The Salvation Army Thrift Store Brooklyn, NY — Attraction in New York

I should’ve read the reviews here first but I went to this Salvation Army to donate a huge amount of various goods. Some of them were unboxed and a lot of the clothes were unworn from very good brands. I was too lazy to sell my stuff and I didn’t want to give it to a rip off company like ThredUp because they’re unethical. My SUV was filled from the trunk to the backseat with stuff and I was so excited.

It wasn’t after I donated my stuff that I looked around and saw the prices were HIGH. Ridiculously high. The stuff I have are mostly new, I thought I would be able to help someone who isn’t as fortunate but I think it’s greedy of this store to price so high. A busted up old 20gal aquarium was $39.99 when you can order one from Petco for the same price, brand new and free shipping. They're selling busted up old canvas art for $40+ when you can go to Target and get a brand new one for the same price. Old, beat up books and clothes cost just as much as retail. I'm not trying to insult them but I thought Salvation Army is supposed to help serve the less fortunate with low priced items? Instead, they're ripping people off then have the audacity to respond to reviews here saying that running a business costs money. Yes, it does, but if you price lower, maybe more items will go out the door and more customers will buy. Instead, this store hoards and hoards and expect people to pay $20 for a blender that's missing parts.

What bothered me the most was that while I was donating my items, the employees were digging through my stuff. It seemed like they were calling dibs on some of my stuff before I even finished unpacking anything. I would never...

Nope. The prices are ridiculous. I am all for a good cause, that the money is hopefully going towards helping those in need, but also they need to keep in mind that people who actually shop there are also not the riches. I only went a couple of times during their 50 percent off days, and never again. The same clothing can be purchased just a few dollars more at a chain store but it will be new, clean and contemporary. Shoes I have seen at full ticket price, while being stingy and old. Furniture and household, I'd be terrified touching most of that stuff without gloves. A lot of things honestly should not even be sold as unsanitary, like walkers and other personal equipment. And the prices are so much higher than on marketplace. When you go downstairs, the stuffy humid air with the smell of worn clothes, ugh. Things were messy, hangers over stuffed. Examples of prices, a glass flute $4.99. A plastic kids lunch bag, $12.99. An old, shaky peeling side table, $29.99. A pair of boots with broken zippers (too bad, these were nearly new Fryes) is $100. A pair of kids felt slippers consisting of two left shoes of mismatched size, $7.99... Whoever does the pricing they know brands for sure, you see in their ig posts occasionally a great coach bag or a rare toy. But those items are not there to find. They have some prime items behind the counter. long story short, it's neither fun thrifting experience, nor a place to...

This place is very special. I remember going in here like 17 years ago and all I remember was it was gross and nasty and I never went back. I was a teenager at that time so I figured I will go back and see how it was now nearly 20 years later.. and it winded up being even worse than I remember. From the moment you walk in this place, you just feel icky. I was looking for a specific bag, and I actually found it to my surprise when I opened the purse up, there were bedbugs in the purse. They weren’t alive, but it was just a bedbug dead corpse in the purse I was in shock and my friend seen it as well and we just both couldn’t believe it. She was like close the bag quickly. I was more shocked that the employee didn’t say anything about it because he definitely had to see the bedbugs in the bag. I will never go back to that place for clothes or any kind of purses or anything for that matter it’s just gross they don’t even clean the items. And by the way, I wanted I was talking to the employee and asking him about where the money went to because the items were extremely overpriced. It was ridiculous for these disgusting filthy items. He told me that the profits go to a homeless male shelter in Manhattan. Not a woman shelter. Nothing for children.. a male homeless shelter, which made me not want to shop...