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Monday, June 11, 2007
Big Haul! Thank you, video store!
All those games. $46. A little less than $2 each. First haul I got was $20 for 13 games, second haul $26 for another 13.
Games include:
Hyper Tennis: Final Match [Shrinkwrapped]
Floating Runner
Live Wire!
Megaman X3 [Shrinkwrapped] * 3
Rock and Roll Racing 2 [Shrinkwrapped]
PO'ed [Shrinkwrapped]
Hexen [Shrinkwrapped]
Super Sonic Racers [Shrinkwrapped]
Bedlam [Shrinkwrapped]
Street Racer [Shrinkwrapped]
Crusader
Warhawk [Shrinkwrapped, cardboard version]
Soul Blade
Alleyway GB
Xevious 3D/G+ * 2
Wing Commander III
Aiv Global Evolution [Shrinkwrapped]
Spider [Shrinkwrapped]
Clock Tower
Unopened pack of basketball cards [Not pictured]
PSOne Memory Card [Not pictured]
Marsupilami [Genesis, complete] [Not pictured]
Clearly the guys got a huge shipment of games from an auction, and decided to sell them all for $2 each. The first set they gave me 13 for $20 for some reason. I have no idea why.
What a set. Games like Megaman X3 are very hard to get, as is Clock Tower. Most of these games are from the very early life of the Playstation, games like WarHawk use a very old style of packaging that not many used. Crazy stuff.
Now for an update on stuff I've bought and sold. I've sold plenty of stuff, and made plenty from it!
1. Sold one of the Amiga 500's with a third of the games [83], with joystick, mouse and all that. Sold it for $117.50, bought for $10 with 2 others!
2. Prince of Persia II PC, bought with the Amigas, $10.50
3. Nintendo 64 Green Controller, boxed, $29.
4. Nintendo 64 Gold with Box, Goldeneye and Star Wars games, $40. Bought with above controller for $5
5. Final Fantasy VIII Platinum, $20.50. Bought for $10.
6. Spyro 1 Platinum, $21.49, bought for $5.
7. Spyro 3 Platinum, $20.50, bought for $5.
8. Master System 1 console, $51 [Assuming the person finally pays this friday :|]
I've also made some mistakes in the math I've done on this site. I've done the right thing and made an excel spreadsheet of everything I've bought during this, and how it's sold.
Right now, I've spent $318.25 in games, while I've made $514.79 - a total of $196.54 profit, and I've not sold even half this stuff yet. I'm going pretty damn good.
Admittedly, I bought these games a few weeks ago, I haven't been out for a while, always sleeping in. After exams I'll start up again! To see the raw data, check this page:
http://users.tpg.com.au/rlan/gamesales.htm
Saturday, June 2, 2007
Late update: Good haul though
Today's adventure started at the Salvo's, where I picked up Sim Life for $2.25AU. Even if I'm wrong [which it looks like I am], I've only wasted 2 bucks. It's all there with a big bloody manual, and also has Sim Ant too.
Then to the Cashies, where I picked up the rest. The PSOne cords - to go along with the PSOne mentioned before - were 10 bucks. The rest - Crash 3, Mega Man: Wily Wars, Gunstar Heroes, Quackshot/Battletoads double pack, and Smurfs were $7 each. I probably could have gotten them cheaper had I asked the guy who does some discounts for me, I could have gotten them a bit cheaper. But ah well, no need to argue, a dollar is a dollar, and for these items I should make my money back anyhow.
Crash 3 is for my own use - the final piece of my PSX Crash platformer collection.
The Quackshot / Battletoads collection is pretty weird since they're so unrelated to each other - I've seen a Quackshot / Castle of Illusion set before, and at least that made sense. It includes the VHS-Esque case [with cart clips] and the manuals. Looks nearly brand new! These collections were only done in Australia, so I might get a bit for it.
Gunstar Heroes - boxed, complete, like new. This fella tends to get $35-ish Aussie Dollars, maybe more due to the condition. I own it on the Virtual Console. I might wait a while before I sell it though.
Mega Man: The Wily Wars - Hard as nails to get, or so I hear. There is a copy by some German dude on ebay who wants $125AU for a complete copy. Hopefully I can get a good number for this excellent find. Reminds me when I actually found a copy of Megaman X3 PAL Saturn in the same Cashies - I swapped that gold mine for a lot of other overseas gaming stuff I was looking for at the time
Smurfs, eh, I wasn't sure if it was the same as "Smurfs Travel the World", which I sold recently. It's not, and not worth as much. Ah well.
Sunday, May 6, 2007
How to blow up a PSOne
Today's Car Booting went pretty well. I was able to get two game items:
A PSOne console, and a GunCon45. The Guncon works fine - and with the Time Crisis I picked up a month or so ago, I can sell them together for mucho profits! Time Crisis didn't age very well either, it's damn ugly.
The PSOne didn't come with any cords - so I went and scurried through my cords to see if I could find a matching set. With all of my multi-inputs not working, I found out that my Laptop's input was the same, so I slapped that in.
Never do this!
After 5 seconds of testing that yes, it turns on, the PSOne started to smell of BURNING CHIP BOARDS. I unplugged it as quickly as possible, opening it up, it now has a nice char mark on the main board. Whoops.
I took it down to the local GameTraders [A store which for the most part sell exclusivly second hand games and console, as well as imported games], and got them to plug the console into a real power plug and AV cable. Thankfully, it still works. Only problem is that it still smells like burning plastic - I need to cover that up :) Plus I need to find cables for my own purposes - GT only sells them for stupidly high prices.
I got both together for 8 bucks. So even if the PSOne dies, it's still a good price for a GunCon.
I also picked up some other non-gaming stuff for keeps at the Car Boot Market - A bunch of DVDs. Poor guy was moving overseas and decided to offload his entire 300+ DVD collection. I picked up each of these [including box sets] for $5 each, a total of $55.
Those Family guy / American Dad box sets are still worth a good $20 on ebay each, so I'll watch the commentaries and sell them off anyway.
And lastly, and bare with me on this..
I found a Don Karnage - character from an old cartoon called Tailspin - plush doll. I bought it purely for selling purposes - and not some freaky furry-related stuff. You don't see much merchendise for the old Saturday Morning cartoons, even when they were around. And something which is considered 'obscure' now within the Disney Dome, you just never ever see. For a buck, you really can't go wrong, and I feel I can probably rake in a bit of cash from this thing. I've seen Sally Acorn Dolls [Character from an old Sonic Cartoon, released only in SEGA World Sydney] go for a ton of money, who knows how this will go.
A PSOne console, and a GunCon45. The Guncon works fine - and with the Time Crisis I picked up a month or so ago, I can sell them together for mucho profits! Time Crisis didn't age very well either, it's damn ugly.
The PSOne didn't come with any cords - so I went and scurried through my cords to see if I could find a matching set. With all of my multi-inputs not working, I found out that my Laptop's input was the same, so I slapped that in.
Never do this!
After 5 seconds of testing that yes, it turns on, the PSOne started to smell of BURNING CHIP BOARDS. I unplugged it as quickly as possible, opening it up, it now has a nice char mark on the main board. Whoops.
I took it down to the local GameTraders [A store which for the most part sell exclusivly second hand games and console, as well as imported games], and got them to plug the console into a real power plug and AV cable. Thankfully, it still works. Only problem is that it still smells like burning plastic - I need to cover that up :) Plus I need to find cables for my own purposes - GT only sells them for stupidly high prices.
I got both together for 8 bucks. So even if the PSOne dies, it's still a good price for a GunCon.
I also picked up some other non-gaming stuff for keeps at the Car Boot Market - A bunch of DVDs. Poor guy was moving overseas and decided to offload his entire 300+ DVD collection. I picked up each of these [including box sets] for $5 each, a total of $55.
Those Family guy / American Dad box sets are still worth a good $20 on ebay each, so I'll watch the commentaries and sell them off anyway.
And lastly, and bare with me on this..
I found a Don Karnage - character from an old cartoon called Tailspin - plush doll. I bought it purely for selling purposes - and not some freaky furry-related stuff. You don't see much merchendise for the old Saturday Morning cartoons, even when they were around. And something which is considered 'obscure' now within the Disney Dome, you just never ever see. For a buck, you really can't go wrong, and I feel I can probably rake in a bit of cash from this thing. I've seen Sally Acorn Dolls [Character from an old Sonic Cartoon, released only in SEGA World Sydney] go for a ton of money, who knows how this will go.
Friday, April 27, 2007
Thirfting Quests
A friend pointed out these down at the local Salvo shop - some pretty awesome old PC games. King's Quest IV: The Perils of Rosella, 7th Guest, and Police Quest IV: Open Season. All complete with disks and manuals. The Quests were $5 each, while 7th Guest was $8.50 - too much, but I took it anyway. They also had Kings Quest II and VII, as pictured, but some douche stole the disks from the packaging. So I was able to take the boxes anyway.
Bought: $238
Sold: $184.36
Diff: -$53.64
I'll be in the green in a week or so :)
It's raining, it's pouring.
It's been raining all week, and about time too. Unfortunately, not very good car booting weather, but Australia really, REALLY needs it.
Either way, I found yet another copy of Final Fantasy VIII. Third one in like, two months. This one is a little broken unfortunately, the casing isn't sitting right - was 8 bucks. Plus I picked up Mickey's Wild Adventure [aka Playstation version of Mickey Mania] for $10 for my own collectors sake.
Friday, April 20, 2007
Spyro extravaganza!
This'll be a long message, since I didn't get around to it through the week, I've been scavanging through my quarters to, well, make it look clean, and it's not a small task with all the gaming crap I have lying around.
I picked up these three Spyro games at the car boot sale last weekend - each one for 5 bucks I already owned Spyro and Year of the Dragon, but not Gateway to Glimmer - so now I have the set! I'll sell off the other two seperately, they usually go for $20 each.
I did see some dude pick up some nice old software like Office '97, but missed it all :|
Then at the local Cash Converters - a large chain of second hand stores here in Australia - I found a Saturn, some complete NES games, and Final Fantasy VIII.
This Saturn only came with the controller and console, but I had an extra RF switch and power cable handy. The controller doesn't seem to work very well, and it's some sort of official SEGA pad with Turbo buttons on it. I'll try and clean through it.
This Saturn is a little different because it's an initial release variation - which has a plastic front and oval buttons, compared to this model. Works fine otherwise, bought for $20. Not sure how much I can sell it for - but when I do I'll chuck in a bunch of Saturn games I don't want anymore and don't sell well seperately.
Kung Fu, Excitebike, and Tennis for the NES, 5 bucks each, probably paid too much since these early NES games aren't sought after for, nice trinket item though.
And lastly, Final Fantasy VIII. Unfortunately a Platinum version, but still sought after like everything Final Fantasy. $10. I recently sold an original version for $40, this up and down world of eBay might give similar results.
Today I went through some garage sales and finally had some luck. One thing you'll find is that some people forget that they have this stuff, even when they're selling it. If I go to a garage sale which had kids toys or some computer bits, I always ask if they have video game consoles. So I had two great pickups today:
Playstation console, two dual-shock controllers [one a wacky 3rd party controller], memory card, Crash Bandicoot 2, Spyro 1, Need for Speed High Stakes, and Pro 18 World Tour Golf. $20. I sold a Playstation recently with one game for ~50, and again Spyro is worth 20 odd dollars. I'll keep Crash 2 for my platformers collection :)
Nintendo 64, limited edition gold controller version, all boxed and working great. A green controller also in box, both the controllers are like new with little movement problems. Goldeneye and Mario Kart 64 also included. Total: $5. Baaaargain.
Current Total Purchases: $201.50.
I've just sold a bunch of things from auctions: 13 of the magazines I've sold for a total of $25.50. The Silver Gamecube was sold for $42.15, the memory card was seperated for an extra $20.50.
The Nintendo 64 Expansion Pak was taken from the console and sold for 25.65, as well as the clear purple controller for $14.50. I sold the 64 with an AV cable and another booster pak and a copy of Duke Nukem 64 instead of Goldeneye for $36.
Total $184.36 sold. So I'm negative $17.14 right now - that's without selling the Master Systems, Amigas, and a whole lot of magazines - I should get payment for a few more items soon, so I'll be out of the red :)
I picked up these three Spyro games at the car boot sale last weekend - each one for 5 bucks I already owned Spyro and Year of the Dragon, but not Gateway to Glimmer - so now I have the set! I'll sell off the other two seperately, they usually go for $20 each.
I did see some dude pick up some nice old software like Office '97, but missed it all :|
Then at the local Cash Converters - a large chain of second hand stores here in Australia - I found a Saturn, some complete NES games, and Final Fantasy VIII.
This Saturn only came with the controller and console, but I had an extra RF switch and power cable handy. The controller doesn't seem to work very well, and it's some sort of official SEGA pad with Turbo buttons on it. I'll try and clean through it.
This Saturn is a little different because it's an initial release variation - which has a plastic front and oval buttons, compared to this model. Works fine otherwise, bought for $20. Not sure how much I can sell it for - but when I do I'll chuck in a bunch of Saturn games I don't want anymore and don't sell well seperately.
Kung Fu, Excitebike, and Tennis for the NES, 5 bucks each, probably paid too much since these early NES games aren't sought after for, nice trinket item though.
And lastly, Final Fantasy VIII. Unfortunately a Platinum version, but still sought after like everything Final Fantasy. $10. I recently sold an original version for $40, this up and down world of eBay might give similar results.
Today I went through some garage sales and finally had some luck. One thing you'll find is that some people forget that they have this stuff, even when they're selling it. If I go to a garage sale which had kids toys or some computer bits, I always ask if they have video game consoles. So I had two great pickups today:
Playstation console, two dual-shock controllers [one a wacky 3rd party controller], memory card, Crash Bandicoot 2, Spyro 1, Need for Speed High Stakes, and Pro 18 World Tour Golf. $20. I sold a Playstation recently with one game for ~50, and again Spyro is worth 20 odd dollars. I'll keep Crash 2 for my platformers collection :)
Nintendo 64, limited edition gold controller version, all boxed and working great. A green controller also in box, both the controllers are like new with little movement problems. Goldeneye and Mario Kart 64 also included. Total: $5. Baaaargain.
Current Total Purchases: $201.50.
I've just sold a bunch of things from auctions: 13 of the magazines I've sold for a total of $25.50. The Silver Gamecube was sold for $42.15, the memory card was seperated for an extra $20.50.
The Nintendo 64 Expansion Pak was taken from the console and sold for 25.65, as well as the clear purple controller for $14.50. I sold the 64 with an AV cable and another booster pak and a copy of Duke Nukem 64 instead of Goldeneye for $36.
Total $184.36 sold. So I'm negative $17.14 right now - that's without selling the Master Systems, Amigas, and a whole lot of magazines - I should get payment for a few more items soon, so I'll be out of the red :)
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