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It better to buy second hand than from online stores. Shein products can be outright dangerous to your health! Please don't give Shein your money

I appreciate the point made below about all the things her local independent thrift store does. My local Goodwill does some of those things also. Here in Asheville after Hurricane Helene, they were handing out free gift cards, $25 per household member, no questions asked. This has gone on for the last couple of months. They hire people straight out of prison, persons with disabilities, drivers for disabled to get to work, and the list goes on. Maybe their CEO makes millions; plenty of people repeat it but where is the proof? Another factor possibly driving up thrift prices is the influx of buyers who have a channel and resell the things they buy. Thrift stores know this and they price accordingly.

Re sellers making money off of charities.

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Its Resellers including apps !!! I never buy second hand i went to goodwill saw a useless salsa jar empty with no lid 4.99! What ? Im done with these apps , done with thrift stores , just buy new its chepper and clean .

Thrift stores used to be so cheap I was embarrassed to be there. My mom would say “If they’re in here too what’s the problem” ha! I don’t think the “fast fashion” is something we all willingly agreed to. We got influenced or tried the look for less dupe not realizing we’ve sacrificed quality. That only hits us after that first wash!

I know one thing that drives the price up at Goodwill is a CEO that makes almost $600,000 a year!

I dont think theres anyone to blame for cost increace at thrify stores, except the thrift stores raising the prices. While they can maintane a lower cost for those who need it, everyone that spotted axway to make money from those deals, buy more from the thrift stores, so theyre still making their money, but quicker. Those in need of deals, like me, can allow people the freedom to live and pay their bills, while i can adapt by learning to buy used clothing thats seemingly unuseable and altering them to make me happy and fit right, there is plenty of goods to be had by all, stop whining, this is america, thrift stores dont have to raise prices as much as they have, they sell more items now than ever, making more money off resellers, their raising prices so much is actually corprate greed over remaining what they started out to be. America always wants to blame others for being jerks, reality dictates theres nobody to blame but the jerk. People like me can adapt in our own fantastic and creative ways, and have fun doing so.

This is why I rarely take my donations to Goodwill. I have also asked that an especially nice coat that I was donating (for a child) be given for free to a child who needs it. I can't bear someone rich buying it to resell for a high price while a child goes with a trashy coat or none at all.

Greed! They get on their phones and see what they can get for the item,with comparisons to ebay and resellers.The stuff came to them for free,and initially to help sever the poor.Especially church thrifts,who pay no taxes,are horribly guilty of this greed.

It’s to bad thrifting has changed. When i started thrifting it was a wonderful way to decorate my home. I could find by premium items at great thrift prices. I had great luck finding table lamps, wonderful clothing including, coats, high end sweaters and skirts or leather jackets. All at a very low price. My favorite shopping was for art,or interesting items to decorate my home. I no longer thrift for much. But when I do, i don’t find the quality of items i found in the past. I do watch several resellers just to enjoy their hunt for items to resell. However, I also feel they have caused a great deal of the current issue with thrift store prices going up.

Do not give anything to Goodwill their CEO makes million year salary

Too many you tubers bragging about how much they made buying from thrift stores

What bothers me is people thinking goodwill provides anything more than jobs. That goes for individuals as well as companies and corporations. And their prices just keep going up for their own profit privately owned Goodwill.

So true about the junk clothing made these days. The styles are horrendous as well.

Actually, the biggest thrift store Goodwill takes all their high end items and posts them online. This is why the cost went up not your average person posting sales.

The resale people COMPLAIN about the “ high” prices, when THEY want to get it cheap and re-sell it. And then it’s suddenly become the “ in thing”, when years ago they looked down their snotty noses at those of us who shopped there….

RESELLERS bragging about how much money they have made by selling their thrifted finds. 😮

Nope. It is greed on the part of the thrift stores and and the You Tubers I have been shopping the thrift stores for over 30 years and in that time period I have seen thrift stores become jealous of their own customers and go into competition with them. People who donate also frequently shop thrift stores. The donaters get angry too when they see how much these thrift stores are charging and they stop donating to charities that are overpriced. Quality items maybe a good find in cold climates, but in hot climates quality items were not there period. Goodwill is a waste of time if you are looking for a bargain. It is corporate greed and jealousy causing the price hikes. Goodwill is sealing its own fate. People need to be more discerning about which stores are being run by charities and which ones are being run for profit. Do your homework people.

So much overpriced junk, dollar store and Walmart origins but high dollar price tag at the resale shop. So silly 😂

Quick answer…because a sucker is born every minute.

I live in upstate South Carolina. One thing i've noticed is they do not check clothes for stains holes or tears. These items should not be donated at all and left.They are bagged separately as rags. There are some people like me That would buy these at a low price because I sew and material is expensive. They used to sell rag bags.I don't know why they don't do it anymore. Also here.I don't know if it's a law or just a rule in local stores they throw away all light bulbs in lamps . So if you want to buy a lamp, you need to bring light bulbs with you to check and make sure they work.Because you do not get refunds on anything you buy at a thrift store

It's resellers. Those people that post videos on their channel like it's their own spot in life. And they just continue to do the same thing and go to the same goodwills or different ones and look at the same things. Actually I can't even watch them anymore. It's too boring.

Totally agree with what u have said here! I bought a plan no name brand of jacket from Walmart for $7.00 and have worn it daily. Brand names are going to bring higher prices, period… If u NEED A COAT there are many places to get one cheap. If you want a name brand “ Find” then you’re gonna pay the price it can bring..

The workers pick out the gold jewellery and buy it all up for just a few bucks , absolute true fact .

The sales associates get first pick, so your luck of finding something valuable is cut in half.

So true! Not just clothes furniture also low quality! I like older but modern pieces that are decades old bettermade!

I've been thrifting since the 70's when my mom would take us for school clothes. Through the 80's until about 2010 there were a lot of quality vintage items to be found at deep discounts. I would never shop there today. It's all Walmart, Target, Shein, Forever 21, Macy's house brands and the like. I happen to be here in South Asia right now, and these thrift stores are like the US vintage Americana that was dominant in the 80's-90's. A lot of old school brands and new old stock here in Bangkok and in Tokyo. I often wonder if they've raided our stores as well, because there are 2 entire mall sized floors of these clothes in vendor shops in Chatuchak as well as throughout the city.

Quit blaming re-sellers. Item in items out, no matter who buys them. The answer is greed. Goodwill's top management needs new planes, yaughts, and young women. Quit blaming to poor who are trying to make a living and start blaming greed and thecwealthy! Eat the rich.

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Like this comment if you caught the 1 item that was NOT supposed to be thrifted 😂😂😂😂. I died when I saw it. The only reasonable way it would be there is if the owner died and the family donated the stuff without checking or knowledge of what it was.

The prices at the thrift store by my house are insane. Sometimes you can get the item brand new for less than what that thrift shop wants. They are charging full retail or even more. I no longer even go there to look.

I have always loved thrifting and yes I have noticed the prices going up 🙁 I've had to put some items back because it got to expensive for my wallet but I do the best I can now to save money on clothes I go sometimes to Yard sales i have found that they have good deals 🤝🙂

At my local, it is best to go the day before sale day. On sale days all the sale items are snagged by people sending the clothes back to their home countries.

Please also consider that we have to honor our donors. People who give us their things for free do not expect us to give them away for free!!

Resellers happened.

I don't buy things online that I can find in a brick and mortar store close to home. I support local businesses as much as I can.

I stopped going to Salvation and Army and Goodwill. They got really commercial. You can tell the commercial places from the local shops meant for the community. You can also just go to yard sales and rummage sales. The cheaper places offer fill a bag days for a fixed price. There is a vintage market, but there is still a thrift market. Some people are trying to earn a living reselling online. I don't have a problem with that. A lot of the poorer people only want tee shirts, sweats and jeans. They aren't going to wear a fancy dress around.

Goodwill sends all the donated vintage items to their website auction. Not much there anymore.

The other thing too is goodwill themselves is selling the good stuff on their own eBay pages.

democrats happened, it’s really that simple.

I used to find great items at savers when they first opened in my area around 10 years ago. Now it's harder to find rare items and the prices have almost doubled.

Just saw a customer who started to yell at an employee saying their Non profit store was greedy for charging $4.99 for a T-shirt……..it’s one of the few places that actually Help people pay rent, gas, electricity bills, mattresses, medication, and give away free household and furniture items to people in need but this guy isn’t willing to pay more than a dollar. 😕 even the minimum wage is going up that it’s impossible to get even retain good workers

The Goodwill here in Calif, have plain warehouse concrete floors, ugly, mental institutional, cream colored walls, & the only organized part is the clothes, color coding. They even took out their glass cases, where they used to display costume jewelry, & vintage boots, & watches. No dress forms either.

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Greed

Considering the fact ALL of those items are donated (aka free for them), it shouldn't matter if someone buys something on the cheap and resells it. Anything thrift stores make is 100% profit and places like Goodwill have gotten greedy.

The Goodwill CEO makes a 6 figure salary, while not paying anything for his inventory. I went to shop there 2 days after Christmas & it was nothing, but broken zippers, on snagged fabric prom dresses, & frumpy sweaters. They used to have some good stuff, & lots of denim jackets, but now junk. They won't be around much more.

Nobody “back in the day” had big walk in closets. My mom had maybe 2 dresses per season. They were all hemmed beautifully with full seen in slips. Shoes we had fixed in town. They were all leather and lasted to be handed down to neighbors and cousins and younger siblings.