Goodwill Clearance Center?

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Anyone ever heard of this offshoot of Goodwill, called the Goodwill Clearance Center? It's actually a decent place to find some old gaming stuff. There's one now right behind the "Super" Goodwill where I am, near Asheville NC (it's like a Goodwill Wal-Mart, it's huge)

Essentially, it's where the last 30 years go to die. It's a warehouse basically, where all the crap from all the local Goodwills gets dumped that nobody wants or was too overpriced to sell. Every hour or so employees roll out these huge mountains of stuff on carts the size of ping-pong tables, about 6 at a time. There's usually a mad dash of people to go and grab whatever you can - it's all $1/pound, whatever it is. It's pretty strange.

Large items are put in another pile, usually TVs, monitors, stereos, etc, for $3-10 each.

Today was my first visit, and I grabbed a pile of stuff before it got snapped up and/or crushed - who knows what happens to this stuff if nobody gets it at the end of the day.

*Sega Saturn
*Nintendo 64
*NES Joystick
*Apple ADB mice (trapezoid-style, and later rounded)
*USB Keyboard (new Saitek Eclipse)
*Serial mice for IBM/Tandy PCs
*Creative Labs Sound Blaster AWE32

All for $16.

I mean, there's so much randomness though... like hair driers from the 60's, old encyclopedias, PS1 and Xbox games, random old software, hi-8 cameras, TVs/monitors/radios, tons of toys and stuffed animals, TONS of clothing (which is thankfully separated into another area of the warehouse), baseball card collections. Anyways, didn't know if anyone else had any experiences with these places.