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Thrift Shop score for $5!

LutherDestroysTheGond — 2019-09-18T19:29:32 -05.00

9/18/19. Traveling across the state for work today and found a Gameboy Color for $5 at a thrift shop. I thought it was odd that it was clear but I bought it and left. Later, googled and found out it is the Neotones Ice color that was only offered in Japan, Australia, and Europe. No idea how it ended up in Metro Detroit but for $5 I'll take it. https://i.imgur.com/uVf5LiN.jpg https://i.imgur.com/qofKm0i.jpg

Thrift Shop score for $5!

LutherDestroysTheGond — 2019-07-08T13:51:23 -05.00

7/8/19. Was out of town for a few days and hit up Goodwill when I got back. Found Chibi Robo CIB for $5.09. The price tag is dated 7/5/19 so it somehow sat there for 3 days. Unbelieveable. https://imgur.com/gallery/907esxL

Great Thrift Shop finds! - including Einhander!

LutherDestroysTheGond — 2018-08-01T18:17:37 -05.00

8/1/2018: I haven't updated in a while but today at the thrift shop I finally found Einhander! It is missing the back of the case, however. Everything was $4 each. Great haul!

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Great Thrift Shop finds!

LutherDestroysTheGond — 2018-03-01T02:17:09 -05.00

Hotchie motchie!

Great Thrift Shop finds!

LutherDestroysTheGond — 2018-02-28T23:59:16 -05.00

Awesome!

Great Thrift Shop finds!

LutherDestroysTheGond — 2018-02-28T21:49:07 -05.00

Updating with my last two significant finds:

1/5/18 - Went to a thrift store near on my lunch break and found 2 fat DSs in the case by the registers for $9.99 each. Not a great find but was talking to an employee about a DS lite they had with a broken hinge. The employee tells her coworker it's broken on the walkie-talkie and the coworker comes out to take the broken DS Lite in back with a basket full of GBA/DS games in-hand to put out on the floor. I immediately go through it and pull out the ones I want. The DSs were $10 each and every game was $1.91.

2/28/18 - Went to a Goodwill on a whim after work. I was walking back to the electronics and a worker asked if I needed help and I said I was just looking for video games and other old electronics. She told me that they had a Gamecube that didn't even last 20 minutes before someone bought it with games earlier in the day. I was very discouraged heading back to the electronics section but saw a TON of PS1/PS2/GCN games. It must've been put out after the Gamecube she talked about earlier. I scooped up everything that I knew I wanted and actually left a few games there that I would have liked (Turok Evolution, some Spyro games, etc.). I spent $4 each for 18 games so it got pricey pretty quickly but it was well worth it. My best find in a long time and probably my best ever at a thrift shop!

All games are CIB except Fire Emblem, Crash Bandicoot 2, and Dragon Quext VIII are missing manuals:

CIB DS games and a PSP game for great prices!

LutherDestroysTheGond — 2017-10-04T14:18:43 -05.00

First post since the Photobucket fiasco. I've had a few local finds since then but this is the first one that I'm trying to post. Maybe I'll go back and update the previous posts in this thread but beyond the original post I doubt it's worth the time

9/23/2017: Went to my home town to visit family and stopped at a store that I used to frequent. I traded in a bunch of DVDs that I don't watch anymore. Got these 3 games all CIB for great prices plus a wad of cash for the trade-in.

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Thrift shop and game store finds! Great PS2 lot, NES box, Wii game, etc.

LutherDestroysTheGond — 2017-05-18T18:00:42 -05.00

Nice buys all around, especially on the Tom & Jerry. It's one of my favorite NES games.

Solid GBA score, Zelda Masters Edition, and good controller find!

LutherDestroysTheGond — 2017-05-18T17:47:44 -05.00

5/17/2017 - Got all of these from a thrift shop for $2 each. Gameboy Advance game is Motocross Maniacs, I'm excited for this one as it is a spiritual successor to Excitebike. All of the PS2 and PS3 games are CIB except the Gundam game is missing the manual. This was a great haul!

Got these from a local game strore for great prices. Tom and Jerry box/manual only was $3. Super Mario All-Star Collection was complete for $15. Mech Assualt is CIB was $3.

Won a free game from an Atlus sweepstakes!!! Also made a trade locally

LutherDestroysTheGond — 2017-03-09T23:29:12 -05.00

Gamestop had a Buy 2 Get 1 deal on retro games. I snagged Boktai 2 for $25, Klonoa 2 for $15, and got Klonoa 1 for free. So happy with this find considering what people will pay for Boktai 2 Got Zelda Breath of the Wild Master Edition but I dont have a Switch. I'm holding out for a price drop and playing on my Wii U (not pictured) Got these from Meijer for cheap. They had these in the clearance section with other Wii/Wii U accessories in Ziploc bags. They weren't used and cheap enough to warrant a purchase.