Collection Of Mint Condition NES Games Fetches $30,000 For Goodwill

Soon to be seen on eBay for much more...

Nice to see the money at least going to charity. Far too many of these auctions go straight into some fat dude’s pocket.

The buyer is fittin to make another $100k on top of that

Goodwill is NOT a good place. Their execs pull in hundreds of thousands in salary while more than 1/3 of their stores have employment loopholes to pay their staff under minimum wage.
They also get a TON of money from the government and private donors.
Goodwill sells free goods at a profit, but less than one eighth of that profit actually goes to the job-related programs they market as their primary pillar of charity work.
There are FAAAAAR better places to donate where executives pockets don't get fatter while their employees are struggling to feed themselves.

@ShaneReactions
came here to say this. This place was built to exploit under the mask of help

@ShaneReactions Yeahhhh. I take it back then, even charities find a way to line rich dudes’ pockets. Bloody hell.

@XBontendo
There's a lot of 'charities' like this. Everyone knows the holiday bell ringers for The Salvation Army....but TSA does some terrible things as well, such as not offering any help if you're not christian. Or refusing to go to territories that aren't christian. So...they'll help, as long as you believe in Jesus and live in a Jesus area.
The best thing anyone can do before donating anything is to research. And since they're non-profit, they pay no taxes, just like Goodwill.
Make sure the place(s) you're donating to are actually what they claim to be. So many 'charities' are scams, corrupt and borderline racketeering.

@ShaneReactions
Could be worse........same situation with most of the charity shops in the UK, minus the local independent ones (where top level bosses get a hefty pay)
But the biggest difference is that the workers in the charity shop work for free.

Goodwill has probably missed opportunities like this in the past.

@Burntbreadman Goodwill has a history of paying workers with disabilities (some of the very people they say they help) far below minimum wage. Sometimes below a dollar an hour because of a outmoded part of a law passed in 1938:

Section 14(c) of the Fair Labor Standards Act authorizes employers, after receiving a certificate from the Wage and Hour Division, to pay special minimum wages — wages less than the Federal minimum wage — to workers who have disabilities for the work being performed.

This basically allows them to say 'you have limitations therefore we feel your work is only worth .25 an hour' and get away with it. It's digusting, but very '1938 America'. But it's 2021 and people and their work should be treated with dignity.

Wow, how dare people earn a living while running charities! It's not like running a business takes skill, experience or knowledge... oh wait. It's not like a charity wants to attract talent... oh wait.

On the paying people less than minimum wage question... have you even considered that some people are completely unemployable because they don't have the skills to create enough value for an employer to even make them worth that much? This law doesn't PREVENT any employee from making more money - if these disabled workers could find better-paying work, they would. This law helps them find work at all where otherwise they couldn't earn anything.

Too bad it made its way to Goodwill as opposed to a different thrift store.

@FantasiaWHT Great argument for exploiting the disabled, sir. Your award for outstanding services in the promotion of unfettered exploitation in the name of capitalism is in the post.

@FantasiaWHT …..are you actually advocating taking advantage of disabled workers because ‘it’s better than nothing’? Truly a radical free-thinker there.

@FantasiaWHT found the Goodwill CEO

Are you advocating that they're better off not working at all?

@WhiteUmbrella Question - if the business is barely making anything off the worker anyway, how is it exploiting the worker? Surely if the worker had skills that were actually valuable to an employer, they would have an easy time finding a job somewhere else, no?

@WhiteUmbrella probably a scalper as well

MEH! I’d rather it had gone directly to an actual person.

Edit: I posted my comment before I saw the others. There’s nothing heartwarming about Goodwill getting that money. I learned about them when I sold on eBay, a few years ago.

@ShaneReactions Not feeling really good now about them, after reading your comment. A lot of these companies take advantage of people that really need help. Two faced corporate *****.

@ShaneReactions Came here to say the same thing. Glad you had it posted already, as now I don't have to post a lengthy, exhausting diatribe on the subject. Goodwill is a scam and a half.

Yeah, Goodwill sucks. A friend of mine who worked there says that they destroy pretty much any item they deem to be worthless, such as gaming magazines and VHS tapes, and that management is highly patronizing to employees.

Goodwill is a dogsh*t greedy company that pretends to be a charity. Definitely not a feel good story.

Also very well known for poor treatment of special needs employees. And before someone says "well at least they employ special needs people", that is not ok. You cant just say take it or leave it, a jobs a job when people are treated as less than.

For anybody complaining about charity management earning a high salary, do you feel the same way about doctors? Why wouldn't the same argument apply for doctors working at a non-profit hospital or clinic?

@ShaneReactions 5 seconds of Googling - average U.S. salary of a doctor in the U.S. is somewhere around $209,000/year.

> Your feel-good story of the day

But I wanted crab news

Goodwill is corrupt as hell. Would've been better served seeing the money go towards an actual charity like BCRF or Red Cross. I'll have to give this story a 3/10.

I would like to say that I used to find neat things at Goodwills until about 5 years ago. I found a Bentley Compuvision for $3.50 back in 2000.

support Goodwill's initiatives
This is a joke for a company that pays it's CEO outrageous salaries unlike all the hard working employees. GoodWill isn't what you think it is. Just looking up it's history you will find they pay High Dollars for the management but does little for Social Justice for those in needs.

My Goodwill doesn't even have video games.

@ShaneReactions came here hoping to see someone pointing this out.

@XBontendo that's not totally fair. It was originally set up to help poor folks obtain used goods without begging, and to give them jobs. It however takes huge advantage of a 1930's era law that allows them to pay below minimum wage (the idea of that portion of the law was to keep otherwise unemployable people employed). Now that isn't necessarily fair and Goodwill has exploited it quite a bit (to pay otherwise employable people less, sometimes lowering their pay). The YouTube channel Illuminaughty has a good video on them and the Salvation army.
But let's just say if I could find another place to give my kids old but good toys to that was better, I would.

@SwitchForce The best you can say about Goodwill (and a lot of big Thrift store operations) is it provides cheap goods. Most aren't good to the majority of their workers, and are overly good to upper management. If I could find a better choice between goodwill a d the trash for my lightly used goods, I would. And sometimes Goodwills actions make me question not just trashing my things.

@malcire If I could find a better choice between goodwill a d the trash for my lightly used goods, I would.
You need to look around more for better charities the internet can do wonders here. Cheap doesn't equate to Social Justice for the poor and working poor.

Goodwill is a corporate shill of a company. They get donations and then sell them for profits. They literally pay over 40% of every dollar to corporate shills working there. They get all their items from donations and sell them for 10xs that of the Salvation Army as well. This is just another greedy company.

I'm glad I stopped collecting old games. I had fun grabbing them, but they are way too expensive now.

I used to frequent Goodwill stores, but because of practices like this, they don't usually have anything of interest anymore. They pull the best stuff for sale online and leave the undesirable items for their stores. That's fine for them, but they've lost me as a customer.

A lot of people on here are for or against Goodwill as a company. I think the best position is more in the middle. They may be a non-profit, but they're still in the business of making money, even if it's for their causes. Whether their pay is good or not (my understanding is that it's usually okay), they do give jobs to people who struggle to find work, and it's easier to get a better job once you have one. That's basically their mission statement. They hire and train people when no one else will, so they can move forward to better things. As for their executives making high salaries, you do have to pay for quality. I couldn't tell you how good the guy is, but I can tell you that offering 100k or less isn't going to bring in great candidates for such a huge company. You get what you pay for.

@malcire
There are actually a lot of charities that take donations, even when they don't run thrift stores. My favorite thrift store chain doesn't really take donations themselves, as far as I know, and they're actually a for-profit company. They stock shelves by buying bulk from charities who take donations, like Purple Heart. Smaller, local thrift stores will usually take donations, too, and all or most of their proceeds go to their cause (no giant corporation behind them). Try looking up thrift stores connected to the humane society, or children's hospitals. I have several of those in my area.

@TrueWiiMaster I couldn't tell you how good the guy is, but I can tell you that offering 100k or less isn't going to bring in great candidates for such a huge company.
Problem is if they are GoodWilled management pay shouldn't be why you work in charities. That is to be benefit those at risk/needs . I also found out Salvation army Discriminates against LBGT people just because of whom they are. One of my co-worker told me about it and if true they also shouldn't be getting any Public funding from my Tax dollars. But far from those I think everyone can find better one that will benefits those at needs/risk family that will help them more. Those big names forgot their Core Mission once they got too big to fail.

@SwitchForce
That mindset severely limits the hiring pool. It would no longer be about finding the best person, but instead be about someone willing to run the company for cheap out of the goodness of their heart. Even if they found such a person, it would likely still be better for the company to pay a better candidate more and benefit from better leadership.

Salvation Army is a Christian group, so accusing them of discrimination may or may not be legitimate. Adhering to Christian values is not necessarily discrimination. Of course, if they are specifically denying employment or service to LGBT people, that would be a problem and they would likely be in court already.