ShopGoodWillReviews 652

Many items are described incorrectly, often photos of items are unclear as to the condition of item or through the unskilled workers often overlook major flaws with an item.
As others have mentioned the S/H prices can be outrageous - same item on Ebay, same item on 'Shopgoodwill' can be 3 times higher than Ebay.
And with Shopgoodwill there are no refunds.
You would think all items on Shopgoodwill are donated - So why the highly over priced S/H?
Greed has become rampant w/Goodwill as with taxes in the US.
>>New added 9/28/2015 - Shopgoodwill had a Game Camera marked new in box (NIB),
I bid on this game camera and won, still a good buy well below retail price. After a long wait the game camera arrived and I soon discovered it was not NIB and so I opened the battery side of this camera only to find 8 AA batteries dripping a substance throughout the camera. The camera was destroyed by the leaking batteries - I lost $86.00 because of their No Return Policy. I do not know of any business that can get away with this kind of robbery.

Here's another auction bidding site for Goodwill stores. I bought an item around $250 and there where 2 bidders always with a no matter how much I bid there's where always higher and there starting prices are same or above what you would pay online. Based on some testing I did, I found same bidder driving prices higher on items which are worth buying. I suggest you do your research on what to pay for an item. One of the biggest problems is they don't care about how to protect items during handling and they don't take care in shipping it properly. I bought some comics and they where just thrown in a box and when they arrived it looked as if it was a box of shipping paper.

Questions remain on some of these Shopgoodwill sellers -

Why are the Shipping & Handling Fees so astronomically high by SOME stores - while OTHER Shopgoodwill sites have fees set at a much lower price (the lower priced fees, being routinely set for similar weighted & sized items, by much more distant stores)? Looks like a sales scheme that may not even be legal.

Why are many of these stores under the impression that Buy It Now options are for relisted, stale/clearance items? That kind of thinking only hurts sales (and the site's credibility). Buy It Now options are a win-win for both the seller & the buyer...IF...the range between the auction price and Buy It Now price is not too far off. If they are too far off, that only hurts the credibility of that seller & future sales.

I have watched several stores that did not know how to price go down that road of a massive amount of perpetual stale listings to the point where they are not on the site, or basically have no listings anymore. And it was a huge clog of non-selling junk on the site while they were there.