Just why would someone drop this off to goodwill for free????

[salmon256]

When your new piece of clothing is a rare hand-made design from a renowned atelier, you can resell it to fashion collectors for most of what you paid for it.

These days, most of my grandpas, or some users great-grandpa's clothes would go for lots and be in demand if in fine conditions. I love thrift store shopping for older clothes it is a trend among the newer generation (that is me sadly or happily however you look at it...) But it has become a thing to now basically have for-profit Thrift stores which encourages better preserving of clothes but at the same time ruins the experience and has basically just become a second-hand clothes store or overpriced. Goodwill is still fun though for finding specific things like jackets, cool Hawaiian shirts, or classic cool Italian designs or lots of odd T-shirts... which I can do with a lot less of at times.

 

[MidnightRadio]

Several years ago I saw a full Mesa bass rig in touring cases at a Goodwill dropoff in Queens while I was dropping off stuff - somebody must have gotten caught cheatin'!

 

[Jeff Hughes]

The headstock and headstock script are both very unappealing. A neck humbucker only limits tonal options.

 

[Nuage420]

You know it was a rhetorical question right?

You know it was a rhetorical question, right?

 

[Nuage420]

You know the value returned would bring a lot more than the tax write off value, right?

Write off = tax burden reduced by value of the donation X your effective tax rate

Private sale = 100% to the seller

Some folks don't want to wait. Tax season is here and people do all kinds of fun stuff to pay less. Hell my buddy hit the casino the other day hoping to lose 3 grand to avoid tax.

 

[Vitrius Humor]

BTW, I hate to tell this story.... a few years ago a friend of my Mom dropped off his completely restored BMW 2002 (it was almost a museum piece) that I had asked her to let them know if they ever wanted to sell it to let me know. It hurts my stomach even today to talk about this.... the part I hate about it is how angry I got with my Mom about it. Luckily she didn't let it ruin our relationship. I still feel bad about it, though.

 

[friskinator]

While some families members will be shocking in there greed, to get whatever they can. Other survivors of the decreased just want to be done with it. It’s surprising that the instrument made it to the Good Will. Entire household’s have been dumped on sidewalks because relatives didn’t want to be bothered or didn’t have the time to examine what legacy was being thrown out, sad but true.

"Legacy" is a strong statement. Most of us aren't important enough to have one, and material possessions end up being largely sentimental. If they aren't sentimental to whomever cleans out the estate, then it is what it is.

 

[2strings2frets]

On the subject of Goodwill-pre Covid they were a great place to find stuff on the cheap. After Covid ,at least in this area not so much. People don’t donate to them as much as they used to because they get inventory at no cost and then price the item for 70to80% of full retail price. Not cool.

 

[bearhart74]

You know it was a rhetorical question, right?

Rhetorical not recursive... : )

 

[Nuage420]

Rhetorical not recursive... : )

Damn, I was hoping we could get an infinitely rhetorical conversion going

 

[FilterFunk]

Sometimes people have no idea......

To some folks, a guitar's a guitar. Why bother researching it, even though we have this convenient thing called the internet, and it would only take a couple minutes. It's too much time and effort.*



*I hope my sarcasm is obvious!

 

[Pdaddy1978]

Seriously, people give cars to goodwill. They give RVs.
Guitars? ... sure

 

[Leigh Semmens]

Don't forget that the likes of Goodwill are there to make money, not for profit's sake but that the money can then go into other benevolent ventures. Like feeding the poor, etc.

 

[fhm555]

Not sure about musical instruments, but I’m an avid buyer seller and repair minion of an item we are forbidden to discuss here. Anywho before the advent of social media, I can’t tell you the number of times I answered a classified with one or more of those items for sale, place a call and find out they have (for example) something worth a couple K and asking $500. Most times it’s a family member of a recently deceased relative with no clue what they have or what it might be worth. on the flip side, I also saw quite a few worth a couple hundred with an asking of 3~4 times that because, “they looked old”. I always told those who were about to hose themselves what their piece was actually worth and then made an offer close to that amount. I could have had some seriously valuable pieces for pocket change, but I have to sleep at night. I don’t mind making a little off a hobby, but I can’t bring myself to just screw someone who is just trying to close a chapter on their life.

 

[friskinator]

Seriously, people give cars to goodwill. They give RVs.
Guitars? ... sure

 

[edwinhurwitz]

I bought my '68 EB-3 from Goodwill for a very good price about 10 years ago. It's cosmetically challenged but structurally sound, so a perfect specimen for my mods.

 

[gln1955]

Maybe they read that nobody likes to make music and it's all going to be AI-generated from here on out. None of these musical instruments are worth anything any more.

 

[RandomKaren]

Some people just donate things, even valuable things, out of good will. Maybe that's where the name came from...

 

[rogerbmiller]

Sadowsky Jim Hall Model A2123 Archtop Guitar w/G&G Hard Case, Case Candy (2022)​

Used Sadowsky Jim Hall Model A2123 Archtop Guitar w/G&G Hard Case, Case Candy (2022)

shopgoodwill.com

Uh…Charity?

 

[Tassieviking]

It's really bloody obvious why !
It's a hollow body and everyone knows you need a solid body like a 1959 Les Paul if you want the bolt to bite in when you bolt it up behind the bar in the man cave.