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tragicpoet: Best Thrift Store or Garage Sale Purchase?

ocdspectrum: I always strike out at these!
Fribian: Never found one I'd want to purchase.
Jorgisimo: Old SNES
pwilz: Some coffee cups
Geosphere: I dont like buying games at either. Somethings always missing
jessitron: I haven't bought a thrift store yet
tankexmortis: Civilization. Found it for $4, sold it for $50.
CptRavage: A little Star Wars figure for ZAR 0.20 or something.
cgund: It wasn't a game but I bought a cool print of songbirds recently.
devine: $2.50 game of Carcassonne
matthewjhoskins: Samurai Swords - $2.
joni: I don't know
DHEK: Haven't really made any significant purchase at any of these places.
aleo09: Big city,
bigbadsteve: i found a copy of the book eddie and the cruisers for $2. i have seen it sell on ebay for over $100
davidme: A Loopin' Louie box with one arm for the doohickey in it. I tried to pay the marked price, but the guy just gave it to me. It went great with my eBay-bought game with the damaged box.
anonInternetName: AD&D source books
lone: so far, 4000 AD
janiera: Can't Stop
Cromaa: Nothing good yet...still waiting to find that copy of Titan unpunched for a dollar and then get them down to a quarter for it
brainrob: It was a book!
orodreth: clothing
BeatPosse: Sleuth
MochaKimono: A black and white plaid vintage-style peacoat with black velvet trim and black and gold buttons.
scriptorum: Never.
haraggan: I never get lucky at these things (that just changed. A couple of days ago I found Talisman with three expansions for £3)
Ozvortex: Complete 2nd Edition of Talisman for AUD$5.00.
skrebs: The Alea version of RA or that stanky pair of panties... tough call.
Redneon: Kaliko for 50 cents.
GrandpaDave: A Lay-Z-Boy for $5
skrutsch: Eon Cosmic Enounter
Legend Dan: NES system, 4 controllers, 4 score, 2 zappers, and a big stack of games - $4
Gecko23: Loopin Louie + complete chess set - $1
ThatFalafelGirl: $2 purple lava lamp, $3 The Garden Game (well worth it for me)
Windopaene: MB Conquest of the Empire - $2.17
Lord_Prussian: Civilization for $5 in excellent complete shape
abimilech: Patton's Best
Metaphora: Quandary for $1.50
KnobDoctor: Sea Monkeys for fifty cents. Perfect Christmas gift for your sister-in-law.
GornTC: Magic by AH for 25cents.
stephensj23: For Sale, $2.50
ssmooth: Loopin' Louie
kennyb: nothing so far
Dave: Division by zero error.
ptper: a handheld video game when i was 10
JoeSteadman: My old desk
EndersGame: Risk for 7.5 cents
AlorielLelyn: Nothing so far
gnomehome: Coco Crazy has seen the most plays for its money
dietevil: I got a really cheap armchair once
djflippy: Don't recall.
solove: Roads and Boats, Ra, Reef Encounter, etc etc... for 10c in my local shop. Hehe
derk: Nothing of note.
GuyHill: i dont go there
Blackwind: Green Ghost $2
Nightmare: A giant rocking dinosaur - not my purchase, but it's in my house
Mosse: An unsigned landscape painting. Bought it the day I got out of the army.
darthcliff: Panzerblitz - $15
Baldboy_1: my only one: Bandu for $2
Ryno8: Carcassone the Castle: $1.20
chaddyboy_2000: I've come across multiple copies of Mutant Chronicles: Siege of the Citadel.
Ludocrazy: Sadly, I've never found any games at local thrift stores.
geberus: none
djlg: Tragically, none.
BobDodgerBlue: I got 23 SPI games at a Used Bookstore for $100 including Wacht am Rhein
P.O.G.G.: Panzer and Carrier War: both for 10 cents, excellent condition.
Michael Becker: Looping Louie, Advanced Civilization (shrink), Eon Cosmic Encounter, TSR's Divine Right, Polarity
louiseh: Big City
jttm: Probably some really old books.
AngusBull: Lost Cities for 50 cents
cornjob: Amazing Labyrinth for $2
Con Man: Hellblazer no.1, mint, for $0.25
Shakar: Nothing yet.
CDRodeffer: Realm -- $1.10
ejmowrer: Too pathetic to answer.
snoozefest: none
queequeg: Carlton Fisk rookie card
kimbo: Aliens (including the expansion) for $1.
Aldie: Rail Baron.
Critical Mass: Ben Elton's "This other Eden" for free
ValJor: I don't do those
wtrollkin2000: Unpunched War of the Ring (SPI), twice
CortexBomb: I'm not much a thrift store browser, so my best purchase would probably be that stack of 3 Vonnegut first edition HBs I got for 75 cents several months ago
LudesFactor: so far, Go, i'm still waiting for the motherlode
pernishus: playing cards for building card structures. dollar store cards are not as slippery
simon craddock: Merchant of venus
skelebone: Stop Thief, complete and almost new, for $0.15. Subbuteo, apparently unplayed for $3.00. Cityscape in shrink for $1.99. History of the World 95% unpunched $1.99. Hispania, unpunched $0.25.
tragicpoet: I found a complete "Can't Stop" today (4/30/05) at a thrift store. $1