Thread 23506006

This place has such a grim spiritual aura

Was that ever in doubt? Is this politics/news related?

Skill issue.

Are you kidding?

>>23506006 (OP)
I scored a good set of rain gear there for 15 bucks. It's worth almost 100

>>23506006 (OP)
Why does it smell like that

>>23506006 (OP)
thats because you are dead inside

arent they just a generic megacorp that makes a ton of money by pretending to do good things

>>23506013
yes the but the goyim think they are on their side, just like walshart.

>>23506013
Yes. Nonprofit actually, they sell stuff people give them for free.

>>23506006 (OP)
Yeah. It's a poor people store. What do you expect? No one who is doing well in life is going to be at a Goodwill unless maybe they're making donations

>>23506009
No
I don't think the objects and clothes like being discarded like that
I think goodwill is a collection ground for their resentment and fear

>>23506017

Give us an analysis of the spiritual aura of /pol/

>>23506006 (OP)
is that an npc in their marquis?

>>23506010
A woman who owns an anituqe botique shop here locally was on the radio the other day. An avid thrifter, she told a story where she bought a pretty vase one time at Goodwill and it turned out to be worth $14,000. People donate stuff all the time they often don't know the true value of. It's not a bad hobby to get in to, and it probably pays more than speculating on crypto.

>>23506006 (OP)
Take your meds.
They're just secondhand goods. It's honestly smarter to wear those over buying cheap fast fashion slop.

>>23506017
Thats why you're supposed to go there and ease the spirits by giving the possessions a new home.

i don't like using things other people have owned

>>23506023
Same. That's why I won't call your mom back

>>23506006 (OP)
my dad spends most of his time being retired at a goodwill outlet buying shit and reselling it. one time he found a sealed copy of escape from monkey island and sold it for like 2k. when i told him not to tell the people who work there because it will cause them to hide things like that he got mad and told me that he should be grateful to the "goodwill" megacorp for their blessings.
We grew up poor btw.

Only if you worship capitalism and are insecure.
From my perspective a corporate store with rows of identical shit has a grim spiritual aura.

I've been dumpster diving behind our local goodwill for over ten years. I get about $10,000 worth of just about anything you can imagine a year doing it. Gold, silver, high end electronics, antiques, furnished my entire apartment, haven't needed to buy almost anything I need for a long long time. They throw away so much I fill boxes and re-donate it to other smaller thrift shops. They throw away cases of mint condition CD's and blu-rays, antique cast Iron skillets, awesome knives, tools, cases of fresh clean linen, clothing, records, vintage toys, video game cartridges, when the donations overwhelm the sorters they'll just fill the dumpster with unopened boxes that come in the front and go right out the back into the trash. It's always been that way and it seems like they'll never stop. You name it, they throw it out.

>>23506017
you think they'd rather be in a landfill or ground up by indians to make new clothes?

>>23506020
No, anon. I gradually developed this hobby and ended up with one of my rooms entirely filled with shit to sell. It looked like hoarder hell. I eventually realized that selling stuff sucks.

>>23506006 (OP)
That's because their "charity" is now turning your shit into employment; being able to get low-cost supplies is no longer the goal. They control their generosity now like an IRS auditor. They hiked up their prices to increase profits to pay the CEO $850,000 a year. They are uninterested in being the launchpad for allowing people to flip things to support themselves. The only support you'll get from goodwill is if you're unemployable, but looking for work. It is 100% jewed now. I recommend never donating to goodwill ever again.

Goodwill around me two zoomer guys are always coming in looking for old Apple stuff

>>23506021
Smarter how?

>>23506028
Yes actually, that would release them from this cycle of samsara.

>>23506016
I have money and I go to Goodwill all the time.

>>23506034
Why?

>>23506035
He’s old money

Shockingly the one near me is constantly full of hot chicks. Unironically I go in there probably once a week to see if there are any good sunglasses (there never are) and I never fail to see multiple 8+ girls

>>23506035
It is sensible to avoid waste and to put my money into useful areas rather than clothes and tchotchkes. Plus the pleasure of finding something interesting in an uncatered selection is nice.

>>23506032
You get higher quality items for lower prices that last for longer.

>>23506016
I'm doing well enough in life and I go to thrift stores often. Just because you have a job doesn't mean you shouldn't try to find $200 pots selling for for $10 lightly used.

I love buying non clothing items there

>>23506006 (OP)
Shut up nigger goodwill is a great place to find hidden gems for cheap. Buying new is a direct sin against humanity

>>23506016
>No one who is doing well in life is going to be at a Goodwill unless maybe they're making donations
let's examine this
>No one who is doing well in life
you mean engaging in the jewish economy, and fucking over your fellow human enough to gain an uneven amount of profit for yourself.
That isn't "doing well," it's being a bigger piece of shit than others, which is what the system is designed to create.
> is going to be at a Goodwill unless maybe they're making donations
again, you've decided that the greed economy is the pinnacle of human success.
You've also decided that the best position to be in is one of constant turnover of goods.
Remove yourself from everything and take a step back. Your morality hinges on who has jew gold or not. Think about that for a minute. There's a fine line between recognizing necessity and cheering the evil that creates rifts in society based upon jewish greed. Even if you can't see it, a different world can exist outside of greed.

>>23506015
nonprofit? how much does their executive team profit?

>>23506037
thrift stores aren't bad places to meet holes. they like filling their apartments with useless trash, i love filling their vaginas with the trash that forms in my testicles

>>23506006 (OP)
>ebay supplier market

>>23506036
I think it's more likely he's either lying or exaggerating. Yes, people who have money and are fiscally intelligent still tend to shop sales and budget well, but literally shopping at Goodwill is next level. Maybe he's even doing it as a flex, but honestly it's in pretty poor taste to actually shop at Goodwill if you have money since those stores are there to help poor people and those people need what those stores have. If you have money, you can still shop at Walmart and save money

>>23506035
it's fun and nostalgic.
here in hawaii they get all kinds of weird shit.

>>23506031
One time I found an entire case of these vintage IBM paper THINK paper notepads in the dumpster behind goodwill. Over 40 of them, new old stock, still in the sleeves. Sold them for $60 each on ebay they went like hotcakes. They're worth more now but fuck it. I love their fucking dumpster lol.

>>23506010
I always read stuff like this online but Ive never heard anyone irl mention an experience of finding something valuable on the cheap at goodwill.

I knew a guy who worked at one and he said that him and his coworkers would scout out the nicest donation stuff, give it a low price, then have their friends come in and buy it the second they put it out.

>>23506020
It is good business when the economy is thriving. People tend to buy less antiques and shit when they're taxed to high heaven and don't own their own place to store it. I've always wanted to own an antique shop cause I grew up in a house full of antiques my mum found for dirt cheap. But it just isn't viable unless you're aiming at top-earners, but that market would be hard to break into.

>>23506043
This anon is correct. America is a gluttonous empire full of spoiled office niggers who can’t buy something used because they’re afraid of being judged by other materialist American niggers. I fuckkng hate Americans I want to see them burn

>>23506006 (OP)
Depends on the local manager.
Union City, Tennessee, for instance, is clean and orderly. The clothes are divided by type, size, and color.

Looking for a men's button up shirt size XL that is green?
Go to men's shirts, find the XL section, then all the colors are grouped.

>>23506006 (OP)
It says a lot about society unironically


>>23506013
They're a massive non-profit charity with corrupt executives who like to dip their fingers in a little too deeply

>>23506038
Yep. Called it. See
>>23506047
You can shop at Walmart and save money. Save goodwill for the people who need it, jackass

>>23506006 (OP)
It's also a Jewish model to take shit for free and sell for money and file as 501c3 or similar parading as a virtuous, helpful organization. Also it's a Jewish company

>>23506049
weird. thats a weird story and i'm impressed you turned trash into a good profit

>>23506055
>shop at China mart

I hate Jewish controlled economy so much bros

>>23506050
Not goodwill but I did volunteer work at a similar place and this is exactly what we did

>>23506027
Nice. I'm surprised they dont lock their trash. Good for you for having a plan. USA is a fucked up place and there are strange ways to make decent money

>>23506049
shit like that is cool
by far the best goodwill score i ever had was two vintage guitar effects pedals. one was a late 70's Ross phaser in nearly mint condition, and the other was an 80's TS-10 tubescreamer. i forget which was which, but one was $3, and one was $4.
still have the Ross, but sold the TS-10 for $180 a few years ago. wish i still had it, but needed the money more at the moment

>>23506017
GIVE THOSE SNOWPANTS THEIR FOREVER HOME YOU MONSTER

>>23506006 (OP)
Used to be good, then every retarded found out about thrifting and caused prices to jump up. Now it is just filled with immigrants getting scammed

Poor people shop there bless are the poor their heaven is theirs. - nazareth

>>23506006 (OP)
That's because anything good was donated by deceased people's families. Nobody would willingly give this company anything but when people inherit a hoarder's house full of outdated appliances and ceramic cow collections they send it all to goodwill. Sometimes valuable stuff leaks through when people are in a hurry and that's what the company banks on. The grim aura is that of the despair, disappointment and resentment of old people who had valuable antiques and suicidal trannies' who had desirable video game and anime collections.

>>23506006 (OP)
They all have the same odor inside. Every Goodwill smells the same

>>23506047

I get brand new Hugo Boss clothing from charity shops.

The CIA put it in there for me.

Want to see my iconic gold outfit?

>>23506006 (OP)
Well, yeah...
It's a place where they sell/give away dead people's stuff. There is a realistic chance of bringing a ghost home with you if you shop there.

>>23506065
A lot of people just go in there to jerk off on the women’s clothing as well.

>>23506006 (OP)
its full of boomers' trash that they thought was valuable
that's where most boomers collectables end up. in the trash, the pawnshop, or goodwill. 99% of it is junk.
the only good value at goodwill is the slightly used / new clothing for cheap

I've made hundreds buying shit from goodwill to flip on ebay, mainly electronics

>>23506057
I also found a bag full of 4 victorian crystal match strikers with sterling silver mounts they threw away. Wicked rare items. They were a little banged up so I only got $800 for them. In better condition those things sell for up to $1000 each.

I also found a legitimate first edition first printing of the cat in the hat by dr. seuss with the dustjacket. Everything I'm mentioning came from the same dumpster behind the same goodwill. They're fucking idiots don't donate anything you care about to them.

Nigga what
Prices have gone way up but still a great place to get books, glass ware, shoes, and cloths.

Got a whole ass there piece suit and dress shoes there for 26$

>>23506050
They've gotten a lot worse in the last 5-10 years but their kitchenware used to be pretty good

>>23506060
>I'm surprised they don't lock their trash.
the one by me doesn't throw anything away but actual trash. All of them have a truck trailer parked in their loading bay at all times, being filled with the stuff that times out in the store. From there, it goes to a Goodwill hub, where people line up for days to get first pick at the leftovers, rolled out in giant bins, everyone eyes the contents until the buzzer sounds, then they're allowed to go for what they see. People get into fights over shit. There's a giant one in Indianapolis.

>>23506050
>I always read stuff like this online but Ive never heard anyone irl mention an experience of finding something valuable on the cheap at goodwill.
I only ever see overpriced garbage. Like shit broken in shipping to the local walmart priced higher than walmart sells them unbroken.
Also dirty as fuck clothing.

>>23506067
>Want to see my iconic gold outfit?
Yes.
(Though I know I will probably regret it.)

>>23506061
I bought a complete, functional computer.
It hadn't been wiped. Full of photos, writings, music, porn, etc. Still had a decent gaming GPU, etc.
As I dug through the files, I realized this dude had been applying to jobs for months. He had a shitty 'please take me back' love letter that was still being written. A txt file full of stuff he needed to fix about himself. Like 30 different versions of his resume that he'd tailored to increasingly lower-tier jobs.
I realized, holy shit this is the computer of a guy who committed suicide. That's the only reason a custom built PC of this quality would show up un-wiped as a donation at Goodwill.
I wiped it out of respect and used it as a network drive and web host for local stuff.
I kind of wish I had kept his name to google his obituary or something, but that's long gone.

>>23506065
Yeah, I dunno why anyone goes to thrift stores looking for shit to sell. Thrift stores are just full of the shit no one bought at granny's estate sale.

>>23506006 (OP)
I spent so many hours as a kid here where my single mom just endlessly trawled through all the shit there.
I don't think I've ever been again even once as an adult.

>>23506006 (OP)
about ten years ago that place at least had useful things.

>>23506063
>every retarded found out about thrifting and caused prices to jump up
They got a new CEO who makes nearly a million a year who changed the goodwill pricing structure to ensure that the poor can't but cheap goods anymore. That's why prices jumped. The new CEO decided that people supporting themselves on flipping, people who need cheap clothing and plates and glasses or cheap geriatric shit or baby shit are less important than the profits that pay his outrageous salary. Goodwill needs to lose non-profit status.

I am the manager at a goodwill nothing is free we have to pay employees 45k a month in rent for the building. We give all employees free healthcare, free college and 2 weeks vacation. We also give out 40$ vouchers for anything in the store to anyone who asks. We provide rental assistance to anyone who asks. We hire people who would not otherwise be able to get jobs and pay them above minimum wage with benefits.

>>23506079
Every goodwill in our region has every picker professional reseller hitting it every single day. Worse, there are spawn campers who literally loiter in the store 4, 6, 8 hours a day who know exactly what's good and snipe it the second it comes out onto the floor on the carts. You don't have a chance unless you know more than them.

>>23506072
nice I might go check out the one near me. I once made like 500 dollars from picking up stuff that people leave at the curb on bulk trash day and then just having a "garage sale" at my house.

It was fucking awesome man. I filled up a thermos full of box wine and I was getting drunk just sitting there talking to the people who came to browse my wares. I also found that you NEVER put a price on any of your shit. Always make the goy suggest a price and then agree to their price. They will suggest a higher number than you ever would lol

>>23506069
never once seen this happen

>>23506077

I’m in my Dynasty Era.

>>23506087
Not bad.
Still won't make you look like a woman, though.

>>23506006 (OP)
Don’t care lol. I found a $300 Manfrotto tripod at a goodwill for $5 last weekend. As a poorfag in college I managed to score Zero Halliburton luggage, loads of cast iron cookware, a Hugo boss overcoat, loads of vintage denim and wool sweaters, nice cutlery and kitchenware, and quirked up objets d’art that made my shoebox apartment impress the few bitches I managed to bring back. You need to have the eye of a curator and a vision going in, but you can really up your lifestyle as a prole on the cheap thanks to goodwill. I even managed to scrape together enough random carved ebony and rosewood objects to pay for some gunsmithing work. The smith would recycle them into forend tips on custom stocks and he was having trouble sourcing the raw materials due to some new CITES regs. Plus thrifting is inherently anti-consumerist, anti-globalist, and environmentally friendly. Zero cents into j*wish pockets, zero cents to offshored manufacturing, no additional microplastics and forever chemicals released to mfg something new.

>>23506078
kek
>mfw if i hero and my computer gets donated and someone will find a massive folder of nigger memes and a massive backlog of manga

>>23506086
Ideally you only see the aftermath.

here's the real goodwill blackpill
I used to work across the parking lot from one and went there on my breaks
retired boomers who have nothing better to do sit there every day, all day
every time a new cart comes out with items, they pick through it immediately and take the best stuff before it even hits the shelves
you can still get good deals occasionally, but it's just gambling that those types of people either didn't realize what an object was or it was something stocked after the store was closed and they missed it on the shelf
I still like going to goodwill, but now that I can't go there regularly I don't get nearly as many good finds
that being said goodwill is still based
fuck the consoooomer jews no goyim you must buy everything new!!! don't get perfectly good used items at a discount oy vey!!1!

>>23506083
Shut the fuck up. I know goodwill store managers personally and your company fucks their employees sideways. It's a shit company full of self dealing assholes, wasteful, and you pay 45k a month in rent because you insist on taking locations in high rent strip malls to suck the value out of the community. Most of the donations go right out the back door and the locals never even see it. Or into the dumpster, though I thank you for that. Fucking faggot.

>>23506084
yep there is like an entire clan of mexicans who have pretty much monopolized the junk buisness in my city. Of course, they are willing to fully commit to being junk people when it should just be a fun side hustle.

>>23506083
>We give all employees free healthcare, free college and 2 weeks vacation. We also give out 40$ vouchers for anything in the store to anyone who asks.

Also this is a lie.

>>23506089
Wont make me look like a man either

>>23506097
True.
And at least it is stylish.

You wanna talk despair? Stop in a Goodwill Outlet some day
Imagine digging through bins full of shit that are moments away from going into a trash compactor, while shopping among the poorest of the poor

>>23506079
You'd be surprised. It wasn't uncommon for older gens to offload their kids' entire toy/game collection at a thrift store the moment they moved for college. There's less of that nowadays, but you'll have people dump off stuff they're too lazy to sell themselves or just don't care about.

>>23506006 (OP)
I love goodwill

>>23506099
That's in a nigger infested area.
Go to one where White people live.

>>23506080
That was my experience too. I'm 45 so this was a pretty long time ago. I still hear the song "I keep holding on" by Simply Red playing in my head whenever I think about it. Goodwill was boring, and I'd always max out before my mom did. Back then most of the toys were just junk from the 70s. We didn't have the same glut of chinese plastic crap that you see today. So it'd be barbies with marker marks and cut hair, or broken GI Joes or He-Man when it came to the newer stuff we'd find there. Every once in a while there'd be something neat.
We'd then go to taco bell or burger king and get food, and hang on her apron strings while my mom ran errands around town. Paying the phone bill, returning library books, getting groceries, etc.
I actually get a weird physical ache thinking about it.
Found this thing and it was pretty rad.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lTCecKwD96s
Just listen to that sound of the video, the music they played. Man those times are so long gone.

>>23506098
Dressing well is a cheat code in life

>>23506016
I'm very comfortable. House and vehicle paid off, no debt, savings acct. I've shopped at Goodwill and thrift stores forever. All that money saved and put to good use. Kek, come at me, faggot.

>>23506096
All goodwills are ran independently it sucks that your local one is shitty that doesn’t mean they all are

>>23506026
Checked

>>23506006 (OP)
I scored a blazer yesterday. It's at the tailor rn. Dress to impress White men. Niggers and women take appearance for 99% of reality. You can mog them into a stupor with just jeans and a blazer.

>>23506106
They're not independent, they're regional. Which you would know if you weren't lying about being a manager.

>>23506020
When i was 11 i went to garage sales to spend the money i made delivering flyers (i had two blocks and did it twice a week and made between 18-35 dollars every two weeks)

Anyway, i got about a hundred vintage comics 5 cent, 10 cent, and 15 cent including volume 1 issue one of green lantern.

>>23506069
>A lot of people just go in there to jerk off on the women’s clothing as well.
no. thats just you.

>>23506006 (OP)
>spiritual aura
>>>/x/

>>23506108
>Niggers and women take appearance for 99% of reality.

Yeah, this is why social media doomscroll slop/instatok is so popular with them as well

They are unable to differentiate reality from what they see on their screens

>>23506099
One man's trash is another man's treasure. Grew up dirt poor and I mean so poor that my mom kept the underwear they gave my brother in the hospital and then that underwear was given to me as a hand-me-down. Doing alright now got more in the bank than the average guy and I attribute that to the fact I solely buy sell by date meat, clip coupons (typical gorcery haul is 30-45% off), buy old baked goods, redeem empty cans, and dig through goodwill for clothes for me and my wife (though she gets the actually new stuff). Been wearing the same t shirt for a decade. You might call me a miser but I treat my wife nice and buy her new stuff, flowers etc. I can forgive myself for my poor treatment. Don't want to do it to others though

>>23506105
I've already addressed points like this above. Shopping at Goodwill when you have money is not a flex - it makes you a jackass. Those stores are there to help poor people. You can shop at other places like Walmart and still save money without raiding a thrift store and taking things from people who can't afford to go anywhere else

>>23506025
tell him to look for a sealed copy of Loom 2

Pretty sure Salvation Army is the only thrift chain that isn't completely corrupt at the top. Unfortunately I find their selection sucks compared to goodwill or value village.

>>23506110
It was 5 bucks for the whole thing. I also would buy entire console collections from aging boomers after their kids had long moved out and would get snes and like 30 games for 10 or 15 bucks. Lots of those games today are worth 300 each. Honestly better investment than gold though i wish i bought gold when i was younger.

>>23506115
I buy thrift store clothing to avoid directly supporting the textile industry since it's pure fucking evil. The only clothing I buy new is socks and underwear for obvious reasons.
Go be a disgusting satanic kike somewhere else you child murdering shitskin

>>23506076
Same

>>23506109
Why the hell would I lie about my job on 4chan that’s retarded

>>23506113
The deference you get in normie world as a well-dressed White man is real. Fuck kikes. Fuck niggers. Fuck faggots. Fuck trannies. Most of all fuck jannies.

>>23506119
How is the textile industry evil? Cotton gets grown in xinjiang and then woven into textiles and clothes in sweat shops. Who cares.

>>23506111
I’m trespassed from Kohls and TJMax, not a lot of options.

>>23506119
You leafs really are schizo. Maybe you should see if your local thrift store has any meds for that the next time you're in there

Oxfam have specialist books and designer clothes online.

>>23506126
Thrift shopping for clothes is mostly dead these days because crackheads steal everything and thrift stores have less money for security

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=SzDvlVUaGSo&pp=ygUkV2lsZGxpZmUgdGhyaWZ0c3RvcmUgdGhlZnQgdmFuY291dmVy

>>23506016
I used to go there because they always had old school video games I couldn't find anywhere else. I got a Turbografx 16 there complete with box for $25.

>>23506006 (OP)
Scored a sweet set of Magellan fishing clothes for $25. Would've been like $180 new for that shirt and pants.

>>23506071
>>23506078
Goodwill electronics are shit now. VCRs with the little flap missing, 20 year old DirecTV boxes, and Chinesium flat screen TVs with niglet crayon damage.

You don't get sleeper PCs in store anymore. Those go to the Goodwill region's overpriced ebay auctions, and Shantell ain't finna plug it in to see if it works.

>>23506128
Shit is still good in the US for a lot of stuff. Not what it was 10-15yrs ago by a long stretch but still good. We're just swimming in product.

>>23506131
My local value village burned down recently i think in an insurance scam. I miss jewelry mystery jars. To me spending 30 bucks on a mystery jar in the hopes of finding one gold piece or a heavy piece of silver is fun desu.

>>23506118
there were time periods that goodwill had excessive amounts of consoles and games, just stacks and stacks of consoles.
For a while it was Genesis and PS1s, then PS2s and Gamecubes, then Wiis. Then I think it was DS for a little bit but then they started selling all their games on ebay

>>23506006 (OP)
it really does. the clothes are the worst, like they are all contaminated in the worst way.

>>23506131
Shit still slips through the cracks, you just have bad luck

>>23506132
I don’t have the energy past 30 to look through racks of clothes. When i go into lululemon or bananarepublic i am in and out in under 5 minutes. And even then the small talk with the cashier while the debit processes is almost too much

>>23506038
Uncurated

>>23506132
this is exactly what I imagine when I see you spergs talking about being a "well dressed white man" lol

In reality your physique is what really matters and if you are fit you can wear literal rags and look good. Being "well dressed" is cope for people who are either fat or skeleton mode

>>23506131
I have a bose wave radio with remote, Nikon and cannon high quality digital cameras, a drawer full of power banks and adapters, Ars technica over ear and multiple other headphones all from Goodwill, bunch of other shit but I don't remember a lot of it I sold or gave away. but from the dumpster out back mind you. It's better than what's on the shelf lol. I find flat screens and stereo components they throw out all the time but I'm not interested in those. Probably should take them but meh.

>>23506006 (OP)
I call it Jakku

>>23506099
it's fun for treasure hunting
I found an old ass radioshack computer in a bundle of wires
it doesn't work but it's cool to have around
pic is pulled from google from i think it's the same model

>>23506137
Meh it takes me like 10 minutes per stop to see if they have anything. My entire circuit is like 1hr twice a month.

>>23506134
I graduated 2005. I’d say around 2000 you could buy previous generation and at that time it was NES-SNES-N64 games for $2 each.

For the ones worth $300 today that’s 150x return on investment. Pretty good desu.

And thats back when you knew 100 percent you weren’t getting counterfeit games. All legit.

>>23506115
>still save money without raiding a thrift store and taking things from people who can't afford to go anywhere else
You're too retarded to argue with. Any poorfag knows you simply go to churches and get nicer stuff... for free!

A thread died for this...

Okay, it was probably another slide thread, but wtf is this crap

>>23506140
Oh and also a pair of sony studio quality headphones. Can't blame them for throwing that away the earphone covers were fraying a bit.

>>23506006 (OP)
Are anons all mostly poor here? Why they shopping at goodwill that they have any opinion on it?

Goodwill thread. I get to post this again.

>>23506139
reviewbrah mogs. you got no rizz.

>>23506145
You seem to know all the tricks for someone who has money

>>23506136
I've found the occasional deal, if you need a spare cable you can get one for a couple of bucks or go to an electronics store and spend at least $10, but the Goodwill juice isn't worth the squeeze anymore for electronics.

>>23506140
I'm checking the dumpster from now on. Fuck my local store.

>>23506148
Stylish people thrift. Often creating a full ensemble overs years using finds.

>>23506006 (OP)
>donates valuable shit so somebody has a chance on having it, or ever finding it for cheap
>gets sent off to there auction site and sold for 100s of dollars
goodwill is full of gigajews

>>23506143
Are American thrift stores still good for finding silver? I ignored it when it was cheap because I thought it was too much hassle but now that it’s spiked i wish I got in earlier.

>>23506155
no. Clothes, furniture, housegoods, toys. there's one in my area for random building supplies.

>>23506138
That too

>>23506148
Sometimes you can find quality stuff from the era before everything was cheap Chinesium or absurdly overpriced.
Especially if you know how to fix stuff.
But now even Goodwill / Salvation Army is being filled with chinkshit.
In any case, yard sales >>> Goodwill.

>>23506006 (OP)
If you want to donate cloths or money fuck goodwill give it to habitat for humanity they do help people pay bills and give food away

>>23506015
Yeah. Value Village/Savers got busted for doing the exact same thing on a much smaller scale, but evidently Goodwill have connections. I mean, if their training programs are so damn worthy, why do I see the same employees working at a store year after year? Why have I never seen them sponsor any "community" events or have their brand on anything but their retail stores?

Plus, they skim the best of "community" donations and flip them on eBay, leaving their stores largely with leftovers that are too much trouble to sell online. There's still value to be found in the stores if that's your thing though, but there's better thrift stores and I rarely go there anymore. Last time I was there though I found two full bottles of pic related for $9, so their profit nazis do miss stuff.

>>23506016
None of that is even close to being correct.

>>23506151
As I said, I am in the position I'm in because I saved money buying from thrift stores and saving extra money. I know literal poor people because I believe in helping the poor, people living on the margin without a safety net. I know about the free stuff because I have a truck and can move the larger items to them, for free.
You're still a smarmy faggot.

>>23506160

Oxfam has a specialist team who sell higher value items online. Still at a fraction of the cost of their original pricetag.

Great items too.

Really obscure books sometimes which feel synchronised with your mood.

>>23506006 (OP)
It's full of sinners?

>>23506163
What does that mean?

Not politics

>>23506164
It means we are in the presence of a Saint.

>>23506164
He said grim spiritual arua.

>>23506162
That's got to be in a different country because I've never heard of them here. For many items, it is in a way no different from any discount shopping. Knowledge is power. Most of what I see at Goodwill anymore is Mexicans looking for shit (mostly clothing) to send home or for their swap meets. I try to time my checkout to when there aren't any what I call Mexicarts in line, carts just full of shit that will occupy one cashier for 20 minutes. It's not just Mexicans though. Increasingly you see aging women, what I guess we call here victims of feminism, loading up carts of batshit crazy garbage or 60 pieces of glassware that have to be wrapped individually.

>>23506006 (OP)
Used to be a great place to find random stuff for cheap
Now they're min/maxxing profits and keeping all the good shit for their online auctions while jacking prices up in-store and abusing the (sometimes literal) retards who work there

>>23506166
You know what meme flags mean, Jew.

>>23506010
The one near me you get ebay resellers that know exactly when new stock gets put out, they are fucking savages. The regular customers are all brown. I don't care how good of a deal I can get.

>>23506017
hey retard, it's a place where clothes people don't need go to people who actually need them

>>23506162
>Really obscure books

I have a 1740 illustrated copy of Aesop's fables I found at Goodwill, in the fucking dumpster. It might not be that exact date but the size and illustrations match pre 1800 editions. It's missing the title page unfortunately but who cares. They threw it away.

>>23506006 (OP)
I miss the rundown Flea Markets of the 70s and 80s. Every single one I went to as a kid have been torn down and either a parking lot or a fucking Walmart has been built in it's place. I miss you Super Flea...

>>23506168

Antiquarian and Rare Books
https://onlineshop.oxfam.org.uk/antiquarian-rare-and-collectable/category/antiquarian-rare-collectable


I didn’t realise OfM wasn’t well known in the US

>>23506165
90% of the shit on these boards have nothing to do with politics. Read sticky to refresh memory about what can be posted on this board.

Helped my old man bring wood from a renovation project to the dump. Paint was sth toxic so not even he would burn it.
Found a vintage toy car and decided to take it home for 5 bucks of beer money. Dented etc but still fair condition.
Mfw it s a 1913 Lehmann Berolina.
Sold it for enough money to get a mint condition Ruger Security Six 6" incl. Bianchi holster.
Thanks Pa you re the best
Other stuff I found: 2 misery whips, kitchen knifes, vergetable peelers, potbelly stoves, more spare parts for bikes than I could ever need. V Brake best brake, Axe heads, Hammers, barbells and other weightlifting stuff a forge blower the list goes on and on.

>>23506172
>it's a place where clothes people don't need go to people who actually need them
That's what it should be, but as you can also see from this thread, clearly it's also a place where a bunch of cheap middle class faggots enjoy doing a bit of bargain hunting

>>23506176
There's nothing left to talk about. We're waiting for the post wwii kike world order to finish imploding so we can do hoodrat shit with our frens. Don't worry fags when it's time to do something you won't have any choice.

>>23506174
They suck now, I still have a few of those in my area
It's mostly people reselling cheap chinese shit now. Sometimes you can find something cool, but the pool has been diluted.

>>23506006 (OP)
good place to go to when you smashed every monitor and tv in the house, ty to all the boomers

>>23506179
Solid post

>>23506174
I've noticed the disappearance of indie thrift stores the past couple years. Same with indie used car lots and junkyard. There's a concentrated effort to get rid of them.

>>23506006 (OP)
Any time I go here or Walmart, every single one of their employees looks like they are on the verge of killing themselves

>>23506174
Where i live it’s all spics selling stolen tools at the local flea market. Sucks.

>>23506184
Every time I go to Walmart I remember why I haven't been back in months...

Pro Tip

By antique crystal perfume bottles and fill them with holy water to bless your home.

>>23506027
>furnished my entire apartment
i live in a nice area in the suburbs and jog/cycle in the evenings. people are always throwing away nice furniture. ive often thought about picking a room in my house and furnishing it entirely from stuff ive picked up on trash night. my local goodwill is terrible. they changed about 3 years ago and greatly reduced the amount of stuff they put out. it was like night and day. but the savers nearby has everything

>>23506179
>There's nothing left to talk about.
Last night there was a really good one about all the kids using chat gbt to apologize for cheating on an assignment. It was hilarious and hit posting limit. I stick around for ones like that, and this, because as you noted
>There's nothing left to talk about.

>>23506176
It says only politics and no /b/ threads.

>>23506183
In Canada its theft. Thrift stores just can’t handle the amount of theft. Crackheads think since the stuff is donated it doesnt hurt the store not realizing the store needs to sell stuff to keep the lights on.

>>23506157
I racked my brain for twenty minutes trying to figure out what word I was thinking of.

>>23506006 (OP)
I've bought a lot of guitar books there for soooo cheap. Average price is like $4. All come with CDs or DVDs. I got a Hal Leonard Guiter Tab White Pages Play-Along book that has 100 songs tabbed out (750 pages) with all MP3 backing tracks on an included USB stick for $7.99. Retail that book is $69.99. So it's a goldmine if you are patient and don't actually NEED things.

>>23506171
There was one store that had this daily koffeeclatch of retired fucks who sit for hours on the furniture that's for sale and talk about watching "Pickers" in between dry humping every cart that gets rolled out. They all look for the exact same shit everyone else looks for to flip and therefore rarely find anything. They're all looking only for home run swings (rare in thrift stores anymore) and as a result keep pestering employees about when's the next cart and shit like that. As a result of that, store management takes note and now you can't buy even crap brands of chef knives for under $7, let alone any that have actual value like Zwillings.

Meanwhile, there's so much value in other areas they never even look at, probably because you have to have a lot of knowledge to spot value outside of mainstream crap.

>>23506184
I was returning something to walmart once and some random lady says
>are you a manager?
>>should I be?
>well you're wearing a jacket(blazer) and you're smiling
>>lady I've never seen a walmart manager wearing a jacket or smiling

She couldn't process it.

>>23506165
yeah because the constant bot threads, shitty bait, and twitter/reddit screencaps never gets old

>>23506183
Private equity is moving in and capturing the waste stream. Companies like better world books have contracts with all the local libraries to buy every single discarded or donated book they don't want for their collections, other corporations are doing the same with other materials, and Goodwill itself has very aggressively positioned itself to open donation centers all over. Goodwill will accept a lot of items they have no intention of reselling just to keep it out of the hands of competitors. Another reason they suck.

>>23506194
Maybe part of it is there is nothing fun for elderly people to do anymore.

>>23506016
I have 10 pairs of pants from goodwill. Look up the random brand name, find out they were 80 dollars new. Look new. No damage. Sweet. I now have 800 dollars worth of fancy pants for 50 dollars.

>>23506174
we still have a superflea in kansas city, that whole area is about to be redeveloped and made gay.
total developer death

>>23506190
>This board is for the discussion of news, world events, political issues, and other related topics
You
>Only politics
So, people bargain hunting during shitty economy and probably also as a form of escape from the jew isn't topical but all the fem hating and tranny obsessed ones are?

>>23506187
>practicing semetic magic
Shiggy diggy

>>23506199
I scored two pairs of carharrt fire resistant pants($130ea) for $2 at a not-goodwill thrift store.

>>23506201
Politics. Lmao. Most of 4chan is navel gazing about Christianity acting like their ancestors didnt become Christian 2000 years ago.

>>23506183
yeah some of the indie thrift stores were great. the church affiliated ones are garbage and somehow survived, unfortunately

Since it sees like the financially intelligent are gathered here, I'll ask for advice:
My parents paid a semester's tuition for me, if I "pay" the next, and never actually submit a payment, will the school find my student payment history and charge my parents?

>>23506016
I go looking for vintage electronics all the time

>>23506207
Why fuck with your parents? As someone older than you: honor your father and mother or suffer the consequences later in life. All homeless camps are full of people with a history of lying and swindling their parents.

>>23506187
That's a decent crystal perfume bottle. You can polish the rust off the chrome with fine steel wool no problem. Should mostly come back shiny. And chrome.

>>23506207
Just depends, if they didn't sign anything then legally it's your debt. Brings to question - would you actually sue your parents for payment? Maybe they 'forgot' and you can just nicely ask them about missing payment. Hope you're not throwing money away for a stupid degree that won't be worth more than shitty cuck wages.

>>23506209
I don't want to fuck with them. I want to drop out and not make the final payment, with the debt police chasing me rather than them

>>23506212
Just be honest with them.

See you guys on /bant/!

>>23506210
Beautiful, thank you Anon.

I have used the tinfoil, pan method to polish old silverware from tarnish in the past.

>>23506207
I misread this post. You're a faggot and I regret my previous post.

>>23506207
youre already in a nonsense situation

>>23506214
where good threads go to die

>>23506006 (OP)
I stopped going to mine. They pick through all the donations and send the good shit to their online auctions. The store smells, and generally all you can find is broken, really old, parts missing, or it's a used item from a dollar store marked at $5 or some dumb shit.

>>23506185
Before Super Flea was torn down in 2015, it was filled with arabs. I cannot begin to tell you young anons how much better the 80s and 90s were. At the same time, our parents and other adults were telling us how bad everything got and how much more fun the 60s and 70s were...

>>23506131
>You don't get sleeper PCs in store anymore
Man I wish it were much easier to get an old PC just to even make a sleeper, but you can't find those very easily.
A lot of them show up in e-waste facilities or probably a landfill, if there isn't somebody who's selling one on eBay for 300 dollars that nobody is going to buy. (parts gutted out or not)
On the bright side, sometimes it's easy to find NIB old generic PC cases to make sleepers..

>>23506217
tell me about it. Nobody told me that changing your major could change your scholarship money

They're probably better depending on the area you're in. The closest one to me closed the changing rooms during covid and never reopened them, and it's full of discolored old plastic junk and scratched to hell non-stick pans

They usually have a good selection of dishes and glasses though

>>23506006 (OP)
Your chance to help the ones who work to help themselves.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tTRYTWQlvfc

Jokes aside, the purpose of Goodwill Inc. was to hire people to repair things people donated and sell them to the public, which makes a lot more sense than just handing people money which only breeds dependency (and more dependents).

Anyone else see very positive auras on op image?

>>23506220
I grew up in Winnipeg and we had a REALLY good flea market. Meaning, videogames stalls, sci-fi stalls, stalls with weird decor like banana phones.

The one where I live in Vancouver is all latinos selling people’s stolen tools crackheads will rip your truck open like a tin can and empty it out and then illegals sell the tools at the flea market.

It's been over 20 years since I've been into a Walmart that was properly staffed and stocked. Every checkout had a white young chick cashier. The moment the last K-Mart closed, Walmarts went to absolute shit in my area.

>>23506225
I think that's just screen residue from swiping left on tinder.

>>23506227
White people… I used to have a Swedish looking mail delivery person and I’d frequently see her shouting at crackheads trying to sign for my packages and i never lost one.

Then i moved and the pajeets deliver my mail across the street and the nigger working the front desk at the apartment across the street opens my mail and if he doesn’t like what he sees he brings it back to my building already looked through. :(

>>23506226
I have this plate of The Canadian Parliament

>>23506224
In my country, Goodwill doesn't gouge people, but Salvation Army stores do. Sally Anne tend to price things ridiculously high, so much so that you'd literally be better off going to Walmart to shop for lower quality but new and less expensive things. Jeans are a good example. Went to SA to look at what they had and they wanted over $20 per pair, and between $10 and $20 for jeans that had obvious wear.

Goodwill sells them all for $10, flat rate. It's better for someone to shop at Goodwill than SA, but if you're into thrift store shopping, going to some of the smaller church-operated stores that are one-off (not a chain) also makes a lot of sense, and they'll have items in the same range as Goodwill.

I sometimes think there are Salvation Army employees at every store looking up the value of the donated items and pricing them accordingly. It's a business more than a charity shop because of that.

Some people collect things like Pyrex, and finding a piece they like at SA is guaranteed to be expensive, but the other shops sell something for a few dollars that a simple google search would show is worth a lot more. But they don't care about maximizing profits.

>>23506230
Nice plate.

>>23506232
Thank you

>>23506231
What location and do you ever find gold or silver?

>>23506006 (OP)
That place is a treasure trove of random pre-owned cool stuff. Just depends who died recently in your area, and you gotta go there on Saturday and Sunday when theyre stocking the weeks donations so you get first pick.

>>23506234
I live in Guelph. I don't go often, but there is usually a lot of jewelry, coins and things like that in the glass cases at the front of the store. From what I can see they don't charge much for those items either.

>>23506198
The only other people I see demonstrating that behavior is middle-aged Mestizo women that I see at the thrift stores I sometimes visit in Las Vegas. These guys are just losers.

>>23506006 (OP)
The first multi-billion dollar non-profit built on jews committing tax fraud while throwing out their old stuff? What could possibly be bad there?

>>23506235
Except for my delicates and gift items, I'm pretty sure every piece of clothing I own was bought in a thrift store. I couldn't tolerate going to a retail clothing store even if I were willing to pay those prices.

>>23506240
I've worn the same suit jacket to three different weddings now. I got it at a thrift store for $6

What you need to look for in thrifting is

Pure Fabrica

If you can slowly over time replace your wardrobe with zero polyester material- you will increase in wealth.

>>23506235
I wondered what she thought of how this depiction is being used. She gives zero fucks. lol

>>23506236
Maybe where you live. In the cities it's not like that anymore. Goodwill skim off the best stuff for online sales and dump the rest onto shelves and into bins that they rarely organize or clean up, and their prices for a lot of items are simply absurd. There are a lot of thrift stores out there if you look for them that offer a more tolerable experience.

There's a new one where I live run by some LGBT organization. They pay a "living wage" so I suspect they won't last long. Their donation base isn't very expansive either, but there are good deals there sometimes. At the front door is some scrawny, silly-looking jew sitting on a stool staring at his phone at a podium that bears their "code of conduct," which is basically the "in this house we believe" crap tailored exclusively for the benefit of sexual deviants. I guess he's the behavior cop. Most employees are actually quite nice people who seem to enjoy what they're doing, the exception being the cis-white women who sneer at white men and are generally sour.

>>23506244
goodwill's store is literally just a front where they don't intend to actually sell anything, only harvest goods for online sale

>>23506241
The more clothing I bought at thrift stores, the more absurd it seemed to pay retail for new clothing. A suit takes a while to buy because so many things have to be correct, but once you find one, you're set and have saved a ton of money that would otherwise be literally wasted.

>>23506235
No shit I have thousands of dollars in clothes I paid pennies on the dollar for.

>>23506245
I note that nobody has ever pointed out just how much crap Goodwill dump in landfills. They have a clearance center for stuff that doesn't sell at the retail stores, but a lot of it is so beat up because of the high pricing that condemns so many otherwise useful items to a month of in-store abuse that it doesn't sell there either. They have a massive dumpster in back.

tell me about publix, how does it work?

>>23506248
But that’s the fate of stuff at the end. Scrap gold buyers bring in scrap and sell the good stuff. At least they can melt what won’t sell.

What are they supposed to do with the junk they cant sell?

>>23506247
I miss Terry

>>23506251
Then he's still here.

>>23506250
Well, a lot of what they accept is unsellable, I suppose. But when I would visit those stores regularly, there were many, many items that were perfectly fine and usable but the prices were so high that nobody bought them. They either snapped off parts they wanted and pocketed them, destroyed them simply for the sake of doing so or threw them back into the bins or shelves after laughing at the price.

>>23506027
What's the best time to go dumpster diving? Should I go right now?

>>23506203
fucking incredible. Based and goodpilled

>>23506006 (OP)
I shop the Salvation Army for my hand-me-downs including underwear and tshirt shoes and socks

Las Vegas bag is one of my best finds

>>23506050
ive got several hundred dollars worth of wool clothing there over the years, and really expensive flannel and hawaiin shirts

>>23506258
>Me at the tables after 4 drinks.

>>23506255
Can you buy used panties at good will?

Dead people’s clothes

So zased and zamn-pilled

>>23506263
Doug Stanhope has a great bit about shopping for dead men's clothing at thrift stores. He advocates listing men's sizes in obituaries.

>>23506258
My best (not for monetary value, but for the story) was a full glass bottle of Prell shampoo that I bought for $1. That was about 20 years ago and I flipped it on eBay for $45. I remember telling my Dad about it and chiding him for investing in equities, bonds and metals when the real money was in shampoo.

>>23506264
Rita Rudner commented that she hated doing laundry so she just donated dirty clothes to thrift stores then bought them back once they were cleaned and put out for sale.

>>23506016
Old books nigger.

>>23506264
>He advocates listing men's sizes in obituaries.
lol

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DUGMyJ8-h3Q

but seriously, they should burn all this shit in powerplants and filter the smoke

>>23506269
If I lived in some African shithole I'd buy up all the shirts the NFL donates celebrating the Super Bowl victory of the team that actually lost the game. They'd fetch good money in the US. The NFL wouldn't be able to deal with the optics of suing some starving kid in Africa or destroying those shirts to deprive them of that opportunity, so they'd have to simply tolerate it.

>>23506081
yeah, until around 2015 you were sure to see tons of expensive electronics bought in the 90s/00s by people with big bucks, stuff like stereos/receivers, DVD/bluray players, big floor speakers, home theater setups, etc, stuff I used to drool over in the Best Buy flyer 20-30 years ago but could never afford. Over the last 10 years though most of that good stuff has dried up and they just have a meager selection of mostly junk electronics now.

>>23506123
>pic related, an asian man
lol

>>23506271
now it's just a pile of printers, routers, dvd players, keyboards, c.2011 basis af pc monitors, and xfinity remotes

>>23506006 (OP)
yeah but they have rad $2 shirts boyyyy

Do not buy a second hand wallet

>>23506114
Pretty much the same but I've bought a house and personally know like 6 people who shop at one goodwill supporting their entire families. I'm in probably one of the most expensive states to live in. None of these people are YouTubers or super grinders. Just people who have shopped at yard sales since they were kids. Even my 8 year old can find about 100 worth of stuff to resell with 10 dollars.

>>23506020
this used to be the case. 10 years ago you could hit every goodwill in your city and find vintage video games and tee shirts and flip them for hundreds of dollars each week. Now Goodwill has their own ebay account (not joking) and they have people trained to look out for valuable items that get donated. Then goodwill sells those items themselves for actual market value. its so gay

They're one redeeming trait is that if you have a bunch of stuff you don't have time to sort/yardsale/marketplace etc It's better than just tossing things into the garbage. It's a good way to get rid of a bunch of stuff.

>>23506278
at least half of it is polymers so you are just going to contaminate the groundwater or even the ocean by a landfill somewhere else

burn it for power and condense the pollutants in a big old fractional still

Charity shops are getting too expensive, I aint paying £4 for that shitty ass piece of tat or used shirt nigga

>>23506279
Pay Space X VS OpenAI 1billion to come up with a fully pure recycling method in 2026

>>23506281
there's nothing pure
but the toxic condensates can be thrown down a mine shaft or even launched into space

>>23506201
This is not news

>>23506282

Open Your Mind.

>>23506099
Like the bowels of hell. Clothes by the pound. Reeks of despair.

>>23506276
It's a time consuming way to pick up some extra money but it's not like the time is tediously spent. It's actually fun. You learn about all manners of products, names and companies you'd never otherwise know about, you learn about buying and selling, packing, shipping, dealing with people (though indirectly), etc. What can ruin it for people is when they get greedy because it messes up their priorities. Most of the stuff I deal in costs $1-$5 and I sell it for $10-$20. After fees and such it doesn't add up very fast, but I keep doing it anyway. I can't keep all the stuff I buy so I might as well engage in something productive moving it on to someone who has a better use for it.

>>23506006 (OP)
I was thinking of applying there, I have experience making $30k buying and flipping stuff on Facebook marketplace, so maybe I could be a valuable asset to them. What about it is grim?

>>23506287
I'm not being funny when I saw I've sold on eBay for 20 years. Don't sell anything under 20 dollars. Stay in that store until you find something your confident will sell over $30.

MODS = FAGS

>>23506006 (OP)
I went to my local thrift store recently. Winter coats were advertised as $5 or otherwise posted. There was one coat and a few hoodies on a rack. The coat was tagged for $60 (USD, mind you) and the hoodies were all $20, $25. Positively Jewish to charge these prices for donated items.

>>23506051
rip

>>23506006 (OP)
thrifting is fun

They literally sell haunted paintings there and nobody gives a fuck.

there's a thrift store in a really old brick building downtown where i live
it's run-down and has TONS of stuff, almost looks like a wealthy hoarder's house
it's owned by some ESL family, and there's usually this tiny dog running around watching people
i've never been to the goodwill here, but it probably has nice things