The salvation army is greedy!!

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Greedy motherfuckers, they are!! They think they are some kind of boutique!! They are supposed to help people, both by providing the donated items at an affordable price and by providing services from the money they make.

I don't know how well they do with managing their money, but I sure do know that you can hardly get any bargains there anymore!!

Anything that's 20 or more years old gets put in this vintage class, where they jack up the price of it. Fuck that!! They got it free!! They owe their customers low affordable prices. Jeans should be jeans, a coat is a coat....period!!

I hate that fucking place now and they can go to hell. On top of it all, they get these poor dupes to ring bells outside of every damn store that exists to get MORE donations!! Greedy scum-suckers!!

Sheesh, I went in there for a leisure suit, and it turns into THIS. They should be ashamed!! Now I have nothing to wear to mom's funeral.

Yep, they're greedy alright!! 26
I wouldn't know, I don't go there. 24
I don't mind paying more for the "vintage" items.(u must not b poor) 4
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  • bananaface
    11 years ago | pl

    I know. How dare they raise money for people who need it! What on earth is wrong with those greedy bastards, don't they know that their main priority should be to look after the consumer?

    I'm sorry you had to put up with this intolerable behaviour. Someone needs to teach these guys a lesson, before they raise even more money and, god forbid...help the homeless:O! The homeless are so inconsiderate, it's like they go without shelter just to be an inconveniece to your wardrobe!

    Oh, the thought alone is enough to anger me.

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    • Anonymous Post Author
      11 years ago

      Part of their help is that they're supposed to provide affordable clothing to the less fortunate through the store. Where do the working poor shop?? If you can't afford a regular store, you shop at a thrift store. Hello? They used to be a thrift store. Now they're a boutique. The store isn't supposed to cater to the well-off, it's supposed to be the opposite.

      They're saying that the poor can't be fashionable, too.

      No item in that store should be unattainable by a person of little means. That is half the purpose of the store!!

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  • JustShoveIt
    11 years ago

    Religion?!?! You mentioned RELIGION?!?!?!?!

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  • Chaitealov3r
    9 years ago

    My highschool offered to donate over 900 articles of clothing and they openly refused our donation because we were a catholic school. Yes they said that is why.

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  • JuneB
    11 years ago

    Eh, it's not really something worth bitching about. I go to Goodwill more than the salvation army, but I can get what you mean...they like to randomly price some things. They had the "E" book of an encyclopedia priced at $5. They didn't have the rest of the set, and that's way more expensive than books usually are. Just buy things that aren't marked up. You're shopping at a thrift store, what does it matter if the clothes are vintage or trendy? Clothes are clothes.

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  • Angel_in_a_Glass_Dress
    11 years ago

    "Sheesh, I went in there for a leisure suit, and it turns into THIS. They should be ashamed!! Now I have nothing to wear to mom's funeral."

    So now we come to the real issue. You didn't like the prices.
    And ... a leisure suit for a funeral? Really?

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    • Anonymous Post Author
      11 years ago

      Their prices are out of line with their supposed mission and what they portray as their image of helping people. They use this image to solicit MORE money and donations. It's wrong.

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      • Captain_Kegstand
        11 years ago

        I think at this point, I am not knowledgeable enough about the salvation army and their inner workings to be able to continue in this debate without making myself look like a fool.

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  • Captain_Kegstand
    11 years ago

    I have not been to a salvation army, but I agree. If they are jacking cloths prices up, on donated cloths, and still selling them, that has to be the most profitable business ever!

    They aren't really helping anybody out that way!

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    • Angel_in_a_Glass_Dress
      11 years ago

      Thing is they still need to pay for their operating costs.

      Electricity, gas, advertisements, employees... none of that comes free.

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      • Captain_Kegstand
        11 years ago

        Ya, and come to think of it, they probably pay employees at the store too don't they?

        This is an odd question, because you have to ask yourself, how much money is it okay for the salvation army to make?

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        • Angel_in_a_Glass_Dress
          11 years ago

          Personally I don't think people should have a right to decide how much profit a company makes.

          Because remember, once you start doing that... someone else can try dictating how much profit YOU'RE allowed to have.

          Why do people act like it's evil to earn money and have a profit? Punishing people and companies for being successful ... it's as logical as cutting off your feet before going on a marathon.

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          • Anonymous Post Author
            11 years ago

            No, no one should be able to say how much someone else should make. The point is, this is a charity and a religious organization that uses it's stores to provide DONATED items to people at "bargain prices" (their words, not mine, see below).

            A lot of the workers in the stores are volunteers, doing community service, or are in the SA rehab program. In other words, they have a lot of free labor. Since they're a church, they don't even pay any taxes!!

            By posing as a store that provides things at "bargain prices", they get donations, both monetary and in the form of donated clothing and goods. Those people donating that money and those goods are at least in part and sometimes in whole, doing so to HELP PEOPLE. They could've taken their clothes to a consignment shop, or had a garage sale, or even just thrown them in the garbage, but they chose to cart them down to the SA. I'd venture a guess that a good portion of the people who donate don't shop there, so they are probably completely unaware of the pricing. If they WERE aware, don't you think it might make a difference to them? I think so. That's the point. The SA is lying, and the donations keep rolling in by unsuspecting fools.

            This is a newer thing the SA is doing. I am a long time shopper in these stores and this is something they have started doing in the past few years and has gotten worse and worse. They've made it so far, what sparked this greed?

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            • Angel_in_a_Glass_Dress
              11 years ago

              So how much did this glorious suit cost?

              You complain about the prices but you haven't actually said what they were yet.

              You've only said that you feel their prices are evil.

              So how much did they expect you to pay for this suit?

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          • Captain_Kegstand
            11 years ago

            I sell cars, so I know EXACTLY what you mean about people thinking it is evil to make a profit!

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            • Angel_in_a_Glass_Dress
              11 years ago

              it's part of the ongoing class-war.

              it's evil to make a profit and to succeed doncha know?

              Part of that whole "you didn't build that" bs as if somehow being successful means you need to support everyone else who doesn't produce

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        • JuneB
          11 years ago

          Assuming that it functions like Goodwill, part of their charity is employing people who are at a disadvantage when it comes to finding employment. So yeah, I would assume that they pay their employees.

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  • [Old Memory]
    11 years ago

    Do you want their vintage merchandise because it is fashionable? And do you want it to be cheap because it is old and other old things have no value, even though it is coveted by fashionistas everywhere?

    Maybe instead of comparing the value of "vintage clothes" to the other cheap clothes in the store, you should try comparing them to other antique items that gain value with age instead of depreciating. Think about the value of haute couture as art, for example. Vintage clothes are certainly not haute couture but at least they are still an afforable and powerful fashion statement, they have been for decades.

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  • Emma27
    11 years ago

    Nothing new here. All religions are just a thirst for money 'disguised' as a place of good moral values.

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  • VioletTrees
    11 years ago

    I don't like them because they're anti-gay, so I prefer other charities.

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    • Captain_Kegstand
      11 years ago

      How are they anti gay? (honest question)

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      • JuneB
        11 years ago

        It's a Christian organization (you can get free Bibles there) but I don't know if violettrees believes that they means it's inevitably anti-gay, or if they know that they donate to anti-gay causes. I'm not really sure if it does or doesn't, tbh.

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        • Captain_Kegstand
          11 years ago

          Ugh, I am tired of the whole anti gay thing. What is the point of it all?

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          • JuneB
            11 years ago

            I don't know. I'm religious, and I hate when religious people do that. It makes us all look bad.

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