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