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Jul 4, 2007 at 12:42:50 AM

antofarabia (106)

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Picked up an official top loader NES about 2 years ago at a flea market for a whopping $5, Power Blade 2 for $2, Bubble Bobble for $2, about 10 complete N64 games for $3 a piece. I pretty much bought the table. They were happy...but no way as happy as me.

Picked up Little Samson with a buy it now of around $15 ($20 shipped) about a year ago off ebay (value at the time - approx $50)

Picked up Chip and Dale Rescue Rangers 2 Complete in a poorly listed ebay auction that did not even mention it was 2 and did not show a picture of the box or manual - lot also came with about 5 other games boxed all for around $18 shipped.

Picked up Caltron 6 in 1 with a buy it now of around $135 off ebay about 2 years ago which I later sold for around $200 (really should not have sold it though, as I still need a copy of it for myself)

Picked up Contra, Super C, Contra Force in a lot altogether for around $20 about 2 years ago.

Picked up Sealed Firehawk for $3 shipped about 6 months ago. I'm still looking for a cart only form so I can play it, but sealed for $3 I mean come on.

Deal I wish I bought - someone listed all three Panesians approximately a year ago with a buy it now of around $125...I was a minute late of buying it....uggh

BEST DEAL EVER - PICKED UP A LOT OF 250 Unique NES games to compliment my current collection for $450 shipped off ebay via buy it now

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Edited: 07/04/2007 at 09:46 AM by antofarabia

Jul 4, 2007 at 2:29:45 AM

burdger (152)

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I've had a few decent deals, but only two great deals. First, I found a CIB DW IV at a local store for $20, and then my best deal to date was a CIB Gyromite Big Box with Rob for $50 BIN on eBay.

Jul 4, 2007 at 5:42:08 AM

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My best deals were:

1) Around 1000 NES instructions manuals for $.25 each. Some local guy had a ton of them for some reason. First I bought about 600 then I went back and bought the rest, which ended up being ABOUT 1000 manuals total. I also scored about 400 SNES manuals from him total.

2) Bubble Bobble Part 2 CIB, Maxi 15 boxed, about 5 other CIBs, about 10 other loose cartridges - for $80 shipped. I found a very poorly listed auction and offered the lady $80 for it and she accepted. I wasn't 100% sure that Bubble Bobble was complete or not, I just saw the end of a red box in the picture and wasn't sure.

3) 400 loose NES games including NTSC Stadium Events and many random accessories for $2225. That may sound like a lot, but I ended up reselling everything else individually so basically I got SE for very cheap (less than $200). Link

4) When I first started collecting I purchased 400 loose carts on eBay for a little over $800. There were less than 20 duplicates in this lot.

5) Bought a N64 w/ 8 games, and a SNES w/ 9 games for $50 from some local guy. Many good selling games were included such as the Mario Party games for N64. Mario Party 3 was included but had stickers all over it. When I took them off, I found out that it was the NFR kiosk version! That was a nice little surprise!

6) 50 boxed NES games for $150. Some of the better titles included Donkey Kong Jr. Math, Clu Clu Land, Blues Brothers, Wizardry 2, and many others. Many of the games were uncommon and very few of them are very common. All the boxes are in very good condition, but no manuals. The Donkey Kong Jr. Math box is practically mint.

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Edited: 07/24/2007 at 08:16 PM by burnambill333

Jul 4, 2007 at 10:12:18 AM

NationalGameDepot (279)

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Hard to remember for me, I have had some nice scores but it has been a while.

1.) I got about 300-350 boxes from a friend I helped out for $1 each. Most of them were rental but were almost all shrinkwrapped with a sleeve and styro in most of them. Plus all the stickers were on the outside on not on the boxes. I am talking some good stuff too, like Princess Tom, Dusty Diamond, Little Samson, Bonks and lots more. From the same guy I also got several hundred manuals for .50 each with many awesome titles as well.

2.) I had a few repair center buy outs for some nice stuff. The best one was probably when I got 5 different test stations, tons of parts, a few test carts and lots of random paperwork for 650 shipped.

3.) By todays standards the prince I paid for my Panesians was cheap. BBB was 325, Peek a Boo was 375, and HS was 420 I think.

4.) I meet a guy locally once that had 400-500 games. I bought a lot of 100 from him for 100 bucks. Once I got home I sent him a message and bought all the others from him for 1 each as well. It had a bunch of dups but mostly good selling dups. Had like 10 Zeldas, 12 Castlevania's, 5 Contra', 8 MTPO, the list keeps going. Once it was all said and done I made 2-3k in profit after all my expenses on that one

I have a bunch more but I can't remember them now, getting old sucks.
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Jul 4, 2007 at 11:40:47 AM

KennyB (14)

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I haven't bought any big lots ( biggest is 31 games) but I do find some uncommon stuff occasionally for cheap

1) Boxed NES + loose NES + 31 games ( Mega Man 2 , 3 ,4 ,5 , Toki , Rocking Kat's,Super Mario Hong Kong version, Little samson,...) = 70 USD
2) Supervision 76 in 1 = 3 USD
3) Chip 'n Dale & Spy Hunter both factory sealed for 3 USD/piece
4) Action 52 = free

(a NES + 15 games for 15 USD, resold the NES , got the games for free

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5) Duck Hunt (hong kong version CIB) = 20 USD (inc. shipping)
6) Action 52 (black PCB) = 19USD (inc. shipping)
7) 2 Nintendo Super System games (something like the playchoice 10 for the nes) = 19 USD for both (inc. shipping)
8) Little samson CIB = 12 USD

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Jul 4, 2007 at 2:20:44 PM

skankinmack (69)

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i got a CIB Sqoon for $10 a CIB Chiller for, i thik, $20, and a CIB Cool World for $10 and a video game swapmeet a couple months back.

I also got a bin of $25 on a CIB cowboy kid on ebay.
theres other stuff, i just cant remember.

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Jul 4, 2007 at 3:45:04 PM

Bronty (65)

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lots and lots of stuff, but my favorite deal was about 40 rare sealed nes games that I bought for five grand. Sold some of the doubles for about five grand and still have the other thirty or thirty-five games which were basically free after selling the doubles. The 30 or 35 include lots of good stuff, some of it basically impossible to find sealed - like chubby cherub, sqoon, DK math, etc.

Other random deals that come to mind
- 10 sealed zeldas for $1000 (probably sold about six of them for 2000 and still have 4)
- a couple of sealed chavez 2's for $35 each
- sealed secret of mana for 175 (this was actually on ebay)
- 25 sealed double dragon 3's for $500
- 8 sealed double dragon 2's for $20 each
- 10 sealed mickey mania's for $5 each
- sealed might and magic $6
- a couple sealed race americas, $35 each
- two sealed dead mint tengen tetrises for $155 combined
- sealed link (non-classic), sealed warriors of destiny, and something else sealed for $227.50 on ebay (sold the link for 300 and have the others for free)
- sealed urban champion, $200
- sealed pirates!, $15

God knows what else - it gets hard to track it because I sell most of the "scores".

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WTB Cdn sealed black boxes, sealed Cdn first party titles. I.e. the "mattel" Cdn boxes with both french and english. Mainly black boxes, zelda, link, and tyson, but let me know what you have. I am interested in anything I don't already have!

Edited: 07/04/2007 at 04:14 PM by Bronty

Jul 4, 2007 at 4:13:36 PM

maximus_clean (147)

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I cant find anything good. I suck. I have no luck. I am bad at finding deals.

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Looking for VGA NES, SNES and more, have cash and many VGA to trade!

“Well, there is actual loss of cardboard in a spot or two”

Jul 4, 2007 at 4:15:54 PM

Bronty (65)

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Originally posted by: maximus_clean

I cant find anything good. I suck. I have no luck. I am bad at finding deals.

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Yeah right - just rubbing it in our faces, huh?

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Edited: 07/04/2007 at 04:16 PM by Bronty

Jul 4, 2007 at 4:17:21 PM

maximus_clean (147)

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Originally posted by: Bronty

Originally posted by: maximus_clean I cant find anything good. I suck. I have no luck. I am bad at finding deals.

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Yeah right - just rubbing it in our faces, huh?

I am kinda referring to stuff I actually need and want for my collection goals. I have hit a bit of a slump.

The other stuff is ok i guess.

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Looking for VGA NES, SNES and more, have cash and many VGA to trade!

“Well, there is actual loss of cardboard in a spot or two”

Edited: 07/04/2007 at 04:18 PM by maximus_clean

Jul 4, 2007 at 4:56:20 PM

Bronty (65)

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"OK I guess" he says... what a showman!

Err... I think I'm starting to sound a bit jealous.

Hmmm... I think it may have something to do with me being jealous.

At least a good guy ended up with them, but jeeezzz.... whatta find.

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Edited: 07/04/2007 at 05:00 PM by Bronty

Jul 4, 2007 at 5:00:17 PM

maximus_clean (147)

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c'mon man, i put the wink in there! doesnt that count for anything!?

things are looking grrrrrrrrrrrrreat for some more scores!

ps - I asked kellog's if i could use the tony the tiger thing and they were ok with it.

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Jul 4, 2007 at 5:19:27 PM

Bronty (65)

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I see you're going to treat the guy like the princess in your avatar

well done

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Jul 4, 2007 at 5:29:27 PM

maximus_clean (147)

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you know this

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Looking for VGA NES, SNES and more, have cash and many VGA to trade!

“Well, there is actual loss of cardboard in a spot or two”

Jul 5, 2007 at 8:16:04 AM

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Hm.. i dont remember all, but these were pretty good:

- 3 or 4 sealed Action 52s NES for about $15 each (Ebay)
- Complete 3-in-1 NES for about $36 (Ebay)
- Complete Lion King NES with SCN code for about $39
- Complete Rockman Strategy for PC for about $41
- Konami Hyper Soccer proto/sample cart for for about $6 (Ebay)
- Sealed Caltron 6-in-1 brazilian version for about $25 - $40 (dont quite remember how much, but somewhere around there)

Edited: 07/05/2007 at 08:18 AM by jajaja

Jul 5, 2007 at 11:38:39 AM

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Great stories so far! I'll stick 3 in here...not really my *Best* finds, but they had me excited nonetheless since I'd never pay standard ebay prices for these games. All 3 were off ebay.

Cheetahmen II (loose) + 4 other games - 38$ shipped

Bubble Bobble II (Loose) + CIB action set + BB, Classic Metroid & AoL, SMB/DH, SMB 2, SMB 3, Tom & Jerry, Superman, Namco Ms.Pac-Man - 50.94$ shipped

Flintstones II (Loose) + 21 other games - 64.94$ shipped

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Jul 5, 2007 at 11:58:53 AM

Xevious (12)

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I've got a few good deals in the past

- Mr. Gimmick cart for $5 (it was in a lot of 6 games for $30)

- MegaMan 5 CIB - PAL/SCN for $8.30 (first I got the box and the manual for free, then the guy offered me the cart for that price).

- System w/2 controllers, joystick, zapper and 30 CIB PAL/SCN games (U-four-ia, Bubble Bobble, etc) for a NiB GameCube.

- A big lot of NOS PAL/SCN manuals (F2, Mr. Gimmick, U-four-ia, etc) for about 10 loose carts for N64 and GB.

- Trolls in Crazyland cart for a SMB3 cart.

- And a lot more I don't remember right now.

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Edited: 07/05/2007 at 12:00 PM by Xevious

Jul 5, 2007 at 1:48:05 PM

jajaja (8)

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Oh, i forgot to mention Flintstones 2 CIB PAL-B (SCN code) for about $30 or $40 (somewhere around that). That is probly my best find, atleast very close to the top

Jul 5, 2007 at 4:05:48 PM

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I got Dragon Warrior III & IV, both CIB and almost mint for $5.00 each at a flea market. Also got DW II loose from the same guy for $5.00.

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Edited: 07/05/2007 at 04:06 PM by jaredkk

Jul 5, 2007 at 5:14:05 PM

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You'll probably be able to tell that I haven't found many great deals yet, since I'm touting this as my best. I just got a black box Mario Bros CIB for <$8 on eBay. Apparently people don't look for Brothers spelled out completely as this auction didn't attract a lot of attention. Their loss...

Brings me to 9 games CIB, 3 boxes, and 3 manuals to go in my first 50 games set. Getting this in the mail today plus beating Ghosts 'n Goblins yesterday (I used a lot of continues, so sue me) makes for a pretty good week.

-Brian

Jul 6, 2007 at 4:43:13 PM

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I recently discovered the a large pay-to-get-in flea market in my area(quite a drive though), and I landed up buying lots of games for cheap to resell. I found lots of cheap goodies for everything except the nes. =(
Not too bad though cause I picked up lots of other stuff to resell. FF7 + 2xFFTactics for 11$, and other junk. Contra Hard Corps almost factory sealed, but opened for 3$.(Still has the wrapper on it) I think the only thing I picked up that was nes was The Lone Ranger and Classic Concentration mint carts for a buck each.
I'll be going back this weekend for sure though. =)

Jul 6, 2007 at 7:27:38 PM

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Now here is what ive always been good at. (but not too much lately errr lol) But in my past 4 years of collecting managed to score the following deals>>

BEST DEAL EVER (GameTZ TRADE)

Traded MY Ps2 System, Xbox, and a Gba SP

FOR HIS

Caltron 6 in 1 CIB (mint)
Secret Scout CIB (mint) Black
Bubble Bobble 2 CIB (mint)
Mario is Missing CIB (mint)
Solomons Key 2 CIB PAL (mint)
Sunday Funday CIB (mint)
All the Mega Mans CIB 1-6 (mint)
Little Samson CIB (mint)
Tengen Tetris CIB
Mermaids of Atlantis CIB (mint)
Panic Resteraunt CIB (mint)
Action 52 CIB
Dragon Warrior 4 with Box (mint)
Kirbys Adventure CIB
Kung Fu Heroes Sealed
Game Action Replay
Menace Beach CIB (black) (mint)
about 30 other cart only and complete games.
and some more boxes and manuals

2. Traded a Genesis 3 System with a few games for a MINT Flinstones 2 Surprise at Dino Peak with Box
3. Traded about 8 common N64 Games for a Flinstones 2 Manual

4. Very Awesome Game Show Finds
http://i85.photobucket.com/alb...6/parpunk/6a5e441a.jpg
Every Game in the picture i scored for $6.00 each including factory sealed ms pacman, sealed adventure island 2, sealed felix the cat and Bubble Bobble 2 (which i later traded in the next deal>>>>>
5. Bubble bobble 2 cart straight up trade for 2 NES Test Carts. Joystick cart and NTF2 Cart
6. NES Test Station With Control Deck Cart and Tv on top plus ONS of paperwork $500.00 shipped in a private Deal.
7. Found a Virtual Boy Display Unit for $5.00 at my local flea market, and later sold it for $200.00+
8. Factory Sealed Tengen Tetris $25.00 shipped
9. Factory Sealed NES Action Set for 50.00 shipped. Which i later opened up and rocked out on lol.
10. Marios time machine mint CIB $1.00 Fire n Ice CIB and Mint $9.00

Plenty of more that i cant remeber like chubby cherub box, and some other stuff for pretty nice deals. Ive been kinda on a local dryspell hough lately in my area. i think i already got everything within a 80 mile radius of me lol.

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Edited: 07/06/2007 at 07:29 PM by Parpunk

Jul 6, 2007 at 8:52:36 PM

Bronty (65)

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was it a tengen ms pac man? I could use a better one if you want to sell it.

cheers

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Jul 6, 2007 at 8:53:54 PM

Bronty (65)

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must have been a bit of a scary gametz trade - I know to me it would have sounded too good to be true.

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Jul 6, 2007 at 9:59:43 PM

Parpunk (172)

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hey dan. nah it was the namco ms. pac man. u can see it in the pic. yes i thought it was too good to be true, AND i had to send first lol! wheww i had some balls. or stupidity lol. Either way worked out great :-) i went into a little more detail about how it all went down on my website below. i have a section there of my finds if interested in hearing the whole story. Best deal of my life tho i know that. :-)