2nd May 2017, 5:23 AM
That Skyrim OST seems like a pretty sweet find.
Around here, most of the pawn shops have made eBay pricing standard procedure, so it's very hard to find the sweet deals any more. There's still local flea markets, but more and more people are getting savvy to online sales trends and sell based on that. I still occasionally find a hidden gem here and there (I found "The Magic of Scheherazade" in a complete box set at a local Vintage Stock for about $20, which is a lot cheaper than the $50 or so a complete version of that game usually goes for), but generally it's getting harder to find such things. My best bets have been perusing garage sales by elderly people trying to get rid of the stuff their kids left in the house after they moved out. Even then, most garage sales are nothing but tacky clothes and tacky knick knacks around here, so I'd really have to commit to have a good chance of finding some lost gem out there.
Around here, most of the pawn shops have made eBay pricing standard procedure, so it's very hard to find the sweet deals any more. There's still local flea markets, but more and more people are getting savvy to online sales trends and sell based on that. I still occasionally find a hidden gem here and there (I found "The Magic of Scheherazade" in a complete box set at a local Vintage Stock for about $20, which is a lot cheaper than the $50 or so a complete version of that game usually goes for), but generally it's getting harder to find such things. My best bets have been perusing garage sales by elderly people trying to get rid of the stuff their kids left in the house after they moved out. Even then, most garage sales are nothing but tacky clothes and tacky knick knacks around here, so I'd really have to commit to have a good chance of finding some lost gem out there.
"On two occasions, I have been asked [by members of Parliament], 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able to rightly apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question." ~ Charles Babbage (1791-1871)