Hello, you probably know me because I post a lot. Well on Sunday I went to the flea market and I actually was looking for games this time. It was awesome, I saw so much stuff. In the inside place, I saw a boxed Sega CD and a boxed Genesis and I am just like oohhhh that's awesome haha. I also saw a re-seller and I am just like wow but he had a lot of cool games. he was selling a super Nintendo for 70$. I gave him an ugly look and walked away haha. I saw 2 Sega Saturn's and they were pretty cool. The only things i got wasa a couple of genesis games and GC games.
There's a "local" flea market that I visit once a month (not really local, it's very far away), and rarely a video game appear by there. The last time I visited the place, there was a PS1 controller... For $20. Last year, a guy was selling an Atari 2600 with 9 games, but the price was horrible... $170? No thanks!
haha, I was at a flea market on sunday looking for games too. I came up empty handed though. Where did you go, exactly? I'm familiar with a lot of PA & the area...
I don't go to flea markets very often (the only game related things I've gotten at the local flea market were a broken PS2 for $25, and a few game gear/game boy games). Thrift shops are a good place to hit up too.
Yeah i wish i had a car it gets kind of annoying game hunting when i have to take a bus everywhere. But me and my friend go to a bi yearly video game swap meet. I am lucky to live where i am apparently people come from like 1500 miles away for it.
If you ever find yourself out in southeast Penn, check out the Too Many Games expo in Oaks (and sometimes Reading): http://toomanygames.com/
Wish I could get something like you can. In this part of Michigan, flea market almost never have anything that is newer than 100 years old. There's no game expo of any kind and a few game stores but they are mostly PS2/XBox/GC and newer era. No Atari, no NES, nothing more than 20 years old. There is only 1 flea market that has any older games but I am not touching $50 PSX or N64 console with nothing else but a whole lot of dirt and grime (like it had mud bath), $10 for Combat or ET cart for Atari, etc.
There's a ton of great video game flea market stores around in the Massachuttes state area where i live! though not much but you gotta know the store names by word of mouth or searching online. As there's no ad magazines nor flyers telling you!
lol i thought you were talking about an actual PSX, i forget people call ps1's PSX for some reason. If it were an actual PSX 50$ would be an extreme steal. Oh i have a job, but i still live with my parents and i'm to cheap to buy a car. Having a job is awesome, having money to toss around whenever you want beats sitting around in a class room all day learning nothing but how dumb most high school teachers are.
That'll never happen! lol people like them would NEVER take the time or breath to order or ship something from Japan and bringing it to their flea market! their too broke down & cheap to pull off something like that.
I used to love to go to thrift shops, garage sales and flea markets to buy vintage games. It was an awesome pastime circa 2002-2008ish. Since around 2009 everybody and their mother thinks they can make lots of money, rather than just move the stock efficiently or clear out retail shelf space. I have seen a quite few hole-in-the wall game stores with SKY HIGH prices, eventually close down without seemingly moving any of their dusty inventory. Those situations always boggled my mind because they weren't selling the inventory online to clear it out at the market rate, nor were they lowering their prices to get it out of the store and they also weren't willing to negotiate on bulk purchases either. I always wondered if they were drug fronts, expensive hobbies or just tax shelters. In every instance I would stop by these kinds of places month after month trying see how things were going or if there were any changes and every time they would have 95% of the inventory I saw last time. Then POOF, I'd stop by one month and they'd be closed down despite being in the same location since the late 80's. Did that stuff end up in a storage locker, only to be sold for pennies on the dollar, ala Storage Kings?
There was a thrift store in my town, and there was a dirty, slightly broken flight stick that was at least 20 years old....it was 57$.....on sale. Meanwhile at the other thrift shop I got a Saitek ST290 Pro (Great stick, this is my second one), complete in box, for 8$.
I usually go on sale days at my localest thrift shop, PC games for a buck each. I got an Xbox (original) for $10.
