Unbelievable purchase or trade stories!

[diddydonn]

well im in the midlands, and go to about 4 different carboots at the weekend, not all at the same time, i tend to rotate which ones i go to, otherwise keep seeing the same crap week after week, and the wife is pretty cool about it, she comes with me and on occasion got some good deals herself (few weeks ago, she gota m3 cart for the ds with a 1gb card for £5)

As for storage, have got a decent sized garage i keep all the stuff in, but doesnt stay there for long, as it usually on ebay within a week or so, i pretty much earn a living by doing a few hours a week hunting for bargains and re-selling, and as long as i keep the taxman happy (and the wife and kids with their pockets lined) ill keep on going!

[Festerfly]

well im in the midlands, and go to about 4 different carboots at the weekend, not all at the same time, i tend to rotate which ones i go to, otherwise keep seeing the same crap week after week, and the wife is pretty cool about it, she comes with me and on occasion got some good deals herself (few weeks ago, she gota m3 cart for the ds with a 1gb card for £5)

As for storage, have got a decent sized garage i keep all the stuff in, but doesnt stay there for long, as it usually on ebay within a week or so, i pretty much earn a living by doing a few hours a week hunting for bargains and re-selling, and as long as i keep the taxman happy (and the wife and kids with their pockets lined) ill keep on going!

goodidea really.. im hoping to support my conolse habit by selling excess stuff that really i dont need....

Currently have 5 PS1's doing nothing becuase if i have bought a games bundle or something it has come with a console.. lol

might start collecting one of each of the model numbers at this rate! lol

[Rlan]

well im in the midlands, and go to about 4 different carboots at the weekend, not all at the same time, i tend to rotate which ones i go to, otherwise keep seeing the same crap week after week, and the wife is pretty cool about it, she comes with me and on occasion got some good deals herself (few weeks ago, she gota m3 cart for the ds with a 1gb card for £5)

As for storage, have got a decent sized garage i keep all the stuff in, but doesnt stay there for long, as it usually on ebay within a week or so, i pretty much earn a living by doing a few hours a week hunting for bargains and re-selling, and as long as i keep the taxman happy (and the wife and kids with their pockets lined) ill keep on going!

Is each car boot sale on every week for you, or do some pop up every fortnight?

Here in Australia, at least where I am, I only have two car boot sales near me, and they swap each week. I've found some awesome stuff from them, and I've had much better luck there than garage sales. Car Boot sales aren't huge over here [due to the lack of.. people :P] but I've found some gems from them.

Not a huge miracle, but I've found three damn copies of Final Fantasy VIII in the last month, from the same Cash Converters store, for 8 or 10 bucks each :lol:

[diddydonn]

Is each car boot sale on every week for you, or do some pop up every fortnight?

Here in Australia, at least where I am, I only have two car boot sales near me, and they swap each week. I've found some awesome stuff from them, and I've had much better luck there than garage sales. Car Boot sales aren't huge over here [due to the lack of.. people :P] but I've found some gems from them.

Not a huge miracle, but I've found three damn copies of Final Fantasy VIII in the last month, from the same Cash Converters store, for 8 or 10 bucks each :lol:

well most weekends there are between 5-6 carboot sales within a 20mile radius of where i live, but if i go to the same ones week after week you tent to see the same overpriced crap again and again, so i try to vary which ones i go to

used to love the cash converters by me until it closed down, in the 5 games for £10 deals in there i got loads of ps1 and dreamcast games, inc all the ff series, the breath of fires, vandal hearts, suikoden, grandia, and skies of arcadia, shenume etc for the dreamcast, but alas it was shut down a few months ago as it was being investigated for handling stolen goods (no surprise there!)

oh and got a couple of good deals today, zelda orcania and majora for the n64 for £1.25 each near mint from a charity shop and a dancemat and game for the cube for £2

[diddydonn]

So this was my haul from this mornings bargain hunting round the carboot not the rarest of stuff but still a few gems (have been hunting for gene machine for a while now)

theres were the games incase its not too clear in the pic

ecstatica
curse of enchantia
Simon the sorcerer 1 and 2
the gene machine
7th guest
myst
riven
little big adventure

all for the grand total of............... £1.80!!! (20p each!!)

also picked up a cambridge soundworks surround sound setup for £5 inc dolby decoder and enough cables to wrap around my house a few times! and a dlink wireless router for £2

just have to see what tomorrow morning brings now!

[DRussian]

goodidea really.. im hoping to support my conolse habit by selling excess stuff that really i dont need....

Currently have 5 PS1's doing nothing becuase if i have bought a games bundle or something it has come with a console.. lol

might start collecting one of each of the model numbers at this rate! lol

mate i`ve got 9 ps1`s i`ve started painting them and this week thought i`d collect each model number i have to justify keeping them lol. i picked on eup for £1 today and it was a mint 7502.

[Festerfly]

ive got two working 7502's but one only reads music cds and not games sadly...

Funnily enough i am going to have a stall next sunday at a Car boot Near to me to try and clear out some goods.!!

So far the Comp List is as follows:

1x DC
1x N64
4x PS1's (poss 5 if the next one arrives in time!)
Some assorted Games/wires controllers etc

And then the usual household junk, old toys, videos etc...

[sflynn]

Got a Sega Master System, with all the cable, 2 original controllers, 2 Power stick controllers, the light gun, and manual for $10 from a swap meet.

[Barc0de]

So this was my haul from this mornings bargain hunting round the carboot not the rarest of stuff but still a few gems (have been hunting for gene machine for a while now)

theres were the games incase its not too clear in the pic

ecstatica
curse of enchantia
Simon the sorcerer 1 and 2
the gene machine
7th guest
myst
riven
little big adventure

all for the grand total of............... £1.80!!! (20p each!!)

also picked up a cambridge soundworks surround sound setup for £5 inc dolby decoder and enough cables to wrap around my house a few times! and a dlink wireless router for £2

just have to see what tomorrow morning brings now!

where from? O_o As you know, i m looking for a router myself

[diddydonn]

where from? O_o As you know, i m looking for a router myself

routers already gone to my parents house im afraid! but ill keep an eye out for one next time im there

and i cant tell you which carboot sales i go to otherwise we'd be in competition with eachother!

[3do]

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also picked up a cambridge soundworks surround sound setup for £5 inc dolby decoder and enough cables to wrap around my house a few times! and a dlink wireless router for £2

just have to see what tomorrow morning brings now!

Nice a D-link wireless router for £2 and £5 for a surround sound setup thats some nice bargin there

[jccochez]

got a bunch of pentium computer for free (about 10 computers)

they're quite old, but you don't mind when it's free.

hum, another thing, a friend of mine got a Debug 360 , 50$

don't even know where to get one myself!

but apparently he found an idiot! don't know how much it is, but must be arout 800 $ am i wrong? 750 $ promotion.

he's much more lucky than i am

[GaijinPunch]

Kitchen Panic (PS) 2300 yen.

[mltv]

I see others posted non game related deals. A year back I had to make some room in one of our DCs. We had gear that wasnt in use since 2004 or so due to constant upgrades we go through, so it was either trash it or take it. It took me two trips, but I got:

Clustered pair of Netapp F760's
10 x FC9 shelves(each shelf has 7x36gig FC drives)
2 x spare f760 heads

5 x Sun A1000 arrays(each had 12 x 36gig FC drives)

[Parris]

20 original PS1 games, most of them promo editions - FREE <thanks to local Freeshare ad>

I'm also picking up a 233Mhz iMac tonight for free <Freeshare again> but that's to help a mate out with his dead unit.

[Festerfly]

20 original PS1 games, most of them promo editions - FREE <thanks to local Freeshare ad>

Barsteward! :lol:

[diddydonn]

20 original PS1 games, most of them promo editions - FREE <thanks to local Freeshare ad>

I'm also picking up a 233Mhz iMac tonight for free <Freeshare again> but that's to help a mate out with his dead unit.

do you have a link for freeshare? is it similar to freecycle?

[Parris]

do you have a link for freeshare? is it similar to freecycle?

Apparently the Freecycle guys in Glasgow had a falling out and Freeshare was born. Again I also heard that there was some legal dispute, which seems to go completely against the nature or ethos of such a site. Just try Freeshare in Yahoo groups or via Google to see whether any local groups have sprung up. It is almost the same, albeit different rules (marginally) and fewer people at present.

[Parris]

Barsteward! :lol:

What makes it worse is that he also offered me over 100 copied PSx titles, which I declined. Argh, why am I so honest about copyright :crying:

[Jamtex]

I binned a load of Promo PS2 PAL games (about 50 odd), mainly because most of them were shite and I didn't have enough time to arse around trying to give them away.