Are you pulling the half off items? 

I have nicknamed them Greedwill and I have no regrets.

Found Dolce and Gabbana jeans this week in a Goodwill, three pairs, marked $30 or $50. I was looking one of them over and one of the employees who is nearly full-time came over and tried to take them away from me and said "these aren't supposed to be there, they're supposed to go to e-com" (E-com is what they call it when they divert actual good stuff to sell on their e-commerce sites or on Ebay) and I said "Too bad, I have them in my hands, you'll have to forcibly take them from me physically if you want them" - she took the other two pairs and went into the back - she knows me and she knows I wasn't kidding. I didn't even want them, I was just so pissed that they are doing crap like this regularly. It's so rare that anything like that makes it way to the sales floor. Long story short, she was told to put them back on the rack by the main manager. (As if any regular shopper is going to pay $50 for them) - I looked them up and they weren't even that good on the secondary market and they were in pretty worn condition. It's kind of a symbol in my mind of how absolutely stupid Goodwill has become and how they're really trying to destroy their business. They could sell them for $20 even pretty quickly - maybe someone will buy them when they go half-off in a couple weeks. But I have a feeling these Dolce and Gabbana jeans are destined for the bins, which is INSANE if you think about it.

my goodwills are the same. Prices are outrageous. They also took away all coupon discounts here as of March for "system upgrades" including those for seniors and military. Customers were furious at the register. Also, noticed employees pulling all the half off items. Some of them put back on the racks still have the old color tag hanging off of it. It's total corporate greed at this point.

Yes Goodwills here start to remove the 50% off tags two days after they switch. They switch on Sunday and by Tuesday they're taking off the discount color tags and retagging them in the back already. I've complained every time I see them doing it. They don't care. Central Texas.

Confirmed by friends who work at the Goodwill store, state that on days of 50% off, they were instructed by the store manager to take the color tags that are 50% off to the back room but leave maybe 10-15% on the floor so no one can complain or noticed that the color tag on 50% sale is not available. They also do retag or change the prices.

Great video! I agree about Goodwill. I stick MOSTLY to local thrifts now. They always have 1/2 off days where I can get incredible deals, AND everything they make goes directly back to my local community. It’s a win-win for me.

You said " Goodwill is pricing us out". YES! I am in the process of phasing out goodwill and using goodwill outlets. I will use our local thrift.

I have also noticed store employees pulling the half off clothes when the store opens on Sunday when the color changes over. Thank you for bringing this up as it has been driving me crazy wondering why they are doing that.

I use to work at goodwill tagging clothes. They give us a list of prices and certain brands get marked up a $1 or $2. They are over flooded with donations. So they take down old inventory and put the clothes in a compactor in the back and send it to the bins. We didn’t do any retagging. Unfortunately a lot a lot of the hard goods just get thrown in the garbage. Which I thought was very sad.

Recently went to a Goodwill and the racks were OVERFLOWING. They wanted $20 for cheap no name Amazon crap and target dresses. I asked who did the pricing and the employee said the manager. They get their inventory for free. You'd think they would just price to sell for turn and burn. I just don't understand their business model.

Picking up less and less too because some thrift stores pricing up clothes. I dislike spring summer because clothing is less substantial and often brings less profit. I am picking up more linens and hardgoods that take knowledge of home trends and styles. They seem to be missing those and buyers are willing to pay up for Pendleton, Pottery Barn, Crate and Barrel and Pier 1 is even bringing some good prices. Thanks for showing that some days not buying at high prices is still a smart move!

I Love to Source out of season... especially coats and boots; because those items are usually priced lower what I would pay by weight at the bins.

I live in Atlanta and we have the shadiest Goodwill's. I was actually shopping this morning and someone bought a beanie baby for two dollars. The cashier was having a meltdown because it was priced too cheap and went to the manager. Didn't want to sell it to the poor person trying to buy it. They had a 30 minute conversation on how you could never sell a beanie baby for two dollars. They are so pathetic. They don't want anyone to get a good deal anymore. They are so greedy and shady.

The more they price up in the retail stores, the better the bins will get. Just watch.

Our st Vincent pulls the $2 tag colors to put it in its own section to make it easier to sell out quickly. Then when it time to remove it from the store they just have to clear those specific racks😊

You got a winner! He's so funny! You vibe well too! Congratulations!!

Y’all are so cute and got me laughing! ❤❤❤ our goodwill increased prices and no sales. Stuff can just sit forever HOWEVER they do not price up clothing, only coats/jackets and some shoes AND our prices are still super reasonable compared to rest of US

So at my Goodwill here in Colorado changes their tag colors on Sunday and I go on that day to see what may be 1/2 in the case or shoes and they are pulling all the colors that are on sale...all day long and I've talked to them about this and they say that yes, they do this same thing and start right away on Sunday in the morning removing the 'sale tag' for that week and for the week before. And I get the same story, "we start to pull on Sunday the color that is on sale and it gets retagged or goes to the bins." However when I go to the local bins there isn't a bunch of high-end stuff or even that good of stuff like you would expect if they were just pulling all the tags and giving them to the bins. So things are getting crazy at GW.

The fact that your man looks like Ryan Reynolds is such a flex 😆❤️

My local Goodwills have no sale days and have taken away all discounts! I don’t get it. If an item has no tag they will not let anyone buy it! They say it has to be reprocessed! Ridiculous when all like items are same price.

Goodwill in Lagrange, Atlanta, Alpharetta, all stores in metro Georgia etc all pull the half off tags. So many complaints but they dont care. They are non profit so even if we dont buy it they will simply ship to another store and mark it back up. It will get sold eventually

I really enjoy watching you two thrift together!

One of my fave Goodwill’s to go to, now prices a lot of the nicer dresses at $39.99😑! I thought it was crazy when they started to increase prices to $19.99 on a lot of nicer items.

I haven’t noticed them pulling half priced items off the floor in my area, but it’s also not unommon for them to pause donations for a while because they have too much inventory. They have the perfect business model: free inventory & ask your customers to donate at the register so they get the tax write off for said donation.

They’ve always started taking down the half off color as soon as it switches over in my area

Yes, I was in Goodwill on Wednesday and customers were complaining about the higher prices while waiting for the cashier to show up and check people out. Our goodwills just started using color tags and haven’t gone to putting things half off yet.

Yes Goodwills here in Florida have gotten so expensive and the clothes are jammed so tight on the racks that you cannotevengo through things easily ! ... it's not worth the frustration !! It's a shame for people shopping there.

Joe reminds me & looks like David Bromstad from Lottery Dream Homes,

The goodwill by me has extremely light shelves all year now. I went from sourcing 15 to 30 items a visit there this time last year to 2-3 per visit now. They seem to be going straight to the internet now.

We don't have any discount items/days at our Goodwill, but things are more reasonably priced than other areas too.

I get the frustration. Our Goodwill no longer does the color tag sales. Are all Goodwills going to be doing this? If so, they are definitely cutting their own throats.

I recently was shopping at a goodwill on a Sunday; blue tagged items were $1 and red tagged items were 50% off. While customers were shopping (!!!), they did a computer update to make all the blue items 50% off and the red items $1. I had been in the store for about 2 hours and had all blue items in my cart. The person who checked out before me got her blue items for $1. When they scanned my blue items, they were 50% off instead of $1. They refused to sell the blue items to me for $1. I suspect that on Saturday evening, the goodwills in my area pull a lot of the items that will be $1 on Sunday off the floor. I'm disappointed that the stores in my area no longer process plush toys because their profit isn't good enough on stuffed animals--an employee told me this. The employee also told me that they also are eliminating their 1-price -per-category practice (e.g., all women's shoes used to be $5.99) to price by condition, so a pair of shoes that sold for $5.99 a few weeks ago are now $12.99. I'm no longer a fan of goodwill stores, at least in my area, and will avoid shopping at them.

In my area the GW has 40% off a color. I once went in on a Wed and caught the employee pulling all of that week’s color. Literally all of them. I told her it was not worth coming in to only pay full inflated prices. Shoes are also 19.99, boots 29.99. Crazy! Shoes used to be $6.99.

I used to work for goodwill. They had us come in before we opened every day to pull the half off tags. They would then make the ladies in the back retag them with the new color tags. One of the reasons I left. So crooked!!

Has anyone heard of this at Goodwill, I talked to a Goodwill employee a couple weeks ago and she said that they are running things through a database to find out if they are going to put the item online or how much they should price the item at the store? She said they literally go through every item and it’s exhausting for them. This is so petty on behalf of Goodwill.

I wish my local thrifts had the colored tags sticking out like that. I have to go through the rack and find the price tags. I have gotten pretty quick at it. The hardest thing for me are the double racks, always having to take breaks when searching the higher level (womens or kids long sleeves - I find many hidden gems so it makes it worth it.)

VHS DVD combos are bolos!

My local thrift, not Goodwill, started going crazy with their pricing a little over a year ago. They used to write in magic marker on the bottom of the shoes. When the shoes were supposed to get discounted they would rewrite the color ie if it was P it would become B. Recently however, I have noticed that they are not doing this anymore and that their pricing seems to be more realistic. I think they were sitting on a lot of inventory and finally figured out that they were losing money.

I asked a Goodwill in Georgia what they were doing with their old items/old color that didn’t sell…employee told me they were sending to other goodwills in the area for them to be “re-listed”

I only go to goodwill on Sundays which by me the color of the week is $1. They pull all the sale items and put them on their own racks throughout the store which I appreciate since that’s mainly what I look for. I still look through the racks for those sale items they forgot to pull or got put back by mistake. I’ve noticed prices are going up on some pieces but not crazily yet. Getting tougher and tougher to find those higher ASP and STR items these days.

I was at a funeral this past weekend and my cousin, who is not a reseller, said she does not thrift anymore at Goodwill because of the prices. She lives in Austin, TX. I have always maintained that true thrifters, like myself (I am a reseller but also thrift for my family) will not pay the higher prices. I truly think that Goodwill's demise will eventually be not catering to their clients and staying in their lane.

1. The Office clip made me laugh out loud. 2. We had that DVD/VHS player! 3. You guys are hilarious. 4. My Goodwill doesn't have half priced items.....or any deal days. 😢

If those LL Bean shirts are the "sunwashed canvas" shirts then Joe is right, they have good sell-thru and Cayley is also right, the prices aren't great. Great bins pickups though. The long sleeve ones in larger sizes like she said are almost 200% sell-thru and you can get $25 for them at the most. Good eye on Joe though anyway.

75% of the people in our goodwill stores are resellers. Most aren't going to pay the over inflated prices they're tagging items with. I saw Maurices jeans for $15.99 today....wth? I haven't had a full cart on a sourcing trip in months. I refuse to pay the crazy prices they are trying to get on mall brands! I've found my best resource to be friends and family or garage sales. Our bins are full of garbage and I rarely find much.

I'm also in Ohio! Yesterday I went in to my local Goodwill and they increased their prices from $4.89 to $4.99 on shirts, sweaters, pants, jeans. Dresses stayed the same at $5.99. My store actually pulls the color of the week and places them on different racks and sections throughout the store. On Sundays the half off color is $.99. They get so much stuff that I can't imagine why they'd want to keep the stuff any longer than they have to!

I have days that I go solely to focus on looking for half off tags for bread and butter filler items and its worked out pretty well for me. Other days I go and look for the big BOLOs and if I find a BnB then great

Sometimes it’s worth taking a beading needle and clear thread and running through the beads to secure them.

trust your man on the vcr. keep us posted

In my area of California, the color of the week is a joke. It is only 20% off, never 1/2 off and that's if you can even FIND the color. Goodwill starts pulling days ahead and most racks do not have a single color of the week tag. I've complained many times, but I guess this is just how they operate now. I have moved on to smaller thrift stores with true half off sales and much better pricing.

so i want to start by saying that where i live, our goodwill's do NOT do color tags or sales or markdowns. everything is priced by category ( majority of the time but lately I've noticed they have been starting some individual pricing that are higher than the normal category pricing especially on maxi dresses and jackets etc) but even here I have noticed they are taking older items down and then retagging and putting them back out on the floor the following week. they will no longer sell anything that has the tag they are removing and if you do happen to get one they tell you they cant sell it to you. I have started more so going to thrift stores owned by charities or mom and pop shops. goodwill's where i live have also hired people who are educated on brands and are pulling higher end items off the racks to sell online but thats not really new lol hoping you guys find some awesome stuff and make tons of sales!

I’ve decided to focus on other thrift stores lately. I was feeling so bummed every time I’d go to a goodwill. I used to be able to fill a cart. Not currently the case there 😢 I’ve also noticed shoes in particular are getting really marked up. And it’s the case even for Target brand shoes. 🤦‍♀️

Same is true in Minnesota. They price like they are selling online, but they are selling LOCALLY which is not the same demographic. My Goodwill had shoes priced so high that the walls shelves were packed. When they ran out of room they added more and more shelves on top of the clothing racks to pack more overpriced shoes. I breeze through every so often and pluck brands they don't recognize. I used to do most of my sourcing through their stores but I've found better inventory for fair prices elsewhere. I love that you made them squirm over their reticketing. Might be worth calling their corporate HQ and leaving a complaint. They may not know this is even happening.

So I went thrifting yesterday which was Sunday. That's the day the half off colors change at our local Goodwill's. I caught one of the workers pulling all the orange tags which had been 50% off the week before. We have $.99 day on Monday. All of the colors that were half off the week before are supposed to be $.99 the next day. Of course that was the color that she was pulling. It was all jeans and dresses which are the most expensive items. I asked her why she was pulling them. She said they need hangers for all of their new merchandise coming in. I asked what they needed them for she-said they have so much stuff in the back that they have to pull that particular color so they can use the hangers. I said well that doesn't make sense. All of those items will be $.99 tomorrow. Why don't you just wait till the next day when all of it is sold. She said they can't do that. But didn't have a good answer as to why. It's obvious they were pulling them to re-tag them and put them back on the floor. That doesn't make sense. If you have so much merchandise then why don't you let those items go for $.99 and let people have a good deal. I asked her if she was pulling all the $.99 items what was gonna be left for $.99 day. She said oh they'll be some things. That was a lot obviously a lie. If They don't want anyone to get any of the $.99 items. Then don't have a $.99 day. They are so ridiculous and shady. I am so thankful We have lots of good thrift stores here in Atlanta so Goodwill is my last option. So sad it used to be so fun to shop here. Not anymore.

southeastern CT....several goodwills pull half off starting the DAY OF! Wonder how hard it would be to organize an email campaign to bombard them with complaints (for their greed)?

I live between Cincinnati and Indianapolis and the pricing is completely different. There is absolutely no consistency and they most definitely mark stuff up that they feel is a good brand, i.e. Nike, NF, etc.

My Goodwill does pull the half off color early if they need to make room for the new color. I haven’t noticed them retagging. We only have one day when the color of the week is 50% (Sunday). That’s weird VOA is so weird about touching new racks, mine doesn’t mind at all.

My goodwill raised prices on clothes a dollar or 2, did not raise shoes at all. Color of the week is still 1/2 starting Sunday and last weeks color is $1 Sunday-Tuesday. The GW employees do not remove the items early that I've seen, however there are some people who get there first thing Sunday and raid the $1 stuff... it's me... I am some people 😂😂😂😂 no shame in my game

Lately I just don’t mind them pulling the sale color because it makes the racks easier to go through. Prefer to see the new items! :)

/sigh I found a pair of Thursday boots at my local liquidation store but they wanted $50 (they were NWOB but I just couldn’t do that. Had they been my size I would’ve bought and kept for myself even at $50).

Cayley I noticed that if you pick up sneakers with the chunky heel and you put that they are ideal for a heavier Walker / runner in the description they sell quickly.

It all comes down to corporate greed and Goodwill is doing a very good job at it and really starting to turn people off and away from their business...👎

I thought I was on thrift and thrive channel when this came on !!

Great video. I just subbed to your channel. Yes, Goodwill has gone crazy with the prices.

No, the last time I was in the Goodwill for a 50% off sale....it was dead. There use to be lines that would take about an hour to get through. There wasn't a line at ALL. These thrift stores are pricing themselves outa business.

Oh yes, I have noticed. But I have no shame in going through those racks when they pull them. Luckily we are allowed to go through the new racks. (Or at least I have never been stopped) 😂

My goodwills have also started increasing shoe prices

Wow I had no idea they were doing that. I was wondering why there were barely any half off and $1.99 (what used to be 99¢) colors. I always just thought people ended up buying them at full price. That is absolutely disgusting that they do that. I’m in western Washington and I’m counting down the days until garage sale season starts because the thrift store prices in my area are ridiculous. I’ve even been to mom and pop thrift stores in my area and they also price things up there. One mom and pop store near me has flat pricing but nothing except their small sale rack is under $9. And another one had a Patagonia jacket marked at $40 a few weeks ago. I’ve come out of many thrift stores empty handed the last few weeks. So frustrating.

5.5 is so small that it'd probably be better to market as a kids 3.5-4 / hope to sell for a preteen. But that's tough to do online and with a brand that doesn't make youth shoes. I could easily sell those locally for $50+.

Sounds like some major dishonestly going on at Goodwill and I assume it's because they are learning that resellers are favoring new tags. I guess they won't be happy until everyone stops sourcing there. It's just straight up taking advantage of people.

Stay Blessed❤

My Goodwills definitely take down the half off colors. You never find them anymore.

I just sold those Thursday boots was a quick sale too

I love Sopranos too, my favorite show! Go Joe and that mob life 😂

My Goodwill puts the color tag that is getting pulled on sale for $1 on Sundays. They aren't all bad.

Love the shoutout to Project Veritas LOL. I agree about GW. I look at the overpriced stuff and say, "See you at the bins!" 😉

VCRs are 🔥

100% the tags are being pulled. There were no items with the half off color. Tons with new color of week we being stocked. I'm sure they are retagging. The only benefits I can think of is more of this stuff will and up in bins. I have walked out with empty cart a few times this week.

Our thrift store does not run sales. I prefer to visit one location thoroughly instead of spending driving time going from place to place. Similarly, I prefer neighborhood sales instead of making a road map of sales all over town. Do you source garage sales?

Yes, they’ve been taking down the 1/2 off items at the Goodwill stores in my area (Baton Rouge, LA). I was told the exact same reason that you were. What’s the point of advertising 1/2 off?

Goodwill has poor quality in Boise, ID. I shopped on a sale day and found flaws in several items once I got home. It was a total bust. I’m better off going to other stores, and consignment shops sale racks.

Way to call the tag process out to the check out person, changing the old tags out...not cool. I mean they advertise the color changes, at least here at our goodwill. I don't see them pulling tags much (have seen them doing it on the 1.79 or 1.99 days during the day), mostly I just see a lot of great stuff going to half off then 1.99 as no one is paying their high high prices and when you go in on sale days you can't buy all the good buys up (there is just too much to look thru to do so). When he says the rack are too crowded...HELLO!?? If they would mark things down about 30% to begin with they wouldn't have overstuffed racks IMHO.. I recently went to a local goodwill here near Seattle and the prices were actually normal, (huh?) I picked up about 16 boho style dresses with new tags (cheaper brands) but all were $5.99, even one nice Torrid was only $5.99. I was amazed, as usually they hardly ever had any items (except kids) lower than $7.99. I think either they have a new pricer that is more generous OR they were tired of having over Stuffed racks they had to ;give away' to the bins. I am hoping that the supply demand will wake all the Goodwills up to the fact they can't just ask what they want to and sell it. I see some theft going on...people actually running in and then out again with a whole armload of clothing. Last one I saw was an older man and a younger male outside talking after the man parked and the younger rode up on a skateboard. The younger man, probably a teen ran into the store past me and as I was entering, he ran out with an armload of clothing to the mans car. I think the man had been in before, picked it all out and left it right in front for the teen to find. He pushed it into the trunk and drove off. The teen skated off. I was stunned. I think around here teens are getting into a lot more trouble than ever, with older people using them to do their dirty work. I think there was some law passed that helped teens go unpunished around here. It's so sad, they are forming car theft rings etc. Wish I'd know what was going on...I could have taken a picture of the car or something. I was just too stunned. At 5.99 I spent almost $200 there in about 2 hours. I shop Goodwill Rack mostly ...of all my choices. I like that its clean, easy to find things, less likely to have flaws, but I do have to usually really shop a long time to get only a few things due to the higher pricing. I also don't like that they save things up for Seasonal...they will save all the swimwear up and then bam 4 racks full all at once. I do shop a lot of lingerie, dresses and swimwear...especially great brands, plus size and like new of course or vintage. I don't like to list pants, jacket or shoes too much. Ok back to watching your video! And listing!

In that jacket he looks like a guy from police academy lol but actually he is Ryan Reynolds doppelgänger! 😮

So, my local store was terrible all Fall. A couple of weeks ago, all the people working there were wearing suits and dress wear for about a week or two. Ever since, prices have been AMAZING. I’ve literally spent close to $800 in the last week when I normally spend like $100 tops. Lots of great brands too. Patagonia, Kuhl, Howler Bros. I’ve been in shock seeing prices at my local. Go one town over however, and it’s same overpriced as usual. Waiting for the managers to take over those other stores for a couple weeks haha. There have been a few items I’ve noticed at a few of my stores that I will keep an eye out for however. Pieces that stood out to me as being great pickups on 1/2 off weeks that were gone by the time I made it back to those stores for 1/2 off. If they suddenly reappear with a different color or after 1/2 price, I will come back and mention it.

Here in Utah they don’t have half-price colors 😜

Not only do I usually hear other customers complaining about the prices in my Goodwill. I also hear them talking about the color of the week tags and talking about how there aren’t any in the store, so something is going on and how can you possibly have a color of the week, and nothing be left… Now I do find things with the color of the week tags but I have literally watched them pull things off of the shelf and when I’ve said hey, are you pulling those because they’re the color of the week the lady like got really defensive and she was like the sale is over. I’m like well you have the sign up and it’s not the end of the week. And she said well this is what we do. I was like OK

I really enjoyed this video!

It looked like the buttons on the old navy jacket was on the left side? If so, left = ladies is how I always remember!

The knee high converse are bolos

Gone are the days of spending a few hours thrifting and finding enough inventory for the week. Between the poor quality, high prices and competition its getting challenging to find items to flip for a profit.

I watch resellers who do hard goods and the dvd/vcr combos are bolos!!

I work at old navy and the tag is a women’s tag for the denim jacket😅 mens are smaller

Thank you for being honest about how hard sourcing has become. If you ever plan on coming to Florida I can tell you some places to go to find some pieces. I had to stop sourcing from our GW bins here because they are heavily picking the bins and it’s honestly 95 percent trash now and not worth the drive

Omg, Where is the first one located? In Columbus? the price is crazy high.

My goodwills have switched to a flat price model. All clothes are 5.99. No discounts unless you’re a senior or part of their membership called a good friend. Rarely find anything unless you’re there for the new racks. If you miss the new racks good luck finding things on the racks.

Wow! $20 in your store! They’re catching up with California. Sorry.

YES!! Now that you mention it I have been seeing this for the last 3 months! Buyer beware😮???

I have found that sell through is becoming harder to determine using this method. Ebay has changed their search algorithm and it sometimes doesn't act how you'd expect. I typed in the same search term as you and today there are 181 results that come up. but some of them do not have duchess in the title and many of them are not even size 5.5. when you filter down to size you see there are only 6 used available in 5.5 and still only 2 of those have duchess in the title! still none sold though but I might have picked it up with 2 listed 0 sold versus 180 listed 0 sold.

They are lying! I talk to the employees about it around here and they are just pulling sale items only.

Your Mob wife is hilarious!! Keep him!! 😂

I'm wondering if the Goodwill Bins are the way to go if I'm considering price. If the theory is that no one is biting at the regular Goodwill's high prices, the items eventually make it to the bins......right? Maybe going to different thrift stores is the move? I'm always trying to source smartly. I sourced at Plato's Closet yesterday for the first time. They have great stuff but price is an issue here too. Idk - any advice is welcome.