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Poll Results: Most annoying thing about Thrift Stores

This is a multiple choice poll
  • 5% (5)
    Clothing layout (i.e. ever had trouble finding the ties? Jeans and dress pants mixed up)
  • 12% (11)
    Store bias towards woman's wear, men's wear having a little corner somewhere
  • 14% (12)
    Clothing Size Organization (large sizes jumbled up with small sizes, jackets not ordered by size)
  • 3% (3)
    Store Music (the usual 70's/80's pop drone)
  • 5% (5)
    No fucking parking
  • 2% (2)
    Always that one person clinging onto you like glue
  • 4% (4)
    Too many people looking in the same aisle as you
  • 11% (10)
    Condition of items can be terrible but still offered at the same price as better items
  • 17% (15)
    Thrift store smells bad
  • 8% (7)
    Thrift store pricing policy
  • 7% (6)
    Boutique section appears random and does not actually have good stuff
  • 5% (5)
    No restroom facilities
85 Total Votes  
post #16 of 33
9/12/11 at 9:06pm
Price tags stapled to the fronts of ties.

The ill-training/indifference/hostility required to murder tie after tie...just amazes me.
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post #17 of 33
9/12/11 at 9:49pm
I find that it's mostly Goodwill that doesn't have the restrooms. With an ever enlarging prostate, I've had many a thrift run cut short by "the need". Did you ever notice that the ten businesses on either side of a Goodwill have a "Restroom for our customer use only" sign prominently posted? There's a McDonalds on every corner except the one on which any Goodwill is situated.
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post #18 of 33
9/13/11 at 6:51am

 

Mack nailed it.  The staples in garments that don't have the kind of hardy material to withstand them!

 

Or the lack of rotation in the worst stock, which you see month after month.  Blow that stuff out of there at 25 cents and make room for something with potential.

 

I'm also not keen on the variations in pricing policy.

 

Still, I'm not super keen on being too hard on thrift stores.  As someone said earlier, they allow an awful lot of people who can't afford good clothes a chance at exploring fashion. 

 

All of my favorite long coats came from there when I was in college. 

 

ccm

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post #19 of 33
9/13/11 at 7:56pm
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Originally Posted by mack11211 View Post

Price tags stapled to the fronts of ties.

The ill-training/indifference/hostility required to murder tie after tie...just amazes me.

YES!!!

Staples, easily, is the winner, I think. GW doesn't do it, but SA does. Never to ties, but for several months, they were butchering shoes and other leather goods. I called every person I could think of at SA--including national headquarters in Virginia-- to convince them that stapling price tags to leather (and they were using some big-ass staples) wasn't a good idea, and to no avail. They couldn't give a shit--every live person I managed to reach said it wasn't their department, messages were never returned, etc. Which, I suppose, is another peeve: A complete lack of willingness to listen to customers, even when listening to customers would help their bottom line.

SA still staples most everything else, but with patience, they can usually be extracted with no damage. GW, OTOH, has no such issues, at least around here, and you can find a live person who will listen. Plus, GW has awesome bathrooms, spacious and clean.

What goes around comes around: GW gets all my donations, SA gets nothing.
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post #20 of 33
11/3/11 at 7:25am

I hate when they write the price on the bottom of a pair of vintage leather soled shoes with a magic marker. If I want to resell them, its my business what I paid for them.

 

 

www.somethingeverythingandmore.com

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post #21 of 33
11/3/11 at 7:58am
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Edited by Pawz - 2/6/12 at 3:51am
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post #22 of 33
11/3/11 at 8:10am
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Originally Posted by capnwes View Post

I hate when they write the price on the bottom of a pair of vintage leather soled shoes with a magic marker. If I want to resell them, its my business what I paid for them.


www.somethingeverythingandmore.com

Acetone or most nail polish remover.
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post #23 of 33
11/3/11 at 8:23am
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Originally Posted by Digmenow View Post


Acetone or most nail polish remover.


Thanks, I will try that tonight! I'm sure my wife has plenty of that stuff.

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post #24 of 33
3/1/12 at 8:19pm
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Originally Posted by capnwes View Post

I hate when they write the price on the bottom of a pair of vintage leather soled shoes with a magic marker. If I want to resell them, its my business what I paid for them.


www.somethingeverythingandmore.com

Hell yes!

I also hate the tease of seeing that "Made in Italy" tag along a suit collar only to find out it's something like a Mario Berlutti or Giorgio Chiarelli or something along those lines.
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post #25 of 33
3/1/12 at 8:27pm
unorganized sizing. i find a shirt i really like only to see it's a size too big or too small.
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post #26 of 33
3/1/12 at 10:55pm
You whiners all deserve a great big punch in the cock.
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post #27 of 33
3/1/12 at 10:58pm
^ +1,000,000,000,000
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post #28 of 33
3/1/12 at 11:05pm
Thread Starter 
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Originally Posted by Man Of Lint View Post

You whiners all deserve a great big punch in the cock.

I am sad this abomination of a thread was composed by me peepwall[1].gif
NVM, the shame will dissipate with each deep glug I take from that fine looking bourbon sitting right next to me.
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post #29 of 33
3/2/12 at 1:33am
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Originally Posted by Klobber View Post

I am sad this abomination of a thread was composed by me peepwall[1].gif
NVM, the shame will dissipate with each deep glug I take from that fine looking bourbon sitting right next to me.

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post #30 of 33
3/2/12 at 3:14am

Am I the only one who finds it rather ridiculous that people who make make money off the backs of often small charitable organizations have the gall the complain about the places that are essentially subsidizing their business.

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