A woman who bought a glass vase for $3.99 at a local Goodwill charity shop has seen the piece auctioned off for more than $100,000 after it turned out to be a rare and valuable piece of Italian glassware.
Jessica Vincent had bought the item at a Goodwill thrift store in Hanover county, Virginia, and had an inkling that it might have been worth a little more than was usual, she told the New York Times.
“I had a sense that it might be a $1,000 or $2,000 piece, but I had no clue how good it actually was until I did a little bit more research,” she told the paper after noticing a small ‘M’ on its bottom which she suspected might stand for Murano, an Italian island near Venice famed for glasswork.
Exactly they advertise how great they are by hiring disabled people. Which fools the boomers. But in reality they hire them because law says they can legally pay them way below minimum wage.
Also keep in mind everything they sell was 100% given to them by donations. So they make butt loads while exploiting labor.
I looked at their 2022 990 and their CEO made 600k, which for an organization doing $61m in business is on the very low end. I see 3.5m to 13 paid employees of Goodwill.
There are ICs associated and I’m not interested in delving into that right now, but I don’t have any information available right now to say the CEO of Goodwill is making a buttload.
Paying an autistic employee peanuts is deplorable, but hopefully a one-off by some CEO wannabe/neverbe who thinks he knows how to do business.
I’m all about calling out “charitable” organizations, but the first thing I do is check their 990. And I’ll be completely honest, this may just be one branch of Goodwill’s larger umbrella, but it’s probably a decent example with 61m in revenue. I’m sitting in a cabana at Kalahari while my two year old eats a bar so I’m phoning it in, literally.
I know for a fact they pay them 2 bucks an hour they brag about it at the training facility.
Yeah, I mean, they’re not breaking a law to do so, but I think we all agree that isn’t necessarily a high bar. But the law was put in place, initially, to get disabled WW1 vets back into jobs. The alternative, I suppose, is these folks don’t get hired. I don’t like the alternative, but I don’t like seeing them get paid less either. It’s the middle ground.