The RipOff of Goodwill thrift 23rd Street New york

The Following was posted on my blog: May 17th, 2008.
The Supervisor who was conducting the GoodWill Shop in 23rd Street, has been transferred to a new location by Harlem. Let's hope that the new manager will be somehow diffrent to save and advance the Good Will message and not turn the place to a personal business.

Here’s an example of another charity shop-"Goodwill Store- located on 23rd Street- between 2nd & 3rd Ave- Manhattan)- I’ve been going to. Couple years ago, the store used to be reasonably run by Chris (Manager) , but I’m told he was removed to a different location because he was not making enough money for the store, which is absurd. As a matter of fact, Chris was working for Bloomingdale’s for years as a manger. In my opinion he was very professional, and never took any of the goods for himself or put aside the better clothes for his favorite “dealer” customers. When he was in charge everything that came in was on offer to all the customers and fairly priced.

Unlike Chris, the present manager, Ms. Gidgest, is rude both to customers and fellow workers and unprofessional in her work. She seems to think she’s running Barneys’ store and believes that items with designer labels should be priced outrageously high, even fakes and worn garments. I also believe she picks out new items for herself, Recently, I asked about a new jacket which was hanging on a rack but hadn’t yet been priced. As soon as she saw the label “Fendi”, she told me in an unpleasant manner that it would be in the window for auction (which usually takes place in Saturday”. However, the jacket never made it to the window display. She apparently takes whatever she likes as many customers believe. Another thing she does, which I found is irritating - when a customer buys an item (clothes) she looks at the label then the price and then makes some comment like “Only $80 dollars for this Burberry coat!” as if it’s too cheap, even though it’s used. I wonder how much she’d really like to ask for a worn donated coat, shirt or dress?The thrift shops rely on generous people’s donations of clothes and accessories and I bet they haven’t a clue what is going on here. People like Ms. Gidget seems to forget the mission of her organization which states and I quote: " Goodwills' mission-related services relies heavily upon the voluntary donations made by the public. Eighty-four percent of Goodwill revenue is reinvested into programs and services to serve disadvantaged populations in communities across the country". She needs to be reminded of the basic foundation of Goodwill and try not to turn it into a personal business of her own.In fact, I was thinking of writing to ask the Attorney General to look into it.