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Shared on Sun, 03/17/2013 - 08:27So Mato's been wanting to go to traders village in DFW for a bit now, it's just a fairly large flea market. Lately on Reddit I've been seeing a lot of "look what I found at a garage sale!" or "found this at my flea market!" so I was like ok let's go. So I grabbed some money in hopes I'd find some pre-64 bit games while I was there. The first thing I found (yes I'm aware these aren't pre-64 bit games) was an original XBox (1) they would have sold me for $40. I don't have one so I considered buying it, but I just didn't know if it would work or not and didn't want to waste my money. I also found a pair of Turtle Beach X41's he would have also sold me for $40. A quick amazon.com search on my phone showed they are $125 new and they were in excellent condition. But again, I didn't want to waste $40 if they didn't work. I thought I might be able to use parts of it for my X4's though, I should have bought them. Anyway so I quit considering systems under the circumstances and I went to looking for games.
We walk by this booth that hasn't set up yet all he has out are games in a case. I saw Gears of War 3 in there, I have Gears of War 1 on PC and Gears of War 2 on 360 and with Judgement coming out soon I quickly asked "How much for Gears of War 3?" He said $20. What a bargain! Those go new (close to release) for $60, and with judgement around the corner, I just got a great deal! So after I looked up the x41's I decided to look up the gow3... amazon.com has it new for $15. Mato pointed out shipping, somehow that didn't make me feel better. I thought I was savvy enough to truly know a good deal, and even with shipping I could have gotten a new copy for the same price I just bought this copy for that was pretty beat up. Lesson learned.
I did eventually find some 8 bit and 16 bit games, none that really peaked my interest, they were going for around $5 a piece. I have many consoles (as I'm sure most of you do as well) and someday we plan on building something like this:
So if you have something similar or plan on building something like that as well flea markets appear to be great way to find them!
Lesson I learned today? I have no idea how to bargain shop. :)
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Submitted by CProRacing on Sun, 03/17/2013 - 15:09
That setup looks BOSS!
Im a few away from anything like it yet though. Or space TBH
I too am a bit pants on spotting a deal. I almost bought BF3 for the 360 for £15.00 used untill the wife said I can get it new for £15.00 with free shiping. Its a good job I did because if I got the used one I would have had to spend another 800ms points to play online with it!
Submitted by Fetal on Sun, 03/17/2013 - 22:06
Flea markets are all about negotiating. He says 20, you say 10. He comes down to 15, you say 12. He says too low, won't budge, walk away after saying "sorry, can't do it." 2 things will happen, 1.) he'll let you go, in which case you lose nothing. 2.) he calls you back and completes the sale.
guys in flea markets or dirt malls just wan't to sell. They don't sell and move product, they don't make money for booth rent or for more product. 9x's out of ten they'll quote a price 4x's what they got it for. They're expecting to make double. Haggling is the name of the game.
also, made some gameplay comments on previous 2 blogs. Hope they help.