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| shfan:
It's a combination of blind luck and persistence to find anything now. In the end it comes down to whether you're willing to travel and take time trying to find a bargain. |
| shadowzero:
I find more of what I like to call, "bloated bay" now happening in yard sales. So you know when an uninformed person looks an item up on ebay and goes with the highest, most bloated price they can find and associate that with their item? I find more people than ever think their copy of mario/duck hunt is worth gold. The surge of "classic" systems has indirectly influenced this bloated perception too. |
| oldgamerz:
All people in this thread gave good advice in my opinion, Unfortunately for most people at yard/garage sales are more likely to find knick knacks, toys, table lamps, maybe a few dusty movies nobody wants, and clothes lots of clothes or shoes. Usually all or most of the video games, electronics, and music CDs are the first to sell off at some specific Yard/Garage sales. I don't go to Yard Sales because I have a near by indoor flea market. There is somewhat of a snowballs chance in a hot summer that you're gonna be finding video games or even electronics at most Yard/Garage sales in my experience. I even been to a major flea market outdoors with not a single video game or music CD in sight |
| bikingjahuty:
--- Quote from: shadowzero on April 13, 2019, 08:38:57 pm ---I find more of what I like to call, "bloated bay" now happening in yard sales. So you know when an uninformed person looks an item up on ebay and goes with the highest, most bloated price they can find and associate that with their item? I find more people than ever think their copy of mario/duck hunt is worth gold. The surge of "classic" systems has indirectly influenced this bloated perception too. --- End quote --- I found a garage sale about 5-years ago with some guy in his early 30s selling a bunch of choice SNES games he'd had since he was a kid. Unfortunately he had read one too many CNET and MSN articles about "Items in your Basement Worth a Fortune!" or "25 Video games that can make you rich if you own!" He had a piece of paper with prices on all the games and the cheapest one was probably 3x ebay. I remember specifically a loose copy of Super Metroid he had that he wanted $200 for, which nearly made me laugh in his face. I asked him how he got his prices and he said that he went on ebay and "that's what they'r going for." I tried explaining to him that some insane price a reseller is asking is different than the price that someone actually paid, but he wasn't interested in me explaining this to him, and it became clear he wasn't going to give a fair price no matter what I said. I've experienced this to a lessor degree at other sales before, but he was by far the worst. |
| mike24rules:
living where i do yard sales are pretty much old clothes and furnature. Finding games at one is next to impossible or they automatically assume since its 80's its worth a new car |
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