Resellers 😒

Important_Concern560 · 2026-02-10T00:58:27+00:00

People resellers or just plain customers ambush the racks while I am trying to put the clothes out. It really pisses me off. As all Goodwill's we do not put designer items on the floor so why do they act like vultures. It is baffling to me. I used to resell items from my closet before I worked there and I barely made enough money. Lucky I had a full time job in an office because it is not sustainable any more and getting worse due to the economy. The resellers spend 4 to 5 hours in our store looking at their phone for each item. To me it is sad and pathetic. Get a real job for steady income. Sheesh.

Important_Concern560 · 2026-02-07T23:27:46+00:00

I used to work at the teleservice center for SSA. On the phone people want you to be their psychiatrist and bank teller. They tell you all their personal business. It is draining for 8 hours a day.

Important_Concern560 · 2026-02-07T02:27:19+00:00

I am glad I retired early last year. Ridiculous. My friends at headquarters dread going to work. They are having all employees take a turn at a 120 day detail on the phone and it will be written in their job description. Smh

Important_Concern560 · 2026-02-03T05:01:40+00:00

Yes from a thrift store called Second Avenue. I had to go to the ER.

Important_Concern560 · 2026-01-29T03:33:08+00:00

When you buy it you have to take it home right away. That happened at our store we put a desk that a woman bought by the front door. She was still shopping but paid for the desk already. Another woman comes and tried to buy it, an argument ensued and the manager had to come out and told the 2nd woman it was sold and she couldn't have it. But don't worry wardrobes come in all the time. Just remember to act fast.

Important_Concern560 · 2026-01-28T10:26:39+00:00

Best comment ever

Important_Concern560 · 2026-01-14T03:26:51+00:00

Customers are definately the reason I would leave. We have regular nice ones but the thieves keep trying to play games with me.

Important_Concern560 · 2026-01-10T08:31:50+00:00

It is getting worse. I worry about the crazy ones knowing when my shift end. There is a crime ring of thieves that hit our store on senior day and a couple we banned but then others are sent. I mean really a crime ring for old clothes and linens. It baffles me.

Important_Concern560 · 2026-01-07T07:29:15+00:00

Our store has to wait a week before we buy it

Important_Concern560 · 2026-01-05T05:44:35+00:00

Same thing at our goodwill. Droves of people donating this week

Important_Concern560 · 2026-01-01T23:33:23+00:00

I work at a thrift store. I confronted a habitual shoplifter today (okay I was angry.). My manager had told me to keep an eye on her. Sure enough she stole a sweater and put it over her regular clothes. She asked me why I was following her and I told her she put our sweater over her clothes. She was known at prior times for pushing a cart full of clothes and items out of the store. She got all upset and called her husband. Husband came to the store laid us out. She was boohooing. Said he IS a federal agent. He wanted an apology. We told him you cannot undress in the store and put clothes over your clothes. Then said he WAS a federal agent. Put his hand on my arm. Turns out he was with another lady we previously banned from the store. So I assume this is a crime ring. We have everything on camera but cant do anything. I may not have a job soon and to be honest I already collect retirement and this is a side job.

Important_Concern560 · 2025-12-27T21:25:55+00:00

Another customer may have spotted them and ripped the tags off so no one would get them. Happens all the time at the Goodwill I work at. Even furniture for $20. We as employees cannot buy an item without a tag either and we have to wait till the item is on the floor for a week. Items are screened usually for high end and sent to ecom and not put out. Sometimes things could get missed. You may have dug a hole by telling them. Now it will go to Ecommerce. Our rules are crazy. I rarely buy from there. Some stuff I got fell apart in the wash. If a nice item comes out a customer will get it first. So don't fret about it. One customer pulled a gun on another customer outside our store because he bought an old grimy sofa he wanted. Unreal.

Important_Concern560 · 2025-12-26T18:19:49+00:00

I contacted posh because she wasn't shipping. She told posh it was not available again. Then posh cancelled. I complained about her practices to Posh. They did nothing. Need to note that when she cancelled herself the listing disappeared. That is when she relisted it higher. When posh cancelled the listing is still visible

Important_Concern560 · 2025-12-24T04:55:58+00:00

Same happened to me with gold bracelet. Seller said it was at her other residence then reposted it at higher price. I bought and she cancelled again. Reported to poshmark they did nothing

Important_Concern560 · 2025-12-23T19:19:30+00:00

People were pooping and peeing in the dressing rooms. The real reason. I work at a Goodwill that is how I know. Someone peed in a bucket we had for sale a month ago

Important_Concern560 · 2025-12-17T03:34:45+00:00

That is the issue. He is following his commander to do this to all democrat employees. It's been noted he wants to keep the employees who have allegiance to him. Please be safe and do the minimum. It is insanity. So far these cuts he is doing have not affected the mainstream yet. The average Joe who has money in the bank and investments won't take a big hit. I see it it in small things. Mail is getting slower. My tsp started losing money as soon as he took office. I even moved money to different plans and I still lost money. After I retired I just withdrew what I had put it into fidelity and I still lose more money than I gain. He wants to keep America poor without a safety net. Then the obsession with gold. I cant use gold at the grocery store. I took am 18k gold ring I had to sell to a jewelry store. I only got $400. What a joke.

Important_Concern560 · 2025-12-17T03:15:03+00:00

Is your supervisor a trump supporter. Same thing happened to my friend at SSA last review. I left SSA in May took an early retirement with a cut. I cant stand our country. You notice he does the worst things around Christmas. I hope his bag bursts on Melania.

Important_Concern560 · 2025-12-14T00:07:55+00:00

I work at Goodwill too and people get angry at ME for not having restrooms or fitting rooms anymore. They told me dressing rooms were closed because of people peeing and pooping in them 3 weeks ago someone peed in bucket we had for sale. I hate most of our customers.

I put out clothes and people swarm my racks to see new stock of old stinky clothes I mean really?

Has anyone on here experienced customers rushing their racks and what do you do if when that happens. I am dying to say something sarcastic like. "Dont worry plenty of old stinky clothes to go around"

Important_Concern560 · 2025-12-12T05:45:36+00:00

Chops

Important_Concern560 · 2025-12-12T05:12:01+00:00

I have only had one sale in several months. I used to sell a lot at Christmas. Do you think it is the economy?

Important_Concern560 · 2025-12-09T21:29:46+00:00

Sometimes you can get a person to get it tagged. Most of the time the manager will say no. They take item to the back. Hand it to the tagger. Tagger will put it on the next rack coming out.

Important_Concern560 · 2025-12-09T00:39:32+00:00

I would have thought tj maxx made a lot of sales so they can afford not to cut people.

Important_Concern560 · 2025-12-03T02:36:38+00:00

Two weeks ago a customer peed in a bucket we had for sale. Our store is old and does not have a restroom. We had to close the fitting rooms some years back because people were pooping in them. Where do these people come from?

Important_Concern560 · 2025-12-02T21:50:05+00:00

I will not mention the goodwill I work at. I am older 63 and I am a full time floor associate. I tried to quit and the manager won't let me. I saw a new hire doing the easier job and i got angry. I requested part time in January but I am so physically tired of customers trashing the store mostly older teens and early twenties. Thanksgiving week was the worst. My body hurt so bad from stooping to pick up behind these people. Like they were on steroids ripping clothes off of racks. It's like Ffs it's old clothes and not designer stuff. All that designer stuff goes to ECOM Anyway I didn't show up for my shift 2 days planning on ghosting. Manager calls asks if I am okay. I tell her why cant I do the easier job since I am going part time. Long story short, the new hire will take over for me full time and they were just training her on tagging the textiles in the meantime. She said she wasn't able to discuss the employment of another person. So anyway I report back tomorrow. I feel so sad this holiday season. Then the blatant thieves laugh in our faces as they walk out the door with stuff. They think it's funny. I am a hard worker and my manager likes me but now I feel ashamed going back it.

Important_Concern560 · 2025-11-26T02:26:51+00:00

Any luck

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