Goodwill is pretty neat. They save a lot of stuff from going to the dump. You can find some really interesting and inexpensive electronics there sometimes.
The ones around here ban most electronic donations, because people use them as an electronics disposal drop-off - dump an old compute on Goodwill, avoid the recycling fee, it doesn't sell, Goodwill has to pay the recycling fee.
More interestingly, and even strangelier, however, the Goodwills around here take electronics for resale and put it all on the shelves without verifying that anything works at all. I returned an item once because it started sparking when I turned it on. I could not get my money back, they don't do that, only in-store credit for the amount paid, good for only 30 days, and only at the same store as the original purchase. Fat chance that I found anything there on which to use a credit of $60 or $70 within a month. But I went back the next week to look for anything plausible. The same piece of smoldering dumpster-fire trash I had returned was back on the shelf.
