FAQ
What is the Greater Florence Habitat for Humanity marketplace?
Greater Florence Habitat for Humanity is an online marketplace for good. You can donate almost any goods to any of our orgnaization. Sales proceeds go the charity (charities) you designate. You can deliver a purchased item directly to the buyer (if you are local to one another) or via USPS shipping. Greater Florence Habitat for Humanity generates a prepaid mailing label for you to print, and USPS will pick the item up for free.
What problems does this the Greater Florence Habitat for Humanity marketplace solve?
The Greater Florence Habitat for Humanity marketplace solves many problems: • Clutter: All of us accumulate valuable goods we no longer need. The Greater Florence Habitat for Humanity marketplace converts clutter into charity. • Waste: Sometimes, it can be too much trouble (and no reward) to find someone who values our old stuff, so we throw it away--but we feel wasteful and guilty. The Greater Florence Habitat for Humanity marketplace helps donors feel good about recycling clutter into value to others. • Lost Value: When valuable goods sit unused, the value they could bring to somebody else is lost. The Greater Florence Habitat for Humanity marketplace helps extend the value of goods you no longer need. • Donor Fatigue: For charities, soliciting donors is expensive, and everyone has heard the same requests over and over. WebThriftStore provides a new way to tap new donors and new donations. • Asking for Cash is a Conversation Ender: For every user who clicks on a Donate button and enters a credit card number, there are many more who disengage. Donating stuff we no longer want serves donors' self-interests. Fewer will disengage. • Thrift Stores are Inconvenient and Inefficient: Thrift stores require significant resources to receive, store, process, and retail in-kind donations (not to mention to dispose of unsold donations). Traveling to a thrift store is inconvenient, and what's on hand in it is uncertain. • Nonprofits Cannot Handle In-Kind Donations: People want to donate valuable goods to worthwhile causes, but very few nonprofits can handle in-kind donations. Charities want money, not goods.
What are the fees to charities for using Greater Florence Habitat for Humanity?
There are no start-up or membership fees for charities to use Greater Florence Habitat for Humanity. After a sale, our organization pays 7% of the sale to Stuffforgood.com. This 7% pays for hosting costs, fees, supports paid marketing and customer support and other operational costs. Greater Florence Habitat for Humanity is also free for donors and buyers. There are no membership fees.
Do you pick up donations?
No, but USPS picks can pickup sold donations for free at least, the ones that can be sent through the mail. Click here to schedule a pickup. You can also list your donation as available for local pickup between donor and buyer. So if your buyer is nearby, the buyer can arrange to receive the item directly from you.
How does this marketplace work?
A donor lists a donation on a charity's WebThriftStore page and sets a purchase price. A buyer's payment goes to the Organization directly The donor either ships free via USPS or delivers the item to the buyer, the Organization gets the money, and the donor receives an acknowledgment letter for tax purposes.
For Donors
What can I donate?
You can donate almost anything. If it has value, it can be listed. Each charity has the discretion to disallow any item donated. For instance, if you donate a mink coat to an animal rights organization, they will surely remove that listing. There is also a list of things that are not allowed at all on the Greater Florence Habitat for Humanity marketplace: • Recalled Products (any products recalled by the Consumer Product Safety Commission are prohibited)• Unauthorized (Pirated) Copies of Media (music, movies, TV shows, photos, radio programs, concerts, software, video games, etc.)• Replicas of trademarked items (counterfeit and "knock-off" items)• Adult and Pornographic Products• Firearms, Ammunition, and Weapons• Stock and Securities• Lottery Tickets• Illicit Drugs• Unauthorized/Illegal Wildlife Products (including illegal animal byproducts - skins, organs, tissue, bones, feathers, etc. - of endangered species)• Stolen Goods
Are there minimum or maximum prices?
No there is no minimum, you can offer an item for free, a buyer will be asked to make a donation for accepting the item, but it is not required. There is not a maximum price.
How should I price my donation?
We suggest the price you would be willing to pay if you need this item. You can also lookup current prices for your item (or similar ones) on eBay, Amazon, Google shopping, etc. List either the "fair market value" or an even lower price. (A bargain will motivate a buyer and help your item sell.) Remember, this is for charity! True, the higher the price is, the more money might go to a good cause and the more you can claim as a tax deduction. Still, if no one buys your item, it remains yours. Then no money goes to charity and you receive no tax deduction. We recommend pricing it so wit will sell.