August 19th, 2008
Anti-deal: This beat up PS2 fatty can be yours for only $133
I love Amazon to bits, but I can’t help but shake my head at this… Their scratch ‘n’ dent discount site Warehouse Deals is selling an original model PS2 with “cosmetic blemishes” (read: scratches, dings, dents, or who knows what else) for the low, low bargain basement price of $133.13. And that doesn’t even include the original box. But hey, shipping is free.
Maybe they can dig me up a dirty N64 for 10% off MSRP?
August 20th, 2008
Christopher Says :
yay, i just got one free! well, after the games are sold anyway… we love katamari seems to be quite the sort after game :o)
August 24th, 2008
Christopher Says :
Ahhh, just finished my first ever proffesional game hoarding :o) Ok, in the UK we don’t get dreamcasts + 50 games for $2, more like xbox + 2 games for $80 (i ran, far), and we don’t have yard sales either (just car boot sales, like a large 2nd hand market in a field).
Still…. Devil May Cry 3 PS2 $6. I figured it went for around $12 and I wasn’t far off, more like $8-10 now but anyways…
Shenmue for dreamcast, had no idea but knew it was a popular game. 2 case 4 disc, no box but vvgc - $3. Apparently $20 is the min
Would’ve also had GTA SA xbox for $2 (min $20 on fleabay) and Buzz Music + 4 controllers PS2 for $10 (again, about $20 on ebay) yet being the world’s most unlucky purchaser neither of them could find the right disc, or any disc at all for that matter. You get that alot?
Also an MS Wireless Optical USB for $1. I don’t care what anyone says, it’s the best mouse in the world, so says my old one that’s still going strong 5 years of hard gaming later
August 24th, 2008
Christopher Says :
Oh I also saw Beyond Good & Evil for PS2 and remembered you mentioning it a few posts back. Also remember everyone else saying it worth worth nowt right now, and a $3 asking price plus no manual put me off a little. Good job as it only makes ~$6 and with the new ever increasing ebay fees it’d never be worth it. Anyway thanks for motivating me to get outta bed in the morning for once
August 24th, 2008
gamehoarders.com Says :
Yeah, Beyond Good & Evil definitely falls into the “great games that nobody played” category. It’s not worth much money right now, but I’m VERY interested to see what happens to the value once BG&E 2 comes out. It will go up for sure, but the question is, by how much?
August 31st, 2008
Christopher Says :
woohoo… think i went a bit overboard today but… spent a lot but got a lot, got stung, and got very very lucky. nothing too interesting but i’m a more modern hoarder so, i’ll begin my very star wars related day:
– first purchase of the day was the best. damp, misty field with not many people in at 7.30am wasn’t looking great, then bam. ~13 very good condition xbox games, saw kights of the old republic and lego 2 and knew i was somewhere good, battlefront 1, futurama, and a load other’s i wasn’t sure off. being the perfectionist i am i took along a printout of my own hand compiled video game price chart, a reliable one too, not like VGPC which I just noticed scrapes things using UPCs which on ebay is a terrible idea (eg. no one ever adds them except shops with expensive bins, maybe that’s what they want but it’s no use to me…). Anyway, long story short, asked for prices and they said ~$2 each but varying on game, asked about a few more games and got the same answer, i knew that was v good for some stuff but went away multiple times to check my list for others. after about 3 trips running away to check prices of stuff and constantly seeing $10+ I gave in and asked for the lot. $22 eventually for 13:
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Beyond Good & Evil (i’ll stick this one away on your advice :d )
Blinx 2
Sphinx
Halo 2 + Multiplayer Mappack
Lego Star Wars 2 (my & sister’s favourite
Star Wars Knights Of The Old Republic
Star wars Battlefront 1
Harry Potter Prisoner Of Azkaban, & Goblet Of Fire
Futurama
Syberia 2
Tomb Raider Legend
and everyone’s favourite
– next up, eye toy play with black camera, young boy asked $5 and was very convincing when i tried to hagle so i handed it over.
– Then saw PS2 Star Wars Battlefront 2, wanted $8, offered and got for $7.
– Then picked up battlefront 2 for xbox for $6.
– Went back to the xbox bundle guy at the end with only $7 cash left, he’d mentioned he had a dvd remote for xbox in with the xbox he was selling, asked if he’d sell it alone and asked $10, offered what i had and accepted. I have a few xboxes so a few remotes are good to have for them so i’ll be keeping this one. Used to be able to pick em up for $4 at a local game chain store when they had stock, but they sold out damn quick once another store started selling used xboxes for $40 and people caught on to the media center thing
Anyway, i know they go for $14+, you can make ~$8.50+ off that, so to get it for less than that was fine with me.
And saw a load of PS2 games but alas I’ve not been in to PS2 stuff for long, so my list of prices is a little small and I’ve no idea what anything’s worth by memory unless it’s god of war. Saw Aladin and some flintstones thing for Sega Megadrive, had a huntch and asked how much, $6 was too much for a huntch. seems flintstones go for ~$8+ but nothing in it really.
The next place wasn’t as good, bit late to go really (now 8.30am) but at least it was on dry tarmac and did find another eye toy play, platinum, silver camera, boxed but loose though in vgc, asked $10, went away and offered and got for $6 later.
> Also saw ps2 Athens 2004 which I looked up on a huntch during the olympics and it was going ~$13-15 while exchange shops will still only offering 20c. Asked $6, offered $4 and got but like an idiot never checked the disc and it’s in pretty poor condition. maybe playable, but if not it’s off to the “we’ll take owt” exchange store for 20c. rofl. at least i finally learnt to check things first
> Also found Gladius for xbox which was going for $10 when i originally added it to my list, but i never dated the time i checked the price and that means my info was pretty old as i’ve done that for everything for maybe 5 months. anyway, asked $6 offered $4 and got it. checked the disc this time too
it’s probably worth nowt now but hohum…
I know I’ll make everything back on the first lot alone, will have fun messing around with eye toy, and trying to get athens to run, so a pretty good day i say. Sega Bass Fishing for the dreamcast ain’t worth anything is it? Or original time crisis plus gcon? If so, coulda been better.
Oh I also got my old PS1 out the other day. purchased in the 90s and likely not used since then either :p … still works. in fact, better than i remember it (laser alignment was going but it was fine). Got a few PS1 games chucked in with a bundle i got earlier; sheep dog n wolf was one, had it on an emulator first to see if it’d work as it didn’t on old ps2, was fine and damn good looking too (beautiful reflections on things), anyway tried it in the ps1 and it was fine too (those things are better at reading CDs than PS2 i presume?) and finally found out that the little rips in graphics (mainly ground textures) is actually native to the ps1 and not epsxe messing up. and stuff really does look better in the emulators. didn’t remember the ps1 looked so bad, aliasing hell.
Ok pics, dunno if this’ll work so i’ll try here and add another with links if not…
August 31st, 2008
Christopher Says :
nope… so,
the 13 xbox + dvd remote
http://inaudible.co.uk/temp/xboxbundle.jpg
the rest of todays stuff:
http://inaudible.co.uk/temp/eyetoys.jpg
shenmue and dmc3 from last week:
http://inaudible.co.uk/temp/ebay/shenmue1.jpg
http://inaudible.co.uk/temp/ebay/devil1.jpg
September 2nd, 2008
Christopher Says :
first time i’ve ever seen one of these - matt white 2nd aniversary xbox console. the controller looks very 360 like, and that box is very apple-esque. shame they couldn’t do the other accessories in white too
http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/XBox-Pure-White-Anniversary-Console-New-Rare-Jap-Import_W0QQitemZ360081994160QQcmdZ