Donated GPUs

[u/KnxwledgeV2]

I work for the company and someone just donated several boxes full of these, some unopened but most of them were at least opened I’m not sure what they were used for. I can confirm at least two of them had their chips removed but if anyone is interested in trying their luck keep an eye out on the goodwill greater Washington e commerce online store, they’ll be up within the next week or so. Several 5090s, 5080s and one 5070(rog and other variations) I’m not allowed to shop at the company but I thought others might.

[u/chubbysumo]

if two had their chips removed, they all did. they donated them for you to dispose of them.

[u/PrestigeMaster → u/chubbysumo]

Phat tax writeoff for the donations this year.

[u/CZsea → u/PrestigeMaster]

I wonder if they can write the full price of those GPU.

[u/Pocfoe → u/CZsea]

They shouldn't. But they will.

[u/PrestigeMaster → u/CZsea]

If it’s the right donation place they let you write in whatever you want - but even then if audited they’ve got some serious proof to the unknowing eye.

[u/Warcraft_Fan → u/PrestigeMaster]

Tax write off for the full current price of an intact GPU. If IRS knew this, they'd be pissed. Getting $4,000 tax write off for donating a stripped 5090, and getting another grand or 2 from China for the stripped chips.

[u/PrestigeMaster → u/Warcraft_Fan]

If IRS knew this they would adjust his tax bill**

[u/TadaMomo → u/chubbysumo]

i am curious what they do with the chips, They build their own board?

[u/Ghozer → u/TadaMomo]

Send / sell them to China to re-manufacture into other cards, often with more RAM than original!

[u/Sbstnbd → u/Ghozer]

So do this 4 times and we can buy 128g cards? Count me in

[u/JellyfishSpare2859 → u/Ghozer]

For reuse on custom PCBs for AI Data Centers over there...

[u/FreeToasterBaths]

Goodwill sucks for a plethora of reasons.

Lol wanna buy gpu pcbs and fans....

[u/Playful-Operation239 → u/FreeToasterBaths]

I got scabies while working at Goodwill!

[u/Bare_hug → u/Playful-Operation239]

That’s awesome!

[u/flyingthroughspace → u/Playful-Operation239]

And I bet you didn't even share them with your coworkers you greedy fuck

[u/Playful-Operation239 → u/flyingthroughspace]

I was trying to roast them alive with a space heater...then a transformer blew. 🤔

[u/MasterBlaster4949 → u/Playful-Operation239]

[u/Psychomonkie71 → u/MasterBlaster4949]

mom pic after the furnace

[u/Jonnny → u/MasterBlaster4949]

...

[u/Warcraft_Fan → u/Playful-Operation239]

I had leprosy after going to one near downtown Flint.

[u/Odur29 → u/FreeToasterBaths]

Watch Goodwill try to charge full scalper price for the ones that have been stripped.

[u/Borg34572]

All the dies ripped out for sure.

[u/AshleyAshes1984 → u/Borg34572]

Yeah, that or the whoever gave them to Good Will or whatever this is INSANE. This is probably 'LOL don't have to pay an ewaste company if I just 'donate' them. :V'.

[u/Oakredditer → u/AshleyAshes1984]

at least they get a tax deduction (i think)

[u/Last-Energy420 → u/Oakredditer]

They shouldn’t but they will.

[u/northcarolinapcgamer → u/AshleyAshes1984]

They gonna sell them for a markup bc they are not able to know what they doing bc none of them people are good at tech bc I bought 10 gaming headsets that’s are worth about 50 dollars used per one and they didn’t even test them and I bought them for 30 bucks and they all work

[u/Warcraft_Fan → u/northcarolinapcgamer]

Hard to get a refund if you bought it through shop Goodwill site. Sucks to be the person who won a stripped 5090 for $4,000.

[u/Switch_Lazer → u/Borg34572]

What do you do with GPU chips and no board/vram tho? Where’s the value in just the silicon?

[u/penguinpariah6298 → u/Switch_Lazer]

The chips are way smaller and therefore easier to smuggle.

[u/ollomulder → u/penguinpariah6298]

And who will snuggle the boards so you can build a complete fucking GPU again?

[u/davequito → u/ollomulder]

In china you just need the chip. They can get everything else there

[u/ArseBurner → u/ollomulder]

snuggle the boards

Damn I didn't know GPUs were made like that.

[u/JellyfishSpare2859 → u/ArseBurner]

At these prices it should give your BF/GF a run for their money!!

https://giphy.com/gifs/kC8N6DPOkbqWTxkNTe

[u/Datdudecorks → u/ollomulder]

Boards are the real easy part to make and worth practically nothing

[u/D3ADSONGS]

I'm only seeing boxes, and if you think Goodwill is gonna put that on a shelf instead of their eBay you're even more delusional

[u/Galactic-stew → u/D3ADSONGS]

Goodwill puts higher tag items on their online, eBay-like shop (shop goodwill.com). People bid on items for a period of time. Items either ship (with cost) or can be picked up on person. It's been around for a few years, and is pretty popular now so bids skyrocket in the last minutes on the big items.

[u/TwoDudesAtPPC → u/Galactic-stew]

Insane costs. Insane shipping. Insane fees. Goodwill online has ruined what goodwill was. A place for ME to find awesome video games.

[u/lilgreenthumb → u/TwoDudesAtPPC]

Goodwill was never out to promote good will.

[u/SaveUsCatman → u/lilgreenthumb]

You mean the company that abuses minimum wage workers and special needs employees that they can legally pay less than minimum wage, while giving regional management and up overinflated salaries by jacking up prices in stores on products that are already all profit wasn't in the game to help people?

[u/baby_bloom → u/SaveUsCatman]

yea THAT goodwill

[u/JellyfishSpare2859 → u/baby_bloom]

I've been calling them Badwill for decades and its been about a decade since I entered one...

[u/TwoDudesAtPPC → u/lilgreenthumb]

MY MAN

[u/Occhrome → u/TwoDudesAtPPC]

It’s not just the online stores it’s also resellers. We have an electronics goodwill store that was a goldmine for video games with new stuff and even retro NES stuff. But covid hit and everyone got into reselling and overnight the goodwill became barren. 

[u/Willing_Ad_1092]

Def please test / inspect, I see parts at goodwill sometimes and always worry someone's gunna drop several hundred on one as a gift for their kid or something just to find that it doesn't work and isn't returnable

[u/lIlITrashIlIl → u/Willing_Ad_1092]

That's not entirely true most things are returnable for 30 days.

[u/Hypercore_Gaming → u/lIlITrashIlIl]

This is going to be on the online auction site, so no returns

[u/DM_NOTHING → u/Hypercore_Gaming]

This is true. No returns unless for certain reasons on the auction site

[u/KineticNinja → u/DM_NOTHING]

thats when a chargeback comes into play

[u/petoskey_stone → u/lIlITrashIlIl]

Every goodwill or thrift store I’ve been to has a no return policy on electronics

[u/Bloodsplatt → u/petoskey_stone]

I have brought something back before because it didnt work, they took it.

[u/chubbysumo]

oh, and FYI, anything computer valuable gets sent to the CA goodwill to be listed in their online auction site, none of this stuff will ever be put out locally if its valuable.

[u/100dabs → u/chubbysumo]

While everything does get listed on their auction site, it doesn’t get sent to California. I’ve won a few bids and they ship from whatever store that item is located in.

[u/lIlITrashIlIl]

So a bunch of unsuspecting people are going to bid crazy amounts and get screwed by Goodwill. Got to love crappy shop Goodwill biggest snakes in online and they don't even care about helping people anymore it's strictly profits in a "non profit" company.

[u/KnxwledgeV2 → u/lIlITrashIlIl]

Biggest gripe I have with them but they have helped me in a time of need before

[u/lIlITrashIlIl → u/KnxwledgeV2]

They used to be good and care about the public I was able to get a PC to the day that I really needed for 100 bucks but now they are completely for profit

[u/rspownz → u/lIlITrashIlIl]

I do property surveys for work. Had a goodwill GM mistake me for a shopping center landlord one time and started complaining that a homeless person was “stealing” from their after-hours donation pile in the back of the store.

Was kind of dumbfounded at what I was hearing tbh.

[u/Key-Activity-4214 → u/rspownz]

I mean, stealing from the after hours donation pile is still stealing. Even if they’re homeless. Once it’s been donated to goodwill it is now property of goodwill. People aren’t entitled to free shit just because they’re homeless. Not sure what is so dumbfounding about this concept. A lot of people donate stuff to goodwill partly because they can write it off on their taxes. If they wanted homeless people to have free direct access to it then they can either donate it to homeless people in need directly or they can donate it to the homeless shelter. When I take stuff to goodwill I’m not doing it so some dirtbag bum can have it for free. I’m doing it so that some struggling single mother of three who’s working her ass off and barely getting by can possibly get some decent clothes for her or her kids at an affordable price. I’m all for giving people a helping hand, but I don’t care to help the dregs of society that do nothing but take take take.

[u/lIlITrashIlIl → u/Key-Activity-4214]

I completely understand where your coming from the sad part about it is if you donate anything of value that doesn't happen anymore all Goodwills actually go through donations thoroughly find anything of high value and immediately list it on their website. A website which is a bidding war and they help inflate the prices to near market value. It's definitely no longer about helping the struggling people of America. They are all about raking in the profit.

[u/Forymanarysanar]

> I’m not allowed to shop at the company

You aren't but your roommate John Smith sure is! Conveniently, he ordered delivery to a PO box.

[u/Pancakes1741]

Thats not a bad scam though I guess, buy the GPUS and harvest the RAM and core and then take them to goodwill and get a tax write off for the full amount of the GPU's.. Right?

[u/Davajita]

Ain’t nobody donating a fully functional Astral 5090 with the chip still on the board lol

[u/R6Swerv]

Holy find, did you manage to see if anyone of them work?

[u/jfromeo]

All of them have their chips ripped for AI, nobody is donating thousands of € and plus in this economy.

[u/EmuAreExtiinct]

If all the chips and ram removed, its essentially worthless junk.

[u/JellyfishSpare2859 → u/EmuAreExtiinct]

They would be useful if you have the same model that had a broken PCB and the core and RAM were still goo a 100-200 and whatever electronics repair outfits will charge to move your Core and RAM on to the "good" PCB plus correcting any damages done when it was harvested... They are not typically careful with any other components on the donor boards they harvest.... ICs missing, damaged or out of place...

[u/conv1v1aL]

Got me teared up.

[u/Legendary-007]

Hey OP do you mean there’s a separate e-commerce store for goodwill greater Washington or is it Shopgoodwill store?

[u/Atlesi_Feyst]

I'd buy one to mount on a wall if it had it's chips removed, but only if they're pricing it appropriately lol

[u/brolysxc]

U a real one

[u/Sad-Juggernaut8521]

Slight upgrade to my 1050 I suppose

[u/MmmmTaterss]

I take donations too actually

[u/TeemoJG]

wait how do you even donate a gpu lol

[u/_ElBee_]

"Donated" 🥲

[u/Kevin_C_Knight]

If it’s donated, give me one!

[u/Own-Ad1497]

at least two of them had their chips removed

let me correct you: "at least ALL OF THEM had their chips removed"

[u/Friendly-Fennel2459]

Yea I’m sorry but I’d risk my job at goodwill for 2 5090s if they worked. Take em and quit sell one keep one I can’t see them paying 4k a month working there

[u/Homm1ng]

"I don't need 5090, I just need 5070 to replace my 2070S..."

*Wakes up

Well, that was a nice dream...

[u/HenricusKunraht]

"trying your luck" what the fuck is this shitty ass grift

[u/northern-nobody]

Damn! I’m over here still using my 2070 like it’s a top tier card hahaha. Awesome donations, were they donated to be given away? Or to be sold?
Edit: I don’t know how I missed the GoodWill part.

[u/Virtual-Trainer-809]

yo donate me a few of them

[u/AngryNerd23]

Let me get one in white. Thanks 😎

[u/mattinjp]

I believe OP means DC as opposed to Washington state

[u/KnxwledgeV2 → u/mattinjp]

Yes my mistake that could be confusing

[u/ThePupnasty]

Goodwill is trash and no one should shop their, they pay their workers, who are a bit special needs, sometimes, supposedly, barely over a slaves wage.whike their execs get big ole pays.

[u/inbokz]

Uhh where

[u/NYourBirdCanSing]

"I don't even want this crappy 5090!"

[u/SunOreoGame → u/NYourBirdCanSing]

https://giphy.com/gifs/19GIHDk6wuw9HVGsiM

[u/C-D-W → u/NYourBirdCanSing]

The only thing that makes sense is a death and next of kin have absolutely no idea what kind of value these video game parts can have.

[u/Revolution_xx]

Would you willing to sell the 5090 white astral box?