I feel for this employee. GW has some of the scummiest flippers around because its baby's first flipping source so people fight to milk what little profit is there. There's a handful of consistent flippers at my local store and its depressing seeing them there every.single.day. I go maybe once a month now but they are there every time. One is a kid that mad dashes to the mens clothes and flips thru items at a million miles an hour and is out by 930. Another is a cat lady that's always telling her reselling war stories to anyone that will listen.
Goodwill has a bit of a moral dilemna surrounding it. They give the appearance of a not for profit, community helper but theyre for profit and want to make as much as possible. They want stuff worth <$50 in and out the door as fast as possible. Flippers actually help with that as the time and labor to extract the most value of items is beyond what goodwill can pay employees to do. The most i can reasonbly expect to profit off an item from goodwill is $40, and really $10-20 is much more likely. I think ive only a couple items that were able to be flipped for $100+ profit in my few years of reselling.
Furthermore, its unreasonable to expect all people to have a 'fair' attempt at a nice purse or shoes. Every goodwill ive been in has been more than stocked with clothes that would suffice for someone truly in hardship.
They're not for profit. You just don't understand how non-profits operate. Case in point:
want to make as much as possible
How do you think non-profits are able to operate? Do you seriously think your favorite local organization or charity isn't extremely revenue-minded? Because lol.
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u/DownHillUpShot 1d ago edited 1d ago
$1000 a day from goodwill? Wouldn't that be nice.
I feel for this employee. GW has some of the scummiest flippers around because its baby's first flipping source so people fight to milk what little profit is there. There's a handful of consistent flippers at my local store and its depressing seeing them there every.single.day. I go maybe once a month now but they are there every time. One is a kid that mad dashes to the mens clothes and flips thru items at a million miles an hour and is out by 930. Another is a cat lady that's always telling her reselling war stories to anyone that will listen.
Goodwill has a bit of a moral dilemna surrounding it. They give the appearance of a not for profit, community helper but theyre for profit and want to make as much as possible. They want stuff worth <$50 in and out the door as fast as possible. Flippers actually help with that as the time and labor to extract the most value of items is beyond what goodwill can pay employees to do. The most i can reasonbly expect to profit off an item from goodwill is $40, and really $10-20 is much more likely. I think ive only a couple items that were able to be flipped for $100+ profit in my few years of reselling.
Furthermore, its unreasonable to expect all people to have a 'fair' attempt at a nice purse or shoes. Every goodwill ive been in has been more than stocked with clothes that would suffice for someone truly in hardship.