2012 Urban Safari Hunting Hauls (Garage Sale, Thrift Stores, Craigs, Rummage...)

[mego ninja]

Oh man, you are lucky. Wish I could find that!

[Den82]

My luck was much better this weekend.

At a random garage sale stop a lady told me she had some Voltron stuff. I got this:



Plus a Trendmasters reissue Voltron in the box, near complete, extra Voltron I parts, G1 Transformers Jetfire and a Voltron I knock-off.

She practically begged me to buy it all. She said "How about you take it all for $8"!

[mego ninja]

And last weekend, I bought this baby doll for my youngest daughter for $3. I didn't think anything about it, gave it to her when I got home, then I decided to look I up. It is a china baby doll made in Germany by Grace Puttman (I believe). The doll sells for over $200. She is keeping it.

Thats pretty awesome. My kids have and are playing with my complete collection of original star wars toys, Micro Machines, GI Joe and Lego's from when I was a kid. I want them to enjoy the same thing I did, even if some of that stuff could fetch some $$, I would rather them play with it.

[theantiquetiger]

Here are my finds from the last couple weeks

M1 rifle scabbard - paid $6, sold for $68


seven Bud Man Beer Steins - paid $70, sold for $320


MIP 1989 Aurora Slot Car - paid $1, sold for $38


And last weekend, I bought this baby doll for my youngest daughter for $3. I didn't think anything about it, gave it to her when I got home, then I decided to look I up. It is a china baby doll made in Germany by Grace Puttman (I believe). The doll sells for over $200. She is keeping it.

[MegoSteve]

I paid $5 each at the Flea Market for these, like a fool

What?! It's hard to tell condition by looking at a picture, but that X-men is probably worth what you paid for all six.

[mego ninja]

sweet. I think I sold one of those on craigslist about a year ago for $15 or $20.

[Splitty]

It's been said April is the month where people really get the blues. That doesn't help when I see the awesome scores people are getting lately and for me, it's getting tougher and tougher.

I know. It often feels like one will never score again, that the good hauls are a thing of the past. Than BAM! a suprise score. You can ask anyone who's found a good haul, and they're probably tell you it's few and far between the good ones.I don't even bother much with garage sales until late may or june.

On Craigs however, I just scored this 12" talking Yoda for $10! That wasn't bad.
He ate my doughnut though. That was bad.

[Den82]

I paid $5 each at the Flea Market for these, like a fool. I guess they are kind of cool though. This is the beginning of my silver age (and most likely Bronze age as well) comic collection. The same seller, a young kid, also have something I used to dream of owning when I was 10: Amazing Spider-Man #129. He wanted $200 for it, an ungraded copy. Considering what I see them selling for ungraded on eBay I should of annoyed him into giving it up for $45-$50.



Aside from that, nothing. The Flea Market was terrible. Shogun Warriors colorforms, used for $45 anyone? How about loose Star Wars figures for $10 a pop with no weapons or accessories.

It's been said April is the month where people really get the blues. That doesn't help when I see the awesome scores people are getting lately and for me, it's getting tougher and tougher.

[4NDR01D]

Sold the model kits for $118, so even though I over paid, I still tripled my money which makes feel slightly less idiotic.

[EMCE Hammer]

At least you got the bikes. Misses like that eat at me to no end, I'd rather get an opportunity to pay more.

[megoat]

Those are great pick ups, Andy!

[4NDR01D]

I love these Kewpie (and Kepie like) vinyl dolls from the 50's/60's. The bigger one is actually about 12" tall, they're pretty big for this type of doll, usually only about 4". I'm getting a fairly large collection of this type of thing [embarrassed] Picked these two up for about $8.


Vintage plastic/rubber faced cheapo carnival toy from 40's/50's/60's About $2


been collecting these types of cookie jars for a bit now. Have about 8. About $20

[4NDR01D]

Kinda embarrassing story.
I hit a thrift this morning, forgetting that I had no money on me (second time in a week, last time I had to leave a Mego Fabulous Fred behind). I found two sweet Revell Motorcycle kits from '64, both looked complete, $1.50 each. I just cleaned all the change (and garbage, lots of garbage) out of my car yesterday. Usually scrounging a few bucks from under the seats is no biggie, but today, nothing.

I quickly headed home, checked the models on ebay to see if they were definitely worth going back for (they were IMHO) took all the loose change I had, and headed back into my little town. Took about 10 mins tops.

I head directly to the shelf I had "stashed" my little treasures on. GONE.
I rush to the little old ladies at the counter, kinda butting in line, "excuse me but did somebody just buy two model kits". "Yeah my husband just bought them" the first lady in line told me.

Seeing my disappointment (and obviously a business opportunity) she stated "he might sell them to you, he starts work again next week and won't have time to put them together". (I feel I just missed that exact exchange between them, her telling him that of course)
He was standing on front of the thrift waiting for his wife and she called him back inside and told him that I was interested in the models, he told me he wanted to keep them. "I'll GIVE YOU FORTY BUCKS" I blurted out. What the Hell was I thinking? I started to sweat at my own stupidity. I mean, I know he only paid $3, and probably would have taken $15-$20, I could have at least tried before going for my top dollar. I think I watched too much storage wars or something recently. Of course he made the quick flip and took the money, and I got my models. He offered $20 to the ladies at the thrift, which was super nice of him, and they even told him to keep it.

It would have just killed me all week if I didn't get them, but I feel like an idiot for costing myself an extra $37, just for not having $3 in change on me.
I was going to flip them but think I might just keep em after all that. They might look good on display with my "Biker movie " Lp's (Born losers, Wild Angels, hell's Bells etc)

[Den82]

Didn't get a damn thing this weekend. I'm convinced all the thrift stores in my area are filtering the good toys, because you never see a bag of ships like that in any of them. If they did get any vintage Star Wars, chances are they'd go into the glass showcases....right next to the NES games that are all priced at $19.99 each (not a joke or exaggeration).

[Splitty]

Scored a original ALIEN board game from 79 in mint condition for $1! That was my weekend score. Made my day for sure!

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