Unbelievable purchase or trade stories!

[Luke_H]

I have had a few OK deals, which include:

-New PAL Saturn for A$50

-New PAL Saturn for A$50 but it was a UK import so it had the excellent officical RGB SCART cable, I only bought it for that cable so I got the system as a bonus. :)

-Mario RPG SNES (mint) US$30

-Metal Slug SS (missing obi card) US$30

-Hyper Duel SS (mint and complete) US$49

-Panzer Dragoon Saga SS PAL (mint) for A$60

-Chrono Trigger SNES (mint but missing map) US$30

-Kingdom Grandpix SS sealed US$40

-traded a spare copy of M vs SF SS for Gradius Deluxe Pack, Salamander Delux Pack plus and Fatal Fury 3, I mainly wanted the first two so the third was a bonus even if it is not very good.

Cheers

Luke

[Perkunas]

Once found a MegaDrive II + MegaCD II combo (great state, all cables, no box) + Tomcat Alley, Road Avenger and Sherlock Homes in a good state for 5 euro. :-D

If only those games were Sonic CD and Snatcher... :smt042

[AntiPasta]

Well, my working MCD2 with Earthworm Jim (not working sadly) came from the trash :smt043

But that's a damn good price, where'd ya get it?

[Perkunas]

Well, my working MCD2 with Earthworm Jim (not working sadly) came from the trash :smt043

But that's a damn good price, where'd ya get it?

In your homeland, on a market. ;)

Zeeland, Middelburg.


I once bought a mint LE ICO for 11 euro as well. ^^

[kammedo]

I (once) bought an U64 board + devkit (2.0I manuals + 2.0K OS) from someone over at www.nekochan.net (which afterwards turned out to be just partially working) for $300 included shipping from US to italy.
Still wondering today why i did that after all... :angry
A while after that, i reposted another "wanted" for an U64 board, and got in contact with a japanese guy who said there was one in akihabara...and you could get it for like 5$.... :smt082 of course, there was a high probability that the board could have been fried, broken....but i thought, wtf, it's 5$ for the board + $10 for the guy + $10 for the shipment (which makes me thinking again about why i oh just why accepted to let me ship a _non working_ u64 bard for like $100 from US.. :smt022, but i guess faults are here to let you learn from them... ), and got him to buy it...
well, i tried it today and (WOW) it W-O-R-K-S flawless! once i'llget to know how to set up NFS so that it works i'll post some screens :-D
:smt082 :smt082 :smt082
Believe it or not, there's a God out there somewhere :smt042

[AntiPasta]

...
Believe it or not, there's a God out there somewhere :smt042

There is... otherwise I wouldn't have got two copies of PD Saga in one month :-D

First, the US one: traded a Saturn Street Fighter Zero 3 boxset against Panzer Dragoon, Zwei, and Saga all mint US versions

And now a PAL one too, complete near mint in trade for my SNES backup unit

:happyhap:

[kammedo]

...
Believe it or not, there's a God out there somewhere :smt042
And now a PAL one too, complete near mint in trade for my SNES backup unit
:happyhap:
Nooo backup unit for SNES am i missing!! :smt022

[AntiPasta]

...
Believe it or not, there's a God out there somewhere :smt042
And now a PAL one too, complete near mint in trade for my SNES backup unit
:happyhap:
Nooo backup unit for SNES am i missing!! :smt022

I wasnt really planning to get rid of it but getting a Saga in trade is another matter :-D

[CraigJ]

My best score is probably a white Japanese Sega Saturn, with two controllers, a V-Saturn controller, a stepdown convertor and an original sega VCD card for $20Aus. I couldn't give the bloke my money quick enough when he told me how much he wanted.

I also found a boxed complete with map Phantasy Star Gaiden for Gamegear for $10 Aus. I only bought it because I'd have a hunch that it'd be worth a bit on eBay. Ended up selling it for $75Aus.

[einbebop44]

...
Believe it or not, there's a God out there somewhere :smt042
And now a PAL one too, complete near mint in trade for my SNES backup unit
:happyhap:
Nooo backup unit for SNES am i missing!! :smt022

I wasnt really planning to get rid of it but getting a Saga in trade is another matter :-D

Wow, that's a really good deal. Bet you couldn't grab your SNES out of the closet quick enough. :smt042

[drummy]

*All loose:
Earthbound, SMRPG, Yoshi's Island, and Zelda: A Link to the Past
$15.50

*Super Mario RPG (complete with guide), loose Super Mario Kart (with manual), loose Super Mario All Stars (with manual)
$48

*Bubble Bobble Part 2 (loose) (NES)
$24

*All loose:
Flintstones: Surprise at Dino Peak, Race America, Pro Sport Hockey
$80

*Princess Tomato (boxed), King Neptune's Adventure (boxed), Bebe's Kids (box only)
$10

*Super Turrican 2 (factory sealed)
$55

*SNES Model 2, Super 8 (with box and all hook-ups), Contra (NES) (complete), Super Mario 3 (NES) (complete), Castlevania II (NES) (complete), Super Mario 2 (NES) (complete), River City Ransom (NES) (complete), Actraiser (SNES) (complete), Castlevania IV (SNES) (complete), Super Punch-Out (SNES) (complete), Zelda: A Link to the Past (SNES) (loose), Super Metroid (SNES) (loose)
ALL of this for $105

*Dreamcast w/ 11 games
$9

[mrhaboobi]

My Best find ever..

Complete Oddyssey System with all the games released.. ( at the time it was one of the only known complete collections ).. cost me something like 15 US for the lot.. didnt know what i had when i bought it.. Unfornately i had to sell it when i moved houses..

Aside from that.. i found the first known copy of Funky Fish for Arcadia..

Now.. i find nothing.. :( how times have changed..

[cos2k3]

Dreamcast PAL

Samba De Amigo with Maracas
Street Fighter 3 3rd Strike
Streeft Fighter 3 Double Impact
Marvel Vs Capcom 2
Shenmue
Shenmue 2
Soul Calibur
Sega Bass plus unofficial rod

all for £70!

[cahaz]

i found a place where they still sells SEALED NES games for 10 bucks, they still sells snes , n64 and psx games too, all sealed. i think it's an unbelivable story.:smt043

[1nicki9]

a Dreamcast Kiosk, without tv but with dc, controllers and arms. $50au :)
same as this 1 http://www.dreamcasthistory.com/pics/euroextras/EuroKiosk02.jpg (for the 1s that don't no wat i mean) but in better condition.

[WolverineDK]

vat means with tax (in Denmark it is called moms ) but the word tax is called skat.

[Borman]

I got a SCPH 10000 JP PS2 system, a controller, hookups, memory card, and 3 games for 90 USD. Not too bad if you ask me heh.

[Pikkon]

I got a IBM laptop for 80$

900Mhz Intel Celeron Processor
128 MB Ram
30Gb Hard Drive
Ethernet Built-in
56K Dialup modem
DVD-Rom Drive
13" Screen Size
Brand new battery

And Im trading the laptop for a V6 PS2 with DMS3 installed, network adapter, 80GB HDD ,
and a dualShock2 controller.

Not a bad deal at all

[Pikkon]

Ok Im getting a better deal.
Im trading my modded xbox with a stock HDD
and a 120 dollars for a Xbox Development Kit.

[The VGM]

a Dreamcast Kiosk, without tv but with dc, controllers and arms. $50au :)
same as this 1 http://www.dreamcasthistory.com/pics/euroextras/EuroKiosk02.jpg (for the 1s that don't no wat i mean) but in better condition.

I want one of the us versions of those. They had a cool monitor. Anyone know a place where I could get one?

[Dragyth]

XBOX in new condition with dvd playback kit, one controller and all leads for $70 in a local shop.
Not the deal of the century but pretty damn cheap.

[Taemos]

I got another free computer, nearly identical to the other one. The video card is fucked up, but that's no surprise (the other one was, too). The problem is, I don't have a PCI video card anywhere...

[Sinjd]

My best were quite a long time ago.

Japanese Dreamcast, 2 pads, 2 guns, Arcade stick, VMU, Powerstone, Virtual On 2, Dynamite Deka 2, PenPen, Blue Stinger, Godzilla, Marvel vs Capcom, Biohazard 2 Value, Virtua Fighter 3tb, Virtua Cop 2, House of the dead 2, Get Bass (with rod), Street Fighter Zero 3, Aero Dancing, Buggy Heat, Gundam Side Story 0079, Puyo Pop 4, King Of Fighters Dream Match, for £30

and then i got my Nes with 28 games, 2 normal pads, a joystick, two zappers, and some weird ass pad that I have no idea what it is for free off my boss when I worked in a shop selling retro stuff :o

[The VGM]

Some ones I can think of:

Brand new Xbox for free (still sealed in my closet)
Broken PS2 for $10
Sega Genesis 1 w/ Sega CD and 2 controllers $5

[AntiPasta]

Some ones I can think of:
Brand new Xbox for free (still sealed in my closet)


How the hell'd ya get that?

[The VGM]

How the hell'd ya get that?

My dad's friend won it in a raffle and she has no use for an xbox. I don't know what I should do with it. I kinda want to mod it but meh.

[manopac]

found a Philips Videopac (aka Magnavox Odyssey 2 in US) cart with the number 48 "Backgammon" on a local fleamarket for $3 (seller wanted $4 but I negotiated the price down), sold it later on ebay for $500 ...

[koolkid13]

I dont know how good a deal this was but I recently bought a Boxed w/ manual intellivision for 4.99 from Salvation Army.

[babu]

Well.. I got myself a NES for free from my old school. they thought it was broken.. but it wasn't! :D

[Mark30001]

I bought the game @ FuncoLand years ago!

[ezekiel]

I am going to start a weekly NJ Berlin mart finds

this week
http://images.snapfish.com/3439678723232%7Ffp45%3Dot%3E232%3C%3D355%3D%3B76%3 DXROQDF%3E232386%3A57494%3Bot1lsi

Phantasy Star $5
2 sega CD games $10
Mega Drive $8
3 Atari games $8


last week http://assemblergames.com/forums/showthread.php?t=4959

[macwest]

I know its not a game but I am stoked. Just bought a Gateway ALR 9200 server system with quad PIII 550 for 72.00 shipped.

[Roi]

Never mind :ayashi:smt022

[PhantasyStar]

I bought a sealed copy of Phantasy Star IV for $34.99!!

[ASSEMbler]

I know its not a game but I am stoked. Just bought a Gateway ALR 9200 server system with quad PIII 550 for 72.00 shipped.

And what you going to do with that pray tell?

[macwest]

And what you going to do with that pray tell?


A few things. One I do web work so I have it set up as a web server. Also since it can take up to 4 gigs ram Microsofts virtual machine runs well on it with 2000 so I can create virtual machines fo all my enviroments and run multiples at the same time. Eventually I will upgrade it to xeon 900MHZ processors.

[Taemos]

I got another free computer, nearly identical to the other one. The video card is fucked up, but that's no surprise (the other one was, too). The problem is, I don't have a PCI video card anywhere...

I got an "S3 Trio64V+" PCI card for the computer. Cost = free.

The card probably sucks, but if it makes the computer run then I'll take it :).

[fro]

I used to have a S3 Trio back in the day!, great card (4mb on board if i remember).

[Taemos]

I pulled it out of a dead Gateway at work. Come to think of it, I forgot to bring it home... :(

[macwest]

free is a great price. One can never argue with that.

[The VGM]

Free Dell Dimension 2400. Will post specs soon.


EDIT Won't boot up. A yellow light just flashes. Anyone know what this means?

[the_steadster]

Any Beeps?

[fro]

Free Dell Dimension 2400. Will post specs soon.


EDIT Won't boot up. A yellow light just flashes. Anyone know what this means?

Sadly a lot of name brand PC’s don’t POST (power on self test) to the standards of custom built machines (eg. Beeps . The best thing to do would be to call Dell technical support, or search around on the dell forums.

[The VGM]

Nah it doesn't do anything, the yellow led just blinks. If you hold the power button long enough it stops, but that's about it.

[Taemos]

Nah it doesn't do anything, the yellow led just blinks. If you hold the power button long enough it stops, but that's about it.

You probably turned it off ;).

[The VGM]

You probably turned it off ;).

I know..... :-D I searched Dell last night but came up empty handed.

[dracula]

i really raped the shit out of the gamerush $5 sale. got about a dozen psp games for $5 each. that is it lately. thrift shop finds include:

little samson $1
dragon warrior 2 $1
l'emperor $2

probably some others. This is nothing but really these finds are nothing. check the gametz.com "find of the week" thread or the cheapassgamer braggin rights forum to see some real finds. (fools brag about the garage sale finds and getting a boxed toploader for 3 bucks with rob the video robot with all his parts and similar finds)

your best bet at finding junk in the wild: garage sales, thrift shops, clearance/closeouts/goin out of business sales)

there you can really get away with murder.

[Mr. Casual]

Are thrift shops like dollar general? I was so surprised when I saw some in our local dollar general, but they were crappy titles such as Britney's dance beat, American Idol, and some trivia game. All for $15, each. What a bargain!

[The VGM]

Marvel vs Capcom 2 PS2 new for $30

[Borman]

5 bucks for a Genesis with hookups, 2 controllers, and Phantasy Star 4

[devilredeemed]

made a 'sick' find a couple of months ago. a stack of Motorodeo and Ikari Warriors for atari 2600 NTSC, sealed/new (one of each was opened and checked to make sure it was infact NTSC). a number have been sold at reasonable price at atariage.com on my behalf, the rest is on its way back to me. anyone interested in trades let me know.

[Giel]

Well, not very amazing, but a PSP value Pack for 200 dollar (new) seems like a pretty good deal to me. Considering the fact that I bought it in HongKong.

[citcelaid]

Just bought a complete Japanese Tekkou Teikoku (Steel Empire), for €3,99.

Found it in a picture of a bulk auction for 100 Megadrive games and asked the seller to sell it to me separately. :happyhap:

[sabre470]

Just bought a complete Japanese Tekkou Teikoku (Steel Empire), for €3,99.

Found it in a picture of a bulk auction for 100 Megadrive games and asked the seller to sell it to me separately. :happyhap:

Jealous I am... :smt023

[nandy]

I bought a Sega Multi-Mega for 50 kronor (that's like 3 pounds or 6 dollars) with NHL 94 (the CD-version),Shining Force CD and a 6-button controller on like a market (loppmarknad in swedish, don't know the english word). All of it was in great shape and the Multi-Mega almost looked like it was new :)

[Mark30001]

I went to a thrift store and got a brand new Suikoden II for the PSX for 3 dollars! I almost didn't buy it, but I remembered hearing the name from somewhere, so I got it!

I originally got blank 5in floppies, many 5in Apple II floppy games, blank 8 tracks, an NES console, a Genesis controller, the Bee-Gees Saturday Night Live record, SMB/Duckhunt, many Genesis games including Sonic, Sonic 2 GG Manual, Super Mario 64 box with manual (no game, but I already have it!), Suikoden II for the PSX, & 2 other PSX games.

All for $25!!!

[PhantasyStar]

I went to a thrift store and got a brand new Suikoden II for the PSX for 3 dollars! I almost didn't buy it, but I remembered hearing the name from somewhere, so I got it!

Unbelievable, I must say!

[The VGM]

Mark, don't open Suikoden. Keep an eye out for another one if you want to play it.

[Mark30001]

Mark, don't open Suikoden. Keep an eye out for another one if you want to play it.

It came open, but is brand new. Not a single scratch. Not even a fingerprint.

I could just download an ISO of it and burn & play it on a modded PSX/PS2 if I wanted.

[The VGM]

Oh, you mean it was like new.

[Mark30001]

Yeah. The store probably couldn't remove the original *Wal-Mart* price tag, so they probably removed the plastic cover & put their price tag on the case...

[strider]

i got a snes mini from a friend free to help me on my 2 snes portable

[dbwhicker]

I got an SNES 2 from one of my friends with 10 games for nothing a while back, and sometime next week another one of my friends is giving me around 40 loose NES carts (some of which are fairly rare) because his NES is broken.

[dj898]

I gotta get new friends with Famicom or SuperFamicom... he he
all my mates are into current/next gen stuff with HDTV and ...

[Borman]

1x Dreamcast System
2x Official Controllers
2 Gray VMUs
1 Blue VMU
1 New in Box Blue VMU
1 Official 4x DC Memory card
1 Final Fantasy 2 for SNES
1 Sonic Adventure 2 DC
1 NHL2k2 DC
1 N64 (with expansion i think)
1 N64 Controller
1 10th Anniversery Sonic (missing Coin)

all for 23 bucks :)

[atomheartmother]

Well I have a few I can mention my #1 find was a Centipede arcade for only $65 US seller said it did not work, changed a fuse voilaa, and man is it in pristine shape now!!

I also got a xmen arcade and inside it was a Pac-Man board working for only $50

Next I purchased a 18 hole minuture golf course thats right a full size mini golf course (rails holes carpet...for $10.00!!! Yup and sold it a month later to someone in Florida for a hell of a lot more!!

I bought a local game store out and got 20+ PS2's for $5 each and 19 work perfect....seriously..I also got 3 xboxes for $15 each...2 gamecubes for $10...5 dreamcasts for $1. Yeah I got lucky this day!! I still cant believe it to be honest.

Also got a virtual boy for $1 and a super famicon for only $30 with 20 games..got an atari with 103 games for $50...:p
But of all of it the centipede is probably the tops these things sell for like $1500.

[liquitt]

1x Dreamcast System
2x Official Controllers
2 Gray VMUs
1 Blue VMU
1 New in Box Blue VMU
1 Official 4x DC Memory card
1 Final Fantasy 2 for SNES
1 Sonic Adventure 2 DC
1 NHL2k2 DC
1 N64 (with expansion i think)
1 N64 Controller
1 10th Anniversery Sonic (missing Coin)

all for 23 bucks :)

FFII in that package and all for 23$??? :(

[Borman]

Yep, no manual or anything, but for the price :P . Plus they ended up giving me like 20 free DC games so

[Dot50Cal]

Is that Sonic Anniversary even rare now-a-days?

[Borman]

I doubt it, but it was practically free so who cares heh :P

[Keiyentai]

Panasonic R.E.A.L 3DO FZ-1 for $60 with two controlors and 3 games. Later that day I told my friend who was the owner of Software Ect at the time (now GameStop) and he went in to the back room and came out with a 3DO Promo BINDER!! Gave it to me for free!! 26 games, 5 demo and a beta of Gex...year later when I go t a Sega Saturn and my grandma gave my 3DO to the goodwill will all the games...:smt022

[sayin999]

today, my bro got a free re4 limeted editon chainsaw controller today for ps2 from some guy at work, since he doesnt really have a ps2 or any system he gave it to me, needless to say nto a bad freebie at all.

[d4s]

a wargods cabinet for €80 shipped, an original ghouls n ghosts pcb for €10 and a complete satellaview for €35. cant remember anything else.

[FaZyCrUcK]

Once got 6 broken dreamcasts on ebay for £1.00 and managed to fix 3 of them ;p

Also, recently i got 2 dreamcast GDR beta's (chuchu rocket and matt hoffman bmx) for a penny each on ebay. the seller was well pissed lol

[Mark30001]

Once got 6 broken dreamcasts on ebay for £1.00 and managed to fix 3 of them ;p

Also, recently i got 2 dreamcast GDR beta's (chuchu rocket and matt hoffman bmx) for a penny each on ebay. the seller was well pissed lol

A penny! Holy Balls! :oh:

I got the original NES Super Mario Bros for nine pennies! Wowzers!

[ASSEMbler]

Good deal! :nod:

[dj898]

forgot to mention but my Net Yarouze console cost me 1000 yen - obviously at that price only console, pad, av cable and power cable came with but for less than $10 what more could I want... :p

[mdmx]

once I got a japanese PC Engine with 3 gamepads and about 30 games for 50 Deutsche Mark. that would be 25 Euro. A few time later I sold only 10 of the games on ebay and I got 25 Euro's for it. so the pc engine with 3 gamepads and now only 20 games had cost me nothing :)

bought 3 game & watch games for maybe 20 Euros. Sold them for about 300 Euro's ^^

[neozeed]

I got a mint boxed limited edtion black dreamcast for free because I used buy know on a Yahoo auction and the seller had put the wrong buy know price so I got the Dreamcast and aload of Sega flyers for nothing!

[Zilog Jones]

I know it's not *that* game related, but I got a 19" Dell P991 (http://www.litera-l.ru/foto/monitor/dell%20p991.jpg) monitor (Sony Trinitron tube) for FREE a couple of weeks ago - it was being thrown out by someone in the college, and it works perfectly!

Only problem was carrying a 26kg monitor around college - that was painful...

[liquitt]

a wargods cabinet for €80 shipped, an original ghouls n ghosts pcb for €10 and a complete satellaview for €35. cant remember anything else.

a cabinet for 80€ shipped? great one :)


once I got a japanese PC Engine with 3 gamepads and about 30 games for 50 Deutsche Mark.

boy, you seriously missed something ;)

[GaijinPunch]

I bought 6 Agetec DC sticks for a whopping $20 off of Ebay. They were sold As-is. I'm gutting them and putting Sanwa/Seimitsu parts in. Two were unusuable, but 4 will become lovely arcade sticks. Considering they cost $30-$50 for used ones, I came out okay. About $10 each after chucking two of them, and adding on ridiculous shipping to the island.

[Arthur-Otaku]

Sometimes here in Brazil I found some ridiculou bargains like MD jp vampire killer complete for 10 bucks and ng aes sonic wings 3 for 30. People that doesn't know the real value of some goods are so good!:rambo:

[Blur2040]

ng aes sonic wings 3 for 30. People that doesn't know the

You lucky devil!

[Kittyhawk]

Let's see...

I got all my DC VMUs for free because the people would take them to Gamestop for cash, but Gamestop had stopped taking DC stuff. I graciously took them off their hands.

Then I got a 32X for $5 from a guy who needed quick cash. I got a Genesis I found in the trash at work, with hookups! Customers who came into Gamestop would just give me systems after I told them I needed the hookups with the trade in, which of course they forgot. I got a DC and two N64s this way.

I got a Game Boy Pocket, in really good condition, for 50 cents from a guy who just wanted something for it (Gamestop no longer took them). I got a Game Boy Camera and Printer from some dude who was just going to throw them away after I told him he would receive $2 credit for them.

As for games, I bartered constantly at Gamestop with customers who were only going to get jack for their games. I'd often give them a dollar over the trade-in price in cash for the ones I wanted. I got a couple of Saturn and Sega CD games by offering $1 to people who brought them in.

I took a lot of controllers out of the trash at Gamestop and fixed them up. I got a lot of strategy guides when they "pennied out" at Gamestop as well.

So I guess Gamestop has given me a lot of great deals, just not the way they'd like it. Thank God my boss was really lenient on us and let us do stuff like this. ^_^;;

[ntsc-j]

32mbit super wildcard dx for the snes, 1 euro on a local fleamarket sold by 2 7 year old kids on a blanket. actually i gave them 10 euro instead of the 1 euro they asked for, they were very happy and so was i.

[liquitt]

I HATE KIDS!!!!1

[jammi]

Got a TEST PS2 for FREE!! yes free well I at first paid for it, this was months ago and only paid £80 which wasnt to bad, but never saw the unit. The seller got the money back from the postal service and refunded me, now 4 months later I get a knock at the door and here's me post man with a package dated no less then from august, havent got a clue what happend to it for the last 4 months but me is a happy bunny.

[babu]

Got a TEST PS2 for FREE!! yes free well I at first paid for it, this was months ago and only paid £80 which wasnt to bad, but never saw the unit. The seller got the money back from the postal service and refunded me, now 4 months later I get a knock at the door and here's me post man with a package dated no less then from august, havent got a clue what happend to it for the last 4 months but me is a happy bunny.

heh. then maybe I shouldn't give up the hope for my shoes.. I mean it has only been like 1year since my parent posted them to me ;)

[liquitt]

heh. then maybe I shouldn't give up the hope for my shoes.. I mean it has only been like 1year since my parent posted them to me ;)

of course this takes long, they're coming by foot :lol: :lol:

[citcelaid]

Scored two untested Neo Geo CD Toploader units at Hard-Off the other week.

Got an AC adapter and a board and tested them, both work just fine.

Price? 300 yen (approx $3) each. :-)

[Warakia]

My legs party 3do beta came in the same case as another 3do jap photo cd. I did pay quite a bit for the one game/photo cd, but the regular version of that legs party game sells for a bloody fortune, so I reckon I came off quite well. Score! I also got a 3do majhong game that was very rare quite cheap, simply because it came up wrong on the till! It was priced at 18000 yen and it came up on the till as 6000 ish. Lucky I was buying a huge pile of games otherwise they might have noticed.

Other than that traditional Japan priced stuff like-
3DO, arcade stick, VCD card all boxed for 3700 ish yen.
White saturn, memory card, 3d controller and extra controller, all white and boxed for under 3000 yen. I wan't going to get in originally as I was carrying so much stuff already, but I thought - oh what the hell!

[Sintendo]

I got a free Sega Master System, along with games, controllers and cables.

[Adeptus]

Mortal Kombat 1 JAMMA PCB, for the cost of postage

9 arcade buttons, with microswitches, free

Dead SNES, 2 used PSX controllers, 1 new in box, for the cost of postage

[liquitt]

i got 5 labeled "dead and broken" DVD Players, switched drives and now i have 2 working players and 3 damn cool cases :D

[Sally]

I needed a controller port for a PS2 and some parts for my saturn debug yesterday, so i went down to the local indy shop and told him what i needed. He said he'd just sell me a PS2 unit with a bad laser. He threw in a saturn that didn't work for free. Grand total: 15 bucks. I got home and tested the PS2, it's beat all to hell, but it works fine. The saturn just had a loose ribbon cable, after i plugged that in it worked fine. So i walked away with a saturn and a PS2 for $15.

[dhau]

I don't know if it's anything amazing, but I was quite happy to pick up Super Magic Drive 8MBIT unit with external floppy drive (SEGA Genesis/Megadrive backup, can play many SMS games as well) for 3$CA in local Goodwills.

[babu]

Got a free Adaptec 2940AU SCSI card when helping someone to move. He was going to trash his old computer and I noticed it was a SCSI card in it so I took it http://www.assemblergames.com/forums/images/smilies/eusasmiles/eusasmiles/dance.gif

so hopefully I don't have to buy a SCSI card in the future

[Evangelion-01]

brand new psp lcd screenf or 40shipped! no dead pixels too, it was kinda hard to install, i almost die :"(

[Stone]

Got a free Silent Scope (DC) yesterday. :)

[kingofthelobster]

I think the best deals I ever got were courtesy of this website called "Pointclick" back in the late 90's. They used to pay you a fraction of a cent or something like that for each time you clicked on one of the links on their website which you could cash in for gift certificates and such. I ended up using a macro program and just making it go through and click all the links while I slept. After about a month I had enough points to get myself $200 in Toys'R'Us bucks (which bought me a brand spankin' new Sony Playstation) and also got me a new motherboard and processor from some online computer store.

[liquitt]

I think the best deals I ever got were courtesy of this website called "Pointclick" back in the late 90's. They used to pay you a fraction of a cent or something like that for each time you clicked on one of the links on their website which you could cash in for gift certificates and such. I ended up using a macro program and just making it go through and click all the links while I slept. After about a month I had enough points to get myself $200 in Toys'R'Us bucks (which bought me a brand spankin' new Sony Playstation) and also got me a new motherboard and processor from some online computer store.

back in the days when internet was something cool ;)

[Null2009]

IT Would be Miracle if assembler would FINISH the trade he was doing with me because he got my stuff but his stuff is overdue by 2 weeks and i was going to give them to my younger brother and my roommate before i get SHIPPED OUT TO IRAQ on the 19th of december..................

[PhantasyStar]

IT Would be Miracle if assembler would FINISH the trade he was doing with me because he got my stuff but his stuff is overdue by 2 weeks and i was going to give them to my younger brother and my roommate before i get SHIPPED OUT TO IRAQ on the 19th of december..................

Hmm...looks like he's sick right now, which might be a reason why. Man, hope you do alright out there.

[Paulo]

Your signature needs to be made much shorter! Otherwise ill have to do it later.

Thanks

[Evangelion-01]

Well... it seems like miracles do happen:

1: ps2 action replay max drive "2 discs, thumbdrive" - 2.99
2: Gamecube gameboy player - .49
3: gameboy advance gameshark "it looks like the newer model - 99cents.

i love blockbuster.

[liquitt]

gameboy player 0.49...gosh...is blockbuster a local store?

[Paulo]

Its a multinational vide/dvd/games rental company.

[Paulo]

You posted it in the wrong place. Ive deleted the link please move it to the right place.

[_skitzo_]

http://cgi.ebay.ca/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=8243219718


Just bought this for $20 dollars canadan, picking it up monday, best part he live 10 mins away from me :D

He says the system works perfect, he just has to get rid of it

[Claysion]

2 sega 32x, I genesis+ sega cd (top lid) dreamcast, saturn w/ repaced battery, guns for all systems, neo geo pocket color w/ metal slug 2, psONE with lcd screen, atari 2600 20 games, over 30 extra controllers between all systems, headset television, gamegear, gameboy color, superscope for snes with all the superscope games, sega cd ram cart, japanese psx with no power cable, 2 versions of carrying cases for gamegear, and about 150 various games mostly for sega cd and saturn. no delivery*** all for 240$ from a kid who's dad liked to buy him videogames when he was growing up.

[liquitt]

flea market?

[mettleramiel]

Although nothing TOO great I got boxed copies of Tokyo Extreme Racer 2 and Shenmue for $5 at a pawn shop grand opening. Zelda collector's edition for GC (the one with zelda 1, 2, OOT and MM) for $10 at another pawn shop. Seaman boxed with mike for free from a local toy store. A dreamcast and 3 games from a co-worker for $15. A Gamecube with Metroid Prime, Crystal Chronicles and Mario Sunshine for $40 at a garage sale. Traded VF2, VC1 and Daytona USA(the versions that came free with the saturn here in Canada) for D, Virtua Cop 2, Street Fighter Alpha, Rayman and a light gun. Got a Saturn with VF1 and Christmas Nights for free from a friend. Got a "broken" Dreamcast for free from an aquaintance (the modem was missing, guess he didn't try it out). In store demos of Sly Cooper, Arc the Lad, JetX2o, My Street and three kiosk demo disks for free from a thrift store. Nights for $5, not great except that inside was also a copy of Christmas Knights. And not video games but I got the entire series of Neon Genesis on VHS for $15 off ebay, good condition too!

Hmmmmmm....now that I look at it, I havn't done too bad for myself.

[babu]

lol. you guys pickup more games/hardware in a day then I do in a year (ok. maybe a little exaggerated) ;D

[Cheese007]

hate to revive a somewhat old thread but...
sega32x FOR FREE:oh:

[FaZyCrUcK]

Recent eBay loot (plus some other places):

SNES Evaluation development board (internal nintendo eprom board) - £30
SNES/SFC Network system (modem for betting on horses) boxed mint £25
ton of blank GDR's at £2 each
64DD Modem £20
Nintendo Super Famicom SF Memory Cassette (japs used to put them into a machine to download new games) - £10

Not bad for under £100

Andy

[HXC]

Recent eBay loot (plus some other places):

SNES Evaluation development board (internal nintendo eprom board) - £30
SNES/SFC Network system (modem for betting on horses) boxed mint £25
ton of blank GDR's at £2 each
64DD Modem £20
Nintendo Super Famicom SF Memory Cassette (japs used to put them into a machine to download new games) - £10

Not bad for under £100

Andy


Although you probably didn't mean it, using the abreiviation Japs/jap is actully a racial slur.

[Dot50Cal]

JAP is pretty much ok now-a-days, at least in my mind. Its not a racial slur but Japs still is. I try to use JPN, however Im often finding myself writing Jap.

[virtual alan]

GAME - video game retailer in the UK are selling of quite a few X-Box & Gamecube games at 98p :-)

So buying loads, some to keep and some to trade in, even if only a few pound each...all helps!!!!

[Yakumo]

JAP is pretty much ok now-a-days, at least in my mind.Try telling that to the Japanese :nod:

Yakumo

[FaZyCrUcK]

2006 Has been very good to me so far:

64DD with all games (needs mouse, modem and capture cart) (minus doshin 2 and japan golf, which i already have) - £160
Mario artist talent studio (needed for capture cart) - £13
Densha De Go game and controller boxed for N64 - £15
Brand new N64 smart media reader with some cards - £2 (yes, £2)
2 Virtualboy AC adapter taps brand new £4
Japanese F-Zero X (cart only) - £7
Mario artist paint studio (for mouse) - £20
4 working Japanese N64's - £5 the lot.

Yes, I now have 8 working Jap N64's.

Grand total: £226

Yum

EDIT: No offence intended, call me a 'Brit' in retaliation

[liquitt]

Brit!!

btw what smart card reader is that you're talking about?

[the_steadster]

Mario No Photopii I guess

[liquitt]

thought, didn't know if this is the only one though...

[Dot50Cal]

Try telling that to the Japanese :nod:

Yakumo
Yikes. Never knew that..Ok Ill stop using it then :110: Well at least on boards, Its not like I go around calling Japanese people JAP to their faces lol. I only ever used it in refrence to the country that games came from.

[FaZyCrUcK]

yeah mario no photopii

[FaZyCrUcK]

Haha, score!

5 working Japanese N64's, with PSU's and av leads.... all together: $0.91 :D:D:D:D

Andy

I now have more japanese n64's than family members

[the_steadster]

Haha, score!

5 working Japanese N64's, with PSU's and av leads.... all together: $0.91 :D:D:D:D

Andy

I now have more japanese n64's than family members
Want to send me one (N64, not family member...although, depending on how hardworking they are...) I'll pay the princely sum of £2.50 for just one! thats a 2500% profit!

[FaZyCrUcK]

I'm gonna clean em all out (theyre real gunky), RGB mod 'em all, and remove the tabs from the cart slot (so they play Jap and USA games) and knock a few out for £8 each, plus postage (nothing included, just the unit)

I'd sell the bare units for £5 each i spose....

Hows that sound?

Andy

Ps: I'm not being intently ridiculous with the cost, but imagine the postage cost to get them to me from japan... Not Cheap

[kingofthelobster]

Just picked up a Gamecube for $12.50... sold as non-working because the power button was stuck down and couldn't power up anymore. Previous owned must have had some pretty grubby little kids, the power button had a ring of what appeared to be raspberry lollypop goo around it. 1 Q-tip, a little rubbing alcohol, and 5 minutes later I now have a perfectly good working Gamecube. Went out to Gamestop and bought a used copy of Pikmin, and I must say, it is one of the most incredibly addictive games I think I have ever played.

[madhatter256]

Nice find on the GC.

[wheelaa]

A few weeks back I got a free Marty 2 console. Cosmetically flawless, with all the leads etc, just no box. Thing was the cd bit didn't work, hence the reason it was free.

Now I know nothing about electronics whatsoever, but opened it up all the same, just in case. First thing I see is that a wire/plug from the cd lid (presumably telling the system the cd tray is closed and ready for eye killing laser action) has come a little loose. A quick push down, a tiny click is heard, and a free mint fully working Marty 2 is mine:)

[the_steadster]

I'm gonna clean em all out (theyre real gunky), RGB mod 'em all, and remove the tabs from the cart slot (so they play Jap and USA games) and knock a few out for £8 each, plus postage (nothing included, just the unit)

I'd sell the bare units for £5 each i spose....

Hows that sound?

Andy

Ps: I'm not being intently ridiculous with the cost, but imagine the postage cost to get them to me from japan... Not Cheap


Let me know when you've cleaned a few up - thats still a hell of a price - The 2.50 was only semi-serious...

[Sammelhammel]

My best purchase ever. Two month ago:

Neo Geo AES (PAL,complete with Oldstyleboard and box, mint)
1 Oldstyleboard (complete)
1 Memorycard (complete)
Top Hunter (AES, us, complete and mint)
Samurai Shodown III (AES, us, complete and mint)
Art of Fighting III (Neo Geo CD, us, complete and mint)
Real Bout: Fatal Fury Special (Neo Geo CD, us, complete und mint)


Jaguar (US, complete and mint)
1 Board (complete)
CATBOX (lose but mint)
Alien vs Predator (complete and mint)
Checkered Flag (complete and mint)
Cybermorph (lose)
Wolfenstein 3D (lose)


Virtual Boy (lose, us)
3 games, all lose: Galactic Pinball, Marios Tennis und Red Alarm


Lynx II (lose, but mint)
22 games, all complete:

Lemmings
Desert Strike
Gates of Zendocon
Todd's Adventure in Slime world
Checkered Flag
Jimmy Connors Tennis
Battlewheels
Ninja Gaiden
Ninja Gaiden III
Rygar
Superskweek
Shadow of the beast
NFL Football
Gordo 106
Pit Fighter
Batman Returns
Scrapyard dog
Double Dragon
Dracula - The undead
Gauntlet
Turbo Sub
Shangai


Sega Nomad (complete)
Gunstar Heroes (Genesis, mint, complete)
Dr. Robotniks M.B.M. (mint, complete)
Zombies ate my... (mint, complete)
Super Streetfighter II - The new challengers (jap without manual)


Game Gear:
Shinobi (lose)
Fantasy Zone (with manual)


18 Game-magazines: "Die Hard Gamefan"

1 TV (complete)



Price for all: 460 Euro about 550 Dollar

I have sold all exept the complete Jaguar-stuff, the complete Neo-Geo stuff and the Nomad. In other words I get the Jaguar, the Neo Geo and the Nomad for FREE.

Best purchase I have ever made.....

[jp.]

As far as actual purchases and trades go:
I purchased a mint/complete Blast Wind for Sega Saturn from a guy for $35 shipped last year.

I traded Psyvarier 2 for the Dreamcast for Twinkle Star Sprites for the Dreamcast (amazingly enough).

And while I don't know if presents would apply or not, I'll throw these two out there as well:
When I was younger and really wanted a Genesis, my grandfather gave me a JP Mega Drive and Alien Soldier for my birthday. To this day I'm amazed by that since we all live in the US, but I imagine he just walked into an import shop and didn't know the difference. Definitely an awesome gift!

A friend of mine in Japan was supposed to buy me a Panzer Dragoon Orta Xbox and I would pay her for it since I couldn't order it directly. But since Christmas was around the corner, she gave it to me as a Christmas present! Also, since she knew how big a fan of Panzer Dragoon I was, she was always hooking me up with whatever Panzer Dragoon goodies she could fine, and since her husband did background art for Sega, she did manage to snag me some good stuff directly from Team Andromeda.

Its a damn shame I no longer have any contact with her...

[Alchy]

£500 28" widescreen TV for £80, and no break and enter involved. Score!

[kevster]

OMG, how on hell did u wing that

got sonic adventure 2 jap birthday collection for under 20 pounds

[LeonHikari]

PS2 for free.
GBA:SP for a PS2 controller which came from the free PS2.
A few saturn games for free
Xbox for $30.

[liquitt]

PS2 for free.
GBA:SP for a PS2 controller which came from the free PS2.
A few saturn games for free
Xbox for $30.

:DOH: :DOH: :DOH:

sucks reading that when you want a ps2 badly :lol:

[MikroLogika]

I bought a DTL-H10000S on Ebay from a Germany guy.

He didn't know what that "strange" PS2 was.
Maybe he thought it was damaged, because it did not read
PAL discs, and he sure did not know what a "debugging station" is
good for.

He offered it multiple times on Ebay:
- first for 95 € (noone buy it)
- then 85 € (noone buy it)
- then 75 € (then I buy it *g*)

It took a long time to ship (2 months) because that guy was to stupid
to check his bank account. So if someone is that stupid, he sure is
more stupid... The idiot used the original box for shipping :(((

He had two pieces, because after I got mine, he put up another one,
someone bought it, but he told me he still has it (of course he didn't
sell it, since he is to stupid to give correct BIC/IBAN bank account data).
So I will be going after the second one too.

Strange thing was... Inside the box I found a manual for a DTL-H30001 !

Anyway, the unit is perfectly working (even laser working!) and sure worth the 75 € hahahah:

I'll put up an image soon.

[Hawanja]

Today at the Good will I found the printer for the Casio Myseal Loopy for $5.99, with box and instructions. Not too crazy in the value department, just odd finding such a thing at my local goodwill, seeing how the system never came out here.

[mdmx]

OMG, how on hell did u wing that

got sonic adventure 2 jap birthday collection for under 20 pounds


that's really expensive :oh:

Lik Sang and others have thrown out these collection for 10 USD.

[PhantasyStar]

Won the Sega Saturn version of Phantasy Star Collection along with the Compendium art book for $36 altogether!

http://i2.ebayimg.com/04/i/06/ag/7f/6f_1.JPG

Definitely one of the better auctions I have won.

[ASSEMbler]

Got a gamecube today for $10

[madhatter256]

Got a gamecube today for $10

With all the hook ups? hwere?

[Sally]

I traded my "not for resale" copy of silpheed for a sonic xtreme demo

[Evangelion-01]

I traded my "not for resale" copy of silpheed for a sonic xtreme demo:confused:

[ASSEMbler]

lol
.

[Japan-Games.com]

My big haul from a couple of week ago, store was clearing out it's old inventory.

All for 50,000 yen, about $460

PS2 Gundam Gold Console (x2)
PSOne console x6
Panasonic Q Gamecube
New Wonderswan Crystal Consoles x7
Sega Saturn CD Boxed Console x2
About 350 Sega Saturn CDs
XBOX Smoked Skeleton Console

[AlbinoLove]

shit dude, thats quite a haul! You thinking of selling any of that because I really want a cheap swan crystal.

[ezekiel]

I got a free Arkanoid cab





yes it workshttp://i57.photobucket.com/albums/g215/ezekiel050/1stcab.jpg

[mettleramiel]

I just found a 19" monitor for free!

[peter]

Just won an auction for four Dreamcast Pop n Music games and the controller for only $77 ($32 shipping though :()

[ASSEMbler]

looks like a zookeeper door on that cab.

[mairsil]

So, does getting 45% off a new Dell laptop qualify for this thread?

[Borman]

Dont think so, its still a Dell lol. More of you paying what its worth....kiddinggg XD Sorry, had to be said mairsil lol

[Demonatas]

back in 2000 my parents threw out my whole collection (not even going ot start listing, we'll just say i could have made a wonderful downpayment on a home if i wanted with it, not that i would have). After much complaining to friends and gamestore employeers, i got 1 working 5 dead ps1's , a now dead and gone ps2, a genesis sans psu, a SMS, a complete phantasy star 1, a craptastic TV for all of it, and on top of that, a case of caffiene for that long next couple of days. ^_^

[jccochez]

hello everyone...

I have had... nothing like this, exept maybe a free modchip installation (moderboard lost...)

lucky people !! ^^

[RyanGamerGoneGrazy]

umm, recently picked up a p3 888mhz, 256ram, 10gb hdd for free, with a nice 19 inch moniter, sure it aint fast, but its fun to mess around with.....

....purchased MLB05 for psp, for 98 cents...

not much else


Ryan

[jccochez]

o yes there is one thing... picked up for free 386/486 generation computer components

have it for free and not for $2 ....

[Dot50Cal]

Free Play Asia coupon:
WS-CSW-IML

[joehax]

A copy of Driver for $1 :P

[bsl]

Round 2 Years ago i bought 4 factory sealed 64DD Games (Japan Pro Golf Tour 64, F-Zero, Sim City 64, Mario Artist) on Ebay, the Guy who had them for sell didn`t know they had any Worth so the Auction was with "Buy it now" for 60 €. ;-)

[ganonbanned]

got 3 NES's, with a buttload of accesories, over 100 games, and a complete copy of tengen tetris and stack up for free. cousin gave it to me, i ended up selling all of it to 2 losers for 65 dollars, i was 9 and bought kirby: crystal shards and the strategy guides. from the same person i got atari 2600 with 25 games and 2 controllers and 2 paddle controllers free, and everything was in perfect condition. i still have it.

[babu]

got 3 NES's, with a buttload of accesories, over 100 games, and a complete copy of tengen tetris and stack up for free. cousin gave it to me, i ended up selling all of it to 2 losers for 65 dollars

hold it. you sold 3 NES and 100+ (incl. tengen tetris) games for 65$ :oh:
don't know about prices over where you live.. but over here could easily get $200 for that (probably even more).

[dhau]

Very nice deal on Gameboy Micro 20th Aniversary Edition from Futureshop:

get it for 69.99 CA$ (http://www.futureshop.ca/catalog/proddetail.asp?logon=&langid=EN&sku_id=0665000FS10069749&catid=).

I got one and shipping was 1$.

[Dot50Cal]

I found $80.00 in the street :D No real indication as to who it belongs to either so, I guess its mine :033:

[Morden]

Two months ago I picked up a 2,5 Ghz AMD, 512 RAM, 10 Gb HD computer with mouse and a keyboard. Its owners got frustrated over it being constantly infected with all kinds of virus. When I was picking it up they mentioned that they let their friend who "knows this stuff" examine it, and he expertly judged that it was the processor.

When I brought it home, I booted it up and indeed, the system was infected. I didn't even bother to do anything ealse to it, other than completly format the HD, repartition it and install a fresh system.

They claimed to have experienced major slowdowns for no reason at all. I checked if the processor was being cooled properly. It was. With a fresh system onboard the thing runs like a charm. I gave it to my mom.

[PaintGamma]

I just got Chrono Cross in great condition for $15 =P

[Alchy]

Two months ago I picked up a 2,5 Ghz AMD, 512 RAM, 10 Gb HD computer with mouse and a keyboard. Its owners got frustrated over it being constantly infected with all kinds of virus. When I was picking it up they mentioned that they let their friend who "knows this stuff" examine it, and he expertly judged that it was the processor.

When I brought it home, I booted it up and indeed, the system was infected. I didn't even bother to do anything ealse to it, other than completly format the HD, repartition it and install a fresh system.

They claimed to have experienced major slowdowns for no reason at all. I checked if the processor was being cooled properly. It was. With a fresh system onboard the thing runs like a charm. I gave it to my mom.I dread to think how many much perfectly good, recent PC hardware gets thrown away because the software gets messed up.

[Borman]

Picked up a Soul Calibur namco cabinet for 30$ today, needs some work, but within 100-150 bucks itll be like brand new

[Anhaedra]

My school was throwing out the following, but they gave them to me...

4 400mhz Blue and White G3 Powermacs with 640MB RAM
1 G3 400mhz Powerbook, wouldn't turn on but I reset the PMU and it worked
1 700mhz G3 snow iMac with 1GB RAM

[Japan-Games.com]

About 3 years ago Sega Japan found an old stock of the Pearl Blue Dreamcasts. You had to send them an email as an "entry form" and they'd randomly pick winners. If you won you got to buy the system for $99. I found out about it just after the contest had ended. I ended buying a couple on Yahoo for much more than $99, but they were still a good price since a lot of people were reselling them.

They were also selling brand new R7 Black Dreamcasts for $99. No one was buying...

About 2 years ago on the Sony US page they still had the European Color Collection Consoles. They were limited to 666 and are very hard to get in Japan. I guess no one knew about them in the US. The resale prices were almost the same so I passed on buying one...too bad. They were $249 new, I think...

Anyway, that just crossed my mind when reading this thread.

For my story, I picked up a PAC-S1 MegaDrive LaserActive aqccessory on Yahoo. The picture just had the unit with nothing else and a bare minimum description. I get the thing in the mail and it's a brand new unit with everything inluded. I went back to the auction and took a closer look at the picture and realized that he must have been using some stock photo from somewhere. The price was cheap since everyone assumed they were bidding on just the unit and no extras... I'm reselling it now, eBay 300011559792. Got lucky. ;)

[virtual alan]

About 3 years ago Sega Japan found an old stock of the Pearl Blue Dreamcasts. You had to send them an email as an "entry form" and they'd randomly pick winners. If you won you got to buy the system for $99. I found out about it just after the contest had ended. I ended buying a couple on Yahoo for much more than $99, but they were still a good price since a lot of people were reselling them.

They were also selling brand new R7 Black Dreamcasts for $99. No one was buying...

About 2 years ago on the Sony US page they still had the European Color Collection Consoles. They were limited to 666 and are very hard to get in Japan. I guess no one knew about them in the US. The resale prices were almost the same so I passed on buying one...too bad. They were $249 new, I think...

Anyway, that just crossed my mind when reading this thread.

For my story, I picked up a PAC-S1 MegaDrive LaserActive aqccessory on Yahoo. The picture just had the unit with nothing else and a bare minimum description. I get the thing in the mail and it's a brand new unit with everything inluded. I went back to the auction and took a closer look at the picture and realized that he must have been using some stock photo from somewhere. The price was cheap since everyone assumed they were bidding on just the unit and no extras... I'm reselling it now, eBay 300011559792. Got lucky. ;)



Shame I have a brand new sealed PAC-K1 to go with that!!

[Parris]

Last week I bought a Microsoft Xbox Debug unit in the UK for £20.00 (Roughly $30). It is almost fully functional (it really does need a new DVDrom). It also turns out to be quite an interesting unit (see thread: http://www.gamerhistory.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=339) my unit is the second one discussed in the thread.

I'm also forever trawling through car boot sales, flea markets & second-hand shops. Through the years I have had some amazing finds and yes, a few FREE items. Thanks to eBay it's becoming harder to find them in the usual places, but then again I've had one or two major bargains on eBay too!

Far too many to list actually, but the Debug is the latest and possibly most exciting one for me - ever!

[sexilicious]

Just picked up a gamecube, controller, and metroid prime for 15 bucks; been meaning to get one but never got around to it and couldn't pass this deal up!

[seeberg]

Sega Multi-Mega (CDX) with 9 CD games for 200 DKK around $35 :D

[Steve]

Well, I'm lucky to say I have had a TON of awesome deals. Looking back I have been graciously blessed with mind-blowingly awesome deals. Steals. Not that I stole games, mind you. http://www.digitpress.com/forum/images/smiles/js_tongue.gif

Radiant Silvergun (albeit disc only) for $65. Hey, that's an awesome deal in my book. Complete copy = 150. I'll save 85 bucks any day if it meant I had to forego the back insert and manual! Wouldn't you? (non-collectors that is)

Since I was a major Saturn buff from 2001-2005, the majority of my steals came with this system. In 2002 a guy in Japan was starting an upstart Saturn website. He and I became good email buddies, and he liked my style of reviewing games. He booked me and in return sent me a load of free Saturn imports. I'm not talking no stinkin' cheapo Virtua Fighter. I still remember the 1st package: OutRun, Puyo Puyo Sun and Dead or Alive... all free.

July 2, 2002. The night my cousins came to visit me after not seeing each other for 8 (!) years... it was a beautiful day indeed.

Other goodies he sent me for free later in 2002:

X-Men vs. SF
Space Harrier
Magical Drop 3
Samurai Shodown III
Vampire Savior
BATTLE GAREGGA!!!!! ($80 value minimum)

and many more, all complete and mint. Unbelievable. No catch. He sent me these games all for free in exchange for my reviews, shipping out 3-5 out at a time.

Another guy I met a long time ago, apparently he loved me in a similar vain, as he sent me free games on 4 or 5 separate occasions. US Christmas NiGHTS (worth $25 at the time), Contra Legacy of War (it sucks but was semi-rare), 3D Saturn pad, Duke Nukem 3D, etc. and in his final shipment (2004) he sent me the likes of Shining the Holy Ark, Shining Force III, Iron Storm and Dragon Force, all complete and mint. Holy crap. They were doubles and I sold or traded them off for major killings.

Looking back, I probably received over $1,000 value of games, for NOTHING. For free. Just because I happened to bump into a bunch of dudes who really appreciated the PASSION that I bought to the Saturn scene/community during the early 2000's. Incredible huh? From 2001-2005 I had like 7 or 8 different random "internet buddies" sending me FREE Saturn goodies. Now that whole experience is one I look back fondly on as a Saturn gamer. I'm not in the Saturn scene any more, as I simply burned out and the "mileage ran out," so to speak. Nonetheless, today I still keep the system and have 185 games for it.

I started my SNES journey in January 2006, and already have had some excellent deals. I bought Super Metroid on another site... I offered $8 shipped but he insisted on $7 shipped. Why, who cares, lol. Anyway, he didn't send it til about 3 weeks later, and never replied to my PM's so he stressed me out. However, when the package finally came, he threw in Mario All-Stars for his troubles.

Mario All-Stars was a double. I auctioned it off and got $15 from it.

So essentially, I got Super Metroid for free AND a couple bucks!

Recently, because me and this guy dealt before and I guess he liked me, offered a free copy of Metal Warriors. I was so excited. Free! A week later, I was at the flea market and found a copy! So I sold the double off for $36. I got the flea market copy by trading in $2 and a copy of Fatal Fury SNES. Are you kidding me?!

At 1 point, I owned as many as 3 Aero Fighter copies! One which I traded in for 4 lousy fighting game-related movie VHSes (SF The Anime, Samurai Shodown, Toshinden and Mortal Kombat) I *couldn't* move this junk on the internet for $15 shipped! The vendor gladly took it for Aero Fighters.

Not long ago, my bud sent me Megaman Soccer ($20-$25) and EVO ($50+) for free.

Did I also mention, in 2003, I won a Dreamcast system for free via a message board contest, where I had a fellow random stranger board member chat with me and helped me find the clues on different websites? The DC came with the essentials including Shenmue, Evolution and Grandia II. Crazy huh?

Well I've rambled on long enough. Thanks for being grounds to making an early Monday morning a nice fond trip down memory lane, where the road has been paved with great deals and steals. http://www.digitpress.com/forum/images/smiles/2003_smile.gif http://www.digitpress.com/forum/images/smiles/js_wink.gif

[Parris]

Standard UK Xbox for FREE! Moved into a new home, clearing out the attic as the previous owners hadn't done a good job - I discovered a plastic tub with a fully working Xbox and Mission Impossible game. Not world shattering, but I love free stuff!

It also means I can retire my limited edition unit and keep it for a rainy day.

[Sienar]

Sega Multi-Mega (CDX) with 9 CD games for 200 DKK around $35 :D

You could make quite the profit reseling on ebay

[liquitt]

our old people's residence (where i'm doing my social work atm) threw out a bunch of stuff:
3 LP Player
2 Cassette Decks
5 Videorecorder/DVD Combo machines (2 actually working after switching hardware components)
2 LCD Monitors
3 PCs (1,4 GHz, 512 MB DDR Ram...)
2 Notebooks (acer bla)
1 alcatel advanced reflexes
22 alcatel first reflexes
42 alcatel mobile reflexes

i gaves em 200euros and they gave me 100euros back :P

[Topic Archive]

i got disgaea for 50 bucks, thats a good deal to me

[Steve]

I recently won International Superstar Soccer Deluxe the SUPER RARE soccer phenom on SNES for dirt cheap compared to its going rate

past auctions

1st one (http://cgi.ebay.com/International-Superstar-Soccer-Deluxe-US-SNES-Version_W0QQitemZ8249915782QQcategoryZ62053QQssPag eNameZWDVWQQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem)

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewI...em=320012420803 (http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=320012420803)

and mine below :D

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewI...em=320023220596 (http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&ih=011&item=320023220596)

Game arrived today. This is one I ain't gonna forget...

[Barc0de]

back in the day, i bought a brand new sealed sega saturn PAL from a shop for 35euros (before euros were introduced)

[lwizardl]

got this package a while ago from a kid at gamestop. they offered him $0.03 for the lot. kid was 13 years old max so I offered him $20 for the lot.

http://i92.photobucket.com/albums/l9/lwizardl/ss-package1.jpg

[virtual alan]

got this package a while ago from a kid at gamestop. they offered him $0.03 for the lot. kid was 13 years old max so I offered him $20 for the lot.

http://i92.photobucket.com/albums/l9/lwizardl/ss-package1.jpg


I love those gamestores

My mate is the manager of a local gamestation.....he had some guy come in the other day with a complete boxed 360 premium

As it was first thing in the morning couldn`t give much cash for cash but normal £150 or whatever for trade in

He slighly new he had £40 in his wallet....offered this to the guy as the best he could do unless he came back later in the day...........the guy thought and then took the £40

He did the same for a silver slimline ps2 £20

Waiting for a PSP for about £30 now ;-)

[Mark30001]

got this package a while ago from a kid at gamestop. they offered him $0.03 for the lot. kid was 13 years old max so I offered him $20 for the lot.

http://i92.photobucket.com/albums/l9/lwizardl/ss-package1.jpg

Another reason never to sell your stuff to GameStop. $0.03 for everything is just an insult!

[lwizardl]

yeah since about 99 GameStop/Babbages/EB Games etc have always had this whole "we give you peanuts and sell it back as gold" approach to how they buy games.

[Segafreak_NL]

3600 yen for all this! :dance:

http://img71.imageshack.us/img71/9898/satlucky2dr5.jpg

http://img71.imageshack.us/img71/9486/satluckyqm5.jpg

[sayin999]

That the equivelent of $30 U.S. Damn thats a a real good deal.

[nem]

Nice one :thumbsup: I think I paid more for just Dragon Force II alone.

[unclejun]

I lose a brand new scph10000 at 11000 yens, unbelievable!
I am damned...

[virtual alan]

I love those gamestores

My mate is the manager of a local gamestation.....he had some guy come in the other day with a complete boxed 360 premium

As it was first thing in the morning couldn`t give much cash for cash but normal £150 or whatever for trade in

He slighly new he had £40 in his wallet....offered this to the guy as the best he could do unless he came back later in the day...........the guy thought and then took the £40

He did the same for a silver slimline ps2 £20

Waiting for a PSP for about £30 now ;-)



Well surfing around I found this deal on a site called GUMTREE (private ad`s site)

Black gamecube. 1 controller, not boxed
Official memory card
Zelda and the windwaker with the bonus disk
Def Jam Vendetta
Lord of the Rings (cant remember which one)
Matrix
Spiderman
1 more I can`t remember what it was


All for
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£20

Went to see my mate at his game store and managed to do me a deal

Traded the cube, memory card and Zelda

(used returns so the same value as if I had bought 2nd hand rather than trade in value)
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£51 :clap:

He wanted the matrix games so I gave him this and the other 4 were in the 4 for £20....so I got that as well

So a nice little £51 profit and all in store credits (£71 total) to go towards my Wii


:pray: :pray: :pray: :pray: :pray: :pray: :pray: :pray: :pray:

[Evangelion-01]

ps2+hdloader+250gig hdd+60 games $150!!!!

[liquitt]

hm...60 gamez or 60 games? ;)

[Barc0de]

yesterday I bought 2 x (PAL Donkey Kong Jungle Beat +DK bongos+another game) for 10 euro each.

Also, i got a free wiimote and I paid 12 euros for a brand new 40euro MS wireless mouse. Life is good.

[liquitt]

UK got euros now? :D finally... ;)

[Barc0de]

I m in greece atm

[hl718]

UK got euros now? :D finally... ;)
That'll happen the day hell freezes over...

-hl718

[Barc0de]

funny you should say that hl718. I think there is going to be even more pressure for the adoption of the common currency in the light of a common borderless market. Of course UK politicians and most importantly people must realize that they are either "in" or "out" of the E.U, there's nothing special about the UK for having double standards :P

rant off

[bigsexyolli]

A pretty nice deal for me:

A Xbox 360 (Premium) for 287 euro, new, from an online-shop. Was a 1 day deal as far as I know plus a discount ;)

[hl718]

A pretty nice deal for me:

A Xbox 360 (Premium) for 287 euro, new, from an online-shop. Was a 1 day deal as far as I know plus a discount ;)
That is sweet. :)

-hl718

[Barc0de]

very nice price! You sir have beaten me in cheapness!:D

[Hazuki]

Well nothing special Sonic Adventure [used], Ready to Rumble [New] plus a cheap third party gamepad for dc with vibration [new], all for 12.5e :love2: Also down to Greece hehe :katamari:

[Nimrodil]

I think it´s correct, at least according to:

http://www.estarland.com/product16657.html (http://www.estarland.com/product16657.html)

[pspwill]

How ironic, i was just looking for debug xbox's and i found one for sale for £150 by the one and only Virtual Alan :P

[RyanGamerGoneGrazy]

Picked up a 360 holiday bundle including the console, and GRAW and live arcade disc for $400 cdn, seemed pretty good :)


Picked up Tomb Raider Legend, Kameo, Quake 4, and Amped 3 for 20 bucks a pop

and collecters edition Viva Pinata for 40

Ryan

[pitsunami]

got about 60 pcbs all working for free... and gonna get much more!!!!
now got to get down cleaning them:icon_bigg

[Garlo]

Got StarFox Command for the Nintendo DS for 300 mexican pesos, tax included ($27.60 US dollars) Might not sound like a great deal, but here the game retails normally for 500 pesos ($46 US dollars) In the end, it was even cheaper than getting it in the US, where I try to get most of my current gen games.

It's been fun so far, the control is actually very intuitive. Hopefuly the single player is just as good.

[LuckyToke]

I wanted a couple of wavebirds to use with the Wii. On ebay they are going for £15-30 each.

I managed to grab the below for £65 incl delivey from ebay - Very poor auction pic and desc but good communication!

As well as the console most of these games are doubles from my collection so will easily be able to sell on, hopefully make a tidy profit and get the controllers for free!

404

[game_antics]

Found brand new sealed orginal Nintendo Gamecube Memory Card 251's for 10euros each today!

[LuckyToke]

I wanted a couple of wavebirds to use with the Wii. On ebay they are going for £15-30 each.

I managed to grab the below for £65 incl delivey from ebay - Very poor auction pic and desc but good communication!

As well as the console most of these games are doubles from my collection so will easily be able to sell on, hopefully make a tidy profit and get the controllers for free!

404

Update... Sold all games and Gamecube (minus power supply) for a total of £93 plus delivery on ebay!

All in all I made £28 profit plus two Wavebirds and a Gamecube power supply for free!

[Muffinman943]

scored a playstation 2 with 9 games, 1 movie, a dvd remote, and a controller extension for 40 dollars shipped

[Parris]

Just purchased a fully functioning Japanese V1.5 PSP, an American PSP (with damaged screen, but working otherwise) and a fully functional PS2 (50003) for £30.00 ($60.00) - bargain!

If that wasn't good enough, he also threw in another PS2 I have yet to test!

[Barc0de]

Parris, you know i ve been wanting a reliable Ps2 for some time now dont u?;)

[Parris]

Barc0de, mate, I will clean and ship one to you (after testing the second unit) merely for the price of P&P and the cleaning process. How does that sound? Spread the love lol!

[Barc0de]

Sounds like drips of honey! Sony fucks up PS2 PS3 b/c, Parris saves the day (one person at a time!)

[Parris]

Just tested the 2nd unit, a bit noisy, but loaded straight away. Give me a couple of days to get around to cleaning it. PM me your address and give me £12.00 and it's yours!

[Barc0de]

Just came home.

Got myself a PS2 network adaptor, an RF uni+cable, and an official Sony DVD remote control for 8 pounds.

Is that a good deal?

PS2 connoieseurs, give me your insight!

[Parris]

Damn right! The network adaptor is worth more than that second hand as they are becoming more difficult to obtain. I can only assume you are going to add an HDD to that PS2 of mine (yours)?

[Barc0de]

Oh yes my dear friend. I will follow suit and leave it home with my mother;) You ll have to give me a "ps2 hack 101" though on that please:)

[TheDeathcoaster]

£30 For a Grey JPN Saturn, all hookups, step down transformer, two 2nd Gen pads and -


Panzer Dragoon Zwei (JPN)
Virtua Fighter 2 (JPN)
Metal Slug Boxed with RAM Cart (JPN)
King of Fighters 95 Boxed with ROM cart (JPN)


AND!


Ghouls and Ghost Megadrive (PAL)
Syndicate MEgadrive (PAL)


Man, I love working in a game store :D

[wombat]

Got for free:

Official t-shirt from SEGA.
"To be this good takes AGES"
http://www.segaonline.nl/img/dump/SEGAshirt.jpg

Sonic and the Secret Rings art-work
Signed by the new Sonic Team President

http://www.segaonline.nl/img/dump/signed_artwork.jpg

http://www.segaonline.nl/img/dump/signed_artwork_closeup.jpg

Sonic the Hedgehog figurine
http://www.segaonline.nl/img/dump/sonic_statue.jpg

[mooseblaster]

Alas, the best I got was:

* Saturn + £10 in trade for a 2x DVD+R writer.
* Dreamcast, Controller, Vibration Pak, Sonic Adventure, Alone in the Dark: The New Nightmare, Crazy Taxi - £5.

[RyanGamerGoneGrazy]

Got for free:

Official t-shirt from SEGA.
"To be this good takes AGES"
http://www.segaonline.nl/img/dump/SEGAshirt.jpg

Sonic and the Secret Rings art-work
Signed by the new Sonic Team President

http://www.segaonline.nl/img/dump/signed_artwork.jpg

http://www.segaonline.nl/img/dump/signed_artwork_closeup.jpg

Sonic the Hedgehog figurine
http://www.segaonline.nl/img/dump/sonic_statue.jpg



damm i'd love that poster!

Great steal mate!

Ryan

[ave]

@wombat
Is that Propellar Arena in the background a selfmade copy or kind of a promo/proto release?

[Mark30001]

It looks like Yakumo's design found in this thread, but not too sure:
http://www.assemblergames.com/forums/showthread.php?t=8332

[wombat]

It's the official (sample) artwork that was put on the internet (and also the artwork yakumo used for his cover). I put a seal on it, so it's like the real deal lol. (also got official (not printed) sample cover of Geist Force)

[Japan-Games.com]

Got an Epoch Cassette Vision boxed in good condition for 1 yen on Yahoo Japan, about $0.009...heh. It was a 7-day auction, too, not sure how that happened...

[Barc0de]

Got myself a free brand-new factory-sealed nunchuck controller in the mail yesterday :)

[liquitt]

http://www.segaonline.nl/img/dump/SEGAshirt.jpg
simply fucking amazing!! i love it!!!

[Parris]

Sony PSP - TOTALLY FREE!

My previous PSP purchases cost me an alarmingly cheap $20 each, so when I complained to the store manager that one of them was supposed ot have had a good screen and didn't, he promised to give me the next broken PSP they got. His word was good as today he handed me a fully boxed PSP. It didn't work, failed to boot, but the box had the original sales receipt marked 2006. I called Sony and they have agreed to send a refurbished, but working unit to me.

I've already sold it (cheaply) to my nephew (who needs to learn the value of money & consoles as I have given him 2 PS2 and an Xbox in the past).

He gets a bargain then! Well done Sony customer support! :love2:

[Barc0de]

you fox you Parris ;) I think we might be distantly related :lol:

[ave]

http://cgi.ebay.de/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=260104663978

My god - 2 Mega Drives, 1 Wondermega and he offered 20 free games as well. Unfortunately, I'm not the winner...

[Mqark]

Sony PSP - TOTALLY FREE!

My previous PSP purchases cost me an alarmingly cheap $20 each, so when I complained to the store manager that one of them was supposed ot have had a good screen and didn't, he promised to give me the next broken PSP they got.

Which store is this that you're getting PSP's so cheap in?

[Alchy]

Yeah, spill the beans sonny. I want a $20 PSP.

[pitsunami]

3DO M2 dev card rev. G for less than 100 US$, now that's what I call a bargain! :D

How the hell did you manage that???:banghead:

[Parris]

Which store is this that you're getting PSP's so cheap in?

I trawl several second-hand stores locally looking for faulty, incomplete, damaged items. From time to time you get units that can be easily repaired, or as sometimes occurs are actually perfectly ok! My opinion is that as such items are sold to me "...as seen" then it is the responsibility of the staff to ensure they are not selling undamaged items either by accident or because they don't know how they function. I was once sold a PS2 because the guy was suspicious of the fact that the start up screen no longer moved (i.e. the little white spheres moving around), which if you know the PS2 means that the time / date needed to be updated. He had turned down several machines because of this, so I told him and he gave me a cheap one for the information. I always think people should try reading the manual first, but hey!

Even rarer are items still under warranty, which if faulty can be returned to the manufacturer.

My last 360 was an NTSC unit sold to me cheaply because someone had fried the 110v PSU when they attemped to plug it into 240v. For the sake of a second-hand PSU on eBay, I managed to obtain the console for just £60 ($120) and it was fully functional.

It doesn't always work in my favour. I have been fighting with a Playstation 2 Tool for several months and ALMOST have it working (mostly thanks to Unclejun). A bargain for £150 ($300) but then again, they are selling on Yahoo Japan fully functional for that (just not prepared to pay such high shipping costs) and one UK eBay Tool went for £175 apparently fully functional.

My advice? Hunt, hunt, hunt for bargains and learn to haggle!

[Rlan]

http://img99.imageshack.us/img99/8449/amiga1by6.jpg

http://img134.imageshack.us/img134/3551/amiga2ng3.jpg

http://img251.imageshack.us/img251/1227/amiga3xx6.jpg

http://img340.imageshack.us/img340/6048/amiga4lk9.jpg

Got these a couple of days ago. That was a good day :)

Also in the same time I've picked up not one, but two Sega Master System 1 consoles. One with the Snail game, one with Hang On. Car booting has been paying off lately :)

[Barc0de]

Haggling is fun ;D

[diddydonn]

i got a few bargains off the carboot this morning

commodore vic20 with psu, and 1 cart, all working £1
an amiga cdtv console with floppy drive £5 (seller thought it was a karaoke player!)
final fantasy vii for pc 50p
about 10 ps2 whitelabel promo games 50p each (the guy selling thought they were demos!)
25 assorted megadrive cartidges, £1.50 for the lot!
a boxed nes with 2 controllers, psu and zapper gun for £1!

now thats some bargain hunting for ya!

[Twimfy]

http://img99.imageshack.us/img99/8449/amiga1by6.jpg

http://img134.imageshack.us/img134/3551/amiga2ng3.jpg

http://img251.imageshack.us/img251/1227/amiga3xx6.jpg

http://img340.imageshack.us/img340/6048/amiga4lk9.jpg

Got these a couple of days ago. That was a good day :)

Also in the same time I've picked up not one, but two Sega Master System 1 consoles. One with the Snail game, one with Hang On. Car booting has been paying off lately :)

:pray:

[Mqark]

That's a good lot for a booty - most of the ones I goto are swooped on by pro games sellers who buy up all the good stuff before it's open to the public and them sell it on their stall for ebay prices.

[Barc0de]

got a brand new Travan Seagate Tape Drive 2.0 USB model, for 31 pounds instead of its original 220 GBP price. I m a happy camper

[ASSEMbler]

I got a Gamecube component cable, nintendo brand , new from a pawn shop for $12, and persona 2 for psone for $15, also new.

[Atenhouse]

http://img95.imageshack.us/img95/2478/0421072201to1.jpg

Got it for $10.

:D

[mdmx]

I've got a D-Link DI-624+ Wireless Router 108Mbits for free.

[Festerfly]

Aside from Freebies (which i dont tend to count as bargains unless they are real Rare or similar) then i got this recently:

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=170092904379

:D

[diddydonn]

got a near mint in box sinclair zx81 off the carboot sale yesterday for £5! and a binatone tv master for 50p! (its basically pong and variants in a digusting bright orange case) and it still works! looked nasty on my 42" hdtv tho, but still cool for something that 30yeas old!

[Parris]

got a near mint in box sinclair zx81 off the carboot sale yesterday for £5! and a binatone tv master for 50p! (its basically pong and variants in a digusting bright orange case) and it still works! looked nasty on my 42" hdtv tho, but still cool for something that 30yeas old!

I need to know where your carboot sales are matey as that's a couple of times you've returned home to chez toi with a bundle of nice deals under your belt. I bet the wife/partner/gfriend/bfriend (well you never know) is delighted when you dump your load of 8/16bit nonsense on the kitchen table like booty and announce your arrival!

A few years back I used to do exactly the same and ended up with a massive collection made up of things ranging from the sublime to the rediculous (such as mint boxed Classic SE mac set ups for £3 each), Dreamcast and 15 games £7 etc to the shit (several half working Amstrad CPC units). The house got jam packed and I had to sell it all off before wife 2 left me lol. Let that be a warning ;-)