April's (Not So) Foolish Pickups 2019

[Megatron]

A buddy of mine hooked me up with this for $100...



An Ice Blue N64 CIB with plastic wrap and paperwork.









This thing is beautiful.  I don't know if the controller has been rewrapped or not, but it feels like it was never used.  And the console itself is immaculate.  I can't find a scratch on it or any sign that it was ever played.  The box shows some wear and is a little bent out of shape in the middle, but is otherwise in really good shape for its age.  

[retrosherman]

Omg dude, that is beautiful.

[PlayDoh003]

CIB is ALWAYS nice! 

[TDIRunner]

These arrived today.

[wiggy]

Never heard of downward spiral. Will have to look into that.



Been itching to get one of these kits for some time now. Just gotta figure out which N64 is going to be treated to it...

[Xerics]

SO I ordered these from Gamestop back in February. The tracking numbers they gave me said that USPS was awaiting the arrival of the package and when I contacted gamestop they said the packages got lost in the warehouse and they were going to refund me. I told them not to refund me and that I would wait for them to come back in stock but they said no and refunded me anyways. Then I check my mail today and get a bunch of packages only to find the games that they said got lost. I got these games for free. Thanks gamestop!



This also came in the mail today!

[retrosherman]

That's awesome! Those are some great PS1 games.  

[Arseen]

Bit like my first Xbox 360 story.

I got it with financing.
Pay 40 euros when getting the console then 9 other payments of 40 euros next months.
Never recieved the bill for the 9 other payments even when I asked once they just told to wait and it would arrive eventually which it never did.
This console also RRoD 3 times.
First time compensation was 1 month free Xbox Live Gold, second and third time free controller and 12 months free Xbox Live Gold.
Free pick-up and delivery back to home everytime, took less than 2 weeks each time.
So Xbox 360 at day one, two extra wireless controllers (so three total) and two years and one month Xbox Live Gold (+ one year that came originally) for 40 Euros.

Funny side story relating to this:
First time when they where returning the console I got phone call at 6AM that started: Upsista päivää (translation: Oopsie daisy).
I said what (I had slept only an hour and the phone call woke me), answer was again upsista päivää.
I repeated what, and got answer: From UPS delivery company, good day.
Upsista päivää can be translated also: From UPS (good) day.
Turns out the driver knew me (was father of classmate) and he wanted to have little bit fun.

[amace04]

Never heard of downward spiral. Will have to look into that.



Been itching to get one of these kits for some time now. Just gotta figure out which N64 is going to be treated to it...

THat's awesome, I've been wanting to pick one of these up, just never pulled the trigger.

Maybe if I could get Youtube revenue from it, but doesn't look like install videos fare very well.

[Xerics]

I found a couple of things I was looking for at electronics markets located in Yongsan and Nambu.

[Bear78]

Always check them shitty sports titles.

[wiggy]

THat's awesome, I've been wanting to pick one of these up, just never pulled the trigger.

Maybe if I could get Youtube revenue from it, but doesn't look like install videos fare very well.

It's a pretty easy install as well, despite them making it sound like it's rocket science.

[marioxb]

Even if you suck at soldering? I used to solder mod chips in Japanese and US Dreamcasts to enable playing the other region games. I probably ended up ruining about 50% of them. I'm terrible at soldering.

[Nacho3]

Always check them shitty sports titles.

That thing has skyrocketed lately, good find.

[Hesch]

Ok, what? Why is that so expensive? Is it the last college football game?