Rare Apples, eBay, Goodwill

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----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Jim Leonard" <trixter at oldskool.org>
To: <General at cnc.net>; "Discussion at cnc.net:On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts" 
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Sent: Wednesday, March 23, 2005 2:49 PM
Subject: Re: Rare Apples, eBay, Goodwill


> With all this talk of Goodwill (and thank you for educating me, guys!), I 
> decided to check one out.  They had lots of computer equipment on the 
> shelves, but it broke down thusly:
>
> 50% 15" VGA monitors
> 30% Packard Bell or other similar trash PCs
> 10% keyboards
> 5%  Printers (all inkjet)
> 5%  Software (mostly games, early CDROM junk, the few good ones were 
> incomplete)
>
> I'll keep checking every month, though.
> -- 
> Jim Leonard (trixter at oldskool.org) 
> http://www.oldskool.org/
> Want to help an ambitious games project? 
> http://www.mobygames.com/
> Or check out some trippy MindCandy at 
> http://www.mindcandydvd.com/
>

You almost have to stop each day as good things do not last long.  Here in 
Houston some people sit in the Goodwill all day for 8 hours getting the 
stuff as it is being put out.  There are fights sometime.