My favorite Disney movie is Hercules. It came out when I was around eighteen, and led to my first introduction to a fandom, role playing, and fan art. I was new to the internets, y’see.

Naturally, every Hercules related item my best friend and I could find was a serious score, since for some reason Herc is the red headed step child as far as Disney seems to be concerned.

My friend ended up getting this AWESOME art of Hercules book at a book store over in Seattle. I was so jealous I couldn’t see straight. But I was living on my own, and dirt poor, so obtaining my own copy was highly, highly unlikely. That book was our bible for a long time; had lots of art, perfect for obtaining the drawing style which is very personalized to the original character designer for the movie, Gerald Scarfe.

A few years later I’m over in Yakima, at the B. Dalton. To my shock they have the book! I was stunned! I was even MORE stunned when I got it for 14.99!

I STILL gloat to my friend over that one!

Chestnuts roasted by LemonWitch @ 08/12/2007 12:04 AM

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I’m a big collector of the McFarlane toy lines (the most recent ones I’ve bought were for The Simpsons Movie). A few months ago, I was able to get a bunch of unopened Sportspicks in the $3 range at various stores. Not bad stuff nobody wants, but good stuff like Carlos Beltran, Tom Glavine, and Cal Ripken Jr..

Chestnuts roasted by Dr. Acula @ 08/12/2007 12:13 AM

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I got a giant stuffed Blastoise for two bucks at a swap meet. That made me happy.

Chestnuts roasted by Anonymous @ 08/12/2007 12:39 AM

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Hello everyone. I have a couple of good deals to speak of. I think it was the summer of 2002. I bought an NES, in its original box, and 3 games(SMB 2, Metroid, and Rad Racer) for around $25 or so altogether. I later sold it for more than I paid for it, although I probably still should’ve held onto it. This is why the Virtual Console comes in so handy.

Chestnuts roasted by hoverbored @ 08/12/2007 12:44 AM

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in Warcraft, one time I bought a Tigerstrike Cloak for 1 gold 20 silver, resold it for 109 gold. This was a level 20 character, I barely had 3g in my pocket, so it was a risk, but that started me down the path to learn how to play the AH – I now have a rotating business of several thousand gold a month.

Reminds me of my stint in FF XI. I used to farm Quadav Backplates and sell them to support my armor habit. I was the Kojo of XI. I had to make sure my armor matched, because let’s face it there weren’t complete sets for Thieves, like there are for the other melee classes (at least at low levels).

I would sell them to the AH, and eventually I started seeing this guy coming to the AH and then synthesizing items with backplates. If I had been able to stick around longer, I would have probably worked out a direct deal with the guy

You wanted to know that, yes you did.

Chestnuts roasted by Knegative @ 08/12/2007 12:49 AM

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Oh, i am so embarassed. Thanks, Darth Poop! Yes, i meant original trilogy. allergy meds make my head all sloshy.

Chestnuts roasted by FyarlGirl @ 08/12/2007 12:59 AM

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I have a lot of Yard Sale finds as well. Firstly, I found 4 bags of M.U.S.C.L.Es earlier this year for about a dollar total. I once found some earlier for about 25 cents or so which went on eBay for $60-70. But my favorite finds are video-game related. I found an Atari 2600 with 2 controllers, 2 paddle controllers, all the stuff to hook it up, and 40 games for $28. Secondly, I found a Famicom Disk System and 2 big trays of disks. I asked how much, the guy said to make an offer. I paid $10, and the guy said he would’ve taken 5. He was selling it for some other poor sap who was liquidating his collection. Unfortunately, I have yet to get the thing to work.

Chestnuts roasted by DocDragon @ 08/12/2007 1:07 AM

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I scored two ceramic pumpkins wearing cowboy hats, from my girlfriend’s mom. They are a piece of Halloween glory.

Chestnuts roasted by Steven @ 08/12/2007 1:16 AM

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I won a complete set of the original SW Trilogy on DVD at a baby shower once.

Most awesome. Baby Shower. Ever.

Chestnuts roasted by Lori @ 08/12/2007 1:33 AM

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Uhhhh this one time I got a box set of new TMNT cartoon DVDs for the price of a single DVD. That was nice. My brain is so fried. I’m really longing for one of those nice lazy days where you know you don’t have to do anything so you don’t even bother taking a shower. Someone try to get me a deal on that.

Chestnuts roasted by Mystie @ 08/12/2007 2:07 AM

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I’ve had the best luck with magazines…every time I’m interested in getting all issues of a magazine, someone always says “I have them, and I don’t want them, so here you go.” I recently scored a near-complete set of 1980′s TV Guides. They’re hilarious.

As far as things NORMAL people would find valuable…I got Chrono Trigger mint in box for $70 in 2002; sure, it’s a lot, but it’s usually a lot MORE.

Chestnuts roasted by Mars @ 08/12/2007 2:20 AM

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I’ve been fortunate in finding a lot of good deals. When I was in tenth grade, I bought a couple of Beach Boys LPs at a yard sale at this mansion-like place. One of them, a reprint of “Beach Boys’ Concert!” had the wrong disc, but it didn’t matter because the covers are more valuable anyway. The other was a fairly rare “Live in London”, released in 1976. Coincidently, those two albums were released as one CD as part of a series of “twofer” CD reissues of the Beach Boys’ original albums. Strange coincidence that I bought those two albums as separate LPs at the same yard sale.

Chestnuts roasted by hoverbored @ 08/12/2007 2:33 AM

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Probably a brand-spanking new copy of Castlevania: Symphony of the Night for PS1 back in 2004. It was unopened and only cost $20. Granted I have no idea how much that would cost on eBay and the like, but it still felt like a great buy.

Chestnuts roasted by Ben @ 08/12/2007 2:44 AM

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