GoodBytes Goodwill

The primary things to remember is here, like any Goodwill store, has USED stuff and the stock is always changing. Since items are used, sometimes you find a treasure, other times the stuff is total crap, but mostly items are some where between treasure and crap. Caveat emptor, that is, buyer beware. And don’t expect help from the guy or gal at the cash register. They babysit the money. Once in a blue moon they smile. The really cool thing about this place is if you’re needing to repair an older computer, huzzah – they’ll likely have it here. Will it work? Possibly. But if it doesn’t, you likely didn’t spend much, so it’s worth the risk. And Goodwill does great work in communities across the country. So… if you find a treasure, great; if not, at least the money you spent will go to a good cause.

For those of you who are financially strapped, or others who like to cobble together their own computer, this is the place for you… Much like a dedicated Goodwill store, there’s no fancy pancy stuff going on here… just a lot of secondhand equipment and add-ons…Prices seem to be pretty decent… Saw two people working here, both of whom seemed friendly enough…

This is Goodwill’s location for their computer and video game junk. Need some useless Wii accessories? Head here. How about a broken laptop from the mid ‘90s? Well, they have those too. Yes, most of it is indeed just junk. But every once in a while, you might find something you deem useful or valuable.
I’m kind of geeking out over old video game gear at the moment and am hoping to find some gems from the NES all the way up to the Sega Dreamcast. No dice on this visit, but I’ll be popping into GoodBytes from time to time in hopes of finding something that fits my fancy.

I have gone here twice now. They have cheap flat panel LCD computer monitors that last a while and some VHS tapes. Its worth a stop if you need those things but not much more.

A computer thrift store. They sell used computers cheap here. lots of high end Pentium 4 system for under $ 60 (cheapest I saw was a 2ghz for $ 39, good enough for a lot of games and the interwebs). Looks like they have more printers than best buy. I have expanded my vintage pc game collection by almost 3x as they sell games for 2.99 (cheap!). Large parking lot, though hard to get to as they are in the industrial park area and there are no sidewalks, so 72^nd traffic gets to put up with a bicycle (lol).