Treasure Hunts 1 - Elvis rises from the grave to defeat Darth Vader!

I have decided to chronicle my adventures of buying and selling items through various means. At my disposal are a number of auction sites and the ever popular craigslist. I find objects and items really interesting for some reason. The bug of collecting is a powerful thing but curious on how moods change. Each item has a story and value finding out those is part of the fund of thrifty shopping.Please note i have a lot of things to do so my spelling and grammar might not be as it should

Let’s start out with a number of items that I have already sold. The first are these two Star Wars action figures both sealed in the package. I got these from a garage sale. When I drove by the sale it did not seem like much but I did see a bunch of VHS tapes that caught my eye so I stopped. The guy had 3 of these figures and I sold off these two. I don’t know where the other figure went and I am kind of glad it got misplaced because I know one day I will be happy to have it. At the garage sale I got each figure for a dollar, I thought it was a sweet deal. Unfortunately the value of these for collectors is pretty low. I actually sold both of these figures at auction for $4. I did make a profit but not as much as I had hoped for. I hope whoever bought them enjoys them.

These came out around the time of Star Wars Episode 1 and were a somewhat big hit. Today however they are not worth that much. Compared to other Star Wars action figures they are some of the poorest in quality. The Comm Chip was actually a cool device. What you did was take it and place it over a reader and then it would play back lines from that character from the movie. I have included a picture of the comm reader so you can see what it looked like as well. I am not really missing the figures that much because I can easily get my hands on others and frankly Anakin is not the best figure to collect.

Is Elvis really still alive? We may never really know the answers will we? This strange book came into my possession because of my girlfriend’s mother. She was getting rid of a bunch of things that we then in turn sold at a garage sale. This was something that did not sell so off to the auction sites. It actually sold on its first time being listed, go figure! It turns out that this book goes for around 5-10. The item sold to an Elvis collector. Having gotten the item for free I made $3.50 on this item. I almost wanted to keep it because of how silly it really is but I want to focus on things I will actually use.

The last item I am going to talk about in this update is this Wii game called Offshore Tycoon. I picked this game up at Toy’s R Us for $10 on sale. It is a budget title meaning that at new it only cost $20. The game is kind of like Diner Dash if any of you have played that or Cooking Mama. It was a pretty bad game I do have to say. I bought the game to do a review on it and try to make my money back on it. I did well I sold it for $5 and played the game for a few hours. If you are interested in the game I would just say skip it.

See you next time!

Superdashrendar