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Re: After a break, back on the topic of Goodwill
« Reply #15 on: June 26, 2013, 03:22:19 PM »
I bet they paid the previous owner only few bucks for that table.


Goodwill doesn't pay for items. Items are donated to Goodwill for free.

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Re: After a break, back on the topic of Goodwill
« Reply #16 on: June 26, 2013, 04:05:28 PM »
I bet they paid the previous owner only few bucks for that table.


Goodwill doesn't pay for items. Items are donated to Goodwill for free.


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Re: After a break, back on the topic of Goodwill
« Reply #17 on: June 27, 2013, 02:50:10 AM »
I bet they paid the previous owner only few bucks for that table.

Not even that, as it was surely donated to them.
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Re: After a break, back on the topic of Goodwill
« Reply #18 on: June 27, 2013, 02:56:43 AM »
I saw a Ikea kids table that was completely covered in marker for $10. You can buy it new from Ikea for $4
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Re: After a break, back on the topic of Goodwill
« Reply #19 on: June 27, 2013, 03:16:34 AM »
Where else can you shop where there is a 150% markup on the price of goods and the seller make 100% profit on what it sells?

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Re: After a break, back on the topic of Goodwill
« Reply #20 on: August 19, 2014, 03:56:48 PM »
Apparently gouging old games is such a profitable business, they're now opening dedicated vintage game stores:

http://imgur.com/a/YEMPF


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Re: After a break, back on the topic of Goodwill
« Reply #21 on: August 19, 2014, 04:03:07 PM »
Read about those Grid outlets they're trying out. Makes me sick. You get all your inventory for free and you price it according to ebay. And then you take the time to separate all the games out and send them to their own store to inflate the prices even more? I hate the world sometimes.

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Re: After a break, back on the topic of Goodwill
« Reply #22 on: August 19, 2014, 04:17:30 PM »
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The price range was all insanely reasonable.*

*Next to a photo of Enduro for 2600, priced at $39.99.

Some Atari 2600 cart for $40 bucks, but Mortal Kombat for Genesis is at $9.99 ?? And I think that NES Arkanoid is at $7.99. Pffft. Most of the Atari 2600 library belongs in a landfill. ;)

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Re: After a break, back on the topic of Goodwill
« Reply #23 on: August 19, 2014, 05:20:57 PM »
Read about those Grid outlets they're trying out. Makes me sick. You get all your inventory for free and you price it according to ebay. And then you take the time to separate all the games out and send them to their own store to inflate the prices even more? I hate the world sometimes.


It doesn't seem like such a bad idea. It would save someone many car trips, of going from one goodwill to another, seeing what each store has. Most goodwill stores already check for the price of stuff on ebay, anyway, before putting it on the floor. I pretty much gave up on finding anything interesting with video games, after the year 2000 or so.

I'd visit one of these grid stores.

The last time I went to a thrift store was last summer or fall, looked around, and there wasn't even much in the way of books like there used to be. I think they sell most of their books to the bulk book buyers, like Thrift Books.

It was an interesting time, when I could walk into a goodwill, up until 1997 or 1998, and find 100+ Atari games for sale because someone just dumped off their collection, or son's collection. There was that time I bought 50+ MAD Magazine paperback books. Before ebay, goodwill had more surprises.


I've not been to a thrift store at all this year, but reading this thread, I think I'll go to one in the next few weeks. The older one, that's more dilapidated than others, and doesn't have the same foot traffic as the "nicer" ones.
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Re: After a break, back on the topic of Goodwill
« Reply #24 on: August 19, 2014, 05:29:14 PM »
I just have a problem with Goodwill as a whole, I guess. I go to thrift stores all the time and Goodwill's prices are higher than local mom and pop stores. Shouldn't it be the other way around?

Would be cool to have a guarantee that you'd find games in a store like this, but the whole idea is meh to me.

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Re: After a break, back on the topic of Goodwill
« Reply #25 on: August 19, 2014, 08:31:58 PM »
Haven't been able to find shit there since they started shopgoodwill, which can be decent sometimes, but still...

Goodwill can ess Bailey Jay's dee. Meh.


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Re: After a break, back on the topic of Goodwill
« Reply #26 on: August 20, 2014, 01:46:12 AM »
Man, I wasn't aware of that Goodwill "Grid" store.  That might be the most messed up thing I see all day!  I don't go to Goodwill much.  There is a chain of thrift stores in my area called "Unique" that I prefer.  Not that I find much.  But, the one thing those stores are still great for:  CRT's.  Piles of them to be found in some of those places.  You can still pick up a decent one at a thrift store around here for $5.00 or under. 

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Re: After a break, back on the topic of Goodwill
« Reply #27 on: August 20, 2014, 02:36:08 AM »
It's sad that they've been hoarding stuff for months (years?) to stock such stores, paying warehouse space to store it all, and now paying for another store front.  I bet they could've priced everything at half of what they're asking now, already sold it at their existing stores, and earned just as much profit with the lowered overhead.
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Re: After a break, back on the topic of Goodwill
« Reply #28 on: August 20, 2014, 06:35:20 AM »
It's sad that they've been hoarding stuff for months (years?) to stock such stores, paying warehouse space to store it all, and now paying for another store front.  I bet they could've priced everything at half of what they're asking now, already sold it at their existing stores, and earned just as much profit with the lowered overhead.

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Re: After a break, back on the topic of Goodwill
« Reply #29 on: August 20, 2014, 12:43:34 PM »
Haven't been able to find shit there since they started shopgoodwill, which can be decent sometimes, but still...

Goodwill can ess Bailey Jay's dee. Meh.





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