The Salvation Army Thrift Store & Donation Center — Local services in New York

I love thrifting, so I come when I can, but usually I’m turned off from coming here. It’s overflowing with stuff on the main floor, obscuring some of the racks. The lower floor with furniture and random stuff is pretty hazardous and hard to walk through.

The biggest issue is the prices. I can’t imagine who pays the prices on this stuff. This is supposed to be for people to afford necessities, not to price gouge or “pay for the employees.” I’ve seen framed pictures for 199, worn out shoes for 29.99, and old sheets for 12.99. They write it in sharpie on the item, so it will forever say the price of it. Why would I buy something that says 49.99 on it now? Why ruin the item?

Recently I saw a framed piece of wall art, it didn’t have a price. I asked, was told 12.99. I passed and thought I’d try back during a half off day if it was still there. Came back to see that that piece now had 29.99 written on the back. It’s all a scam unfortunately. Even for nyc, the prices are wild.

I will still come on half off days, but feel like it’s harder and harder to find anything interesting or worth it.

*EDITED to say that the manager does price things at a whim, with seemingly no consideration to what it would have cost new.

I wish they would price things lower AT LEAST to clear things out and make the store shop-able! There are boxes everywhere, things falling all over the aisles, and piles of stuff that are impossible to even see. I haven’t gotten any kind of houseware here in years because they write the price IN...

The prices for used items are higher than what you pay for new. The items are too worn for the prices they have. Some items I have seen in the store have been there for years. I would highly recommend they go through all the old sheets they have and put them in a large bin to be purchased for $2 or $3 to clean them out and start fresh. There are some old pans where the teflon is so scratched and flaking that no one is going to purchase for $15 or $20, if at all. I would think they would want to move items quickly so they can put more out. They take so many donations there they have to take them out to the warehouse and then to other stores. This takes time and money down the drain. I have purchased just one item there in the 5 years that I have shopped after I have dropped my donations off.

Recently been donating to Big Reuse on 12th St. Love thrifting here. The store can be jumbled in certain areas but you can see they try to keep it organized and the prices are really good. They get the concept of moving...

Donate at your own risk! I donated family treasures, truly collectible items that I thought would sell and fund a worthy cause; rehabilitation services. I could have sold the items but chose to donate instead. As we were being dropped off in front of the store, 3 thugs took the items from us and were placing items in their own car. SA should not allow this sort of criminal behavior. Other patrons with donations also had items taken from them. It was so disturbing. When we managed to get inside the store there were only 2 employees and they seemed understaffed. The young man shrugged and never said a word when we asked where was NYPD with this blatant robbery of donations right in front of the store? I guess he didn’t want to file a police complaint and chance being attacked later or worse, losing his life. This is NYC now. Sad. No one answers their NyC location after calling California 800# no one answered and no one ever cared to call back. SA is poorly managed at the...