As a former goodwill manager for almost 5 years, I have a pretty good idea about how goodwill gets these items in the first place. A lot of the nice tech items would get dropped off by older parents who are A) sick of their adult childs shit so they get rid of anything they deem to be a distraction for said adult child. B) They are completely unaware of what it is and simply haven't seen it be used in a year or more. So they get rid of it during spring cleaning. Or C) The owner died and the person donating is just getting rid of it because they are responsible for cleaning up after.

You neglected to mention the crazy shipping prices goodwill charges though!! Always check what postage is before placing a bid 😅😅

I loved the ending Matt trying to chastice you for buying a bunch of games then he just goes "ooh I see one I want"

Austin is back at it again exposing good sites to shop for discounted used and new tech. Now goodwill won’t have good stuff anymore.

Having worked in a goodwill, I can confirm that the HDDs and SSDs get like... Turbo wiped seperately, if not outright destroyed. Same with unmarked DVDs, VHSes, CDs, etc. Anything that might contain personal information or, more importantly 'illegal adult material', is destroyed. Goodwill is not taking chances with potentially getting a predator's wank stash lol.

Wow, they packed their shipments 10 times better then GameStop.

4:00 From what I remember the picture quality on that Mavica was so good.. I mean ridiculously good for the time.

This video was a lot of fun. Watching Ken geek out at some of the items was cute. I wish I had a Goodwill like this in Australia 🇦🇺as I would have had a lot of fun bidding on items.

The optiplex 760 was such a throwback to when I first started getting into PC hardware. I was using it for school and animating but it could barely run blender. It had a 4770k and I looked up graphics cards and ended up with some $50 MSI radeon HD card and that's when my addiction began lol

Austin every video: Well isn't it a good day to get scammed!? 🤔

This video was awesome. I'd love to see more just like this one!

A friend of mine gave me a system with a 4930k and 1060 6gb as payment for waiting in line for him when the 3090 launched. A few months later, I built my own system around a 5900X and 3090. My single-core Cinebench score was higher on the 5900X than the multi-core score of the 4930k

I am loving the reactions to the old tech, the nostalgia feeling is real!

This was one hell of a great video well done austin and team

Oh man, this means The Grid is gonna get some new traffic 😅 so long deals 🤣❤ It really is a great eBay store!

Austin is having a techgasm today!😂😂

Austin shouting out psivewri made me smile

great video. always like you guys do some content. i love when matt say "oh i see what i want"

Great video I’ve been watching you for a couple months just wanna say thank you you are my favorite KZfaqr and Im trying to be in the field of tech when I’m older so thank you

I was in love with the DV series back in the day. The 9000 was just so good.

Love the editing in this one 😂

Def a solid video. Part 2 soon pls

15:30 I actually thought that it was going to go KABOOM after 10 seconds had they waited. I wouldn't even have waited myself.

As someone who lives in Charlotte and been to the store.... Nothing in there is worth the price they were asking. They were selling used Rasp Pi above new market value.

The edit for the 1st gen iPad was hilarious. Loved it 😂😂😂😂

This needs to be a series

Austin! I volunteer putting on reto gaminging events at my local library, you didn't mention them but kids these days go crazy for those kinect games! We only have a few of them and sadly weren't able to get any off the 360 store before it shut down. You should do a video showcasing which one's you got lol

I'm old enough to remember using a Mavica as my very first digital camera experience, it was mind blowing! And that was back in 1997, I think it took VGA-res pictures... But man, when you compare the convenience compared to taking film to the photo place and waiting a day or two to get pictures back (of which at least 50% were blurry or not framed correctly), it was a real revolution!

My goodwill usually has some good stuff especially video games 😊 I have a playlist on all the cool stuff I found

I want to see Austin bring these old apple products into his local apple, asking if they can help him update them.

6:03 lmao that editing 😂

I got second hand embarrassment from that drop

Is it weird that I watch you guys when I’m working out lol😅

I dont think that was the original battery that came with that HP laptop. We used to could buy better batteries back in the day where they were pretty much double the size of the original one. thats what looks like someone had done there also. great find.

Yeah!!! Love that mention, a big fan of Psivewri♡

6:53 great now it's in my head😂

You could probably get an old play store version for that tablet thing. That Dell OptiPlex 760 looks identical to one someone in my family still has and uses to this day, a Dell OptiPlex 755. It was overrun with programs and viruses, but after fixing it, it's working like a charm, but then the HDD wiped itself of all data, but I just reinstalled the OS and now it's working again and has been for a few months now.

17:30 Matt killed me ☠️😂

12:00 lol. 16:02 when you see a game you owned in the wild

If I'd somehow gotten my hands on that Mavica as a kid, I would've been pretending it was some kind of sci-fi gun and the floppy disks its fancy energy magazines.

omg i used that exact same floppy disk camera at school. we had a big floppy shortage back in the day.

I had completely forgotten about that camera I worked at Sears when this came out 😂

5:55 the most loudest efect i ever hear

Awesome! I own a camera similar to the floppy disc one, a Sony Mavica FD71- 2.5mp. Actually took not that bad of photos at the time, until we got a Kodak camera which ended up blowing it out of the water for clarity. Amusing part, is ours still works as well.

is there a goodwill standard to have a metric of consistency? I never think of them and if so, like a flee market or yard sale of varying finds.

15:32 if he plugs that pc in again we're getting "It's all gone again" video.

Lol that quad duo sounded like a ticking time bomb

15:16 that power supply!! 😁

I think goodwill is the same as pawn shops. Sometimes you find a great deal but most times its overpriced good.

I had the same laptop with a similar battery back in the day. It saved me from having to find a wall outlet in uni.

At 12:00 Austin was holding a BBC (Big Battery Core)😂😂😂

This entire video is a total geek out for me, i even had 5 OG iPads at one point because nobody wanted them, but there's no similar thing to a Goodwill Grid in my country :(

I’m sure Psivwri will love the new subs from your shout out with that Eucalyptus Oil reference!

4:01 THATS THE CAMERA I USE!!!!! i love using retro tech and the floppy disks are a really fun storage option

Austin Never fails to make all of us happy :)

11:29 I had the same one when growing up!! I think I might still have it somewhere in my atic

I can totally understand why some people drop something good to goodwill. Second hand market is full of lowballing offers and frauds. Dealing with people in there could be annoying. They drop items to goodwill will make these awful buyers or sellers have to do something good to obtain these items. This is why.

You should forward some of this stuff to LGR or Techmoan and see what they make of it.

Your video editor deserves a raise.

i remember those dv6000s always failed to where you press the power button, the light would turn on and nothing would happen

That ticking turned into a ticking time bomb real fast🤣

Thanks Austin

Hell yeah Austen

I used to have one of those HPs with the Huge batteries. Oh god, the memories.

As someome who works for goodwill, you see a lot of things donated and wonder why. Someone donated a Virtual Boy with 9 games. It had the 2 mario games and Wario Land.

There is a physical brick and mortar location for "The Grid" here in Charlotte, NC. It's actually pretty cool! Depends on when you go in but i've seen tons of classic gaming stuff in the past and really fair prices on some quality gear if you're willing to dig around a bit!

In all honesty, I did get a fat ps3 on auction from goodwill for about $80 on eBay, fully working, with Assassins creed 1-3 on disk and 2 controllers. About ~$3 shipping from VA to FL, so it wasn’t bad at all. Depends on the platform and store of purchase I guess

that clicking is the fan in the psu

Yes Goodwill!!

i used to do club event coverage with my sony mavica camera. still have it

Austin is gonna freak when he sees what some of those old NCAA Football games go for now. 13 will continue to have a big community until EA actually makes a new one.

You guys should make a video about testing all of those graphics cards!

5:58 Man I didn't know how much I missed that sound

I’ve been to the Charlotte, NC, Grid store. Prices are great, selection is decent. You can get a working Core 2 Duo iMac for under $50

That Dell Optiplex was THE PC that was in every school computer lab I had. Instant PTSD when it saw it.

You and Pheonix Resale uploading videos about the same thing at the same time is wild

I hate that perfectly good and working devices such as these no longer have access to anything. I hate forced obsolescence.

I have lived in Charlotte my whole life, never knew this store existed. Gonna have to swing by.

whats really sad is all the tech from goodwill is MUCH LESS CRUSTY than the stuff he got from DK Oldies

This was my go to place to buy used stuff. They had crazy good items. Now its all gone

I was not expecting the Psivewri shout out!.😊

that floppy cameras awesome every 6 photos hold on bro need to get a new floppy disk out 🤣

Fra gee lee box number 1 😂😂😂

Austin (or, I guess, it would be duncan33303 back then) in 2012 on D3Live be like: Get an SSD. No seriously. Get an SSD. That meme stuck with me for some reason lol

6:03 he got so excited about the iPad, he turned into Xbox Live game chat mic quality

lmao the eucalyptus oil

Pretty good pictures with the mavica 🤙

Wow... I have to visit that site... Now!

i can relate to the 12 year old so much. i remember buying pretty much the same pc from alaro. it was fine for a few months then it started black screening and randomly shutting off. they never refunded me or compensated with anything. worst brand ever

17:46 STEELBOOK on video game/tech channel 😮found in the wild.

The grid by good will..reminds me of a more techy EB games

that sony camera is very sick, the photo aesthetic is just 👌

I totally had an HP laptop from that era, had the same giant battery, had a super cool cover that looked like fire, I loved it lol

I'm Happy that Ken is Happy

I took a Sony Mavica and a few Floppy Disks to my Senior Prom back in 2006. Had it hanging around my neck looking like I was the coolest in my teal suit coat and khaki pants.

bro did the uno reverse on being scammed.

Stop drop and roll 🗣️🗣️🗣️🔥🔥🔥

This episode is just Austin buying all the tech I wanted as a teen

omg that optiplex is literally my old PC!

Bro huge fan