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Thread Number: 40523
/ Tag: Other Home Products or Autos
I've gotten frustrated with Habitat Restore |
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| Post# 430460 8/23/2020 at 11:20 (1,334 days old) by fan-of-fans (USA) | ||
When my Habitat Restore reopened a few months ago, I took a trunk full of stuff that I had been planning to donate.
In the weeks that followed, I never saw any of it put out for sale. I had the same experience last year when I donated some things. I've noticed also, that there isn't as much out on the sales floor as I used to see. I get the feeling they are throwing most of the stuff away if it's older or isn't in perfect condition. Which they didn't used to do. Some of the vacuums I donated were ones I got FROM Habitat in the past but just lost interest in fixing up. They've even acted annoyed the last time I went and donated stuff. It's ridiculous to me that they act like the stuff is useless when it's stuff that they would have sold in the past. It's really annoying if they're going to be so picky about what they sell. I've gotten to where I think I'll be making future donations at other thrift stores, where it's more likely to go out for sale. Or just throw it away myself, and save the trip. I just feel bad throwing things away that other people could use. Some of this stuff I definitely know of people who would want, but I don't have the time or interest to go about selling it online and shipping it out. | ||
| Post# 430494 , Reply# 1 8/23/2020 at 18:24 (1,334 days old) by MadMan (Chicago, IL, USA) | ||
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Post# 430499 , Reply# 2 8/23/2020 at 20:17 (1,334 days old) by electrolux137  (Los Angeles) |
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| Post# 430509 , Reply# 3 8/23/2020 at 21:55 (1,334 days old) by human (Pines of Carolina) | ||
The only time I've had anything rejected at Goodwill was when I tried to donate an old dryer. They told me they didn't take large appliances and didn't know where I could donate it. I knew darned well where I could take it and told the guy so. I just didn't want to drive all the way across town when the Goodwill was only a couple of miles from my house. Of course, the biggest irony was I had replaced the dryer with a one that I'd gotten from a different Goodwill in another city.
The Goodwill stores around here lately have gotten kind of boutiquey. There's one in particular that only carries clothes and decorative housewares--no toys, no books, no movies or music and very little in the way of appliances or electronics and certainly no vacuums. I think they must triage their donated goods and send the stuff they don't want to the Goodwill Outlet downtown where they sell it by the pound. | ||
| Post# 430517 , Reply# 4 8/23/2020 at 22:50 (1,334 days old) by Lesinutah (Utah) | ||
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Post# 430519 , Reply# 5 8/23/2020 at 23:18 (1,334 days old) by electrolux137 (Los Angeles) |
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~ A Goodwill store in the San Fernando Valley used to have a huge "as is" yard full of mountains of crap piled in large wooden bins. There was so much stuff that you couldn't even see what was there. They eventually cleared it out and closed that area off to the public. Just as well. It was the WORST kind of junk you could imagine. | ||
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Post# 430532 , Reply# 7 8/24/2020 at 08:46 (1,333 days old) by gottahaveahoove (Pittston, Pennsylvania, 18640) |
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I donated numerous items to Goodwill and Sally's
They would take forever to pick it up on my porch. It was awful. Some local places have decent things, depending on season, times, etc.
More of it is junk that anything worth wile. On Thursdays, when I worked in the Philadelphia burbs, I'd make my regular jaunt. I'd fine amazing things... lots of Hoover items as well. There's an old appliance store near me called Sugarman's. Well, it WAS an appliance store. Now, it's a vast thrift store flea market mall. I hadn't been there in decades. My friends from NY, Chris and Joel would stop there on their way to my mini meets. If you have the time, it's great. LOTS of stuff. It's open weekends only, all year long. | ||
| Post# 430535 , Reply# 8 8/24/2020 at 09:28 (1,333 days old) by Marks_here (_._) | ||
Working with HFH
They have gotten picky as to what is sellable and isn't. Inside the sorting area are huge bins where less desirable things get tossed into. Our store here doesn't take clothes but other sites will. Appliances are run & tested to make sure they work, wiped down but not cleaned real good then out to the sales floor. If appliances didn't work they were taken to a huge walk in dumpster for scrap where most things that were too hard to fix (most new appliances with mother boards that have gone out) or volunteers didn't want to mess with them. When I would go out on the truck we had the discretion of not taking things if they were too far gone or just junk. Every now & then someone would donate practically new appliances that came with a new house that they didn't like, a semi-new Maytag HE washer/dryer that were only 3yrs old we're going for $250/200 where they cost over $1000. There is one place here in town that takes everything even wiper blades that they sell. They don't take tv's with a tube in them or anything past 5yrs old that's electronic.
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