A Goodwill shopper says an employee pulled back a deal after she asked to buy a patio set and a nearby chair together. The employee initially offered both pieces for $100 before later withdrawing the offer.
A TikTok creator who goes by WeThemFlipperz says she found a patio set at a Goodwill store priced at $75. Next to it sat a matching chair with a small footrest, marked separately at $70. She asked an employee to write up a ticket for the set, then asked if he would throw in the chair too. According to her, he agreed and offered to sell both together for $100.
That offer didn’t last. She says the employee came back several minutes later and told her he could not honor the price after checking with the back room. “I have to apologize, but I went in the back and they said I can’t sell it to you for that,” she recalled him saying. Staff reportedly told her the furniture had been priced as one set the day before, then split into separate tags that same day.
The furniture was suddenly priced separately
The timing made her question the decision. She says the furniture was split into separate prices right after she showed interest in buying both pieces together. Her account concerns one employee and one Goodwill location, and does not establish a wider pricing policy.
Two weeks later, she went back and found the chair still sitting in the same spot, unsold at $70. The situation recalls a Florida shopper whose Goodwill globe became the subject of a pricing dispute. “Can somebody please explain to me why they’re so greedy?” she asked in the video.
The comments reflected the same disagreement over Goodwill’s pricing. Some commenters defended the store, while others agreed with her. One commenter pushed back on the idea that the price was unreasonable at all, writing, “So, you know, they have to pay rent overboard, and there are people to wait on you. $75 for a whole patio set is not out of reach.”
Others weren’t as forgiving. One tied the pricing back to leadership, writing, “Because they are paying their CEOs, no one else.” Another leaned on the nickname shoppers have given the chain online, joking, “They have a typo on their name. It’s called GreedWill because they’re wild and bold asking for almost retail prices.”
Other Goodwill shoppers have had their own disputes over prices. Similar frustration has surfaced before, including from a shopper who paid $4 for a coat and said she felt accused of switching the tag herself at checkout.
The video does not establish whether the price change was deliberate or simply an inconsistency between staff. The chair remained unsold for at least two weeks, which is exactly what she said she expected when the $100 deal fell through.
Published: Sep 21, 2026 08:34 am