Housing Works Thrift Shops - West Village — Local services in New York

I bought a Ringly smart ring here for $24. I took it home and found out it no longer has an app in the app store. I brought it back the next day and asked for an exchange for half the asking price and was told there are no refunds are exchanges. I returned the ring to them and told them i had no use for it. It’s pretty suspect behavior; parading around as a charity while simultaneously stiffing their customers for electronics that don’t work. I know that Housing Works is a charity combating Aids and homelessness, but that doesn’t give them the right to rip people off....

Wandered in shortly after a visit to the (wonderful) Housing Works Cannabis dispensary on Broadway, over by Astor Place. The clerk/artist on duty had assembled mannequin displays of such impeccable style—and of perhaps even roughly my size—that I had to ask the artist if they would disassemble their creation, that I might fit it to my body. Lo and behold, I now own their secondhand genius for the flat price of 45 United States dollars. And I feel good about the organization and energies receiving my money too, given that it's...

Over 14 years duration, have bought fine shoes, a painting, a Gucci hat, a sport jacket, CD's, houseware items, gifts for a fastidious girlfriend. Mostly decent quality - often vintage - items are here. If you have unusual articles - the kind, where you'd ask yourself, 'What was I thinking when I bought this ?,' you might as well donate it here. Potential drawback is that, even on a Saturday, this particular Housing Works...