OT Indiana Counterfeiter donates cards to Goodwill?

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Originally Posted by PolarBear

In all fairness, I don't think you can expect Goodwill to determine the authenticity of stuff like this. All they do is take donations as is, and then resell the stuff they can.

They're largely staffed with minimum wage employees or volunteers. In fact, some (many?) of their employees are physically and/or mentally handicapped people. Goodwill goes out of their way to provide meaningful employment for them.

I'm actually in this camp, too. I just dropped off a few bags of clothes this past weekend and I don't know about other Goodwill locations, but ours is always a freaking mess. They always seem incredibly busy and working hard. So much stuff to sort with limited staff.

I don't know how many people there could reasonably pick out reprints. And even if they receive emails stating they're reprints, I don't even know that they have a responsibility to pull the items anyway unless they have someone that can verify it on their end. They're not selling them as authentic - only as cards. This is 100% better than something like this hot mess on eBay (yeah, I seriously believe that someone's great grandmother collected Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle, 1992 Score, and Lion King cards - seems totally legit).

I will say that if they were 100% positive they were reprints, I do think they should identify them as such. To do otherwise is just deceptive. But beyond that, with so many items incoming and outgoing, I've got no problem with their 'as is' descriptions. I just don't think they have the resources for significant vetting most of the time.