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Why is Goodwill so expensive? The thrift shop that I usually frequent (Pennywise Resale) helps 2 women's shelters. They charge just $2.00 for a shirt and the same with trousers. A new Goodwill opened up around where I live. BIG disappointment!!! THEY CHARGE $4.99 FOR A SHIRT AND SOME OTHER blasphemous PRICE FOR TROUSERS. I saw a women's suitcoat that I liked. The same thing would have cost $2.00 at Pennywise Resale, but Goodwill wanted $10.99 for it. Wtf?!? I could get a brand new shirt at Walgreens for less than Goodwill wanted for a USED shirt. The final punch to the gut came when I saw signs over each of the aisles. The signs listed the price of the items being sold and also said "SAME GREAT PRICE" If someone could give me information on how much of Goodwill's profits go to help people and how much goes in the CEO's pocket, that would be DEEPLY appreciated. Don't get me wrong, I love thrift shops, but I do not expect to pay that much for something pre-owned.
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Dude, I know. Goodwill prices for books are okay, but their clothing prices are outrageous.
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because in certain circles, it's 'cool' to shop at a Goodwill. Over in Middlebury VT (home of the uber expensive Middlebury College), the thrift shop there might as well be renamed quaint pre-owned boutique. prices are fucking absurd!
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Goodwill around these parts is about right for second hand clothes actually. I know in California its a bit higher but thats because there's a mob of people who go to Goodwill down there just to look for that jackpot donation.
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Salvation Army Store FTW
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Posted by monster Why is Goodwill so expensive? The thrift shop that I usually frequent (Pennywise Resale) helps 2 women's shelters. They charge just $2.00 for a shirt and the same with trousers. A new Goodwill opened up around where I live. BIG disappointment!!! THEY CHARGE $4.99 FOR A SHIRT AND SOME OTHER blasphemous PRICE FOR TROUSERS. I saw a women's suitcoat that I liked. The same thing would have cost $2.00 at Pennywise Resale, but Goodwill wanted $10.99 for it. Wtf?!? I could get a brand new shirt at Walgreens for less than Goodwill wanted for a USED shirt. The final punch to the gut came when I saw signs over each of the aisles. The signs listed the price of the items being sold and also said "SAME GREAT PRICE" If someone could give me information on how much of Goodwill's profits go to help people and how much goes in the CEO's pocket, that would be DEEPLY appreciated. Don't get me wrong, I love thrift shops, but I do not expect to pay that much for something pre-owned.
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Also bear in mind that they have to pay rent for the building (which may include water, electricity, etc), employee wages, and probably fork over a decent amount of money to corporate so they can pay fuel bills for their freight trucks. If your goodwill store is anything like the one down the road from mine, they adjust their prices based on the brand name of the shirt. A shirt by Polo will be more than a shirt by some Wal-Mart brand, naturally. So uhh... I think that $4.99 for just a shirt is pretty reasonable, especially if it's a brand name. Maybe I'm a little skewed, since I live in the state where everything costs an arm and a leg. Personally I don't shop for clothes at goodwill, just old records and books. I got an excellent copy of Blonde on Blonde for $2! Can't beat their prices for that sorta stuff... except at tag sales.
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Samurai has a good point. YEARS ago, I checked out three fantastic shirts at a local Salvation Army shop. Killer shirts. And about three sizes too small. Grand total for the lot was something like $4.00. So they're small and blah I don't buy them and boo-hoo and off I go. A week later, I spy three identical shirts in a thrift boutique (as Samurai called it) and each shirt was priced over $30. I asked the guy where he found them (as I was trying really hard to ingratiate and/or hyper-compliment his sense of fashion aesthetic [read: discount, please]), and he told me he found all three on the same rack at a local Salvation Army shop. There's 'thrift,' and then there's 'vintage.' [cue: kowalski, re: the political economy of style]
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Posted by Samurai because in certain circles, it's 'cool' to shop at a Goodwill.
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That would follow if, like monster said, there wasn't a vast price discrepancy in thrift stores other than Goodwill. Southern Thrift and Goodwill about about a mile from each other. Southern Thrift will charge more for pants that are, say, from a designer or in really good shape; but it's no where near as bad as Goodwill.
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Posted by monster Why is Goodwill so expensive? The thrift shop that I usually frequent (Pennywise Resale) helps 2 women's shelters. They charge just $2.00 for a shirt and the same with trousers. A new Goodwill opened up around where I live. BIG disappointment!!! THEY CHARGE $4.99 FOR A SHIRT AND SOME OTHER blasphemous PRICE FOR TROUSERS. I saw a women's suitcoat that I liked. The same thing would have cost $2.00 at Pennywise Resale, but Goodwill wanted $10.99 for it. Wtf?!? I could get a brand new shirt at Walgreens for less than Goodwill wanted for a USED shirt. The final punch to the gut came when I saw signs over each of the aisles. The signs listed the price of the items being sold and also said "SAME GREAT PRICE" If someone could give me information on how much of Goodwill's profits go to help people and how much goes in the CEO's pocket, that would be DEEPLY appreciated. Don't get me wrong, I love thrift shops, but I do not expect to pay that much for something pre-owned.
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Yep. It's like that here, too. Now I can only go to Goodwill to shop if they have a clearance sale. What a frickin joke. So - people - where do POOR people go to get clothes, cuz I thought it was goodwill. L
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Stealthy, The shirts at goodwill can be faded with armpits worn out and pilling, and each shirt brand name or not, is 4.99. There is no discrepancy between the shirts on the normal rack. And many can have stains and they are still 4.99 each. Goodwill has gotten really bad about this. I know because I am one of those retro buying people who will go in and swoop up all the bargains. That means picking through a lot of pure garbage. L
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even though i agree that their clothing prices are WAY high (for a thrift store)...when i was pregnant, i bought SO MANY clothes from there for well under half the price of the stores - and pregnancy clothes are EXPENSIVE as hell!!! anywho - i got 9 months worth of my wardrobe for around $150 bucks. thanks goodwill!
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I Have found some good deals on tools there. At the Durant Okla store i found a like new FLUKE AC/DC Voltmeter with the bag and leads...It was only 5 dollars.The worker at the checkout said it did not work..but all that was wrong with was the battery was bad..........Lucky me.
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Here its the same, Goodwill in a very populated area is $4.99 shirt world. Goodwill in Ghetto area is $2 or so shirt world. But there is a BRANDNEW store in the populated hipster area, and the ghetto store is just an old brick building thats been a Goodwill for as long as I can remember. So they are pricing their market. Can't really blame em, they are working the market, if you can afford to live in the upscale area and wish to shop at the Gwill, you will get a little break on clothing, but if your in the Ghetto, clothes are still cheap, and the richer folks don't want to deal with that "area" anyway. So find the poorer area Gwill if you want to save some cash. I am a thrift store expert, comes with growing up poor.
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Posted by monster They charge just $2.00 for a shirt and the same with trousers.
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Just noticed this, almost 3 years after the fact. Who uses this word? Trousers? Really?
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Okay, I know a lot of y'all are camera people, so I'm going to tell you about something amazing. www.shopgoodwill.com I've bought three old film cameras there. It's like eBay, but Goodwill. It's amazing. My husband has found a ton of old tools there as well.
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Worse yet is Value Village/Savers, which is an entirely for-profit company that competes directly with Goodwill and other charity thrift stores, going so far as picking items out of the same donation pool and often getting all the good stuff. So before you go shaming Goodwill for keeping a bit of money for the job they do, take a good long look at Value Village.
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Posted by Steed Worse yet is Value Village/Savers, which is an entirely for-profit company that competes directly with Goodwill and other charity thrift stores, going so far as picking items out of the same donation pool and often getting all the good stuff. So before you go shaming Goodwill for keeping a bit of money for the job they do, take a good long look at Value Village.
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Value Village around here partners with The Arc and the Arc actually filters out the donations and gives Value Village everything else.
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Posted by KublaKhan
Just noticed this, almost 3 years after the fact. Who uses this word? Trousers? Really?
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HAHA trousers......
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Posted by Steed Worse yet is Value Village/Savers, which is an entirely for-profit company that competes directly with Goodwill and other charity thrift stores, going so far as picking items out of the same donation pool and often getting all the good stuff. So before you go shaming Goodwill for keeping a bit of money for the job they do, take a good long look at Value Village.
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Value Village around here has gone from reasonable to highway robbery in the last 5 years. I used to be able to find brand new, nice shirts for $2, shoes for around $5, and suit jackets for under $10. Last time I was there, I saw a $50 suit jacket, and a pair of slippers that were even more expensive than I'd seen them brand new in another store. It's the hipster syndrome others are talking about, mark ups because it's "trendy" to shop there. The unfortunate side is, a lot of low income families still depend on the location for affordable clothes, as prices rise.
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I once saw a 12 year old Hi-8 camcorder for $125 dollars at goodwill, and an original OSX imac from like 2000 for $75. And they never have decent records anymore when they find relatively good ones, disregarding condition charge stupid amounts.
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