The deals that slipped away..

[CaptainWeasel]

I keep missing out on deals that would be phenomenal, so this is that thread to help you reflect on what you couldn't get your hands on in time. Just to add a good note, throw in the best deal you received at the end of the post so that the thread isn't all sadness.

A couple days ago, I missed out on a copy of Snatcher and four other games for the Sega CD for 12 dollars. His ad said to leave a number, which I forgot to do and ended up being a little too late. Also missed out on 39 Neo Geo games for 20 dollars, and a complete copy of X-COM UFO Defense for 20 a while back. That's a downside to living in a big city, everybody else wants what you want.

Best deal I probably got was a complete boxed Steel Battalion set for 80 bucks. Still waiting for even bigger finds, though.

[Anayo]

A lot of times I've passed up things cause I didn't have eBay at the time or didn't know what they were worth.

Case in point: a boxed NES frontloader fresh and still smelling of factory plastic for $20 at Goodwill.

Another example: complete Shining Force CD at a flea market.

[CaptainWeasel]

Ouch. The Goodwills around here tend to either A) group all videogame items into one auction, in which the bidding gets outrageous, or B) grossly overprice them. Sometimes some items slip by, like a Virtual Boy with controller and Teleroboxer which I got for 4 bucks. It was broken, but it still looks great.

I just remembered a deal that was too far away for me to get, but it was a top-loading NES with 60 games for 15 dollars. I would have jumped so high to get that, but it was 4 hours away.

[Jmenglan]

Valkyrie Profile for 15.00 new back in 2001 at compusa. I was 12 and had no idea what i was missing. Damn it haha

[room4gello]

I don't remember any deals I have let go, but my best deal was a working SNES, 5-6 SNES games(ssf 2, street fighter 2, turtles in time, and sum more), 2 Snes controllers, super scope manuel, working geny model 2, 3-4 geny games, working 32x, 2-3 32x games(that ONE racing game, star wars, and one more), broken sega cd, 3-4 saga cd games(sewer sharks...lol, rise of the dragon!!!!, and I think an after burner game), one geny controller, and alll the hook ups for all the systems. for get this.....FREE!!!! My roomate had this all in a box and his girlfiend was moving in so he needed space for her stuff....SCORE!!!

[Inene]

Disney edition of DDR for 3 bucks (it's worth a lot I don't give a crap about it), and that track and field cart that's worth 50-100. Oh and recently a super famicon with games for 20 =p

[andythebadass]

ive missed a ton of good deals just by a little bit from craigslist. one i remember was for like 10 snes rpgs they didnt know were valuable for $30 bucks....... another was for a genesis 2 with 80 games (lots with cases) for $75...

i am hoping to score my biggest deal ever tomorrow with hopefully a purchase of these things i posted about here for $600
viewtopic.php?f=22&t=10029
i really hope that works out!

[lost_within]

Sealed fresh....brand new 32x at roses * ya know, that discout store?* yeah if i remember right it was 9.99? but at the time i had said a bad thing to my mom and she didnt like me ATM , it was like...14 years ago? cant remember been awhile.

[Thierry Henry]

Missed out on a few Sega CD games recently.
A guy on a local forum here in SA put up for sale a bunch of games including Popful Mail, both Lunar games, Vay, Earthworm Jim and some others. His asking price was R280 which is around $27-28. I was a little late on the trigger and he sold them to someone else.

[ubelaffe]

I missed out on about 9 arcade machines because I wasn't the fastest responder