Bartsfam Posted September 22, 2011 Share Posted September 22, 2011 (edited) This is a heads up for anyone in the New England area, heading to the Big 'E' I just went to the Big 'E' today, and to my surprise, there was a tent selling old school video games, consoles, and accessories. (The Big 'E' is the Eastern States Expostion, from now until 10/2/2011 in Springfield, MA) The guy selling the stuff was kind of a dink, but......his inventory was great! Boxed consoles, from the Odyssey to present day. Boxed games from Atari to today. Loose games from Odyssey to today. NES clones, that I had never seen, or heard of before. Joysticks, pads and accessories also. He also had Arcade machines, like Pac Man and Zaxxon for sale. He also wanted to purchase any old games for trade or cash. His pricing was so-so. He had a box of Colecovison commons, and they were all $7.50 a piece. So, DK was $7.50 but Turbo was also $7.50. Other items had no prices, and when I asked how much, he would rattle off a price from his head. He said he was a wholesaler from the Poconos. His tent is located across from the small ferris wheel. So, if you are going to the Big 'E', bring some extra cash. You may find some things you need for your collection. Edited October 9, 2011 by Bartsfam Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FibroFreak78 Posted September 22, 2011 Share Posted September 22, 2011 Awesome..ty for the heads up! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HatefulGravey Posted September 22, 2011 Share Posted September 22, 2011 Stuff like this doesn't happen around here. Makes me sad. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tense Posted September 22, 2011 Share Posted September 22, 2011 Yeah. There are very few hobbyists in the South-South-East. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lastcallhall Posted September 22, 2011 Share Posted September 22, 2011 Or in the southwest. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
the-topdog Posted September 22, 2011 Share Posted September 22, 2011 Or the Inland Empire Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dooglehead Posted September 22, 2011 Share Posted September 22, 2011 I went there last year, and if the tent you are talking about was the same one I went to last year, the guy working there was indeed a "dink". The cheapest Atari 2600 games were $7.50, and he looked up prices on Ebay before telling you what the price for games you wanted to buy were. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bartsfam Posted September 22, 2011 Author Share Posted September 22, 2011 Yes. It's the same guy, and he is full of himself. But...that tent is like a classic gaming museum. He had a really polite younger kid working with him who was helpful. If you are looking for hard to find things, maybe people can haggle with him. He had some really interesting boxed systems. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
atarinut76 Posted September 23, 2011 Share Posted September 23, 2011 lol I have a guy around me that opened a game store a few years ago that is like that? has nothing priced and looks EVERY game up on the internet. We had a game convention coming up and I gave him the info for it all to be a vender? He had no interest on promoting his store and said that " the people that go to those shows are the losers who can't go to the comicon"? I was very close on making him eat his $3.00 Pac-man cart!! But the kid in his store was very cool? and thought it was a geat idea to promote the store? lol Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GonzoGamer Posted September 23, 2011 Share Posted September 23, 2011 Always has to be a non collector jerk who thinks everything they have is gold, i dealt with the same thing in my sports card collecting days back in the late 80s and early 90s (which is when i got out of that hobby) by the way i have dozens of combat, pacman and et carts, I wonder if this guy will pay me a buck and a half for each for them.....lol Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bartsfam Posted October 9, 2011 Author Share Posted October 9, 2011 I was curious..Now that the Big 'E' is over, did anyone buy anything from this guy?? Anyone get any good deals?? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bobotech Posted October 10, 2011 Share Posted October 10, 2011 No one has anything decent in the Inland Empire or as I like to call it, the Inbred Empire. I have never met any collectors except for the quintessential "Comic Book Guy" from the Simpsons at a defunct store here in Spokane. The owner was a middle aged big guy with a goatee that ran a place called Odyssey or something like that but he went out of business a few months ago. Other than that, its just raping the thrifts for what I can find and pickens have been lean in recent years. I would LOVE for some guy like that to come to our big fair every year but the Spokane International fair is nothing compared to the Big E. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Grig Posted October 12, 2011 Share Posted October 12, 2011 We have an electronics exposition here near So Cal every year (it's in LA i think), but it's too expensive to attend (like $450 for a ticket) and Comic-Con has become a joke for collectors (the prices are outrageous as well as admission). Bobo's right - it's basically the thrift stores or bust for good deals (or here on Atari Age). The last few items i found were some boxed C64 games and about 40 atari 2600 games (mostly commons) with two 2600 systems but that's about all. Sometimes Craigslist will have something good but we have had a run in Bakersfield of people trying to get $200 for a 2600 and 20 games. The flea market here is also no good - just cheap imported goods, clothes, furniture, appliances, etc. We don't even have the comic book guy (or even comic book gay, his brother) - we have "Ryan's Toys" - where good games and toys go to die unless you have a King's ransom (still don't know how he stays in business). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SEgamer Posted October 12, 2011 Share Posted October 12, 2011 Stuff like this doesn't happen around here. Makes me sad. I hear ya. That and collecting here isn't anywhere near as good as the west coast or northeast. Any place outside of Atlanta has absolutely nothing, and even there it's very rare to find some gaming oddities. Now if old video game/computer stuff was as abundant as UGA merchandise, well my house would be full of gaming goodness. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
doyman Posted October 12, 2011 Share Posted October 12, 2011 Maybe we need to pray to BiraBira again God of Classic Game Collecting! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Melissa Melville Posted October 16, 2011 Share Posted October 16, 2011 That guy is a tool. He owns a 'major' retail place in PA that sells over priced arcade games (Double Dragon $1,000). He is always writing me to get in on bulk lots that I come across, but he doesn't want to pay more than $50 a game. He then will go on and on about how he doesn't know anything about them or how to fix them. I had a deal in place with him for a Taito SI Trimline, passed uo a few other because he and I had an agreeement. He then went and sold the game out from under me and came up with a BS excuse. Man it's been five months and I am still pissed. I needed that Trimline. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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