OK, they have the vehicle on video. Tell the people claiming it's theirs to show up in the same vehicle that they used when they made the drop.

Chartock said he plans to reward the employee who found the money.


Good..

Knowing Goodwill, they'll slap a $22,000 sticker on it and toss it in the display case.

AverageAmericanGuy 2012-05-16 12:16:29 AM


If you're rich enough to donate old, used crap to Goodwill, you're rich enough to lose $14,000.

1%er problems.



Someone just set your cockroaches on fire.

octopied: Here's a better idea

"We have found an amount of cash donated one of the days this week. Please describe the items you donated, the vehicle you were in, the date of your drop off and how much cash you think you are missing"

of course they went and ruined this by giving the public this information....

These are the guys who think they can charge $20 for jeans nobody wanted.

farkityfarker: I'll never understand the mentality of people who have large amounts of cash in their homes or on their persons. It's just plain stupid.

Cuz the banks are doing a better job these days?

farkityfarker: I'll never understand the mentality of people who have large amounts of cash in their homes or on their persons. It's just plain stupid.

It's actually pretty common amongst people who lived through the Depression

/for some reason, they have a profound distrust of financial institutions

Dow Jones and the Temple of Doom: Knowing Goodwill, they'll slap a $22,000 sticker on it and toss it in the display case.

Having worked for a Goodwill program before, I can say you're grossly underestimating the price adjustment.

Fark that place.

andersonmanly: Dow Jones and the Temple of Doom: Knowing Goodwill, they'll slap a $22,000 sticker on it and toss it in the display case.

I had my items turned away before by Goodwill because, according to the manager on duty, it "wouldn't make enough money." It won't make Goodwill enough money? I thought Goodwill was about helping families in need?

Seriously, Fark Goodwill. They've lost the way.

/rant

My wife often goes into the same rant about several of the "Chain " thrift stores. Sometime in the last decade some of them stopped being about the "making money by doing good" dynamic and became all about "how much money can we make"? one. In Goodwill's case Iblame the executive there that was making a $1 million salary and justified it by the fact that he'd tripled the revenue coming from their stores. Which misses the point almost entirely it seems to me.

The alst few times I've been in a Goodwill the majority of their merchandise seemed to be stuff I saw at Target on the clearance racks-only marked up from Target's final clearance price. I'm told that rather than do donations many Goodwill stores actually buy truckloads of Clearance stuff from places like Target because its easier to price and sell.


I'm Lucky, I live in a towns with six "indie" thrift stores that also happens to reside in the country with the highest per capita income in the US. The combination means I often pick up VERY nice stuff at VERY cheap prices, and when My family has stuggled financially, that's been a very comforting thing to be able to do. Especially knowing that my son would be dressed as well as any of the wealthy kids who go to his school, and so wouldn;t be teased about something he had no control over.