Last Monday I stumbled upon a Facebook marketplace listing of 24 NES manuals and thumbing through the listing photos I saw 6 or so that I didn’t have in a lot of what I though was a dozen. Each pic showed 6 manuals and in my haste I only clicked through to the 2nd picture. Little did I know that there were twice as many manuals and another 2 I didn’t have.
It wasn’t until after I contacted the seller that I realized that I would be getting 2x as many booklets. Not a moment or two after I reached out the listing was removed and I didn’t even get a chance to commit to memory which items the lot contained so I asked if the pictures from the listing could be sent to me. The seller was nice enough to forward them on.
It was an absolute bonus that the 8 manuals I needed from the lot were, at least according to my calculations, worth as much as I was paying for the whole lot. The other 16 were perfect for trades down the road. I think with the exception of about 2 all of the others were upgrades as well. All in all the $60 investment (shipping included) was a good one.
The seller was awesome! He kept in touch the whole time to ensure the manuals reached me safely and curated them beautifully in plastic covers. After 30+ years these books looked as glossy and crisp as the day they were released (with one small exception: someone had cut off the head of one of the characters on the cover of the G.I. Joe pamphlet). These are some of the nicest manuals in my collection by far.
By virtue of this transaction I added the following books to my binder: Castle of Dragon, G.I. Joe: the Atlantis Factor, Darkman, Hudson Hawk, Kickle Cubicle, Toki, Trojan and Qix.
