charity shop finds

Saw a PC engine in the window of a heart foundation a few years back. Went to ask the missus for my card and it had gone. Still haunts me that.
Aside from that its the usual 360 era filler. Some wii stuff. Did pick up toads treasure tracker on wii u last year.

Fing nothing, they check Ebay these days

£5 for an old Fifa?
NOPE!

Can't say I've ever found much in a chazza, even when times were bountiful. The best was probably an Xbox copy of Outrun 2006 for a few quid which was worth £20-£25 at the time (£100+ now!!!!).

As others have said, they have people whose job it is to research prices on ebay and sell that way. I can't blame them really as they ARE charities trying to get as much money as possible for their cause(s) at the end of the day. They were never meant to be bargain bins for us to get £50 games for £1.50 from. We just experienced a time when charity shops were largely manned by pensioners who thought games were "those new DVD things", and we gladly took them off their hands, laughing our way to the banks.

Now, there are a lot more younger, savvy people involved, and charity shops are no longer seen as stuffy old junk shops that you would be embarassed to set foot in.

Yes charity shops are getting more profit and sales driven. After all the overheads and administration cost money even if volunteers work in shops. I think the youtubers who do videos of their charity shop finds are finding out there are slim pickings. To name but a few. Callum from Retro Ghetto now only focuses on gaming shops and his man cave when previously he was scoring big on charity finds. Retro Rick is another who focused on gaming pick ups and but now it’s cool retro full priced items from pawn shops

I think the only recentish retro gaming item I got from a charity shop was a Pac-Man namco handheld. Games tend to be taken by the volunteers as they get first dibs. I got lucky as I spotted the Pac-Man hidden under some stock to be put out in the shop and the volunteer who I paid said she didn’t spot that or she would have had it

Cash converter wise I did pick up some old wii games which were put out for 50p each and there was several lego games. Not sure why they didn’t research the prices as there other games were priced much higher. I think it was due to the wii games having scratches on them but I didn’t think they were too bad only a lot of superficial scratches but CEX would try to buff them when they buy them to see if the scratches come off

My best find was a mint CIB castlevania for the PSP for 50p - that charity shop used to let me go out the back and see what they had, as I was a regular customer, who used to buy loads of games and books.

Today I got good condition complete copies of SSX and Medal of Honor frontline for PS2 for £1.50 each sure not much better than CEX but they look nice and clean and it's a charity shop I haven't brought from before and I think sometimes you need to start the ball rolling and start making connections, getting to know the staff so they'll point stuff out to you and show you items that have not been put out yet.