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Secondhand, used and outlet clothing stores can be treasure troves for bargains, but you need to keep your wits about you as you stroll the aisles. Take it from Bob, who says four Goodwill locations were charging unrealistic prices for items.
He writes:
I am writing to you prior to writing a letter to the President and CEO of Goodwill Industries, Jim Gibbons concerning the ridiculous prices found on Goodwill merchandise over the past year.My wife and I often visit 4 Goodwill retail stores in our area which is [redacted]. We have noticed that the prices on merchandise in the stores have almost become laughable (though sad for the income challenged). I have seen a consistency of this horrific pricing at the various stores so I believe they are using a formula or list of recommended prices to mark merchandise as it comes in the door. You will often see a price that the individual who prices the object guesses at and is way off the mark. I mean something that is a cheap Chinese knock-off that looks like an antique, priced as an antique.
It has gotten worse and worse with each trip to our local stores. Often, a price is much higher than what you would pay for a similar new item at Walmart. I hear shoppers in the store complaining all the time that the prices are absurd. These stores are supposed to help the poor and low income families but items are now carrying boutique prices. It is like they are catering to the wealthy because it is suddenly trendy to buy something at Goodwill. I am sure this is all well and fine for Goodwill executives that make a much higher salary than those at Salvation Army and St. Vincent de Paul’s.
Have you noticed unreasonable prices at Goodwill or any supposed discount shops?
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I’ve noticed one of the most popular thrift stores in my area almost double the prices on most of their products over the last 3 years. There’s no excuse for it besides the fact that they are getting more popular and having more people shop there now than 3 years ago.
At least the bedbugs are still free!
$2.50 for shirts that are ugly and $5.00 for ripped/holey jeans at the one where I live. Not a chance I’m buying that stuff when I can go to a yard sale and get great clothes for next to nothing,today I bought a new pair of LEI jeans & a kick ass shirt for 25 cents.
Betting that it’s more likely incompetent pricing staff…
Anyway, if the price is too high, I have a bit of advice…..DON’T BUY IT!!!!!!!!!
The clothes are ridiculously expensive at our local Goodwill and rarely in very good condition. I find that if I watch clearance at Target and Khol’s (with coupons) I can find much better prices on new clothes than the worn overpriced clothes at Goodwill.
I’ve seen all kinds of rip-offs at thrifts over the years and it’s ongoing.
There are a number of things that have developed over the years to make this a problem: the rise of eBay in which everything is deemed “collectible” and priced accordingly and yet very arbitrarily; vintage clothing dealers that buy up huge amounts of good clothing to sell overseas (I don’t know if this is still going on or not); used clothing chains that buy/sell at reasonable amounts for somewhat new goods like Plato’s Closet (perhaps this has given the thrifts an idea that justifies really high prices on newer items of clothing.) Goodwill even has its own auction site.
Unfortunately I don’t see these absurd pricing schemes changing any time soon, and they do seem to have become worse.
The bottom line with this matter is the same as it’s been as long as I’ve thrifted–if the price on something seems too high for you, don’t buy it. Then if no one else is willing to spend $40 on a Speedy Gonzales drinking glass in their “antique nook”, eventually they’ll have to mark it down to get it out of there.
I usually have very good luck at the local Salvation Army and the hospital thrift stores. Shirts/pants for $4 each or less, etc. The only ripoff around here is Value Villiage, which thinks nothing of charging $8 for a 2nd-hand non brand-name tshirt, and $12 for pants. I can get brand new shirts and pants on the clearance racks at WalMart for those prices (or less!)
I never got the whole “selling stuff received for free at exuberant prices” at thrift stores like Goodwill. It would make sense to price the stuff to sell, encourage more people to shop and keep the donations/revenue moving.
I worked in the back of a Goodwill one summer in high school (2005-2006), and whenever I could, I priced electronics “to sell” and most items were sold within a few days. There were more than enough items in the back to replace what was sold and new donations arriving daily.
Battling with the inept manager over pricing decisions was the most annoying part of working there. The goal was to make at least $500 a week in sales, and I was told by the manager that most of the sales came from clothing.
I remember one time a CRT iMac from 1998 was priced at $500 and was not selling. I repriced it at $80, it was gone in about an hour and close to a 5th of the weekly goal was met in one shot.
I diverted my frustrations with the manager by using the employee discount (and the advantage of working in the back) to acquire items and sell them on eBay which made working the minimum wage job more bearable.
The prices at thrift stores are really outrageous here, a pair of worn out pants from the 80′s or 90′s commands $5 or more, sometimes up to $10. Old worn out quilts command about $20, coats are priced between $10-50, and I have seen many junky coats priced around $20. The prices on clothing only seems to go up over time as well.
The caveat here is a lot of the merchandise at the thrift isn’t really in saleable condition especially when it comes to clothing, its very worn out and ugly.
Contrasting you can get jeans for $10 here all the time, at least I find plenty of pairs for that price brand new, shirts for under $5 brand new are very common. Plenty of coats at Marshall’s (within easy driving distance of the thrift) for around $20-30 brand new, the same price the thrift is charging (I paid $30 for a very nice winter coat last year at Marshalls). Sweatpants get $5 a pair, trust me those are very common at retail stores for under $5 a pair.
Color TV’s are cheap though, usually $8.99, of course I don’t know if they work or not, but I find that pretty cheap the thrifts could probably charge a lot more for TV’s and people would pay it. People at yard sales here have nerve to charge $30-40 for a small 13 inch color TV.
Over-charge? NOTHING NEW. Goodwill Industries is a franchise like McDonalds or other franchises. A non-profit franchise is a gold mine to its owners as their HUGE salaries and benefits are the reason for being.
They throw away clothes, get a tax credit, buy “sale” clothes to sell to you. How do you think they afford the fancy buildings, etc. Notice Salvation Army does well but they cannot build million dollar buildings. I saw a Holiday Inn ashtray (free in rooms years ago) with a price tag of 75 cents! Was a donation but poor folks that have never stayed in a Holiday Inn will buy it for that excessive cost.
I give to Salvation Army, and others. NEVER in past 25 years have I given to Goodwill.
They employ the handicapped … YES and make a huge markup for it. Pay low wages for handicapped and then make a BIG profit on charging for assembling.
I also don’t donate to the goodwill or SA anymore, especially since Goodwill puts anything good up for sale on its ebay-like auction site where all merchandise is untested, so its like I am donating to some ebay reseller. This also means less or no good stuff to find in the stores since it all goes to the auction site. The SA and Goodwill will overprice items to the max and I am not supporting that with my donations. I also don’t shop at either store, because I never find anything at either that is worth buying for the prices they offer. Cry me a river when the SA is whining for donations..
A thrift store that has low prices and is very nice to me and acts like they actually appreciate my donations will get bag after bag of my donations, but I don’t see any of that at the stores near me, so its time to take my donations elsewhere. Talking to other people in my city they feel the same way.
If I have unwanted items I try to find a home for them on freecycle or give them to someone we know especially if the item is in really good condition and we are just done with it. I try to get the items into the hands of someone who really needs it or someone who can use it as best as possible while avoiding the corporate thrift stores.
well, it could be that nonclothing items are a loss-leader, and they recoup some of it on harder to find items….clothes gets brought in by the bundle, but other items aren’t, sometimes its supply and demand
just shop around and vote with your wallet
I understand the top priority for these thrift stores is to make money for their cause but as a person who has shopped at thrift stores religiously over the past 15 years I have dropped off considerably in the past 5 years due to the drastic increase of pricing.
I am near poverty level [legally disabled] and thrift stores gave me a great opportunity to supply myself with clothing and household items. Now instead of finding great deals on a Saturday afternoon as I used to do I have to seriously consider my budget before buying a pair of jeans or a few coffee cups. Sounds petty to those who can afford brand new items but for us poor people not on the receiving end of Goodwill’s charity I greatly miss my 50 cent coffee cups and $1 shirts. They may be trying to bring in money but their prices are running off many of those who used to shop there. Everyone I know has cut their visits back to a minimum, if they enter the stores at all nowadays.
The increased cost of living across the board is choking many people. Goodwill and Salvation Army used to be a great resource for the “borderline poor”. What is this world coming to when a poor person can barely afford Goodwill items? Come on, bring back human decency.
I completely disagree with the OP.
The wonderful thing about 2nd hand thrift stores is most you can haggle the prices down. I know Salvation Army stores and Goodwill stores in VA do and yes they price everything at some mysterious flat rate. Only CHKD stores do not haggle. So just think of it as a starting point because they know that $5 shirt is going to be $3.50 or that $100 table set will be $80 after a few rounds of negotiating.
I frequent at least a dozen shops 1-2 times a week. I’m on a first name basis with many managers and even have warehouse managers call me for new inventory that I’m looking for specifically (games, movies, electronics). Yes I haggle, I give bulk prices when I can, but I always make some kind of donation, be it old clothes or just a few bucks.
It’s Goodwill, not an antiques dealer. I’m sure a helpful word to a manager that is it not authentic would be much more helpful than this negative email.
Folks, prices are going up at thrift stores, but it is not because there is more demand (although there is). It’s because there is less supply. Thrift stores are entirely donor-centric. If you don’t have donors, you won’t have customers. But if you don’t have donors, or the quantity and quality of donations are falling, guess what? You still have to pay rent, utilities, salary for one or two people and put gas in that old truck. Expenses can easily run well above 50% though in a well run store they tend to be in the 15-30% of gross revenue range. What you need to remember when shopping at a thrift store is that unless you are getting there just as new merchandise hit the floor, all you are probably seeing is the accidentally overpriced stuff and the junk. Everything else sold within 1/2 hour of it hitting the floor.
I have worked at a Goodwill on the retail side, intertwining with the production side at times.
Every Goodwill is different. It’s not Wal-Mart, where there is a corporate guideline for every store. District-wise, sometimes yes. Companywide, hardly. Check out the Goodwill Facebook page. Somebody complains about something at their store, Goodwill FBer says they will contact that particular store’s bosses with the specific complaints.
At the Goodwill I worked at, the pricing/donations team (who were paid and full-time, not just volunteers) had a basic guideline to price goods. Goods do not include clothes/shoes/etc. Wares, electronics, toys, furniture, etc. However, price guidelines aside, they were free to reasonably fluctuate up and down depending on condition. A Xbox 360 that came in its original box with all of its parts would be priced higher than a console and the power cords that came in a random plastic bag, for example. Usually they did a good job.
However, you CAN’T expect a pricing guy to know the value of every single item that comes in through the donation doors, how to tell a real Chinese artifact from a well-made fake, or anything else. They would go host Antiques Roadshow or something instead! The pricing team does NOT go to Wal-Mart, Target, Old Navy, Hollister, and everywhere else during their time off from shifts to note how much every item in the mens, womens, and childrens department is priced. They are going to price something for more than it might be worth sometimes. However, in my stint, they price a LOT of things a lot cheaper than they were worth too. Those things sold, naturally, before I could buy them on my days off.
Clothes in my store and district had a set guideline. For example, all tee shirts $2.39, jeans $4.99, shoes $3.99, dresses $4.99, formal/wedding dresses $9.99, and so on. It could be a Hollister t-shirt, a cheap Wal-Mart t-shirt, a Disney World t-shirt, or a shirt somebody screen-printed in their garage. It’d be $2.39, no matter what.
There were few small exceptions, as noted elsewhere… Target merchandise. However, our Target merch was priced at about half of what we guessed was the original price (I am an avid Target shopper). The Target merch, like the donations merch, was priced by a staff member. In our case, by a manager. Again, while you can complain about Goodwill overcharging you for something Target sent to them, you need to complain about your particular store, because not all stores run alike or are priced alike.
It’s a good place. Yes, some stores overprice. Some, like my former store, do a great job with pricing, blow through sales expectations, and have a good reputation in the community. There was a lot of heart among the staff, and most of us all actually LIKED each other compared to most workplaces where you tolerate each other. Customers liked us – and our prices – too.
In my experience, Savers are better managed and have better merchandise and better prices than Goodwill. They also have electrical outlets beside the electronics for testing. Maybe it’s regional – I thought Value Village was overpriced – they are the same company as Savers.
Savers/Value Village are also for-profit corporations, unlike Goodwill, which operates it’s retail stores as part of it’s 501.C.3
Goodwill Industries mission is to put people to work, and Goodwill Industries of Georgia does a great job of that, and in my experience, the various locations around Atlanta have reasonable pricing on items. Sometimes stuff is a little crazy high, or low- but I feel confident knowing when I donate items, they directly benefit the organization.
Value Village and other for-profit thrift stores usually have higher prices, as often times have higher overhead, like occupation tax. All the Goodwill stores in GA are classified as non-profit, so they don’t pay business occupation tax, and sometimes get discounted rent and utility rates. This means a lower operating cost, and lower prices.
For profit stores have to pay the going rate for all the above, and it usually reflected in their prices.
as a person who shows only 2nd hand (other than socks and undies) goodwill’s pricing structure is far higher than the salvation army. they have set prices for most items, but shoot up prices for particular pieces they deem worthy.
and no, volunteers are not doing the pricing. not there, not at salvation army, not at red white and blue. (and at the latter they have “discovered” cashmere, a development that broke my heart.)
The goodwills in my area usually charge twice what a TV season (on DvD) sells for new in stores.
They’re just trying to make some fast cash before bedbugs completely ruin their business model.
I have donated a ton of stuff in recent years to Goodwill. But I wont ever shop there anymore. I went into the local store looking for some books, and happend to walk thru the clothing area. There I found three of the items I had donated in recent months priced higher than I had paid for them. One of the items had never been worn and even had the original sticker/tag which I left on with the price I paid and what I tried to sell it at a garage sale at. The Goodwill price was doubled. I am still happy to donate stuff but sometimes find myself also freecycling.
Yes! I went in to use the bathroom as the consignment store next door to it didn’t have a public bathroom and they had brand new Halloween costumes that someone donated a ton of and they were more expensive than what you could get at target or TJ Maxx. I never go to Goodwill anymore. I don’t donate to them either. I prefer to free cycle and craigslist because people on craigslist will usually negotiate if they price something too high while at Goodwill it’s USSR style bureaucracy – no discount, no negotiation!
Here in Topeka, My mother and I stopped going to Goodwill and Salvation Army stores once we started finding items with their original price sticker that has a lower price than the secondhand one. I’m not talking about something that is 5+ years old or a clearance retail price. There were a stack of the previous Christmas’s plates with a Target stick that said $1.00 and a Salvation Army sticker RIGHT NEXT TO IT that said $1.50 ea. I know for a fact that they were from the previous year because it’s a line that changes yearly and I had purchased one at full price.
Blame eBay, in part.
At my local thrift used bookstore, which operates as a fundraiser for the city libraries, everything seems to be priced based on what they could get if sold on eBay. There’s no such thing as a hidden bargain any more there.
I went to a Goodwill in Monroeville yesterday and found a copy of Star Wars Republic Commando marked at $30.00. I asked an associate how much it was, as I figured it was a typo and it was probably actually $3.00, which would make sense as the game sells for around $6.00 new. She assured me that no, it was actually $30, but that since it had been in the store since July (hmm… wonder why) it should have had $10 knocked off of it. I pointed out that it was five years old and retails new for around $5-6.00, but there was nothing they would/could do.
Lolz.
I’ve noticed this as well. My wife and I shop 2nt hand stores mainly for clothing for us and our 16 month old. But we roam the store looking for other good deals. A month ago we went to the MRM(Montana rescue mission) a 2nd hand store that helps run and maintain a battered woman’s shelter. Armed with a camera and note book. We took pictures of common things we see in 2nt had stores and walmart. After that store we hit goodwill and did the same then we hit walmart.
Of 20 Items we found 5 matching items at all 3 stores the other 15 items we were ableto find like items.
Pricing 10 like items showed what we had been thinking. Goodwill stores averaged about 5-25% more in cost on all items then walmart and about 15-50% more then the local owned store.
The 5 matching items were a little better but still more then new.
5 items at goodwill did come across as cheaper then walmart(but more then local owned store). But lets be honest. Who would really buy a used with no warranty item when a new and in warranty item could be had for a couple of more dollars.
One funny thing I have noticed about all 2nd hand stores is their pricing on clothing. If the tags on it are from walmart type stores it’s under a couple of dollars. Throw a name brand on them and the price jumps. I tried this with a generic motorcycle shirt that I stuck a Harley Davidson sticker on over the tag. Its pricing tag said $1.99 before it was ‘lost’ when the cashier asked a manager the price, the manager looked at the HD sticker and priced it at 13.99…
I really don’t think the word “ripoff” is fair or appropriate. Why shouldn’t Goodwill (or you or me, if we’re selling a used lawnmower) charge what the market will bear? In Goodwill’s case, at least the business model is helping people with disabilities, and the profits can do additional good. I don’t think I’m nitpicking when I say we should really reserve the word “ripoff” for goods or services that are marketed deceptively, or where the consumer is taken advantage of in some way that might not have been anticipated, or results from a serious market imbalance. If you sell me “hot buttered popcorn” and its not hot, and doesn’t have real butter, that’s a ripoff. If you design the box in such a way that you trick me into thinking I’m getting more popcorn than I am, that’s a ripoff. And maybe, if there is a flood or civil emergency and you’ve bought up all the clean drinking water and want a predatory $10 a bottle for it, that’s a ripoff. Likewise, if I need broadband access, and can only buy it from one monopoly that can price-gouge with impunity. But as long as the consumer has realistic options, there is no ripoff.
GoodWill isn’t a garage sale or flee market. Its a business. But they are not in the business of selling stuff. The whole point of GoodWill is to train people so they can get jobs or provide them with jobs. Their stores are just a means of supplying revenue to fund that.
With that being said, yes there are pricing sheets given to each store and each store might have a different one. From what I’ve seen, the more popular the store is the higher the prices.
Been there, done that…..
My last Goodwill shopping trip was a bit over a year ago. I noticed the quality of merchandise declining over the couple of years prior. I attributed this to cherry-picking, both for selling through other means as someone already said, and by the employees themselves for their own benefit. Then on my last trip I ran into several things bearing K-Mart or Target price tags priced LOWER than the Goodwill asking price.
Not hidden or difficult to see. One item, in a damaged box, had a K-Mart tag for $8.99 with a Goodwill tag for $10.99 right beside it. That was my last trip to Goodwill.
I often shop at resale shops for my 3 kids and myself. I also have found prices I thought too high on an item currently being sold or similar to an item currently being sold. I print the item from the website and take it with me. Each time I have done this the store has reduced their price to 1/2 the price at the retail store.
For this very reason I stopped donating to and purchasing items at Goodwill a while ago. Used blanket for $20? No. Faded Mossisimo jeans for $13? WTF.
The final straw was finding a Boston shaker (which sell at bar supply stores for around $5) selling for $8.99. I laughed, rolled my eyes and never went back.
I’ve noticed a similar trend in the way of used furniture of craigslist. In particular, Ikea furniture.
I often see Dollar Store merchandise priced at $3-5 at my Goodwill (literally, things I’ve purchased at the local Dollar Tree the week before. Exactly the same.) I’ve also seen used slow cookers in poor condition marked $30 when you can a new one that price at Penny’s or Macy’s.
A few of us where I work are thrift shoppers and all notice the same thing, so this isn’t just IMO. I’ve also had visiting relatives that like to thrift shop attempt to shop at our local Goodwill and think the prices were insane.
I do like to look for used books there (paper backs are .75) but sometimes our store stinks so bad I walk in and walk right back out. Who knows.
It stinks because people donate dirty clothing and Goodwill does not wash any of the donated items. I’ve heard stories of employees finding underwear with turds clinging to the inside or a random bag of used kitty litter thrown in with the clothes.
Furniture prices at the one here are ridiculous (Newnan, GA). There was a neat looking shelving unit I liked recently, but I couldn’t justify the price. Also, $150 for a falling apart tube TV = not so much. $1.00 for records though? Yes, thank you, any day of the week.
I used to work for a Goodwill — not in a store, but in the administration — and I was unfortunately low enough in the pecking order to have “customer relations” added to my list of duties. That is, I fielded complaints.
I had to deal will all kinds of cranky people calling about overpriced items when the items actually weren’t overpriced. It was just the same people calling to complain for the sake of complaining, irritated because they had to pay $5 instead of $3 for a t-shirt. I’m not making that up either. Some of them were complaining because they couldn’t buy Goodwill items cheaply enough to turn around and resell them for a profit at the local flea market as their “business.”
That said, the OP may be right about shopping at Goodwill becoming “trendy” and this particular Goodwill is unwisely trying to cash in. It’s trendy because you can get good deals on neat stuff. If it becomes overpriced, the hipsters will go elsewhere.
Also, OP, write to the CEO of the local Goodwill first, not the international Goodwill. Each Goodwill is locally managed and policies will vary from place to place. Don’t go to GII unless the local Goodwill blows you off.
Even though we have quite a few Goodwill within 15 miles, I usually go to other “local” secondhand shops and some which seem actually better than goodwill (in both price and quality). I honestly can’t say i’ve ever had that happen to me because I’ve only been to a goodwill once and saw the prices and left. Also with me being a game collector, the local secondhand shops tend to have old video games (sega genesis, atari, etc) for a cheap price and is a good alternative to ebay or amazon.
A lot of people commenting on this story have invoked the law of supply and demand, i.e., if you believe something is overpriced don’t buy it. I don’t think that’s the point — the complaint here is that some thrift stores don’t seem to have any idea how little their merchandise is worth, or that some things are basically worthless. Why even display a blown-out Mickey Mouse t-shirt covered with grease stains, or charge a dollar for a broken-off part of a piece of obsolete solid-state hardware?
Price gouging at Goodwill in CT and MA has been rampant since the advent of eBay. I started having issues with their pricing around 1999, and it has grown progressively worse each year since. I no longer shop there.
…”She wore a raspberry beret, the kind you find in a second hand store…Raspberry beret, and if it was warm she wouldn’t wear much more..”
Sorry, couldn’t help myself.
In my area, New England, the Goodwill Stores are a bargain compared to the Salvation Army. The Salvation Army’s prices are nearly double those at Goodwill and no one seems to look for rips or stains in clothing.
Much of the merchandise at GoodWill appears to be overpriced due to the frequent 50% percent off sales. In other words: it is priced 2x the actual amount they determine is reasonable, in hopes of finding someone who REALLY wants the item.
GW stores in NW Indiana have those 50%-off-Saturday sales every few weeks, along with 1/2 price senior citizen days AND other coupons on the back of retail register receipts offering a $5 discount with a $10 minimum purchase.
I was particularly amused last week when I saw a 25 year old cassette deck with a $160 price tag. Nakamichi was a good brand but who is going to risk that amount on outdated
technology.
Much of the merchandise at GoodWill appears to be overpriced due to the frequent 50% percent off sales. In other words: it is priced 2x the actual amount they determine is reasonable, in hopes of finding someone who REALLY wants the item.
GW stores in NW Indiana have those 50%-off-Saturday sales every few weeks, along with 1/2 price senior citizen days AND other coupons on the back of retail register receipts offering a $5 discount with a $10 minimum purchase.
I was particularly amused last week when I saw a 25 year old cassette deck with a $160 price tag. Nakamichi was a good brand but who is going to risk that amount on outdated
technology.
Stop whining. Nobody is forcing you to shop there. If it’s too expensive, don’t buy it. If *everything* is too expensive, stop going there and try some other local thrift stores.
Well now, you’ve all missed the greatest benefit. When you donate clothes to Goodwill, you get to write off the value….and what do you use to determine the “value”…thrift store prices!!!
Tax win!
The north Dallas Goodwills also have crazy pricing, such as $75 for a mustard-colored blazer that looked like it came out of the 70s – and not in the kind of style hipsters are into. I usually go to other local thrift stores instead, which have a better selection at lower prices.
If you don’t like their prices, don’t shop there. If more people do that, sales will go down and they will get the hint. But perhaps sales are up, so their pricing model may be working. It is there products, they can price them at whatever they want to.
– Steve
In St. Louis, Goodwill’s prices are through the roof, and they’re selling the best stuff that comes in online now. It never gets out of the back room.
Most of what you’ll find in the store is picked over and priced higher than something comparable at Target. And if you buy it at Target and there’s something wrong with it, you can take it back for an exchange or refund.
The other, smaller thrift shops are still worth going to, but Goodwill is pretty much a waste of time anymore.
This is why I only shop there for clothing.
Also, our several local Goodwill’s have a deal where they take all of Target’s damaged or returned items. Sometimes you can find a good deal. Other times not.
I think a lot of the stuff in the OP is outdated pricing. $70 for a 14″ LCD monitor? LOL. But that’s why you should only stick to buying clothing there.
if you want bargain furniture, go to garage sales. We find the best deals at garage sales.
Apparently people are buying things or they’d have to lower prices.
After hearing a friend rave about the cool stuff at our local Goodwills, I went to both, and can honestly say I saw absolutely nothing worth bringing home, overpriced or not. The stuff on the shelves looked like people dropped it off there because it was too far to drive to the dump.
More power to you folks who have cool Goodwills.