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Goodwill is out of control
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Who made the jacket?
That's what I was thinking too. If it's expensive brand that might explain the high price.
My wife goes regularly to goodwill and those prices are for premium brands and most of the time they still have tags attached or at least look like they've never been worn. In her experience they keep that price for a few weeks and if it isn't sold they discount them deeply
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Thank you for purchasing all these donated goods that we paid nothing to buy. Your purchase makes our job programme possible.
Do you want to round up to the nearest dollar on your purchase of donated goods, in order to donate to our job programme that you've already donated to?
... um... ... No?...
Edit: jokes aside, goodwill does do good for the community. I'm sure they've raised their prices in line with other price hikes, but I don't think that negates the good they still do. $35 US for a used coat they received as a free donation, IMO, is a bit excessive, but I can't blame them for trying to squeeze more out of their stock, since they do turn around and pour most of that back into the community.
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Edit: community is pretty dead, I've had other focuses. Anyone want to mod?
The CEO of the Goodwill has a private jet.
The “good” will in the name stands for the “blue” in the garment
Gnarly lint extra. Gonna cost ya!
Oh poor baby
Seriously though you should look at the price of that thing when it was new. Some of those coats go for hundreds of dollars. Goodwill is raising money for the people they support. They also have a lot of overhead costs do to there large size. If you want to see the numbers you can pull up there tax records. No one is forcing you to go to goodwill.
Someone please correct me if im wrong because I'm too lazy to look it up, but I was told goodwill is for profit.
Hi, you’re wrong. Goodwill Industries is a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization.
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