The Grid - Goodwill Spinoff Store

[ninjainspandex]

I fail to see it as a charity when the CEO makes $850,000 a year. They have little overhead, they get their products for free and they pay their employees near minimum wage. You see it as doing good employing the disabled and giving them work I see it as exploiting the tax code. Non-profit my ass.

[Hobie-wan]

Can we please not have this pointless yelling match again?

[Sload Soap]

Yeah, sorry. Should have just chimed in with my second point.

[Jagosaurus]

Hmmm I rarely find decent electronics with the Goodwill PC store in Houston now...

I know they were funneling games there also. Hope it's not their ultimate plan.

While a cool idea in theory.... found some decent GCN titles @ GW last week... had some amazing finds over the years there. Looks like yet another dried up honey hole.

There are numerous heads of NFP orgs that bank... way of the world. Not limited to GW.

[Tanooki]

Well perhaps look at it this way, some charties in how they function deserve the shit they take for it? Here's an interesting factoid I found out through another persons research of the ICE CHALLENGE going around now online mainly with celebs and executives. You basically donate $100 (or more), get 100 ice cubes in water thrown on your head, or both -- then you nominate another person(s) to do the same. They money goes back to the ALS foundation for a cure (Lou Gerhigs disease.) Keeping this short, for every $100 that foundation gets, operating expenses (budget, ads, paid celebs/spokesmen, advertising, travel, etc...) $7 of that $100 goes to the actual cure. That's filthy. Go look up what the managers, dms, execs up to CEO get at Goodwill. Then wonder how much actually goes to creating jobs and bettering the community and figure out why so many people hate their guts and in turn take out their video game pricing as of more recently as a face of the hate within this community of people.

[hashiriya1]

News to me! i never heard of it until i saw it on Reddit.

[aaron]

moar liek Goodwon't, amirite

the only post in this thread that matters.

[Nintendork666]

Welp, it's official now. Retro gaming has officially jumped the shark.



Thanks Goodwill.