Goodwill Shopping Secrets They Don't What * YOU * To Know !
Goodwill Shopping Secrets They Don't What * YOU * To Know !
Here are 10 Secrets to Shopping at Goodwill that only the Employees know about and now you know about.
There’s A LOT of information in this video but don’t worry about getting out your handy pen and paper BECAUSE I’ve written it all down for you. Before we go into the list I should say every districts Goodwill is a little different – so these are not hard and fast rules!
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Goodwill employee here! If we get authentic paintings form big artists it goes to e-commerce for goodwill bidding. Remember different districts usually have different owners. Northern AZ goodwill just bought out Central AZ. We spray down the clothing with sanitization spray not febreeze. Biggest thing j feel I should correct is Wednesday is a day off for our processors so NOTHING goes out Wednesdays and Sundays cause they’re simply not a processing team. Best days to go in are Tuesdays, and Thursdays, and fridays (at my store at least.) And usually donations are sorted as we get them or puked up in these LARGE bins called Gaylords so that we have stuff to process over the week! If we don’t have enough other stores send pre processed or as we call it raw cloth (fresh Gaylord of stuff.) And vice versa! We put furniture out as we get it, there’s not a fancy round a boutique way to get it to a bigger store unfortunately. 😅
How are donated items a tax write off :0
The Texas stores have the automatic air freshener inside of the store as well.
very useful video ! Thank You !
GW are such crooks, I stopped donating to them, at worst, I put it at the end of my driveway with a free sign, always picked up.
They do spray with chemical disinfectant, not air freshener 😂
former employee here, hi! so since goodwill varies by district, not all of this is correct, but let me give my comments on this!
-i have never seen an air freshener in the back. the clothes smell like other scents because many people just don’t wash their stuff, and it smells like strong perfume or cologne or something. we do not wash the clothes and expect customers to wash them, just like how you should wash your new clothes from other stores.
-not all goodwills accept returns or exchanges! mine had a zero policy for this. check your store or ask an employee before buying anything risky.
-i 100% agree with testing your electronics before purchasing, many goodwills have tester lightbulbs and batteries and many outlets around the store.
-once again, this varies on the store, but it does NOT take a few days for clothes to get out on the salesfloor. additionally, the amount of clothes put out in a day isn’t determined by how many clothes we get, it’s determined by how many pricers there are in the back.
Was that a big white orb at around 6 min? Good tips thank you.
Why does GW insist on separating pots and lids and lamps and shades???? It is so annoying. Like they get merit points for pieces sold?? I know it slows the sales of those items.
Goodwill "by the pound" ……. me : 🤔🤔
Covid has affected returns here, all sales final in parts of California. Not sure about elsewhere.
Also employees have first pick on really nice things before you even see them
My local Goodwill‘s just throw tons in the dumpsters. It is amazing what they throw away! It definitely is not recycled where I am from. I know this because I used to be a dumpster diver. Lol no joke sometimes I’ve got out things better from the Dumpster than they had in the store. Ridiculous.. and the only way I know this is because I donated some things once went back late that afternoon to bring more and saw everything I donated in the dumpster. Which in turn made me look in and I could not believe my eyes. Of course this has been 5 to 7 years ago so hopefully things have changed.
Thanks for this video but I am not a fan of Goodwill at all! I feel like they are way too expensive, however I do donate to Goodwill because they are easily accessible but I never find anything at Goodwill I go places where the prices are significantly lower in price I’m talking 25cents at the most $2.00.
Yes always ask what’s the best day to shop. I work at a local thrift shop and the days where we have most of our workers is when stuff gets out on the floor. It’s usually the middle of the week.
I worked at the donation door, someone donated multiple massive black trash bags filled dirty used clothing, including dirty underwear. I had to throw it all away. They wanted to put it on shelves. Also, they don’t make you use protective gear to go through items. I found a handgun with the serial shaved off had to call the cops, and used needles. That god I’m out of there. Goodwill is disgusting.
Goodwill’s prices are crazy high considering all their items are donated! I don’t think there are any secrets to shopping at their stores. Sometimes you find something that you consider a "bargain" but the majority of items are either overpriced, damaged, or extremely out of date.
The maximum tax deduction for Goodwill is $300
My goodwill does not accept returns. I was at the cash register and I just paid for something. And I realized it was damaged. And the person was like I’m sorry but you cannot return it. I was not happy..
I was at a goodwill one time and I saw a movie and CD I was interested in. I went to open them to make sure there weren’t any scratches or other damages and one employee saw me and said "what are you doing, are you trying to steal those?" I said no I’m just checking for damages, she said "you cant just open them like that, we’ll check them out at the counter" which they did and said they were fine. When I got home, the CD was so scratched it wouldn’t work and the movie wasn’t what the cover said. When I tried to return them, they said "sorry sold as is, you get what you pay for, we dont do returns." So I was stuck with a messed up CD and a movie I didnt want.
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The store i shop at destroys everything that is at the 14day – 30 days old mark
Thank you for sharing!
Not even a minute in and I see some.issues. We don’t send items around based on sales. We get stuff donated, we price out the good stuff and send out the bad stuff.
Almost all Goodwill stores DOES spray everything for bed bugs and lice and that "other stuff" …that’s the smell you’re talking about. you are spreading lies
Me and my mom have bought some jewelry, necklaces and earrings, from Goodwill in the last 2 years thinking it might be real silver or gold. I just went to a pawn shop last week and had them look at everything with the jewelers loop and they said NOTHING was real silver or gold. That tells me that someone working at Goodwill, is checking and seizing the real gold and silver jewelry when it comes in. They don’t even put it out on the floor for the public to buy. I think they sell it online for as much as they can get.
Nice video! Great education every store should have a sanitation machine that the clothing sit in before they go into the stores! Don’t you think.. thanks for the tips your sister thifter ! Debbie
I work at goodwill and Our store goes like this. Used items stay in the store for 30 days then they get marked down to a dollar on the 4th week on a Sunday. We go by colors. If they don’t sell on that dollar day then they get shipped to our clearance center then if they aren’t sold there then they ship them to the bargain center.. Our store does not do returns or exchanges.. So not all goodwill is the same. As for our boutique items if they don’t sell in a week they mark them 25% and if still on the shelf after a week they are marked to 50% then after that, they are shipped to a clearance center.
How about washing machines, microwave oven etc? Is it a good place to buy these things?
what do they call the centers that sell by the pound. I’d love to find the nearest one to Augusta, Ga. Our shops don’t have much that is worth anything and the prices are way to high even if you were buying for yourself.
Goodwill here in NY has buyers at the sorting centers, before it goes public to us smol time resellers. Employees dont even get a chance before them.
After decades of shopping Badwill, is useless. Only deals, and less exploitation are usually at VET and CHURCH resale stores. And maybe 1/3 of the Badwill by the pound outlets have goodies.
Great video!
Our town Goodwill charge way too much for everything. Everything is priced at the warehouse before being taken to the store. They sell Dollar tree items for $3.00. Clothes are like $5.00-$6.00 and you can get them brand new in Walmart. I can’t stand Goodwill. The Mustard Seed is way better and they will at least haggle with you.
The CEO of Goodwill Industries takes home just under 2 million in salary per year. Do NOT donate anything to these stores. Donate it instead to Salvation Army whose CEO makes under 2 hundred thousand a year, well deserved for the hours he works. Other good places to donate are St. Vincent De Pail Stores. Their CEO also earns very little compared to Goodwill and St. Vincent’s gives free clothing to the poor for job interviews, gas cards so they can get to work, money for prescriptions they can’t afford, and you do NOT have to be a Catholic for them to help you.
I don’t believe that I bought clothes and never washed them they smelled like washing detergent for a month
Our Goodwills take in donations and they all move to the sales floor. No moving them from here to there.
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Where I live GW has 75% off on certain color tags on Friday and Saturday. That ends up actually being a better price than some items at Buy the Pound.
I remember Goodwill employing many disabled people. Few years later they were gone. They have a couple here and there to give the impression they’re in it for the disadvantaged. Not anymore. Check out what the CEO makes. I don’t donate to them anymore. Local gets my donation. Where they have volunteers.
They closed my awesome independent “Goodwill” type store to open a Goodwill store. I thought we were getting a great new option, until i went into the store. I couldnt believe the prices! I found another great independent store 12 miles away! Will return tomy Goodwill store just to buy great non clothes items! Thx!
I worked for good will. No they do not wash anything that comes in or check for bugs, or sanitize, that is true, but they don’t ship furniture to other places like that. They just put excess in the back until the floor clears. It costs too much to ship items to a specific store. They are cheap af to do anything like that. It does depend on the neighborhood. If you are in the poor side of town, you get junk, rich side of town. You get nicer hardly worn or used items. Also high end items that bring them more money they don’t put on the floor, they put it online so people bid on it and they can make more money that way.
Typewriter at my GW was $69.
Goodwill should not be a not-for-profit "charity." Proceeds go directly to the district. None benefits the community the store is located in.
Goodwill has never treated the clothes. They go by donations ONLY.
Zara? Wow!!
Hi, I saw you on tv !
Good luck at finding a Picasso painting at Goodwill , they have a ebay section on their own and sort high valuable items at the donationcenters out to sell them on ebay!
Does anyone have a web site to get hot wheels or matchbox pricing my lil cousin is trying to sale his collection any help greatly appreciate. Have a nice day!
On some of your secrets are not in all states. Oklahoma City area don’t have discount awards or connections with stores anymore. Also it should be mentio ned the pay by the pound happens at the outlet store. You physical search though bins that are dirty and sometimes have breakable in them.