ShopGoodwill

ShopGoodwill.com

About this app

ShopGoodwill mobile app is the premier location for finding hidden treasures within Goodwills across the country. It’s the first e-commerce platform that has been created, owned, and operated by a non-profit organization. Supporting over 130 Goodwill organizations, ShopGoodwill has unique finds like fashion, home goods, technology, jewellery, collectibles and more that you can search through from the comfort of your home. While on the site, you have the option of browsing specific categories, participating in auctions, using our “Buy it Now” feature, as well as checking out our 1 cent shipping items. When you shop with ShopGoodwill, you’re helping fund our mission of providing job training and placement services to thousands of people. Each item’s final sale price goes back into the local Goodwill that listed the item, and around 85 cents of every dollar go back into funding our mission, so this means your purchases are making a difference in local communities throughout the country. Shop with purpose, shop for good.

1. Bid for auction items and buy them after the auction ends
2. Buy items right away wherever applicable
3. Pay for the item using Paypal or Stripe
4. Paypal Credit option available
5. Get quick access to featured items
6. Quick bid or Quick buy from the listing page directly
7. Add items to Favorites for easy access later
8. Filter items based on
• Categories
• Size
• Lowest to highest pricing
• 1 Cent shipping only
• New today
• Specific Sellers
• Shipping Options
9. Know more about ShopGoodwill
10. Get an email from your personal shopper when an item that matches your interest is listed
11. Save a search to fetch items again quickly on the items listing
12. Search using Advanced search option with deeper search criteria
13. Raise Customer Service tickets on Items and your orders
14. Schedule Pickups for your pickup orders

Ratings and reviews

I've been waiting for years for the developers to sort out some obvious bugs and horrible choices made in the design of this app. The 2-second auto scroll on posting pics is torture. When you select a number of filters or change the sort option, you better not click on a post picture to take a closer look at that thing you might spend money on; for if you do, when returning to your filtered or sorted list, you will find all filters and sorting has been reset. Last update fixed nothing, worse.

Overall the prices are cheap but the shipping and handling is high. I know I am paying for people's wages but at least give me a choice between USPS and FedEx. The app is frustrating. the sort by function resets back to ends soon after you click an item to look at pictures. The whole list resets too so you need to start your scrolling all over again. I resorted to just marking anything as a favorite and then going back and looking at the end. Search is not the best.

A couple of issues I noticed: 1) when I tap on an image to get a full photo and go back, it'll go to the listings, but it'll switch back to the way it was before (ex: sorting by newly listed and goes back to ending soon) and 2) notifications are not working since the latest Samsung update. The app needs to be updated so that notifications can work and also fix the listing issues that switch back to the way it was when I would look at something.

What's new

Bug fixes and usability enhancements.