Lights are on but is any body home?

[Beans]

Local GW had 4 large bags of what I could tell of was costume jewelry with lots of Mardi Gra beads. Price from lowest to highest. These are dollars not cents $99, 149, 199 and 249.00. I spoke to another shopper who I see a lot and he said the same (costume). He said he made an offer not even close to what they are wanting and of course he was told no. Anyway now we know why there was never any jewelry being put out. It was being horded and cleaned out and just the junk was left.

 

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[captain flintlock]

That's nuts!! WTH are they thinking!! I pity the fool who actually pays that for them.

 

[JimDon]

Most of my GW no longer have jewelry. They list it all now on shopgoodwill.com. I stopped going to GW unless I am around the corner.

 

[tamrock]

I went to GW yesterday and looked (Nothing). They do the same thing here and bottle-up much the crap jewelry. I never see gold hardly anymore at the GW stores, so I'm sure they are sorting more efficiently at the main sorting center in Denver these days for internet items to sell. The last bit of gold I got at a GW was this little 2.5 gram emblem glued to this belt buckle that slipped through the GW sorters and ended up in one of the many GW outlets they have in the Denver metro area. http://www.treasurenet.com/forums/thrift-stores/482020-thrift-store-gold.html. Still I don't lose hope as things made of precious metals can still find they're way in to the GW's, such as this silver platter did just last month. It says .925, but I think the word "plata" tripped up the sorter who pulled it. http://www.treasurenet.com/forums/thrift-stores/493685-i-am-roll-103-7-grams-925-a.html The folks who work in the outlets stores don't even expect any good stuff coming in anymore I believe because they think any gold and silver is being sorted before they see it, plus they really could care less to look for any thing that's valuable, but I still look. It'll be there, just doesn't come around like it did in the past. They all figured out what they were missing and took action on stopping all that gold and silver selling for very little to us folks.

 

[tamrock]

Most of my GW no longer have jewelry. They list it all now on shopgoodwill.com. I stopped going to GW unless I am around the corner.

I have never looked at the gw website before, holy moly!.. That's where all the goodies are going. I'll bet they've got whse's full of treasures and stuff they haven't even gotten around to listing yet. I hear the GW principals really make outrageous salaries, because they get to choose that for themselves, as they are a nonprofit and operating cost are high, so what the heck I'm a chief and should be paid as such. I've always believed GW is teetering on what I'd call racketeering? I know a fella who started his own little thrift shop and he lets folks or members as they're called consign as long as your a paid member and then gives them discounts and a profit share. The he charity he gives it's the legal amount required from the profits. When you buy something you can pick from like five different charity's you want the portion of the profit of your purchase to go to. I should ask him what he's paying as a salary to himself. He wants to open up a chain of stores that operate just like the one he started. He told me he began as a thrift store hunter that sold on eBay full time and moved into this idea of operating his own thrift store. He said it beats the hell out of the eBay hassle of selling doing it like he is with his own thrift store.