GARAGESALES 2007

HotDog-Cart · Post by **HotDog-Cart** » Sat May 12, 2007 10:20 pm

Argh I need seaman for Dreamcast (and the mic).

I got a Wii Virtual Console controller for $3 yesturday.

schmellyfart · Post by **schmellyfart** » Sun May 13, 2007 1:57 am

Today I got a PSP car charger which im going to take apart

for a quarter, two 5v mini usb chargers for a buck, the shiny pokeball w/ gold togepi "card" type thing from burger king when pokemon the first movie came out for free, and a NES w/ a powercord, lightgun, 2 official controllers, 1 "zipper" controller and 4 games (SMB, SMB3, TMNT, & Kung Fu) for 10 bucks.

So Many Kinds of Bagels · Sun May 13, 2007 4:00 pm

I just got a "Melon" colored N64 with a matching controller, Ocarina of Time, Banjo Kazooie, Goldeneye, and Mario Party 3 for $35 from a kid at school.

OAtH_OS · Post by **OAtH_OS** » Mon May 14, 2007 12:03 am

OAtH_OS wrote:This wasn't a garage sale, but a badass deal. I bought a Dell Inspiron 5100 (2.5 Ghz p4, 256 MB RAM , WORKING BATTERY ) with a fried hard drive for $30. I'm going to get another 512mb of RAM, and an 80GB HD for it soon. Only $44.50 left for me to finish it ( its $104.50 for the RAM + HD + S & H + tax.)

UPDATE:
I put in a 20 GB Hard drive that my uncle had in his office. I bought 768MB of RAM online (a 512 and 256), but the 256 was defective. Gotta love 30 day warranty though. It still works great right now, I'm playing Halo, HL2, WoW.

So it ended up costing me $30 + $52 for a 2.66Ghz, 768MB RAM, 20 GB HDD, 15" Screen, 3.5 hour battery, Dell Inspiron 5100.

$82.

Post by **CronoTriggerfan** » Mon May 14, 2007 9:36 am

TheOnlyOneHeFears wrote:I got a mint condition copy of Vagrant Story for 50p yesterday Havn't actualy played it yet, as I had to revise for my German GCSE

I just started playing this one, it's not bad. Starts off really slow though, and the combat doesn't get really fun until you learn how to pull off chain combos,

CTFan

OAtH_OS · Post by **OAtH_OS** » Mon May 14, 2007 3:40 pm

CTFan, add this to your sig to link your picture to the wiredown site if you want..... sorry but it was annoying me...

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Kenny_McCormic · Post by **Kenny_McCormic** » Mon May 14, 2007 7:41 pm

socom 2 for $5 at goodwill only took 2 days to convince my mom i could have an M game

Jongamer · Post by **Jongamer** » Thu May 24, 2007 7:16 pm

AT a Thrift store I just got a Virtual Boy with controller, and Red alarm (No Stand of Visor

) For $7

Completely works, no LCD problems that usually plague VBs (Easy fix though, just getting the VB open is the only hard part)

And Donkey kong country 2 for $2

Post by **Triton** » Fri May 25, 2007 2:14 pm

todays haul:
command and conquer generals and zero hour expansion 2$
deus ex 1$
delta force 1$
cannon photura camera 4$
a nice heavy black trenchcoat made in poland 1$ (tag sale at goodwill normal price was 9$)
pair of sunglasses 1$
psx 1$

not a bad day plus my mom found 30$ on the sidewalk! lol

Post by **Triton** » Sat May 26, 2007 10:58 am

todays haul:
gamecube with power and video cables - 20$
3 steven king books - 2$ (the gunslinger, wizard and glass, steven king universe)
dean koontz book (3 books in 1) and nightmares and dreamscapes by, you guessed it, steven king a dollar each

for somereason i was seeing steven king books all over the place today, went to the city of ottumwa auction and saw the whole dark tower series on a table, weird coincidences lol

Post by **Triton** » Fri Jun 01, 2007 1:39 pm

garagesale finds of the day

playstation 2 with monster svideo cable and one controller - 25$
burnout revenge 2$
2 ammo boxes 2$
2 rockford fosgate punch 8" subwoofers with boxes 20$ each

and ebay find of yesterday 4th gen ipod 40gb 55$ including shipping probably just needs defragged and stuff

jackfb13 · Post by **jackfb13** » Sat Jun 02, 2007 9:48 pm

Kenny_McCormic wrote:socom 2 for $5 at goodwill only took 2 days to convince my mom i could have an M game

i know the feeling...

my mom is weird about that too.
she said "esrb does it for a reason", eventaly i expect to see pac man rated ao

Rototiller · Post by **Rototiller** » Sun Jun 03, 2007 12:15 pm

Hello!

I got a cooking laptop for $2. He said it was busted, i messed with it and made grilled cheese!

blackbox_dev · Post by **blackbox_dev** » Sun Jun 03, 2007 2:53 pm

Yesterday:

I found a stereo tape recorder/radio that looks like its from sometime in the 70s. I go up to a guy sitting at a table and he says I can have it free! Sweet! Well, not exactly... I take it home and try it. The radio works, but the tape motors don't spin. I took it apart today and started touching connections with a piece of wire, and I found out where to jump to get a tape to play! I'm going to solder the points soon today. All the other functions seem to work properly. So, in a few hours I'll have a retro looking cassette recorder that works, and the best part is that it's free! I'll probably connect a mixer to the line inputs and use it to record my band.

jackfb13 · Post by **jackfb13** » Sun Jun 03, 2007 6:37 pm

I found a sega master system and a bunch of games and controllers for 3 bucks!!

The genesis is to be portable and the controllers are currently being modded.

( one has sky in the title and is almost done!!)