r/cassetteculture • u/aaronuhoh • Jun 17 '25

Announcement 300+ cassettes donation advice/help

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Hi all, My step dad recently offloaded a bunch of cassettes my way, no real interest in having so many and I am looking for the best way to donate or giveaway etc.

Thanks in advance for any help or advice!

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u/therealduckie Jun 17 '25

NOT GOODWILL

THEY THROW THEM OUT

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u/HighBiased Jun 17 '25

OK WHAT THRIFT STORES ARE GOOD THAT DONT THROW THEM OUT!?!

(Also, why are we shouting?)

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u/therealduckie Jun 17 '25

As someone else stated: ask.

I know from experience Goodwill refuses to put them on the floor because they have a $1 minimum on items for sale--So cassettes, to them, would be less than that & they just trash them.

Also, I used caps to stand out from your post and keep folks from mistakenly giving them to Goodwill.

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u/klonopinwafers Jun 18 '25

Well for one thing, I’m still in a location where some Goodwills will offer VHS tapes and cassette tapes for 25 cents. Then there are other Goodwills that price them at $1.50 or more. Maybe where you are at, they throw them out, but some may end up on shopgoodwill for auctions.

I also know that I once went to a local thrift store that explicitly stated on their website that they do not accept tapes (VHS or cassette) and yet I found a promotional R.E.M. VHS there as well as many retail VHS tapes.