Another day of thrifting (A proto NES cart was found)

I went thrifting today and this is all I though I was going to get:


I was a little bit disappointed as I had hit at lest 10 stores and the pickings were unusually slim

Things started to look up thought as I ran across this.


I hadn't planned on hitting the Goodwill where I got all of this, which is usually how it works out.


The true score, though, came at the last one I went to. This thrift store is cash only and for profit so I don;t normally hit them up as they don't get a lot of good donations. This was in their display case:


And also these three cases:


I was in a hurry and didn't do my normal looking up of the games. They were $1.95 each and I should have been a bit more discerning as I could have just ignored the unimportant ones like Tetris and stuff.


Some decent games, overall not too bad as a lot of them had the manuals so those are salvageable:


These one's were definitely worth the $1.95 price tag:


The unlicensed ones were what really excited me. I have no experience with these so I was a little disappointed when I got home and looked them up. Not the treasure I had been expecting.


This one though.... I think I did pretty good.

 

You'll have to let us know if there's many differences

 

nice work mate

 

dang, that's crazy. i haven't had any luck with thrift stores down where i live yet.

 

What, praytel were u thinking when you bought the clock and the old phone.
Do you collect that sort of stuff? I only ask because seems that in las Vegas here there are so many items like that.

Wood paneled gear with primitive green/black LCD screens are common here.

That other cool stuff you got? Forget it.

 

I've definitely never seen an NGP in a thrift store.

 

Are the pics broken?

 

Showing up fine here.

 

Showing up fine now. Nice haul though.
Thrift stores/charity shops don't really have video games here. Only real place that has them are video game shops and cash converters. £4 for Mario Bros/Duckhunt, No thanks.

 

Whoa, I just now noticed the proto NES cart. Nice find. On a related note, I was at a thrift store the other day and I saw a CD that was some sort of missile defense program briefing. I thought about buying it, but was too paranoid of what might happen.

 

That's funny, cuz my girlfriend is working Ireland for the next few months and she's been on the lookout for thrift stores, but they definitely don;t seem to be the same culturally as they are here. I told her to keep an eye out for a PAL Super Nintendo CIB for me.

 

Tell her to look in charity shops (Oxfam etc) She won't find anything though. In all my years of looking in charity shops the best I've got was a primal rage cart that didn't work, a beavis and butthead VHS and an unboxed copy of super mario 64. That's not everything I've got but the pickings here are definately slim.

 

I wish Charity shops were like that in the UK

Unless you want VHS's and old lady clothes, its not worth even going in.

 

Yeah, she told me how they're called "Charity Shops". I also told her to check Craigslist, but apparently that isn't as big in the UK either...

 

no one uses craigslist here.

Im amazed people do in the US as it looks like a site from the 90s

 

I think that's why people like it. It's simple

 

tell her to check gumtree. (Gumtree.co.uk or wherever she is.gumtree.co.uk) I much prefer craigs list. Gumtree has ridiculous adverts that protrude and cover the listings and stuff. Pain in the arse to browse when you include how ridiculously slow it is at times.

 

Same around here. I guess more rural states are not the place to cruise thift shops in.

 

Complete and utter crap.

Some of the things I've bought in charity shops:

I have a nice collection of Gerry Anderson books acquired over the years from charity shops. All would have been 10p - 30p. Worth a lot more.

Countless Blue Peter and Doctor Who annuals and books, including some that are now worth in the region of £100. All again for a matter of pence.

A 1" Type C Van Halen master video, dated the day before it was first broadcast on MTV. £5 in an Oxfam (usually expensive) specialist record shop (usually even more expensive than a regular Oxfam!).

The Star Wars Book of Space, 20p.

Several first edition Stephen King and Harry Potter books, about £1 each. There are 16 first edition Terry Pratchett books sitting in a charity shop up the road right now at £2 each.

An Olympus SLR camera, before digital SLR cameras were affordable (or any good!) £20 (a compact digital camera at the time was maybe 1MP and several hundred pounds).

Boxed Atari 2600 and 7800 games. 50p each.

PC RPGs, 50p each (probably about 20 in one go).

Amstrad GX4000 boxed with games £5.

A huge box of records, £5.

A massive lot of Elvis albums... I think they were 50p each.

Lots of old (and rare) CD singles - I've picked up singles that were worth £20-30 for 50p or less.

A victorian (1800s) book of poetry for 10p. Gave it to an American friend who likes Victorian stuff, along with a Victorian pendant and a Victorian set of Jane Austen books. Her favourite item was the poetry book!

A box of 50 Christmas cards (new) £2. (Also a premium box of 20 for £2, they were funny cartoon Christmas cards).

I was very tempted by the old wooden valve television set that was dual-standard (405 and 625 lines) in a charity shop, but it wasn't working and I knew I'd be shouted at if I had yet another project gathering dust!

Incidentally, my friend is a manager of a Sue Ryder shop, and they sell musical instruments under their own brand, Chantry. You can get a lovely starter electric guitar for a very reasonable price (I think they're doing them for £50 at the moment). They're also the shop that sells the Christmas cards... plus several other new items.

If you have a charity shop that accepts electricals, you can get a cheap television, VCR, DVD player, stereo or even a washing machine!

You never know what you're going to find in a charity shop! And most towns have several, so you can go on a charity shop crawl. My town is split into two halves - this half has 5 charity shops, and there are at least 7 in the town centre. When I used to be in Canterbury on a regular basis, there were about 15 charity shops there. Even Moreton-in-Marsh, a very small town, had 3 charity shops when I last looked.