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PostPosted: Fri Jul 06, 2007 10:21 pm    Post subject: What has been your best garage sale bargain? Reply with quote

I have had soo many garage sale bargains, but just to name a few-

i bought a NES console with about 10 boxed games for AU$2!
another NES console with a gameboy plus loads of games for $15
a Commodore 64 with two disk drives and boxes of disks for $15
and last of all a boxed Amiga 500 with loads of disks for $30


what bargains have you guys bought from garage sales / markets?
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PostPosted: Sat Jul 07, 2007 7:07 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Thats a hard one I am suffering severe garage sale withdrawal at the moment havent had time in a long while. I got a absolute heap of games consoles and access from a video shop recently for a few hundred... but they took some cleaning I must say.. I have been working at an auction recently part time thats the best place youd be surprised what you find in the $2.00 box lots Surprised

Just on the subject I have also found that living in a rural area sometimes by checking out all the old repair places they have quite often go surplus spares from back in the day, that can be quite handy
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PostPosted: Sat Jul 07, 2007 8:01 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

a garage sale!! my god i haven`t been to one of those in years so i haven`t had any bargins from one,i think about 8 years ago i picked up a c64 with about 10 games for ?5,i haven`t got still now but have just started collecting again.......when it comes to collecting i`m very strict and unless whatever i`m buying comes in it`s original box i won`t touch it,just bought a mint condition playstation one off ebay in it`s box and trying to get my hands on a sega megadrive,i find it strange that i had both at one time or another but got bored with them and sold them,no i`m trying to collect them again.
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PostPosted: Wed Jul 11, 2007 10:34 pm    Post subject: What has been your best garage sale bargain Reply with quote

My best garage sale bargain has to be my 1750 Ram Expansion unit, the owner had no idea what it was (and I did!!) and what it was for,it cost me $10AU. Very Happy Yeah I was pretty stoked to get it. Cool

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PostPosted: Wed Jul 11, 2007 10:42 pm    Post subject: Re: What has been your best garage sale bargain Reply with quote

tomz/TIDE wrote:
My best garage sale bargain has to be my 1750 Ram Expansion unit, the owner had no idea what it was (and I did!!) and what it was for,it cost me $10AU. Very Happy Yeah I was pretty stoked to get it. Cool

Smile tomz Smile


its great when people dont know what they have, you go to the garage sale, see some retro item and your heart skips a beat! then camly you grab it and as if you dont really care - you ask them how much it is - then they say some rediculously low amount and you walk away INCREDIBLY HAPPY! Smile Smile Smile

speaking of the 1750 check this auction out:
Commodore 1750 REU Ram Expansion Module

its upto US$81 with 2 days to go!

you definately got a huge bargain there = )
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PostPosted: Sat Jul 14, 2007 7:49 pm    Post subject: Re: What has been your best garage sale bargain Reply with quote

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its great when people dont know what they have, you go to the garage sale, see some retro item and your heart skips a beat! then camly you grab it and as if you dont really care - you ask them how much it is - then they say some rediculously low amount and you walk away INCREDIBLY HAPPY! Smile Smile Smile

Yep you are right on the money there Brad .. but sometimes the guilts kick in and you think ... that poor bugger if they only knew Wink
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PostPosted: Sun Jul 15, 2007 6:36 pm    Post subject: Re: What has been your best garage sale bargain Reply with quote

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its great when people dont know what they have, you go to the garage sale, see some retro item and your heart skips a beat! then camly you grab it and as if you dont really care - you ask them how much it is - then they say some rediculously low amount and you walk away INCREDIBLY HAPPY! Smile Smile Smile

Yep you are right on the money there Brad .. but sometimes the guilts kick in and you think ... that poor bugger if they only knew Wink


yeah absolutely!

i bought a few game and watch consoles from an op-shop for $2 each and they ended up selling for around $600 all up...
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PostPosted: Fri Aug 17, 2007 7:13 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

not all that long ago i got a boxed mega drive with 21 boxed games for only $5 and in amongst the games complete with instructions was daze Before christmas was very happy.
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PostPosted: Fri Aug 17, 2007 7:46 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

***astro_boy*** wrote:
not all that long ago i got a boxed mega drive with 21 boxed games for only $5 and in amongst the games complete with instructions was daze Before christmas was very happy.


Daze before Christmas is an amazingly easy game, but fun. they sell on ebay for around the $70 - $80 mark im pretty sure
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PostPosted: Thu Sep 20, 2007 9:14 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

I LOVE garage sales! Hard waste clean up days are great too! But as for garage sales and retro-related bargains, I bought THIRTY-TWO Sega Game Gear games, some of which were STILL SEALED and ALL had original boxes, instructions, packaging inserts and plastic wrapping for...wait for it...ONE DOLLAR EACH! Apparently they were former wholesalers or something. They did, however, have enough brains to know that the GG TV tuner was worth something but I still got that for $30.00 (unboxed, though).
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PostPosted: Sat Sep 22, 2007 9:04 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Daniel C wrote:
I LOVE garage sales! Hard waste clean up days are great too! But as for garage sales and retro-related bargains, I bought THIRTY-TWO Sega Game Gear games, some of which were STILL SEALED and ALL had original boxes, instructions, packaging inserts and plastic wrapping for...wait for it...ONE DOLLAR EACH! Apparently they were former wholesalers or something. They did, however, have enough brains to know that the GG TV tuner was worth something but I still got that for $30.00 (unboxed, though).


$1 each! now you know that your having a good day when you come across that!

I think its the best feeling when you turn up to a garage sale and as your walking up you see some kind of retro gaming related item / items! i rush straight over and grab it = )

i havent been to any garage sales in quite a while now (weve moved to a pretty small town) but have had some pretty good finds over the years...
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PostPosted: Sun Sep 23, 2007 6:43 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Donkey Kong game and watch Cool
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PostPosted: Mon Sep 24, 2007 3:30 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

not sure if these are worth anything, but someone i bought something off ebay threw them in with a purchase. still got 100s of unwrapped ones but ill be leaving these sealed....

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PostPosted: Mon Sep 24, 2007 7:26 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

takeshi wrote:
not sure if these are worth anything, but someone i bought something off ebay threw them in with a purchase. still got 100s of unwrapped ones but ill be leaving these sealed....

hey thats cool! i used to collect them when i was a kid!

how many did you say you had of these?
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PostPosted: Mon Sep 24, 2007 7:37 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

just those 5 packs unfortch!
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