99% of the time I look at Gumtree or Facebook Marketplace and laugh at the price that some people expect to sell their old game consoles for. Just because you paid A$400 for a Wii and a few games back in 2007 does not mean that when you sell it in 2020 it is worth A$250!!!
However, I do occasionally find a bargain, particularly if you can get in quick before someone else snaps it up.
Perhaps it was just because it was Mothers Day and people were not watching Gumtree but I managed to pick up what I think were two good bargains today….
First was a lot of 7 x PSP games for A$10 and a ‘non-working’ PSP thrown in for free…. the reason the PSP was considered broken was because the lithium battery had gone bad and swollen…. the battery cover was also missing.
I figured the games alone were easily worth A$10 but happily took the PSP off their hands too….. turned out to be a PSP-2000 model. I got it home and tested it with the battery from my working PSP-1000 and discovered the ‘non-working’ PSP works perfectly! Next step, Ebay for a battery A$11.90 and AliExpress for a new battery cover A$1.71….. so, consider the haul of the picture below to be A$23.61 for 7 PSP games and a working PSP-2000. Methinks that was a great deal!
To make the system a little bit sweeter I have now also ordered a microSD adapter (AliExpress A$2.85) and a 64GB micro SD card (Amazon A$16.95). Coupled with a permanent CFW hack thanks to Infinity 2.0 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h-pZeWV5Q8E) and this is going to a nice little edition to my console collection.
And, if that was not all, I also ended up picking up a Playstation 2 with 2 controllers and 8 games for A$40 from Gumtree on the same day. A paler bargain when compared to the PSP but still another great deal. Embarrassing to say that despite the Playstation 2 being the world’s best selling console, with 155 million units sold, this is the first time I have acquired one! And so today starts my Playstation 2 collection…
