Posts Tagged ‘Jim Carol’
Donate Used Games For Good Cause
Gamestop has been making a killing for years with their used games market. They buy your games for a relatively low price, then turning around to re-sell them at a much higher price. It often seems a rather unfair system, because eventually some older games are worth barely more than pennies for resale while other titles like Gears of War that they have dozens of are still being sold for a large proportion of the original price tag.
If you’ve got old games lying around that you’re bored to death of and you can’t get more than a few quarters of trade-in value for you can now do something good with them. A charity is starting that aims to help some of the unfortunate individuals of the world. Donate Games will accept used games and re-sell them, with the proceeds going to help ‘orphan diseases’. There are a whole lot of diseases out there, but many only affect a small portion of the population and are of less concern for the population at large. The charity is founded by Jim Carol and his wife Cynthia. Mr. Carol worked in the IT industry and his son was diagnosed with Philadelphia Chromosome. Although his son is now in remission, the couple saw many people suffering from equally rare diseases that aren’t getting enough funding for proper treatment research.
The site is up and accepting donations, but right now you can’t buy any of your games yet.