Garage sales

[lilmul123]

So this summer, I've decided I'm going to spend a lot of time going to garage sales and looking for games. Last summer, I did it only once in a while; my best find was a CIB copy of gunstar heroes and both toejam and earls (cart only) for a buck each.

For those of you that do this, for about how many garage sales do you go to before you find something worthwhile?

[Youngie]

Charity Shops are more or less my only source here in Ireland.

Found these in the past few months:

Final Fantasy 7 (Boxed - missing manual) .50c
Final Fantasy 7 Platinum (Boxed - missing manual) €1
Myst PC .50c
Lion King Megadrive (CIB) €1
Final Fantasy 8 (CIB) €3.50
Final Fantasy 9 (CIB) €3.50

Usually takes me a lot of foraging around to find something interesting. But I love going cause you dunno what you may find.

[VinnyT]

I miss garage sale days! My family use to do it near every weekend in the summer, but the last few years in waned for other things, but I want to do it SO bad. Seriously. Even if we find nothing it's driving around from about 8AM till 4-5 in the afternoon. It's a bloody scavenger hunt and I love it.

And I find some nice shit sometimes too.

[Diosoth]

I've only ever ocme across 2 yard sales with anything good. One had an Odyssey 2 with 10 games and the voice unit, in box, for $10. I think I played it for a combined total of 15 minutes then ended up selling the entire thing off for $25.

2nd I found an Atari Lynx model 2 with a couple games and AC adaptor for $10. But I had to buy a replacement "screen" lens online as it had a nasty gouge in it. Ended up selling it for about double what I paid though.

Otherwise it's overpriced PS2 games.