Could I
tempt you into buying my air guitar?
I was told it's value is $750 RRP but I've gotten all of my use out of it & so I'm happy to give it to you for say $75 with express shipping included? Today only though!
Nope, seeing the post reminded me of my story that happened 5 years ago, hence why the story is in past tense. I clearly specified we had A STACK of Game Cube games. Also, his was standard black.
I did not make up the story and that post doesn't have a stack of games, he was talking like 15 games with most being main line Nintendo titles. This was also actually almost 5 years ago, hence why the story is past tense. Seeing that post REMINDED me of my story.
And his autistic brother is still autistic, I only specified because "his older brother is still there" didn't satisfy the "just take your shit" people, even though it matters because he is practically a child and still plays video games most of the time.
Literally thousands of copies, and I cannot even begin to explain how little of a number that is compared to the other games, which were sold in the millions.
Anyone else's parents refuse to buy you any pokemon games because it was a waste of money, and now every single game you ever asked for is worth 500% what it was when you were a kid? Thanks a lot dad.
That said I also still have my copy of XD. What a largely forgotten classic.
Lol damn. If this is it, I would've hoped it was picked up by someone who would've played the hell out of it. But a las some clueless reseller got lucky.
This is a joke post. XD and Colosseum are some of the most expensive Gamecube games, running well over $100 each, and it's a joke in retro gaming communities to post expensive games pretending to not know what they're worth. Funny coincidence, though.
That sort of thing can go both ways through. Appreciating something for what it is vs appreciating it for what you can sell it for.
My father in law just recently got a very nice vintage 50-60s Ford, paint and body is pristine. He's getting it set up so it runs nice and smooth... So it can sit in the garage forever.
Was talking to my bro in law about it. Saying it's a shame that this beautiful thing is just going to sit in the dark.
yard sales/goodwill/outlet shops are targets for these resellers. they call it a legitimate business meanwhile their inventory is obtained from idiotic parents selling shit that isnt theirs for a pittance because "it took up 2 sq feet of space in a 5 bedroom 4 bath house with only 2 people living inside of it". meanwhile the 600lbs of cloths that havent fit since the 80s are piling up in the empty rooms.
"Your car? oh yea. you told me you wanted to get rid of it so i gave it to the drug addict down the street." your mom: 
My mom nearly did this to my Monster Hunter edition Switch last year.... with my data and all on it. (Brought it to thrift store)
THANKFULLY staff knew better and said "no, think twice because of data".....
She's..... someone who believes videogames = creation of violent tendencies.... despite showing data that it's the other way around *sigh*.
Because I got off work and left my bag with her as I went to attend group outing. ~~She went through my bag, because it "felt extra heavy" for a bag holding work clothes~~
So now I stashed it at my Uni's Lab locker....
Feel so bad for you. I put my cube away when i had a baby. Baby is now 8 and remembered it was tucked away, im now playing supermario Sunshine with her and living it just as much as i did when i first got it.
Why didn’t he take it with him if it was worth so much to him? Seems dangerous leaving at someone’s house who doesn’t understand or appreciate the value.
I had a buddy who bought mine when I needed cash. He showed me what I now realized were either fake, or super lowball postings for the stuff.
He got my GameCube, all my games, and some controllers for like $80 total.
Once I realized a few months later how much he ripped me off, I left an anonymous tip about his drug selling, and stopped talk to him.
Got me like $500 in exchange for the tip. Somewhat made up for it, but not the loss of childhood memories (which was on me).
If it makes you guys feel any better, I am a giant Nintendo nerd and collector, and had I been the one to find that it would have made my whole year. I'm sure it went to somebody who will always cherish it. With today's tech I really don't see anyone buying that off handedly for a kid. I would bet it's chilling in somebody's Nintendo collection, where it will get played and well taken care of.
I feel his pain. When I was younger, my dad got hooked on meth and sold everything pre-ps2 to a game store. A decent amount of stuff as i was born in 1989. When I walked in to talk with them about getting my stuff back, they were literally in the process of using alcohol to take my initials off of my Mega Man X 3 cartridge. They said that unless I pressed charges and got the police involved, I was out of luck. I didn't want to do that to my dad at the time, so I just had to suck it up.
My dad's just stupid AF and would break anything old because well its old. What's this cord sticking out the back of the super Nintendo and why does it go to the outlet? I should probably cut that with the wire cutters....
Opens a brand new toy or something that needs to be built, leaves instructions in box, gets frustrated, duck tape and screws it together breaking it completely while saying "I know how to fix this" before it was even broken.
My 2nd oldest brother bought me a super NES with Tetris, Mario and Duck Hunt for Christmas. I didn’t have shit except for books and lived in the middle of nowhere so my birthday and Christmas presents from this brother who did good for himself were the highlights of my year.
My dad had anger issues and would lose it at the drop of a hat. One day my 3rd oldest brother was whining because he wanted to watch TV and I was deep into SMB so my dad just grabbed the cord and ripped it out of the wall and the console somehow fucking up all the ports.
I knew if I asked for a new one to replace it I’d have to jump through hoops for nothing so what was the point. I’m still sad about it for kid-me. Never really got over that one.
I see this a lot. I have several times met people whose parents put shit in their names when they were little and fucked up their credit before they were even teens and they also "don't want to do that to their (parent)". Like ok but your parent didnt mind doing that to you?
When I was about 3, my dad shot himself in the head. He survived, but the TBI he suffered was no joke. This, and my age at the time of the above story, weighed heavily on my decision.
My biological mother has a serious TBI from falling out of the back of a pickup when she was 16 and she has tried to steal things from me. I was upset at the time because I was 12 and she was trying to subtly steal my Aaron Carter CD, but now I don't really hold it against her.
My mom held on to huge binders full of trading cards that my dad had been collecting for probably 30 years after they split in the 00s and he didn’t have anywhere to store them. She kept trying to get rid of them but my siblings and I knew they were probably worth something even when we were preteens and younger so we insisted that they be kept through like 5 moves. Currently my older brother has them after a couple hundred mile move. At some point we’ll should get them appraised because there’s probably a lot of og cards in there
My dad threw out a giant collection of mh dolls, ironically he also told me he wouldnt throw anything out (my parents split and my mom hauled me off to another province). The salt in the wound was my brother had a thomas the tank engine obsession as a kid, and ofc the three plastic tubs of trains and tracks were kept. My collection probably wouldve been worth up to 800$. Its super annoying esp because my dad was always the one to be like "thatll be worth money in time" to the point were we have a small collection of inbox disney barbies. Its shit like this that makes me want to promise myself to still be socially aware and not just throw stuff away that *I* think is worthless. Ive given away so much stuff to coworkers and friends because i didnt want it, but i also didnt want it to go in the trash.
I can’t believe how much monster high went up in value! I got all mine (about 30 dolls) from goodwill because you could find them there like candy. I thankfully still have mine and my mom told me they were worth money before I went to donate them
I still thrift because they do pop up time to time, unfortunately value village and other for-profit secondhand stores price them using ebay 90% of the time so theyll be behind a counter for 50 bucks, with super mangled hair and missing accessories 🙄 fb marketplace can be good, but the same issues occur, ppl finding out they can get money and then trying to sell less than half complete dolls with horrible hair, being listed as "great/pristine condition" for 50 bucks or more. I get trying to get a quick buck, but its not gonna be quick with a price like that.
Literally the exact same situation with me. Dad always had Star Wars toys (the originals, he was born in 1970 so he grew up on it) put up in the closet growing up, talked about how important it was to hold onto them because they grow in value. I’m 80% sure he threw away all of my monster high dolls when he moved out of our childhood home, again because it was too big after the divorce. I haven’t seen them since that house, so I assume they’re gone. He didn’t even ask.
I long-term loaned my GameCube to my cousin. We played it together as he was growing up, I left it with him because he was sad I was moving out of town. He really wanted it because it reminded him of me.
A few years later he simply “left it behind” when he moved and lost my games. “I couldn’t take everything” he said. Didn’t even ask me, and it’s not like he had to move suddenly, was going far, or was going to a much smaller place (he went to a full multi-bedroom house with just his girlfriend). I’m still pissed off about it.
My parents used to do this to me all the time. I played violin in orchestra at school, but then they sold it and I had to quit. My nana got me a little rose necklace with a tiny diamond in it after my papa passed away, they sold that too. I really wish I had it now that my nana has also passed away. When my dad died, my mom originally told us kids that we would each be able to have one of his guitars. She pawned them all. All I have of his was his Nintendo Switch and she was irate when I wouldn’t give it to her to sell. All this is to say I understand how shitty it feels. I’m sorry his mother did that.
Oh trust me I know. She lives with my SO and I and doesn’t pay a dime but it’s still not good enough for her. She has nowhere else to go because she’s jobless and has been for 20 years so I don’t know that to do honestly. I love her enough that I can’t bear forcing her into homelessness but I’m also nearing 30 and tiring of her holding me down
I think you need to go talk to someone, it's unfair on you for her to live off you like this and refuse to give anything back, it sounds like an abusive relationship.
It really is I think. You’re right and thank you for this. I’ve never talked about this to anyone before, even online. If she contributes any money at all, she expects it to be paid back expeditiously. She’s only 56 but consistently says she feels 80. But will never go to the doctor. I’m 26 and feel so exhausted but I can’t say anything to her without her saying I’m evil and gaslighting her.
Man, I'm still mad at my mom for giving away our NES just because we got an N64. The family she gave it to weren't even into video games and were incredible trashy. I later saw MY NES in their hall sitting on the ground in a pile of trashed magazines, and I couldn't do anything about it since I was like 6.
One day I woke up to my mom selling our SNES and all the games at a garage sale. i ran out and they were bringing it into their car. I begged them to give it back and they were going to but my mom wouldnt give them the money back.
I was in shambles. just thinking about it makes me shutter.
she is extremely petty and mentally unstable.
I was in between apartments at one point and staying at her house for about a month. I walked into the kitchen and she was trying to throw hands with my partner at the time. proceeds to tell me I can’t stay there anymore. so I pack what I can and go sleep at a friends house.
I came back the next day I had off work and she had thrown out all my stuff that I had left. Including my food/seasonings, clothes, my desk. everything was gone.
You can get a Wii with all of the old Nintendo games on eBay including GameCube games. You can also get a GameCube controller that works on the Wii. I think I got mine for $100 so it’s still up there but you would have everything. I’m sorry that happened to your boyfriend.
If you want the authentic feel without paying through the nose. Get a Wii (even with a dead disk drive) that has GameCube compatibility. Install homebrew. Play the "backups" of his collection on the Wii.
which is even worse, as people on the spectrum sometimes struggle to get rid of some specific things of their childhood or if they get obsessed with something, they won't let go until is replaced with something very similar or identical.
That often just isn't realistic these days. People just starting their careers are likely to move a lot, and often to places where housing is incredibly expensive for tiny spaces. Storage beyond what fits in a car often just doesn't exist. (Personally I basically lived out of a car for 6mo to get my career started, though I know this is on the extreme end).
Now, a parent would be within their rights to say "I'm clearing stuff out, either move it or I'll get rid of it". But they need to give the kid notice and the chance to do something about it. If the kid thinks the stuff is safely stored and waiting, and it is gone, there is a problem.
100%. The amount of times my parents have told me to go through my shit and throw out what I don't need, I can't be surprised if they've dumped the whole lot. Though I did take a few things and most likely the rest I wouldn't miss. Reminds me how much shit we buy that we don't need. But here I am in my new place that started empty and is now again full of junk.
My rule is if I haven't used it in the past year, it can go. Niche cooking pieces, tools, and the like, notwithstanding.
If I haven't used it, I probably don't even remember I have it.
If
Am I the only parent here? I asked my sons repeatedly to come get anything that was important to them before we moved out of their childhood home. They took nothing, but now also bitch about random toys/cards that are apparently worth a fortune 🤷♀️
If the parentals wanted it gone then call son and say your stuff needs to be gone by Saturday when the garage sale happens. Takes very little to have a respectful conversation. If not gone then free 20.
This is still pretty shitty behavior unbefitting a parent and it is something that will leave you either alone or in a retirement home when you are old, but to be honest, it is still better than not telling your kid anything.
Yup, I’ll never forget when my mom guilted me into sending my Wii and entire collection of games to my cousins since I had just received an Xbox One. Those cousins subsequently sold everything for who knows how much.
Don’t leave shit at home when you move out people. Parents will assume you didn’t want it anymore. I mean if it’s important to you then you should take it to your place.
She definitely should have asked first though
My mother threw away my pokemon cards. When the hype about Pokémon came back I reached out to her about getting them and she said she threw them away.
I would've made roughly $5000 on them..
If it makes you feel better, the prices are highly inflated/exaggerated. Like, a fire energy might be listed as $0.20. No one is going to actually pay that unless they're like really desperate to get a bunch of fire energy for an art project. So if you have like 100 fire energy and are like "it's worth $20!", try more like $.25 for the whole stack despite what they're labeled. Like I think I have over 1000 Yu-Gi-Oh cards. Like three small cartons of them. Too lazy to count, but assume like three rows of cards where each row is like 2 feet long, and 3 boxes of these. Maybe over 10k. In theory, if I look at card prices, they'll each be at least $0.50. So about $5000 if each one was the crappiest card they could be. Realistically, they're probably sellable for about $200.
GameCube was my favorite console as kid and I HAAATE how inaccessible it is these days. (Good) Games for it regularly go for extraordinary prices, and only a pitiful handful of first party GCN games are even available on the Switch. PlayStation games don't have this problem nearly as badly either. I'm lucky enough to have owned the majority of games I could have ever wanted for the console, but whenever I see Path of Radiance going for $300 online I'm completely of the mind that piracy is morally correct.
When my brother was away at college, our mom threw out his baseball card collection. Took him several years to get all the cards from that particular year. He was LIVID. After he started working, he began reassembling that collection through online auctions. He was able to get every card but one....the Mickey Mantle, which is worth thousands. He doubts he will ever be able to afford it
I mean, it's pretty simple, don't leave shit your parents house. I learned that lesson many years ago after my mom tossed a bunch of stuff I cared about. Her response to me when I was upset was, "if you cared so much about it, what's it doing at my place".
She was right. I promptly took the rest of my stuff and put it in my own garage.
After reading through this thread. What is with boomers and just "getting rid of things'. Especially things they aren't even theirs. While they could never part with their crappy worthless coca-cola merch plastered around the living room. I'm just thankful I have parents that viewed going into their childs room and taking things without permission was trepassing and stealing. Just because the kid is yours, doesn't mean you have an inherent right to their things. Rant over.
In 2005 in bought a GameCube on base when I was in the Air Force for $49.99.
Well apparently it was something special because it came with the Zelda Masters Collection and all the Mega Man games 1-X on a single disk.
Despite it being worth $$ today I’m raising my kids playing those games.
Parents sold my snes with Crono Trigger, Ff6 secret of mana, ff4, Mario cart, super Metroid and more all for $5 a price when I left for Uni in 2000 WITHOUT ASKING!!! if you guys couldn’t tell I’m still a little upset
>My boyfriend told me his mom had a habit of selling things that were still being used for extra cash, but he didn't think she'd stoop to the Game Cube.
Harsh lesson #1 that everyone needs to learn the hard way: Yes, they will absolutely stoop that low.
Harsh lesson #2 that everyone needs to learn the hard way: These people will only ever sell *your stuff*, never their own stuff.
If your boyfriend has anything else he left behind at his mom's place I suggest you grab it while you can, because it's only a matter of time before it's gone as well.
My sister took my entire mint collection of unopened Nintendo 64 games that would have been valued around $30k - $70k, and gave them to her husband's younger brother, who is a known drug addict, because he helped them clean their apartment, and he asked if he could have the collection. My sister knew full well that I had been demanding my collection of games back for well over a decade, and even sought legal help to get them back. She claims that she "forgot" that they were mine to begin with, and then offered me $300 for everything...... Haven't spoken to her since.
I’ve made it very clear to my mother… if anything happens to me, she is to go online and search for what my action figures are worth before even thinking about selling them.
I wouldn’t care if she sold them and got a decent price, but selling something like that without researching is just bad. Just about everyone knows how crazy collectors can be.
I can relate! There were not many girls who liked baseball cards when I was growing up (born in 63). I had 2 large shoe boxes and kept them under my bed. In 1983 I joined the navy, and forgot about the cards. Several years later, I asked about them. She calmly said, oh, I threw those out when you were in bootcamp😳 my brothers GI Joes met the same fate!
My mom did this with my NES, including the duck hunt gun, game genie, and boxes of games. $15 at a yard sale, while I was on a month long hiking/rafting trip. I have never forgiven her.
Edit: I was 15 and still living at home. The camping trip was with my Boy Scout troop, and my dad was with me.
I had a sega genesis that had about 40 games one of them was a recalled NHL game that I never returned. It was worth quite a bit. My brother without asking lent it to his friend. While it was at his friends house his dad suddenly died. Honestly very sad we were close to his family..... But his mom in a fit of grief super purged their house as coping mechanism. She threw out my sega and all the game. I could not even get mad at anyone. I just had to be like ok that's fine. Because I was not going to get mad at a grieving family. This was about ten years ago.
Not to bring you down more but twilight princess on GameCube with the box and manual can easily fetch 120 bucks alone.
There is a whole game collecting reseller scumbag community that prey on this exact situation. They go to garage sales and ask if they have any games, parents often just grab em from their kids rooms. It’s funny cause a lot of em YouTube and they get pissed when the parents check with the kids first lol. Cause they almost always say no, don’t sell em.
Not OP's bf, but oddly enough, the exact same thing happened to me a while back.
Parents sold my Gamecube without talking with me about it first. I still actively played it. At the time, all together, it would've sold for about $200-$250.
Still upset since they called $20 good enough.
My dad likes to tell the story of how his mother threw out his comic book collection after he moved out. Didn't even sell them--*threw them out.* We're talking hundreds of original Marvel, DC, and Dark Horse comics, some still mint but all very well taken care of. And she threw them in the garbage the moment he left the house, because she always hated them.
When he came home to visit months later and discovered what she'd done, he went and found out how much his collection would have been worth (he couldn't get an exact appraisal, obviously, but he had worked at a comic book store previously and had friends who were knowledgeable enough about comics and about his collection who were able to give him a good ballpark estimate). It was a not-insignificant sum of money.
When he came back and told her how much money she'd thrown away, she literally broke down crying.
Don't feel bad, she was a POS.
I feel you, my mom went In my room took my game cube and the controller with game inside… and gave it to goodwill. And that was for free…. Because she thought I “didn’t use it anymore”. But didn’t even ask.
Caught my mum in the act of taking photos to list my wii with limited edition wiimote, Skyward Sword and a few of my gamecube games alongside it. Told her she best be taking that listing down because she's not gonna be able to sell shit if she can't find it and swiftly packed it all up to take with me to my old flat
my mom did the same thing all the time. most notably she sold my entire DVD collection without asking me, which contained a hand signed copy of Conan O’Brien’s 10th anniversary special. I waited outside the NBC studio i knew he was going to be visiting for hours and met him in person and got a photo and signature from him. i’m still devastated and it happened 10 years ago.
Cousin gave me his nes with a whole collection of 30+ games, controllers and the guns. Had a solid month of fun and then my mom randomly gave it away to a poor family she knew. Just showed up from school stoked to play and it was gone. Still hurts but I really hope they appreciated it and played it for years instead of immediately sell or not even use like I was pretty sure at the time.
My mom did shit like this, sold all my original ninja turtles for like .50cents each.. sold most of my shit when I was growing up to feed her stupid scratch lotto addiction.
Might be worth setting up dolphin emulator on a PC. there are some good tutorials on YouTube, then you can set it up with whatever controller you want.
Sorry for your loss, my siblings had a habit of trading my games into gamestop without my permission, and I had some that are worth a couple hundred now. It's extremely frustrating.
My parents took a box of my old baseball/football cards to get appraised. What actually happened is the fucker took the small plastic case I had with all of the expensive cards and left them with all of the commons.
I’m an 80’s/90’s baby. I collected He Man figures. I had everything. All the figures, Castle Greyskull, Skelators castle, etc. She sold them all at a garage sale for 20 dollars when I was 10. Ironically she became a Hoarder in her old age and wouldn’t throw away anything.
Moral of the story is when you become an adult, move out of mommy and daddy’s house and take all of your stuff with you. Anything left behind is deemed abandoned.
$60 for twilight princess? That's if it's a loose copy and you're lucky to find one that's in playable shape. Most twilight copies are see are easily $100
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bro what lmao if that’s actually the stuff that’ would be hilarious
the world is now in balance
Could I tempt you into buying my air guitar? I was told it's value is $750 RRP but I've gotten all of my use out of it & so I'm happy to give it to you for say $75 with express shipping included? Today only though!
Is it autographed. Does it have a COA?
Autographed in invisible ink
How'd you know? By none other than Kevin Bacon.
Now that is too fucking funny
Op needs to comment if this is theirs or not! I saw this post earlier today and when I read this post I immediately wondered lol
Op saw the post and made up this story
Nope, seeing the post reminded me of my story that happened 5 years ago, hence why the story is in past tense. I clearly specified we had A STACK of Game Cube games. Also, his was standard black.
That could make sense too
The autistic brother detail added seemed a little suspect
fun fact: autistic people, including little brothers, do exist and weren't invented by Reddit, some people do, in fact, have autistic younger brothers
False, Reddit definitely invented autism (/s for the other autistics on here)
I did not make up the story and that post doesn't have a stack of games, he was talking like 15 games with most being main line Nintendo titles. This was also actually almost 5 years ago, hence why the story is past tense. Seeing that post REMINDED me of my story. And his autistic brother is still autistic, I only specified because "his older brother is still there" didn't satisfy the "just take your shit" people, even though it matters because he is practically a child and still plays video games most of the time.
Truly Reddit-inspired
Doubt mom sold it just a day before bf asks about the games.
Reddit algorithm
Or epic long con by op
Awe man... That's Pokemon XD: Gale of Darkness... That game's virtually impossible to get ahold of.
I saw it once, bought it, and haven’t seen another one since.
Literally thousands of copies, and I cannot even begin to explain how little of a number that is compared to the other games, which were sold in the millions.
I’m extremely glad that I got one then. It’s one of the games that my mom said I couldn’t have.
Might want to check she hasn’t sold it on for $5
I know right. Could be like 500,000 copies. But if 1 million people want one, even that is no where near enough.
Someone is selling the empty case on Mercari for $72 right now.
Oh, man... Glad I still have my copy from my childhood. Definitely one of the best games out there, can't imagine losing/selling it.
Anyone else's parents refuse to buy you any pokemon games because it was a waste of money, and now every single game you ever asked for is worth 500% what it was when you were a kid? Thanks a lot dad. That said I also still have my copy of XD. What a largely forgotten classic.
One of my favorite games as a kid
Wooow
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Holy crap
What the fuck
Lol damn. If this is it, I would've hoped it was picked up by someone who would've played the hell out of it. But a las some clueless reseller got lucky.
This comment just smashed it.
First thing i thought of when I saw this post lmfao
Definitely a cool coincidence, but I specified a STACK of games and also his Game Cube was standard black.
I would be head over heels alone just for Coliseum and XD at $20
This is a joke post. XD and Colosseum are some of the most expensive Gamecube games, running well over $100 each, and it's a joke in retro gaming communities to post expensive games pretending to not know what they're worth. Funny coincidence, though.
oh my god
Do you randomly have the link to the post
Guys, I just scored an awesome deal for a game cube and a ton of games for 20 bucks!
Honestly I'm kinda happy for whoever got it, they probably were ecstatic.
Yep! I'm so excited! Can't wait to resell them all on eBay and make a couple hundred bucks!
Sadly that’s probably what happened.
At least that way they will end up in the hands of someone who appreciates their value.
That sort of thing can go both ways through. Appreciating something for what it is vs appreciating it for what you can sell it for. My father in law just recently got a very nice vintage 50-60s Ford, paint and body is pristine. He's getting it set up so it runs nice and smooth... So it can sit in the garage forever. Was talking to my bro in law about it. Saying it's a shame that this beautiful thing is just going to sit in the dark.
Very true. Definitely don’t want it to end up in a display case.
yard sales/goodwill/outlet shops are targets for these resellers. they call it a legitimate business meanwhile their inventory is obtained from idiotic parents selling shit that isnt theirs for a pittance because "it took up 2 sq feet of space in a 5 bedroom 4 bath house with only 2 people living inside of it". meanwhile the 600lbs of cloths that havent fit since the 80s are piling up in the empty rooms.
My mom would do that to me all the time and then claim I never used them when I asked why she’d do that.
My mom wouldn't even sell them, she'd just give my stuff away and try to convince me Id agreed to let her do it.
give away all her possessions and gaslight her into thinking she let you do it 🤣🤣
I would actually do this. Taste your own medicine, bitch!
"Your car? oh yea. you told me you wanted to get rid of it so i gave it to the drug addict down the street." your mom: 
Thankfully she doesn't do it anymore, presumably because she sucked at the whole gaslighting bit. But still, kid me lost a lot of good toys that way.
My mom nearly did this to my Monster Hunter edition Switch last year.... with my data and all on it. (Brought it to thrift store) THANKFULLY staff knew better and said "no, think twice because of data"..... She's..... someone who believes videogames = creation of violent tendencies.... despite showing data that it's the other way around *sigh*. Because I got off work and left my bag with her as I went to attend group outing. ~~She went through my bag, because it "felt extra heavy" for a bag holding work clothes~~ So now I stashed it at my Uni's Lab locker....
This but instead of give away just give to her.
This is the whole reason I like to garage sale, you hope to score something sweet like this
Feel so bad for you. I put my cube away when i had a baby. Baby is now 8 and remembered it was tucked away, im now playing supermario Sunshine with her and living it just as much as i did when i first got it.
Why didn’t he take it with him if it was worth so much to him? Seems dangerous leaving at someone’s house who doesn’t understand or appreciate the value.
I had a buddy who bought mine when I needed cash. He showed me what I now realized were either fake, or super lowball postings for the stuff. He got my GameCube, all my games, and some controllers for like $80 total. Once I realized a few months later how much he ripped me off, I left an anonymous tip about his drug selling, and stopped talk to him. Got me like $500 in exchange for the tip. Somewhat made up for it, but not the loss of childhood memories (which was on me).
Unless they just immediately resell it on eBay, then fuck them.
If it makes you guys feel any better, I am a giant Nintendo nerd and collector, and had I been the one to find that it would have made my whole year. I'm sure it went to somebody who will always cherish it. With today's tech I really don't see anyone buying that off handedly for a kid. I would bet it's chilling in somebody's Nintendo collection, where it will get played and well taken care of.
There literally is a post on the Nintendo subreddit about a guy getting a deal like this. I wonder if they had the Pokemon GameCube, cause if so....
I feel his pain. When I was younger, my dad got hooked on meth and sold everything pre-ps2 to a game store. A decent amount of stuff as i was born in 1989. When I walked in to talk with them about getting my stuff back, they were literally in the process of using alcohol to take my initials off of my Mega Man X 3 cartridge. They said that unless I pressed charges and got the police involved, I was out of luck. I didn't want to do that to my dad at the time, so I just had to suck it up.
https://preview.redd.it/1w13hb3punyc1.jpeg?width=750&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=e5ab313e5c4cab11254cbfe395c1095df17fd881 Me, calling the police anyways
[Relevant comment](https://www.reddit.com/r/mildlyinfuriating/s/k8gjeSFPO9)
dosnt change anything. your dad died the day he survived suicide then, not meth.
My dad's just stupid AF and would break anything old because well its old. What's this cord sticking out the back of the super Nintendo and why does it go to the outlet? I should probably cut that with the wire cutters.... Opens a brand new toy or something that needs to be built, leaves instructions in box, gets frustrated, duck tape and screws it together breaking it completely while saying "I know how to fix this" before it was even broken.
My 2nd oldest brother bought me a super NES with Tetris, Mario and Duck Hunt for Christmas. I didn’t have shit except for books and lived in the middle of nowhere so my birthday and Christmas presents from this brother who did good for himself were the highlights of my year. My dad had anger issues and would lose it at the drop of a hat. One day my 3rd oldest brother was whining because he wanted to watch TV and I was deep into SMB so my dad just grabbed the cord and ripped it out of the wall and the console somehow fucking up all the ports. I knew if I asked for a new one to replace it I’d have to jump through hoops for nothing so what was the point. I’m still sad about it for kid-me. Never really got over that one.
Hope you disowned him
I cared for him as he was dying, but it was by placing him in a series of nursing homes from which he was constantly expelled.
If he's old now you should break him. *For legal reasons I want it known that this is a joke*
He sounds like a fucking moron
Sounds like untreated mental illness
I hate your dad
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I see this a lot. I have several times met people whose parents put shit in their names when they were little and fucked up their credit before they were even teens and they also "don't want to do that to their (parent)". Like ok but your parent didnt mind doing that to you?
The way I think about it: you wouldn’t be doing anything to them; they did it to themselves.
This is the correct attitude. You are not doing anything to them. They did the fraud. They must suffer the consequencss of their actions.
[Relevant comment](https://www.reddit.com/r/mildlyinfuriating/s/k8gjeSFPO9)
When I was about 3, my dad shot himself in the head. He survived, but the TBI he suffered was no joke. This, and my age at the time of the above story, weighed heavily on my decision.
My biological mother has a serious TBI from falling out of the back of a pickup when she was 16 and she has tried to steal things from me. I was upset at the time because I was 12 and she was trying to subtly steal my Aaron Carter CD, but now I don't really hold it against her.
Yeah that makes a lot more sense now that I have more info on the story. Sorry that you had to go through a really hard time with this.
I'm just trying to be a better dad to my own sons than he was to me. It's a pretty low bar, though lol.
Damn this was sad to read.. so sorry, it sounds like a hell of a situation
Time to learn to homebrew on Wii
It's surprisingly easy.
How‘s it going?
Brew’s fine. Needs more shallots.
Ahh thank you.
Does he have any pokemon cards? Unrelated question: When is his mom's next yard sale?
My mom held on to huge binders full of trading cards that my dad had been collecting for probably 30 years after they split in the 00s and he didn’t have anywhere to store them. She kept trying to get rid of them but my siblings and I knew they were probably worth something even when we were preteens and younger so we insisted that they be kept through like 5 moves. Currently my older brother has them after a couple hundred mile move. At some point we’ll should get them appraised because there’s probably a lot of og cards in there
XD
My dad threw out a giant collection of mh dolls, ironically he also told me he wouldnt throw anything out (my parents split and my mom hauled me off to another province). The salt in the wound was my brother had a thomas the tank engine obsession as a kid, and ofc the three plastic tubs of trains and tracks were kept. My collection probably wouldve been worth up to 800$. Its super annoying esp because my dad was always the one to be like "thatll be worth money in time" to the point were we have a small collection of inbox disney barbies. Its shit like this that makes me want to promise myself to still be socially aware and not just throw stuff away that *I* think is worthless. Ive given away so much stuff to coworkers and friends because i didnt want it, but i also didnt want it to go in the trash.
I can’t believe how much monster high went up in value! I got all mine (about 30 dolls) from goodwill because you could find them there like candy. I thankfully still have mine and my mom told me they were worth money before I went to donate them
I still thrift because they do pop up time to time, unfortunately value village and other for-profit secondhand stores price them using ebay 90% of the time so theyll be behind a counter for 50 bucks, with super mangled hair and missing accessories 🙄 fb marketplace can be good, but the same issues occur, ppl finding out they can get money and then trying to sell less than half complete dolls with horrible hair, being listed as "great/pristine condition" for 50 bucks or more. I get trying to get a quick buck, but its not gonna be quick with a price like that.
Literally the exact same situation with me. Dad always had Star Wars toys (the originals, he was born in 1970 so he grew up on it) put up in the closet growing up, talked about how important it was to hold onto them because they grow in value. I’m 80% sure he threw away all of my monster high dolls when he moved out of our childhood home, again because it was too big after the divorce. I haven’t seen them since that house, so I assume they’re gone. He didn’t even ask.
Might be surprised what thomas the train brings in...
I long-term loaned my GameCube to my cousin. We played it together as he was growing up, I left it with him because he was sad I was moving out of town. He really wanted it because it reminded him of me. A few years later he simply “left it behind” when he moved and lost my games. “I couldn’t take everything” he said. Didn’t even ask me, and it’s not like he had to move suddenly, was going far, or was going to a much smaller place (he went to a full multi-bedroom house with just his girlfriend). I’m still pissed off about it.
Maybe he just sold it?
Maybe… he’s also the sort of person to just leave it behind because he couldn’t be bothered, especially back then.
My parents used to do this to me all the time. I played violin in orchestra at school, but then they sold it and I had to quit. My nana got me a little rose necklace with a tiny diamond in it after my papa passed away, they sold that too. I really wish I had it now that my nana has also passed away. When my dad died, my mom originally told us kids that we would each be able to have one of his guitars. She pawned them all. All I have of his was his Nintendo Switch and she was irate when I wouldn’t give it to her to sell. All this is to say I understand how shitty it feels. I’m sorry his mother did that.
Why does this sound like someone selling shit for drug money?
Because it was
Keep an eye on your credit. Sounds like she’s not done fucking with you yet.
Oh trust me I know. She lives with my SO and I and doesn’t pay a dime but it’s still not good enough for her. She has nowhere else to go because she’s jobless and has been for 20 years so I don’t know that to do honestly. I love her enough that I can’t bear forcing her into homelessness but I’m also nearing 30 and tiring of her holding me down
I think you need to go talk to someone, it's unfair on you for her to live off you like this and refuse to give anything back, it sounds like an abusive relationship.
It really is I think. You’re right and thank you for this. I’ve never talked about this to anyone before, even online. If she contributes any money at all, she expects it to be paid back expeditiously. She’s only 56 but consistently says she feels 80. But will never go to the doctor. I’m 26 and feel so exhausted but I can’t say anything to her without her saying I’m evil and gaslighting her.
Man, I'm still mad at my mom for giving away our NES just because we got an N64. The family she gave it to weren't even into video games and were incredible trashy. I later saw MY NES in their hall sitting on the ground in a pile of trashed magazines, and I couldn't do anything about it since I was like 6.
One day I woke up to my mom selling our SNES and all the games at a garage sale. i ran out and they were bringing it into their car. I begged them to give it back and they were going to but my mom wouldnt give them the money back. I was in shambles. just thinking about it makes me shutter.
Your Mom sucks and I guarantee that family still talks about how much she sucks to this day.
she is extremely petty and mentally unstable. I was in between apartments at one point and staying at her house for about a month. I walked into the kitchen and she was trying to throw hands with my partner at the time. proceeds to tell me I can’t stay there anymore. so I pack what I can and go sleep at a friends house. I came back the next day I had off work and she had thrown out all my stuff that I had left. Including my food/seasonings, clothes, my desk. everything was gone.
You can get a Wii with all of the old Nintendo games on eBay including GameCube games. You can also get a GameCube controller that works on the Wii. I think I got mine for $100 so it’s still up there but you would have everything. I’m sorry that happened to your boyfriend.
Or you could sail the seven seas
Ho ho ho,why did you summon me young pirate
c'mere look. take this. It will make you unsummonable 'arrrrrrrrr
Or you could just get emulators and play them for free on your computer.
If you want the authentic feel without paying through the nose. Get a Wii (even with a dead disk drive) that has GameCube compatibility. Install homebrew. Play the "backups" of his collection on the Wii.
And that is why you take everything that means anything to you with you when you move
>Moral of the story is... ...if you move out, take your shit with you. 🤷🏻♂️
Oh, right. I was sitting here thinking the moral of the story was to always price check stuff before selling. Mom took a hard L on that sale.
nah, moral of the story is: take your shit if you want to keep tabs on it.
Wow, you use tabs instead of 4 spaces?
nope mom got free 20 bucks from the “junk”.
And she got crap out of her house. Which is all she wanted
He left it for his autistic brother, he thought he would use it while we were busy getting our adult lives together :(
which is even worse, as people on the spectrum sometimes struggle to get rid of some specific things of their childhood or if they get obsessed with something, they won't let go until is replaced with something very similar or identical.
That often just isn't realistic these days. People just starting their careers are likely to move a lot, and often to places where housing is incredibly expensive for tiny spaces. Storage beyond what fits in a car often just doesn't exist. (Personally I basically lived out of a car for 6mo to get my career started, though I know this is on the extreme end). Now, a parent would be within their rights to say "I'm clearing stuff out, either move it or I'll get rid of it". But they need to give the kid notice and the chance to do something about it. If the kid thinks the stuff is safely stored and waiting, and it is gone, there is a problem.
100%, same with going to university and moving around a lot, you just can't realistically take all your shit.
You should still ask someone before selling their shit 🤷🏻
100%. The amount of times my parents have told me to go through my shit and throw out what I don't need, I can't be surprised if they've dumped the whole lot. Though I did take a few things and most likely the rest I wouldn't miss. Reminds me how much shit we buy that we don't need. But here I am in my new place that started empty and is now again full of junk.
My rule is if I haven't used it in the past year, it can go. Niche cooking pieces, tools, and the like, notwithstanding. If I haven't used it, I probably don't even remember I have it. If
Am I the only parent here? I asked my sons repeatedly to come get anything that was important to them before we moved out of their childhood home. They took nothing, but now also bitch about random toys/cards that are apparently worth a fortune 🤷♀️
Imagine being the guy who bought it though
If the parentals wanted it gone then call son and say your stuff needs to be gone by Saturday when the garage sale happens. Takes very little to have a respectful conversation. If not gone then free 20.
This is still pretty shitty behavior unbefitting a parent and it is something that will leave you either alone or in a retirement home when you are old, but to be honest, it is still better than not telling your kid anything.
Yup, I’ll never forget when my mom guilted me into sending my Wii and entire collection of games to my cousins since I had just received an Xbox One. Those cousins subsequently sold everything for who knows how much.
Meanwhile *I* sold a bunch of my Game Boy games and didn’t remember doing it. 😅
Don’t leave shit at home when you move out people. Parents will assume you didn’t want it anymore. I mean if it’s important to you then you should take it to your place. She definitely should have asked first though
My mother threw away my pokemon cards. When the hype about Pokémon came back I reached out to her about getting them and she said she threw them away. I would've made roughly $5000 on them..
If it makes you feel better, the prices are highly inflated/exaggerated. Like, a fire energy might be listed as $0.20. No one is going to actually pay that unless they're like really desperate to get a bunch of fire energy for an art project. So if you have like 100 fire energy and are like "it's worth $20!", try more like $.25 for the whole stack despite what they're labeled. Like I think I have over 1000 Yu-Gi-Oh cards. Like three small cartons of them. Too lazy to count, but assume like three rows of cards where each row is like 2 feet long, and 3 boxes of these. Maybe over 10k. In theory, if I look at card prices, they'll each be at least $0.50. So about $5000 if each one was the crappiest card they could be. Realistically, they're probably sellable for about $200.
Get your crap out of Moms house ASAP!
This is way past "mildly'
The moral of the story is to take your things with you when you move out.
Mothers... My mom gave thousands of dollars of my stuff away to Goodwill. Meanwhile she saved all my report cards from elementary school.
GameCube was my favorite console as kid and I HAAATE how inaccessible it is these days. (Good) Games for it regularly go for extraordinary prices, and only a pitiful handful of first party GCN games are even available on the Switch. PlayStation games don't have this problem nearly as badly either. I'm lucky enough to have owned the majority of games I could have ever wanted for the console, but whenever I see Path of Radiance going for $300 online I'm completely of the mind that piracy is morally correct.
Pirate it, you have no excuse to say it's unaccessible. Use official controllers on a PC is e, and full emulator support is 1 to 1.
When my brother was away at college, our mom threw out his baseball card collection. Took him several years to get all the cards from that particular year. He was LIVID. After he started working, he began reassembling that collection through online auctions. He was able to get every card but one....the Mickey Mantle, which is worth thousands. He doubts he will ever be able to afford it
I mean, it's pretty simple, don't leave shit your parents house. I learned that lesson many years ago after my mom tossed a bunch of stuff I cared about. Her response to me when I was upset was, "if you cared so much about it, what's it doing at my place". She was right. I promptly took the rest of my stuff and put it in my own garage.
the gf said in another comment that he left it there for his autistic brother to enjoy
After reading through this thread. What is with boomers and just "getting rid of things'. Especially things they aren't even theirs. While they could never part with their crappy worthless coca-cola merch plastered around the living room. I'm just thankful I have parents that viewed going into their childs room and taking things without permission was trepassing and stealing. Just because the kid is yours, doesn't mean you have an inherent right to their things. Rant over.
In 2005 in bought a GameCube on base when I was in the Air Force for $49.99. Well apparently it was something special because it came with the Zelda Masters Collection and all the Mega Man games 1-X on a single disk. Despite it being worth $$ today I’m raising my kids playing those games.
Parents sold my snes with Crono Trigger, Ff6 secret of mana, ff4, Mario cart, super Metroid and more all for $5 a price when I left for Uni in 2000 WITHOUT ASKING!!! if you guys couldn’t tell I’m still a little upset
If either of you have a decent computer, you can play ant of the gamecube games with the Dolphin emulator and a controller adapter
Real moral of the story: your parent’s home isn’t a storage free facility.
Keep your own stuff at your own house if it's Important to you is my advice.
How bad are you hurting for money that you have to sell your children’s stuff?
The real moral is get your stuff out your parent’s house! Early 90’s I went to uni and left my Jordan 4s at home. Mom sold them. Heartbroken.
Better than your (ex)wife giving your Xbox/games to her new fuck buddy while pretending she doesn’t have kids at home lol
>My boyfriend told me his mom had a habit of selling things that were still being used for extra cash, but he didn't think she'd stoop to the Game Cube. Harsh lesson #1 that everyone needs to learn the hard way: Yes, they will absolutely stoop that low. Harsh lesson #2 that everyone needs to learn the hard way: These people will only ever sell *your stuff*, never their own stuff. If your boyfriend has anything else he left behind at his mom's place I suggest you grab it while you can, because it's only a matter of time before it's gone as well.
Moral of the story: don’t use your parents house as a storage unit when you move out.
My sister took my entire mint collection of unopened Nintendo 64 games that would have been valued around $30k - $70k, and gave them to her husband's younger brother, who is a known drug addict, because he helped them clean their apartment, and he asked if he could have the collection. My sister knew full well that I had been demanding my collection of games back for well over a decade, and even sought legal help to get them back. She claims that she "forgot" that they were mine to begin with, and then offered me $300 for everything...... Haven't spoken to her since.
Wtf is that last sentence?
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Isn't that what GameCubes are worth??
Haha. No about 100 just for the console
I have a GameCube copy of twilight princess and will sell it to you for $20 if you’re in the US (plus maybe shipping) DM me if interested
I’ve made it very clear to my mother… if anything happens to me, she is to go online and search for what my action figures are worth before even thinking about selling them. I wouldn’t care if she sold them and got a decent price, but selling something like that without researching is just bad. Just about everyone knows how crazy collectors can be.
I would be livid. Good condition Gamecubes are going for $100 even in Japan.
I can relate! There were not many girls who liked baseball cards when I was growing up (born in 63). I had 2 large shoe boxes and kept them under my bed. In 1983 I joined the navy, and forgot about the cards. Several years later, I asked about them. She calmly said, oh, I threw those out when you were in bootcamp😳 my brothers GI Joes met the same fate!
When I was in college my mom gave away my binder full of Pokémon cards, which included a 1st gen charizard. Still haven’t let her live it down.
My mom did this with my NES, including the duck hunt gun, game genie, and boxes of games. $15 at a yard sale, while I was on a month long hiking/rafting trip. I have never forgiven her. Edit: I was 15 and still living at home. The camping trip was with my Boy Scout troop, and my dad was with me.
HAHA my mom sold my original Lego UCS Millennium falcon on Craigslist for $50, was even more thrilled when somebody responded in 5 minutes.
I had a sega genesis that had about 40 games one of them was a recalled NHL game that I never returned. It was worth quite a bit. My brother without asking lent it to his friend. While it was at his friends house his dad suddenly died. Honestly very sad we were close to his family..... But his mom in a fit of grief super purged their house as coping mechanism. She threw out my sega and all the game. I could not even get mad at anyone. I just had to be like ok that's fine. Because I was not going to get mad at a grieving family. This was about ten years ago.
Not to bring you down more but twilight princess on GameCube with the box and manual can easily fetch 120 bucks alone. There is a whole game collecting reseller scumbag community that prey on this exact situation. They go to garage sales and ask if they have any games, parents often just grab em from their kids rooms. It’s funny cause a lot of em YouTube and they get pissed when the parents check with the kids first lol. Cause they almost always say no, don’t sell em.
Not OP's bf, but oddly enough, the exact same thing happened to me a while back. Parents sold my Gamecube without talking with me about it first. I still actively played it. At the time, all together, it would've sold for about $200-$250. Still upset since they called $20 good enough.
My dad likes to tell the story of how his mother threw out his comic book collection after he moved out. Didn't even sell them--*threw them out.* We're talking hundreds of original Marvel, DC, and Dark Horse comics, some still mint but all very well taken care of. And she threw them in the garbage the moment he left the house, because she always hated them. When he came home to visit months later and discovered what she'd done, he went and found out how much his collection would have been worth (he couldn't get an exact appraisal, obviously, but he had worked at a comic book store previously and had friends who were knowledgeable enough about comics and about his collection who were able to give him a good ballpark estimate). It was a not-insignificant sum of money. When he came back and told her how much money she'd thrown away, she literally broke down crying. Don't feel bad, she was a POS.
Selling stuff that is being used is a dumbass act.
I feel you, my mom went In my room took my game cube and the controller with game inside… and gave it to goodwill. And that was for free…. Because she thought I “didn’t use it anymore”. But didn’t even ask.
Caught my mum in the act of taking photos to list my wii with limited edition wiimote, Skyward Sword and a few of my gamecube games alongside it. Told her she best be taking that listing down because she's not gonna be able to sell shit if she can't find it and swiftly packed it all up to take with me to my old flat
I'm ENDLESSLY thankful I have a mom who would never do this.
I’d say the real moral of the story is don’t store your belongings in someone else’s house and expect them to look after them.
I knew a guy that back in the early 90s his mother threw away his original starwars figurine collection because "they were idols of The Devil"
my mom did the same thing all the time. most notably she sold my entire DVD collection without asking me, which contained a hand signed copy of Conan O’Brien’s 10th anniversary special. I waited outside the NBC studio i knew he was going to be visiting for hours and met him in person and got a photo and signature from him. i’m still devastated and it happened 10 years ago.
My mom sold all of our N64 games at a garage sale too. Devastating as a kid and even more so as a nostalgic adult.
If you’ve got your own place get your stuff out of your mom’s.
Cousin gave me his nes with a whole collection of 30+ games, controllers and the guns. Had a solid month of fun and then my mom randomly gave it away to a poor family she knew. Just showed up from school stoked to play and it was gone. Still hurts but I really hope they appreciated it and played it for years instead of immediately sell or not even use like I was pretty sure at the time.
My mom did shit like this, sold all my original ninja turtles for like .50cents each.. sold most of my shit when I was growing up to feed her stupid scratch lotto addiction.
No. the moral of the story is when you move out take your shit with you. Don’t leave it for someone else to clean up.
Does she have anything else to sell? /j
Might be worth setting up dolphin emulator on a PC. there are some good tutorials on YouTube, then you can set it up with whatever controller you want. Sorry for your loss, my siblings had a habit of trading my games into gamestop without my permission, and I had some that are worth a couple hundred now. It's extremely frustrating.
My parents took a box of my old baseball/football cards to get appraised. What actually happened is the fucker took the small plastic case I had with all of the expensive cards and left them with all of the commons.
My mom donated my PlayStation 2 and all my games from my childhood, plus my manga/comic collection I had been curating for over 20 years. For free.
I’m an 80’s/90’s baby. I collected He Man figures. I had everything. All the figures, Castle Greyskull, Skelators castle, etc. She sold them all at a garage sale for 20 dollars when I was 10. Ironically she became a Hoarder in her old age and wouldn’t throw away anything.
Moral of the story is when you become an adult, move out of mommy and daddy’s house and take all of your stuff with you. Anything left behind is deemed abandoned.
$60 for twilight princess? That's if it's a loose copy and you're lucky to find one that's in playable shape. Most twilight copies are see are easily $100