Originally posted by: Xerxes

A local Craig's list post from a few days ago reads, "Cleaned out my closet and found a few of my old nintendo games there are Kung Fu. Super Mario bros. Stadium events. And donkey kong. That's all I found so far just looking for a quick 10 bucks. Thanks" I was too late. If you got my $10 SE don't tell me. I will hate you for ever.

Originally posted by: Xerxes

A local Craig's list post from a few days ago reads, "Cleaned out my closet and found a few of my old nintendo games there are Kung Fu. Super Mario bros. Stadium events. And donkey kong. That's all I found so far just looking for a quick 10 bucks. Thanks" I was too late. If you got my $10 SE don't tell me. I will hate you for ever.

Originally posted by: KevInCal

i have done many dozens of craigslist deals and basically all of them have worked out well. Not this last time... Guy was selling a big lot of gaming stuff from the 90's including nes, snes systems games yada yada. I did the math and figured I could make $400 profit after selling the stuff on ebay for a couple months. He was asking 300 and I offered 260 which he accepted. He lived an hour and a half away or else I would have paid the full 300. I told him how far I lived and told him I never flake and we agreed on a set time the next day.

So the next day im making the drive and about 40 minutes into the drive I get a call, its him and I figure hes just making sure im still coming...

phone rings . me = "Hello"

he says: are you the guy i talked to about the video games yesterday?

"ya?"

oh cus someone just came and bought them..

3 second pause "DUDE... im. on. my WAY right now!"

ya thats why I called

"DUDE, remember i live an hour and a half away?! YOU SHOULD HAVE CALLED EARLIER!!!"

so i wasted 10 dollars in gas and 5 dollar bridge toll and over an hour of my time and risked a speeding ticket cus the damn highway patrol are out in force lately... what an asshole. i was going to be right on time too, not late at all...

Originally posted by: laserman81

I have the best/worst Losers Weepers ever. Look up NWC on Wikipedia and note the last sale. In September 2009 I lived in Wichita, KS. I traveled quite a bit with my job so I frequently searched CL outside of my local area. One afternoon I was browsing and ended up on Minneapolis CL. I did my usual "Nintendo" search and found a garage sale ad. You all know the kind of ad I am talking about. This was an ad for a 4 family garage sale with the usual 10 paragraphs in 1 run-on sentence. After I managed to make my way through the ad I came upon the 3 words we all want to see, Nintendo World Championship buried in this horrible mess.The ad also said there were lots of video games so I casually messaged the ad's author and asked about the NWC cart. I asked if the person that had the cart would sell it before the garage sale started (about 1 week in the future if my memory is correct) and after several runaround emails I told the poster I could actually pick the cart up the morning of the garage sale and I was told they would go next door in the morning and "save" the cart for me. I had the next day off (the day of the garage sale)and had to be in KC the day after that. So, like any hardcore NES fan/collector, I left the afternoon before the sale was to begin and headed to Minneapolis, only a 10 hour drive, why not? I arrived in town about 9:00 PM and decided to drive by the sale address. There was no activity and nothing special about the house so I went to my hotel room about 1 mile away. I could not sleep all night knowing what I was about to discover in the morning. Well morning came and I arrived at the address at about 7:00 AM. The ad said they would open at 8:00 AM and NO EARLY BIRDS but I could not help myself. When the first garage opened, I was right there and the first person to browse. The guy actually had a shitload of NES/SNES/SEGA/... games so I casually asked about the NWC cart. He said, "Oh yeah, that game. My neighbor had that and some guys came by last night and offered $20 just to look through her stuff and she let them. One guy found the game and gave her $2000 cash for it, I saw the money and could not believe it." I stood there in shock and horror and as I broke down and told the guy why I was there. He told me he had no clue any NES game was worth that amount even though his garage was full of games from every system and he had a 1-UP mushroom tattoo on his wrist.I was amazed and horrified at the same time so I did what any of us would do, search the rest of the sale and try to salvage the trip. I managed to find about $300 worth of good games for $80 so the trip was not completely wasted. If any of you here were the lucky bastard that sniped me, I would love to know. I will FOE you, poke needles in your voodoo doll and curse your name forever. Just kidding, congratulations on your awesome find if you are on here. I really would like to know if someone on here got this so I can congratulate you and discuss this fateful night, you sorry bastard!!!

Originally posted by: Xerxes

A local Craig's list post from a few days ago reads, "Cleaned out my closet and found a few of my old nintendo games there are Kung Fu. Super Mario bros. Stadium events. And donkey kong. That's all I found so far just looking for a quick 10 bucks. Thanks" I was too late. If you got my $10 SE don't tell me. I will hate you for ever.

Originally posted by: 3GenGames

If I knew there was a NWC 10 hours away and the person had no idea, I'd of started driving, go there, gave them $200 for the lot and left. Why tell them anything? Frickk.... sorry to hear it though. Ever find out who it was? Maybe next time, though. And as for the stadium events, I'd bet on that one somebody was fooled, be happy it wasn't you!

Originally posted by: genesisdon't

About three years ago, I arrived at the Swap Shop late on a Thursday. I normally park on the east side and work my way to the west. The entire east side was full(the owner at times eff with the location of the vendors and the parking).On the norm I would wait a bit to get a space , but this day I decided to park on the west side... and work my way to the east. I found a couple of things along the way. Then i got to a regular vendor that I knew. I see a couple of playstation titles (Parasite eve resident evil and said ok things are starting to look good. She said all the games were 10 bucks. As I started to do my El cheapo scowl, I see the gynormous cloth shopping bag filled to the rim (like Brim) with all the hot buttered, cheese slathered, rained on by bacon playstation shit! Tactics Ogre, Ogre Battle ,Final fantasy VII(all the hot Square shit!), Valkyrie Profile,all the hot Capcom games/fighters action games(Strider 2, all the Mega Men, and Tronbone included) bust a groove 1 and 2, Parappa and Un Jammer Lammy all the Working Designs shit! all the Atlus Shit, all the Enix shit (yall know I don't normally curse so you know I am hurting); basically every Playstation one game of decent and crazy value was in the bag )! I go... "Mami! Whats up with these games!" She said The guy already paid her 150.00 for it and is going to get the other $50 bucks from the atm! I felt like crap! Had I got my ass there early like I originally intended to, The bounty would have been mine. The up side was on Sunday of the same week when I scored a complete Neo Geo Aes with an extra joystick 6 games a cib Dreamcast with all the fighting ish (games complete) and a complete loose Saturn (with a smidge of fighting goodies)for $70 bucks! (Sorry guys! I know this is losers weepers, but I had to mention that to re-etch the memory of loosing out on that vanglorious Playstation haul out of my head!). Oh yeah! everything mint : ( !!!!!!