Real life camping finds... (in Off-topic)

Hi,

I was in chat today and mentioned that I scored a brand new Belkin 3 Button Mouse for only .99 cents. (USD) New and unopened in the box. I thought it was a great find. (Major geek alert!)

Drudge responded with, "Nice camping, Max." I thought that was rather funny considering I had never associated real life shopping to actual CB shopping. Anyway, if you have a real life camping find like mine let us know. :)

I bought a house 2 years ago for $200,000 under the market value. That was my best camping find.

I bought a Peavey 300 Watt Bass Amp at an old lady Salvation Army type place. They called it a "speaker" and asked 150 bucks. I checked out online, and they sell no less than $500.

My Dad's employee also helped out an old lady in her Garage sale and she gave him a guitar that her son owned before Vietnam. He paid $100 bucks and has kept it cleaned for 10 years now. Last time it was appraised it was estimated at...$27,500. It is now his daughters college fund and hidden away somewhere so it doesn't get damaged.

I just purchased a moss green, tufted, suede ottoman for a ladies' dressing table at a cost of $45 instead of $60. And it has a little lined storage compartment under the seat! I'm having a good morning. ;-)

Best find ever:

I bough the following:
Nasty Impulse
Tippman 98C with carbon fiber barrel
2001 Shocker with max flo
Redz Gear Bag (missing the useless stool)
Freak Kit
Paintball Jerseys
Paintball Pants
92-4500 Tank
12 R Revolution
Egg2
Pile of Misc stuff.

For:
-$550 US + a pile of CB1 Stuff

heh todd that seems awfully familiar and i still got that useless stool too

i bought a new tv, well i didnt, my boyfriend did :) i picked it out!!! so i camped it does that count

I picked up 3 Michael Chritan books (that's probably spelled wrong.) for 25 cents a piece.

Sphere, Lost World, and Congo.

At the same time I picked up two CD's for $1.50/pc.

Harvey Danger - Where Have All The Merrymakers Gone?

And Buck Cherry - Buck Cherry

3 books and 2 CD's for less than $5 total. I felt like a golden god.

wait i got one!!! i got Tarnsman of gor Dancers of Gor and my vary own set of chawlers and a slave vest for 30$ the last time i went to my role play function :) a good pair of slitted silk chawlers and silk vest usualy run about 100 :)

this will make no sense if you're not a vintage keyboard geek like me, but I raked in the following:

Hammond B3 with Leslie, cherry condition = $1200

Jupiter 8 with the memory mod = $450

mint condition Fender Rhodes Suitcase = traded my time playing for a wedding.

i bought a psp for $20

went to a yard sale 4-5 yrs ago and saw a box of Magic the Gathering cards (loose.) They wanted $5 for the box. Now I had not played in years and figured that it would be a waste (prolly someones old common box) but I talked them down to $2 with out actually looking through the box.I put the box in the car (along with a few other things we had gotten) and we headed off. I got home and unpacked the car but left the boxes untouched in the garage for 2 weeks.

When I finally got around to going through all the junk we had gotten I found the box and started pulling the cards out...sure enough as i was going through them all I was finding were commons (goblins everywhere i turned) in pretty bad shape, though I was surprised that they were from older sets (mostly unlimited/revised but a couple of beta and one alpha.) N-e-way I got about half way through the box and notice that there is something flat and black under the cards. I reach in and pull out a three-ring binder. Now I got a little excited when i realized what it was (for those of you that don't know binders are were the good cards go) but I was truely surprised when i opened to the first page and saw 9 dual lands staring at me. I almost had a heart attack as I went through the rest of the binder. It turns out this guy had all the rares from the Alpha and Beta sets (yes ALL! I swear I almost died when I got to the two middle pages that had the power 9 from each set)

Well I closed the binder and went straight to a friend of mine that had a small chain of comic shops and we set up a display in his largest store. I sold the entire set to a guy two weeks later for 6 grand. My friend told me that the buyer said he was replacing the cards that his parents accidently sold while he was away at college. :)

I found 10 dollars on the ground like 2 weeks ago.

Warchild, you missed the fact that my .99 cent mouse is a three button mouse!

:P

I got my used 1994 Integra in 2000 with 12,000 miles on it for $9000.

Wow... 12,000 miles in 6 years!!! That's a hard find.

There was a junk man back in rural PA who bought old circuit boards and stripped them for the metals. He heard I was a "computer guy" and asked if I wanted a bunch of printers and "computer TVs"--since they don't typically have much precious metal, he was going to dump them.

I took eight Oki LED printers, five new-in-box Oki drum mechanisms, and a CGA monitor for my C128. I asked him how much he wanted for them, and he said he didn't know what they were worth. I offered him US$50, and he squinted at me: "Would you do OK then?", and I assured him I would...

After sellling six printers on Ebay at $120 a pop (two were unsalvageable) and the drums for $150 each (they're hard to get!), I was feeling guity, so I sent him another check for $100... it turns out $150 is about what he makes for a week's worth of metal scavenging.

I got a 24" flat panel High Definition TV/Monitor from Wal-mart.


Now this is not a High Def ready TV, it actualy has a high def tuner in it already.


And I got it for $197.99

Rollback, I suppose? That or an idiot working in the electronics department mispriced the item with a tag that had the item number on it and was legaly forced to price change it down from whatever it rang up at.

I hate walmart.

there is a large used-book store close to where i work, and it has boxes of free books out in front. I check there occasionally, and grab anything i might like. i don't think that anything i've found there is particularly valuable (since they are book people and they know what theyre doing, they wouldn't give away big $$ books), but never needing to buy new books is pretty cool. used book stores rock!

hmm, I ve got several camping finds.

most recent that is worth mentioning was a JVC HDTV for $1500 less than retail.

I tend to over reaserch things. And spend lots of time online comparing and looking.

Helped my parents find a ML430 that was sitting on the sales lot for 5 months. It was EXACTLY what they wanted, and it came out to about 5k less than any other one that they were looking for, and it had low miles/warranty and the third row seat[what they really wanted], which was the reason the dealer had a hard time of selling it in the first place.

From my Boss, I got a '79 Bronco, with less than 200k kms, fully loaded and in great running condition for free

Hmm interesting subject.

Two fronts

1. shopping in Mexico...or any other 'non-nuclear'? country can be considered camping i guess (bartering) I was after a sun-moon sculpture. The first market stall wanted $300 for a 16" piece. The wife thought I was doing well down to $180 but I said no. I went next door and bargained for a smaller at $45 but told them it just was too small. They talked amongst themselves and came up with a deal for a larger for $60 bucks. I agreed and they had to go next door to pick it up - the exact piece I originally was quoted $300 for! I figure I got probably 90% of their profit margin but felt like a God!

2. My neighbor buys cars with minor accidents but clear titles. 2002 Grand Prix 17k miles $10G. 2003 Malibu 7k miles. $7500.

Way back in junior high, I was a big Dungeons & Dragons geek (now I'm just a computer nerd...), and one time at a yardsale I found a box full of first edition AD&D texts, about 10 of them, for only $5. They weren't in the best shape, but if bought new they would have been about $20 each. They're probably up in a closet somewhere now...

My best find was about 3 weeks ago when I scored a Cali Rio 128meg mp3 player with radio tuner for a whopping 3.99 from the good will. Came with everything still in the plastic clam shell, drivers cables and even the wrist strap. Only thing i can figure is that they thought it was one of those small am/fm radios ;) .