Yard Sale Season Rules!

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I hit up two today. One was fairly craptacular, I did pick up another Pac-Man glass for my collection (I now have two glasses and a big glass with a handle) but at the other one, I found a box that contained an NES system, RF switch, power adaptor, three regular controllers, the NES Advantage controller, the Zapper gun, and 8 games... Super Mario Bros., Super Mario Bros. 3, Tetris 2, Robocop, Millipede, Rad Racer, Air Fortress, and Strider... for $5. Everything was in pristine condition as the guy selling it had no children and only played it a few times. I got it home, looked it over and inside the NES was the Super Mario Bros./Duck Hunt combo. My sister picked up a 13" Emerson TV/VCR combo in the box still with all the packaging for $25.

A few weeks ago, I snagged a Sharp VCR for $2 for a backup and a copy of the '96 or '97-ish WWF Trivia game for fifty cents.

Anyone else find any good deals?

[gsguy]

I've been dying to go to some yard and garage sales but I'm never free on the weekends.

[Square]

I love car boots (we dont have yard sales we have massive fields full of cars with tables of junk) my best buy was this framed picture of the 2005 Liverpool FC Champions League celebrations signed by Gerrard and Riise, got it for 30 quid along with a few wrestling junk and sold it on E-Bay for 500 quid!

[tartsonawire]

We had one recently. I sold my Virtual Boy with 9 games for $35. And a Trish Stratus DVD for $5.

[MGH]

My grandmother is the queen of yardsales. I go with her a few times a month to them. I've found so many good deals over the years that it's unreal.

[oldschool712]

I'd rather have "car boots." Sounds more efficient than driving around house to house. At any rate, I bought an Intellivision game system last year, barely used and still in the box, at one such yard sale. I got it for $10.00.

This was one of the first two major gaming systems, the other being Atari. Came out in the early 1980s. You can download some of the original games on the Intellivision website:

www.intellivisionlives.com/

[The"threadicidal"bristolspapa]

gsguy said:

I've been dying to go to some yard and garage sales but I'm never free on the weekends.

I'm selling my crap this weekend. I'll be waiting for ya.

GWB: $4?
Traverse the NJTP: $11
DMB: $3
Delaware toll: $3
Baltimore tunnels: $2
Total x2 + $5 Maryland toll charged for leaving the state = $51 plus gas, but hey, they're very nice wine glasses...really I swear. You won't find these at WalMart. These are Target grade glasses. Well worth the trip.

[DSR]

I work at a Salvation Army Thrift Store, and we're really not supposed to take in stuff people couldn't sell at their yard sales, but someone brought in an NES with Super Mario 1 and 3 (1 had Duck Hunt on the cartridge as well), and Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, as well as 2 controllers, all the hookups, and the light gun. They had it priced for 25 bucks, it didn't sell. We took it in, priced it at 5 bucks, and I bought it later in the day.

*thumbs up*

[The"threadicidal"bristolspapa]

dsr said:

I work at a Salvation Army Thrift Store, and we're really not supposed to take in stuff people couldn't sell at their yard sales, but someone brought in an NES with Super Mario 1 and 3 (1 had Duck Hunt on the cartridge as well), and Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, as well as 2 controllers, all the hookups, and the light gun. They had it priced for 25 bucks, it didn't sell. We took it in, priced it at 5 bucks, and I bought it later in the day.

*thumbs up*

Why? Does the SA consider the goods somehow tainted because they couldn't sell at a garage sale? This smacks of that Seinfeld episode..."We're sorry, but this book has been in a bathroom."

I sound smart assish, but now I'm intrigued.

[samachine]

I guess you could say I'm a yard sale fan, especially the global yard sale, known as eBay.

[Loki]

I absolutely loved "Loppemarked" (litt. flea market, usually held at schools with goods given from the community as a way of self-support).

I bought two nice Hugo Boss jackets for 10$, a dress for 15$, at least three PCs (pentium 100 or something... crappy but they were the only way I'd have a PC back then) for 10-20 bucks each, several soccer jerseys (one for free cos they didn't have change) and a the best deal I've ever had...

A Hammond Organ for 200$ included transportation to my room.

I had a great time playing it (my roommates not so much), too bad I had to leave it behind, as a gift to the music room of the dorm, as it'd have costed too much shipping it home :/

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dsr said:

I work at a Salvation Army Thrift Store, and we're really not supposed to take in stuff people couldn't sell at their yard sales, but someone brought in an NES with Super Mario 1 and 3 (1 had Duck Hunt on the cartridge as well), and Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, as well as 2 controllers, all the hookups, and the light gun. They had it priced for 25 bucks, it didn't sell. We took it in, priced it at 5 bucks, and I bought it later in the day.

*thumbs up*

Yeah, I hit up the Salvation Army Thrist Store in my town at least once a week. I've gotten a ton of Genesis games in there for $1 each (I got my Genesis from a yard sale last year that was in a box with a SNES, N64, a few N64 games and a bunch of the stuff missing, though, like power supplies, controllers for the 64, etc. I ended up having to get the power and av cords for the Genesis off amazon, but I had gift certs, so it didn't cost me anything.)

I've gotten a bunch of other good deals in there, like The Rock's "Know Your Role" on VHS for $1.50, WWF Around the World for 50 cents since it had no case, a Hulk Hogan Python Power coffee mug still in the box for $1. Oh yeah, and I managed to upgrade my monitor to a 17" for $3. A few weeks later, I scored my bro a 17" monitor for $1. Apparently some business had decided to upgrade their stuff.

It's weird your Salvation Army prices down stuff. The one here usually prices up stuff, since I see tapes with 10-25 cents stickers on it changed to $1-$2.

Last year, my sister and I hit a mega score at a yard sale. We went late on Sunday at the end of the sale. I wanted a spare monitor (before I got the 17") and my sister wanted the mini PSOne he had. He told us $4, if we took a bunch of the rest of the stuff. Our mom had to come pick us up... we ended up with two 15" monitors, the PSOne, a sewing machine, two grocery bags full of cords and adaptors for various stuff, four Genesis controllers, two VCRs (one ended up being junk), a four port ethernet hub and probably some more stuff I'm forgetting.

[The Line]

most of the yard sales are by the really rich people who bought stuff on a whim, never used it(sometimes never even opening it) and selling it for pennies on the dollar. So in other words, yes, I love them

[EvilShadow76]

Most of the yard sales I've seen have been a bunch of people trying to sell crap they were gonna throw out until they figured they might make a buck off it.

Crap like: action figures with the arms and legs ripped out of them, used pants, used mattresses, board games with most the pieces missing etc. Just nothing but a total waste of money really. Especially a used mattress...who knows what happened on it? (people had sex on it, pissed on, crapped on, and just about every other thing possible.)

Used pants is another disgusting thing really. Who would want to wear something like that? That's about all the crap people sell around here at yard sales.

[DSR]

sheltonspapa said:

dsr said:

I work at a Salvation Army Thrift Store, and we're really not supposed to take in stuff people couldn't sell at their yard sales, but someone brought in an NES with Super Mario 1 and 3 (1 had Duck Hunt on the cartridge as well), and Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, as well as 2 controllers, all the hookups, and the light gun. They had it priced for 25 bucks, it didn't sell. We took it in, priced it at 5 bucks, and I bought it later in the day.

*thumbs up*

Why? Does the SA consider the goods somehow tainted because they couldn't sell at a garage sale? This smacks of that Seinfeld episode..."We're sorry, but this book has been in a bathroom."

I sound smart assish, but now I'm intrigued.

I don't know why we don't sell yard sale hand-me-downs. Well, most of them are pure s*** anyway, so there's always that.

[drclaw]

i got an atari 2600 with like 30 games last year. it only cost me $20.