Don't sweat the small things, but sometimes you like to feel content, and every trade involving shipping that's not via a mediator, is always something of a rush/buzz/ride beforehand. Gotta feel it, but I guess I went to cancel the etransfer, and it was taken, and there was a question she had to input, as it wasn't inputted, and no, thanks got it, will send tomorrow, take care....lol. I dunno

Lol, maybe I get too high. I like and trust people, but somehow the $10 shipping rate didn't make sense. Today she sent a tracking number, saying label created. I take it if label is created, she paid for it. Also noticed a 50% off shipping for new business for 12 months.

That may explain it. I'm back to loving ppl. Why relinquish into old mindsets, probably due to your own ineptness when in this world, there are good people who are trying to clear some space and move ahead like everyone else. Meh, there's always something that may go wrong. Seems by buying deals, with a negative mindset, it could be like minesweeping. Bad experience with London, by a student, but should have realized with that many friends, if I wrote that bs on her page, she wouldn't need that. Just always feel better with feedback, but I actually went to cancel the etransfer as it was sent, but she accepted, cuz I was like, the shipping...ok than. Back to the drawing board and hopefully waiting for 2 packages.

all that fuss, and no mention to what I'm getting. was mainly interested in possibly the doom and wolfenstein sharewares for me or will sell them off, some others in there and the command and conquer domination pack soundtrack new and sealed. others will be hard sells lol except wizardry maybe

not much of a haul, don't sweat the small stuff, I think I have to think or overthink and when it's the end of something, it's like the beginning of something, some confusion, some dread, some resistance...but gotta be in it to make it happen, and sometimes you just gotta go by the friend list if no ratings or the demeanour of the person, I had no reason to doubt that, except my peanut brain thought, they heard money coming in, they were like take, but when I said $25 maybe $30, why'd she say $20. Alright than, onto more progressive thinking lol

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Probably the wrong place, but anyone into possibly high end Pokémon cards?

KCPenguins wrote:
Definitely the wrong place, try Classifieds? I don't know how to link the forum.

Went to the semi-annual book sale at my town's library today, came away with this beauty for 20 cents:

And this for a Quarter:

Both are for trade/sale, and I already did a case swap for the game, since I had a spare jewel case handy.

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got this for $35 and a single presto metro fare. The real winners are you are empty, the spongebob game, I know the counter strike and call of duties sell locally fairly quick, maybe the unreals will too. Will put half life online. bloodrayne and breakout dvd game, unsure if even worth to sell out or will put locally and just let idle lol. Maybe I'm spending too much money making ok deals lol just need to get out of the house

This deal stayed in touch, not that great again, but last picture of games is all sealed, and I think stranglehold is too. He was out of the province, now back in, and said once his nephew gets here, he lives in Toronto, they're not too far, just won't spend the drive getting it, and will pay $50 delivered for it. Not delivered yet lol

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tarzanpat wrote:
Not going to lie here: I think this thread is better when you actually have the items in your possession...and deals you're finding on CL or the like always have the possibility of falling through, so they're not quite "finds", as you haven't obtained them yet.

Am I the only one who feels this way? This isn't to discredit your posts, @tarzanpat , but some of these deals have fallen through for you...and while I don't dislike seeing listings...it just doesn't feel like it fits the theme of this thread.

Frank wrote:
Nice on the Majong DS! I take it that's a genuine JP import?
Also, never heard of Ruff Trigger...

Oduomega wrote:


More looking for advice rather than to sell at this point. Fell into a card or two that may be worth a decent amount.

KCPenguins wrote:
If that's the case, then you can PM me the details? I know a bit about selling cards and such.

Oduomega wrote:

I guess, but first deal, got it, second deal, going to be delivered, I did keep the time to keep up, so I think he'll be nice about it. Though his nephew may be like, can I have it? lol

Oduomega wrote:

You got it! Nice and minty too. Great addition to my secret Mario games subcollection

Yeah Ruff Trigger is one I didn't know existed back in the day, and am curious to try out.

Oduomega wrote:
Grand total of 45 cents? Now that's a score for sure. Nice!

I think I have a quarter in my pocket right now. I'll give it to you for that first game. Think of the 25% profit margin. 🤩

Weirdly, the first Dreamcast games I ever found in the wild were at a Garage Sale for 25 cents each. It was the reason I ended up buying a console

nonamesleft wrote:
Lol.

Not gonna lie, while testing the Destroy All Humans! 2 game, I kinda like it! The voice of the robotic guy is the same VA who voiced Zim from Invader Zim, and I LOVE it, lol. Also, all the references..."Open the pod bay doors, Hal" and "Nikita Kruschev with a _ " really stood out.

So a couple things here that mostly fit the find thread.

Got a Martin Logan Dynamo 700 coming. It was posted on an audio site for free but local pick up. I waited awhile before messaging to see if they would ship. I offered to pay a bit, but the guy said just the cost of shipping is fine. So he figures about $90 (less than my offer, think it's fine and he should be able to ship for this price). Guy sends me the receipt for the tracking number and whatnot. Turns out he went to the UPS store (big mistake) and ended up paying $157. Said to not worry about the difference. Well of course I had to check pirateship to see what it would have ran me for the same package. $57. OOF.

The talk about Metroid Prime Remastered here reminded me a store here had some copies because they are limiting to 1 per person. So I figure if I'm going there to get one to sell at cost here I'd like some other reasons to go to make it more worth the trip. I check their website for console trade-in prices and see $40 cash for old model PS1s. Yeah that seems nutty. I debate how many to take but just take two, don't want to push it. Grab a couple of the older models since I want those gone the most, take it there and got $55 in credit each. Covered Metroid Prime Remastered and banked the rest. We talked a bit of course and he said you are definitely the last person getting this rate. Sure enough on the site now it's $20 cash/$26 credit.

Oduomega wrote:

Both parts of the game were recently remastered, too, for those who might be curious about it.

Well, I was right. She did ship, but she didn't include the sealed domination pack music cd which there was a picture of. She included some extras, prob all real commons, prob king's quest VI is the best in the bunch. For $20 with shipping, it was aiight, but still not that good. She didn't take my money and run, or buy beer with it lol, but whatever. She claims it's not there, maybe she sold a few lots, and this was in the music cd pile for one reason or another, no idea. Not browsing deals today, outta money, if ebay pays up, will be looking early next week. Weekends, sometimes find good deals, but there's more people free and looking. We'll see. Can't take pics and list yet, gotta get off the 2-month contest run hiatus, and do one this weekend. You never know what you can win, or where you can end up. Gotta keep trying to being in it and winning.

finally got a better deal:

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Paid $20 for each game, the big winners are redguard and anachronox. Decided to keep the older title cuz the title speaks to me lol, so prob going to make $200 off of it after subtracting investment and taking one for me. Funny thing about this, is it was the same dude that sold me the fallout games during superbowl. Sold both games the next day, and the person bought 2 other games from my stockpile alongside them. I saw some games as I logged in at midnight, told myself no more looking for deals today, but it was midnight, technically or not technically, a new day lol. And I browse other games he had, and found the more valuable games. Decent haul, won't list out yet, got a contest run to do tomorrow. Hopefully some good things happen as we're all eagerly waiting for milder temps lol

My friend Ralph helped make Anachronox. If you go into the supermarket and see boxes of Ralphie-O's in the game, thats him.