I spent some time shopping thrift stores in my area and made a few collectible finds, some O-Gage Model Railroad track and cars along with some glass, and some collectible mugs but while in my local Goodwill store browsing to see what I might find I got into a conversation with one of the people who worked there and he told me about shopping online at Goodwill. In spite of the fact that I had been hearing about just about everything moving to an online presents:the postal service, banks and credit unions I honestly had never consider Goodwill online shopping.

When I found out about the online auction I thought, even better! In fact I have to admit the Auction part was what really caught my attention. I imagined not having to drive my gas guzzling truck around in search of goodies fit for resale. I know nothing beats being able to put your hand on something and appraise it with your own senses.
Once I found an item that seemed in demand and a potentially sale I usually ended up at my computer scoping out what similar items were selling for on the E-Bay site, and trying to add up that item’s shipping cost. I was surprise at how easy it was to log onto the Goodwill auction site, search through the hundreds and in some cases thousands of thrift store items, make my selection and hope for the best. I was starting to get pretty excited about shopping thrift stores online when some realities started to set in.
For one thing was that after all an auction and while I had bid on a few items I still needed to wait until the bidding time expired to find out if my bid had been selected. In two of the cases I did have the winning bid and ended up being able to turn a profit on the items I had chosen so I thought I share with the readers of this blog. You will need to sign up to be able to shop at Goodwill online, sign up is free. Stay tuned I’ll share more about my online thrift store shopping experience.