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My usual yard sales stopped having retro games, so I turned to the web.
I used to score retro games at yard sales every weekend. Lately, the stalls have been empty. I saw that many sellers are on online swap groups now. I tried one and landed a rare game I needed. Where do you hunt for retro titles now?
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karen_owens1mo ago
It's funny how local buying and selling just moved online for good. My neighborhood used to have a bulletin board for tools and books, but now it's all on a Facebook group. Even our community garden swaps seedlings through a texting chain now. Finding that rare game online is part of that same shift, where the yard sale chatter happens in a group chat instead. You have to know which digital corner of your town to check.
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patricia1671mo agoMost Upvoted
What gets lost is how those old public boards and yard sales were open to anyone walking by. Now you have to be in the right app or group, which leaves people out. My older neighbor never got the memo about the tool swap moving to an app, so his old lawnmower just gathered dust. The digital corners are great if you know the password, but they build invisible walls.
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