Lemme know your thoughts on this format! This isn't a replacement for LGR Thrifts, but those are taking forever to film due to 2̶͈̘̌0̶̰̰̄͆2̵̞̉̏0̴̤̅, so this seemed like something fun to try in the meantime. I'm happy to hear any ideas you have for future episodes though -- or whether or not there should even _be_ future episodes, since I haven't decided if I'll do any more eThrifts or not. It's always a gamble when trying new things and I see several of you aren't happy with the result. But yeah, I'm open to ideas. Thanks for sticking with me as I experiment, folks!
Was really looking forward to this video after seeing your post on twitter! I love this format and would absolutely love to see more in the future! Thanks for all you do to keep us sane!
I expected e thrifts to be Clint flying a drone from his car into a goodwill and just knocking things off shelves and pushing them to the checkout to buy them. Either way I'm not disappointed
"It'd be about right. 14, 15 years... yeah" Oh LGR, you silly goose, it hasn't been that lo- _Horror sets in as I realize the Wii released in 2006, and that 2006 was nearly 15 years ago._
@@inny74 There's a local version of eBay in Germany where I have found many good things in the past for fair prices to almost nothing. Classic eBay though, not so much, at least in my experience.
@@rokzakrajsek9864 I did a double take when I say Dan's name. lol It's nice to have him though, this is just a part of youtube that would had been the last place I thought I would see some of the musicians I follow.
Used their site before and even if you manage to score a deal they kill you on the shipping and they tac on a handling fee. Not worth it. What really sucks is that most goodwills don’t even put out any gaming stuff they get in these days. They ship it off to be posted online and instead of the old days of $4 a game no matter the title. The days of mega scores and finding rare gems are sadly long gone
My Late Father was an Avid collector of toy trains. I have been selling the old ones on Ebay. I took a load (probably about 20) more modern plastic sets to the local Hospice Charity Shop. On about the third visit the shop manager told me "were putting quite a few of these on Ebay as we get better prices". At least its a good cause and it's them who has the problem of packing and posting them (maybe easier if you have a warehouse and are doing lots of items each day).
Forgot about the shipping, but yeah it's usually nuts. They had a handful of games that could've fit in a small USPS priority box, but they were asking like a lot more for shipping via Fed Ex I think. Anyway yeah shipping there can really feel like a rip off. I believe a lot of stuff is sold as is too. I once got some comics from them and they were all marked up inside
This right here. If you do find anything of interest, you always get outbid and they sell for some crazy price. Then you if you do win, it is usually from the other side of the US that you are on and they charge you twice as much for shipping.
Yup, their stores are just storefronts for the online store now. Any good finds are going to be shipped to an online bid and the stores are left with the junk.
I work at a Goodwill in South Eastern Wisconsin and Greater Metropolitan Chicago: FYI Goodwill Retail Services, Inc is the entity that manages the actual stores and the eCommerce side of Goodwill in our area. Seeing this episode was surreal because I help identify and send off high value items to that particular location in Racine, including one time a Commodore 64 in its original packaging with the manual and all. Unlike other goodwills, we do not sell consoles or vintage computers / video game consoles / electronic collectables (including collectable video games) in our stores, so eCommerce thrifting would be the best way to get your hands on these items coming out of our stores. Can also 100% say that people used to shop our store and buy jewelry just for the gold. Before our Goodwill region participated in the eCommerce program, we used to sell assorted metal jewelry in glass vases. We would make a killing on them, over $100 a pop, but it was clear the people who were buying them were buying them for the precious metal and their value.
I remember ages ago there was this TH-cam channel that pretty much did what this video did, but was on eBay, and he would sometimes bid on items in the episodes. He also did some physical thrifts too at like garage sales. His main channel is FantavisionTV, and the channel I was talking about got it's name changed to something else I don't remember.
Thank you for continuing to share thrifts with us! Your videos are so mellow to watch after my stressful job, & totally satisfy my love of thrifting without further cluttering up my house 😚
Very cool! I tested the Bose Acoustic Wave Machine on my channel a while back including a tear down of one someone sent me. They sound pretty good for only (2) 2.5" speakers and a single 4.5" subwoofer. That wave chamber really does make it sound much bigger than it is!
I heard a Bose Wave Radio once and it sounded like a boombox with the bass turned all the way up and the treble turned all the way down. And there's no way to adjust it -- you either like the way it sounds, or you don't.
My roommate in college had a wave radio, and we thought it sounded really good for the size. He had gotten it as a graduation gift... I definitely wouldn't have paid full price for one, but I liked what I heard from it.
VWestlife the Acoustic Wave Machine was much larger than the Wave Radio and had either CD or cassette on the top. Agreed 100% it’s a love or hate thing with Bose, I just think they get a lot of hate from people who haven’t heard them. I got mine used for a small percentage of new and it works quite well as a TV sound system. Way way better than TV speakers although not audiophile sound by any means.
vandabo right! They heavily advertised those radios and were very expensive new...but agreed pretty impressive how big the sound was from such a small device
It looks like it started out as a Mac 128K or 512K and then was upgraded to a Plus later (back when Apple dealers actually offered upgrades like that), because it doesn't say Macintosh Plus on the front panel and the Apple logo is different.
Really enjoyed the eThrift, I miss your actual thrifts but man, times are not the best and this was a source of comfort, thank you my friend, keep tapping into our nostalgia's
In my opinion the biggest thing was when he said that he has seen it many times throughout the years at churches!?! Does Clint believe in god and bible?!? All religions are just total BS.
I mean, ours stopped taking CRTs a long time ago, but I think either people don't donate flat panel tv's or they get sent somewhere else since I only saw the one humongous flat panel right as they stopped taking CRTs which sucked because now I could use another crt considering the one my mom decided to keep when things were moved isn't the one with the inputs I wanted to have and I didn't even know there was a difference on them XD
@@kaosine2877 I know here in S. Carolina in my county we have local recycle drop offs, and everytime I go I make sure to check the e-waste bin for some free goodies as the guy running mine cares less, so who knows you might find a CRT, if it works great, if not haul it back to the dump a few weeks later. Also be checking Salvation Army stores they often take stuff Goodwill won't. Edit: same for Habitat for Humanity ReStore locations.
Perfect. Grab a cup of coffee and hanging out with Clint on a rainy Friday. This is the way to end a week. Love the TRS80 in the background. Just like the one I grew up with.
Dude, I could watch you gush about vintage tech in any format. It's just relaxing and informative to me. The world kinda sucks at the moment, I'm just glad for any sort of entertainment. Stay safe out there.
I absolutely loved this format! Really looking forward to any (potential) future episodes! I love the regular LGR Thrifts, but I could easily see this become one of my new favourite shows! I don’t know if it would fit the whole «thrift store» theme, but I think it could be fun seeing you browse eBay. I’m not familiar with many other sites you could use as an American due to me not being one myself, but I’d be happy with whatever you decide to peruse!
I love the variety of stuff you find in this series. One thing that I like about the old series that you can't do in this one is watching you touch everything. I know its weird but it's oddly satisfying to watch you open panels and click old buttons on some retroware.
So, I could literally do this all right now. At this computer I'm sitting at. But hearing you talk and getting your commentary on everything is what makes this format special. It isn't the shopping or the things specifically; it's everything you, Clint, bring to the experience.
Wow! So many things in this video I've had over the years. The Timex Sinclair 1000 was my FIRST computer (including the 16k expansion monolith). The Atari 800XL was my second computer when it was brand new. Ah, nerdy high-school memories! Of course I had an NES, SNES, N64, Game Gear... I even have the (yeah, not old) Sony alpha 6000 camera which takes amazing photos and video. Now I wanna slap a faux wood skin on that puppy. If you'd run across a bona fide Vectrex game system from GCE, I'd have fallen out of my Goodwill desk chair. That would have just about wrapped up my teens-twenties electronic life all in one LGR Thrifts video. Well done, taking the eThrifts route this time. Love watching these!!
thank you for the eThrifts 😁 I hope this becomes a normal show for you even when everything goes back to normal. love to watch your strategies for shopping online and different sites we will all may not know about
@@TheRealColBosch I heard the good stuff is called PYREX and the new stuff made out of soda-lime glass is called Pyrex. I don't collect, but I keep a lookout for the ALL CAPS version.
I still prefer the regular in person thrifts, but when that's not possible, this is a good substitute! Please make more until the regular thrifts can start again!
I enjoyed the browsing and the commentary, if you make more I'll keep watching! Even when you'll end up going to thrift stores in person I still think this could be a pretty cool and relaxed parallel series, because it's a little different due to being able to talk about bids and values and stuff...
honestly, i was afraid that this new format wouldn't be able to keep the mood of the original Thrifts, but it totally does... so looking forward to following episodes!
Sat here for 23 minutes, watching you scroll through random items that I would have never look at myself. This sure is entertaining plus your voice makes it perfect.
My late aunt had the Bose Wave and it sounded fantastic every time. I remember using it anytime we visited her all the way up until her passing. I have fond memories of bringing my windows entertainment pack floppies and listening to the radio. Miss you Margaret Anne...
I thought there would be a huge selection of "new" things in the shops judging by the piles of donations left during the initial lockdowns and the lines of cars waiting to donate but the few times I have browsed my local haunts since restrictions were eased I've found the stores to be much cleaner but sparsely stocked... I think a lot of stuff was just sent to the dump.
i went day of reopening in my town and it was packed with people and great finds. but there are alot of resellers out and they are hungry for anything they can make a profit on. every time i go to goodwill now i cant find anything and if i do its pure luck.
@@garyhanson655 same our goodwill has over 7 regulars I used to be semi regular but we have high risk family so I only wonder into a thrift if it's mostly empty now and it's always so picked over it's depressing
i stopped going long ago when i discovered full time resellers would literally hit stores all over town each and every day to sweep out the good stuff. if they could profit fifty cents on something they bought it to resell. pathetic.
Of course Goodwill of Tulsa only hold local daily auctions. They have a neat vintage sign off Route 66 between an oil refinery and the train yard, it’s real scenic even if it smells like Vaseline.
I remember the Bose wave infomercials they were constantly explaining "the quality of audio" by playing demonstrations. The problem with the demonstrations being that they came out the Bose, into a mic(or f#$@ it they probably mixed audio in and nothing came out of the bose being showed on TV), through broadcast or cable, and then out my regular TV where it sounded as good as my TV normally sounded.
If someone on TV tells says it sounds better than your TV speakers, people will believe it actually sounds better, despite the impossibility of it sounding better since it’s on TV. People don’t like to use their brains. Haha.
@@Schwarzorn They put out some respectable quality sound but I recall them going for $600 which was as far as I knew one of the steepest asking prices for a boombox/shelf system.
I remember seeing one of them in a flooring store. There was nobody in that part of the store and the little remote was just laying there so I played with it a bit, it sounded surprisingly good. Still stupidly expensive though.
The trick is to make the rest of the commercial sound crappier. Filter all the high frequencies for example, then when you play the Bose sample, mix it all back in, so it suddenly sounds amazing in comparison. They used to do the same with TV commercials for special non-flickering TVs. Add extra flicker to the rest of the picture, so that TV you're selling looks awesome, even on the horrible flickering old TV people watch the ad on.
Yes, keep this format. You can somehow take something as dry as a goodwill website and make it entertaining. You really do have a gift for gab. Keep up the great content.
Like the new format, nice to have a way to get the thrifts fix, even in these strange times. The Pioneer receiver looks super familiar to me, when I was at Uni, I ran a club where we listened to vinyl records & we had that exact pioneer receiver. Ours was very beat up from getting moved around alot, the woodgrain was not in a good state. We had to hook it up every meeting because we shared the space with some other clubs so I became very familiar with the rear connectors!
Glad you’re staying home and staying safe! It sucks to stay home so much, but it’s nice you found a decent alternative and I really enjoyed this format! (:
9:21 Well that caught me off guard. I've never heard someone call the Wii sleeve jackets as Wii condoms but now I'll never look at those jackets the same. Lol
@@Kamakazie27 Well to be fair, I was 10 when the jacket was first unveiled to the public so that's probably why I never heard them be called that. But still, even any time after that, this was the first time I heard it.
Just wanted to say that I love your LGR Thrifts videos and you really made this eThrift video feel like the same thing to me. Really enjoying this new series!
Loving this format! Just to let you know about the high price on the Zippo auction, The other lighter in the lot is a Dupont lighter made of silver, those go for a fortune at auction if they are in good condition :)
This was a very enjoyable episode. The fact that they do shipping is amazing. I love me some thrifting, but this is an acceptable substitute till things get better. You got hold of some real gems as well. More please!
The participating in the auction was really cool and engaging. I would have gladly waited til the next installment of eThrifts to see if you won. I found the video enjoyable overall, but I could also listen to you read part numbers on an 8 hour loop.
I definitely enjoyed the video and would encourage you to do similar ones in the future. My experience with goodwill is that shipping is very quick. Congrats on the nice find.
I been playing the scrap pc lottery trying to get a voodoo card for years. no luck so far. one of my best finds has been a diamond monster sound MX300 sound card and an Asus P5A-B mobo. I got lots of random parts been thinking about building a few retro rigs and trying my hand at selling some of them. been trying to think of places to hit up to find old computers. Been wondering about contacting the local schools in the area and seeing if they have any stuff from the 90s they would give away lol
You could always put out a wanted ad on Craigslist / FB Marketplace. Either offer to haul off for free (some people just want to avoid transfer station fees), or a vague cash offer (ie; buying vintage computers and parts!). I've had good luck with that in the past. Also, just making it known in your social / familial / work circles that you tinker is a great way to get hand-me-down relics. A friend of mine just gave me three functional, but archaic laptops (one is a Gateway with Windows ME, lol) because she knew I'd have fun just putzing around on em.
The P5Q is what's in my gaming PC, with a Core 2 Duo E8400 @2.99GHz, but just bought a much-needed Ryzen 3. Sadly the rest of my budget only allows for a CPU upgrade atm
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Lemme know your thoughts on this format! This isn't a replacement for LGR Thrifts, but those are taking forever to film due to 2̶͈̘̌0̶̰̰̄͆2̵̞̉̏0̴̤̅, so this seemed like something fun to try in the meantime. I'm happy to hear any ideas you have for future episodes though -- or whether or not there should even _be_ future episodes, since I haven't decided if I'll do any more eThrifts or not. It's always a gamble when trying new things and I see several of you aren't happy with the result. But yeah, I'm open to ideas. Thanks for sticking with me as I experiment, folks!
Was really looking forward to this video after seeing your post on twitter! I love this format and would absolutely love to see more in the future! Thanks for all you do to keep us sane!
Loved the solution that you have found. Here in Brazil is everything collapsing, but while I have LGR videos, all is good
It's fun! It has a comfy vibe and feels like a good companion to the in-person thrifting goodness. I'd def look forward to more!
"What you watching honey?", "Oh nothing, just a 23 minute video of a man from North Carolina shopping online."
I only hope the Techmon effect where something niche is shown and people become scalpers to get the items and they become even more scarce.
In the future, I'd prefer it if you still wear the camera glasses and film the monitor with them, though. Haha. ;)
I expected e thrifts to be Clint flying a drone from his car into a goodwill and just knocking things off shelves and pushing them to the checkout to buy them.
Either way I'm not disappointed
Plot Twist: The drone has wood-grain.
I can help facilitate this idea
@@whizwart1 dude a wood grain drone would look so freaking awesome
@@Kendingro I'd spend money on that
Oh my god, this would be perfect, lmao.
"It'd be about right. 14, 15 years... yeah" Oh LGR, you silly goose, it hasn't been that lo-
_Horror sets in as I realize the Wii released in 2006, and that 2006 was nearly 15 years ago._
The Xbox one came out 7 years ago ☠️
@@Mireaze wooow
@@Mireaze The playstation 3 is 14 1/2 years old. I still consider it a pretty new-ish console.
The PS2 is 21 years old ...
I mean the freaking PlayStation 4 will be 10 next year,, I found that absolutely nuts. wtf I did with my life?
can we get a Virtual Lucky rock?
Virtual lucky cat
We call that the Rosetta Stone vpn
I'm learning 3d so maybe I could make him one
VR lucky rock
The virtual lucky rock is just the metal ball inside a mouse.
I'm watching someone on the internet shopping on the internet.
This just occurred to me as well.
Browsing the internet...
is that the most 2020 thing or what?
Konata, My waifu
2020 meta.
Awesome format! Would love to see an episode on Ebay, along with tips on finding good deals on big box pc games there :)
I've had so much fun looking at all the retro gear I could ever want on ebay. It's a real exercise in restraint, lol.
eBay? Good deals? I didnt know good deals existed on eBay.
Nice to see the awesome singer Dan following the awesome Clint!
@@inny74
There's a local version of eBay in Germany where I have found many good things in the past for fair prices to almost nothing. Classic eBay though, not so much, at least in my experience.
@@rokzakrajsek9864 I did a double take when I say Dan's name. lol It's nice to have him though, this is just a part of youtube that would had been the last place I thought I would see some of the musicians I follow.
Used their site before and even if you manage to score a deal they kill you on the shipping and they tac on a handling fee. Not worth it. What really sucks is that most goodwills don’t even put out any gaming stuff they get in these days. They ship it off to be posted online and instead of the old days of $4 a game no matter the title. The days of mega scores and finding rare gems are sadly long gone
My Late Father was an Avid collector of toy trains. I have been selling the old ones on Ebay. I took a load (probably about 20) more modern plastic sets to the local Hospice Charity Shop. On about the third visit the shop manager told me "were putting quite a few of these on Ebay as we get better prices". At least its a good cause and it's them who has the problem of packing and posting them (maybe easier if you have a warehouse and are doing lots of items each day).
Forgot about the shipping, but yeah it's usually nuts. They had a handful of games that could've fit in a small USPS priority box, but they were asking like a lot more for shipping via Fed Ex I think. Anyway yeah shipping there can really feel like a rip off. I believe a lot of stuff is sold as is too. I once got some comics from them and they were all marked up inside
This right here. If you do find anything of interest, you always get outbid and they sell for some crazy price. Then you if you do win, it is usually from the other side of the US that you are on and they charge you twice as much for shipping.
Yup, their stores are just storefronts for the online store now. Any good finds are going to be shipped to an online bid and the stores are left with the junk.
Did any of you watch the whole vid? He wound up buying a shrinkwrapped Voodoo 3...
What's fun to me is "Lots of Creepy Dolls" title was made up by a Goodwill employee.
They know exactly who they're trying to sell those to.
I'd be flogged if I did that at the Shopgoodwill I work at 🤣
haxx 64 yeah
those are extras that escaped from the "Barbarella" Movie ;-)
I saw a terrarium at Goodwill once that had a label on it that said "SNAKE HOUSE."
I work at a Goodwill in South Eastern Wisconsin and Greater Metropolitan Chicago: FYI Goodwill Retail Services, Inc is the entity that manages the actual stores and the eCommerce side of Goodwill in our area. Seeing this episode was surreal because I help identify and send off high value items to that particular location in Racine, including one time a Commodore 64 in its original packaging with the manual and all. Unlike other goodwills, we do not sell consoles or vintage computers / video game consoles / electronic collectables (including collectable video games) in our stores, so eCommerce thrifting would be the best way to get your hands on these items coming out of our stores.
Can also 100% say that people used to shop our store and buy jewelry just for the gold. Before our Goodwill region participated in the eCommerce program, we used to sell assorted metal jewelry in glass vases. We would make a killing on them, over $100 a pop, but it was clear the people who were buying them were buying them for the precious metal and their value.
Not a single Goodwill I've been in in the last 5 years sells any of that anymore.
dissapointed that LGR didn't avoid his mortgage payment to get that apple III
goodwill prices are bad but their online prices...
@@kennysboat4432 i have gotten some good deals but definitely they are high. I always compare.
@@kennysboat4432 that's comparable to those outrageous ebay prices.
@@pentiummmx2294depends. Ive gotten decent prices on ebay b4
@@kennysboat4432 I have found many decently priced sound cards, motherboards, video cards, etc. and decently priced retro consoles.
eThrifting sounds like something someone would do at an early 2000s rave when they don't have much money to buy ecstasy.
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I never realised how much I missed the LGR Thrifts tune!
16:03 A Rick and Morty plumbus fades in for a split second. Nice.
Sweet! Nice find dude 👍👍👍
I was both ready and not ready for Beard Clint.
A man denied his thrifts.
Our salvation lies in the father's thrifts!
Punished clint
Try looking at him in late 2012
Clint is going full Wilson
Haha that sweet, summer child
I've been dying for someone to start a series like this for years.
I remember ages ago there was this TH-cam channel that pretty much did what this video did, but was on eBay, and he would sometimes bid on items in the episodes. He also did some physical thrifts too at like garage sales. His main channel is FantavisionTV, and the channel I was talking about got it's name changed to something else I don't remember.
5:51 TIL the letters in 'JBL' stood for the founders' name, James Bullough Lansing.
Hmm, wonder if "Altec Lansing" has something to do with the same dude.
@@Kepe Nah. According to Wikipedia, (TL;DR) there were 2 separate companies. Altec bought Lansing and merged the names.
Thank you for continuing to share thrifts with us! Your videos are so mellow to watch after my stressful job, & totally satisfy my love of thrifting without further cluttering up my house 😚
This is both very depressing and at the same time, very comforting. Thanks, bud.
Very cool! I tested the Bose Acoustic Wave Machine on my channel a while back including a tear down of one someone sent me. They sound pretty good for only (2) 2.5" speakers and a single 4.5" subwoofer. That wave chamber really does make it sound much bigger than it is!
I heard a Bose Wave Radio once and it sounded like a boombox with the bass turned all the way up and the treble turned all the way down. And there's no way to adjust it -- you either like the way it sounds, or you don't.
My roommate in college had a wave radio, and we thought it sounded really good for the size. He had gotten it as a graduation gift... I definitely wouldn't have paid full price for one, but I liked what I heard from it.
VWestlife the Acoustic Wave Machine was much larger than the Wave Radio and had either CD or cassette on the top. Agreed 100% it’s a love or hate thing with Bose, I just think they get a lot of hate from people who haven’t heard them. I got mine used for a small percentage of new and it works quite well as a TV sound system. Way way better than TV speakers although not audiophile sound by any means.
vandabo right! They heavily advertised those radios and were very expensive new...but agreed pretty impressive how big the sound was from such a small device
@@wal Man, Big D I see you everywhere on the youToobs 😬
Missed oportunity to use the Internet Explorer "e" for eThrifts, for that retro 90s look.
Not the IE e, but the eMachines e instead.
@@hak1985org not as good.
eVilThrifts
the person who listed the Creepy Dolls needs a raise.
For the record, I was the high bidder on the Mac Plus... up until the last minute. It went for just over $125.
It looks like it started out as a Mac 128K or 512K and then was upgraded to a Plus later (back when Apple dealers actually offered upgrades like that), because it doesn't say Macintosh Plus on the front panel and the Apple logo is different.
Really enjoyed the eThrift, I miss your actual thrifts but man, times are not the best and this was a source of comfort, thank you my friend, keep tapping into our nostalgia's
7:27 For a second I thought you were going to say, "Signed by...Jesus!"
Knowing Clint is in NC for some reason I was thinking of Greg Olsen from the Panthers. Who knows. 🤷
Same. I was really hoping he'd at least throw in some Clint humor there.
I was literally waiting for him to say that!
In my opinion the biggest thing was when he said that he has seen it many times throughout the years at churches!?!
Does Clint believe in god and bible?!?
All religions are just total BS.
LGR: "Anybody need some soap?"
Me: "And yet Goodwill does not take TV's......"
Mine has been going through their stock of CRT displays, and they will take lcd displays.
I mean, ours stopped taking CRTs a long time ago, but I think either people don't donate flat panel tv's or they get sent somewhere else since I only saw the one humongous flat panel right as they stopped taking CRTs which sucked because now I could use another crt considering the one my mom decided to keep when things were moved isn't the one with the inputs I wanted to have and I didn't even know there was a difference on them XD
@@kaosine2877 I know here in S. Carolina in my county we have local recycle drop offs, and everytime I go I make sure to check the e-waste bin for some free goodies as the guy running mine cares less, so who knows you might find a CRT, if it works great, if not haul it back to the dump a few weeks later. Also be checking Salvation Army stores they often take stuff Goodwill won't.
Edit: same for Habitat for Humanity ReStore locations.
Perfect. Grab a cup of coffee and hanging out with Clint on a rainy Friday. This is the way to end a week. Love the TRS80 in the background. Just like the one I grew up with.
Whoa!!!! Thanks for continuing to find a way to provide one of my favorite series of content through this crazy time. You're the man!
Great job Clint! Thanks for being a responsible adult!
I am glad you are staying safe! Awesome video, as usual!Format is interesting, please continue!
Dude, I could watch you gush about vintage tech in any format. It's just relaxing and informative to me. The world kinda sucks at the moment, I'm just glad for any sort of entertainment. Stay safe out there.
I absolutely loved this format! Really looking forward to any (potential) future episodes! I love the regular LGR Thrifts, but I could easily see this become one of my new favourite shows!
I don’t know if it would fit the whole «thrift store» theme, but I think it could be fun seeing you browse eBay. I’m not familiar with many other sites you could use as an American due to me not being one myself, but I’d be happy with whatever you decide to peruse!
I love the variety of stuff you find in this series.
One thing that I like about the old series that you can't do in this one is watching you touch everything. I know its weird but it's oddly satisfying to watch you open panels and click old buttons on some retroware.
So, I could literally do this all right now. At this computer I'm sitting at. But hearing you talk and getting your commentary on everything is what makes this format special. It isn't the shopping or the things specifically; it's everything you, Clint, bring to the experience.
Wow! So many things in this video I've had over the years.
The Timex Sinclair 1000 was my FIRST computer (including the 16k expansion monolith).
The Atari 800XL was my second computer when it was brand new. Ah, nerdy high-school memories!
Of course I had an NES, SNES, N64, Game Gear... I even have the (yeah, not old) Sony alpha 6000 camera which takes amazing photos and video. Now I wanna slap a faux wood skin on that puppy.
If you'd run across a bona fide Vectrex game system from GCE, I'd have fallen out of my Goodwill desk chair. That would have just about wrapped up my teens-twenties electronic life all in one LGR Thrifts video.
Well done, taking the eThrifts route this time. Love watching these!!
thank you for the eThrifts 😁 I hope this becomes a normal show for you even when everything goes back to normal. love to watch your strategies for shopping online and different sites we will all may not know about
This was a good video, I wouldn't complain if you posted more "e-thrifts" in the not too distant future.
Congrats on winning that Voodoo AGP card.
Love that you found a way to adapt the format! Keep it up! Will always support your content!
People go HARD into Pyrex. I've got a friend who goes to thrift shops mostly to look for it. Some of it is worth way more than you'd expect.
True! Same with the uranium glass, both have their hardcore fans and will pay top dollar for them.
My 65 year old father is way into Pyrex. He has a set of pots and frying pans
Part of it is nostalgia, and part of it is that modern Pyrex is trash garbage.
My mom, oh boy, we have an entire shelf full of Pyrex (and those are just the ones deemed good enough to show).
@@TheRealColBosch I heard the good stuff is called PYREX and the new stuff made out of soda-lime glass is called Pyrex. I don't collect, but I keep a lookout for the ALL CAPS version.
Wasn't sure about this at first, but damn. The format actually works! Love it!
I loved your thrifting series so seeing that you still continue to do the series makes me happy
i’m so glad you actually bid (and won) something. the mystery and intrigue!! love it
Greetings LGR! Glad to see another thrifting video, even in a different form.
Fun content Clint! Would happily watch more of these. Feels like a good holdover until whenever you can safely thrift again.
I saw the name and was like “there’s no way I don’t watch this right now.”
I saw the name and thought TH-cam recommended me an old video. I'm lucky I still clicked it. 😌
Reporting myself from the toilet! 😁
Same
Loved it. Not only the format, but also you, taking the current situation seriously. Utmost respect for you, sir.
I still prefer the regular in person thrifts, but when that's not possible, this is a good substitute! Please make more until the regular thrifts can start again!
I enjoyed the browsing and the commentary, if you make more I'll keep watching! Even when you'll end up going to thrift stores in person I still think this could be a pretty cool and relaxed parallel series, because it's a little different due to being able to talk about bids and values and stuff...
I like the format a lot! I think seeing other websites would be neat, too. Keep up the good work and thank you for all the wonderful videos!
Cool format LGR hey glad to seeing you back doing the Goodwill's Thrifts again ☺️💗💗💗
honestly, i was afraid that this new format wouldn't be able to keep the mood of the original Thrifts, but it totally does... so looking forward to following episodes!
Sat here for 23 minutes, watching you scroll through random items that I would have never look at myself. This sure is entertaining plus your voice makes it perfect.
next time you do an eThrifts you should have a look on Yahoo! Japan Auctions!
I like this format, it's nice and chill. Plus you get to see some fun stuff!
"The worst woodgrain, hideously beautiful." 15:16
You're like a masochist for home appliances lol
"Hideously beautiful" is a wonderful phrase. Sorry, hakuna matata.
My late aunt had the Bose Wave and it sounded fantastic every time. I remember using it anytime we visited her all the way up until her passing. I have fond memories of bringing my windows entertainment pack floppies and listening to the radio. Miss you Margaret Anne...
I thought there would be a huge selection of "new" things in the shops judging by the piles of donations left during the initial lockdowns and the lines of cars waiting to donate but the few times I have browsed my local haunts since restrictions were eased I've found the stores to be much cleaner but sparsely stocked... I think a lot of stuff was just sent to the dump.
i went day of reopening in my town and it was packed with people and great finds. but there are alot of resellers out and they are hungry for anything they can make a profit on. every time i go to goodwill now i cant find anything and if i do its pure luck.
@@garyhanson655 same our goodwill has over 7 regulars I used to be semi regular but we have high risk family so I only wonder into a thrift if it's mostly empty now and it's always so picked over it's depressing
i stopped going long ago when i discovered full time resellers would literally hit stores all over town each and every day to sweep out the good stuff. if they could profit fifty cents on something they bought it to resell. pathetic.
Just want to say I love this content! Great adaptation of a known format to meet the challenges of this time!
Im pretty sure id watch Clint walk down aisles of grocery stores and picking out random stuff to talk about and still be totally entertained lol
I enjoyed the new format! You did a really goof job of narrating it as you would a normal thrifting video.
Of course Goodwill of Tulsa only hold local daily auctions. They have a neat vintage sign off Route 66 between an oil refinery and the train yard, it’s real scenic even if it smells like Vaseline.
Oh, I love the Durham tchotchkes. My mother had them all! It brought very nice memories! Thanks LGR!
I remember the Bose wave infomercials they were constantly explaining "the quality of audio" by playing demonstrations. The problem with the demonstrations being that they came out the Bose, into a mic(or f#$@ it they probably mixed audio in and nothing came out of the bose being showed on TV), through broadcast or cable, and then out my regular TV where it sounded as good as my TV normally sounded.
If someone on TV tells says it sounds better than your TV speakers, people will believe it actually sounds better, despite the impossibility of it sounding better since it’s on TV. People don’t like to use their brains. Haha.
@@Schwarzorn They put out some respectable quality sound but I recall them going for $600 which was as far as I knew one of the steepest asking prices for a boombox/shelf system.
I remember seeing one of them in a flooring store. There was nobody in that part of the store and the little remote was just laying there so I played with it a bit, it sounded surprisingly good.
Still stupidly expensive though.
@@TheOtherBill While Bose is usually good quality you're mostly paying for the name.
The trick is to make the rest of the commercial sound crappier. Filter all the high frequencies for example, then when you play the Bose sample, mix it all back in, so it suddenly sounds amazing in comparison. They used to do the same with TV commercials for special non-flickering TVs. Add extra flicker to the rest of the picture, so that TV you're selling looks awesome, even on the horrible flickering old TV people watch the ad on.
Love the eThrifting format! Congrats on winning your auction. 👍🏻
They for real just said "creepy dolls." Goodwill knows what's up.
"A lot of creepy dolls (if we can find them, they keep moving overnight ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ )"
Yes, keep this format. You can somehow take something as dry as a goodwill website and make it entertaining. You really do have a gift for gab. Keep up the great content.
Even though it was eGoodwill having the Thrifts back makes me feel like when this whole mess is over we are gonna all be OK. THANK YOU!
Like the new format, nice to have a way to get the thrifts fix, even in these strange times.
The Pioneer receiver looks super familiar to me, when I was at Uni, I ran a club where we listened to vinyl records & we had that exact pioneer receiver. Ours was very beat up from getting moved around alot, the woodgrain was not in a good state. We had to hook it up every meeting because we shared the space with some other clubs so I became very familiar with the rear connectors!
Glad you’re staying home and staying safe! It sucks to stay home so much, but it’s nice you found a decent alternative and I really enjoyed this format! (:
This was great Clint. Love the format. Do what you need to do to stay safe and keep us entertained.
9:21 Well that caught me off guard. I've never heard someone call the Wii sleeve jackets as Wii condoms but now I'll never look at those jackets the same. Lol
This is surprising to hear! I remember that being the most common name for the remote sleeves ever since they were unveiled.
@@Kamakazie27 Well to be fair, I was 10 when the jacket was first unveiled to the public so that's probably why I never heard them be called that. But still, even any time after that, this was the first time I heard it.
I’m a fan of the format! Great way to continue and even revamp the series. No longer are you limited by location. Can’t wait to see more content
OMG I laughed my a** off at the Creepy Doll section!
Just wanted to say that I love your LGR Thrifts videos and you really made this eThrift video feel like the same thing to me. Really enjoying this new series!
I’d love to see more of these, maybe not from Goodwills but from local or regional resale shops. Find us some diamonds in the rough!
great video, had a lot of fun watching! I would love to see more
9:20 - "Wii condoms"
LMAOOOOOO
So I wasn't the only one who caught that
yeah, gotta protect your wiiener
Great to see you back with Thrifts, Clint! Keep up the great vids!
6lbs of Pokémon cards: Exists
Maxmoefoe: *excited ape noises*
Loving this format! Just to let you know about the high price on the Zippo auction, The other lighter in the lot is a Dupont lighter made of silver, those go for a fortune at auction if they are in good condition :)
well, he found a Plumbus while thrifting
ooooo-weee!
He didn’t show us how many Schmeckles that costs, though.
Rick and morty
Really?
Love the format! It's so fun to see what wild things you can find with the whole country as an option. Excited to see you do more :)
Nice! I love when lgr goes thrifting!
I love this format thanks for trying new things to give us our thrifts while staying safe.
Jesus criminy everything on there is so damn overpriced.
Ah, the beauty of normies browsing ebay for the max bid prices and repeating them for their auction sites.
And the shipping! Yikes! Even the cheap stuff doubles in price thanks to S&H. With abusive charges like that, it's more like S&M.
@@jessragan6714 S&H&M. Packing tape AND a whip.
it's like expensive AND THEN you have to bid on it. just worthless.
Good format! It's really good in these times, when going out can be complicated.
This guy never heard of Plumbus when everyone has one at home
I’ve always wondered how those were made.
Rick and morty
This was a very enjoyable episode. The fact that they do shipping is amazing. I love me some thrifting, but this is an acceptable substitute till things get better. You got hold of some real gems as well. More please!
This is a great format! I kept wondering “when is he going to bid or ‘buy it now’ on anything?!?”
I really enjoyed watching this. It was fun to see you bid on something and win! I would enjoy watching something like this again.
11:11 If that's a real ST Dupont lighter then yep, those are crazy expensive.
The participating in the auction was really cool and engaging. I would have gladly waited til the next installment of eThrifts to see if you won. I found the video enjoyable overall, but I could also listen to you read part numbers on an 8 hour loop.
I didn't know I wanted this but now it's so obvious I have no idea how I ever lived without it
Actually loved this eThrifts a lot more than I thought I would, thanks for doing it.
Bold new DIRECTION!
I definitely enjoyed the video and would encourage you to do similar ones in the future. My experience with goodwill is that shipping is very quick. Congrats on the nice find.
17:50
"Dang! I wanna stick my....."
Me: CLINT NO!
"...cash in there."
Me: Oh.
“Dang! I wanna stick my c*** in there!”.
He can’t help it. He just loves the look and feel of some nice hard wood.
Glad you're staying safe!
I been playing the scrap pc lottery trying to get a voodoo card for years. no luck so far. one of my best finds has been a diamond monster sound MX300 sound card and an Asus P5A-B mobo. I got lots of random parts been thinking about building a few retro rigs and trying my hand at selling some of them. been trying to think of places to hit up to find old computers. Been wondering about contacting the local schools in the area and seeing if they have any stuff from the 90s they would give away lol
You could always put out a wanted ad on Craigslist / FB Marketplace. Either offer to haul off for free (some people just want to avoid transfer station fees), or a vague cash offer (ie; buying vintage computers and parts!). I've had good luck with that in the past. Also, just making it known in your social / familial / work circles that you tinker is a great way to get hand-me-down relics.
A friend of mine just gave me three functional, but archaic laptops (one is a Gateway with Windows ME, lol) because she knew I'd have fun just putzing around on em.
The P5Q is what's in my gaming PC, with a Core 2 Duo E8400 @2.99GHz, but just bought a much-needed Ryzen 3. Sadly the rest of my budget only allows for a CPU upgrade atm
@jr U this makes me unbelievably sad. :(
@jr U any voodoo card is worth $100+... FYI
It is as relaxing and enjoyable as out in the wild thrifts. Keep it up