Go Bargain Shopping Online With New Thrifting Site GoodwillFinds

In massive information for thrifters in every single place, Goodwill goes digital. It’s launching GoodwillFinds, a brand new web site that means that you can flick through roughly 100,000 items of secondhand merchandise from the consolation of your sofa.

As a substitute of constructing your technique to one among Goodwill’s 3,300 shops, now you’ll be able to simply click on in your favourite bargains and have them shipped to you. As a result of your purchases will come from Goodwill areas throughout the U.S. and Canada, the delivery prices for every merchandise will differ — however they’ll by no means be a shock. At checkout, you’ll be provided delivery choices based mostly in your deal with. 

The objective is to record one million gadgets on the positioning inside a couple of years, said Matthew Kaness, the web site’s CEO. Ultimately, the plan is for GoodwillFinds to be personalised for customers based mostly on every buyer’s earlier purchases on the positioning.

For now, there’s a search bar, and you may also browse by class. Do you want girls’s clothes, males’s clothes or sneakers? Cookware, jewellery or books? Residence decor? Collector’s gadgets? It’s all there.

When individuals donate their secondhand stuff to Goodwill shops, staff will determine which issues to record on-line. They’ll examine every merchandise, and if it’s soiled or in unhealthy form, they gained’t attempt to promote it.

Goodwill additionally says they’ll settle for returns for purchases that arrive broken, or if there’s an incorrect merchandise in your order. GoodwillFinds takes main bank cards and PayPal, however not Apple Pay.

The brand new web site is the brainchild of a coalition of Goodwill leaders from throughout the nation who wished to convey Goodwill absolutely into the digital age. It’s an enchancment over Goodwill’s earlier web providing, an public sale web site referred to as ShopGoodwill (which continues to be working). You’ll be able to’t simply click-and-purchase on that web site — it’s important to bid on gadgets.

This new Goodwill purchasing web site comes simply in time for the vacation purchasing season, too. 

And though we’re massive followers of placing collectively inexpensive Halloween costumes, you’ll want to position your on-line order for spooky stuff by Oct. 20, in keeping with the web site. After that, you’ll have to go to Goodwill in particular person to throw collectively an inexpensive zombie or rocker costume.

Goodwill is a 120-year-old nonprofit group, the granddaddy of thrift retailers in every single place. While you purchase from Goodwill — or from GoodwillFinds — the proceeds assist fund Goodwill’s community-based social service packages throughout the U.S. and Canada, like youth mentorship, job placement {and professional} coaching.

Additionally, it’s a great way to avoid wasting a buck or two.

Mike Brassfield ([email protected]) is a senior author at The HE.