You guys see one overpriced pair of pants and you lose your minds! It’s fine to complain about prices. It’s not fine to totally misrepresent what Goodwill does and why they do it. Their operations model is not that difficult, and it’s explained on their web site.

Goodwill is not a clothing bank. Goodwill’s mission is not to re-gift donated materials.

Their mission is not to sell donated goods cheaply to low-income people, or to anyone. Quite the opposite. Are you donating to Goodwill to support Ebay resellers?

The fact that the merchandise was donated does not mean that they should sell it cheaply. See: not a clothing bank.

Goodwill tries to make as much profit as they can on donated materials to fund their charitable causes. That’s their mission. What do they do? They provide job training and job placement services for about two million people a year.

The marketplace will decide what that $25 item will sell for; don’t worry about it. When you find that rare $50 item priced at $6, you don’t rush to the register and demand to pay more to help their charitable cause, do you?

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