I’m tired of searching Craiglist for mid-century or modern mid-century items of interest sold by OWNERS, only to find stores and retail outlets posting their overpriced wares. Long have the days passed of getting a good deal in this town; everyone is so greedy nowadays. I quit going to Goodwill because they got greedy and an example would be the store near Hawthorne selling a 12V power adaptor with the price tag of $10 that they got for FREE…highway robbery, if you ask me. Real gross domestic product, according to the advance estimates released by the Bureau of Economic Analysis, barely grew in the first quarter, increasing by only 0.1percent annual rate after growing at 2.6 percent during fourth quarter of 2015. What does this mean for the average worker? Listen, I’ve done ecstasy in the past and the outlook for people who try to make a living by finding odd treasures and the like does not look good. People have trouble being honest and likely have dirty grout in their bathrooms, which I believe influences the “greed receptor” in their brains. Clean the grout, become less greedy. That’s the motto and code that I live by. Nowhere to run to and nowhere to hide. No deals. No profit. No money. No life. I mean, thats not how I want to live. DO YOU?!?!?!?
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Goodwill of the Columbia-Willamette is a complete rip-off. Their overpriced junk helps prop up their CEO’s salary which tends to hover around the $1M mark while his employees make peanuts. Stop donating, and more importantly stop buying!
$2 for a moldy Osmonds record is not a deal! That shit should be in a landfill but millennial idiots will paw through it anyway. Well, sorry but all crates ain’t worth digging and if you really want to hear “Crazy Horses” on virgin Dynaflex I’m sure some 22-year-old DJ will be spinning it tonight at your local bone broth or drinking vinegar or artisanal picklecraft bar.
Grout, Grout, let it all out
Your post is the thing I can do without
Come on, I’m talking to you come on
Goodwill has overhead you know. It’s not a charity designed to give you free stuff, but to provide jobs to people who generally have a hard time finding jobs out there. Get off your entitled high horse.
I once saw an empty beer bottle on the knick knack shelf at the goodwill superstore with a $2.99 price tag. I was tempted to buy it, but somehow I resisted the urge.
Demondog, go watch the Goodwill Industries segment that 60 Minutes did in 2013. They pay their disabled workers pennies, far below minimum wage. It’s downright shameful.
Also, if you want to feel bad for humanity head down to The Bins and play my favorite game, “Spot the Trendy Portland Boutique Owner”. Look for the ladies frantically digging through the clothes piles, complete with dust masks and smartphones, out to grab those old Levi’s or that last shred of vintage Pendleton even if they have to punch an actual-poor-person to do it. Greed upon greed upon greed.
Yeah, why do we have Goodwill when you can get moldy cookbooks from the curb?
I think this Anon was written by my intern.
It’s as if titles no longer hold any meaning whatsoever.
Maybe some value added taxation should be in order for Good Ol’ Goodwill. That would show them!!!
Fair enough, Chunty. I got no dog in the Goodwill hunt. But, IA, don’t expect it to be like a garage sale.