Damn good deals

[Duel]

Buying things at prices that are reasonably cheaper than what they should be is pretty sweet. I got the Indiana Jones boxset for FOUR bucks at a yard sale(excluding the newest movie, dunno if I mentioned that before). So, I think that deal falls under the damn good category or maybe even the ****ing awesome category. Have you ever bought something at a reasonable or great price resulting in you saying it was a damn good deal?

[Hrafn]

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I know I mentioned it before, but Modern Warfare 2 for $7 last year was pretty good. Tonight I saw it on sale at Target for $45, and that's 8 months after I got it.

Blockbuster also used to have a deal where you could trade in two games and then get any used game for only $5, regardless of its original price. And you still got paid the normal trade-in value of the games. That was a pretty awesome deal right there (and is how I got Red Dead Revolver back in the day, where its initial price had been like $35-$40).

I kinda always bargain shop (especially for books), so it takes a lot for one of them to impress me. Used games make up well over half of my collection, and for this gen probably more like 80%. With only three actually purchased at the full $60 price tag (namely, the two Fallout games and Dragon Age) out of a good 50 or more games in all.

[Biggie]

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I got all three seasons of Mad Men for 10$ each on blu ray. Nothing else comes to mind at the moment.

[Thutmose]

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I bought a used book for about $3 on eBay. The owner was selling it cheap because somebody had defaced the inside.

When I got it, and opened it up to see the damage, it turned out that what the seller had called "defacement" was actually the autograph of the author himself - who also happens to be an astronaut.

Best $3 I ever spent.

[Valkysas]

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What book?

[Thutmose]

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What book?

"Letters from MIR". EDIT: I checked my receipts - I didn't pay $3 for the book like I thought. I payed $0.01. Though, there are a lot of cheap signed copies available.

It wasn't the only autographed book I got cheap because the sellers either didn't look inside or were too stupid to realize the inscription was by the author. It's one of the reasons I like buying used books - every now and again there's a little surprise inside waiting for me.

Granted, sometimes it's mold spores instead of an autograph...

[Hrafn]

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Oh, wait, I did get all 14 or so Ian Fleming Bond novels in a nice boxed set for a grand total of $20 at a Sam's Club in San Diego. Even by book standards, that was pretty good.

[John Mora]

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I found Possession on DVD for $10.

[Nixon]

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A rare promo LP single from the Community Service II release, hand labeled, signed by both DJs from The Crystal Method.

The record shop didn't recognize the signatures, so it was only $1.99. It has a couple of awesome remixes on it, too.

[Loki]

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Just picked up Suikoden II and III for $50.

And Persona 2 for $45.

[Hrafn]

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Some of these things don't really sound like deals. Maybe I'm just no grasping the rarity of the products or something. But a DVD for $10 seems pretty pedestrian. In fact, I don't think I've paid that much for a movie in some time.

[josh]

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I found Possession on DVD for $10.

this one?

[Kefka Jr.]

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I'm living in a two-story condo with new appliances including a garbage disposal, dishwasher and in-house laundry, two living rooms, three luxurious bedrooms with walk-in closets, two bathrooms - one with two sinks and a shower big enough to fit four-plus people simultaneously - and a parking space. It's a few miles from downtown Boston, and it's $425 a month.

[The Toecutter]

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I had recently purchased a set of digital calipers for $2. I have verified their accuracy even at 1/1000th of an inch setting.

I'm living in a two-story condo with new appliances including a garbage disposal, dishwasher and in-house laundry, two living rooms, three luxurious bedrooms with walk-in closets, two bathrooms - one with two sinks and a shower big enough to fit four-plus people simultaneously - and a parking space. It's a few miles from downtown Boston, and it's $425 a month.

THAT is a deal. You'd be hard pressed to find a deal that good in south Texas, and rent is generally far cheaper here than in Boston!

Even down here, a slumlord apartment near downtown typically goes for $400-500/month without the bills being paid with it(and $700+/month in St. Louis, which also has cheap rent compared to most of the U.S.).

[IamPinhead]

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I got these:
http://usa.denon.com/us/product/Page...2-5f0657787002
For $600, and these:
http://north-america.beyerdynamic.co...re/dt-990.html
For $150.