Sales Yard Finds - III
-David, webmaster DVGI

The previous Tuesday I was planning to head out to the Sales Yard to get rid of some items that I no longer have the need for but heavy rains prevented this.  Finally the skies looked decent so it was time to head out with wares to sell although the area was moist and the air thick with low hanging fog.  I really didn't have a lot of video game items to sell, just some PSOne complete longbox titles and a few games here or there that I really no longer felt the need to have as part of my archive - in other words I was selling CHEAP.  We had decided to get rid of the foosball table since really no one but me used it, anything over $30 would be my profit on that and it sold fairly quickly, I was able to grab $45 for it.  It was in really good shape and was a hair below the commercial ones used in bars and arcades, not that flimsy junk particle board that the Wal-mart $40 crap ones are made from.

I was only asking $5 a game for the longbox PlayStation games - Hardball 5, CyberSpeed, Kileak, and Descent (no box) - and eventually I came down to all four for $10 but no one was seriously interested, the crowd that buys rare games only comes around in the summer.  The guy that sells electronic junk and overpriced video games came around trying to buy all my games.  I told him $20 but of course he has to act like I just shot him or something, giving be all this BS how supposedly he knows the value of the games and I don't, telling me how Gamecrazy sells them for two bucks or something.  I told him to put them down and move along then, he's always an ass when I buy from him so I'm not going to cut him a deal.  There are other sellers that I wheel and deal with and let them buy me out for a reasonable price, if they buy them all they deserve to resell them for a profit, they're out there every week - I'm not.  We finally settled on $5 for Iridion 3D and Soviet Strike.  Iridion 3D was a Gameboy Advance launch title (not that great a game, still okay, but playing the emulated version is fine by me) and Soviet Strike's case was badly cracked, I never really liked it all that much anyway, old PlayStation title.

The Gameboy Color version of Ms. Pac-Man (with Super Pac-Man) sold for $5 to an old lady, probably as a Christmas gift.  I'm pretty sure she got it since it was in the box (which is rare at the Sales Yard) and it has Super Pac-Man... I've never understood why people get so excited about home ports of Super Pac-Man, it's not that great, especially compared to the original.  I remember countless times hearing how people paid $50+ for Namco Museum Volume 4 (think that's the one) on the PSOne so they could play Super Pac-Man.  My advice:  go download MAME, go download the Super Pac-Man rom, go be disappointed.  Time Splitters for the PS2 sold for $5 easy since it was in perfect condition, I actually made profit off this game since I bought it on clearance for like $3 long ago.  The two TurboGrafx16 games sold for $5 for the pair as did the two boxed Atari Lynx games, to the guy that goes around buying rare games for resale on eBay.  I really don't mind him at all and we usually talk for a bit and I usually cut him a good deal since I know he knows the value of the games as well.  He really bought them not because they're worth a lot or sell for a lot, just hard to come by, especially around here.  The profit to be made on eBay for those titles on their own is minimal so I gladly took $10 for all four.

Heavy fog and moisture in the air wreaked havoc on everyone's goods.  Attempting to cover things up wasn't an option since it hid the merchandise, many sellers used poly drop cloths to protect their wares but just wiping everything down every few minutes was what really needed to be done.  Thankfully I anticipated this and made sure to bag / poly wrap the Lynx, TurboGrafx16, and Intellivision games as well as the display copy of 8 Bit Flashback.  (always looking for people to help contribute to testing)  Just as we decided that was enough a little after noon, the fog and moisture turned into straight rain, if even for just ten minutes or so.

As for things I picked up, Mickey Mousecapade and Megaman 3 for the NES at $2 each, an additional controller for my JVC X'Eye for $1, and most of an NES console for $3.  The internal RF / power box in the NES was bad but I had a replacement mainboard so fixing it was easy.  I plan on doing a custom paint scheme and eventually selling it.

Acquired...
NES - Console, RF box and one controller (for resale)
NES - Mickey Mousecapade (cartridge only)
NES - Megaman 3 (cartridge only)
Genesis / X'Eye - Sega Standard Control Pad (loose)

Sold...
GBA - Iridion 3D (complete boxed)
GBC - Ms. Pac-Man / Super Pac-Man (complete boxed)
Lynx - Pit-Fighter (complete boxed)
Lynx - Tournament Cyberball (complete boxed)
PSOne - Soviet Strike (complete)
PS2 - Time Splitters (complete)
TurboGrafx16 - Battle Royale (complete)
TurboGrafx16 - Vigilante (complete)
 

Written on 12-17-04 by David, insanedavid@classicplastic.net

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