What is special about this auction...

[syzygy]

http://www.shopgoodwill.com/viewItem.asp?ItemID=538391

I can't make out the game but I am guessing some of them are very rare?

[maxlords]

I suspect people are just dumb. I can't make out anything even remotely that valuable there.

[rbudrick]

at 2.50 per game, that seems relativley normal for the sharpminded colectors that work at Goodwill.
j/k :D

-Rob

[chadtower]

This site would explain why we just don't find anything at the Goodwill stores anymore.

[omnedon]

Egads. The days of the hunt are ending. And thrift shops are no longer such. I guess I should stop referring to them as such.

Collectible emporium perhaps?
Antique store maybe?

But thrifty, no. :(

[chadtower]

It really is getting to the point where everyone and anyone puts anything on ebay to sell it. I haven't found a game at a yard sale in over a year. The thrifts and goodwills are devoid. There are practically no pawnshops around here. It's so that online is the only place I can find anything that's not a ps1 or newer game.

[Achika]

I just simply can't believe anyone when they say thrift stores are void. I've been told by friends to "not bother" with NYC thrifts, because they are picked clean. Everytime I've gone, I've walked away with either Boxed Colecovision stuff, C= Datasette, Genesis, PSX, NES equipment. When people say things are "dry" anymore, it makes me want to go out and prove them wrong, and in most cases I do. Save for the Colecovision & C= stuff, it was all found in NYC. Coleco & Dattasette was found in Michigan.

[chadtower]

I checked my local thrifts fairly regularly for months and found nothing, not one thing, ever. Okay, one time I found an Alphie. Other than that, and a Speak & Spell that my son loves, nothing. I suspect in some areas the thrifts all put the game stuff up onto ebay too.

[bargora]

I just simply can't believe anyone when they say thrift stores are void. I've been told by friends to "not bother" with NYC thrifts, because they are picked clean. Everytime I've gone, I've walked away with either Boxed Colecovision stuff, C= Datasette, Genesis, PSX, NES equipment. When people say things are "dry" anymore, it makes me want to go out and prove them wrong, and in most cases I do. Save for the Colecovision & C= stuff, it was all found in NYC. Coleco & Dattasette was found in Michigan.
Must be that eyelashes-batting thing. Cleveland east-side thrifts are generally BONE DRY.

Oh, wait, yes! Thank you Mr. Pawnbroker man! I'd like those N64 sports carts for $20 apiece!

*shoots self*

[chadtower]

Oh, wait, yes! Thank you Mr. Pawnbroker man! I'd like those N64 sports carts for $20 apiece!

"You actually going to buy those things or are you making me get up offa my stool for nothin'?"

I've actually heard that before... dude had some stuff I actually wanted, but was such a prick I told him to take them and stick them up his ass until he could taste 'em.

[Griking]

What pisses me off about Goodwill (complaint #8) is how some of them jack up the prices up on game console since they're Sooooo collectable nowadays yet they for whatever reason can't test them to assure you that they work and there's no returns on electrical items if they don't work. I bring this up because I see on the Goodwill auction linked above that it's advertised as "not tested".

On the other hand I find Goodwill and thrift store hunting an on again off again thing. You'll find dry spells that last weeks only to hot the jackpot suddenly one day which again will be followed by another dry spell. My best advice is if at all possible, hit as many thrift stores as you can on Sunday and Monday. Usually by this point all the stuff that people donated over the weekend (and it IS the spring cleaning time of the year now) hits the floor. Just keep with it. Just like the Lotto, you can't win if you don't play.

[portnoyd]

I just simply can't believe anyone when they say thrift stores are void. I've been told by friends to "not bother" with NYC thrifts, because they are picked clean. Everytime I've gone, I've walked away with either Boxed Colecovision stuff, C= Datasette, Genesis, PSX, NES equipment. When people say things are "dry" anymore, it makes me want to go out and prove them wrong, and in most cases I do. Save for the Colecovision & C= stuff, it was all found in NYC. Coleco & Dattasette was found in Michigan.
Must be that eyelashes-batting thing. Cleveland east-side thrifts are generally BONE DRY.

Oh, wait, yes! Thank you Mr. Pawnbroker man! I'd like those N64 sports carts for $20 apiece!

*shoots self*

bargora wins the prize for "Best Post of the Month"! Yay.

Patience, and all thirft stores will have *something*.

dave

[allstater4by800]

I found some Atari 2600 carts the other day at Goodwill for three dollars a pop, and they were fairly common games, which I didnt have... So after a whole day of hunting I was sick of over priced crap so I just went to the girl working the checkout lane that looked like she hated her job and hated life. I told her I couldnt find a price and would give her two dollars for these games that are not worth anything because they are over twenty years old. She was like well I guess they are 50 cents each. That was fine. So then she asks me if I was with anyone over fifty. I looked around and pointed at the woman who had just walked into the checkout line behind me. She just said ok whatever and gave me half off. So I got five atari carts for $1.33

Carts:
Megamania
Freeway
Football
Asteroids
Kaboom!

[omnedon]

I never said I don't find ANYTHING at the thrifts. It's just auctions like this, that I find discouraging. Definitely not thrifty.

[Arqueologia_Digital]

So...What is special about this auction?...well...nothing.

[YoshiM]

The Goodwill by me has been mostly dry but sometimes something crops up. It's just not often. I do know there are other people who scour the electronics section- I saw a guy scarf up two stereos and some other equipment at the Manitowoc store.

Oh well, that's why it's "the hunt".

[Dobie]

I don't think any thrift is "always dry." This is the theory I've worked out (I'm such a loser) :/ ...

I've had the most success at thrift stores on non-weekend days. Most people hit the thrifts on Fridays, Saturdays & Sundays. That leaves Mondays pretty picked through, Tuesdays a bit better, and Wednesday-Thursday the best days to go. I think most stores around me do most of their stocking up on Tuesday. Goodwill and Salvation Army tend to hold up to this pattern best, from my experience.

Of course, the theory doesn't hold true with ALL stores--Deseret Industries just puts their stuff out on carts throughout every day, then it gets put on shelves, So if its made the shelf, its already been picked through by the vultures. There's generally NO good day with them--but I still find good stuff there on occasion. Its ALWAYS worth at least a look if I'm driving by.

You don't find anything if you don't at least look, right?

[chadtower]

I found some Atari 2600 carts the other day at Goodwill for three dollars a pop, and they were fairly common games, which I didnt have... So after a whole day of hunting I was sick of over priced crap so I just went to the girl working the checkout lane that looked like she hated her job and hated life. I told her I couldnt find a price and would give her two dollars for these games that are not worth anything because they are over twenty years old. She was like well I guess they are 50 cents each. That was fine. So then she asks me if I was with anyone over fifty. I looked around and pointed at the woman who had just walked into the checkout line behind me. She just said ok whatever and gave me half off. So I got five atari carts for $1.33



Uhm... not to start an argument or anything, but is this really a brag that you got a better price from a charity by lying to them? We're talking a couple of dollars and GOODWILL.
:hmm:

[christianscott27]

dang it all i was hoping that site would stay under the radar and i'd score something good off it. i've been eyeing it for 6 months now and havent made a bid, despite less traffic the final bids have been in the ebay range anyways. never mind the shoddy quality of the pics and descriptions, i'm pretty sure the same dopes that work at goodwills are creating the postings. it seems as though only a few goodwills are using it anyways. has anybody here ever won an auction there? how did it go?
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[scooterb23]

has anybody here ever won an auction there? how did it go?

I've been going to the Goodwill auction site for about 2 years...prices have gone way up in the past 9 months...before then I got stuff like 40 Atari carts for $8 and an Odyssey2 with 12 games for $13. 95% of the time the stuff works, they just don't know how / or don't have the right cords to hook things up. So I always buy as though somethings not working, and pay accordingly.

That's how I got my first 5200 with 8 games, 3 sealed...they didn't know if it worked...I got it for $6. I got it, it worked until the day I got a working joysatick...ironic ain't it??

Typically they are very fast shipping, their shipping is high, but they package everything as though it were a Ming vase.

I bought some board games from them, and the packaging weighed twice what the games did, but they got there in pristine condition...

[rbudrick]

I still get great deals at goodwill when they get stuff in. Even better, there's a guy that now saves ALL videogame stuff for me so no one else gets to it first. I think he's gay, but I'm not telling him I'm not. He hooks me up with KILLER deals. NES deck for 99c , carts for 49c, 99c boxed complete genesis games. 3-20 times the price for anyone else....


Strange but true.....sigh...

-Rob

[ehall]

A male video game collector using his sex appeal to get video games at discount prices. Anyone else see a problem with this sentence? Male video game collector - sex appeal.... It just doesn't add up. :D