Goodwill

I love thrifting but this Goodwill is way too expensive! I’ve been in multiple times and came out empty handed. It’s very organized though!

I donate here regularly.
The staff are always helpful and usually nice.
Coming during the week is easier.
The inside is pretty large, with lots of selection.
They have the bid only section. Interesting to watch it happen.
Great kitchen cookware. Some nice stuff. Not sure how that compares price wise.

Always a treat. Search for treasure or just something for a gift for those who have everything. A surprising number of items are brand new or hardly used. I am quite happy browsing for an hour during the rare free time I have.

I am unsure why, in general, Goodwills in Austin are super expensive comparably to Goodwills an hour away (San Antonio) or even a half hour away (San Marcos). I am completely stumped every time I come to Goodwill and find a dress to be almost $ 8-​$ 10 each!
I came to this location on their «Black Friday» sale where everything was 50% off. This location is HUGE and has plenty of stuff to rummage through. Lots of furniture and plenty of glassware too. Getting into the dressing room though was kind of confusing as there is a button to push to get assistance but no one ever came and I never heard a ring/​ding from pushing the button.

I love thrift shops, but this particular Goodwill location seems to be under stocked and overpriced.
I found their prices on household goods way too high. In many cases, they were close to retail, and some times, more than I would pay for it new. Most people shop at thrift shops to save money.
In addition, there are a lot of cracked, chipped and broken items in the housewares section. I am not sure there is a market for wine glasses with dings on the rim and cracks in the glass. They were also trying to sell pans with tattered and peeling non-​stick finishes. They should have thrown those out.
On the clothing and linens, there were a lot of items that should have gone to the rag bin. The clothing racks were sparse and many of the items were priced too high. I found a flat sheet that I would have been interested in, but again, the price was was double what I would have spent at another Goodwill or Savers.
This is a thrift shop, not Neiman Marcus. They really need to standardize on their pricing.

Apparently this place is under new management and they are doing just as awful as the previous managers. The stuff is so overpriced! You can get the same Walmart and Target clothes they have there for cheaper at the stores they came from. All the dresses start at $ 9.99 too! Ripoff! The place smells like overly used bleach and sanitizers. Bathrooms are gross. I guess I should have expected all this at Goodwill. They don’t offer refunds anymore, only store credit. They’re VERY stingy with their money… I mean come on! Everything is labeled incorrectly too which is confusing as hell. Won’t be returning here again, that’s all. Save your money and go to Savers or Thrift Town.

Oh man… if you aren’t knocked out by the excessive awful air freshener when you walk in, you’ll see that this goodwill is a train wreck. It’s overpriced, which is so funny since it’s all donations, and the employees get minimum wage hmmmm. In any case this is the worst and smelliest goodwill I’ve ever been in. Go support a better charity that doesn’t charge 7.99 for a pair of 20 year old mom jeans.

So I was running around, doing a little shopping, and I stumbled in on this place. They have a really great selection of everything from children’s books to bedroom furniture to fancy dinnerware. I found a t shirt in my favorite color. It was really soft. I didn’t try it on cause it looked like it would fit. I was so surprised that it was only $ 1.50 I thought it was a mistake so I had them ring me up and I took off like a bandit. I didn’t realize that there was not a manufacturers tag on it. Honestly, I think this shirt was previously used! gross! Why would I want to wear someone else’s shirt! Other than that the staff was super nice. I’m going to have to go back sometime and see if I can find some underwear, as long as it’s not used!

Clean store with lots of glassware/​kitchenware & clothes but not very much furniture.
Its clean & well organized though.

Way too expensive for a Goodwill…
If the clothes were trendier and nicer I could understand why the prices were so high (for smelly used clothing) but the clothes are the same as any other Goodwill throughout Texas.
There are definitely cheaper places to go with the same quality used clothing.

Prices are crazy sky high. Could buy new for that price range! Get some perspective, Goodwill! Try Blue Velvet or Thrift Town for much better clothes at much better prices. Oh and Blue Velvet has kick ass stuff for Halloween costumes too! Went to Blue Velvet just last night — yeah I had waited till the last minute again, but I found everything I needed for a steam punk costume! Goodwill needs some Goodsense… I have finally found the GREAT thrift stores I can’t go back to GOOD.

Anytime I need a sports coat… Good will provides… Not only does it provide it provides cheap and quality. It provides corduroy’, tweed you name it! It has awesome vintage shirts and dont get me started on the quality of the pants selection.
You can go to some other hipper thrift store and pay better than retail prices for cool stuff or you can to good will and pay below retail for bad ass stuff!

Ok, I’ve got to take a couple of stars away — when this place first opened, it was the cleanest and most organized Goodwill in town. But my last few trips, the shelves are a mess — they seem to have given up trying to maintain any sort of organization whatsoever. Seriously, this place is now a major mess.

Okay, so I know I’m busting this place wide open and possibly increasing traffic to a place that already suffers from lack of parking during peak hours.
BUT, this might be the best goodwill I’ve ever been to. That said… YES… prices are high. The coat pricing is ridiculous (I could pay that much for new). However, this, at the time of writing, was a lesser known Goodwill and still had amazing finds (NWT Missoni for Target and other cute gems). It’s less «rifled through», much cleaner, and much more spacious than current Austin Goodwills.
Sorry everyone who was trying to keep this location under wraps. This space opened on October 1^st, 2011, and much like the Tarrytown Goodwill, benefits from the donations of the surrounding neighborhoods and Retail stores being of higher quality. Likely retirees based on the knick-​knack department. And it is likely Target donates their castoffs here, based on the amount of NWT Target brand clothing.
After my first visit, I’m anxiously awaiting the next major holiday.
Note about location: Though it’s technically the «Southpark Meadows» Goodwill, it’s a bit before the actual complex. More S 1^st and Slaughter.