Best Find youve had at a Yard sale Etc!?!?

[iCollect]

Hey Guys N Gurls Thought this would be a cool Question to ask! What is the Best Find youve had at a Second hand Place?

Wether it be Thrift store/Yard sale/Flea market whatever it was I Wanna know! lol

Mine would have to be a HUGE box of mixed Motu and Various others at a Garage sale for only 10.00! Scare Glow and all! (I thought it was Awesome! lol)

So lets hear yours!

[dom]

I remember the days when you could go to places and pick up everything really cheap. Now you pick up a crappy condition Star Wars figure and they try and charge you a tenner for it.

In a way it makes it more exciting though when you find good stuff. I got a complete first seies of Dino Riders for about $15 and a massive bag of Action Force containg all the rare uk drivers. Sold the drivers for $120 but the guy claimed he never got them and paypal screwed me for the money.

[madcow]

Oof, this is a toughy...

My best find at a yard sale was a vintage Marx Tin Barn complete with all the animals and equipment for FREE. Funny story, I was at a sale and noticed a big box with that barn and animals and some of the old school wooden FP Little People. I just wanted the Little People so I asked how much. She told me $2 so I took them and paid her. As i'm walking away she told me to take the rest of the box too and I said I didn't want it. She begged me to or it was getting tossed so I agreed. The Barn sat in the back of my car for weeks until I got tired of looking at it and tossed it in the trash. My father in law saw it and took it back out saying that tin toys hadn't been made for the longest time so I did some research and he was correct. Just on a whim I put the barn and all the animals/equipment up on Ebay. Well to my suprise it ended at a whopping $185!!!

[lostmafia]

i have had 2 pertty good finds lately

first one is a C-8 divebomb (G1 transformers) for 10 cents at goodwill

second one is i found bumblejumper at a toy show at a mall for 5 USD both made me very happy

as far as garage sales goo havent had much luck in the toy area i did find an atrai 2600 with 63 games for 3 bucks a few years back and right down the road from that house i bought a donkey kong jr stand up arcade game for 20...that was a good day also lol

[kylefromdirtnapp]

Best thrift store find would be a working Rock Lord Rock Shot for 10 cents.

I also have an ad in the newspaper, and I guy called once. For $50, I got 2 boxes of toys including a G1 Slag with box, complete, with un-applied stickers; complete (?) Gats Blocker, regular and terror claws Skeletor MOC; about 25 He-Mans, complete with card/bubbles/comics including Thunder-Punch, Dragon Blaster, Faker, Tung Lashor; John Blackstar and Overlord; 6 Rambo guys MOC, plus some misc. Joes, Star Wars, Battlestar Galactica, Zem 21, and a bunch of plastic and vinyl collector cases.

[sanfords2]

This was at a Flea Market, so I don't know if it counts, but I picked up a G1 Optimus and G1 Megatron (and a couple others) still in their boxes for $5 bucks a piece. The guy was literally unpacking them as I happened to be walking by, so I was very lucky.

At a different Flea Market I scored a Fort Max for $30 and the Greatest American Hero and Bill in a bag of Fisher Price Adventure People for $2.

[davidstoybox]

Last summer i hit a garage sale where a couple older women won an auction the night before and what they won was a complete inventory of a comic/toy store in the area. They priced all the action figures and busts at $2 a piece and all the comics including a ton of silver age stuff at .25 a piece. Needless to say i completely filled my car from trunk to the front seat for about $150. The other deal i got was a lady had a hotwheel box and for those that know about hotwheels i got about 20 redlines for .25 a piece.

[toygiant]

Let's see.................... I've had a hand full of doozies over the years.

I got a boxed Sectaurs Dargon w/Dragonflyer at a yard sale 2 summers ago for $3.

At a garage sale about 8 years ago there was a huge bag filled with hundreds of loose figures, mostly Power Rangers and others from the 90's. Way at the bottom I spotted an original A-wing pilot and Amanaman from '84. I told the lady I only wanted those 2 and she dug them out while explaining that her husband was a collector and she'd have to ask him for a price. I thought "Great, here's where I say nevermind". She called into their house for him like 3 times and after getting no reply she turned to me and whispered "Just take 'em".

But by far the biggest score I've ever had was back in '99 when I responded to an ad in the Seattle Times for "GIJoe Battleship $50". So I called, set up a time to go check it out ,and made a 30 mile drive. Once there I was greeted by a USS Flagg that was in great shape. It was missing the forward deck piece (the 99 piece), the Admiral figure, and a few small things. But there was an incredible amount of small things that were there like a complete radar mast, all of the radar dish stems, all but 7 of the deck clips, and every piece for the control room. It even had the instructions/blueprints. It was all piled in this ugly, white colored, wicker basket thing. When I reached for my wallet to pay the lady she said "I've had that ad in the paper for a month and you're the only person to respond. If you take the basket with you, you can have the boat for free". What else am I going to say other than "OK"? So, I found the missing deck piece about 3 months later on eBay for $30 and picked up all of the other various small parts here and over the corse of about a year. When all was said and done I had probably spent $60 on a complete Flagg. I had to sell it a few years ago (along with my Defiant) to pay for art school, but it was fun while I had it.

[sanfords2]

I forgot about the USS Flagg that I picked up for $10 at a garage sale.

[dolldolldolldoll]

Before the world of ebay got so big,

ANYTHING was possible.

I've found several several TMNT and Heman just waiting for me at a flea market about a year or so. My boyfriend was collecting hemen at the time so we were sooo excited.

[bec9681]

Whew, this is a great question.

I found a GI Joe USS Flagg in the box at a Goodwill for $8; for a MIB G1 Jetfire at Goodwill for $0.99; this past summer I found a 12 inch Princess Leia and a 12 inch Luke Skywalker complete in their original boxes (1977 versions) for $5 a piece; found an Indiana Jones Belloq figure in a free box a couple summers ago. These are all I can think of right now - usually my summer garage sales turn out some pretty good stuff. I guess that is why I don't like paying a lot of money for toys - I figure if I am patient, I will find it at a garage sale/flea market/thrift store eventually. You just have to keep going - I think I posted it in another thread, but you find good stuff about 10-15 percent of the time you go to those places - you have to fight through the other 85% where all you find is crap.

[proteus]

well it wasnt a yard sale but....there was a store near me around 14 years ago, it was a department store, and it was the only place in my town that still had star wars figures from the first trilogy, kenners original line, admiral akbar,bib fortuna,endor soldier.piles of them.

a local toy dealer had seen them but didnt pick them up,so i told my friend and he said lets go and see, as we walked into the store the woman was putting them in the trash! we told her we wanted them and she said well i cant give them to you so i will charge you one penny (2 cents)so you will have a reciept

we got 150 mint carded figures of three different characters for one penny.

i sold my half to the dealer for £25-$50!

[Hudasa21]

70% of my collection comes from yard sales and flea markets.
20% from stores
9% from trades and just 1% from Ebay as I've used it just once myself and a 4 or 3 times some friends had bought some figures for me.

Last week I bought one loose Corps and 4 loose Adventure Man for just $ 4, all of them in great conditions, strong joints and all that.

One of the best finds was a loose Scare Glow for just $ 2 new! I look for the accessories but just found some Snake men accs, Snake Face shield, Sssquezze serpent and Tung Lashor staff for just $ 1 all new stuff, even bright, that was the best part

[madcow]

At a Flea Market the other day I picked up a Super Powers Hall of Justice in mint condition for $10. It's missing the landing pad, jail and table but it's a good start...

[drekkus]

I once bought thundercats tygra moc for 1 euro at a childrens market

[spankweasel]

I just had an awesome run of all 80's figures at one of the three local flea markets a couple weeks ago. al items were a dollar or less. starting with AD & D nightmare complete, several D & D figures as well. a-team murdock, 2 inhumanoid figures, zoton robot defender, rex converters, G1 cosmo & mighty crusader. I turned down a bad super powers superman and beat up silverhawk. since going to this certain flea market, I managed to get some good stuff. The parts I needed help identifing of voltron and such also came from this place. I can't wait till it's spring and everybody is selling there.

[spankweasel]

I just rembered a couple more good finds, just last year.
G1 cyclonus for a buck
boxed bug, rocks & thing a buck
bag of mego star trek motion picture, with star wars vintage & g.i.joes 6 bucks
superpowers batmobile 2 dollars
cast iron popeye bank from the 1940's 3 bucks
G1 devastator, broken hook and no acces. but all figures there, plus head 2.69 with tax at my local salvation army
and 10 bucks of lego with several star wars ones. darth, ben, jedi luke, emporer & such.

[TheWatcher]

hmmm...best deal I ever got was at a flea market. Bought my Blue Snaggletooh for $5 bucks. I also bought 20+ vehilcles (some boxed) creatures and complete star wars figures at the same place for $200. My wife's best deal was she picked up a MLP mail away repunzel for a $1 and we found out she worth around $300 -$500.

[Ebessan]

About 3 years ago, in the middle of driving to a mall in another city (about an hour-long drive), my friend and I stumbled upon a yard sale in some backwoods neighborhood. The only reason it caught my attention was because I clearly saw action figures standing on some picnic table.

So we rushed the place, and I ended up buying literally 20 or 25 Ninja Turtles (from the late '80s-early '90s period). I'm pretty sure I didn't spend more than 30 bucks on the lot. I had a whole bunch from when I was a kid, and 4 or 5 of these were doubles, but I kinda lost my mind and went for it all.

Got a lot of cool, kinda random characters like Tattoo, Sandstorm and Walkabout. And about 50% of them came with the cards (not intact), so I also got those cool little profile things on the bottom left corner.

I think that'll always be the best find I've ever made at a yard sale.

[brcthrift]

I've had a lot of great finds since I started hunting about 8 months ago. At the same Goodwill I got an 8 in. Mego Incredible Hulk, Mego bendy Capt. Marvel, Mego bendy Aquaman, Wag from the Starroid Raiders line, Shipwreck, Bar B Que, Frostbite, and Wet Suit from ARAH, G1 Scorponok, and the 18 in Voltron with all 5 lions.

Today a New Orleans thrift store I got the A D&D Fortress of Fangs for 1.95.

[shaxper]

I've never had all that much luck at yard sales or Goodwill. My best for Yard sales would have been a G2 Optimus Prime and two G1 targetmaster Transformers, and at Goodwill I scored a nearly complete Voltron Castle of Lions. Beyond that, I haven't found much.

[brcthrift]

I had a minor find yesterday and another today. I also had a major miss today.

Yesterday I got 2 Universal Monsters Wolfman action figures for a buck each.

Today I got Sherrif Bravestar, Raphael, Rocksteady, a yet to be id'd Dick Tracey action figure, a JLU the Flash, several Fisher Price little people hourses, and a pink Power Ranger for 1.79.

Unfortunately I missed the boxed Voltron set that was with all the board games. I looked over my shoulder to see another guy pulling it off the shelf. It was the big set that the figures fit in. I went and talked to the guy who was a kit basher and collector. He said it was by far his best find ever. How could it not be?

[robomonkey]

Last weekend I snagged a Robotech Joke Machine Valk, Max's Blue one, for a quarter. Yeesh, I don't remember the last time I bought much of anything for a quarter.

[catgut]

brcthrift said:

Unfortunately I missed the boxed Voltron set that was with all the board games. I looked over my shoulder to see another guy pulling it off the shelf. It was the big set that the figures fit in. I went and talked to the guy who was a kit basher and collector. He said it was by far his best find ever. How could it not be?

is this the big black one with silver wing well 2 on the back ?.
is it called the shadow voltron or stelth volton ?
(if you look at the photo of the loft in Catgut yer me youll see parts of it )just carnt remember the name of the set?

whoops forgot to say the last time i was at a car boot sale i found a biscit tin full of g1 weapons,parts and heads all for a fiver too

[Ghouldrool]

My vinyl cape Jawa came from a flea market. The guy there selling Star Wars knew that it had some value, but he sure didn't know the extent of what he had.. It cost me 8 Euros, perfect condition, with the original gun

[biged98]

I actually got a original vinyl cape jawa at yard sale, I got mine in with a star case with other figures for $35

[spankweasel]

I used to work for salvation army for one year, I will say that this was a dream job. Screw being an actor or celebrity with tons of money, This was christmas everyday. because the salvation army's policy was, we really don't sell toys. and my boss knew i collected toys and she let me have anything I wanted for free, boxes of stuff. here's a partial list of things I got out of the army.
vintage star wars figures
fisher price muppets
action jacks outfits MOC rare ones, about 10-12
car case with several hot wheels custom redlines
8 original matchbox cars from 1958 mint in box
several TFs, scorponcs all were incomplete
spiderman vs fantastic four board game
giant spiderman coloring book
several comic books
1959 die cast hubley cap gun
several board more board games
all the video games from all types of systems. even famiclone with several games
plus many more, i've forgotten
I spend one magical year in heaven, and then they closed our store and tore it down. I think they did it just to spite me.
and finally last week I picked up a SP superman without cape for 50 cents.
Spank

[spankweasel]

I just has a 40-50 dollar run of of goodies at a flea market this weekend.
here's a list
1. TF's
grapple, unbroken
Buzzsaw, found 1 weapon from another dealer when i filled a basket for 2 bucks
sludge, broken head, will frankenstein when I find another with other parts broken
other various TF's 5 bucks for whole bag.
woman was selling "fill up a box for 20 bucks" deal. I filled half the box, wasn't alot of great things but here are some of the things I got.
1. 1981 SW Wampa
2 PVC AD&D - minotaur & bollywog
3. pull string bugs bunny doll 1971 stamp
4. captain power energizer pod
5. robotech figure
6. smurfs
7. snorks
and others I can't remember
another person. I filled a basket for 10 bucks. here's a partial list
1. battlestar galactica commander adama with cape-no pistol
2. voltron figures
3.roy farker - robotech (name may be wrong, sorry)
4.centurions, dr. terror & Max Ray (found his back pack at another table)
5. several vintage Star wars figs: Lando, Nikto
6. bag of MUSCLE MEN & Monster in my pocket
7. He-man KO's
and a butt load of MOTU, TMNT & TF weapons & armor
that's just what i can remeber, I got them yesterday & my brain went into overload & I passed out. i may get a pic of all of it and post it. I hope I have more days like this.
Spank

[spankweasel]

Here are the pics from yesterday



some of thie stuff I got, I'm not sure and will post it in the ID section. My collection is growing.
Spank

[lostmafia]

this is not really my best find but its a good one went to my buddies comic shop yesterday to drop off birthday presents for his son and he told me he got a transformer collection in and i could have first picks out of it(like i always get) and i got a G1 C-8 optimus prime complete a complete C-8 whirl pre rub bumblebee, a bag full of tech specs and instruction booklets 10 different AD&D figs(no weapons) and a dragon rider of stix, and a couple knoock off TFs (a slot machine and a camera) all for 100 bucks