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Originally Posted by Beachboy
I scour the local Goodwill's several times a week, checking out their inventory of DVD players and VCR's. Bad thing about Goodwill is that there is NEVER a remote with the units, and for some reason, nobody ever includes the power cord or power supply with electronics, either. Most VCR's cost around $4-$5 and DVD players run around $5. I passed up on a Denon 5-disk DVD changer for $5 recently, mostly due to it's size. Seems everyone is going streaming and dumping DVD players like crazy. I've also learned to be VERY leery of electronics at Goodwill, and I've purchased too many that were defective.
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I recently bought an early 1990s Mitsubishi 4-Head HiFi VCR From Goodwill (the one I work at) for $4 and when I got it home to try it out the VCR wasn't working right as far as wanting to eject the tape, well it turned out it was just that the original belt was defective and I happened to have a spare belt laying around that fit it and now its working perfectly. Most of the time if I get a piece of electronic equipment from Goodwill like a VCR that's defective I try to see if its an easy fix before returning it (although goodwill has now made a new policy where electronics are sold AS-IS and non-returnable where it used to be you had 3 days to return it for a goodie buck refund and I think it was because there were people abusing the return policy.)