Bad Job
It was a lazy Sunday around our household today so Zach decided to throw some things up on Craigslist. He had a bunch of NES games from chidhood, and I had some leftover from a college boyfriend whose possessions pop up in random storage boxes around here from time to time.
There were 22 games in total which Zach decided to sell in one giant lot. I figured they were worth about $2 a piece, so I recommended asking $50 for all of them. We would then wait to be lowballed and accept that offer. Zach ended up asking $60 for all of them, but hoped someone would offer like $35.
Here is a photo of just 4 of them from the Craigslist ad. Perhaps if you’re a Nintendo collector, you will look at this photo and immediately know the road that this story is about to go down.
Anyway, I went and ran some errands, so what happens next is all Zach’s fault. He starts getting inundated with text messages and emails of people wanting to buy the games. There were literally 15 texts, emails, and calls within 20 minutes of the listing going up.
Now, call me crazy, but if it were me at the helm, my Spidey sense would be on overdrive.
One dude texted this:
You guys, Ortonville is OVER AN HOUR AWAY from our house! If the alarm bells weren’t ringing before, they are certainly blasting now. This guy was willing to drive an hour, in the snow, AND give us more money than we were asking for.
So after the games are sold, Zach has this little exchange:
WTF?! You’re telling me that Chip and Dale 2 is worth $150 ON ITS OWN. FFS. What kind of world…
Yep, sure enough:
I guess we (Zach) should’ve done our (his) homework. Basically this is a shout-out to all of you to go tear through your video game stash. If that stash only contains Xbox games though, you’re out of luck, as made evident by this guy:
-Erin
Hard to Resist: Everything
On Monday, I hit up the secret auction with Adam and we met my parents there. As I’ve said in the past, this auction often has a mix of garbage and gems. But that night, basically everything up for auction was hilarious.
Saw these homies right away. They were each about 2 feet tall.
I have a deep love for Beavis and Butthead so this was really hard to resist.
Nothing better than a Tweety Bird needlepoint.
That, my friends, is a HUGE plastic Halloween mask–the eye holes are up in the hat area.
In the end, I came away with a cool set of playing cards with naked ladies on them, and a pile of paper, including this awesome antique invite to a “social hop”!
There were two things that Adam wanted, both of which sold for way too much money. First, there was an Eddie Cantor game amongst these huge piles of old games. Someone ended up buying each stack for between $70 and $40, and the pile with Eddie Cantor went for the most.
But the main thing Adam wanted was this box of NES games in their original packaging. He was most excited about this lot because it contained a Flinstones game, and one of the two NES Flinstones games is worth a boatload.
This box contained the less valuable game, but still probably would have had a high resell value. However, it ended up going for $90. C'mon y'all.
-Sarah