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.