On Wed, 23 Mar 2005, Chad Fernandez wrote:
  Besides, Goodwill isn't the place to buy classic
computers, its the
 place to buy old stuff other people didn't want.  They may have a
 classic computer, but I'm not going to give them a classic computer
 price, because Goodwill doesn't specialize selling in classic computers.
   They specialize in selling old stuff other people don't want, and
 they've treated it as such..... they probably know nothing about it,
 they haven't tested it beyond possibly trying to power it up.  They got
 it handed to them buy someone that pulled up in a car, asked the person
 if they wanted a receipt, plopped it into a cart, and later someone shot
 it with a price gun and plopped it on a shelf next to the pile of cheap
 cameras, and then 2 customers picked it up shook it, and a third put a
 hair dryer on top of it, because the hair dryer was in the way of them
 looking at a Lloyd cassette deck. 
Since Goodwill gets offered so much of this stuff and then refuses because
they don't think they can sell it, I was offering a suggested solution (to
a GW representative of sorts) on how they might do it.  If you want to see
old computers sold for cheap through Goodwill, why not offer solutions
also?
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