Having trouble selling you're conflagulator box? You're simply marketing in the wrong place!
At "ShopGoodwill", you dont even have to say what the box does, or what any of the controls do, nor mention those pesky power requirements - and folks will open their wallets wide for you!
Not that the commercial stuff goes any cheaper;
I watch this stuff for my own amusement. Volume, bass treble gain. I think you can do that. It's just a matter of where you market your creation! Stomp boxes are alive and well. Now, where's that log-amp schematic?
At "ShopGoodwill", you dont even have to say what the box does, or what any of the controls do, nor mention those pesky power requirements - and folks will open their wallets wide for you!
Not that the commercial stuff goes any cheaper;
I watch this stuff for my own amusement. Volume, bass treble gain. I think you can do that. It's just a matter of where you market your creation! Stomp boxes are alive and well. Now, where's that log-amp schematic?
So, now any motivated DIYer should be able to buy here:
https://www.pedalpcb.com/
Build, then sell at Goodwill?
Note, I have no interest in, or much knowledge of, pedal PCB.com, but I have bought a few boards, chips and other parts from them. Everything was genuine (no fake chips or unprogrammed EEPROMS) and the PCB's were well made, but I didn't exactly build things according to the directions.
https://www.pedalpcb.com/
Build, then sell at Goodwill?
Note, I have no interest in, or much knowledge of, pedal PCB.com, but I have bought a few boards, chips and other parts from them. Everything was genuine (no fake chips or unprogrammed EEPROMS) and the PCB's were well made, but I didn't exactly build things according to the directions.
Not quite that straightforward. The joke is these are all donations to the Goodwill cause; like car pulls up and "Here - take my Threshold S/300 power amp and matching preamp - oops, I forgot to bring the power supply for the preamp... Oh well."
Just finding it amusing how nutz the buyers there are and calling it out here if it's any indication of soundness in the "guitar pedal" market.
Is it just because it's Goodwill? Would the same thing work on ebay or Reverb; post a homemade pedal auction with the description "I dont even know what this does..." and watch the price soar to $150?
I assume the second homemade pedal set went for ~$30 more because they showed one of the boxes had a - whooaa - tube inside it. Figure out what the powersupply was, left as an exercise for the buyer.
I fully understand how physical Goodwill stores operate. I have bought quite a bit of electronics, books and clothing at the retail stores, and brought them several van loads of old toys, books and clothing that the grandkids outgrew. I tend to shop at the stores where there is a transitory population. Need technical, medical, or other educational books, hit the stores near a college where you can find $100 textbooks for $2. Want nice clothes cheap shop near a upscale vacation location, or an area where northerners spent their winter. Many well to do people will just donate the fancy clothes they bought in November rather than dragging them back north in March. Stores near I-75 along the west coast of Florida are goldmines for fancy clothes cheap at the end of "snowbird season."
I heard that they are now in the auction business, but never checked it out since I have far too much "stuff" already.
I heard that they are now in the auction business, but never checked it out since I have far too much "stuff" already.
Can confirm about the 1-75 corridor.
Goodwill went online about 10 years ago. Thrift store aficionados hate it. They grab anything they thing looks good and pop it online. Make great bargains hard to find in the shops.
Goodwill went online about 10 years ago. Thrift store aficionados hate it. They grab anything they thing looks good and pop it online. Make great bargains hard to find in the shops.
About two years ago I bought a 1990's vintage Roland expansion board for my JV-1000 from a Goodwill store somewhere in the south, Georgia I think, via an auction / sale on Ebay. The expansion board is nothing more than two roms on a small PCB, but the listing had a starting bid at nearly the 1995 retail price, about $150, so I put it in my watch list and forgot about it. I guess nobody bid because a couple weeks later I get a ding from Ebay telling me that it has been relisted at a lower price.....still more than I was willing to pay. On the last day of the relisting I see a flag pop up saying that the seller is accepting offers, so I threw a low ball at them and got it. I think it was still about $50 with shipping. Way back in the late 90's and early 2000's I was throwing low balls at almost every auction for 45 tubes. I got a good collection of working tubes all for less than $10 each. Those days are long gone.
There are still auction listings on Ebay by Goodwill stores, but much of the stuff is specialized. I just stumbled across the Eastern Ohio / Western Pennsylvania Goodwill stores page, but most of the listings were for jewelry. I guess the individual stores or groups of stores can still go to Ebay if they want to.
There are still auction listings on Ebay by Goodwill stores, but much of the stuff is specialized. I just stumbled across the Eastern Ohio / Western Pennsylvania Goodwill stores page, but most of the listings were for jewelry. I guess the individual stores or groups of stores can still go to Ebay if they want to.
Maybe you are missing that Goodwill is a CHARITY 😱
People ar actually DONATING, not BUYING, and not much interested into what they are getting in exchange for their money, simply because that is not the point.
My only beef with Goodwill, and it´s a very minor one, is that they call themselves "Goodwill Industries", which I find misleading and countetrproductive.
No big deal anyway.
Well, I can understand the desire to donate to Goodwill and I have done plenty over the years in cash and goods. What I dont understand is how people value things. Example is that ROCKMAN distortion "pedal" went for over $500. I know who Tom Sholtz is, hero to all us industry engineers in the 80's with dreams of making it big, but still. Is it really that good as a pedal - or collectible? I see the answer is apparently "yes", as marketed on ebay, they're all listed between $500 and $1k. For a Pedal...
Sound is the most amazing thing, especially that sound, whatever that may be in a particular audible context; preamps, amps, speakers, pickups - effects. One would think the recent FLAMMA pedal for $60 at Walmart would just smoke that old POS Rockman in all aspects, but I guess the Rockman must have some "sound" people want badly...
Sound is the most amazing thing, especially that sound, whatever that may be in a particular audible context; preamps, amps, speakers, pickups - effects. One would think the recent FLAMMA pedal for $60 at Walmart would just smoke that old POS Rockman in all aspects, but I guess the Rockman must have some "sound" people want badly...
If this FLAMMA doesn't make you Boston-famous fast, obviously you need the REAL thing.
New Coke did not replace Old Coke. (And no, Classic Coke Re-issue isn't the same either.)
People will pay a lot for their fetishes.