What bargains have you picked up? (The Bragging Thread)

[angel]

ouch and... "swap" not swop :P

[Jay]

Yesterday, I picked up a complete Castlevania Symphony of the Night for a fiver at a boot sale.

Recently I bought a Parker game shop display unit which basically holds 24 Atari 2600 cartridges and houses an Atari 2600. When all hooked up, the player can select any of the 24 carts at the press of a button. Like a mini Atari arcade. I got this for 6 quid.

Before that I picked up 25 boxed Intellivision games for a fiver.

I swapped the Atari/Parker unit and the Intellivision games for a Sega Nomad. So in effect, I got the Nomad for 11 quid. Result.

Well the Parker game shop display unit can fetch $500 on a good day, which against a Nomad which has a value of $120 doesn't seem that good a swop...

Not over here. It goes for bugger all. I bought it for 6 quid on Ebay.

Besides, it's far too large for my small flat, so I had to get rid of it sharpish.

Jay

[Jay]

Some more -

Rival Schools 2 DC - 8 quid

11 Nintendo Game & Watches - all bought at boot sales for ?1 or less

Slimline NGPC + Linker + linker cart + Rockman Power Battles - ?40

Shining Force 1 & 2 MD - ?8 for the pair

Guardian Heroes + 2 other Saturn games - 15 quid

Guardian Heroes - 6 quid

Sega Multimega - 20 quid

DCX for DC - free (@CEX, I asked for a DCX and the guy said 'we've ony got this unofficial one which you can have' which was a bit odd)

All sounds good admittedly, but I have a friend who is the jammiest person on earth. For eg - he has two Vectrex consoles, both of which were bought for a fiver each.

Jay

[huxley]

Panzer Dragoon Saga for ?5! ex rental from an indi video shop

DC rgb lead from same shop ?2

Not a bad week and it`s only Tuesday

[MD]

Well the Parker game shop display unit can fetch $500 on a good day, which against a Nomad which has a value of $120 doesn't seem that good a swop...

Not over here. It goes for bugger all. I bought it for 6 quid on Ebay.
Besides, it's far too large for my small flat, so I had to get rid of it sharpish.
[/quote]

I know a few people that would have snapped your arm off for it and would have paid about ?250 for it...

Ebay is annoying at times as unless your specifically looking for something you have to browse each 1000+ item catergory so you might miss things... :/

[MD]

I did get R-Types on Jap PS with spine card and minty mint condition for a fiver at CEX.

And Alien Soldier (Jap) for ?30 at the same place and Dynamite Heady for ?20 (Jap), both minty mint.

Also got Project Justice on Jap DC for free too.

[Jay]

I know a few people that would have snapped your arm off for it and would have paid about ?250 for it...

I doubt it. You might be confusing the parker unit with one of those huge Atari shop display units with a counter top. This is a unit that you fit your 2600 inside and has a rack above it. It's got a wooden base, with a platic overlay, and a rack which sticks up out of the base at the back. It's definitely worth more than the 6 quid I paid for it, but I doubt anybody would pay ?250 for it. It's basically a fancy romscanner or multiplexer.

Anyway, I got a Nomad for 11 quid and got rid of stuff taking up too much room which earned me some brownie points with the missus.

Jay

[Abhisara]

My best would probably be Street Fighter III 3rd Strike on PAL DC for ?1.97

[iloveannie]

Well thanks to the goblindirect sale and their special members prices I have made over ?100 profit in three weeks from selling NTSC XB titles on eBay. ?1.99 for Reign of Fire? eBay sale of nearly ?10 (sold about 4 or 5 so far). Other games include POW, Robotech, Test Drive, etc. Most have cost me ?2.99 and all have sold at a profit (some silly prices too).

That will be my bargain of the year. Of course this is marred by my DSL set-up for XB Live (?150 gateway, ?30 cables and NIC, ?57 installation and ?25 pm subs, oh and ?40 for XBL).

The big print giveth, the small print taketh away.

[roobarb]

My london flat which I bought for 97k and sold 5 yrs later for 220 8)

[112]

Dude thats a bit off topic. But good turnaround non-the less!

I got erm..... a brand new, sealed - international cricket on the snes for 1.99 in Game. Not much else cos i tend to mis good bargains when it comes to games!

112

[Halo]

Got some more gaming bargains today. Got another official new Sony AV Adapter S-Video for 27p and a Mad Catz Xbox RF Adapter brand new for 27p as well.

Got Cel Damage in the Game sale as well for ?5 - might return it though...

[Kal_El]

I would guess my best bargains are:

Sonic 10th Anniversary Pack from Lik Sang ?7ish
Grey JPN Sega Saturn Mint with 2 pads and some games ?45 on eBay
Sealed BioHazard 0 JPN Gamecube ?15 off these very forums

[Stroker Ace]

Japanese Saturn Christmas Nights, SFZ, SFZ2, Virtua Fighter - All mint - ?4.

Dreamcast - Three months after launch. Eight games. VMU. Boxed. Mint - ?90 from a friend of a friend who was about to get evicted and needed cash quick. I hadn't planned on getting a DC - Best purchase I ever made.

[npg]

Metal Gear Solid 2 (PC) $24.99 cdn = (?12 approx.) brand new, Toys 'R' Us Vancouver B.C Canada

Rayman 3 (PC) $19.99 cdn = (?9 approx.) brand new, Future Shop, Van, B.C

Tiger Woods PGA 2003 (GC) $19.99 U.S = (?13 approx.) brand new, Bellingham Mall, WA, U.S.A