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- Sports games for Genesis... $5
- Laserdisc player (with 1 movie) $35 - its a late 80's model - pre S-Video
- Pico System - $50 (or was that Salvation Army?)
- Mickey Mouse - Castle of Illusions?- Genesis (missing instructions) $7.50
- then there were the Packard Bell computers (no comment) - they were in
upper double digit range
- Seen Spiderman for Atari 2600 once it was $7 (loose)
- 'Any' PC game (loose or not) even from the DOS days - $5

At least the CED movies are $2 now instead of $7 (not sure why
Goodwill/Salvation Army were asking so much for these)

Salvation Army in some locations still seem to be the most realistic...
- Sega CD games $2
- NES games $1
- Atari 2600 games $1
- Genesis games $2

That was nice to pick up a few even if they were common stuff.

Good times

Erik

 

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Found a MIB Pioneer CLD-D504 Laserdisc player last week at Goodwill
marked $25. It was a 50% off day so I got it for $12.50, works like a
champ too. Bought a NES yesterday with 5 or 6 games for $7.50, had Mega
Man 4 and Tetris 2 so I feel I was justified in paying that.

 

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I managed to amass most of my videogame collection while my sister was
working at Salvation Army about 6 or so years ago. Before anything vg
related went on the floor, she'd tell me what it was and I'd buy it if
it was worth anything, usually at a ludicrously low price. One of the
best was a CIB NES top-loader for $5.

 

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Not fair....

I would like to work at Salvation Army part time but at our local store the
women that work there are little odd. (laughs)

I did get a laserdisc player at Salvation Army for $20 and it did work great
for couple months... its a Sony though I was told to ditch it and get a
Pioneer.

Erik

"Carey85" <carey_85@adelphia.net> wrote in message
news:1117342226.079685.181590@g49g2000cwa.googlegroups.com...
> I managed to amass most of my videogame collection while my sister was
> working at Salvation Army about 6 or so years ago. Before anything vg
> related went on the floor, she'd tell me what it was and I'd buy it if
> it was worth anything, usually at a ludicrously low price. One of the
> best was a CIB NES top-loader for $5.
>

 

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"Carey85" <carey_85@adelphia.net> wrote in message
news:1117342226.079685.181590@g49g2000cwa.googlegroups.com...
> I managed to amass most of my videogame collection while my sister was
> working at Salvation Army about 6 or so years ago. Before anything vg
> related went on the floor, she'd tell me what it was and I'd buy it if
> it was worth anything, usually at a ludicrously low price. One of the
> best was a CIB NES top-loader for $5.
>

That's cheating !

Dane.

 

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I've noticed with these thrifts its all up to whoever prices them. This
can even very greatly as different people do the pricing. My goodwill
comes and goes with the goofball pricing. Typically carts are $2-$3,
although sometimes they'll to hold out for $5 for that copy of Madden
'93 for the Genesis because, hey it's madden and everyone knows how
popular that is.

Same with electronics. Some days you've got rare components for $10,
other times they want $60 for that Apex DVD player with the
Sir-Marks-A-Lot magic marker crammed in where the DVD tray used to be.

I actually find Salvation Army (in my area) to be worse though. They'll
stick Game Gear games behind the glass up front and demand $8 for them.
I guess it's beacuse their small or something.

= numsix
= http/www.villagebbs.com

 

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Well, where I screwed up was saying that "most" of my stuff came from
there, which was kind of embellished, I was tired when I wrote that,
and the brain damage must have also kicked in.

 

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In article <9pWdnSyo052plQTfRVn-ig@csinet.net>,
"VastFear" <vastfear@csinet.net> wrote:

> - Sports games for Genesis... $5
> - Laserdisc player (with 1 movie) $35 - its a late 80's model - pre S-Video
> - Pico System - $50 (or was that Salvation Army?)
> - Mickey Mouse - Castle of Illusions?- Genesis (missing instructions) $7.50
> - then there were the Packard Bell computers (no comment) - they were in
> upper double digit range
> - Seen Spiderman for Atari 2600 once it was $7 (loose)
> - 'Any' PC game (loose or not) even from the DOS days - $5

Well, Goodwill has to pay for those price guns they are using (at least
here in StL, they've realized that if they price with permanent ink,
collectables don't sell).

Actually, last I actually found, StL Goodwills hadn't jacked prices.
They tried this about 3-5 years ago, and when things quit selling, they
dropped prices. Also, because of hazardous waste disposal laws in MO,
MO based Goodwills no longer accept computers, which has reduced
tangibly video game donations also.

jt

 

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In article <WZbme.9586$uR4.5738@newsread2.news.atl.earthlink.net>,
"Dane L. Galden" <chigroup(at)ix.netcom.comCHANGE(at)TO@> wrote:

> "Carey85" <carey_85@adelphia.net> wrote in message
> news:1117342226.079685.181590@g49g2000cwa.googlegroups.com...
> > I managed to amass most of my videogame collection while my sister was
> > working at Salvation Army about 6 or so years ago. Before anything vg
> > related went on the floor, she'd tell me what it was and I'd buy it if
> > it was worth anything, usually at a ludicrously low price. One of the
> > best was a CIB NES top-loader for $5.
> >
>
> That's cheating !

Who, here, hasn't cheated in collecting when the opportunity presented
itself. For a time, a thrift I referred to here as the ongoing brag had
three employees I got along with quite well, and they - on numerous
occasions - either hid stuff for me or expedited processing for my
benefit. Ah, for the good old daze.

jt