Originally Posted by
BassNotBass
You can find awesome stuff at Goodwill in big cities. Around here it's old farming and tobacco growing tools/implements, crappy 30 year old stereos and stained mattresses. Oh, I forgot to mention all of the cracked bowling balls drilled with finger hole spacing indicative of someone with a seriously deformed hand.
it would be pretty easy to argue the opposite. thrift stores in big cities are quickly picked over and many of them have an employee that checks incoming donations against current ebay sales for similar items for purposes of pricing.
of course, it also depends on how you want to spend your time. if you enjoy thrift and antique store shopping then it's no problem. you will find goodies. if, on the other hand, you don't want to spend your saturday hitting 10 different thrift stores, then clicking on a samsonite flite case for 170usd may be a better deal.