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[SlowCoder]

There have been a few Wii games at my Goodwills. Usually nothing real special. Previous year's sports games, but sometimes some interesting stuff. Lots of GameCube stuff floating around.

I happen to like the Wii. I don't have a huge library of games, but I enjoy playing the ones I have, and I don't consider them crapware.

[revolutionika]

SlowCoder, on Wed Aug 31, 2011 9:50 PM, said:

There have been a few Wii games at my Goodwills. Usually nothing real special. Previous year's sports games, but sometimes some interesting stuff. Lots of GameCube stuff floating around.

I happen to like the Wii. I don't have a huge library of games, but I enjoy playing the ones I have, and I don't consider them crapware.

yeah, i have alot of wii games myself. lots of good games. people just love to hate nintendo. we play wii more than anything in our house.

[per]

Here in Norway you'll be lucky if you can even find a Goodwill store at all, and garage sales just aren't a part of our culture.

And the goodwill stores that exists (usually driven by the Salvation Army), keeps very little technology-related items for sale anyways.

Edited by per, Thu Sep 1, 2011 8:30 AM.

[TheGameCollector]

I've seen an actual Wii system and games at Value Village. Nobody seems to want to buy it.

[SlowCoder]

TheGameCollector, on Fri Sep 2, 2011 2:00 PM, said:

I've seen an actual Wii system and games at Value Village. Nobody seems to want to buy it.

Guess that would depend on how much they're asking. At this point, I don't think I'd drop more than $40-50 for the entire console. And that would be after I tested and verified it works myself. I don't have enough confidence in CD-based systems to buy them without prior testing.

[Animan]

SlowCoder, on Sat Sep 3, 2011 1:52 PM, said:

TheGameCollector, on Fri Sep 2, 2011 2:00 PM, said:

I've seen an actual Wii system and games at Value Village. Nobody seems to want to buy it.

Guess that would depend on how much they're asking. At this point, I don't think I'd drop more than $40-50 for the entire console. And that would be after I tested and verified it works myself. I don't have enough confidence in CD-based systems to buy them without prior testing.

Well, I've said it before and I'll say it again: The Wii is built like a friggin' tank.

[SlowCoder]

Animan, on Sat Sep 3, 2011 4:33 PM, said:

SlowCoder, on Sat Sep 3, 2011 1:52 PM, said:

TheGameCollector, on Fri Sep 2, 2011 2:00 PM, said:

I've seen an actual Wii system and games at Value Village. Nobody seems to want to buy it.

Guess that would depend on how much they're asking. At this point, I don't think I'd drop more than $40-50 for the entire console. And that would be after I testedw and verified it works myself. I don't have enough confidence in CD-based systems to buy them without prior testing.

Well, I've said it before and I'll say it again: The Wii is built like a friggin' tank.

Perhaps so, but even tanks get war-worn and eventually break down.

I have 3 PS2s, one of which was mine from new, and has easily received multi-1000s of hours of playtime. Still running strong. I have another which is almost new in terms of play hours; probably less than 50. My other one I don't know how many hours, but it was very dusty and was played hard by the previous owner, who I know, and trust.

Still, because of the mechanical nature of disc syftems, failure will be much more problem as they age. Hence I can't buy one without first testing it.

[Punisher5.0]

I went to the new Goodwill store by my house today for the first time and saw a couple of Wii and PS3 games. I didn't buy any but I did get a bunch of awesome VHS movies for .49 cents each.

[Mxyzptlk]

revolutionika, on Tue Aug 30, 2011 11:26 AM, said:

The fact that there was so much crappy shovelware games, it is just weird i havent seen any yet, or at a garage sale yet. Maybe it will change when the WiiU comes out or a little after that?


Have any of you guys seen Wii (or PS3/360) games at Goodwill/Thrift/Garage sales?

Maybe these games go to Shopgoodwill.com?

Yeah, I am pretty sure Goodwill (what a joke) is selling them on there auction site.