OK, they have the vehicle on video. Tell the people claiming it's theirs to show up in the same vehicle that they used when they made the drop.

Chartock said he plans to reward the employee who found the money.


Good..

If you're rich enough to donate old, used crap to Goodwill, you're rich enough to lose $14,000.

1%er problems.

Who wants to bet the new CEO will take it?

It was $25k, not $15k. Someone helped themselves to my money.

Knowing Goodwill, they'll slap a $22,000 sticker on it and toss it in the display case.

They seem to know who it belonged to FTFA...

An estate sale. Silly old folk.

AverageAmericanGuy 2012-05-16 12:16:29 AM


If you're rich enough to donate old, used crap to Goodwill, you're rich enough to lose $14,000.

1%er problems.



Someone just set your cockroaches on fire.

I'll never understand the mentality of people who have large amounts of cash in their homes or on their persons. It's just plain stupid.

AverageAmericanGuy: If you're rich enough to donate old, used crap to Goodwill, you're rich enough to lose $14,000.

1%er problems.

Huh? This looks like it's probably a case of stuff that didn't sell at an estate sale being donated.

Here's a better idea

"We have found an amount of cash donated one of the days this week. Please describe the items you donated, the vehicle you were in, the date of your drop off and how much cash you think you are missing"

of course they went and ruined this by giving the public this information....

^ also, some fingerprint matching between the box and items and the claimants could go a long way.

octopied: Here's a better idea

"We have found an amount of cash donated one of the days this week. Please describe the items you donated, the vehicle you were in, the date of your drop off and how much cash you think you are missing"

of course they went and ruined this by giving the public this information....

These are the guys who think they can charge $20 for jeans nobody wanted.

farkityfarker: I'll never understand the mentality of people who have large amounts of cash in their homes or on their persons. It's just plain stupid.

farkityfarker: I'll never understand the mentality of people who have large amounts of cash in their homes or on their persons. It's just plain stupid.

Cuz the banks are doing a better job these days?

I volunteered sorting clothes at a salvation army thrift store. People should check their pockets before they donate their stuff, if you know what I mean...

AverageAmericanGuy: If you're rich enough to donate old, used crap to Goodwill, you're rich enough to lose $14,000.

1%er problems.

YES! you should always get screwed when you donate to a charity !!!

/now go DIAF

farkityfarker: I'll never understand the mentality of people who have large amounts of cash in their homes or on their persons. It's just plain stupid.

It's actually pretty common amongst people who lived through the Depression

/for some reason, they have a profound distrust of financial institutions

K3rmy: It was $25k, not $15k. Someone helped themselves to my money.

Liar! It was my truck and my $44, 000.

octopied: Here's a better idea

"We have found an amount of cash donated one of the days this week. Please describe the items you donated, the vehicle you were in, the date of your drop off and how much cash you think you are missing"

of course they went and ruined this by giving the public this information....

Except if the donating party in this case didn't know there was any money at all.

I'd love to see them randomly announce stuff like this, then ask folks to come down and claim the money. Give them shoebox full of cash, let them walk our door to line of police officers, throw them in jail for fraud. One less scumbag in society.

Securitywyrm: I'd love to see them randomly announce stuff like this, then ask folks to come down and claim the money. Give them shoebox full of cash, let them walk our door to line of police officers, throw them in jail for fraud. One less scumbag in society.

Yeah, I was thinking there could be fraud charges here as well if people don't step back....

So how 'come the cops haven't confiscated it as likely drug money yet?

Dow Jones and the Temple of Doom: Knowing Goodwill, they'll slap a $22,000 sticker on it and toss it in the display case.

Having worked for a Goodwill program before, I can say you're grossly underestimating the price adjustment.

Fark that place.

SoCalSurfer: farkityfarker: I'll never understand the mentality of people who have large amounts of cash in their homes or on their persons. It's just plain stupid.

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Damn, is it me or is Bryan Cranston getting better and better at his roles?

I'll be damned! Everytime I go to Goodwill I keep leaving my wife and kids there as a donation and they keep returning them to me.

phygz: I volunteered sorting clothes at a salvation army thrift store. People should check their pockets before they donate their stuff, if you know what I mean...

CSB time: My son is a hipster so he buys all his clothes at goodwill. Once he bought a crazy jacket with like 6 pockets for $12, and later found $14 in one of the more unconventional pockets.

I make a living off value people drop at Goodwill.

Not $15k in one spot, but I did find $80 stuffed in a book of Kierkegaard.

/The book itself being worth about $30
//Not bad for a 50 cent item
///I have one that may or may not be a $600 book

CSB time:

My dad was helping run an estate sale for this old lady who passed away, and I was out browsing through the crap when I came across a box of ink pens - old Cross pens, that sort of thing. I was browsing through, hoping for a Mont Blanc or a Parker when I came across this gold pen that looked like a twister. Well, I twisted it, but there was no cartridge in it, so I opened it up, and the old lady had rolled up $500 and shoved it down the barrel of this pen. I told my dad about it, and ended up getting a reward and my pick out of the pen box. So, goes to show that you'll never know where people will hide money.

/end CSB

Dow Jones and the Temple of Doom: Knowing Goodwill, they'll slap a $22,000 sticker on it and toss it in the display case.

I had my items turned away before by Goodwill because, according to the manager on duty, it "wouldn't make enough money." It won't make Goodwill enough money? I thought Goodwill was about helping families in need?

Seriously, Fark Goodwill. They've lost the way.

/rant

andersonmanly: I had my items turned away before by Goodwill

I should also probably mention that the items in question were not crap items - they were in good shape and could have definitely helped a family that needed them.

Loren: AverageAmericanGuy: If you're rich enough to donate old, used crap to Goodwill, you're rich enough to lose $14,000.

1%er problems.

Huh? This looks like it's probably a case of stuff that didn't sell at an estate sale being donated.

Nothing AverageAmericanGuy posts should be taken seriously.

andersonmanly: Dow Jones and the Temple of Doom: Knowing Goodwill, they'll slap a $22,000 sticker on it and toss it in the display case.

I had my items turned away before by Goodwill because, according to the manager on duty, it "wouldn't make enough money." It won't make Goodwill enough money? I thought Goodwill was about helping families in need?

Seriously, Fark Goodwill. They've lost the way.

/rant

My wife often goes into the same rant about several of the "Chain " thrift stores. Sometime in the last decade some of them stopped being about the "making money by doing good" dynamic and became all about "how much money can we make"? one. In Goodwill's case Iblame the executive there that was making a $1 million salary and justified it by the fact that he'd tripled the revenue coming from their stores. Which misses the point almost entirely it seems to me.

The alst few times I've been in a Goodwill the majority of their merchandise seemed to be stuff I saw at Target on the clearance racks-only marked up from Target's final clearance price. I'm told that rather than do donations many Goodwill stores actually buy truckloads of Clearance stuff from places like Target because its easier to price and sell.


I'm Lucky, I live in a towns with six "indie" thrift stores that also happens to reside in the country with the highest per capita income in the US. The combination means I often pick up VERY nice stuff at VERY cheap prices, and when My family has stuggled financially, that's been a very comforting thing to be able to do. Especially knowing that my son would be dressed as well as any of the wealthy kids who go to his school, and so wouldn;t be teased about something he had no control over.

Magorn: andersonmanly: Dow Jones and the Temple of Doom: Knowing Goodwill, they'll slap a $22,000 sticker on it and toss it in the display case.

I had my items turned away before by Goodwill because, according to the manager on duty, it "wouldn't make enough money." It won't make Goodwill enough money? I thought Goodwill was about helping families in need?

Seriously, Fark Goodwill. They've lost the way.

/rant

My wife often goes into the same rant about several of the "Chain " thrift stores. Sometime in the last decade some of them stopped being about the "making money by doing good" dynamic and became all about "how much money can we make"? one. In Goodwill's case Iblame the executive there that was making a $1 million salary and justified it by the fact that he'd tripled the revenue coming from their stores. Which misses the point almost entirely it seems to me.

The alst few times I've been in a Goodwill the majority of their merchandise seemed to be stuff I saw at Target on the clearance racks-only marked up from Target's final clearance price. I'm told that rather than do donations many Goodwill stores actually buy truckloads of Clearance stuff from places like Target because its easier to price and sell.


I'm Lucky, I live in a towns with six "indie" thrift stores that also happens to reside in the country with the highest per capita income in the US. The combination means I often pick up VERY nice stuff at VERY cheap prices, and when My family has stuggled financially, that's been a very comforting thing to be able to do. Especially knowing that my son would be dressed as well as any of the wealthy kids who go to his school, and so wouldn;t be teased about something he had no control over.

Which thrift stores are you speaking of? I'm in the area and this thread peaked my interest in shopping at one. transueDOTleeATgmailDOTcom

Um,

No harm, no foul.

;)

Find out who it belongs to. And "castrate" everyone else.

Jon iz teh kewl: Find out who it belongs to. And "castrate" everyone else.

No.

Castration is reserved for sex offenders.

Not money wannabes...

;)