Thrifting Time | Why So High Goodwill?
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- Опубликовано: 6 сен 2024
- I'm once again popping into my local Goodwill to see if they have any bargains! And, yes, I found a few good things, but their prices continue to blow my mind - It's like all they have are $5.99 and $7.99 pricing stickers. I would have bought two to three times as many items if they would just drop their prices by $2 ... and, I don't think I'm alone! Well, thank goodness its yard sale season! If you see anything you like, hop over to my eBay store www.ebay.com/s...
That shouldn't matter to this cooperation. They get their inventory for FREE! The End! It doesn't matter what I do with the item after I purchase it. Goodwill is now ONLY about profit and NOT for the people who need USED items instead of brand new items.
Good point
@@8gagee and the truth is, I recently spent a year in a very impoverished area where the biggest store in town is Walmart. I see low income families doing all their shopping there and not at the local thrift stores. Just because you’re low income does not mean you want to buy everything secondhand.
I'm much more particular about what I purchase at GW now. I have to really want the item & know it's usefulness to me. Plus, I donate now to smaller area thrift stores, not GW.
Same, I rarely even set foot in GW!
Yes! Support the smaller thrift stores. They typically are providing help to the community.
@@greyferguson9319 Me too! 👍
If GW would go back to asking reasonable thrift prices like they used to, they would sell more. It's not the resellers - it's corporate greed. I hate to see things at double the price they should be - nobody will buy - and the items will end up broken and useless at the bins. So sad.
I worked at a GW. The resellers ARE DRIVING PRICES UP! WHEN YOU BUY SOMETHING FOR $2.99 AND GET $ 50-250 ...GW WANTS SOME OF THAT PIE TOO!
Or worse, yet they end up in the landfills which if you think about it, the people who donated to Goodwill to begin with we’re trying to avoid that situation. This country is so greedy.
@@catherinewhitman8333 I can see that, but that is not Goodwill‘s mission. They receive everything for free so anything that they get for it is profit that they can use to help other people, pay their employees, etc. businesses have to buy their at wholesale and then they turn around and sell it for retail. My being a reseller is just like any other small business and should not be punished or looked down on. Thanks for your comment!
@@CathiesCuratingLife have you worked there??? I worked at 4 different GW IN 4 DIFFERENT STATES! I KNOW WHAT I AM TALKING ABOUT....I GO TO STAFF MEETINGS...YOU DON'T!
@@tactical_cat exactly, and that is the biggest problem with Goodwill culling the best items and then selling them online like other resellers do. It’s really not fair because they are getting those items for free and as resellers that is part of our cost of doing business is to purchase these items. They need to get back to their original model and use the money like they do for training people that need help getting a job and quit lining the pockets of their greedy executives!
This is my question if it's too much for the resellers it's going to be too much for the average Joe ! It also bugs me when they ask for additional donations at checkout.....
@@theresaward206 actually in most cases it’s not. Because they are selling at market value. Resellers purchase stuff cheap and then resell it at market value. That is the difference and you will see a lot of resellers say if I was just buying this for myself, it’s a great price, but to make any profit off of it it’s just too high.
@@theresaward206 what gets me , I can have yard sale and ¢ 50 on something.. no one will buy it! , I donate it to GW .all of a sudden it's worth 7.99 and someone WILL buy it for that! WTH. PEOPLE???
Saver's has gotten to be ridiculous with their prices as well.
And just so you know, savers is not a nonprofit. It is a for profit business so they are even worse than Goodwill because they accept donations and turn around and resell it just for profit. There are no nonprofits benefiting from their sales. I choose not to shop at savers or around here it is called value Village.
I agree!!! Ridiculous overpriced nonsense
Why is it goodwills business where the product goes once its sold? And no, im not in resale. They up their prices because they want to make more money off of anyone that comes through the door..
I watch dumpster divers that get good things out to give away..think about that.
It does have to do with resellers goodwill sees them buying cheap and making bank so they want to do the same. Yet resellers complain about. Already cheap prices at garage sales but then sell things at very high prices think about it not fare is it
Goodwill in Baton Rouge is more of a retail business with a few donated trinkets.
WATCH the video on here "Where do goodwill's best donations go?" . You will never shop there again.
I am in colorado and our goodwill prices are ridiculous. Especially a name brand, i looked at some clothes and one shirt was 31.99!
Not an option for me anymore… went yesterday, OUTRAGEOUS!
What i dont like is they sell online and keep alot, mostly all the good stuff they keep and we never see it in the store anymore, we get no bagies or jewery
I’m in Nova Scotia and our thrift store prices are so high it’s probably better to buy new . except for sally Anne they are still low priced
Go
Around back and see how much they throw away.
You should have opened the box with the purse in it. It wasn’t sealed, you just didn’t pay attention to looking at the detail.
They get every thing for nothing people l8ke iam a senior we live on a fixed income there prices are to high
I don't know about other places but down here in South Florida the Goodwills are ridiculously high price I always thought Goodwills were for low income people to get clothing but not down here all you see are new cars in the parking lot no deals for the low income people we've had a young guy got caught that are Goodwill helping a low income family with children on prices on their clothing at the store he was fired I have not been to a Goodwill since too many other thrift stores more deserving
@@candacebradshaw2315 the original intent of Goodwill was to take donations that you get a tax write off for doing and then resell them at a low price to anyone so that the money can be used to fund a training for low income and people that are struggling to get a job. And if they would have stuck with their original model, there would be a lot less things they get thrown away and end up in the landfills because their prices are too high and people aren’t buying like they used to.
Hi! First time watching your videos. Can you please back up and scan the shelves? You get too close to the items. Thanks.
I stopped donating to them because of the high prices.
So what's the excuse for the groceries stores.they don't resell groceries but looking at Dumpster
dives they sure are throwing good groceries away.
Don’t move the camera so fast
You need to be better with your camera work. Back up. You are too close. Too fast also. Good luck with your channel.