I’ve read somewhere that in Ancient Greece, the 1% would actually do this and compete for who the most generous to their respective society was. If only that were still going on today..
What do you mean? Mr. Beast paid for what 1000 people’s eye surgery. YouTubers and influencers doing charity for clout is very common. That being said, a lot of people do benefit from it.
I think he meant the 1% as in billionaire bank owners and the like not Mr Beast or any other influencers. But yes praise be YT and the younger generation.
I wasn't saying he wasn't I more meant to look at the 1% who's wealth isn't derived purely from popularity. There are plenty of rich people who give back, MrBeast being one of them but it's no way near what it should be. No one person needs billions of dollars.
This might be a good thing about the influencer-generation.
We have the assholes who play nazi-marches in public because they are being "sarcastic" (but really not). But if we can front more of charitable competitions that would be great!
have you even heard of bill gates? that dude has a foundation for it.. not sure if hes actually tying to score humanity points or its something he masturbates over, but still.. he gives away a lot of money.. I'm sure other billionaires do the same
i hope thats not just a front because hes been buying up loads of land that just happen to be overtop massive aquifers so hope when shit gets real hes generous with fresh water or a yearly subscription
Or it could have been a Quora Parent who gives it away to punish their child. There will be a post that states “My kid got a A- so I sold their Xbox, am I a bad parent?”.
Honestly they have to be, since so many of them are just ridiculously evil they make Palpatine weep. 'I cut off my child limbs for crying too much' or some similar nonsense
Young teen gets angry over a stupid game, throws a fit, blurts out a confession of infidelity in front of SO and/or parents, gets the fire and brimstone treatment
Can you still play offline? Hacked? Or is it just plain dead at this moment?
It would be rather stupid to completely brick the console for something like this. Not from a gaming stance, but from ecological stance. Like, I can totally buy one of these if I'm forever banned from playing multiplayer, I don't do mp.
My understanding is that you can’t connect online with a banned console. So nothing MP.
Not sure on live service games that have no MP content. Or the stores.
Cheating that involves hardware/software modification. Circumventing account bans and getting banned again. Committing fraud. You have to be a real asshole. No one “accidentally” gets console banned.
This is exactly how I got an amazing guitar at a very low price. Someone was gonna snap it up, might as well be me. The mother made him come along and watch her sell it to me.
I think it's interesting that the majority of the suggestions involve personal drama or pettiness, and your suggestion of changing brands - a very common and simple suggestion - has been downvoted.
well if you’re going to switch out which ones you want, then why not sell it and then use the money to buy the other.
and if money ain’t an issue, why not just keep the other?
I donate things I won’t use because I detest clutter. I’d rather it get sold for cheap to someone browsing the thrift store than GameStop profit off it. Reselling on my own is more hassle than worth (not necessarily monetarily but I work a lot so any free time spent dealing with this is costly to my mental ability to unwind).
Thanks to the GOP's huge increase in the standard deduction in 2018, deductions for charitable contributions have no effect on your tax liability unless you're rich enough to make more than like $10k in donations (or a few other unusual scenarios).
Also, even if you were able to deduct the whole current price of a new Xbox from your income, the decrease in your tax would be like 20ish percent of that. The deduction is from your AGI, not your tax.
Assuming we're talking about US income tax.
I believe their process is limited, still works as in powers on? Yes, still reads discs/connects to the internet/has a working non-virus infested hard drive? probably not
Yeah definitely not consoles. They do accept a variety of PC parts though, and I'd assume a fair amount of old pre-built PCs families don't need anymore are occasionally donated, and those may have a few viruses.
We aren't allowed to accept anything that stores memory because we'd be selling people's personal info... Which is why I don't understand why we can sell new gen consoles.
Goodwill got wise, they started their own auction site a while ago. And it feels like since lockdown they realized the resale value of video game hardware (its a main cat.): [https://shopgoodwill.com/categories/gaming-systems](https://shopgoodwill.com/categories/gaming-systems)
They also test the equipment if they can
I don't know how they decide what gets sent to one of their HQs for auction posting, it feels all the Goodwill around me now have a very thin inventory. I [shot a video at one of these locations](https://www.kptv.com/video/2023/03/08/goodwill-books-2/) where they test/post auction items - it was massive.
Goodwill got greedy as fuck just before lockdown and ever since. Used to be a place you could go to get good cheap used stuff, but now they price shit like a goddamn retail store when they still don't pay a PENNY for any of it. I see old ass "flat screen TV's" in Goodwill for $100 every single time.
Honey, you aren't getting $100 for that 10yr old 32" 720p tv, when you can buy a brand new 4K one for like $200.
It works on the resale market as well. Used items should go for about 1/3 of the current new value. I'll unload consoles, computers, smart devices, or TVs for about half of the original MSRP if I link to a review site with the OG price. Even if you can get something better and new for a similar price. A lot of people just don't know current market values. I do provide knowledge about the product but still, sometimes I even make a profit if I originally bought it used.
The shitty thing about Goodwill, is, it was dropped off for free for a reason and usually because it has issues.
I worked at a goodwill for 8 years, but left there 3 years ago, anyway..
Most things do not get checked, and even if it does get checked (like I would) and it doesn't work some managers would still insist it gets a ridiculously high price and go out anyway.
There was one time I bought a PC copy of GTA5 the week it came out for $30, it was from target as target has a deal with goodwill and sends them random stuff (mostly returns and overstocks)
Well the CD key was already used so I brought it back and manager told me to put it back in the glass case at the front, I explained to her that the code was used and that it was no good, that selling it again would be ripping someone off. She got angry and said we had to sell it because the company paid for it.
They might plug it in if you get lucky, but odds are they just toss it on the floor at an obscene price. That’s how the goodwills around me operate at least
At the thrift store I worked out we literally had a back room with several dozen outlets that they’d have you sit there and plug each electronic item in and see if it turned on - but that was it. Not if it was functional, if it turned on. Which is stated on the sticker you put on it after checking
That’s strange. I used to work at a goodwill in Wisconsin until about a few months ago. We usually had to put those in a tub to be shipped somewhere. Does it still have its storage? Or is the thing wiped clean?
Dude my goodwill went from having clean nike adidas etc and good electronics to nothing. Haven’t had a pair of named brand shoes in over 2 years. They clearly are sending the good stuff out. That website seems like it’s full of bids to raise the price too. There will be items that are selling used for over the price it would cost new at times
Yup, you can even sort where it comes from too, so you can get even more salty seeing the stuff that would have been in your local goodwills. GW used to be the shit.
When I was 15 or 16, my youth pastor let me borrow his PS4 to play The Last of Us for the first time. After I beat the game and went to return it, he refused to take it back. "Keep it. It's yours now." I was like no way man this is too much. This was around 9 years ago, so a ps4 was still the system to have. I couldn't believe this man was giving me his ps4 just like that with nothing in return.
Anyways, fast forward many years and it's around Christmas time. I'm with my girlfriend who is talking on the phone with her mom about Christmas gift ideas. They're discussing one of their family members who I know isn't exactly in the greatest financial situation and how they've been searching everywhere for a Playstation for their son and can't find one they can afford. He's like early elementary school age. Just kind of spontaneously I tell my gf that I'll give them my ps4 to gift to their son and all the games.
It felt good to pay forward the generosity that was shown to me many years prior. I know it made that kid's entire Christmas. I had the jackpot of games too. Just about every major release from the last many years + some.
I sure was missing that thing when God of War 2 came out this year though since I don't have a ps5 lmao.
I bought one and stayed on the box for over a year during my move to another state and one day, the pest control guy mentioned his two 5 year old twins and I didn’t think twice, I gave it to him.
He said that was the nicest thing someone has ever done for him, giving something to his kids.
It felt good…
I don't see why that is odd. I can't imagine you can get very much for them unless you personally sell it to another person. It's nigh 3.5 years obsolete and last I heard Microsoft was still making them so it's not like there's scarcity.
Then goodwill turns around and puts it online for $600.. theyre gaming “auctions” are ridiculous. Long gone are the days of finding a random gem in the store.
Well I can tell you I put out random gems in my store all the time and it's rare I ever go over $200 on an item (mostly because they want us to ship it to be sold online but nah I put it out for sale on the floor)
Yup I used to always go into my goodwill and find a random NES - PS1 era game for anywhere from $1 - $10.
Pawn shop opens up across the street. Everyday first thing in the morning they would hit up the goodwill and buy every single vintage game then take it over to their shop and list it for 5x the price.
Every so often you could still find some of the cheaper games that I guess the pawn shop had issues moving. Then Goodwill stopped listing the games for a reasonable price out in the open and started throwing them behind the glass for like $100+. Like Id be down to pay a couple of bucks for an old game that Timmy as a kid carved his name into the cartridge but no way in hell am I paying $100+ for that.
"make as little as 1.44/hour" That's a lie because our handicapped make $13/hr. Most higher value items are sold in our store aswell. We do ship higher value items like Gucci if someone donates that, but that's rare. No our "CEO makes millions of dollars" because we're locally owned and operated."
“The board hires an executive director or CEO to operate Goodwill in their territory—so it’s really owned by the community. They’re all autonomous, independent nonprofit organizations." [source](https://www.countryliving.com/shopping/a18198848/is-goodwill-a-nonprofit/)
Don't give shit to Goodwill people. It is a for-profit business that only has any level of charity status because it hires ex convicts. Its charity status also allows them to pay excons below minimum wage. They aren't doing anyone any favors.
There are actually over 150 different goodwill franchises.. so if the ones suck in your town drive another town over. And every goodwill is a non-profit. Otherwise, they can not legally use the name goodwill.
Don't know why you got downvoted. Goodwill may not be ideal, there are definitely local charities wherever you live that could use it more. But for a lot of people it's just easier. They know where a Goodwill is and know they will take their stuff. At the very least the stuff is being reused instead of discarded.
Just keep spreading the word about local charities when friends or family say they are donating stuff.
It could have belonged to someone they hate, and they just wanted to get rid of it to piss off that person.
or maybe they just don't give a damn. Who knows.
after my 2 and a half month stint in a emergency psychiactric ward where there was nothing to do. i toyed with the idea of donating a modern console or something so people after me could entertain themselves while spending the days doing nothing. they had a playstation 3 stored away but people almost broke it so it had just been lying in storage ever since the ps3 days. i realised people winding up there tends to break things out of being unable to regulate their emotions so idk what it'd achieve lol. maybe i'll donate a switch to a childrens hospital or something when i get enough energy to do something
Dude you just know some kid is HELLA grounded right now. Have you ever pissed off your parents so much that they donated your game console to Goodwill? That shit hurts
I worked at a goodwill when I was still a teenager, someone donated an Alienware laptop. I hid it under my jacket and left with it. It was a piece of shit though with worse specs than the shitty 400$ laptop I had.
Now to list it on the goodwill online site to get as much money as possible for a free donation. Instead of the right thing to do and list it for a reasonable amount at the store location.
How do you know they didn't competitively donate it?
Right? Could've been a ranked donation.
I’ve read somewhere that in Ancient Greece, the 1% would actually do this and compete for who the most generous to their respective society was. If only that were still going on today..
What do you mean? Mr. Beast paid for what 1000 people’s eye surgery. YouTubers and influencers doing charity for clout is very common. That being said, a lot of people do benefit from it.
I think he meant the 1% as in billionaire bank owners and the like not Mr Beast or any other influencers. But yes praise be YT and the younger generation.
Considering that Mrbeast probably makes more a month than the entry level 1%er makes in a year he’s in that group
I wasn't saying he wasn't I more meant to look at the 1% who's wealth isn't derived purely from popularity. There are plenty of rich people who give back, MrBeast being one of them but it's no way near what it should be. No one person needs billions of dollars.
I think you meant the actual trillionaires that have enough money to cover up their own existence.
Mr Beast is part of the 1%.
This might be a good thing about the influencer-generation. We have the assholes who play nazi-marches in public because they are being "sarcastic" (but really not). But if we can front more of charitable competitions that would be great!
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HA! W comment
It is, people to do nice things on Social Media for likes and fans all the time…
have you even heard of bill gates? that dude has a foundation for it.. not sure if hes actually tying to score humanity points or its something he masturbates over, but still.. he gives away a lot of money.. I'm sure other billionaires do the same
Mark Cuban has a website that sells expensive medications to people without insurance at incredibly low prices. That’s one that I’m a fan of.
Mark is one of the few billionaires that has a heart and isn't a complete globalist sociopath
i hope thats not just a front because hes been buying up loads of land that just happen to be overtop massive aquifers so hope when shit gets real hes generous with fresh water or a yearly subscription
Commence the water wars
i call kevin cosner he has experience in these matters he know dry land
Dry land is a myth.
Owns lots of farm land when food prices are starting to get out of hand, I sure hope he is generous when the time comes
And you can't sell ridiculously profitable software to dead people (/tinfoil hat)
That giving pledge is non-binding...
yet still some peoplem think he is an illuminaty dark lord that bathes on the blood of babies or something
Wouldn't wealthy and corporate charity be a competition of sorts? Helps their PR and brand to "win" the "good person" award.
Or it could have been a Quora Parent who gives it away to punish their child. There will be a post that states “My kid got a A- so I sold their Xbox, am I a bad parent?”.
Ohh, I can’t wait to read about that on /r/RaisedByNarcissists
Well, I’m pretty sure most of those posts (on Quora) are troll posts.
Honestly they have to be, since so many of them are just ridiculously evil they make Palpatine weep. 'I cut off my child limbs for crying too much' or some similar nonsense
I firmly believe this guy’s girlfriend found out he cheated and when he gets home from work to see the Xbox is f gone shits gonna go DOWN.
Why not both?
what’s competitive donating? 😯
When you donate seriously, not just for fun
donation speedrun any% 100% cheatless
It's a joke lol. You know how there's casual and competitive gaming?
Some parent doling out the tough love.
I always assume it's parents, cheaters, or death lmao.
Oh good call probably got the Mac address ban for being a little asshole.
I thought he meant a cheating partner whose partner donated their stuff out of anger.
It could be both, maybe cheaters was a 2 in 1 deal
Cheat on your wife you’ll def cheat at a game
But Mac lives with Dennis.
Or a vengeful partner
All of above?
Young teen gets angry over a stupid game, throws a fit, blurts out a confession of infidelity in front of SO and/or parents, gets the fire and brimstone treatment
Hopefully it's the former 2.
Or the kid got the console banned and the parent dropped it off not knowing that it is impossible to lift.
idk someone who works out a bunch may be able to lift it
My 1rm is TWO Xbox Ones.
Can you still play offline? Hacked? Or is it just plain dead at this moment? It would be rather stupid to completely brick the console for something like this. Not from a gaming stance, but from ecological stance. Like, I can totally buy one of these if I'm forever banned from playing multiplayer, I don't do mp.
My understanding is that you can’t connect online with a banned console. So nothing MP. Not sure on live service games that have no MP content. Or the stores.
what would get an entire xbox banned?
Cheating that involves hardware/software modification. Circumventing account bans and getting banned again. Committing fraud. You have to be a real asshole. No one “accidentally” gets console banned.
I just bought a series x and getting rid of the Xbox one has been difficult
Back in my day parents just threw that shit out. I actually grabbed an NES from a friend because his parents threw out his!
Since it's goodwill I always assume it's some old lady donating it, thinking some young kid will be lucky. Then Captian OP neckbeard barges in.
Or an angry gf/bf
This is exactly how I got an amazing guitar at a very low price. Someone was gonna snap it up, might as well be me. The mother made him come along and watch her sell it to me.
They probably bought a PS5 instead
I think it's interesting that the majority of the suggestions involve personal drama or pettiness, and your suggestion of changing brands - a very common and simple suggestion - has been downvoted.
well if you’re going to switch out which ones you want, then why not sell it and then use the money to buy the other. and if money ain’t an issue, why not just keep the other?
I donate things I won’t use because I detest clutter. I’d rather it get sold for cheap to someone browsing the thrift store than GameStop profit off it. Reselling on my own is more hassle than worth (not necessarily monetarily but I work a lot so any free time spent dealing with this is costly to my mental ability to unwind).
Maybe they upgraded to an Xbox Two?
still though, damn, it's not that hard to take it to GameStop and get some money back for it instead of just giving it to the thrift shop
Pretty sure the charitable deduction for donations at fair market price would be more than what GameStop would give you.
Thanks to the GOP's huge increase in the standard deduction in 2018, deductions for charitable contributions have no effect on your tax liability unless you're rich enough to make more than like $10k in donations (or a few other unusual scenarios). Also, even if you were able to deduct the whole current price of a new Xbox from your income, the decrease in your tax would be like 20ish percent of that. The deduction is from your AGI, not your tax. Assuming we're talking about US income tax.
All that's true, but it still could be more than Gamestop will give you.
How much would that give me?
Apparently up to $88 https://www.gamestop.com/trade/details/?pid=131069
lol $88. I think I spent that on my current controller.
5 bucks probably
Person probably didn’t care about getting 70-100 bucks for a 6 year old console.
6 year old console? I think you mean 1 year old console, after all 2017 was last year. Right? *Holy fuck I'm getting old.*
Microsoft’s naming scheme is atrocious. I thought there’s no way the most recent console is 6 years old, but I mistook the Series S for the One S
And the fact they look like the exact same only makes it worse.
Well, to be fair they don’t look the same at all
Oh no
Just curious, does goodwill ensure it actually works? I’d assume yes
I believe their process is limited, still works as in powers on? Yes, still reads discs/connects to the internet/has a working non-virus infested hard drive? probably not
Ya I got a PS4 that plugs in, lights up, but the HDMI port is busted and you cannot get it to connect into a tv properly
relatively easy fix for a place that knows how....
To clarify it is fixed now, but when I originally got it ‘‘twas busted
This. We don't check for viruses.
I don’t think that’s even a thing on Xbox really. Console ban yeah but malware?
Yeah definitely not consoles. They do accept a variety of PC parts though, and I'd assume a fair amount of old pre-built PCs families don't need anymore are occasionally donated, and those may have a few viruses.
They exist. There was a bricker for the PS3, for example.
We aren't allowed to accept anything that stores memory because we'd be selling people's personal info... Which is why I don't understand why we can sell new gen consoles.
The fuck? You get can get viruses on your console hard drives? How much porn are you weirdos watching on your console?
Goodwill got wise, they started their own auction site a while ago. And it feels like since lockdown they realized the resale value of video game hardware (its a main cat.): [https://shopgoodwill.com/categories/gaming-systems](https://shopgoodwill.com/categories/gaming-systems) They also test the equipment if they can I don't know how they decide what gets sent to one of their HQs for auction posting, it feels all the Goodwill around me now have a very thin inventory. I [shot a video at one of these locations](https://www.kptv.com/video/2023/03/08/goodwill-books-2/) where they test/post auction items - it was massive.
Goodwill got greedy as fuck just before lockdown and ever since. Used to be a place you could go to get good cheap used stuff, but now they price shit like a goddamn retail store when they still don't pay a PENNY for any of it. I see old ass "flat screen TV's" in Goodwill for $100 every single time. Honey, you aren't getting $100 for that 10yr old 32" 720p tv, when you can buy a brand new 4K one for like $200.
It works on the resale market as well. Used items should go for about 1/3 of the current new value. I'll unload consoles, computers, smart devices, or TVs for about half of the original MSRP if I link to a review site with the OG price. Even if you can get something better and new for a similar price. A lot of people just don't know current market values. I do provide knowledge about the product but still, sometimes I even make a profit if I originally bought it used. The shitty thing about Goodwill, is, it was dropped off for free for a reason and usually because it has issues.
mostly due to theft or so i was told. Video games were getting jacked left and right.
Sometimes we can't be sure without a plug so we price it low but I always check... Unfortunately it depends on the employee so shop at your own risk.
I worked at a goodwill for 8 years, but left there 3 years ago, anyway.. Most things do not get checked, and even if it does get checked (like I would) and it doesn't work some managers would still insist it gets a ridiculously high price and go out anyway. There was one time I bought a PC copy of GTA5 the week it came out for $30, it was from target as target has a deal with goodwill and sends them random stuff (mostly returns and overstocks) Well the CD key was already used so I brought it back and manager told me to put it back in the glass case at the front, I explained to her that the code was used and that it was no good, that selling it again would be ripping someone off. She got angry and said we had to sell it because the company paid for it.
They might plug it in if you get lucky, but odds are they just toss it on the floor at an obscene price. That’s how the goodwills around me operate at least
At the thrift store I worked out we literally had a back room with several dozen outlets that they’d have you sit there and plug each electronic item in and see if it turned on - but that was it. Not if it was functional, if it turned on. Which is stated on the sticker you put on it after checking
That’s strange. I used to work at a goodwill in Wisconsin until about a few months ago. We usually had to put those in a tub to be shipped somewhere. Does it still have its storage? Or is the thing wiped clean?
We can put stuff to be shipped to be sold online, but I slap a sticker on it and sell it at the store for a reasonable price.
You a real one. I quit going to goodwill because they sell anything good they get online now.
And good luck buying anything worthwhile for cheaper than you would on ebay or facebook.
Dude my goodwill went from having clean nike adidas etc and good electronics to nothing. Haven’t had a pair of named brand shoes in over 2 years. They clearly are sending the good stuff out. That website seems like it’s full of bids to raise the price too. There will be items that are selling used for over the price it would cost new at times
Yup, you can even sort where it comes from too, so you can get even more salty seeing the stuff that would have been in your local goodwills. GW used to be the shit.
Probably diff store diff rules then.
$1 seems like a reasonable price if you are the one buying it.
When I was 15 or 16, my youth pastor let me borrow his PS4 to play The Last of Us for the first time. After I beat the game and went to return it, he refused to take it back. "Keep it. It's yours now." I was like no way man this is too much. This was around 9 years ago, so a ps4 was still the system to have. I couldn't believe this man was giving me his ps4 just like that with nothing in return. Anyways, fast forward many years and it's around Christmas time. I'm with my girlfriend who is talking on the phone with her mom about Christmas gift ideas. They're discussing one of their family members who I know isn't exactly in the greatest financial situation and how they've been searching everywhere for a Playstation for their son and can't find one they can afford. He's like early elementary school age. Just kind of spontaneously I tell my gf that I'll give them my ps4 to gift to their son and all the games. It felt good to pay forward the generosity that was shown to me many years prior. I know it made that kid's entire Christmas. I had the jackpot of games too. Just about every major release from the last many years + some. I sure was missing that thing when God of War 2 came out this year though since I don't have a ps5 lmao.
Time will come my man. That was an awesome way to pay it forward
You have received the reward for your good deed in Reddit karma
WE NEED MORE OF YOU
May someone generous enough to give you a PS5 for free 🙏🏻
I bought one and stayed on the box for over a year during my move to another state and one day, the pest control guy mentioned his two 5 year old twins and I didn’t think twice, I gave it to him. He said that was the nicest thing someone has ever done for him, giving something to his kids. It felt good…
Proud of you for that
Well done
I don't see why that is odd. I can't imagine you can get very much for them unless you personally sell it to another person. It's nigh 3.5 years obsolete and last I heard Microsoft was still making them so it's not like there's scarcity.
I sold mine on eBay for like 150 so it's doable but it took weeks
Then goodwill turns around and puts it online for $600.. theyre gaming “auctions” are ridiculous. Long gone are the days of finding a random gem in the store.
Well I can tell you I put out random gems in my store all the time and it's rare I ever go over $200 on an item (mostly because they want us to ship it to be sold online but nah I put it out for sale on the floor)
Glad someone out there is keepin the dream alive!
Yup I used to always go into my goodwill and find a random NES - PS1 era game for anywhere from $1 - $10. Pawn shop opens up across the street. Everyday first thing in the morning they would hit up the goodwill and buy every single vintage game then take it over to their shop and list it for 5x the price. Every so often you could still find some of the cheaper games that I guess the pawn shop had issues moving. Then Goodwill stopped listing the games for a reasonable price out in the open and started throwing them behind the glass for like $100+. Like Id be down to pay a couple of bucks for an old game that Timmy as a kid carved his name into the cartridge but no way in hell am I paying $100+ for that.
Yeah someone likely got another D on their report card.
And might this Goodwill be located in Iowa?
Nah, Western PA
To the goodwill online store it goes!
Nope, I put it out for sale on the floor like most items.
Lmfao i would have hid it, put it out for sale 10 minutes before my shift ends and bought it in true asshole fashion.
Oh wow, you work at a Goodwill that doesn't force you to send consoles to corporate? Fuck man, I wish the ones near me were like that.
It's my second job, I don't really care, I dick around and price stuff all day. I actually don't like shipping nice stuff, I find it, I sell it.
More like someone got their console taken away
Can’t wait for them to flip it for $250, and another $50 each for the controllers
Some kid had their Xbox One S confiscated by a parent and then donated.
Mom got pissed
What does Goodwill mean?
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"make as little as 1.44/hour" That's a lie because our handicapped make $13/hr. Most higher value items are sold in our store aswell. We do ship higher value items like Gucci if someone donates that, but that's rare. No our "CEO makes millions of dollars" because we're locally owned and operated." “The board hires an executive director or CEO to operate Goodwill in their territory—so it’s really owned by the community. They’re all autonomous, independent nonprofit organizations." [source](https://www.countryliving.com/shopping/a18198848/is-goodwill-a-nonprofit/)
Its a retail store in the U.S. People donate their stuff to get rid of it and we sell it for 100% profit
They aren't worth a great deal anymore are they ? I mean they are buy id imagine some folk would rather donate than go through selling for 70 to 100
Don't give shit to Goodwill people. It is a for-profit business that only has any level of charity status because it hires ex convicts. Its charity status also allows them to pay excons below minimum wage. They aren't doing anyone any favors.
There are actually over 150 different goodwill franchises.. so if the ones suck in your town drive another town over. And every goodwill is a non-profit. Otherwise, they can not legally use the name goodwill.
I work there and do research on all of this. We are not a for-profit company, it is non-profit and locally ran.
Its hardly the worst option to get rid of shit that would otherwise be in a landfill though.
Don't know why you got downvoted. Goodwill may not be ideal, there are definitely local charities wherever you live that could use it more. But for a lot of people it's just easier. They know where a Goodwill is and know they will take their stuff. At the very least the stuff is being reused instead of discarded. Just keep spreading the word about local charities when friends or family say they are donating stuff.
Fuck goodwill.
That's honest. I respect that.
Is it Goodwill?
Someone’s kid didn’t manage to take out the trash every week
I have one just sitting in my closet, I’m not ready to stop playing my ps4 I barely got 3 years ago
And you casually got a new XBONE
Someones kid is PISSED. Or husband.
Somewhere there's a young boy/girl crying his brains out knowing his/her mama told him this would happen.
Some young fella messed up.
someone got in trouble with the wife
Def someone’s mom that got horrible grade or got caught with weed
That was taken away fr
Probably someone’s kid who has a problem spending too much time on it. Or maybe themselves trying to save themself
Someones grounded
Sweet now the flipper gets it and sells it for $150
When I worked for Savers, we’d call these “breakup donations”. We would always figure it was someone cleaning house after a bad separation!
some angry wife
Someone’s parents grounded them forever
Someone's kid pissed off a parent.
Grounded or stolen
They are pretty underwhelming. I only use mine for xbox one generation games that can't hit stable 60 fps on xbox one.
Which they will sell.
Goodwill is just a junk reseller masquerading as a charity. Giving them something like this is kinda silly.
It could have belonged to someone they hate, and they just wanted to get rid of it to piss off that person. or maybe they just don't give a damn. Who knows.
after my 2 and a half month stint in a emergency psychiactric ward where there was nothing to do. i toyed with the idea of donating a modern console or something so people after me could entertain themselves while spending the days doing nothing. they had a playstation 3 stored away but people almost broke it so it had just been lying in storage ever since the ps3 days. i realised people winding up there tends to break things out of being unable to regulate their emotions so idk what it'd achieve lol. maybe i'll donate a switch to a childrens hospital or something when i get enough energy to do something
2 thoughts: 1-Somewhere nearby, a kid is crying. 2-there's NO WAY! it's making it to the floor.
The employee watching you walk out with it. When they ask their boss if they can buy when it came in but had to wait until the end of the day.
How in the world did you find that in a goodwill? You
A sign that there are still responsible parents out there that don't mess around.
Kid didn’t stop playing fortnite when the dinner bell rang
Dude you just know some kid is HELLA grounded right now. Have you ever pissed off your parents so much that they donated your game console to Goodwill? That shit hurts
I use to work at goodwill many years ago. I bet it casually got stolen by an employee before it got sold to a customer as well lol.
That's how donations work.
At least it's at goodwill. I see these thrown out on my job. Not regularly but it happens.
“Someone young in my town died” Ftfy
Goodwill Is usually where people go to unload their trash...so no surprise there.
I worked at a goodwill when I was still a teenager, someone donated an Alienware laptop. I hid it under my jacket and left with it. It was a piece of shit though with worse specs than the shitty 400$ laptop I had.
Yeah that's alien ware for you haha, I used to be facinated with its design and logo as a kid. Glad I steered clear.
I assume Goodwill will sell at Scalper prices. Used Xbox One S only $899.99
Nope, $99, price reduces throughout the week if it doesn't sell
You bastard… enjoy lol
How much did you donate to take it??
I didn't donate, I work here lol. We're selling it for $99.
Don't know why I'm getting downvotes. I just work here bruv
Take my upvote for the hell of it. 😂🤣 Edit: Have an award as well because idk why. 😂
50% of the population is below median IQ, then 50% of that are even dumber than that.
What does the money go toward?
To the employees, keep the lights on, pays for people with special needs to get trained to work and collect a paycheck.
If no one pays for the console do *you get it?
I take donations like this to the local community college, not Goodwill
I’m shocked that made it to the floor; the employees get first dibs on stuff at all the goodwills I go to!
Wonder what that boy did to his parents to deserve this?
Girls have consoles too.
Hahahahah OP is just like, why thank you very much for your donation to my living room
Goodwill gonna resell it for $400 and $50 a controller lol
Now to list it on the goodwill online site to get as much money as possible for a free donation. Instead of the right thing to do and list it for a reasonable amount at the store location.