You had asked why someone might do this, and I can say that I have done it for a handful of reasons. A few years ago I dropped off three 3200 count boxes at our local Goodwill. They were full of commons from 1983-1985 mostly, with another chunk of stuff from 1987-1989. They had sat in my closet for about 20 years. I hadn't gone through them once, hadn't moved them, hadn't cared about them. I poked around to see if anyone was interested in them, but the shipping cost was enormous because of weight. I didn't care enough to package them in different lots for sale, because that was just a headache. The one local store near me is staffed by jerks, and I wasn't about to show up with 10,000 largely commons and expect them to give me even $10. At the end of the day, I decided that someone else will have fun finding those unexpectedly at a thrift store, the store will sell them and make some money, and they are out of my hair and out of my way. So I saw it as a win-win.
kevin
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