Evidently DickfaceTAS missed the fact that the items being donated were supposed to be made available back out to the community at an affordable price to help better the community itself, helping give people access to items they would not otherwise be able to afford, while taking the proceeds they make and putting whats left over after covering operating expenses towards education and employment programs and helping the needy.
Goodwill stores are not just supposed to be there as a pure profit making mechanism. The issue is though that now Goodwill has been restructuring and changing their management and worker mentality, and their sales ethics have gone to shit. Where as you used to have like their clearance centers that charge by the pound on some items, they would be organized and clean. However the one I visited had the bins being a disorganized mess, and many of them had dangerous items in them like busted camcorders, expired and leaking batteries, and broken glass and other sharp objects making it unsafe to look for items.
Between that, the constant gouging of items prices int he normal stores, not just including the video game related ones mind you, it has just gotten to be a pretty bad situation in general. People who could, and can afford the "luxury" items no longer will buy them due to the jacked up price, and people in need, on low incomes, poor, homeless, blah blah blah, who actually need the other items like kitchenware, clothing, etc, can no longer afford the hiked up prices either because now they price obviously used items at close to new retail prices. Anymore dealing with Goodwill now is like dealing with a hoarder who is forced into holding a garage sale, not wanting to let go of anything, so they are pricing everything for more then anyone would ever normally be willing to pay unless they simply don't know better.
What they don't realize is eventually this will run them into the ground. Their main customer base is mostly made up of people in need of
affordable used items. These same people can always buy used clothes elsewhere, like on ebay itself, Salvation Army, Savers, yard sales, etc. Burning bridges with your main customer base will just make you in turn jack up prices higher to try to compensate for lost business, and the more they do that, the more customers they will lose until heads finally roll in management and a new price restructuring takes place. I guess it would take a totally moronic a$$hole like DickfaceTAS to miss the point of all of this though.
Also, notice the sudden rise in complaints over the past couple of years?
http://www.ripoffreport.com/directory/goodwill-industries.aspx
