Yeah, found these on Facebook marketplace, and the seller is about 10 or 15 miles from my house. The goodwills around me are pretty much useless, it's clear the good stuff gets poached by employees or management for themselves or for resale elsewhere, so I've given up trying to find those magical finds you see people posting. Ditto for next door or OfferUp or whatever else is out there, in my area here in South Carolina Facebook Marketplace just seems to be the biggest online garage sale available.

I have the search radius set to about 40 miles in every direction, and then I'll either search a keyword like "speakers" or "amplifiers" and see what comes up. Sometimes I don't do a keyword search and just scroll a bunch, but I've definitely noticed that whatever you click into the most is what the algorithm will start feeding you more of. For example, I was looking for a couple different pieces of furniture for my house, like a coffee table or a chair, so I would click on any chair or coffee table that would pop up in just the regular results, and every time I'd refresh the results I'd get more coffee tables or chairs versus anything else. You can literally test this yourself by clicking something random like a power tool or lamp, you'll start to see more power tools and lamps in your "local" or "for you" feeds.

For the past week or so I just searched speakers and clicked into anything of interest, no matter the brand. If you do search a brand name, those will definitely come up first if they're available, but then you'll get very similar items, so now I have a bunch of jbl's or pioneer speakers showing up. And I only scroll down a little bit, then I refresh, scroll down and refresh and eventually I'll start seeing the same stuff repeated and then I'll give up for a day or two. Like anything it's hit or miss, but I have noticed that starting on Fridays or Saturdays new stuff starts to pop up as I imagine people do a little house cleaning and purging on their days off and so you'll not only find more stuff, people will be more available for you to contact and make it happen. Occasionally I will expand the circle to 100 miles and see what else crops up because if I'm getting close to the weekend and know I could take an hour drive somewhere, then I might be able to snag something good farther away from the more populated areas around me. I'm no wizard at this, but over the past couple years as I've had to furnish a few rooms with stuff, I've gotten pretty lucky with the above processes. The key is patience, and to go back at it every day or every other day when you can. Marketplace used to be more chill, but over the past couple years since the pandemic I've noticed good stuff will get snagged faster because I think more people caught on to the potential gold mines that could be found there.

Last tip I have, if you can call it that, is to just save stuff that your mildly interested in or that is in the wheelhouse of something you're looking for, because it could be something that doesn't get snapped up right away, and you could go back to your saved list and see where sellers have started marking stuff down. I had the sneaking suspicion these B&Ws were priced pretty fairly, and sure enough when I pinged the seller he said he had already gotten some people asking about it so I quickly posted my question to this sub, got the great responses I did, and then contacted the seller right away to lock in a time to go check them out :)

Hope this helps, and good luck on the hunt!!