Unbelievable purchase or trade stories!

[sg1000]

Sony FD Trinitron 21, got it of eBay for a fiver. Just got to go pick up on the weekend. I bet my dreamcast Is going to look amazing on it via RGB :D

[X3R0102]

Yesterday I went out of town game hunting and scored really good at 2 places everything other then NES games where all from the same store. I spent 60$

Nes Games -
Mega Man 1
Mega Man 2
Mega Man 3
Mega Man 6
Contra

Snes Games
Mega Man 7 - In Box
Turtles In Time - In Box
Tecmo Secret of the Stars - In Box

PS1 Games Complete Unless Noted
Digimon Digital Card Battle - Disc Only
Digimon World 3
Mega Man x4
Mega Man x5
Mega Man x6
Mega Man 8 Anniversary
Vanguard Bandits
Monster Rancher 2
Tales of Destiny

[level42]

Nothing crazy, but I found my SNES in the trash a few houses down.

Works like a champ to this day, now 5 years later.

[APE]

Nothing crazy, but I found my SNES in the trash a few houses down.

Works like a champ to this day, now 5 years later.

Was it stolen or something?

[Cyantist]

Lol'd. The playstation I had before I sold it was found in a dumpster, ran like a dream but was all scratched on the outer casing from rocks and stuff.

[hamburger]

Recently nothing interesting really, just a $20 XBOX 360 that had a "drive problem". Only problem was a sticker stuck inside the drive so it wouldn't eject. Works 100%!

Best thing I ever got was probably an Amiga CD32 at a swapmeet for $5. Or 3 C64s (2 working), a VIC20, 2 disk & tape drives, printer & a bunch of games for around $100.

[daytonausa]

I recently got a US rev0 Dreamcast with a Sega branded clear top half (they only made 1000 of these per color in Japan, made by Sega). No the third party junk you see all the time. The system is VERY rare, and runs extremely quietly because of the better GD-Rom and cooling parts. $5!

I also got a rev0 JP Dreamcast. It has no modem. The shell is just there to make the system complete looking, but there is no modem jack. $15

Purchased a PSone (little white system) with the Sony screen, controller and power cord. The thing looks a day old. Literally. not a single scratch. No oils in the grooves on the controller, rubber on the joysticks looks brand new, etc. $15

And last but not least, today I just obtained an import Sega Dreamcast joystick (the one with bright green buttons and a joystick) for fighting games. These typically go for about 70-100 shipped. I got mine for 38 dollars.

Great month, honestly.

[Schewadnaze]

Today i was in a little second hand shop i dindt noticed before because from outside you see just old furniture. But today i saw nice chair in the shop which interessted me and then i was surprised as i seen they also sold electronics and games etc...
so far
I looked what they got and found a box with some neo geo pocket games ! I looked trough them and found some rares like Faselei!, Last Blade, Dive Alert, Cool Boarders and some common games and all boxed with manuals etc.
I asked the shopkeeper for the price for the whole lot she means to me 50€ and its yours :)
Know im the happy new owner of 8 Neo Geo Pocket Games.^^

[level42]

I just scored this for $10.50!

http://www.ebay.ca/itm/300692925746?...#ht_576wt_1267

[Tatsujin]

Just scored a complete mint SFC Captain Commando for 10 bucks today :)

[Headcrab]

Xbox debug kit. £7.71. Not a typo.

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/230773115060

[Cyantist]

Xbox debug kit. £7.71. Not a typo.

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/230773115060

What.The.Fuck.

[brendand]

I got Magic Carpet on Ps1 for 2 dollars complete with manual in very good condition
Action 52 on sega genesis loose cart for $5 dollars
pokemon mini console with 2 games for $25
a boxed SD gundam famicom game complete near new condition for 50 cents !
a watara supervision with one game for $30 dollars
and a broken xbox 360 with a 20gb hd and all cables,2 controllers and 3 games for 20 dollars :)

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[brendand]

I also found a loose 32X and Pal vagrant story ps1 years ago for 5 dollars each but i traded them

[johnace]

Picked up a broken top of the range alienware aurora m9700 laptop for £30, problem was it wouldn't boot or install windows.....solution was to go into bios and enable raid, works like a dream now :P

[3do]

Picked up a broken top of the range alienware aurora m9700 laptop for £30, problem was it wouldn't boot or install windows.....solution was to go into bios and enable raid, works like a dream now :P

Nice, what are the specs on that thing?

Always nice to get something cheap with a problem but find out it was a simple fix. Got an ipod nano 3rd gen which was listed as non-working for like £12 and it happened to need a simple reset and it worked just fine for a month or so till i sold it on to help pay to fix my PC

[johnace]

Nice, what are the specs on that thing?

Always nice to get something cheap with a problem but find out it was a simple fix. Got an ipod nano 3rd gen which was listed as non-working for like £12 and it happened to need a simple reset and it worked just fine for a month or so till i sold it on to help pay to fix my PC

Specs are:Alienware Aurora m9700
AMD Turion64 ML-44 (2.40GHz)
PC3200 DDR400 2GB Memory
(2x) Seagate 100GB 7200RPM (Serial ATA) RAID0
(2x) GeForce Go 7900GS (256MB) SLI
8x Dual Layer DVD±RW
Integrated Gigabit Ethernet RJ-45
Integrated 56K V.92 modem RJ-11
Realtek 802.11b/g Wireless
17” Wide Screen WUXGA 1920 x 1200
Intel High-Definition audio
4 Hi-speed USB 2.0 ports
Express Card Slot /54mm
4-in-1 Memory Card Reader

[Headcrab]

Specs are:Alienware Aurora m9700
AMD Turion64 ML-44 (2.40GHz)
PC3200 DDR400 2GB Memory
(2x) Seagate 100GB 7200RPM (Serial ATA) RAID0
(2x) GeForce Go 7900GS (256MB) SLI
8x Dual Layer DVD±RW
Integrated Gigabit Ethernet RJ-45
Integrated 56K V.92 modem RJ-11
Realtek 802.11b/g Wireless
17” Wide Screen WUXGA 1920 x 1200
Intel High-Definition audio
4 Hi-speed USB 2.0 ports
Express Card Slot /54mm
4-in-1 Memory Card Reader

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[hamburger]

Picked up a broken top of the range alienware aurora m9700 laptop for £30, problem was it wouldn't boot or install windows.....solution was to go into bios and enable raid, works like a dream now :P

Holy crap. I bought a $20 C2D laptop off eBay (wouldn't boot because there was no HDD) but that blows mine away. Amazing find!

[Flash]

1) NeoGeo MVS + 30 carts for about $40
2) "Dead" MacBook Pro for free (failed RAM module)
3) 2x Sony GDM-C520K aka Sony Artisan new and sealed for $200
4) AV Famicom with 70+ original carts for $60