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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;TheOLdGuy, post: 127219, member: 878&quot;]<font size="5">Interesting story. First, a question. </font></p><p><font size="5">Man thrift stores piss me off. </font></p><p><font size="5">Did you mean to put a comma after man? I have to admit, without the comma you really got my attention and MADE me read the post. </font></p><p><font size="5"><br /></font></p><p><font size="5">Goodwill has of course been around here forever, but was always just a place to get rid of stuff too good for the landfill. Other than GW there was Salvation Army. But I&#039;m not aware of any outlet SA may have had anywhere near us. AND, if you had a decent couch and a couple of chairs either one of those charities would be happy to say they would try to get there to pick them up within the next few weeks. Which meant never. So small stuff got carted to Goodwill&#039;s back door. Bigger stuff took effort to donate to someone directly. </font></p><p><font size="5"><br /></font></p><p><font size="5">But never did trust Goodwill after my brother told me of his experiment. And this was about 25 years ago. (He was a more avid collector than I and used to drop off stuff regularly as they were in the same shopping center as his Travel Agency.) One day he&nbsp; put together a big box of glassware. Ordinary stuff, then added 4 or 5 relatively valuable pieces. Brought them to Goodwill just before they closed for the day. He knew they would be stocking them that evening. </font></p><p><font size="5">Next morning he was standing at their front door and was the first person to walk in and go straight to the glass section. Sure enough, as he expected, all his glassware was on display EXCEPT for the more expensive pieces.&nbsp; </font></p><p><br /></p><p>I have NEVER found a bargain at Goodwill or any of the small thrift shops, mainly because they are out of my way and are only visited when I&#039;m early for an appointment in the neighborhood, or, as just recently, took a long trip through the brand new, stand alone building just moved into, Goodwill about 10,000 sq. ft. store. Did get to speak to some employees, including the young lady at the big, locked glass cabinet with expensive stuff in it. She said the tags ID&#039;d the stuff from Target and similar stores who constantly donated slightly damaged boxed electronics, etc. </p><p><font size="5"><br /></font></p><p><font size="5"><br /></font></p><p>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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