[bombcar]

The ones around here ban most electronic donations, because people use them as an electronics disposal drop-off - dump an old compute on Goodwill, avoid the recycling fee, it doesn't sell, Goodwill has to pay the recycling fee.

[dpkirchner]

Interestingly, around here, Goodwill takes electronics for resale or disposal. I assume they get paid for the latter by the state.

[lucas_membrane]

More interestingly, and even strangelier, however, the Goodwills around here take electronics for resale and put it all on the shelves without verifying that anything works at all. I returned an item once because it started sparking when I turned it on. I could not get my money back, they don't do that, only in-store credit for the amount paid, good for only 30 days, and only at the same store as the original purchase. Fat chance that I found anything there on which to use a credit of $60 or $70 within a month. But I went back the next week to look for anything plausible. The same piece of smoldering dumpster-fire trash I had returned was back on the shelf.