The Video Game Critic

[QUOTE=Steerforth]

I have to agree witht he earlier posts who say that their is no longer any 'junk' anymore thanks to EBAY. Which is good for sellers (and the Post Office), not so much for buyers. Yard sales are still a decent place though, but of course it is very hit and miss.

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I can understand why you feel that way, but I respectfully disagree.  Ebay has made it great on buyers like me.  Whatever I want -- almost anything -- I am able to find on eBay faster than I could by perusing hundreds of junk shops or garage sales.  The prices are higher, yes, but that's just because that's their real value on an informed and open market.  Not everybody will like the situation, but for me personally, it works out great.

I just won a Halloween on the Atari 2600, in near perfect condition.  It cost me $279 and some change total, but it was very worth it.  I couldn't imagine finding that game in that condition in some other venue without a LOT of extra effort, and going to many many different stores and yard sales to try to find it.  So at least for this consumer, eBay is a godsend.

@ m0zart: Wow. I had a vague notion of what Goodwill was, but I too must agree that the Goodwill system is tremendous.

I will be sure to support them when I can. I'm happy to report that my wife buys clothes from them on a regular basis.

-Rob

Okay, I have to back up why I said what I did on Salvation army: SA USED to have a run-down store by the railroad tracks (on the wrong side likely!), which was small and dusty but the stuff was CHEAP back then! Stuffed animal=50 cents, paperback book=10 cents, Vic 20 computer (in box) 5 bucks!(I bought it!)...but since they moved to this big BRAND NEW store, inconveiniantly located at the edge of town, it's like Stuffed animal=$4.00, Books are now $2-$5, and an old C=>64 computer, loose, was TWENTY BUCKS! It's like they are paying for this new store by gouging poor people! So maybe this is an isolated case, but....

As for Goodwill hiring disabled, hey, ours has NO disabled, while our Wal*mart (which I don't like either, BTW, I'm not promoting them, but there aren't many other examples) has at least EIGHT disabled people working there- an autistic girl works in electronics (she is very slow but I try to be patient...I am disabled myself), and my old freind Peter from school works there (in a wheelchair, paralyzed since birth)... I see no "good will" in OUR Goodwill. These things do vary!