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Originally Posted by Captainclock
Well that's the thing Goodwill still sells Hifi Equipment or stereo equipment in general so that would be a no brainer that I wouldn't be taking that from a goodwill dropbox even if it was just sitting outside of it. But Goodwill said that they don't take TVs anymore not even antique ones so if someone did lose their marbles or was stupid enough to donate an old 1940s vintage Porthole TV set to the goodwill dropbox and set it outside of it (the kind of people I'm thinking of that would do this would be some younger people who didn't know what they had and were cleaning out their grandparents estate after they passed away or were moved into a nursing home) Goodwill if they saw a TV like that outside of their dropboxes would more than likely not know that it was a valuable piece of history and would just see it as an old obsolete and unusable CRT TV and would just junk it without a second thought, they wouldn't even try to sell it online more than likely because it would be too much of a liability for them to do so. Which is why if you do see a TV like that sitting outside of a goodwill dropbox I would just pick it up and take it home, because as I stated earlier goodwill isn't going to care otherwise and its going to save a vintage TV from being scrapped. So to me nabbing an old TV from outside of a Goodwill dropbox is a no brainer. Now like I said if it was a vintage piece of stereo or hi-fi equipment or even a vintage VCR or VTR then Its a no brainer that you wouldn't take those from the goodwill bin area, even if its outside of the bins because those are items that they still sell in shop yet so those are off limits, but TV sets are free game.
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NOT_-Accd. to some here...if the cord is messed up, or broken tubes or such---they do NOT sell them....and trash them and will NOT let ANYONE take them--due to "liability". In such a CASE---since they would NOT really want it...it would NOT be theft...IMHO.