L0rd Raiden
CAG Veteran
WTF is with this place?!
When I checked it out a few years ago when it was created, it was kinda cool, having some games and stuff for low prices from all the goodwills around the nation.
Not anymore. I recently noticed a sudden and vast shortage in good games around me (there are a total of 4 goodwills within biking distance from me, and they all had good games in fairly often), and I couldn't figure out why. Then, I checked out shopgoodwill, and I understood.
It's ridiculous. Last week there was a boxed, complete, saturn, along with complete copies of Guardian Heroes bomb and several other sought after games. The auction had already turned into a rabid bidding war, driving the price to several hundred dollars.
Goodwill is a CHARITY. How can they not be profiting from this stuff?! They're sucking away everything from stores (and I bet this is why some of the people on here can't ever find anything at goodwills) just because (and I read an article saying this somewhere on the net) they don't like it that ebayers and resellers are buying their stuff and reselling it. They aren't a retail corportation, they're a used goods/charity business, they ought to expect that stuff.
Furthermore, if they are really a charity organization that caters to less fortunate folk, why are they selling that stuff on the INTERNET? I'm willing to bet that most poverty striken families don't have the internet if they can barely pay for food, yet goodwill is putting the expensive things that those families can't afford to buy anywhere else in a place that is mostly inaccessible to them.
Just my 2 cents.
What about the more experienced online/reseller people out there? Are you frustrated about this or do you even care?
When I checked it out a few years ago when it was created, it was kinda cool, having some games and stuff for low prices from all the goodwills around the nation.
Not anymore. I recently noticed a sudden and vast shortage in good games around me (there are a total of 4 goodwills within biking distance from me, and they all had good games in fairly often), and I couldn't figure out why. Then, I checked out shopgoodwill, and I understood.
It's ridiculous. Last week there was a boxed, complete, saturn, along with complete copies of Guardian Heroes bomb and several other sought after games. The auction had already turned into a rabid bidding war, driving the price to several hundred dollars.
Goodwill is a CHARITY. How can they not be profiting from this stuff?! They're sucking away everything from stores (and I bet this is why some of the people on here can't ever find anything at goodwills) just because (and I read an article saying this somewhere on the net) they don't like it that ebayers and resellers are buying their stuff and reselling it. They aren't a retail corportation, they're a used goods/charity business, they ought to expect that stuff.
Furthermore, if they are really a charity organization that caters to less fortunate folk, why are they selling that stuff on the INTERNET? I'm willing to bet that most poverty striken families don't have the internet if they can barely pay for food, yet goodwill is putting the expensive things that those families can't afford to buy anywhere else in a place that is mostly inaccessible to them.
Just my 2 cents.
What about the more experienced online/reseller people out there? Are you frustrated about this or do you even care?