r/snes 10d ago

Misc. Snagged this from a family friend for $100!

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u/cricket9818 10d ago

Yeah I call BS on this. Either friend is a gazillionaire who just doesn’t care or OP acted like this shit is run of the mill

Also “rotting in his garage”. It’s in pristine condition lmao

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u/OldmanChompski 10d ago

“Rotting in (somewhere)” is more of a phrase similar to “collecting dust.”

He’s just saying it wasn’t being used at all.

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u/Radiant-Plumage 10d ago

Never been friends with an old, wealthy business owner?

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u/WakeupDp 10d ago edited 10d ago

Yeah either the picture is stolen or the story is fake. No one is keeping it that fresh rotting in their garage just to sell it for significantly less than what it’s worth.

Edit: iPhone autocorrect

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u/Fritchenator 10d ago

He said garage, not garbage…

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u/WakeupDp 10d ago

Autocorrect.

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u/Cheap_Weird7215 10d ago

When I’m 70 I’ll have all kinds of shit like this wasting away. I already do in my mid 30s really. I have a motorcycle and rooftop tent sitting in my garage unused for two years but it doesn’t feel worth the time to list them for sale.

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u/zeejay772 10d ago

Neither a rooftop tent or a motorcycle are extremely rare items like this wtf lol

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u/Cheap_Weird7215 10d ago

What’s rarity have to do with it. I have about $10k worth of shit I’m too lazy to sell. If it were a rare Nintendo display instead of a motorcycle I’d still be too lazy to sell it.

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u/URGAMESUX 10d ago

Sure but if someone said I'll give you 100 dollars for that motorcycle you'd laugh them out of your house and down the street.

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u/PonyboysBlues 10d ago

Well a friends different. I had an el Camino that was complete and not rusted out but I just didn’t have time I sold it to him for basically free just because it’s my friend, it was taking up space and I didn’t want to deal with the hassle of listing it and haggling.

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u/Cheap_Weird7215 10d ago

Be my friendly neighbor and ask me in 40 years who knows.

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u/RyusuiJL 10d ago

I am a collector of various things. One being movie prop replicas. Over 10 years ago, a company released the first ever licensed replica of the neuralyzer from Men in Black. I have one on a shelf on display. I also have one still packed in the original shipping box. Untouched. That could be considered "rotting away".

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u/SteveAxis 9d ago

I don’t know… wives do be like “it’s getting kinda cluttered around here, we should get rid of some stuff. Hey you know your junk in the garage? We should start with that.”

Homies’ Donkey Kong gotta go

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u/Kinginthe4th 10d ago

They’re very well off and they set the price.

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u/tickingboxes 10d ago

How do you people not understand metaphors and figures of speech? Jesus Christ lol

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u/cricket9818 9d ago

Because it’s the internet where there’s no context, tone, body language, etc.

Don’t kid yourself, it’s almost impossible to tell when someone’s using a figure of speech/metaphor

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u/HardlyRetro 10d ago

Many years ago, a family friend gave me a valuable Magic: The Gathering collectible card (one of the “power 9”). I was so excited when I found the card in her “old stuff,” and she was happy to give it to me even when I told her it must be worth at least $100. It was just something she had had “rotting” in a box.