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tim Full Member Offline NESWORLD KICKS ASS! Posts: 120	saturn 26. Oct 2006 at 19:07 i picked up a sega saturn with a 3d controller and a normal controller for 20 bucks at goodwill today. not a bad deal
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350F Junior Member Offline [ch8593] [ch8593] [ch8595] [ch8595] [ch8592] [ch8594] [ch8592] [ch8594] B A ST Posts: 61 St. Louis Gender:	Re: saturn Reply #1 - 26. Oct 2006 at 20:30 Nice find. I always get embarrassed walking into goodwill. Last time I went in one looking for NES games there was an old guy playing with one of those wind up fairies that spins and plays music, he was walking around humming to the little song and it creeped me out.
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wrldstrman Senior Member Offline complete nes game hound Posts: 408 wv Gender:	Re: saturn Reply #2 - 26. Oct 2006 at 20:56 its pointless to go to our goodwills the employees take any and every game turned in. In 5 years Ive only seen 2 carts supermario duck hunt and combat.
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burnambill333 Ex Member	Re: saturn Reply #3 - 27. Oct 2006 at 04:35 I haven't ever found anything good at Goodwill....except for some sweet shirts every once in a while and two Dead Milkmen CDs.
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tim Full Member Offline NESWORLD KICKS ASS! Posts: 120	Re: saturn Reply #4 - 27. Oct 2006 at 16:01 Yeah, unfortunately I'm surrounded by at least 5 used game stores (independently owned), so I have to go to thrift stores just about every day to ever get anything.
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Reply #5 - 27. Oct 2006 at 16:02

350F wrote on 26. Oct 2006 at 20:30:

Nice find. I always get embarrassed walking into goodwill. Undecided

Last time I went in one looking for NES games there was an old guy playing with one of those wind up fairies that spins and plays music, he was walking around humming to the little song and it creeped me out. Shocked

yeah...alot of people think its just for poor people, when in actuallity it is mostly wealthy people or people who ebay stuff. you see bmws, hummers, porsches, etc in the parking lot most of the time.

in fact, the other two homeless guys came in asking for shoes and the lady told them no...i was like, are you crappity smacking serious...isn't this supposed to help needy people? they get everything they sell for free...and its not like those places keep inventory.

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Reply #6 - 27. Oct 2006 at 21:05

tim wrote on 27. Oct 2006 at 16:02:

in fact, the other two homeless guys came in asking for shoes and the lady told them no...i was like, are you crappity smacking serious...isn't this supposed to help needy people? they get everything they sell for free...and its not like those places keep inventory.

Dude, that's just fscking despicable.

Oh, and a hint of where to find goodwill stuff if you don't have a decently stocked goodwill nearby (or one nearby period, like me):
http://www.shopgoodwill.com
Online auctions, the only sellers are Goodwill stores, and most of the time the people puting up the auctions have no idea what the stuff is worth. Good place to find the unique stuff at a decent price.

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burnambill333 Ex Member	Re: saturn Reply #7 - 28. Oct 2006 at 06:52 Last time I checked out shopgoodwill.com their auction prices were very high, usually higher than fair market value actually. Plus the selection isn't that great. It's good seeing somebody trying to compete with eBay but in this case I'll just stick with satan.
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Reply #8 - 09. Nov 2006 at 04:13

I can usually find good stuff there, but all the Goodwills around here do 'silient auctions' of anything they think is good, so video games usually end up in there. Here's what I have found in Goodwill:

Miracle Piano (the piano) - $15
SNES w/hookups- $5
Dreamcast w/hookups- $5
NES w/hookups- $5
Genesis w/hookups- $5
Final Fantasy NES - $2
Tombs and Treasures NES - $2
Mega Man 6 NES - $4

And I am ALWAYS finding hookups for cheap. I have tons of AC adapters and AV hookups for all kinds of systems, mostly NES and SNES. I also found a cool NES joystick that I'm gonna use for my Playchoice project...

Keep looking, you never know!

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the_wizard_666 God Member Offline Posts: 1688 Calgary, Alberta, Canada Gender:	Re: saturn Reply #9 - 09. Nov 2006 at 07:29 I got my Saturn at the Goodwill by my house too. $10 Canadian for the system, a standard controller, a Nights controller (the 3D one you got), all hookups, and 3 games: Daytona USA CIB, Street Fighter Alpha CIB, and Valora Valley Golf disc only. Pretty good score I think...now if only I could find something worth playing besides Shanghai III
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NESaholic God Member Offline Obscurist maximus Posts: 2450 The Netherlands Gender:	Re: saturn Reply #10 - 10. Nov 2006 at 08:50 Congrats on the find man. A friend of mine works for goodwill also and he snatches quite alot from there. I can understand that the emplyees jump on the stuff. Yesterday i got quite some nice stuff from him for cheap, so yeah they snatch what they can.
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