Quote Originally Posted by joshnickerson View Post
My local Goodwill used to be a prime place to pick up some cheap classic gameage, but in the past couple of years, it's been going downhill. First they raised the price of cartridge based games from $1.01 to $3.03, then they started applying the price tags directly on top of the cart label. Now in the past couple of months, they've gone an extra step, and actually put packing tape over the price tag and cart label! I was just in there tonight, and I spotted a boxed copy of Tetris in the jewelry case, but upon closer inspection, they had it completely wrapped in more damn packing tape! And it wasn't even out on the floor, it was IN THE DAMN GLASS CASE! What are they thinking? I can see that some people wouldn't care too much about the condition of the game, or if there was a price tag perminately affixed to the cart label, but as a collection, it brings my piss to a boil.

Has anyone else had this experience with Goodwill?
I haven't had this specific experience with Goodwill, but the one which used to be my Goodwill of choice has gone downhill. They used to have NES games for $1.99 and sometimes $0.99. Now it's impossible to see any game for less than $3.99. Another thing that bothers me is that they don't take off any previous prices from the game/CD/DVD in question. A lot of stuff that goes to Goodwill are rejects from garage sales, you see, and it really gets to me when I see a $7.99 price tag on a game that didn't even sale for $1 at a garage sale.

I remember years ago when this Goodwill used to hold on to games for my dad. He got on one occasion a box of 70+ Atari games including Qbert's Cubes and the Stella Gets a New Brain CD for $19.99. Now it seems that anything of interest is sent to "headquarters" (as they say, but that's probably code for "we put it up on eBay")