Re: Let Down at Goodwill

[brian.hammack@rook.wa.com (Brian Hammack)]

 Nospam@nospam.Com anonymously outgassed these fumes:

 NC| : The price was listed at $129.95, which neither I nor my roommate
   | would : normally be willing to pay for a GS.  However, this one

That's the normal going price online... but at thrifts, hmmm.

 NC| If you are ever in San Francisco check out Goodwill's "As is Store"
   | it is the closest thing to a street brawal I have ever seen.

The Goodwill in downtown Seattle is much the same.  $5 for an Image-
writer, though, with the stipulation that you CANNOT TEST IT FIRST.
I took it upstairs and plugged it in, so what I cheated a bit.  Works!

The Goodwill distribution in downtown Tacoma is more sedate, with good
prices and less competition.  Of course, I have **never** seen a GS at
any thrift store, but recently saw everything but the CPU one day of
some dumped system (flock of software, the drives, the printer with
cable, boxed RAM and other cards, maybe even the monitor and keyboard).

   | sale went to a legitimate cause.  Goodwill is little more than junk
   | dealer benefiting it's management.  I don't see them repairing or
   | training to repair anything. I recently saw ads for retail managers

Inclined to believe you on this one, not willing to get loud or
political or anything about it.  :)  $80 for a used VCR without remote,
$100 for *donated* furniture; gotta wonder where the money goes on that.
I still shop there, I just don't spend any money.  I do let other people
in the Apple community know when something comes up in a thrift, and I
confess recently buying a SeqSys RAM GS 4meg card for $5 at Goodwill.

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                                        the Apple thrift searcher of Tac

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