Last Friday while hanging out with a friend, he struck up the idea to check out a local thrift shop for goods since he recently found a gift certificate from way back. We go over and the first thing I spot in the electronics is a 7000 series PS1 for $6.95, which at the time seemed outstanding. No perhipherals though and missing the PP cover. There was also a PSOne with controller for $9.99, also quite reasonable but without the PSU is a bit trickier to manage. While I checked the next aisle over for anything I though I heard some noises from the previous aisle and when I went around to see what was up the PS1 was gone. Here I was prepared to buy it in a small town store and literally 40 seconds after I see it... poof! I thought at first it was moved around the store by an employee but strangely someone came in bought it bickety-bam. I was little disappointed although my buddy managed to get a nice Hitachi television with the voucher so it wasn't a loss.
From there on out I slowly decide it was good that I didn't get the PS1 since there might be better deals elsewhere, which leads me to Monday where I decide to check a couple big city Goodwills for wares. The first one I go to was apparently mis-mapped as it ended up being on the opposite side of the street. I go in and see not much beyond crt monitors/tvs, keyboards, and many likely junked printers. While I leave some glass breaks in the store, nobody pardon me lifts their head so I figure it's not much to fuss over a possible 25cents.
On to the next store, downtown and again it's mis-mapped to the opposite side. I go in and look around finding nothing much again, although on the way out I spot the jackpot, a Dreamcast for $9.99, system only. I'm pretty much sold on that and after paying what happens? Glass breaks in the store, which invariably causes a good laugh on my behalf and a near fitting end. Why near fitting? Since once I left I also looked in the disc tray to find Bust-A-Move 4, so I got an Apr-00(Rev1) Dreamcast and game for $10.79 and they both worked. To top it off I went by a local game shop afterwards which is notorious for overpricing out the wazoo and showed them what a Dreamcast should be priced at, not $59.99 used w/o VMU. Oh, and I got a cheese danish pastry, which was also worth it. Hope you enjoyed the tale.
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Originally Posted by Kitsune Sniper
...I have too many now..
