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Cosmicjim's flip experiment. Will be continually updated. I'm going to try to turn $1 into stadium events...

Jul 15, 2012 at 11:42:35 AM
cosmicjim (47)

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I'm pretty dumb. I sold Stadium Events. Now I wish I didn't. 
I'm going to try to reattain a copy, but I'm going to do it in a weird fashion.

I started with $1 and I'm going try to trade/sell/buy in a continuing chain to try to rebuy Stadium Events.
Trades don't have to be 1 item for 1 item.  I will accept multiple items/lots as trade as well.

Start - $1
Bought Hannah Montana(DS) for $1 [Yardsale]
Traded Hannah Montana(DS)for Super Advantage(snes). [Hartselle indoor flea farket]
Sold Super Advantage for $8. [Hartselle indoor flea market]
Bought Sealed Greatest Hits Shadow of the Colossus(ps2) for $8.  [Hartselle indoor flea market]
Sold Shadow of the Colussus for $15 -$3.65 shipping. Net $11.35  [Nintendoage]
Bought Metalstorm(nes) for $5 [Lacon flea market]
Bought Super Dodge Ball(nes) for $5 [Lacon Flea Market]

Current status - $1.35 to spend.  Metalstorm and Super Dodge Ball for sale or trade.

Feel free to pm or post here.


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Edited: 08/06/2012 at 10:49 PM by cosmicjim

Jul 15, 2012 at 11:47:54 AM
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I love a good "paper clip" experiment, I heard about one that resulted in a guy winding up with a car, so if you can get to a copy of SE, that would be about as epic. Best of luck

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Jul 15, 2012 at 11:58:08 AM
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Oh man I can't wait to watch this unfold. Good luck to you sir!

Jul 15, 2012 at 12:50:48 PM
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I'm definitely going to be following this thread. Maybe even help eventually

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Jul 15, 2012 at 1:14:52 PM
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Shoot dude, if the Super Advantage was in great shape, you'd might have been better off trying to sell it on here instead. Regardless best of luck

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Jul 15, 2012 at 1:33:37 PM
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The super advantage was kind of a three way trade with 2 separate vendors to get the shadow of the colossus. I actually kind of wanted to keep Shadow of the Colossus, but it's part of the experiment.

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Jul 15, 2012 at 1:58:49 PM
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I think that's gonna be the hardest part... I did something like this a year ago... Started with $50 bucks and wanted a CIB Earthbound... After about 4 trade / purchases I ended up with about 6 Sega Saturn games and a Boxed Sega Saturn... Loved it too much... So I kept the Saturn Lot... And still need an Earthbound Cart! :-)


Edited: 07/15/2012 at 01:59 PM by Zwario

Jul 15, 2012 at 6:50:20 PM
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Good luck with this! Will be interesting to see how it pans out.

Jul 21, 2012 at 8:42:20 AM
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Sale pending for Shadow of the Colossus.

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Jul 21, 2012 at 9:29:45 AM
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That $15 can go a long way with patience, I picked up a bunch of sports games for 80 cents each(total of $20 invested after shipping) and got a Secret of Mana 2 repro out of it (Thanks OCDgamer )

Best of luck!

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Jul 29, 2012 at 9:05:28 AM
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$11.35 to spend. I should have went without delivery confirmation.
I have a lead on some nes games.

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Aug 5, 2012 at 8:48:07 PM
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What I am wondering is what you would need to make the final trade for Stadium Events? Or, what do people with Stadium Events want?

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Aug 5, 2012 at 8:53:24 PM
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Originally posted by: entity00000209890012

What I am wondering is what you would need to make the final trade for Stadium Events? Or, what do people with Stadium Events want?

Cash.


Aug 5, 2012 at 8:56:13 PM
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Record breaking cash

Aug 6, 2012 at 10:50:42 PM
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Updated OP. Metalstorm and Super dodge ball for sale or trade.

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Aug 6, 2012 at 11:13:25 PM
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What a cool idea. I'll definitely be following along, and hopefully I'll be able to help somewhere down the line.

Good luck!

Aug 6, 2012 at 11:49:38 PM
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This'll be fun to watch unfold... good luck jim!

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Aug 7, 2012 at 12:54:15 AM
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dang you're getting some nice finds. I need to head on down to alabama!

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Aug 7, 2012 at 7:04:08 AM
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Originally posted by: nonameo

dang you're getting some nice finds. I need to head on down to alabama!


I've had a lot of luck with a weird kid at the flea market in Lacon.  He sells his old cart based games usually for $5 each unless it's zelda, mario, mega man or final fantasy.  It's where I got metal storm and super dodge ball. My best score from him was Snow Brothers for $5, but it seems he's not getting cart games often anymore.  That gravy train seems like it's coming to an end.

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Aug 7, 2012 at 8:38:28 AM
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this is great!!

cant wait to watch it go down

good luck!

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Aug 7, 2012 at 9:25:58 AM
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Good luck, just want to say it's been done before, sometimes on NA: I think by Quest4Nes, Zwario (as mentioned), and again by another member in 2010, but I can't recall exactly who. Also seen it done off-site but most of the time people just stop updating their progress eventually, either because they love their trades too much or they get bored with it.

Aug 7, 2012 at 9:42:46 AM
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Originally posted by: Forte

I love a good "paper clip" experiment, I heard about one that resulted in a guy winding up with a car, so if you can get to a copy of SE, that would be about as epic. Best of luck



The original paper clip guy was from my town.... everyone tought he was crazy doing so... and that's not a car he bought bu a house he ended up pi a Corvette and traded it for a Boat I think...

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Aug 7, 2012 at 4:54:21 PM
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Originally posted by: GhaleonsDeadMyFriend

Good luck, just want to say it's been done before, sometimes on NA: I think by Quest4Nes, Zwario (as mentioned), and again by another member in 2010, but I can't recall exactly who. Also seen it done off-site but most of the time people just stop updating their progress eventually, either because they love their trades too much or they get bored with it.


Any links to those? I'm curious how he/they went about it.

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Aug 7, 2012 at 4:59:46 PM
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I tried to do this, starting with $100 and going for a full Genesis cart-only set. It just got to be too much of a pain in the ass when it came to record-keeping next to my typical resale & collection purchases.

It's a lot of fun if you have the patience.

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Aug 7, 2012 at 5:21:26 PM
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Oh, it was you that I was thinking of, Bill! haha