Customer left \u201cheartbroken\u201d after Goodwill refuses to sell them rollerblades Unsplash: luka reedyA TikToker explained why she wasn\u2019t able to buy a pair of rollerblades at Goodwill, saying she was \u201cheartbroken\u201d after an employee turned her away. Seldomly does a department store refuse to sell customers an item, but for one TikToker, who goes by the name of Gigi, that wasn\u2019t the story. Although Gigi traveled over 30 minutes to one Goodwill location, she was shocked after being informed that she wasn\u2019t allowed to purchase a pair of rollerblades. Since posting her now-viral TikTok video explaining her situation, Gigi has heard from plenty of Goodwill shoppers and employees who have all shared their disbelief in the thrift store disparity. Goodwill employee said rollerblades had to be \u201creprocessed\u201d before buying them When shopping in a thrift store like Goodwill, often does someone not walk out of the store without copping some sort of awesome deal. For Gigi, that deal was a pair of pristine rollerblades that she had always wanted. Though she may have left the store with other things, she was told that her prized find wasn\u2019t eligible for sale. Somehow, the price tag fell off of the rollerblades, causing a Goodwill employee to refuse the sale to Gigi, who\u2019d traveled thirty-five minutes to the thrift store. Sure, the first time around could have deterred Gigi from going back to that Goodwill \u2013 but the initial refusal wasn\u2019t enough to keep her away from the pair of rollerblades she had her eyes on. So, the next day, Gigi drove all the way to that same Goodwill to find that her soon-to-be rollerblades had been placed on the shelf with a price tag. At last, she couldn\u2019t be refused \u2014 so she ended up buying the rollerblades, later taking to TikTok to share her story. In her now-viral TikTok video, Gigi captioned her nuance, saying, \u201cI found these perfect rollerblades at Goodwill two days ago, and the (not very kind) employee wouldn\u2019t let me purchase them because the sticker fell off. I begged and was very heartbroken when she told me she had to take them to be reprocessed.\u201d Though Gigi was told that the rollerblades had to be \u201creprocessed,\u201d many Tiktokers who have worked at Goodwill shared that they\u2019ve never heard of \u2018reprocessing\u2019 an item just because a price tag fell off, saying, \u201cI worked at Goodwill and we\u2019d always price the items right away for the person.\u201d While another said, \u201cAs someone who\u2019s sitting on her break for her Goodwill shift right now, we literally can go to the back and put a new sticker on.\u201d Gigi even expressed how the same employee who refused her the sale was working the following day. Though Gigi went in for the sole purpose of buying the rollerblades, she was again struck with confrontation from the employee, as Gigi explained that she glared at her while sarcastically saying, \u201cOh, you\u2019re the girl from the other day.\u201d Though the process may have been messy, Gigi ended up with her dream pair of rollerblades. Sure, it took over two hours in travel time and a rather unhappy employee, but in the end, she secured a pretty great deal. You go, girl!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Customer left \u201cheartbroken\u201d after Goodwill refuses to sell them rollerblades Unsplash: luka reedyA TikToker explained why she wasn\u2019t able to buy a pair of rollerblades at Goodwill, saying she was \u201cheartbroken\u201d after an employee turned her away. Seldomly does a department store refuse to sell customers an item, but for one TikToker, who goes by […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-46416","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46416","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=46416"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46416\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=46416"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=46416"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=46416"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}