I used to frequent Goodwills like crazy back in the early 2010s, and you couldn't walk into one without spotting a PlayStation 1 or a GameCube. Last year I had a spree with friends every month where we would go Goodwill-hopping and visit 6-7 stores once a day every month. Come to find out now Goodwill scans every donation bin and ships out valuable stuff like games to distribution centers so it can be resold for market price on sites like Ebay. Really sad. Most of the valuable games (what little remain in the store) are usually kept in the glass cases at the register because people like to steal the discs out of the cases (very common). The only true way to get a great find at Goodwill now is to read between the lines and look for things employees overlook or underestimate.
As a frequenter of british charity shops in it's so weird not seeing loads of Fifas in every shop. Those things are like the plague of charity shop game sections, along with Sims expansion packs of course
Same in germany lol, and it seems that every version that is not the latest, is automaticly worth nothing. Thanks to EA and their bullshit fifa packs system
I will never forget the time I went to a Goodwill with my wife and saw an Atari Jaguar with 3 games, all cables, some manuals, 2 controllers and the covers for the numbers on the controllers from different games. Everything for $60.
probably why you saw it, the stars aligned and gifted this precious piece of history or... ain't no normies going into goodwill looking to spend $60 on some ancient arcane hardware that didn't sell well while it was still in production.
Retro Gamer in Jacksonville here - I don't even bother going to Goodwills anymore. There's a handful of mom'n'pop or smaller chain places here I pop by now and then and have had some decent finds at (including a couple of decent CRT TVs just this year) but I don't bother with Goodwills.
Thanks a bunch for taking one for the team!! Wooow!! Im really impressed with your journey. The 💰 would've been much better spent on a road trip vacation instead of all that crap. Except for Batman, controllers and mic. It takes courage and BIG balls to do what you did! To you Sir, I tip my hat. Greetings from Chicago. Salud! 🤝🍻💥🍻
40:56 Oh shit, that’s my local Goodwill! I live in New Tampa but don’t really like going to the Weasley Chapel store as I never find shit. The best thing I found was COD World at War for 360 but the case was completely broken, so I slipped the cover into a movie (The Lincoln Lawyer) and put the disk in the case so it was lose. The person at the register didn’t even notice and I got a game. I recommend you visit Community Thrift Store in Hillsborough county off Nebraska Avenue, you can actually find some good games there.
Whoa I got thrown off at the beginning here, didn't realize you were a fellow Florida man. I actually found a boxed copy of Tactics Ogre: The Knight of Lodis and Zelda Minish Cap both at the Goodwill right near the Paddock Mall in Ocala when I was a kid, both for $3 each. Really wish game prices weren't so over the top nowadays though.
Dude! I live in Merritt Island and kid you not found an N64 with doom 64 IN the system for $50 around 2 years ago. I have never been to a GoodWill since, my luck is forever gone 😭
Oh man, 31:27 Pinball Hall of Fame on the Wii is pretty damn good, it's a shame you skipped on that because those games eventually became the Pinball Arcade series which was a great selection of digitised Pinball machines for the PS3, 360 and PC.
32:12 I had a robosapien growing up and actually took it into my CNET class in high school and we hooked it up to a Kinect to pilot it. Super cool little doodad
Most PC games pre-2005 should work if the code is still inside the box :) My luckiest find in a thrift store was a sealed copy of Modern Warfare 2 where I just needed to plop the code into my Steam. Easily saved 20 bucks that day.
This video was awesome! Incredible resource for knowing which Goodwill stores are worth making a trip for! It's also crazy(in a small world kinda way) how some of the games you saw I had also seen and just didn't feel like picking up. 😁 Congrats on all your finds!
Passing up that e-scooter may have been the biggest mistake in this whole video, the Bird brand scooters go for about 600-1k new, or anywhere from 300-500 used. Assuming that wasnt one of the "pay-to-use" ones that someone just donated to goodwill of course.
Every single one of these stores has 10 times the stuff the Goodwills in my area have. The "electronics" section here consists of a few dozen sad looking lamps and alarm clocks. Edit: Actually they look alot like the one in Stewart 36:20
That's not a credit card in the DirecTV, its an access card. It contains billing information, subscription information, purchases like Pay-Per-View, etc... The instore VHS/DVD player, some stores will test VHS tapes and DVDs before they put them out, others will allow you to test them before you buy them. I watched this while I cooked, but I didn't notice any "The GRID: Powered by Goodwill" stores? That's where some Goodwills will ship their games too. But that Computer Store might be your regional variant? The PC migration cables often have a program in them that autoplays and is supposed to help you transfer files. Thats why it has that bulky spot in the middle, it's pretty much hiding a USB drive.
Cool to see you go to Lake Ctiy's Goodwill As someone who grew up in Lake City we used to go there all the time as kids and it was just fun looking at the electronics and stuff. Now its a ghost town basically haha
I've only subscribed to 4 youtubers after a decade plus of being on here and you are number 4 because of how high effort this was. I can't believe you actually did this!
The only time I ever found **worthwhile** games at Goodwill is when I worked next to one. I went during lunch and when I got off work. Everything good, will get scooped up almost immediately. I think #15 was it, Tampa on Hillsborough Ave. They turned over a lot of product everyday
i used to go t oa good will computer store in NC i got most of my stuff from there for cheap. but in 2009 they closed it and opened the grid (the replacement store) prices went way up and the fun or going there was no longer there. i might as well got them off ebay
The only games I ever find at Goodwill here in Canada are games like Call of Duty, Battlefield, Call of Duty, Splinter Cell, Call of Duty, sports games, Call of Duty, and third party games like Shrek. It's literally the same games everywhere I go. Rarely do I find anything outside of this list. Pretty sad state of affairs at Goodwill.
I used to work at a Goodwill back in 2014-2015 and my store threw away several good copies of older games. I’ll never forget them throwing away MGS1 with both disks.
#9 was the one I usually go to, or maybe it was #73. Unfortunately it rarely has any games at all, usually none actually, but usually has 5+ Wiifit boards lol. Already got Wiifit at home however. Lucky u managed to find a game there. More store section is usually always dvds/bluray/vhs/cds in the back corner with sometimes a single game or 2 mixed in somewhere.
I've had to do community service at Goodwill. Why you never find anything good in them anymore, and before ANYTHING touches the floor they scan the barcode. If it is of any value over X amount of dollars (for us it was $15) it doesn't touch the floor, it goes into a box and gets listed online somewhere. I was told eBay but I didn't handle that part
one of the coolest things i found at goodwill once upon a time was lamanated newspapers from 1929 as placemats, and that was the best purchase ever made. goodwill has some treasures inside.
I was not a sound bar person either though I found a Sanyo 2.1 system for $15 at goodwill and yeah, it totally smashes the TV's speakers, i have bass now! lol, though it was a hell of a time connecting it through bluetooth with my laptop initially but after the connection... SOOO much better. Edit: Ohhh! you got the soundbar! =D When i got mine from the only Goodwill in Grand Prairie a week ago it was $10 and i usually google search most electronics i get from Thrift stores, that's when I discovered the soundbar I got was a 2.1 system and sure enough after looking I found the subwoofer that went with it, It was not powered and connected to the soundbar with a proprietary cord but I got a $5 discount bundling them together as they did not know they belonged together. Let us know the make and model of your soundbar and if it was any good... I think the AUX line in port on my is caputs which is fine I'll only use its Bluetooth function anyways. let us know if you ever plan to do a NERF thrift video to those +100 stores lol I'd be down to watch that to! =D
Found a black RVL switch in mint condition at my local goodwill. Console, stand, one black motion plus controller, one blue. Two nunchuks. Remote covers in mint clean condition. Plus it had Wii sports with the cardboard case and Wii sports resort. I think I paid $50 for it. Couldn’t believe it.
This may be niche but at 30:00 on the bagged trash wall there was a Caleb and Sophia JW DVD, Owen Morgan (telltale) talks about the show a bit and it's crazy to see a physical copy in the wild
It's so wild to me how the pandemic and tiktok completely destroyed the thrift store experience. I've bought not one, not two, but three N64s at goodwill. All came with multiple controllers and 2 of them came with games. I also bought a PS1, PS2, Wii, Game Boy Advance SP and maaaany many S+ tier games there. Nothing over $20-25. But now that they use Ebay and their own auction site, you're lucky to find anything good for under $30.
Wow, thrift stores are expensive in USA. I got three Wii Boards for 4 bucks each, two Wiis with all cables and nunchucks with covers for 10 bucks each, the Duke controller for 2, Nintendo DSi with DSTwo flashcart for 3, and like-new DS Lite for 10 in my local thrift store in Poland. Oh, and Guitar Hero World Tour guitar in box for 7. Admittedly I rarely find games, I think people usually either sell them online or pawn them.
In my area they've stopped stocking games unfortunately. Most of what I find are PC games. In the past I've had some great pickups, Kingdom Hearts on the PS2 and the Majora's Mask Soundtrack are some of my favorite ones that I picked up. Sad that they're so hard to find now.
I found the same crank-powered tv,radio,flashlight a couple weeks ago while thrifting and had the exact same though process play out. I wanted it so bad, but no av inputs.
What glasses camera do you use?! I wanna get back into retro hunts like this in Japan, but I started to feel uncomfortable carrying around a GoPro 🤣 otherwise, awesome video. I'd love to visit america someday for game hunting
My goodwill used to be really good! I know right around when the pandemic hit i found a boxed wii (just missing the power cord) for $5, and a good amount of ds and gamecube games (mario sunshine and pokemon colosseum were in one pickup, like actually good gamecube games) on top of your typical wii and 360 game finds. I guess goodwill caught on that some good stuff was being donated there, about 6 months or so into the pandemic they just stopped selling any sort of games, even the trash, and havent ever again, i dont even go anymore, its depressing lol, especially when i found out that they sell games for way over what theyre worth online, man 😔
Goodwills truly are hit or miss. I went into one a few years ago that had two PS4 controllers in the glass case at the front. The price? $2 a piece. I picked one up and left one for someone else to get. It had some damage to the left stick but worked perfectly fine otherwise.
I’m not sure if this is said, but when getting some games like bioshock, if a serial is in the case, sometimes on Steam you can redeem them, I did this with BF2 for origin.
I used to visit my dad in Sarasota often and we would sometimes visit Bradenton. Nice to see them pulling through for ya! (even though it was from lowered expectations lol)
Edit: If anyone knows a place like that computer & electronics Goodwill in lower Washington State, Lmk. I've always wanted to go to a physical store and buy PC parts from the early 00's, as well as them just having super cheap HP workstations. As someone who grew up with the Sims and I would've snapped up the OG Sims in a heartbeat, even tho I have the deluxe. Also the bins suck only for the most obvious reasons: Crowded AF, all the time, and having to rummage through a bunch of broken and gross things. But I will say, other then that, you have the best chance of finding very valuable items or electronics (either full electronics, like old PCs, or games) because it hasnt been sorted and the valuable items taken and put on their online store (NEVER buy Goodwill online, the shipping is a price gouging tactic) I found an unopened copy of Call Of Duty 2 for PC at the Bins and a deceptively nice sleeper PC
Yooo Cortland's my home town! I had no idea that a tech company was based from there, but then again that'd explain why I saw a lot of their products where I was lol
All the games get put in a big box full of media and trucked to somewhere else that then sorts through all the games. The better games all get listened online on shopgoodwill, sometimes in whole "lots." The remaining games that were deemed unsellable online or not worthy to list in the first place are then trucked back out in another large bin. That second bin having been already sorted through is processed and priced for the shelf. I never seen much of anything past super crap sports games, or the occasional PS1 game listed as a CD.
That funko pop at 15:15 is like $100 I think. I don't know funko pops like that, my partner has only 2 funko pops and that's one of them. She bought it at a garage sale just because she liked it, turns out $10 was a pretty good deal for it haha
Orange City seriously over prices their games. Used to get Wii for 1.99 and PS3/Xbox 360 for 3.99. PS4/Xbox One were 4.99. Now you can't touch them for less than 7 bucks. They just started this new pricing scheme. Games used to fly out of there, now they sit there for weeks. They need to go back to the old pricing, especially for stuff they get for free. Goodwill in general has been pricing themselves out of my price range for everything. In some instances, they are charging brand new prices on heavily used items.
This is so hard to watch. I amassed ny n64, atari, and especially snes collections from my one local goodwill back in 2008-10. UA-camrs changed the hobby so much...
There were things you passed over that could have had awesome resell value, which I know wasn't the direction of the video, but I had to point out. Really cool content concept, tho 💕
That neon green controller you called was actually a madcatz controller specifically one rebranded with High Frequency which was toysrus but still same crap quality like all the madcatz before it
"store use only" i worked at another chain thrift store (value village) and we would have to check "blank" dvds and vhs to make sure there wasn't anything illegal. luckily i never saw anything weird at all.
@@AIopekis yee we kept ours in the back and there was a tv in the manager's office. maybe they just forgot it after hooking it up to a tv out on the floor. "store use" tag is prob not even for customers but so employees wouldn't take it from the back and put it out thinking it was inventory
I actually found my playstation 1 in the back of a goodwill. That plus the two controllers was like... $40 in total. If you get lucky, and I mean LUCKY, you can find some good stuff.
So this is what Good Will Hunting was all about.
Nice
Upvote, take it
How do you like THOSE Apple TVs???
I am dead 😂
Bravo, sir
I used to frequent Goodwills like crazy back in the early 2010s, and you couldn't walk into one without spotting a PlayStation 1 or a GameCube.
Last year I had a spree with friends every month where we would go Goodwill-hopping and visit 6-7 stores once a day every month. Come to find out now Goodwill scans every donation bin and ships out valuable stuff like games to distribution centers so it can be resold for market price on sites like Ebay. Really sad. Most of the valuable games (what little remain in the store) are usually kept in the glass cases at the register because people like to steal the discs out of the cases (very common). The only true way to get a great find at Goodwill now is to read between the lines and look for things employees overlook or underestimate.
That’s depressing 😞
It was totally worth it my man, I sat an watched this whole thing. And now I'm gonna be a subscriber
As a frequenter of british charity shops in it's so weird not seeing loads of Fifas in every shop. Those things are like the plague of charity shop game sections, along with Sims expansion packs of course
Just replace FIFA with Madden, and you have US thrift stores lol!
Same in germany lol, and it seems that every version that is not the latest, is automaticly worth nothing. Thanks to EA and their bullshit fifa packs system
I will never forget the time I went to a Goodwill with my wife and saw an Atari Jaguar with 3 games, all cables, some manuals, 2 controllers and the covers for the numbers on the controllers from different games. Everything for $60.
probably why you saw it, the stars aligned and gifted this precious piece of history or... ain't no normies going into goodwill looking to spend $60 on some ancient arcane hardware that didn't sell well while it was still in production.
@@balsalmalberto8086 My wife ended up buying it for me as a gift. We got home and started playing Tempest 2000.
Retro Gamer in Jacksonville here - I don't even bother going to Goodwills anymore. There's a handful of mom'n'pop or smaller chain places here I pop by now and then and have had some decent finds at (including a couple of decent CRT TVs just this year) but I don't bother with Goodwills.
If ur in Jax go to VGR and gone broke gaming two good places but due to no vehicle I usually shop online via ebay or whatecs
This was actually an extremely underrated channel and video in itself, I unironically watched the whole hour and ten minutes of the video :-)
Thanks a bunch for taking one for the team!! Wooow!! Im really impressed with your journey. The 💰 would've been much better spent on a road trip vacation instead of all that crap. Except for Batman, controllers and mic. It takes courage and BIG balls to do what you did! To you Sir, I tip my hat. Greetings from Chicago. Salud! 🤝🍻💥🍻
40:56 Oh shit, that’s my local Goodwill! I live in New Tampa but don’t really like going to the Weasley Chapel store as I never find shit. The best thing I found was COD World at War for 360 but the case was completely broken, so I slipped the cover into a movie (The Lincoln Lawyer) and put the disk in the case so it was lose. The person at the register didn’t even notice and I got a game.
I recommend you visit Community Thrift Store in Hillsborough county off Nebraska Avenue, you can actually find some good games there.
Whoa I got thrown off at the beginning here, didn't realize you were a fellow Florida man. I actually found a boxed copy of Tactics Ogre: The Knight of Lodis and Zelda Minish Cap both at the Goodwill right near the Paddock Mall in Ocala when I was a kid, both for $3 each. Really wish game prices weren't so over the top nowadays though.
Lol I found out when he went to see my sears store in Palm Beach county. It's closed now😢
He went to my Gainesville stores, I used to score in high school and now I haven’t seen a single game in either store in years 😭
Glad I found you here too meatball 😂
I'm so jealous, just bought a copy of Minish Cap for $80 😅
Dude! I live in Merritt Island and kid you not found an N64 with doom 64 IN the system for $50 around 2 years ago. I have never been to a GoodWill since, my luck is forever gone 😭
Oh man, 31:27 Pinball Hall of Fame on the Wii is pretty damn good, it's a shame you skipped on that because those games eventually became the Pinball Arcade series which was a great selection of digitised Pinball machines for the PS3, 360 and PC.
32:12 I had a robosapien growing up and actually took it into my CNET class in high school and we hooked it up to a Kinect to pilot it. Super cool little doodad
Watching this on my break while I work at GoodWill!
That Left 4 Dead 2 was a trap. If the code inside the box was used, its just a coaster. Same things for any used PC games that require Steam.
Big reason why I was hesitant to buy any pc games. You never really know what's going to work
Most PC games pre-2005 should work if the code is still inside the box :) My luckiest find in a thrift store was a sealed copy of Modern Warfare 2 where I just needed to plop the code into my Steam. Easily saved 20 bucks that day.
22:18 technically wouldn’t consider that Cape Coral, that’s North Fort Myers. Funny seeing goodwills that I’ve been to in this video.
This video was awesome! Incredible resource for knowing which Goodwill stores are worth making a trip for! It's also crazy(in a small world kinda way) how some of the games you saw I had also seen and just didn't feel like picking up. 😁 Congrats on all your finds!
Passing up that e-scooter may have been the biggest mistake in this whole video, the Bird brand scooters go for about 600-1k new, or anywhere from 300-500 used. Assuming that wasnt one of the "pay-to-use" ones that someone just donated to goodwill of course.
This was a really cool video. Over an hour and I watched the whole thing. Thank you for making this.
Every single one of these stores has 10 times the stuff the Goodwills in my area have. The "electronics" section here consists of a few dozen sad looking lamps and alarm clocks.
Edit: Actually they look alot like the one in Stewart 36:20
Fun video. The DJ Hero board was specifically a DJ Hero Renegade edition board, so it's worth a bit more!
That's not a credit card in the DirecTV, its an access card. It contains billing information, subscription information, purchases like Pay-Per-View, etc... The instore VHS/DVD player, some stores will test VHS tapes and DVDs before they put them out, others will allow you to test them before you buy them. I watched this while I cooked, but I didn't notice any "The GRID: Powered by Goodwill" stores? That's where some Goodwills will ship their games too. But that Computer Store might be your regional variant? The PC migration cables often have a program in them that autoplays and is supposed to help you transfer files. Thats why it has that bulky spot in the middle, it's pretty much hiding a USB drive.
The goodwill in Florida are gems. Especially in Ocala and Orlando.
The first goodwill is already the nicest one I've ever seen
Dang, Tallahassee really was the coolest store for electronics and games!
Cool to see you go to Lake Ctiy's Goodwill
As someone who grew up in Lake City we used to go there all the time as kids and it was just fun looking at the electronics and stuff. Now its a ghost town basically haha
I've only subscribed to 4 youtubers after a decade plus of being on here and you are number 4 because of how high effort this was. I can't believe you actually did this!
The only time I ever found **worthwhile** games at Goodwill is when I worked next to one. I went during lunch and when I got off work. Everything good, will get scooped up almost immediately. I think #15 was it, Tampa on Hillsborough Ave. They turned over a lot of product everyday
I've seen those "walls of bags" at a few goodwills I've been to, but usually it's for dolls and action figures.
i used to go t oa good will computer store in NC i got most of my stuff from there for cheap. but in 2009 they closed it and opened the grid (the replacement store) prices went way up and the fun or going there was no longer there. i might as well got them off ebay
I wish so badly to buy the weird jean crafts your grandma was selling, that sounds amazing. If she ever goes online, she has a customer!!
The only games I ever find at Goodwill here in Canada are games like Call of Duty, Battlefield, Call of Duty, Splinter Cell, Call of Duty, sports games, Call of Duty, and third party games like Shrek. It's literally the same games everywhere I go. Rarely do I find anything outside of this list. Pretty sad state of affairs at Goodwill.
There probably IS an input on that mini tv flashlight radio, probably in the form of a 3.5mm jack that's wired for rf.
I used to work at a Goodwill back in 2014-2015 and my store threw away several good copies of older games. I’ll never forget them throwing away MGS1 with both disks.
This is true investigative journaljsm
Awesome video! You should do the same quest.. in lawn shops!!!
#9 was the one I usually go to, or maybe it was #73. Unfortunately it rarely has any games at all, usually none actually, but usually has 5+ Wiifit boards lol. Already got Wiifit at home however.
Lucky u managed to find a game there. More store section is usually always dvds/bluray/vhs/cds in the back corner with sometimes a single game or 2 mixed in somewhere.
I've had to do community service at Goodwill. Why you never find anything good in them anymore, and before ANYTHING touches the floor they scan the barcode. If it is of any value over X amount of dollars (for us it was $15) it doesn't touch the floor, it goes into a box and gets listed online somewhere. I was told eBay but I didn't handle that part
A couple years ago, my local Goodwill had 15 Wii fit boards crammed in a shelf in the corner of the store
saw my city on the goodwill map and got unreasonably excited
one of the coolest things i found at goodwill once upon a time was lamanated newspapers from 1929 as placemats, and that was the best purchase ever made. goodwill has some treasures inside.
I was not a sound bar person either though I found a Sanyo 2.1 system for $15 at goodwill and yeah, it totally smashes the TV's speakers, i have bass now! lol, though it was a hell of a time connecting it through bluetooth with my laptop initially but after the connection... SOOO much better.
Edit: Ohhh! you got the soundbar! =D When i got mine from the only Goodwill in Grand Prairie a week ago it was $10 and i usually google search most electronics i get from Thrift stores, that's when I discovered the soundbar I got was a 2.1 system and sure enough after looking I found the subwoofer that went with it, It was not powered and connected to the soundbar with a proprietary cord but I got a $5 discount bundling them together as they did not know they belonged together.
Let us know the make and model of your soundbar and if it was any good... I think the AUX line in port on my is caputs which is fine I'll only use its Bluetooth function anyways.
let us know if you ever plan to do a NERF thrift video to those +100 stores lol I'd be down to watch that to! =D
Now let’s go look for some damn games.
Found a black RVL switch in mint condition at my local goodwill. Console, stand, one black motion plus controller, one blue. Two nunchuks. Remote covers in mint clean condition. Plus it had Wii sports with the cardboard case and Wii sports resort. I think I paid $50 for it. Couldn’t believe it.
This may be niche but at 30:00 on the bagged trash wall there was a Caleb and Sophia JW DVD, Owen Morgan (telltale) talks about the show a bit and it's crazy to see a physical copy in the wild
9:54 Camera perspective really got me there!
It's so wild to me how the pandemic and tiktok completely destroyed the thrift store experience. I've bought not one, not two, but three N64s at goodwill. All came with multiple controllers and 2 of them came with games. I also bought a PS1, PS2, Wii, Game Boy Advance SP and maaaany many S+ tier games there. Nothing over $20-25. But now that they use Ebay and their own auction site, you're lucky to find anything good for under $30.
Wow, thrift stores are expensive in USA. I got three Wii Boards for 4 bucks each, two Wiis with all cables and nunchucks with covers for 10 bucks each, the Duke controller for 2, Nintendo DSi with DSTwo flashcart for 3, and like-new DS Lite for 10 in my local thrift store in Poland. Oh, and Guitar Hero World Tour guitar in box for 7. Admittedly I rarely find games, I think people usually either sell them online or pawn them.
Long form thrifting content? HELL YEAH!
All those games were wasted money. Even though taxpayers bought them for him
As a Jacksonville native, our electronics/game sections in Goodwills are pretty barren. Sorry about that 🤣🤣. Awesome to see you go to 104 locations.
I’ve learned you can judge a towns economy based on how much a local goodwill sells their Wii balance boards for.
In my area they've stopped stocking games unfortunately. Most of what I find are PC games. In the past I've had some great pickups, Kingdom Hearts on the PS2 and the Majora's Mask Soundtrack are some of my favorite ones that I picked up. Sad that they're so hard to find now.
I found the same crank-powered tv,radio,flashlight a couple weeks ago while thrifting and had the exact same though process play out. I wanted it so bad, but no av inputs.
I love this video so
Much. Makes me feel so much better about my shitty luck at stores.
What glasses camera do you use?! I wanna get back into retro hunts like this in Japan, but I started to feel uncomfortable carrying around a GoPro 🤣 otherwise, awesome video. I'd love to visit america someday for game hunting
The Sims player in me is crying at all the passed up Sims expansions 😅 😭
My local GW has gotten rid of all media and books as of a couple weeks ago.
My goodwill used to be really good! I know right around when the pandemic hit i found a boxed wii (just missing the power cord) for $5, and a good amount of ds and gamecube games (mario sunshine and pokemon colosseum were in one pickup, like actually good gamecube games) on top of your typical wii and 360 game finds.
I guess goodwill caught on that some good stuff was being donated there, about 6 months or so into the pandemic they just stopped selling any sort of games, even the trash, and havent ever again, i dont even go anymore, its depressing lol, especially when i found out that they sell games for way over what theyre worth online, man 😔
Back in the day you could go to goodwill and always find stuff like ps1 bundles with memory card and controller for like $30. Those days are long over
$50 for a legit French Horn in working condition is an insane deal. My middle school made us rent ours for $40 a semester.
And that was in 2010 money!
Goodwills truly are hit or miss. I went into one a few years ago that had two PS4 controllers in the glass case at the front.
The price? $2 a piece. I picked one up and left one for someone else to get.
It had some damage to the left stick but worked perfectly fine otherwise.
I’m not sure if this is said, but when getting some games like bioshock, if a serial is in the case, sometimes on Steam you can redeem them, I did this with BF2 for origin.
All those decent VCR's are worth money, especially the dvd/vhs combos
Are you sure they didn’t have games or do they keep them in the glass case up front? Mine keeps them all in the glass up front
The Goodwills in my area are horrible. All they have are old lady clothes... And uranium laced silverware.
I am shocked you saw sonic unleashed in the oblivion box and you put it up 😭
When I went to National Pawn, I got lucky and found both an Atari 2600 controller, and an Atari 2600 game.
Aw bummer, you should've gotten the Palm Vx. There's a surprising number of games for them! If the battery is actually charged, of course.
Started: "oh gross, sports games"
30-ish stores in: "oh yeah gimme that football game!"
104 is the exact number of Goodwills i needed to see right now
I used to visit my dad in Sarasota often and we would sometimes visit Bradenton. Nice to see them pulling through for ya! (even though it was from lowered expectations lol)
Edit: If anyone knows a place like that computer & electronics Goodwill in lower Washington State, Lmk. I've always wanted to go to a physical store and buy PC parts from the early 00's, as well as them just having super cheap HP workstations.
As someone who grew up with the Sims and I would've snapped up the OG Sims in a heartbeat, even tho I have the deluxe. Also the bins suck only for the most obvious reasons: Crowded AF, all the time, and having to rummage through a bunch of broken and gross things. But I will say, other then that, you have the best chance of finding very valuable items or electronics (either full electronics, like old PCs, or games) because it hasnt been sorted and the valuable items taken and put on their online store (NEVER buy Goodwill online, the shipping is a price gouging tactic) I found an unopened copy of Call Of Duty 2 for PC at the Bins and a deceptively nice sleeper PC
Pretty sure those shelves are old Borders issue. Good to see they're having a good second retirement.
Omg it was wild seeing MY HOMETOWN GOODWILL ON HERE OMG
Yooo Cortland's my home town! I had no idea that a tech company was based from there, but then again that'd explain why I saw a lot of their products where I was lol
Can't believe I watched this whole video. Lol! It was fun though. I wish I could do the same but NYC barely has any goodwills.
7:30 "No Games!"
I immediately spotted a Wii game in the middle, 'DDR Hottest Party' I think it says
All the games get put in a big box full of media and trucked to somewhere else that then sorts through all the games. The better games all get listened online on shopgoodwill, sometimes in whole "lots." The remaining games that were deemed unsellable online or not worthy to list in the first place are then trucked back out in another large bin. That second bin having been already sorted through is processed and priced for the shelf. I never seen much of anything past super crap sports games, or the occasional PS1 game listed as a CD.
That funko pop at 15:15 is like $100 I think. I don't know funko pops like that, my partner has only 2 funko pops and that's one of them. She bought it at a garage sale just because she liked it, turns out $10 was a pretty good deal for it haha
Hey a video about Goodwill. Looking back I shoulda watched it. I'm not sure why I didn't.
Orange City seriously over prices their games. Used to get Wii for 1.99 and PS3/Xbox 360 for 3.99. PS4/Xbox One were 4.99. Now you can't touch them for less than 7 bucks. They just started this new pricing scheme. Games used to fly out of there, now they sit there for weeks. They need to go back to the old pricing, especially for stuff they get for free. Goodwill in general has been pricing themselves out of my price range for everything. In some instances, they are charging brand new prices on heavily used items.
took me half of the video to realize you were in florida, literally up to the point when you started naming places near my hometown lol
The crazy thing about the games you found is that they are the same games imho that have been in thrift stores for the last 15 years.
My second best goodwill find ever was a Wii for $8. My best was a locket pocket watch, also for $8. I have been $8 blessed
This is so hard to watch. I amassed ny n64, atari, and especially snes collections from my one local goodwill back in 2008-10. UA-camrs changed the hobby so much...
hey man i was just wondering how are you recording these vids, eyeglasses camera?
There were things you passed over that could have had awesome resell value, which I know wasn't the direction of the video, but I had to point out. Really cool content concept, tho 💕
That neon green controller you called was actually a madcatz controller specifically one rebranded with High Frequency which was toysrus but still same crap quality like all the madcatz before it
My girlfriend lives in Tallahassee, every time I go to visit her we end up visiting the Goodwill computer store.
Pretty much sums up thrifting lately. I have to put up a video soon of my pickups from the last who knows how many months.
Crazy that you found a wilson evolution!
I think Goodwill sells all the good games on their eBay store, I purchased something from them before and realized it was goodwill later lol
My local goodwill was turned into a thriftopia about 8-10 years ago. Wish we had any games there though.
45:29 Best find of the hunt! How much did Kamen cost?
"store use only" i worked at another chain thrift store (value village) and we would have to check "blank" dvds and vhs to make sure there wasn't anything illegal. luckily i never saw anything weird at all.
@@AIopekis yee we kept ours in the back and there was a tv in the manager's office. maybe they just forgot it after hooking it up to a tv out on the floor. "store use" tag is prob not even for customers but so employees wouldn't take it from the back and put it out thinking it was inventory
You can find some good stuff. Still at Goodwill. I found an Xbox One 500 gigs for 10 bucks
I actually found my playstation 1 in the back of a goodwill. That plus the two controllers was like... $40 in total. If you get lucky, and I mean LUCKY, you can find some good stuff.
That Pinball Hall of Fame is actually pretty good lol.
Sonic the hedgehog (2006) being in an oblivion case is so insulting
*sees the Florida map*
Whew! Didn’t need to watch a one hour video to know how this one was gonna turn out. I mean, I’m still gonna, but you know…