Gravitar at Goodwill for sale

Not a bad business. Get most of your inventory for free. Sell for profit.
They know what they are doing (mostly). I know I see Goodwill semi trucks going down the road. They are hauling all the good stuff to headquarters. There is the Goodwill's website, plus ebay...
 
I miss being able to find cool shit a goodwill. I used to find all kinds of cool random treasures there back in the day. Now days there stores look like garage sale leftovers mixed with literal garbage for the most part.
 
I agree 100%! No more Lego, GI Joe, Transformers or MOTU... it's all filtered and sent to the auction site.

I miss being able to find cool shit a goodwill. I used to find all kinds of cool random treasures there back in the day. Now days there stores look like garage sale leftovers mixed with literal garbage for the most part.
 
How did GoodWill get that? Wowzers!! :eek:

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I miss being able to find cool shit a goodwill. I used to find all kinds of cool random treasures there back in the day. Now days there stores look like garage sale leftovers mixed with literal garbage for the most part.

At some point though the process will hurt them. I can't imagine that the store side business has increased in sales when all the good stuff has already been cherry picked. Their auction site shill bids on everything, and the bad publicity from what they pay their employees compared to the six figure salaries for the board members. I always tell people that Goodwill is NOT a chairty. It's a non profit, and that's a HUGE difference.
 
I wouldn't be surprised if that's a numbers matching original machine, and maybe even HUO. The last 5 or so Gravitars I've been aware of in the bay area were all that way. There seems to be a lot of them, maybe owned by ex-Atari folks, who got deals on them.

Looks to be in great condition.
 
I wouldn't be surprised if that's a numbers matching original machine, and maybe even HUO. The last 5 or so Gravitars I've been aware of in the bay area were all that way. There seems to be a lot of them, maybe owned by ex-Atari folks, who got deals on them.

Looks to be in great condition.

Yeah, no kidding.
That game looks immaculate.
 
Lots of companies in Silicon Valley also fail, so this could have been in one of them.

And yeah it's a great model. The execs at Good Will are famous for their fat salaries and they make big claims of helping people, but do very little to actually help people. AND they don't pay taxes.

Donating to Salvation Army is sooooooooooooo much better. They actually help people.
 
Lots of companies in Silicon Valley also fail, so this could have been in one of them.

And yeah it's a great model. The execs at Good Will are famous for their fat salaries and they make big claims of helping people, but do very little to actually help people. AND they don't pay taxes.

Donating to Salvation Army is sooooooooooooo much better. They actually help people.

habitat for humanity is also a good spot to give. Restore has some great deals!

looks clean and it works. I am sure someone will grab it. Probably belonged to an ex atari employee.
 
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habitat for humanity is also a good spot to give.

looks clean and it works. I am sure someone will grab it. Probably belonged to an ex atari employee.

+1
I both donate to, and shop at: ReStore (their store for selling donated building supplies, furniture, fixtures, cabinets, appliances, etc.)
 
I agree 100%! No more Lego, GI Joe, Transformers or MOTU... it's all filtered and sent to the auction site.

I remember when I found a Vectrex with 8 games, all overlays, an extra controller and the light pen for $40. They thought it was an old TV set. Things like that will never happen again.
 
You can find deals at Goodwill, but it's usually not worth the effort. All of my local ones have definitely caught on for almost anything gaming related but they do still make the occasional mistake and prices on "regular" stuff are usually better than eBay.

But good luck competing with all the pickers.
 
20 hours to go and still no bids for what looks like an insanely clean Gravitar. $1300 going once...going twice...
 
Wow...auction ended with no bids!
 
Lots of companies in Silicon Valley also fail, so this could have been in one of them.

And yeah it's a great model. The execs at Good Will are famous for their fat salaries and they make big claims of helping people, but do very little to actually help people. AND they don't pay taxes.

Donating to Salvation Army is sooooooooooooo much better. They actually help people.

Thats a super nice game..

yah sadly most "charities" pretty much spend most of what they make to pay bloated salaries for executives and waste money on other things like excessive advertising.

Gotta be careful who you give money to.

When I lived in NYC I never donated anything I would just walk up to homeless people and give them stuff. At least I knew the right people were benefiting.
 
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