Originally posted by: captmorgandrinkerOriginally posted by: LutherDestroysTheGond
Got the family up early for garage sales key wife and daughter hate it but there were tons today). Hit up the first one and hit a nice Atari 7800 lot for $15. Cool. Went to the next sale as they were setting up. I chatted the lady and eventually asked if she had any old video games. She goes in her house for a bit and comes out with 2 bankers boxes packed full of NES/SNES/Genesis games and hardware. I ask her how much for it all. We go back and forth and she eventually says $50. I said I have $15 left, I'll wait here and my wife will run to the ATM.
Then, some dude who I thought was setting up tapped the lady on the shoulder. He said "Here's $50. That's a no-brainer " I'm dumbfounded. I say that my wife just has to run to the bank at the end of the block and it'llyake less than 5 minutes. Dude says "Can't go to a sale with only $10. Not my fucking fault you weren't prepared". The lady is just happy to have the cash. I'm livid. My wife gets me to get in the car before I put my hands on this guy.
I'm still heated. This motherfucker was wasting his time buying old Babysitters Club books. I chatted the lady and got her to get the stuff out. I negotiated the price and because he had more cash at that instant and the lady had no integrity, I woke up early for nothing.
Notable games that i missed out on:
RC Pro AM 2
Adventure Island 1-3
Zelda 1 5-screw
Zelda 2
Link to the Past
Secret of Mana
Super Mario Bros 1-3
DK Country 1-3
NES Console
SNES Console
Genesis Model 3
About 40 other loose carts that I didnt get a good look at but were mostly commons iirc
So....what did you learn today?
While the lady really should have held that for you for a few minutes (most people would have for at least a couple minutes, I'll even give people at shows 15 minutes to get to an ATM), you really should have had a couple hundred stashed on your person in case of finds just like this one. Worst case just re-deposit the cash at the end of the day.
But I also would have had a hard time not knocking that box out of the guys hand as I walked away.
Yeah I showed a lot of restraint just walking away. We were planning on getting cash right after this sale because there were about 20 more sales we were going to hit up today. Lesson learned I guess but I traditionally like to have at least $100 on me for saling but it's been so barren the last 4+ years I didnt make it a priority. Usually I'll get an unimpressive handful of Wii or N64 games for trade in at the local store. If I even find anything at all, most days are goose eggs.
Today I ended up with an Atari 7800 lot, a Gamecube lot, a stack of Wii games, and a DS game for $35 total when the day was all said and done. Could've been my best find in 2 years if that lady would have waited 2 minutes.
