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Car boot visit

GilbyGilby
edited September 2002 in Sinclair Miscellaneous
Hi everyone,

Well todays car boot fair trip produced the square root of fuck all in the Spectrum dept, although I did pick up some decent books, God Emperor of Dune and The Phantom Major plus Parapa The Rappa for PSOne.

Anyone else have better luck today?

Steve
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  • thx1138thx1138
    edited September 2002
    No, it is geeting towards the end of the season, and so it just gets silly.

    People new to carbooting flood the place with rubbish for ridiculous money.

    All I got today was an RF-Lead for 10 pence, and a 'unviversal' steering wheel. :(
  • SpectorSpector
    edited September 2002
    Not strictly a car boot, but in a charity shop last week, I saw a plus 2A with a light gun collecting three inches of dust.
    Also today I saw a collection of Commodore 16 games that really brought back some memories. "Way Of The Exploding Fist" on C16? If only I'd known that in 1985.
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  • Mort!Mort!
    edited September 2002
    I got hold of a plus 2 with a Commie64 in the same box for ?2 the pair ( no power supplies). But this week it was wall to wall Kylie/Max Bygraves albums and Clairol footspars LOL
  • thx1138thx1138
    edited September 2002
    I shall trawl the chairty shops now, tiwce a week, until the spring.

    My wife says there is a pile of C64 games in our local one...

    At a carboot a few weeks ago, I bought a C+4 with tape deck, joystick and game cartridge for 2.00 pounds.

    I sold the game cart and joystick on E-bay for about 14.00. Then I phoned up some guy who put's old computers wanted ad's in the local paper and gave him the +4 for free (it was faulty). :)


    I always try to give stuff I don't want and can't sell away, as I hate to throw retro stuff away, especially as someone more technical than me coudl probably use it for spares.
  • SharopolisSharopolis
    edited September 2002
    I regularly visit car boot sales and I never seem to find any speccy stuff. There's loads of C64s, megadrives and Amigas, but nothing with the rainbow logo. I cant think why, millions of spectrums were sold, maybe people are begining to realise that they're worth much more on ebay.
  • SpectorSpector
    edited September 2002
    Yes it's true. I trip over those C64s and have seen C16's too, an Amstrad, even an Electron, but next to nothing Spectrum related, apart from a couple of plus 2's. The rubber keyed boy is nowhere to be seen.
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