I saw a facebook post for a fundraising swapmeet last Saturday and took the kids shopping. After I paid mere coins for the TMNT toys I saw a table where a teen was selling a boxed 3DS for $40 CAD and I only had $32 left so he agreed to sell me the console at that price, which is pretty sweet. We were just chatting about gaming when his mom appeared and I asked her if, by chance, she also had any old videogames she wasn't playing anymore.

Well she did. They weren't even displayed. She was nervous about it because she didn't manage to test everything, but she has brought "an old nintendo" . You can imagine I was becoming happy with our conversation. Turns out it was a great looking SNES, no yellowing and she had a bunch of games. Amongst which, if you can't see it on the pic, there was Super Turrican 2. $20 CAD WELL SPENT.

So yeah, total spent on the picture was $65CAD.

Damn very nice.

Congrats!!!

So wait.... you told the kid all you had left was $32 when in fact you had another $20 for the SNES stuff? 😜
Good score either way. Congrats.

Wow! Very nice!

His mom agreed to an interac transfer. Which is good, I didn't want to risk going to an atm to get cash and having someone else buy the damn thing now that it was in sight.
 

Literally one of my worries is not to have cash on me at a garage sale. I play the odds sometimes though and will stop with no money knowing damn well I am going to come up empty handed. lol

 

Yeah I had cash, but it was spent already. I probably would have left the 3DS there or ask that they put it aside while I went to get money to secure the SNES lot since it was from the same table.


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Nice!!!

Seeing TMNT, a Casio SA-46, and a SNES with games all in one pic hits me in the nostalgia feels. lol Great score!

Wow helluva nice score! Super Turrican 2 alone makes this a great deal.

Right? It's like walking into 11yr old me's bedroom.

Wow, I would have definitely gone back to give her more money.

Why? Because one of the games is more valuable?

Without Super Turrican 2, I'm still looking at 25% of the retail value for the SNES lot and maybe 30% of the retail value for the CIB 3DS.
 

Silly rabbit. The correct protocol is to talk her down as low as possible, then brag on every internet forum possible about how you caught her slipping.

also, wait 24 hours, then post the most expensive game for sale at full retail price.

thats how this works.
 

I had somebody talk me down to $10 on something because "that was all they had left".   Dude pulled out his wallet to get that last $10 and had to move a couple fifties out of the way.

I was tempted to tell him that I had change for a $50, but I would have taken $10 regardless so I didn't want to be a dick.
 

No no no. You catch fellow hunters slippin', or maybe you catch an actual store slippin', but this is an honest purchase.

And the first order is to make this baby shine by removing the unsightly stickers, glue and marker residues.

I cleaned the contacts last night and tested everything. I played Super Turrican for about 2 hours straight and it's great.

Now I'm not a SNES guy so I'll definitely sell this off, but at a fair-for-all price in my local circle. Then I'll use the coins from that on older Nintender tapes. Or 3DO.
 

Buyers are liars!

You’re much kinder than me. I would not have accepted that BS. I am ok with being talked down, but I hate deceit like that.
 

It's not like he talked me down to the point of charity; he could have just said "would you take $10?" and I would have accepted anyway.

The tactic that will get you $0 off- "But you have two of them!"    My response to that is "yes, and I started the day with five".
 

I always put different bills in every pocket I have. I don’t lie. I just simply ask “would you take x amount”. Then I don’t have to shuffle around other bills and know which pockets to pick from to get x amount. 

But as a a seller I either accept an offer or not despite if the buyer could be lying or not. 
 

You got that Festers Quest or what? I won’t talk ya down 😜

Quote train derail! Lol

you know I got you Richie! Gonna send you a pic because I got a little lot you might be interested in. 

 

The real find was your time machine that took you back to 2008 for this lot

Nice score!