Minions to do your dirty work?

o1s1n

Okay odd thread title, but I didn't know how else to put it. Was just sparked off from a phone call I got a minute ago from a mate who just picked up a Gcon2 for me. Was also on my mind after that 'would you tell people about games in the wild' thread.

Do any of you guys have other people out looking for stuff for you?

I seem to have amassed a small army.

It all started with my mother. She'd look for things in second hand shops. Over the years she's picked up hundreds of items. A fully boxed mint NES, several Super Nintendos and Megadrives with big selections of games, PS1s, multiple ps1 games, ps2s and god only knows what else. Basically, a lot.

This has turned into countless people ringing me up telling me about bits and bobs in second hand shops. It's absolutely brilliant.

Am I just lucky? Or do any of you do this too? It's actually gotten to the point where I've had to get picky about things they're finding. Recently said no to a ps2 and an n64.

Atavan-Halen

Unfortunately none of my family shop in charity shops (the snobs!) so that's left up to me. My dad lives in England so sometime I'll ring him up and say if he's in town and happens to be near Gamestation :P

My mam is a bit picky as in if I ask her to look out for something for me sometimes she'll say no, I'm not bringing more crap into the house or sometimes she'll say yes. My autnie was at a car boot sale a coupe of weeks ago and rang me asking did I want a crystal xbox to which I declined. Nice to get the phonecall though!

Welease

Not for me, but I used to pick up Thin Lizzy items for my mate in the UK in the 80's... Wasn't much collectible interest in it there, compared to Ireland so picked up their early single's on Decca for 50p etc.

Actually my misses did buy me a Pacman board once, but she paid a little over the odds.

I generally ask them not to, as they can be ripped off if they don't know the true value ... If they see something cool.. ring me first

Retr0gamer

I've nobody really My parents want all my games and consoles out of the house so they definitely don't want more coming into it.

Dr Bob

I've a few mates who keep an eye out for stuff for me .
I've another mate though who's a bit of a retro collector.His mum works for a second hand charity shop , most of his games and consoles came in through here (I've got a few spares off him though)

o1s1n

atavan-halen wrote: »

My mam is a bit picky as in if I ask her to look out for something for me sometimes she'll say no, I'm not bringing more crap into the house or sometimes she'll say yes.

That's exactly how my mother was about ten years ago.

Now she has an arcade machine in her kitchen.

atavan-halen wrote: »

My autnie was at a car boot sale a coupe of weeks ago and rang me asking did I want a crystal xbox to which I declined. Nice to get the phonecall though!

I wonder was it a crystal Development system....!

Atavan-Halen

o1s1n wrote: »

That's exactly how my mother was about ten years ago.

Now she has an arcade machine in her kitchen.

She's coming around to the idea thankfully :P Still no way I'd get an acrade cab in the house though I keep mentioning potential spots for it but still nothing.

o1s1n wrote: »

I wonder was it a crystal Development system....!

......don't even go there :P

Retr0gamer

atavan-halen wrote: »

She's coming around to the idea thankfully :P Still no way I'd get an acrade cab in the house though I keep mentioning potential spots for it but still nothing.

Just have one turn up at the door. Tell her it has no where else to go.

o1s1n

Or you could tell her it's a new type of fancy European fridge. It works in conjunction with your current fridge to keep the food extra fresh.

CiDeRmAn

I have nobody, aside from bro Kerbdog (not his real name, at least not yet!), if my better half came across something with Nintendo or Sega on it, she'd purposefully bury it under dead peoples underwear, so I wouldn't spot it.
She's clever is my missus, devious too in her game hating ways!

justbrian

CiDeRmAn wrote: »

I have nobody, aside from bro Kerbdog (not his real name, at least not yet!), if my better half came across something with Nintendo or Sega on it, she'd purposefully bury it under dead peoples underwear, so I wouldn't spot it.
She's clever is my missus, devious too in her game hating ways!

Sounds like you married my missus.

martineatworld

Hate the thoughts of people paying over the odds for stuff for me, so I'm a one man retro hunting machine! Would love if my parents or friends did that kinda thing but they think I'm too awkward and picky...!

Jack burton

I got no one on the lookout

I'm a one man army!

Warren3

I am also a one man band

I am threatened on a daily basis by my girlfriend about buying more retro stuff so I get ebay parcels sent to work and smuggle stuff home and hide it away when she is out!

o1s1n

Warren3 wrote: »

so I get ebay parcels sent to work and smuggle stuff home and hide it away when she is out!

Hahaha! That's hilarious.

'That's not new hun, it's always been there'

I do remember a while ago my girlfriend asking

'How come every time you take something out of that spare room to play I've never seen it before?'

No answer to that one really.

Atavan-Halen

o1s1n wrote: »

Hahaha! That's hilarious.

'That's not new hun, it's always been there'

I do remember a while ago my girlfriend asking

'How come every time you take something out of that spare room to play I've never seen it before?'

No answer to that one really.

You could say:

How come everytime you put on clothes/shoes I've never seen them before.

*not responsible for any outcomes!*

NeoKubrick

I pity ye old people. For the younger generations, Nintendo have saved us with consoles and games that get women involved in this sordid hobby.

justbrian

NeoKubrick wrote: »

I pity ye old people. For the younger generations, Nintendo have saved us with consoles and games that get women involved in this sordid hobby.

Ah but they don't get involved, they take over. Sooner or later it happens, she will be on it all day and you wont get a look in.

CiDeRmAn

Not in my house, over my dead body, ack! Knife in back and controller in her hand, help me!

landsleaving

My girlfriend looks in charity shops if she's in them, but thats about it, I'm pretty sure most of my friends would just keep anything retro-related they find for themselves.

Gits.

I do get the odd text from them, but usually to inform me that a copy of FIFA 99 is going for €10 somewhere :rolleyes:

ghostchant

My parents look around for me, my dad met a guy off adverts on oconnell st to collect a famicom disk system off him, same again to get a boxed NES off a guy in cork when he was down that way, and they drove 40-odd miles for me looking for a 2nd hand game boy micro in Florida last summer. My gf does a little bit of searching for me, have to prompt her though, not 2nd nature yet!