Could be a ripoff - but a lot of people give away a fortune to Goodwill not knowing what they’ve given away something valuable...same with things they sell at yard sales.
“Could be a ripoff - but a lot of people give away a fortune to Goodwill not knowing what they’ve given away something valuable...same with things they sell at yard sales.”
This happens all of the time. In my hobbies, I’ve seen items you might toss in the garbage go for four figures on shopgoodwill.com. Some people at Goodwill have sharp eyes/expert knowledge of some types of items.
Come to think of it, I personally bought something maybe 10 years ago at a Goodwill store that is worth on eBay maybe 50 times what I paid for it. I didn’t and don’t feel guilty about it at all. OTOH, we donate several hundred dollars worth of good clothing a year to them. So, in the big picture, it’s all good.
I and my wife are both retired professionals (pharmacist and she a computer engineer). We also have an antique store to keep us busy. We do prowl the thrift shops etc. On occasion we find things that are much under priced to their true value. We buy them and we then sell them.
Once in a bag of costume jewelry we found a valuable diamond ring. That was a good day. It takes time and patience and knowledge to do this. We have also sold things at far less than their value of which we determined later.
It is called business.
Indeed. One.man’s trash is another man’s treasure.
Yep!
I use to sell on ebay, selling ‘stuff’ that I bought Cheaply from various antique shops and thrift stores
Picked up a Rooster thing one day, not knowing what it was and I assume that the owner either.
Paid $25.00.
Took it home and while looking through one of my antique values books ... Low and behold, there it was, in pictures big as life!
A Rooster cocktail shaker valued at $2,500.00!
It sold for $1,700!
Nice profit of which I had many more like that!