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Etsy is acquiring the reseller Depop in a bid to reach Gen Z
Etsy is acquiring secondhand clothing marketplace Depop for $1.625 billion.
Inside Goodwill's game-filled tech thrift shop, The Grid
Thrift stores: better known for dusty shirts, potential Halloween costumes and used Jenga sets. Well, Goodwill wants to change that a bit with its recent launch of The Grid, a dedicated electronics and video game specialty shop located in North Carolina. The outfit tells IGN that not only will it sell video game hardware itself, but it's arranged a deal with vendors to supply each console (even retro units) with new power and A/V cables -- stuff that can often be a bear to source. Oh, and there's Raspberry Pi and a selection of flat-screens on offer too. But what if console gaming isn't your bag? The Grid also sells laptops and gaming PCs, and, as the video below shows, even has an Oculus Rift demo station set up.
DS Daily: what's the proper price point for games?
We were recently at the store, checking out some of the games and it got us thinking. What kind of price could make or break the sale of a game? Surely, the consumer knows what to expect from certain franchise giants and can easily be asked to pay more for that experience, but what about game content that the consumer doesn't know that much about? What price could make you give a game a second look?On the opposite side of that coin, what aren't you willing to pay for a game? Is $34.99 too expensive for new DS games, no matter who it stars or what kind of gameplay it entails? Do you wait for games to drop in price before picking them up?
Lucky LEM writer finds a $25 iMac at a thrift store
Some people have all the luck. In this case, it's Adam Robert Guha over at LowEndMac who found a $25 Snow iMac at a thrift store. The store (obviously) didn't know much about it, so when he got the machine home he found that it had a 500 MHz PPC CPU, 30GB hard drive and 384 MB of RAM.Adam went for the gold and found that it ran Mac OS X 10.4.7 surprisingly well, and he was able to get online with Safari. So what's a guy to do with a $25 iMac that can live and play in this modern Mac OS X world? Why, give it to his grandparents, of course! He installed Firefox, a couple of games and AOL in the hopes that this 'no cables needed' machine would inspire his grandparents to toss the Performa 630 and start blazing up the interwebs. Not a bad move for such a lucky find. Time for me to go see if my local thrift store mis-priced a PowerMac G5 as a broken air conditioner.
