#fleamarket

06/10/26: It's silicon, paper and plastic today at the Fleamarket. Nothing really gaming related but the fun is in the search. My first purchase was nice, but it could've been better. I found a bunch of thick comics. But I had to leave more behind. Some old soda or sticky liquid was on a lot of them. Wet pages turned dry, and lots of books covers stuck to each other. When I got these home, I carefully had to use goo gone stuff to remove all the stickiness. And not to scrub too hard and wear the paper out. The guy also had an X-men novel and an unopened dvd. My scrubbing was mostly successful, so that made the $15 for everything worth it. I then found an empty 3ds case for $2.00 followed up with a Jackass UMD movie for $3.00. Another seller had interesting items too, but mostly junk. But I fished out for $7.00: two Doctor Who dvds and a Novelization, another comic and some Indiana Jones playing cards. And lastly, five movies for a dollar each. The packaging on some of these disney dvds says that they're exclusives. So I don't know how true that is, but I'll take them. Lets see what other goodies come my way in the future.

05/27/26: Its a Mega Manga Haul today at the Wednesday fleamarket! It was a bit windy and the sellers that I usually buy from didn't show up. But one sellers boxes caught my eye in the distance. It was books! A ton of them. Almost all manga. At first I saw one box, and then another. I grabbed them both and took them to the guy to hold on to. I told him I was interested. He said that if I take them all, they're a dollar each. Cool. But he still had plenty of stuff strewn about. So I looked around and I found a few anime and regular dvds. I did spot some video games too, but only Facebreaker ps3 was in decent condition. Others were scratched, had center ring cracks and crappy cases. Grand total for everything was $90 bucks. Its mostly shojo manga now that I sorted it. Plus some yaoi titles. I'll keep a few. But I'll likely sell most of them in the future. I did ask the guy before I left if he had more. But he told me that his son sold lots more up in LA after buying a storage unit. And these were just the leftovers. Yikes! I would've liked to have seen that. He did say he was going to check and maybe come back with more next week. But they just say that to everyone. Storage auctions are random like that.

05/26/26: Tuesday Sobre-ruedas gets! Its a Mexican fleamarket trip. Spent the day in Mexicali and I took my mom out for some tacos. But walking along, I found some vendors with some things. I found a batman comic picture frame from the 70s for $100 pesos (around $5.75 US). I also found next, three unopened games also for $100 pesos each. Two xbone and a ps4 game. These and others look to be old retail overstock, or stuff that went to zero that made its way to pallets. But either way, they seemed cheap. At another spot, I found more games. They were mostly sports titles, but a few decent ones were in there. And at $50 pesos each ($2.80), its fair enough. I left quite a bit of sports games behind, as I'm sure I already have them. I wanted to get a few more sega games too. But my phones signal wasn't working and I couldn't check my online docs for my lists. One game there that caught my eye was that PC copy of Owlboy. I've never seen a presentation like that. So I got it. So this last purchase was $700 pesos or around $40 bucks. I'm happy. I got a full belly of tacos and a neat little Haul of games.

everything i got from my mystery box back on feburary 26th. finally got around to posting this. got these from a flea market in town called trader bucks

Here's the second part of my Wednesday fleamarket trip. Its not as eye catching as videogames, but being a collector, I think it deserves its own post. I got a collectors lot of foreign coins! These seem to be from the 80s, and Google AI confirmed it. They were sets from a company called The Franklin Mint. And I've seen plenty of social media feeds telling me that this company now makes collectibles of dubious values. But the 80s looks of these and the classic coins encased in these cardboard was just too tempting. Thankfully all of these are second-hand. So the only one who's now making money, is the Fleamarket seller I got them from. At first the guy wanted $5.00 each per piece. But we ended up counting them. And he's said that if I took them all, I could get them at $3.00 each. It ended up being 28 of them. So for $84 dollars. I got vintage coin sets from lots of countries around the world. I think three dollars each is fair. I don't know if there's demand for these after 40 years on the market(there isn't). But ebay has these around $10-20 each, not to mention shipping. So I think I did fine. I like coins as well as other geeky things. I got a wide variety of countries. But for some reason it had three sets from the Country of Oman. Maybe the former owner of these was from there? So what do you think? Did I find something neat or did I just buy someone's old fleamarket junk? Oh and since this was a fleamarket buy, in my previous post I said I found a pokemon manga and some ps1 stuff. The seller was kind and generous, and while I was ready to pay for them, it seems like he gave me those things for free since I already gave him $84 bucks. Gotta love a freebie.

Went to the Fleamarket this morning and I saw a tub of nostalgia. A whole bunch of Choose Your Adventure books. There was a revival some years back. But these here are all OG copies from decades ago. Some of these covers looked familiar as I read them back in the early 90s when I was a kid. Sadly, I wish they were in better condition. I would've grabbed some. But I fear these are dumpster bound when the days over. We're these books a part of your childhood? Let's reminisce.

04/08/26: Fleamarket insanity! I found the good stuff today and I struck gold when I checked online prices when I got home. I would've been perfectly happy with the first Pic. But the thrifting Gods wanted to bless me more. There's this one seller that's consistently is bringing good stuff, and he sells it cheap. Everything in that first Pic was from him! He sold me pretty much everything at $0.50 cents each. And then, I saw something neat on another table. I grabbed it and took it over to him as he was counting. It was a dvd collection of Unsolved Mysteries. I said how much for it? And he replied in Spanish "for all of these and that set, I want $10." Sold! And now that I'm home here, I see that the Unsolved Mysteries box set is extremely rare! Its going for hundreds of dollars! And I got it for $2.00! Big win! At another spot, I found two dvds and two DC comics books for $4.00. I then found a quirky, old Sony made memory card reader for $3.00. I then struck VHS goodness! I found a guys box with tapes. You can see the sci-fi and Adventures classics! He said $2.00 each. But charged me $15 in the end. Then I found a large plushie toy for $4.00. I couldn't figure out who the character is. But AI says its someone from Persona 3. You think that's true? Then I got another dvd haul. The guy pretty much always sells me his movies for a dollar each. I grabbed some DC animation, horror movies, and a surprising amount of BBC titles. And digging through the stacks, I found two GameCube games. So everything in that other pic was $29. Lastly I got some music cds, a exercise wii game and two McDonald's Super mario toys for $12. What a happy day!

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