I used to work at a good will like most jobs the people were great at a store level but policies placed at a corporate level are very out of touch. While working there I could tell when someone at a market level saw a big thrifting video or ticktock because we’d get guide books on what to look for. The worst part was that if they thought would were “purposely” placing high value “online items” on to the floor they could discipline you for profit theft. It was a joke I never enforced it. The worst part is that the people evaluating items online weren’t educated on value at all. I was a lead for my location making $17/hr and while I was there we had a 200% profit, but I couldn’t get a small raise.
You would think the amount of "good" games and merch being given to goodwill would decrease now that its popularity has risen so much. The fact that good will gets so many good gaming items, to then seperate and sell at a premium, is only the fault of the original person who gave it to them for free. If goodwill uses the majority of the proceeds towards charity, versus paying staff and business expenses, I think it's fine. If 90% of the funds go towards staff and running a booth and online presence etc, it's stupid. The days of finding gaming treasure at goodwill for $1 are over. I'm ok with that so long as goodwill is doing what it originally set out to do.
This has been a “policy” in my area in the south for years. Even before the pandemic there were zero video games unless a PS2 slipped into the DVD’s by accident from experience. I asked an employee and they showed me the poster of all the items they have to look for and put to the side. This was probably 2018-19. Tragic, lol.
Goodwills inflate prices in their city/suburb stores while small town locations maintain low prices. They've had to close stores in order to raise those prices and restrict the flow of FREE product they receive. they'll continue closing stores as we've seen them integrate the impulse-purchase method in order to maintain their monthly budget mentality. Although, i'll occasionally find great stuff >_
Yeah most goodwill are no longer carrying video games in store and just selling them online. Which kinda sucks as they will sell them at market or sometimes above market value instead of a flat 3-4 dollars like it used to be. Plus that Celeste is the retail version
The problem is all those TH-cam videos from people going in and showing how much they would be flipping them for, so honestly you can’t blame them for wanting a piece of that pie.
Every time I go to Goodwill there are tons new cars in the parking lot and people inside with carts full of stuff. They're clearly not shopping for themselves. They are mostly resellers.
Goodwill stores are on ebay selling goods at market or above price for stuff that's usually average condition or worse. This is a non-profit donation store so everything they intake is donated and they don't pay taxes.
Goodwill a company that is given their merchandise for free , pay their top executives millions of dollars, and yet pay their workers below minimum wage, specially the "special needs" workers that they boast about giving work too but take advantage of. The company is now price gouging on items it gets for free, but was once a place where low income families could pick up items it wouldnt normally get at a reduced price.
We need to get that Stardew Valley box set! Also there actually WAS a car that had a record player in it! For like three years (I wanna say late 50s I think) Chrysler had a record player as an add-on option for like three of their models…..wild.
I stoped donating to Goodwill years ago when I found out that they take DONATED items and put them online to get top dollar. Back in the day you donated stuff you don’t want/need for others without a lot of $ can get things they need/want for cheap.. now it’s a lot of junk. I now only donate to Lighthouse and Salvation Army… really disappointed in Goodwill.
Hey Guys. I'm not an avid viewer of your channel (I'm not a gamer), but I have seen a few videos. I first subscribed when Dallas told me to a couple years ago. Now I run into you (virtually) at Retro Ricks con. I can easily see that your videos have improved quite alot since I first subscribed. You're doing a great job. Keep it up!
To be honest, it does suck that Goodwill is selling anything game related online nowadays. I did win a couple of auctions for their online website, and one of them included some very notable, high dollar PS1 JRPG games. Other than going after lots on their website, you will be paying above market value for games. The items in the $40 mystery bag were great! Celeste for the Switch is a $35-$40 game, so it is well worth it!
Celeste is a great example of why physical media is not dying. Another example is Allan Wake 2. Celeste was originally a Limited Run Game. The only way to buy it physical was to have made a preorder in the tiny window of time. However. Now Fangamer sells copies of the game, and anyone can buy it physical. Why would a smaller dev even bother, since digital is supposedly king, and anyone who wants a physical copy can hunt down a LRG copie? Because Celeste must have seen a value in somehow partnering with Fan Gamer and releasing physical copies via mass production. Then there's Alan Wake 2. A game the devil said they weren't going to do a physical copy for. Then the digital sales weren't doing as well as they thought. Guess what gets announced, a physical copy long after the games release. Why would a bigger studio even bother? Especially since digital trumps all these days. Imo physical has made either a huge resurgence, thanks to collecting, or it's never gone away like everyone who says digital is king would like use to believe.
Can someone explain to me why the people at the donation centers or stores even care about what they put out? I have never heard of anyone being paid well at a goodwill and never heard of benefits being even good. Why do the people working at the stores care enough to look for "quality" items and send them to the online store? If they got some kind of bonus I would understand it but to get just slightly over minimum wage in whatever state to make sure you're corporate overlords make the maximum profit is bewildering to me.
I think one small factor to this, and this is by no means an insult, but goodwill employs many people on the spectrum, autistic or Asperger's type individuals. statistically people on the spectrum actually show very high levels of trustworthiness, very rule following type behavior and very little deception and can sometimes be very particular about being Precisely trustworthy.
@@andrewanderson4555It wouldn't bother me if they actually got bonuses for finding the gold in the garbage. They could very easily offer bonuses to employees based off of the revenue generated from the good sent in by that store.
A bunch of Repro games all at market values is insane.... I think i saw them at Socal as well and they were doing the same thing! Shame... people who dont know are gonna get hurt! Great video as always! Miss you guys!
Did your silent Hill 2 vinyl have the red & black swirl or the silver color? I have the silver colored one and I guess that's the rare one to have. It randomly came up to my door step without me ordering a copy. Til I found out that a friend got it for me 😂😂😂 but I love it and I play it every day
We included links to our products in the video description, but the gist is: Gopros and Rode Wireless mics while hunting Sony ZV-e10 and Rode Boom Mic at home
Why is it that retro games seem to be so scarce at this cons you’d think there would be more of it. Also prices at this cons can be a little scary sometimes. Looks like I might want to check goodwills website a bit more sucks they do bidding I don’t really like that much. I also still prefer so much more to buy in person online shopping is just not as fun and not only becuase I can’t record it lol but is just not the same I can’t touch it and smell. Also I would have to rely on them being diligent enough to take good and enough pictures. that mystery box was well worth it pretty cool!
This is just more of the same with Goodwill. They started sending most of their donations that were collectible to their online auction site years ago. In fact I bought an Atari 800 computer from them 6-8 years back.
Btw i asked my Goodwill why they dont carry as nany ganes and i was told most video game stuff is plucked from donations vecause they usually are worth more and then sent to auction sites. Honestly this makes me mad and proves that good will is greedier
I am in huge support of Goodwill auctioning off their video games. Those games were about to be thrown away and neglected by people who don’t care about video games, but instead Goodwill makes it possible for games to get back in the hands of people who will appreciate them. And yeah, they get them for free, but no one is being forced to bid for their auctioned off items. People are willingly spending money on their online items so I don’t see anything wrong with it.
Great video. Kind of odd goodwill being at a Con but they are a business so why not. I think we all kinda feel a way about paying market value for anything from goodwill right? 🤷🏿♂️oh and pizza tower is Soooo good!
the otomatome isn't from japan.. that's just the japanese brand. They're from the US mid 70's. Oh edit: Also there's a bricks and minifigs in grand rapids mi as well!
So long short after covid and the games boom goodwill was bought up and a new sector was created for profit non donation based sort of speak. This covers anything nostalgic retro of large profit margin. In gaming you have goodwill computer store the nerd block and goodwill retro. These are all for profit stores like a mom and mom game store. Just fueled by donations of the charity sector slightly abusing loopholes. They are then later sold on goodwill auction online which is just a daisy chain for all stores to use but generally only the private sector sees the profits or money vs traditional stores. You also have good will brown stores which is where all the nice fancy clothes shoes and other items go to be sold at reseller or close to retail used stores. Sadly here in NM we only have the high end clothing stores an auction house and a bulk buy pallet store branch of goodwill which some require a paid member ship to be a part of. This may vary region to region.
It bugs me, does Goodwill get that many games to even push this initiative? Also something that bugs me more is when I think of Goodwill I always saw it as this store to help those less fortunate who cant afford brand new items. So they get all there inventory for free, so its all 100% profit, but now they are stepping into major retail competition, how does that make sense? What does that mean for just the average person is it even fair then to call it "Goodwill"?
Hate to say it, but smart on GW's end so long as those funds are helping the community. The good ol days of hunting GW have been over, now it's only good for hunting clothing.
What do you think about Goodwill's new video game policies? Comment below!
I used to work at a good will like most jobs the people were great at a store level but policies placed at a corporate level are very out of touch. While working there I could tell when someone at a market level saw a big thrifting video or ticktock because we’d get guide books on what to look for. The worst part was that if they thought would were “purposely” placing high value “online items” on to the floor they could discipline you for profit theft. It was a joke I never enforced it. The worst part is that the people evaluating items online weren’t educated on value at all. I was a lead for my location making $17/hr and while I was there we had a 200% profit, but I couldn’t get a small raise.
You would think the amount of "good" games and merch being given to goodwill would decrease now that its popularity has risen so much. The fact that good will gets so many good gaming items, to then seperate and sell at a premium, is only the fault of the original person who gave it to them for free.
If goodwill uses the majority of the proceeds towards charity, versus paying staff and business expenses, I think it's fine. If 90% of the funds go towards staff and running a booth and online presence etc, it's stupid.
The days of finding gaming treasure at goodwill for $1 are over. I'm ok with that so long as goodwill is doing what it originally set out to do.
This has been a “policy” in my area in the south for years. Even before the pandemic there were zero video games unless a PS2 slipped into the DVD’s by accident from experience. I asked an employee and they showed me the poster of all the items they have to look for and put to the side. This was probably 2018-19. Tragic, lol.
Goodwill is spending more money to run this program than if they just sold them at their stores like they are supposed to do in my opinion
At 10:17 seeing a vendor selling repro carts was somewhat annoying. If I’m at a convention of any kind, that would be the last thing I’d wanna see.
Goodwills inflate prices in their city/suburb stores while small town locations maintain low prices. They've had to close stores in order to raise those prices and restrict the flow of FREE product they receive. they'll continue closing stores as we've seen them integrate the impulse-purchase method in order to maintain their monthly budget mentality. Although, i'll occasionally find great stuff >_
Yeah most goodwill are no longer carrying video games in store and just selling them online. Which kinda sucks as they will sell them at market or sometimes above market value instead of a flat 3-4 dollars like it used to be. Plus that Celeste is the retail version
The problem is all those TH-cam videos from people going in and showing how much they would be flipping them for, so honestly you can’t blame them for wanting a piece of that pie.
Every time I go to Goodwill there are tons new cars in the parking lot and people inside with carts full of stuff. They're clearly not shopping for themselves. They are mostly resellers.
Goodwill stores are on ebay selling goods at market or above price for stuff that's usually average condition or worse. This is a non-profit donation store so everything they intake is donated and they don't pay taxes.
It was great to have you guys at the booth! You were amazing to talk with. I was the guy who was helping you at Fangamer booth.
Awesome! Thanks for chatting with us and grabbing those vinyl for us 😊
Goodwill a company that is given their merchandise for free , pay their top executives millions of dollars, and yet pay their workers below minimum wage, specially the "special needs" workers that they boast about giving work too but take advantage of. The company is now price gouging on items it gets for free, but was once a place where low income families could pick up items it wouldnt normally get at a reduced price.
As always thank you so much for the kind words it was great seeing y’all always a pleasure!!
You guys as well!
No games are rare that you can hack maybe they were back in the 80’s where you couldn’t hack anything but those days are over
Wow $40 for a mystery bag?? That is amazing! Got some great items there!
Their mystery bags are SO GOOD!
I’m the king of VYNIL!!!! VYNIL Liners that is 😂
We need to get that Stardew Valley box set! Also there actually WAS a car that had a record player in it! For like three years (I wanna say late 50s I think) Chrysler had a record player as an add-on option for like three of their models…..wild.
Dude...why don't you have that car yet??
@ that is a damn fine question
I love you guys ! thanks for another great video ☺️
Thanks so much for watching 😊
I stoped donating to Goodwill years ago when I found out that they take DONATED items and put them online to get top dollar. Back in the day you donated stuff you don’t want/need for others without a lot of $ can get things they need/want for cheap.. now it’s a lot of junk. I now only donate to Lighthouse and Salvation Army… really disappointed in Goodwill.
I'm surprised it took goodwill this long to do it!
Wow that tattoo flash is really cool 3:20
Hey Guys. I'm not an avid viewer of your channel (I'm not a gamer), but I have seen a few videos. I first subscribed when Dallas told me to a couple years ago. Now I run into you (virtually) at Retro Ricks con. I can easily see that your videos have improved quite alot since I first subscribed. You're doing a great job. Keep it up!
Thanks so much for the kind words, and for watching! 😊
Sweet pickups
So mad I am just discovering your channel, love this content! you guys are such a cute match.
Thanks so much for watching! You can still watch any of our old videos! 😅
those glassy plastic red cups are so nostalgic. I need some now lol
To be honest, it does suck that Goodwill is selling anything game related online nowadays. I did win a couple of auctions for their online website, and one of them included some very notable, high dollar PS1 JRPG games. Other than going after lots on their website, you will be paying above market value for games. The items in the $40 mystery bag were great! Celeste for the Switch is a $35-$40 game, so it is well worth it!
Celeste is a great example of why physical media is not dying. Another example is Allan Wake 2.
Celeste was originally a Limited Run Game. The only way to buy it physical was to have made a preorder in the tiny window of time. However. Now Fangamer sells copies of the game, and anyone can buy it physical. Why would a smaller dev even bother, since digital is supposedly king, and anyone who wants a physical copy can hunt down a LRG copie? Because Celeste must have seen a value in somehow partnering with Fan Gamer and releasing physical copies via mass production.
Then there's Alan Wake 2. A game the devil said they weren't going to do a physical copy for. Then the digital sales weren't doing as well as they thought. Guess what gets announced, a physical copy long after the games release. Why would a bigger studio even bother? Especially since digital trumps all these days. Imo physical has made either a huge resurgence, thanks to collecting, or it's never gone away like everyone who says digital is king would like use to believe.
Physical will always be the way I play games unless no other way to do so.
Don’t tell Mort but your convention videos are the best 😊
I bet you say that to all the pretty girls ☺️
Mort's are way better 🫣
@ lol!
My ulterior motive for having Steve in my convention video was to have him elevate my content to your level. Looks like I’m falling short 😢😅
@@MortsGarage I’m sorry mort please forgive me
@ lol
You guys seem to have so much fun at gaming conventions i wish it was a gaming convention in Baltimore
We always do! Even comic cons are fun sometimes 😀
Goodwill has been doing that for years. I use to work for the auction site. All the stores send items in totes to the warehouses.
Those Star Wars erasers are awesome
Goodwill selling at Cons is interesting to me….all that Fan Gamer stuff looks so awesome!
Can someone explain to me why the people at the donation centers or stores even care about what they put out? I have never heard of anyone being paid well at a goodwill and never heard of benefits being even good. Why do the people working at the stores care enough to look for "quality" items and send them to the online store? If they got some kind of bonus I would understand it but to get just slightly over minimum wage in whatever state to make sure you're corporate overlords make the maximum profit is bewildering to me.
Probably ly because they are just being paid to do a job 😅🤷
I think one small factor to this, and this is by no means an insult, but goodwill employs many people on the spectrum, autistic or Asperger's type individuals. statistically people on the spectrum actually show very high levels of trustworthiness, very rule following type behavior and very little deception and can sometimes be very particular about being Precisely trustworthy.
@@andrewanderson4555It wouldn't bother me if they actually got bonuses for finding the gold in the garbage. They could very easily offer bonuses to employees based off of the revenue generated from the good sent in by that store.
Being that there games are donated they should be cheaper
I appreciate how you always teach me something new all of the time I thank you for it 💯 🙌 😌 🙏
So my wife ( Needmore Crochet) and I setup at Tucson comic con every year. And I dress as the grinch all 3 days. lol.
Haha very cool!
The Pizza Tower cup is a gem. Great pickup
A bunch of Repro games all at market values is insane.... I think i saw them at Socal as well and they were doing the same thing! Shame... people who dont know are gonna get hurt!
Great video as always! Miss you guys!
Hopefully we see y'all at the next one!
You weren’t kidding when you said Fangamer mystery bags were worth it! $40 for all that is a great price!
Right?!
Great video friends! 😊
Thanks brother 😊
Did your silent Hill 2 vinyl have the red & black swirl or the silver color? I have the silver colored one and I guess that's the rare one to have. It randomly came up to my door step without me ordering a copy. Til I found out that a friend got it for me 😂😂😂 but I love it and I play it every day
Dang! We will have to check!
@JRPGLife I had no idea there were different colors til I looked it up
Ours is silver, but silver is the color promoted by Mondo and shown on their website. I don't believe it's a rare variant 🤔
$40 was an incredible deal for that bag
Tucson Comic Con is getting on my radar. Been wanting to go
It's HUGE!
@JRPGLife That's what she said 😂
What cam/mic set up do y'all use for your vlogs?
We included links to our products in the video description, but the gist is:
Gopros and Rode Wireless mics while hunting
Sony ZV-e10 and Rode Boom Mic at home
@@JRPGLife Thank you so much!
i bring my supaboy everywhere lol its pretty cool to play on a plane actually got one last year
Fangamer makes excellent special editions... their celeste CE was amazing
what app are you using to keep track of your collection?
CLZ 🙂
song at 2:11?
Not sure lol, some random epidemic sound song 😅
Still waiting for the song name and artist
@@mysteriousfigure9860 I found it. Just search “Pop It - Flyin”
Why is it that retro games seem to be so scarce at this cons you’d think there would be more of it. Also prices at this cons can be a little scary sometimes. Looks like I might want to check goodwills website a bit more sucks they do bidding I don’t really like that much. I also still prefer so much more to buy in person online shopping is just not as fun and not only becuase I can’t record it lol but is just not the same I can’t touch it and smell. Also I would have to rely on them being diligent enough to take good and enough pictures. that mystery box was well worth it pretty cool!
That booth charging that much for repros is funny.
A repro should be no more than $10.
This is just more of the same with Goodwill. They started sending most of their donations that were collectible to their online auction site years ago. In fact I bought an Atari 800 computer from them 6-8 years back.
Btw i asked my Goodwill why they dont carry as nany ganes and i was told most video game stuff is plucked from donations vecause they usually are worth more and then sent to auction sites. Honestly this makes me mad and proves that good will is greedier
Jrpglife day! Jrpglife day! *BILLY Madison Voice*
the Blacktrone made my day best ship in the system
I am in huge support of Goodwill auctioning off their video games. Those games were about to be thrown away and neglected by people who don’t care about video games, but instead Goodwill makes it possible for games to get back in the hands of people who will appreciate them. And yeah, they get them for free, but no one is being forced to bid for their auctioned off items. People are willingly spending money on their online items so I don’t see anything wrong with it.
Fantastic point 😀
CJ with the rational take
You should get Night Lords Castle, it is a really sick Lego set from the mid 90s 🤟
Great video
where is that zelda t-shirt from? its so nice
It's an old Fan Gamer shirt 😊
Great video. Kind of odd goodwill being at a Con but they are a business so why not. I think we all kinda feel a way about paying market value for anything from goodwill right? 🤷🏿♂️oh and pizza tower is Soooo good!
Haha thanks! We will have to try it soon!
These conventions shouldn’t let goodwill set up, just tell them “We don’t serve your kind!!!”
That Goodwill thing…eek. I’ll stick to donating old beat up clothes to them
the otomatome isn't from japan.. that's just the japanese brand. They're from the US mid 70's.
Oh edit: Also there's a bricks and minifigs in grand rapids mi as well!
Why did you change the title of the video?
Yea that’s a great bag, kinda jelly lol
$40 was a great deal for that bag
Goodwill is a business which profits from charity.
Games At Goodwill Use To Cost $2.
So long short after covid and the games boom goodwill was bought up and a new sector was created for profit non donation based sort of speak. This covers anything nostalgic retro of large profit margin. In gaming you have goodwill computer store the nerd block and goodwill retro. These are all for profit stores like a mom and mom game store. Just fueled by donations of the charity sector slightly abusing loopholes. They are then later sold on goodwill auction online which is just a daisy chain for all stores to use but generally only the private sector sees the profits or money vs traditional stores. You also have good will brown stores which is where all the nice fancy clothes shoes and other items go to be sold at reseller or close to retail used stores. Sadly here in NM we only have the high end clothing stores an auction house and a bulk buy pallet store branch of goodwill which some require a paid member ship to be a part of. This may vary region to region.
I think as long as no one comes after them they will continue with their corruption
It bugs me, does Goodwill get that many games to even push this initiative? Also something that bugs me more is when I think of Goodwill I always saw it as this store to help those less fortunate who cant afford brand new items. So they get all there inventory for free, so its all 100% profit, but now they are stepping into major retail competition, how does that make sense? What does that mean for just the average person is it even fair then to call it "Goodwill"?
I think it's messed up that Goodwill is making a profit on donations.
I see LOM music boxes. Please tell me that one of you is an LOM fan :)
We are 😊
@@JRPGLife Great! It is my #1 favorite JRPG of all time :3
Whenever you say Tucson i swear i keep hearing Twoson, been playing too much Earthbound...
Haha that's a great problem to have 😅
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PLAY PIZZA TOWER ON SWITCH!!!!!!!
If you want really rare Lego, hit me up, I have Grangemouth for sale (or preferably trade). Enjoyable video :)
That subscribe song nearly took me out. I unsubscribed then subscribed again
Lol thanks!! 😅
I hate seeing people selling games and not advertising as reproductions. So many people don't know how to tell the difference.
Resellers ruined video game collecting as a whole and that’s is why goodwill is trying to get their piece of the pie.
We are SO thankful for resellers. If they didn't exist, we would have zero chance of buying a game we wanted if it wasn't available locally 😊
@ I do agree on that front if the price is right for both parties. I appreciate the content you guys make! It’s very fun!
I just want to know what y’all do or money to afford these things. I’m sure going childless helps 😂
Just strict budgeting 🙂
i really dont like goodwill anymore. they get that stuff for free, they shouldnt be moving the way they do.
Disappointed greedwill the stuff is donated yall make a lot of money as is what about people that collect on a budget
Hate to say it, but smart on GW's end so long as those funds are helping the community. The good ol days of hunting GW have been over, now it's only good for hunting clothing.
Even clothing is dead at GW
the problem is they dont really help the community