Alright, so I haven't been out hunting in the longest time... and for some reason my wife shared with me an ad for an estate sale. So many good games. Tons of RPGs. I was really hesitant to go because I figured there was no way I'd get there before all of the resellers. Decided to go anyway. Went Friday morning and got there an hour before the sale opened. Only 6 cars in front of me waiting to get inside the gate of the property. I wound up 10th in line because a group of people called and put themselves at the front of the line. This was a 2 house estate sale, so a group of people ahead of me went to the other house, but I was maybe 5-6th in line still. They let in the first 5 and they went absolutely walmart on black friday nuts grabbing everything video game they could. They stopped me from going in because of the craziness. So I got to stand there and watch a group of resellers go nuts grabbing all of these great games. They finally let me in and there was pretty much nothing left. I complained a bit about the whole ordeal and how poorly everyone handled it. Mind you I did say resellers. First group confirmed they do this for a living and that's how they knew that they could call in and get first in line without waiting like us. Second group also confirmed they do this for a living, but they deal in everything so they mostly got books and such that were worth selling and maybe a handful of pricey PS2 games. 3rd guy acted like he was a collector and tried to play nice with the resellers and offer swaps or to buy some of the stuff. He had a game I really wanted and I saw what he was doing so I tried to get him to let me buy the game or sell it to me at a small profit for him, he played it off like he really wanted the game as well. We exchanged some info and I looked him up on instagram and he immediately put the game up for sale for full retail. We chatted and I basically let him know he was a dick for acting like he wasn't a reseller. 4th guy didn't get much and actually handed me the Fire Emblem because he didn't want it and knew I got boned... so that dude was nice, wish I had gotten his info, but I don't think he got much and he was with his dad. I think they were definitely resellers, but they dealt more in other types of stuff, because they didn't get any games. 5th guy mostly kept to himself, but he checked out with a tax exempt card, so definitely reseller. Lady behind me was nice and she got some nice stuff too, but almost no games, just accessories and consoles. I don't think she got great deals and she bought mostly GCN stuff, like she got a sealed Broadband adapter which is pretty dope. I was trying to find out if maybe she wound up with component cables, but I kind of figured not because there were no HD TVs or HD equipment of any kind here.
Also, it was kind of a shit show in that the people running the estate sale had no clue games were desirable, but they knew enough as sellers to verify prices and price accordingly before the sale. Issue was they didn't know enough to tell between repros and originals, so they marked a legit Earthbound as $20 and such. All of the good loose cart stuff went to the first batch of resellers. The other thing was that they didn't know enough to look at the content to verify things made sense. I wound up getting Hexyz Force with a Harvest Moon Hero of Leaf Valley disc in it. I managed to buy Growlanser Generations Deluxe (and they wouldn't let me open it before buying it) and it had SMT Digital Devil Saga instead of disc 1. They also had a shit ton of empty cases, but weren't really marked accordingly so a lot of the resellers wasted time grabbing empty cases just to realize later it was nothing and throw it back. I managed to get a lot of good scraps from them. And then there was the issue that it wasn't uncommon to find a loose disc for $10 bucks or something, the case somewhere else for $2, and the manual somewhere else for $2. Just piece it all together and they'd sell it complete for $10. So you could get complete things for the loose price.
Some of these pics are from Friday on the first day of the sale and some are from Sunday at the last day of the sale. I'm having serious FOMO for not going back Sunday evening and making a deal at the end to buy the leftovers, the owner let me know that after I left nobody else bought any game stuff, but I just wasn't willing to take another hour round trip and drop even more money.
tl;dr People suck, but I did manage to get some good stuff at great prices.
Gonna try to list the days separately.
So first day I managed to grab some decent stuff
Sega GenesisPier Solar #045 out of however many.
GamecubeFire Emblem: Path of Radiance
Lost Kingdoms (manual)
N64Kirby 64 (manual)
PS2Shining Force Neo
Jade Cocoon 2 (case and manual)
SMT Devil Summoner 2 (case and manual)
Ar Tonelico (outer box, case and manual)
Memory Card (sealed)
Growlanser Heritage of War LE (everything except game)
NDSDragon Quest Rocket Slime (case and manual)
Dragon Quest Monsters Joker 2
Children of Mana
Heroes of Mana
Infinite Space
3DSCave Story 3D (case and manual)
Code of Princess (outer box and soundtrack)
GBAPhantasy Star Collection
Mega Man Battle Network
Mega Man Battle Network 2 (box only)
PSPLegend of Heroes III
Hexyz Force (case and manual)
Harvest Moon Hero of Leaf Valley (disc only)
Tales of the World
XboxMetal Slug 3 (sealed)
PS1Lunar 2 Eternal Blue, omake box, and sound track
Arc the Lad omake box
Other SwagLunar SSS Ghaleon puppet
Wild Arms Alter Code F score
Final Fantasy X-2 soundtrack
Final Fantasy X-2 limited edition strategy guide
Saturday I actually hit up some Goodwills and such and came back with some stuff. No pics of this stuff unfortunately.
XboxMen of Valor
Blood Wake
Other swag10th anniversary Resident Evil soundtrack
Sunday I went back to the sale, but this time I called a bit before 8am and got my name on the list. I still wasn't the first person on the list. Luckily the first person had no interest in games. I brought my wife with me this time and gave her instructions to go to the table with the expensive stuff and grab all of the Sega CD, Saturn, and PS1 games. I went and picked from the other stuff that was left. I still missed out on some decent stuff I wanted, which is okay, but I know it went to one of the resellers from Friday.
Sega SaturnSonic 3D Blast
Blazing Heroes
PTO II
Sega CDFlink
Vay (missing manual)
Rise of the Dragon
PSPHarvest Moon Hero of Leaf Valley (case and manual)
Mimana Iyar Chronicles (disc only)
Astonishia Story
Monster Kingdom Jewel Summoner
PS VitaSorcery Saga
PS2Growlanser Generations Deluxe (missing disc 1)
SMT Digital Devil Saga (disc only)
Okami
PS1Saiyuki
Xenogears (missing manual)
Tales of Destiny 2 (missing manual)
Arc the Lad collection (missing manual)
NDSAdvance Wars Dual Strike
Advance Wars Days of Ruin (missing manual)
Etrian Odyssey 2
Rhapsody
Lunar Knights
Suikoden Tierkeis (cart only)
GCNSonic adventure 2 battle (case only)
Game GearNinja Gaiden
Dragon Crystal
Gameboy ColorDragon Warrior 1 + 2
Azure Dreams
Gameboy AdvanceLunar Legend
Yggdra Union
Riviera
Super Robot Taisen 2
Fire Emblem Sacred Stones
Gunstar Super Heroes
Boktai
Other swagMagna Carta poster
