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| 98dgreen:
--- Quote from: ronchichio on October 17, 2016, 01:33:06 pm ---I wouldn't call this a deal, more like I got it for a steal. I shoplifted a Super Nintendo from Target back in 1992. I'm not proud of what I did but back then as a dumb kid I didn't feel bad about it. Karma caught up two years later when I got caught shoplifting and had to pay restitution. Had to pawn that Super NES and other belongings in order to come up with the money for restitution. --- End quote --- Lol how did you get a SNES out of the store. |
| ronchichio:
--- Quote from: 98dgreen on October 17, 2016, 02:36:24 pm --- Lol how did you get a SNES out of the store. --- End quote --- Back then the boxes were just out on the shelves. This was before Target used glass cases and alarms by the front door. I bought the cheaper Control Deck for $99.99. I then went back in the aisle where the Super Nintendos were. Just hung out watching other kids play on the display set up. Then I took the Deluxe Set and put it in the same brown paper bag as the Control Deck. Walked out, got on my bike and went home. Came back the next day to get a refund on the Control Deck. Another time I opened up one of the SNES boxes and took a controller out, then to avoid detection by undercover loss prevention I took an AsciiPad to the register and paid for it. Then I did the button swap to make the SNES controller look like a Super Famicom controller. |
| topspot123:
I've gotten several great deals at well under expected value, but here are the first three I thought of. A Nintendo VS dual arcade cabinet with VS Super Mario Bros and VS Mach Rider for just under $200. Killer 7 for Gamecube new and sealed on clearance for $3.74. And finally... |
| rayne315:
truly I don't get very many fantastic deals but the best one I ever made was at an estate sale for a "broken box tv" that had a "hole where the power, volume, and channel buttons used to be" along with searching through boxes and boxes to find some "old 8-track tapes" and an "old rotary projector controller". what I had gotten was a Vectrix, a second controller, and about 10 games for $5 total because the people that were running it had never seen one before and assumed it was nothing. |
| 98dgreen:
--- Quote from: rayne315 on October 18, 2016, 12:32:18 pm ---truly I don't get very many fantastic deals but the best one I ever made was at an estate sale for a "broken box tv" that had a "hole where the power, volume, and channel buttons used to be" along with searching through boxes and boxes to find some "old 8-track tapes" and an "old rotary projector controller". what I had gotten was a Vectrix, a second controller, and about 10 games for $5 total because the people that were running it had never seen one before and assumed it was nothing. --- End quote --- Caught them slipping |
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