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Flea market/garage sale Joe finds...
« on: April 25, 2011, 04:06:39 PM »
LJ's post earlier inspired me for this one.
What was your greatest joe find at a flea market or garage sale?

A few years back I found a Starduster version C with helmet in mint shape for $4 at a flea market.
A few tables down I got a complete red and black MMS (from the sears SMS set) for $5.
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Re: Flea market/garage sale Joe finds...
« Reply #1 on: April 25, 2011, 04:11:54 PM »
I got a HISS Mark II for $3 at a thrift store, if that counts.  Other than that, it would be the first HQ playset... at a convention from LJ! ;D
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Re: Flea market/garage sale Joe finds...
« Reply #2 on: April 25, 2011, 04:22:25 PM »
Figures from a flea market 2 bucks a pop. 
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Re: Flea market/garage sale Joe finds...
« Reply #3 on: April 25, 2011, 04:38:29 PM »
3 years ago or so, I bought this great lot of loose Joe stuff for 60$ from a guy who posted on the local classified ads. There was 20 complete figures, 10 vehicles, a couple of extra original clear vizors, dusty bipods, Storm Shadow v.1 accessories and some good amount of paperwork.

Also less than 5 years ago, I was at the St-Leonard's annual Flea Market and found 20 loose joes for 10$. They were all from 83-86, and there was a Viper, Cobra Officer, BAT, Snow Serpent and Eel.

Before that, I had found a Starduster mint loose complete for 7$ at a convention at the turn of year 2000 when I was back into the Joe collecting hobby  ;D .
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Re: Flea market/garage sale Joe finds...
« Reply #4 on: April 25, 2011, 04:51:04 PM »
Its always nice to score good deals.
right before xmas I bought a huge collection off a guy for $300.
about 8 large bins of stuff.
about 95% of it was complete.
I turned that into $3500 selling on evilbay.
which then turned into $3500 spending on evilbay... ;D
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Re: Flea market/garage sale Joe finds...
« Reply #5 on: April 25, 2011, 05:19:23 PM »
Once got a Night Raven for $0.50 at a garage sale. When I got home, I opened the drone and it had a nice 1983 Cobra soldier in it!
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Re: Flea market/garage sale Joe finds...
« Reply #6 on: April 25, 2011, 05:39:50 PM »
I never have any luck with garage sales, I do not get up early enough to find the deals!
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Re: Flea market/garage sale Joe finds...
« Reply #7 on: April 25, 2011, 05:50:18 PM »
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I never have any luck with garage sales, I do not get up early enough to find the deals!

I don't think it's always a matter of getting up early. Most of the time It's a matter of being there at the right time and place. Per instance a Garage sale could have already started, and you happen to be passing by when the seller puts the Joes on the table for the first time in the day, while everybody else who passed by earlier didn't get to chance at them. It happened to me with the lot of 20 Joes that I found. Never again did this happen to me at the St-Leonard flea market, but then again I wasn't expecting it so that was perhaps the beauty of it.
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Re: Flea market/garage sale Joe finds...
« Reply #8 on: April 25, 2011, 06:14:26 PM »
True to my typical luck, I was at a flea market with my parents in the early 90s.  Someone there had an APC for sale, which I had wanted for a long time (and coincidentally did not get until just a couple of years ago).  I don't remember the price, but I remember it was not high at all and the vehicle was complete.  Went to get my dad, told him about it, and he said "Well, let's go get it."  On our way there, were passed by a very happy kid with the APC in his hands and his dad going in the other direction.  I was annoyed...
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Re: Flea market/garage sale Joe finds...
« Reply #9 on: April 25, 2011, 06:33:44 PM »
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True to my typical luck, I was at a flea market with my parents in the early 90s.  Someone there had an APC for sale, which I had wanted for a long time (and coincidentally did not get until just a couple of years ago).  I don't remember the price, but I remember it was not high at all and the vehicle was complete.  Went to get my dad, told him about it, and he said "Well, let's go get it."  On our way there, were passed by a very happy kid with the APC in his hands and his dad going in the other direction.  I was annoyed...

Sounds to me like your dad was at the wrong place while it was the right time to buy it. You just made me remember stories like that where I was also the loser.... :'(
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Re: Flea market/garage sale Joe finds...
« Reply #10 on: April 25, 2011, 06:39:29 PM »
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Its always nice to score good deals.
right before xmas I bought a huge collection off a guy for $300.
about 8 large bins of stuff.
about 95% of it was complete.
I turned that into $3500 selling on evilbay.
which then turned into $3500 spending on evilbay... ;D

That is how you expand your collection by make good scores like that.
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Re: Flea market/garage sale Joe finds...
« Reply #11 on: April 25, 2011, 06:48:55 PM »
Holy smokes good stuff Propergrounds!
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