It would seem that every Argyle really DOES have his day.
I went out to hit sales this morning with 2 main stops in mind - a church sale and a neighborhood that was going to be having a bunch of sales. The church sale was at 6:00, I got there at 6:15 and they still were a LONG way from being setup. From what I could tell no one there spoke English, and if they did they had no interest in speaking it to me so I left. Hit another couple of random sales since the neighborhood sales weren't supposed to start until 7:00, then I headed that way. First stop I got 4 original Xbox games in questionable condition for $5. Nothing special, but about average for when I find anything at all around here so I took what I could get. While I was there these 2 - I'm going to call them "punks", but suffice it to say they were pretty douchey-looking teenagers - came up and asked me if I was getting "the games". They then asked me who I worked for. Because that's the only reason I'd be looking for games I suppose? Anyway, they quickly left.
Hit another few sales, no luck - at one stop a lady told me about a sale in another neighborhood where she saw a bunch of games and I thanked her but kinda doubted I'd head that way, because by the time I got there they'd probably be sold out anyway. Instead I went one sale down the street and did my usual, asked if they had any old games they were selling. This younger teen guy asks me what kind, and I tell him it doesn't matter, I collect. He then leads me inside and says the guy that owns the sale (the kid tells me he's just helping him out) is planning on taking these games up to the retro game store this afternoon - this is the same store I went to last weekend. I look, and he has all spread out nes, snes & n64 games along with a handful of PS2 games that are nothing special. But the others - oh man, he doesn't just have old games. Oh no, he has GOOD old games. I'm talking about these:
IMG_4154I checked to make sure I wasn't drooling, then asked the kid who I needed to talk to to discuss prices. He takes me to the guy, who is nice enough but seems generally uninterested. He asks the kid how much he figures the games are worth, and he tells the guy he'd probably get "no more than $10/game" from the retro store. I only had $35 on me at this point, so I pick out the ones I'm most interested in - FF II & III, Super Metroid, Link to the Past & Donkey Kong Country. He originally says $40 but agrees to take the $35 I had on me.
I left heading home since I was tapped, but couldn't stop thinking about what I was leaving behind. I live about 10 mins away from the sale, so when I got home I tell my wife what I found & asks if she cares if I get some more cash out to spend on the others. She agrees, so I hit the bank & then head back to the sale. I tell the guy what happened & say I'm interested in buying some of the others. He leads me back inside and then just kinda leaves me there this time - I tell him I'm gonna pick out everything I'm interested in and then we can haggle out a price and he says it sounds good. I grab the other 9, which were some I really wanted (the other Zeldas & that Ogre Battle especially) and anything else that looks half-way appealing to me. He had a FF7 that I was going to get, but when I opened it up I saw the first disk had been resurfaced - very, very poorly - and the disks were mis-matched between those from the original release & those from the GH. He also had the original Zelda for NES but there was something rattling in it and it wasn't in the best of shape. I have that anyway, would have just been getting it to trade or sell, so I left it. Took those 9 out & showed him the stack. He barely looks at it & just goes "wanna do $40 again?" I couldn't say yes fast enough!
So for those of you keeping score, that's just over $5/game total. Win!
