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Anonymous Mon 18 Nov 2019 19:01:46 No.7859814 View View Reply Original Report

What's the thrift store situation like for you, toy wise?

>tfw I spent the day at thrift stores searching for treasure, but came up empty handed
>tfw I ended up just buying a pink Power Ranger from Walmart

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Anonymous Mon 18 Nov 2019 19:03:55 No.7859818 Report

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this week was slow. found some stuff last week while thrifting. it comes and goes, christmas is coming up so I'm expecting to find a lot of stuff in a lot of places, whatever it might be. there is this resell shop I go to sometimes, but they always sell them for a bit of change, like this captain scarlett doll backpack I got for £10. can't even find anything about it online

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Anonymous Mon 18 Nov 2019 19:23:05 No.7859855 Report

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>>7859814
I have 1 store here and it's all "donated" shit IE stuff people would throw in the trash but give away to this place instead, so they can pretend to be "such a good person who gives to charity" while anything of value goes on eBay. Nothing good whatsoever so I stopped checking.

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Anonymous Mon 18 Nov 2019 23:29:12 No.7860257 Report

Quoted By: >>7860282

It's all garbage, sadly.

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Anonymous Mon 18 Nov 2019 23:49:06 No.7860282 Report

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>>7860257
That's typical of "donation" stores anymore >>7859855 everyone takes anything valuable online and gives these shops their trash to pretend they somehow make a difference.

I only ever see clothes, records, cassettes, used PC parts covered n dirt, plush toys, and nothing really good. If by some chance a choice item does go there, it's bought fast.

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Anonymous Mon 18 Nov 2019 23:50:46 No.7860287 Report

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Used to be really, really good like 5-6 years ago. Now the toy aisles in all my Goodwills are half the size and full of garbage. I live in a city where old people go to retire so I guess that's a factor but it's frustrating.

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Anonymous Wed 20 Nov 2019 03:07:24 No.7862731 Report

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>>7859814
Honestly I think in the last decade ebay, craigslist and other virtual garage sale apps have made thrift stores irrelevant. People have realized they can make a fair amount of money from selling their used toys online instead of just giving them away to a thrift store. I remember like 10 years ago you could pretty much find anything there and for literal pennies. There were many times I would find boxes and baggies full of star wars figures, Gi joes, Legos etc. Now the only toys I see at thrift stores are either broken or just not worth it. Honestly thrift stores have lost their magic because the only stuff people give them is garbage.

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Anonymous Wed 20 Nov 2019 05:59:29 No.7862969 Report

Quoted By: >>7865269 >>7865280

Ok so I know this sound bad but I have had luck looking at the obituary's for guys in there 40s 50s
I wait a week or two than contact there family members asking if they have anything they would like to donate to charity. A lot do. I meet up with them and I load up everything they want gone I than ask if they would like to sell anything. usually they do I have gotten huge collections for penny's. Unfortunately this hobby has a lot of unhealthy people that collect old toys. Its real sad when you go to houses of poor guys that offed them selves. Its real common in the winter time to. The thing is I don't resale any of it. I give a lot of the free stuff away to charity. The good stuff I take out to a bunker out in the middle of nowhere I got from a gov land auction and seal everything up.
I have been doing this for almost 10 years now Its all most completely full. Some times I go out there and just think and remember what our world could have been what all these toys could have inspired. One day I will die and this place will be lost to time. One day some one might find it and see how great America and the world once was. But I doubt robots will care.

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Anonymous Thu 21 Nov 2019 13:47:54 No.7865269 Report

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>>7862969
Holy balls lmao.

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Anonymous Thu 21 Nov 2019 14:06:23 No.7865280 Report

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>>7862969
What do you say is the name of your charity?

DON'T ASK ME HOW I KNOW YOUR LOVED ONE IS DEAD BUT GIVE ME HIS SHIT CARING CENTER

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Anonymous Thu 21 Nov 2019 14:17:34 No.7865287 Report

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A little over a year ago I went to one of my local Goodwills and found a big plastic bag full of MASK toys, didn't get any though.

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