Yet another annoying GW policy

[Punk Glam Queen]

This past weekend we hit an out of town Goodwill. My daughter found one of those french style corded telephones. Not new, it had push buttons. When we got to the check out I inquired as to returns should it not work. Nope. Final sale. Did they have some place we could test it? Nope. This was completely unacceptable. Her reasoning is that electronics are final sale. We asked where there was a plug (there was none it was a bloody telephone!) Still not budging. So the lovely telephone my daughter wanted for her newly decorated room got left behind. Seems so idiotic to me. How about others? Has anyone else run into this?
Cheers!
Suzanne

[Jay2TheRescue]

Most likely it was a french style phone sold in the 80's.  As a collector of vintage telephones, I can say that 99% of the time they do work.  As long as they were asking under $15 - $20 it was a reasonable gamble.

[dewdrop_me_a_line]

Call me Chicken Little or Chicken Big . . . but I just don't know enough about used electronics. I won't even buy a used USB cord. It must be there for some reason . . . and I don't know enough to know why.

I think I'd have looked for a reproduction or gone to someone like Jay that knew his stuff!

dew

[SplashsMom]

This past summer I found a Tweety and Sylvester novelty phone at the Thrift. I hesitated, but carried it around the store with me for an hour, before deciding to take the chance. I do not even have a land line for phone in my house, but decided the novelty of it sitting on my desk was worth the price, about $10 I think,  probably less (I am sooo cheap.) Eventually I took it to a friend's house to test and everything works wonderfully, from Tweety swinging on his perch to the sound when someone calls.
But our thrifts generally will mark on tag if it was tested or allow you to return it within 5 days.

[Big Daddy Audio]

The Goodwills around me allow returns on anything within 14 days with the receipt and the price tag still on it.  They don't issue refunds, but a store credit card, which is good at any of the area Goodwills.  It is a pretty respectible policy, all in all.

SYNT
BFN

[Punk Glam Queen]

Most likely it was a french style phone sold in the 80's.  As a collector of vintage telephones, I can say that 99% of the time they do work.  As long as they were asking under $15 - $20 it was a reasonable gamble.

Yes it was def a repro, but we have such terrible luck with telephones (more than likely its the line that verizon refuses to fix) that I thought it silly that it couldn't be returned for credit if it didn't work. If only they'd allowed me to test it!
Cheers!
Suzanne

[daswitzer]

The only electronics that our GW sell are the occassional lamp and strings of Christmas lights.  I can drive over to Indiana and check out many electronic gizmos, but that is 25 miles away.  I wish that our GW would sell more electronics.  I love electronics.  So for now, I can only buy things like that at rummage sales.  I admire the folks who buy electronics and can identify anything and actually fix things.  I love technology!! 
Our GW will allow returns within 30 days.  BUT, if it's marked AS IS, they don't allow returns.  They do have an outlet for checking the occassional lamp or Christmas lights.