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I dunno about you, but some of these prices are awesome. Its Goodwill so you can trust it, its not ebay so its cheap...I'm pretty stoked.

Some prices are not bad, but the auctions still are running a few hours.

I hope that place and other auction places will grow bigger (29 Nintendo articles isn't that much...) a bit to end the dominance of eBay.

I had no idea goodwill did online auctions... whenever I'm near the store though I always go in and have a look, thrift stores are the best place to find old video games. most times even better than a pawn shop or other similar places.

What exactly are thrift stores? The dictionary doesn't give me a word.
I don't think we we have something like that in Germany.
Would somebody mind to explain?

I wonder what makes them decide to sell something online rather than in store? Maybe it's stuff that people send to the head office in the post.

What exactly are thrift stores? The dictionary doesn't give me a word.
I don't think we we have something like that in Germany.
Would somebody mind to explain?

a thrift store is usually where people donate things that they no longer need/want and the thrift store puts them up for sale, then you can go in and buy it, the proceeds usually go to help some kind of charity.

We call them charity shops in the UK. In Australia/New Zealand they're called Op Shops. Welcome in international studies!

Charity shops...
Then do they give some of their profits to charity?

Yes all the profit goes to charity because they are run by the charities themselves. For example, in my town there are Save the Children and Oxfam shops amoungst others, which are well known charities here.

Oh, that's cool.
We have socalled 3rd world shops and they give their profits for charity, but they don't sell video game stuff. Unfortunately...

The ones here very rarely sell games either, probably because most people with unwanted games are looking to sell them rather than just give them away. I did get 6 N64 games for £5 (about 9USD) a few weeks ago though.

Just to let you know: I envy you all who have such shops around.

well, I have to travel a fair distance to get to the good ones, but they usually have a nice selection... a few days ago I was at one and I saw:

2 model 2 Genesis consoles, one with just the console and a lot number on it for $14 and one in a bag with controllers and all connections, for $20

N64 for $14

NES for $9

two boxed NES Games $7 each (no manuals)

two Genesis games

numerous controllers and video/POWer cables for consoles.

a few loose NES Games

an NES advantage

My only wish was that I had more money to spend while I was there.

When there are no problems, money is the problem...

It's not always great bargains you find in these shops. A couple of weeks ago I went into a local charity shop and saw about 10 PS2 games neatly stacked on a shelf. On closer inspection i found that these weren't in fact full games but were demos you get on the front of magazines. Whoever priced them obviously thought they were full games and put them at £5 each, which is more than they would have cost with the original magazine!
I thought I'd tell the old guy (they're all about 80 in this shop) behind the counter that they were unlikely to sell for that price but I think he thought I was trying to barter the price down for myself and he didn't really take in what I was saying.

Sure enough, when I went back in this week they were still all there, all still costing £5, all gathering dust. They'll all probably still be there at Christmas. Or at least until someone comes in and buys them for their kids birthday thinking that they're full games.

Funny story, though.
I doubt those 80year olds even know what they are selling.

yeah, the prices aren't always great. but if you hunt around you can almost always find something worth picking up.

I think the main problem being that they(goodwill) sell everything as is. The prices are decent but definitely not an untapped resource.