A woman who bought a glass vase for $3.99 at a local Goodwill charity shop has seen the piece auctioned off for more than $100,000 after it turned out to be a rare and valuable piece of Italian glassware.
Jessica Vincent had bought the item at a Goodwill thrift store in Hanover county, Virginia, and had an inkling that it might have been worth a little more than was usual, she told the New York Times.
“I had a sense that it might be a $1,000 or $2,000 piece, but I had no clue how good it actually was until I did a little bit more research,” she told the paper after noticing a small ‘M’ on its bottom which she suspected might stand for Murano, an Italian island near Venice famed for glasswork.
This makes me think of the gold shoes that a thrift store recognized and sold for $20k. I’d much rather that money go to the shop than that lady.
Thrift stores in America are usually corporate and not for charity. Or, they pretend to be charities (but aren’t)
Goodwill is fucking evil.
Forgive my ignorance, why is goodwill evil?
There’s a lot that I could say, but it simply boils down to them always favoring their corporate and ceo’s interests over their charitable ones.
Their ceo (and branch ceo’s) make obscene amounts of money.
Theres also that case and probably even more about an autistic woman being paid like less than 25c an hour.
Probably “evil” isn’t the right word, but they absolutely do not have “good-will”
I can’t look at their advertising without finding the company gross and exploitative. Every single ad is filled with people with developmental disabilities and it has this imagery of “Look at us, if it weren’t for Goodwill these people would be nowhere”. It comes off like they’re using these people as mascots and it weirds me out.
On top of that, their prices are garbage anymore. Might as well buy them all new! My local thrift store is so much better.
Are you…somehow unaware of how appallingly vile Goodwill is???