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Saturday_Supercade 7 years 2 months ago Posts: 297	You know the feeling. You're in a thrift store, flea market, or yard sale. You look over at another shopper and in there hands you see the object of your retro desires. That toy or find that you dreamed of getting your hands on for years, firmly in the hands of some so and so whom you wish would just soooooooo die right now. Most likely you plotted to steal it from them or you prayed that there was a 2nd one nearby. Most likely you went home and cried, vowing to never leave your home ever again. At least until the next sale. So what were your retro misses? One of the worst for me was losing out on a huge box of Atari games, in there original boxes for 1.00. Another was a G1 Megatron that I missed by 10 seconds. The 6 year old kid that got it, got it for 50 cents!!!!!!! Arrrrrrrrggggggghhhhhhh!!!! I also missed out on several board games that I could have resold for hundreds of dollars each. Ok, now I'm starting to feel sad......

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COOLHAND
7 years 2 months ago
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some action figures...cheap...pisses me off
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blueluigi 7 years 2 months ago Posts: 3365 Account Disabled	The box that sells Nintendo Gamepack cards. I got the last of the cards. I just regret not taking the box along too since it didn't have any value to the store anymore.

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MissALibra86 7 years 2 months ago Posts: 525	I once missed out on buying an SNES for $5 - someone grabbed it before me! I also missed out on buying one of the old Berenstain Bears episodes on VHS "The Messy Room"! Those VHS episodes are pretty hard to come by. There's more, but it makes me sad to even think about it.
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Mad-Mike 7 years 2 months ago Posts: 539	I never have a problem with people snadding stuff for a good price, I usually have trouble with the thrift shops jacking prices up, especially on videogame related items. The only item I missed out on was an all original 1983 IBM PC XT with the original software on the Hard Disk, an ex-friend bought it, I just tried to justify letting it go to myself by saying to myself over and over that I did not need it. Usually though, it goes like this. The local liquidation store has an original 4-switch Atari 2600 console they are asking $20 for just the console alone. I spent $80 to buy out all 20 of their Atari games, which was kinda dumb, but I did get some rarities. I spent $40 for my SNES at Goodwill, a week later they got another one in and put a $5.99 tag on it (DOH!!!!). But then, on the other hand, I got even, they put up an 8 port KVM switch for $10.00......turns out it was still on the market brand new....for $869.99, bwahahahahaha!

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Funky Guy 7 years 2 months ago Posts: 2638 Account Disabled	Many years ago my answer would have been different but as of right now I have most of what I've always wanted to get. I've become shrewd from my years of collecting. Three big things I've learned are it's all about timing, to turn something down if it's too pricey (I almost talked myself into buying a 100 dollar copy of Frank Zappa's first album but I thought better of it and later on got a copy for half that price) and things I want will often show up where I least expect them to.

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TheOriginalBrittany 7 years 2 months ago Posts: 19	[FONT="Verdana"]This one makes me so mad.. I have been searching for virtual bart for SNES forever, it's not that expensive on ebay, I'm just cheap and don't want to pay all that shipping & handling for something I had free when I was younger. Anyways, at value village (savers in the US - it's like good will) they had it for $2.99, and I missed it because I had no cash on me, I was just in there wasting a few minutes waiting for someone.. when I went back with money about 2 hours later, it was gone. Atleast I work there now, I can see what goes out first now. oh and on ebay the other day, I was watching an alvin & the chipmunks VHS "funny we shrunk the adults" and there was about 3 hours left, I had people over so I wasn't sitting at the computer, I ended up forgetting about it and going to sleep after the people left, so i lost it. It went for 1.50 or something like that and $4 shipping and handling, I was soooo pissed.[/FONT]

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chris65638 7 years 1 month ago Posts: 65	late night movies old corners stores nickelodeon shows of the 80s old tv sign offs saturday morning cartoons of the 80s abc afterschool speical family classics on sunday afternoon kids incorparated you cant do that on television remote control mr wizards world flipper dragnet donna reed gimme a break perfect strangers full house stay out on neighborhood streets until 3 am riding my bicycle playing with the other kids and my parents knowing where i was lagoons WHAT IM TRYING TO SAY IS THESE ARE THE DAYS WHEN LIFE WAS EASY AND BEFORE POLITICS STARTED LIVING OUR LIFES FOR US

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SiegHart 6 years 11 months ago Posts: 397	My biggest Retro miss was a Sword shaped like a Dragon.Some snobby lady bought it for 20$ and I left home crying.The guy that sold the dragon sword later gave me a better sword which is pretty.

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Mad about drumming 87 6 years 11 months ago Posts: 709	I'd have to say the NES I ran across at a flea market, but didn't have enough money. Of course, I'd bought 2 Gameboy games and Diddy Kong Racing for the N64 that day as well.
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davidyck 6 years 11 months ago Posts: 130	a while ago i found a 2 year old kid with a garfield comic book i deeply enjoyed as a kid. to make matters worse, the kid ripped up the comic book right in front of my very eyes. i almost cried.

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ChicagoSheriff 6 years 11 months ago Posts: 387	I once had a chance to buy the train set from silver sppons and i coulda rode it around the block. ohhh wait that never happened

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shiroihikari 6 years 10 months ago Posts: 1751	I found a Blip: The Digital Game at a thrift store for a few bucks once. I wanted to get it so bad, but my then-boyfriend convinced me not to. I've regretted it ever since.
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Siouxsie 6 years 7 months ago Posts: 1497 Account Disabled	A Famicom (Japanese Nes), didn't know what it was and decided I didn't want to pay $8. Doh!

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shiroihikari
6 years 7 months ago
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Aww man! That sucks.
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mlw1984 6 years 7 months ago Posts: 1438 Account Disabled	I saw some TMNT toys at a pawn shop for $5 altogether. Some kid brought them before I did.

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MRCSL1 6 years 7 months ago Posts: 504	My mom would had gotten a Commodore 64, but she was confused with some words in descriptions and wanted to know if it works or not because god know I don't want a broken C64. And that was the missed opportunity to actually own the original computer. Wah.
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elron 6 years 7 months ago Posts: 693	About eight years ago, I went to a second hand store that had a shed outback full of boxes and boxes of books. I spent a couple of hours going through boxes of old crappy romance novels and came upon a package wrapped in brown paper and sting. I unwrapped it and it was full of comic books in excellent condition(probably thirty or so). I don't even remember what the comics were except for a few westerns and I think also some Green Hornet, (I don't think I looked very carefully because I was too excited but seem to recall that they were from the fifties and sixties. I collected comics as a kid, so I knew these were probably worth something and asked how much for the bundle and the lady scooped them up from me. She told me that the store hadn't had a chance to sort through all of their books yet (many were donations if remember correctly) and these weren't for sale. Talk about a god damned bummer. I've always tried to block that incident out, but think about it every now and then. If I would have known they weren't going to sell they I think I might have stolen them (I'm not normally a thief) because they never would have missed them. I could have easily concealed the package in the waistband of my pants and covered it with the winter jacket I was wearing. Que Sera.

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the-micro-man 6 years 7 months ago Posts: 3511 Globally Banned	All of my Star Wars Toys Nintendo 64 All of the old logos for various companies My TMNT toys Being in preschool My Grandma's old house Windows 95

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shiroihikari 6 years 7 months ago Posts: 1751	I found Back to the Future on Beta for like three dollars, but decided not to get it. I hope it's still there when I go back.
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