/vr/ - Retro Games

fuck goodwill. they charge out the ass for stuff that people give them for free

Thats pretty sweet OP

too bad Omaha probably won't get one in the next 15 years

I wonder if this concept could result in the retro bubble finally popping.

Holy fucking shit look at all this shit. I can't make out everything, but it looks like they've got cables and shit for everything.

>>1875072
i'd shop there

>>1875061
...does that say $39 for WCW World Tour? I can't actually tell how many digits are on those stickers but nothing would surprise me at this point.

>>1875083
2.99

>>1875083
I swear it looks like some of them have 5 digit price tags.

>>1875041
Is there a location list yet, I can't seem to find one.

>>1875089
It really does.

Look at Mario Party.

Looks like it says $239.50

>visit Goodwill's official Grid site
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Yep this sure is run by Goodwill. So it's just the one test location in North Carolina, right? That explains why their selection is actually decent. They'd have to sift through donations from all 50 states to come up with a handful of appealing games. Watch them open another location and it becomes The Madden Store For PS2.

>>1875089
There's a little symbol or code or something at the end of the number. It's not part of the price. Everything ends in .99. Look at the numbers in front of that.

This just sounds like an excuse for them to charge more for shit because it's a more "specialty" shop
They're obviously not going to open all these stores and not expect to turn a good profit

>>1875095
>The Madden Store For PS2
Yeah, now that you mention it, that sounds about right.

>>1875094
It pretty obviously says 29.99, look at the underlined digits. it just has an extra bit after the cents. It probably says plus tax or something.

>>1875095
Don't forget an entire wall of Wii shovelware. That's all I ever seemed to see when I worked at second hand shop.

>>1875135
Yes you're quite right. Serves me right for not opening the picture completely.

The extra bit after the cents is "each" turned 90 degrees anticlockwise.

This >>1875135

If it was $240, I doubt they'd simply bag and hang it from a peg board.

>>1875061

>29.99 for Mario Party

Yeah, nah

GRID.. Gay related immunuo deficiency disease.
Good name.
Would visit though...

This makes me sick.

>>1875050
see >>1875049
>Genesis Mortal Kombat at $10
>NES Arkanoid at $8
>charge out the ass
The prices seem reasonable to me.

>>1875519
>my secret hobby!!

grow up faggot

>All the way in North Carolina
>Not in Phoenix, AZ

shit tier pleb bullshit fuck everything I hate it

>>1875519

... why?

Ah that's my local goodwill. I kind of hate it though. It's right by the local college, their prices increased, and they hang all their loose carts in plastic bags which makes them difficult to browse through without pulling each one off the hook.

Originally the store was located on the westside (hood) of town. All the games were sorted in a flat bin, the prices were better, and they huge bins of miscellaneous cables and accessories.

>>1875657
Basically what >>1875050 said. I can understand game stores charging near ebay prices because they actually have to buy their shit. This place is charging the same for shit that was given to them. That just doesn't sit right with me.

>>1875041
Hey OP, I've been there a few times myself. Live right around the corner from it. It's awesome but I miss the goodwill computer works on the other side of town that came before it.

The selection is alright, but most of the prices are laughably overpriced. EXTREMELY overpriced in some cases. At least they'll give Save Point and Video Game World more competition. Also the cashiers are kinda derp. On opening day I picked up a few cheap sega games and the cashier asked me "How do you think our prices compare to Gamestop?" Well considering GS doesn't sell retro...

Also fuck, I just realized that all of a sudden Charlotte has like 3 clustered game stores.

>>1876180
Edit, some games are good prices like commons. But anything beyond that starts getting absurd. Also goodwill gets all this product for free too, so they could still stand to make decent profits while selling below the market value. That could even drive sales up for them.

>>1875547
I don't know about arkanoid, but you can get genesis MK online easily for less than half that price.

This is a bad thing. For one, it centralizes all the vidya, which means you'll NEVER get a good deal because all the reseller scum will have long since picked the bones dry before you get a chance. Secondly, the store being specifically for vidya means that they're not going to be completely ignorant of what they got. So no more finding expensive games for dirt cheap because goodwill doesn't know any better.

but it doesn't really matter, since we lose either way. There's never been any decent video game stuff at my local goodwill - probably because they ship anything semi-decent off to some shitty shopgoodwill.com storage facility instead.

Is goodwill like a charity shop? Don't you have others, like save the cats and shit?

I liked it better when I could randomly find awesome games for 1 to 5 dollars. Now they'll be pricing this shit according to internet value.
Oh well, hopefully this won't catch on in other states so I can still find deals.

>>1875095
I know its hard to understand but each goodwill district is different. That would only have shit from its local district, not all 50 states

>>1875629
>>1875657
Are you guys too dense to realize how fucking bad this is for collectors or those just trying to get a good deal?

I always laugh at the "they got it for free" argument.

What exactly is an acceptable price to sell stuff that you got for free?

What if I paid $1 for something? How much of a markup is acceptable?

To avoid the "reseller scum" label, assume I buy a painting from a store for $10 that is later identified as being a Picasso worth $200,000. Whats an acceptable price to sell it at if not FMV.

>>1876210
at least the good news is the fact they're going to flop hard
theres no way for them to keep something like this up, people like you said will pick them clean and then the body will rot since they just blew their load way too quickly

>>1876305
I guess I am. As someone who collects, I'd rather be able to go in and find a game I want in a place that I could test it and at a price that turns off hoarder resellers than never find anything because of the hoarder resellers

Goodwill is a horrible, horrible company.

>>1876336
First smart thing said in the thread.

>>1875041
>Goodwill
>Charity

So what are the store locations going to be? I see this lasting a couple of months before it implodes on itself and resellers devour the stock, leaving nothing but sports games. If there's one nearby I might check it out and see if I can get in on the looting.

>>1876316
I rest my case. Have fun paying for overpriced games.

>>1875058
If it's anything like the other retro stores in Omaha (I'm from CB) expect prices to vary wildy and still be too high.

>>1876396
The thing about retro stores is that they don't understand that I could just order stuff off of E-bay or Amazon for the same price or lower than what they charge. The only legit good deals I ever got in a store was at this privately owned second hand store that this chain smoking Japanese lady owned. A flat rate of 2.50 per cart and 30 bucks per console. The console prices are a bit inflated but the cheap games made up for it at least.

I recently picked up Paper Mario for $3 at a pawn shop. How? I went in looking at their n64 games, which where all sports shit. As I was about to leave, the woman tells me shes got a few that she hasnt priced and put out yet. mfw Paper Mario which I didnt own yet. I ask how much. Shes not sure, and says $5. I act disgusted, and haggle down to 3. Whats my point? This is now the only way you are going to get games for cheap nowadays. Pure fucking luck.

>>1876374
Why would I pay for overpriced games?
I pay what I feel its worth. If its higher than fmv then I'll emulate and/or look for a deal elsewhere.

How is this hard to understand.

>>1876493
And by downplaying the value.

>>1876493
I recently picked up a NIB Paper Mario at a flea market for $1. I dug through a bag of shit and found it. What's the point? If you don't know it's not worth explaining.

>>1875041
>The Grid
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tFXYuw96d0c&t=9s

Sounds cool. Though it's a 9 hour drive for me. But if I'm ever going passing through I'll definitely check this place out. Someone go and take pictures.

>>1877450
>Mein nigger

Holy shit, look at all those Gamecube Zelda games.

>>1877561
and they wont be cheap. expect ebay prices.

Jesus..I knew the days of finding buried gems for killer deals at Goodwill were long since over, but this and their online auction were just the final nails in the coffin. The more flashcarts & ISO-loading devices we see coming out, the fucking better.

one time i genuinely bought a copy of battletoads (for the amiga i think?) in high school from a goodwill in sandy springs, ga (the one by roswell rd/johnson ferry, if you are for some reason from atlanta). i couldn't believe it was there and bought it because of le memes.

>>1877665
I'd assumed Goodwill employees were just snatching up the games to resell themselves.
I almost would have preferred it to this.

>>1876297
I wasn't serious. But really, how many donation centers do you think they'd have to syphon from to stock a whole store full of games? People rarely give this shit away anymore.

>>1877767
>>1876297
My worry about something like this unless there's some controls in place, you won't find a single game in a 50 mile radius around that store since everything gets sent to that store.
Or as they become aware of the value of certain games, no more $2.99 Zelda LttP, since it'll be sent there. Only Madden and SMB/Duck Hunt at your local stores

>>1876493
>>1877039
Sadly these sorts of things are drying up. Old games used to be dirt cheap and you could get them for pennies anywhere. Then the prices ballooned, but at least most people still didn't know about the increased value, and you could still get stuff cheap out of the seller's ignorance.

But it won't be long now before that's gone. There are only so many people who give away old games at garage sales and such, and eventually we'll close in a theoretical point where all the stock has been absorbed by resellers, and then it'll be nothing but resellers selling to resellers.

>>1875041
Ebay resellers will flock to this store, buy out literally every game, and sell them all at double the price

>>1875041
https://www11.goodwillsp.org/thegrid/

The Grid…Powered by Goodwill

Another reminder of why I can't stand collector/hoarder insanity.

>Goodwill hasn't actually been about the reason it was founded in over sixty years

>>1876305
>collectors

People who waste money on defining their life with a plastic collection? Yeah, grow the fuck up you plebian faggots. Make someone proud

My town actually has one of these, except its not called "The Grid". The premise is pretty similar, though. They sell game consoles and games in pretty good condition. However, most of them are "NFL 2004" "MBA 1994" etc etc. They fix up old computers and put parts in boxes so you can find the part you are looking for easily. They also seem pretty knowledgeable. The only problem is, its way overpriced.

>>1877885
Happily these sorts of things are raining down on us. Every day every console takes another step in it's life cycle of starting off expensive, slowly dropping in price, becoming nearly worthless and then rising in value as a collectors item. Towards the end of this process everyone has the opportunity to pick up games and consoles for next to nothing that will one day be more rare and valuable. If people chose not to take advantage of this because it doesn't offer the instant hipster cred they're jonesing for that's their loss.

>>1876305
I understand but I'm also not a greedy cunt who thinks no one else should be allowed to enjoy muh hobby because I will have to pay some extra money than I did ten years ago.

>>1879442
I think there is a potential problem in that logic: games have been revealed to be collector items. Dirt cheap Wii games will be hoarded, cared for, and stockpiled as investments. Once 15 years have passed since its fall into WalMart bargain bins, everyone who wants them or was interested in hoarding them will still have them. It isn't a guarantee that they won't be worth much, I just think that with increased reseller attention from day 1 (just look at dumb shit like VGA graded Wii and PS3 games) as well as people predicting future value fo mass-produced common games, there won't be as much earning potential outside of reselling games that are truly rare from the get-go (limited editions, recalls, low print runs, exclusives, etc).

>>1879442
It doesn't quite work like that, simply because video games are so much more mainstream now.

The same thing happened with comics. People saw that the old comics were becoming rare collectibles, so they figured "I'll buy up all these modern comics and they'll be collectors items in the future!" But that didn't work because comics became so mass produced that there was no longer any sense of rarity at all.

Any of these in PA?

>>1879484
You haven't been to a garage sale or flea market recently have you? They're full of the last 2 generations of games going for pennies and consoles going for a few bucks. But you're right. While others sit sucking the rest of us will buy them up. Just like I did with the previous generations that are now worth 10+ times what I paid.

>>1879496
I've been hearing that since the 70's and it's never panned out.

>>1877767
Well unless they'd have deals with other districts to exchange merchandise, they'd have to buy it from the other districts.

But I'd say they were just pulling donations from that one district for a while before they opened. A specialty store like that isn't aiming for a quick turnaround on large amounts of product at a "small" price. They'd survive on just pulling stock from one district (which could easily be over 20 stores). Though they may nevernever sustain being as fully stocked as thouse pictures show.

>>1877564
>and they wont be cheap. expect ebay prices

>>1877561
>$15 for Shitty games like Abrams Battle tank on Genesis...
>Just invest on a fucking flashcart! and be happy

>>1875670
NC is turning into a terrible place for retro gaming. Resellers at the Raleigh flea market buy up everything for markup before you're let in, the local goodwills are religiously watched by resellers, and even the ebay people based out of this state sell obviously broken goods. It's a load of shit.

>>1884539
NC has always been a cancer. Anybody remember Buy Rite Games? (www.buyrite1.com, archive.org that shit if you're too young). Scheisters of epic proportion.

>>1875050
>mfw the Goodwill in my town charges $5 on all video games and on most loose console as well

>>1875061
Like hell it will. If the prices are actually good, it will just prompt the reselling scum to clean them out within weeks.

Fuck shopgoodwill and fuck all my local goodwill's for putting all the games on it. They just slap all the ps2 sports games in the retail shops that sit for years while they make bank on prices that are worse then ebay. Why people jump at D- grade items at prices worse than ebay is beyond me.

>>1876307
>To avoid the "reseller scum" label, assume I buy a painting from a store for $10 that is later identified as being a Picasso worth $200,000
Not even a valid comparison. A Picasso painting is one of a kind, meanwhile almost any cartridge has dozens of thousands of brethren just like it out there and anything in the triple digits with a few exceptions can thank collector hoarding for its value rather than legitimate rarity.

>>1884560
my local good will sells common gameboy and nintendo ds games for $30

>>1877767
>People rarely give this shit away anymore.

I actually work sorting donations at a goodwill at least once a week we get 2-3 semi large boxes full of NES, SNES, N64, and genesis games, 2 weeks ago someone donated a truck full of atari games,consoles, and accessories complete in box. We especially get a lot of Xbox, PS2 and Wii games.

Never found much outside of some old PC games I wanted at goodwill stores. I have found some great deals at consignment shops, pawn shops and those places that sell stuff auctioned off from private storage areas though (storage outlets). Even found some good deals at antique shops (usually hiding on a shelf somewhere). Also, if you have an old DVD rental place going out of business, they might have some old games if you ask. I was looking around at a mom and pop rental place last year that was closing its doors when I noticed a really rare NES game in a case near the front of the store. I bought it and asked if they had more. The owner went up into his 'attic' storage area and brought down three boxes full of old NES games he used to rent in the early 90s still in the boxes and offered them to me for $100.00. Lucky but still a really good find.

>>1884539
>>1884546
I feel ya, it's really frustrating trying to find deals.

The only place I've been able to find things at reasonable prices are the Trade-It stores in eastern NC. Some stuff is priced accordingly but usually below ebay and sometimes randomly priced. The one in Raleigh sucks though and has much less of a selection because I think Edward McKay's actually buys all their good stuff and sells it for double the price. At least it seems that way.

The Raleigh flea market does suck, but there's another one called the Raleigh Flea Market Mall. Going out of the city it's before Edward McKay's on 401. There's a couple of resellers in there but their prices are way better than the ones at the fairgrounds. I haven't been there in the morning to see if anyone was selling stuff outside but it's very possible.

Never change, /vr/.

>charity
>videogames a.k.a. luxury items

U WOT M8?

>>1887678
>implying poorfags don't torrent all their shit already all day 'erry day

>>1887681
>I did download a car

>>1887678

I hate people that define luxury items as "anything you don't need to live".

>>1887879
Sorry but something you don't need to live is the very definition of a luxury item

>>1887882

No.

This sounds cool but I can't imagine it being positive since that would give them a good excuse to charge a lot.

>>1887879
How else do you define luxury, then?

>in before no reply

>>1887918

Well first, what's luxury?

>a state of great comfort or elegance, especially when involving great expense.

So a luxury item is an item meeting this criteria. A Rolex watch is a luxury item. A Bugatti is a luxury item. A second hand gaming console is not a luxury item.

Just seems to me that most people expect the poor to squat in their own shit and not enjoy life.

>>1884620
Fine, say a print, litho, etching, etc where there were thousands made but its still worth a couple hundred based on its history of live auction sales.

Point is people don't claim BS on things like that. Its only the horrible game collecting community that somehow feels that price paid should somehow affect the value at which something should be sold.
And just to throw it in there, you its only this community that has the whiners who want to claim something isn't worth its FMV. Could you imagine someone saying "oh they're ripping people off selling that art print for $300, its only $20 with of paper and ink!"

>>1884620
What does that have to do with the post you're quoting?

He was asking what the price paid for an item has to do with the price someone is selling it for. As people like to use "they got it for free" as an reason why goodwill shouldn't charge anywhere near fmv for stuff.

>>1875050
They are a pretty shitty as a charity but I've never seen them "charge out the ass" for anything.

>>1887929
>Just seems to me that most people expect the poor to squat in their own shit and not enjoy life.

USA! USA! USA! USA! USA! USA! USA! USA! USA!

>charging out the ass
>vanilla Fable for 3.99

Yeah, sure OP

>>1894541
For video games they definitely do. It didn't used to be that way. Everything else is more than fair most of the time.

>>1879896
i'm able to get wii games that cheap and most ps3 and 360 games are about 3-5 bucks unless they are CoD and are 20. systems I haven't been able to get any cheaper than 30 for wiis with shit tons of accessories and 50-70+ for 360s. everything else I can get about 2-4 a game and 10 a system, but that is because its "old". i'm having a blast with my PSOne w/ LCD screen I got last weekend.

you guys are lucky, I don't have a goodwill near me for a good hour and a half drive. closest is a sally army and they almost never get any games or systems.