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  3. Posted

    my best find for atari games were prolly death trap and water ski (7800) tank command (7800) mr dos castle

    although im mainly a ps1 and snes collector

    my best finds

    tactics ogre sealed

    super nintendo ninja gaiden trilogy cib

    Nintendo Little samson

    capcom vs marvel 2 ps2 sealed (had to shell 25.00 for that one)

  10. Posted

    Nice find...It never hurts to ask a lower price infact they expect it!

    There have been times they went down form 40.00 to 10.00 you never know...and we all want to save money.

     

     

    Guys, I've known CARTRIDGE STEALER for over 20 years - literally. He's a stand up guy, and so what he if bargained a price down? Isn't that what most of us do anyway? Does it ever hurt to offer a lower number? Heck, I do it all the time, and 90% of the time, I get an item for a lower price. Many times the seller respectfully refuses, and I may pay their price anyway.

     

    So what is the big deal? Him and I have been into video games since we were like 10 years old. He hits the garage sales every weekend, before most people want to get out of bed. As collectors, we ALL know that those that make the extra effort get the goods. I just scored this LIKE NEW complete N64 with 3 games for $20. She was asking $50. Am I bad for offering less? Nope. She could just have said, "no thanks." and I may have even paid the $50.

     

    Greg

     

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  12. Posted

    Me personally if I know im getting a good deal I have no problem paying the asking price. I dont bargain much

    however you cant blame someone for trying to bargain a price. because say he only wanted it for 5 and not 10 if would most likely end up in the garbage if no one else snatched it up.

  14. Posted

    I guess Eli's Ladder is not hard to find?

    Eli's Ladder is an R10 and is very hard to find:

    http://www.atariage.com/software_list.html?SystemID=2600

     

    This discussion about rare games has occurred many times before...if you want to know what games are rare, look up the R10s and R9s in the database and you'll get a pretty good idea. A few of those (Ikari Warriors, Motorodeo, Obelix) have dropped in rarity, but the list is mostly accurate.

     

    And please stop posting threads in the 2600 forum asking about rare games like Air Raid, River Patrol, etc. and where you can find them...lots of people are looking for these. If you have serious interest in purchasing them, post an ad in the Wanted section and sit back and wait, or go out and prepare to do some serious searching.

     

    and forking over big bucks.......

     

    Most of the Time games like this that would pop up would be in a old attic somewhere and then sold at a flea market

    How many people know or care to know the value of an atari game especially when it will be mixed with other games.

    most of my best finds have been at yard sale/flea markets for 50 cents each unless it ends up in a gaming store it will be no more money than a asteroids cart.

  15. Posted

    I guess Eli's Ladder is not hard to find?

    Eli's Ladder is an R10 and is very hard to find:

    http://www.atariage.com/software_list.html?SystemID=2600

     

    This discussion about rare games has occurred many times before...if you want to know what games are rare, look up the R10s and R9s in the database and you'll get a pretty good idea. A few of those (Ikari Warriors, Motorodeo, Obelix) have dropped in rarity, but the list is mostly accurate.

     

    And please stop posting threads in the 2600 forum asking about rare games like Air Raid, River Patrol, etc. and where you can find them...lots of people are looking for these. If you have serious interest in purchasing them, post an ad in the Wanted section and sit back and wait, or go out and prepare to do some serious searching.

     

    and forking over big bucks.......

     

    Most of the Time games like this that would pop up would be in a old attic somewhere and then sold at a flea market

    How many people know or care to know the value of an atari game especially when it will be mixed with other games.

    most of my best finds have been at yard sale/flea markets for 50 cents each unless it ends up in a gaming store it will be no more money than a asteroids cart.

  18. Posted

    In my area (upstate new york No not the city) its mostly small thrift shops not big multi area salvation army's (is that what goodwill is) and games are 1.99 or so however its very hit or miss but every once in a while there will be a box of nes or snes items. and I feel at least around here people mostly pawn shops buy very cheap so they sell very cheap. i know of a place that pays 25 cents for nes and snes games and they sell them 3 games for 5.00 and surprisingly alot of people trade them in because the chains stores no longer take them so thats the only way they feel they can get rid of them (alot of peole dont have time to deal with online activity/ebay. and flea markets are great but there is Garage sale Flea markets where its regular garage sale family's who sell stuff cheap. Its not actual venders who are there evey week who ask hight prices.

     

     

     

    For every 1 game store with high prices there are 5 thrift shops private shops hobby shops pawn shops where nes games are 3.00 snes 4.00 and n64 5.00 and so on.

     

     

    Maybe in whatever magical fantasy town you live in, but almost everywhere i go these days thrift store games start at $5 and the sky's the limit. My favorite was recently finding a small stack of NES games at a Salvation Army, $5 each. There was a copy of the Where's Waldo game that was stained all sorts of weird brownish colors and had a hole about the size of a quarter shattered out of the front of the cart. It was also $5. I have seen SNES games in thrift stores priced above $15, and i've seen Sega CD games priced at $20. Found a loose copy of Final Fantasy for the NES in a Goodwill once marked $30.00. Bare N64's, Dreamcasts, and Playstations at the low, low price of $50. This is becoming less of an exception and more of an absolute in my area, and the flea market dealers are following suit. The couple pawn shops i can ever find open are no better, with games starting at $10 and going up from there.

    For the past two years or so i've been finding better deals at Game Crazy and even at GameStop/EB than i have been at thrift stores, which is just sad. I would kill to have the 4 out of 5 stores of which you speak available in my area.

  19. Posted

    I dont necessarily belive that obscene pricers are the rule but the exeption. For every 1 game store with high prices there are 5 thrift shops private shops hobby shops pawn shops where nes games are 3.00 snes 4.00 and n64 5.00 and so on. Now granted alot of the popular games are gone they will show up in a week as parents dump there kids collection and get 25 cents at a swap shop. even at some game stores (gamecrazy for example) are wayyy cheaper then ebay.

    they sell fatal frame for ps2 dark alliance 2 marvel vs capcom 2 for around 15.00 each and on ebay these games are 30-70. people who go to stores such as eb games are stores that price games above ebay prices in my opinion are taking the easy way out because everyhing out there if they look.

  21. Posted

    I have a set of atari games around 65 and Im to lazy to list on ebay. first reasonsable offer gets them all selling as alot

    CHEAP

    thanks

     

    games are

    GORF

    MISSLE COMMAND

    BOWLING

    KRULL

    ASTEROIDSX2

    DARK CAVERN

    STAMPEDE X3

    MASH

    DIG DUG

    MEGA FORCE

    ATLANTIS

    FOOTBALL

    KABOOM

    ENDURO

    REAL SPORTS FOOTBALL

    COMBAT

    BASEBALL

    3d tic tac toe

    robotron 2084(7800)

    MAZE CRAZE X2

    BARNSTORMING X2

    YARS REVENGE X2

    CHOPPER COMMAND

    CIRCUS ATARI

    DONKEY KONG JR

    SPACE JOCKEY

    FISING DERBY

    gALAXIAR

    ICE HOCKEY

    JOUST

    DRAGONFIRE

    CALIFORNIA GAMES

    RAIDERS OF THE LOST ARK

    FATHOM

    MOONSWEEPER

    MOUNTAIN KING

    HOME RUN

    DEFENDER

    ADVENTURE

    RIVER RAID

    SLOT RACER

    TENNIS

    QBERT

    DODGE EM

    PONG SPORTS '

    MEGAMANIA

    FAST FOOD

    SEAQUEST

    STAR WARS EMPIRE STRIKES BACK

    WARLORDS

    COMBAT

    TOWERING INFERNO

    TANKS PLUS

    DONKEY KONG

    BERZERK

    ASTROBLAST

    CONGO BONGO (SEGA)

    STAR TREK (SEGA)

    SPACE INVADERS

    FROGS AND FLIES

    SUPER BREAKOUT

    PITFALL

    MEGA FORCE

    BUGS

    BREAKOUT

    DRAGSTER

    and whater else i find laying around

  23. Posted · Edited by zach1845

    The area you live in makes a huge difference too. I live in a small town in Northern Michigan, I'm sure I'd have a lot more luck if I were, say, in Miami FL or New York or something. As it stands 2 of my best 3 finds I got while I was on vacation in Florida (Chrono Trigger, E.V.O.), other than those two my best up here has probably been Raft Rider.

    That is very important. The area I live in the pawn shops sell all games for around 4.00 each while i know some places they look up games on the pc to see the value even at swap shops.

    PS EVO for Snes is a great game.

  24. Posted

    You don't find rare games in the wild, rather, they seem find you. I just about fell flat when Tengen Tetris found me for $25, and when both StarCraft 64 (not that rare, really) and Ogre Battle 64 found me for $20 each. I've found up to R6 titles in the wild. My last awesome find was River Raid II (2600) for 95 cents. I grabbed it instantly, without regard to whether or not I'd have money left for food.

     

    R7 was my rarest which i Got today (spiderman 32x) I have been looking for river raid 2 for quite some time maybe some day....

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