Goodwill Outlet Westside

always on a treasure hunt? this is a fun place to try. Cleaner than you would expect from the «Bins»

I should have read the reviews before going in here. Unsanitary & disgusting. A woman had gloves on when digging through the containers, most things were already damaged or broken. I guess if your really poor and want some cheap clothes then here’s the place to go.

The Goodwill Hillsboro Outlet is disgusting. The restrooms aren’t cleaned properly or enough. The floors are unsanitary at best. The ventilation system is cleaned once in a blue moon. The managers are lazy and have no interest in customer service. I’ve seen everything from hypodermic needles, feces, vomit, rodents both dead/​alive, human ashes, pepper spray, pornography, and more be not only dumped into bins but rolled onto the sales floor for customers including children to sort through. If this non-​profit errrrr corporate style driven joke of a company cared they would have addressed these and many other issues over the 7 years I’ve witnessed first hand.

I got some good deals on household goods — two sturdy baskets and a small whiteboard for under $ 3. I went to buy children’s books, though (I’m a teacher), and they were way overpriced. $ 1 for paperback and $ 2 for hardback is not bad for adult books, but children’s books should be cheaper.

I did find a diaper full of crap there once and I did get poked with something sharp as I was digging through the bins. I try and remember my gloves and hand sanitizer. Employees are usually pretty nice.

Other than dropping of things for donations and getting the receipt, I’ve got nothing good to say about this location. I was warned, but I went in. This is not your typical retail goodwill store. It’s the leftovers and just dropped in the bins for you to rummage through. When they bring out a new one, watch out, there are some serious scavengers here. I have nothing against goodwill, they do great work and other locations can be great. This one, I’ll pass.

This is really not as bad or smelly as I remembered it or perhaps my nose just matured. The bins are roughly sorted as in, clothes are in a bin of their own as well as books, toys, media/​audio stuff, etc. The bins themselves is disorganized. It is picking through the stuff for those gems that is the real fun.
You can seriously fill a wardrobe with the things you find here and it’s really not that bad. There’s this misconception that its all crap but you know what they say, someone’s trash is another person’s treasure. I can’t even tell you how many cool things and knick knacks that we have discovered. On one recent visit, we came home with a small box full of 80’s/early 90’s rap music. Cassettes of NWA, Public Enemy, even some that were unknown to me like Gucci Crew II (currently on my Pandora station and oh man, the tunes make me want to groove and do the running man). What a find! There’s lots brand name items that you can find here if you look for it.
I want to tell everyone to go but… that would only create more competition for me so if you’re under the misnomer that this place sucks. Keep thinking that. It sucks so bad, I don’t think you should come here. At all. In fact, all that Nike stuff that you covet, it’s not here. Go to the Nike store in downtown and purchase those awesome Dri-​fit shirts at full cost. You know you want to.
The con to this place is that there are a lot of people who bring their kids and they’re there all day it seems like. Those dang kids are underfoot constantly. Tie those kids up to your cart if you must bring them because next time, I’m probably going to end up tripping over one of them and accidentally kicking him/​her in the face because you, mom/​dad, weren’t paying attention and your kid is sitting in the middle of a busy aisle playing superhero with dirty dolls.
Oh! And speaking for dirty, note to the noob, wash your hands when you’re done shopping here. Wash everything and for goodness sakes, don’t be trying on stuff. It might not smell but it’s not exactly pristine either. You don’t know where these clothes have been, who wore it, and … you get the picture. Use your common sense. It saves people on occasion, you know.

This place is a treasure hunt, for sure. I just went for the first time and it was cleaner than I expected, and more organized, and significantly less aggressive than I feared. In fact I saw people being downright kind to each other and saying things like «Are you shopping for a girl? I grabbed this but realize it won’t fit my daughter».
I did find a good haul but had to work for it. I’d go back!

As several have said it is very hard to rate this place. I did bring cheap garden gloves to protect my hands from anything sharp I might have encountered in the bins and I brought hand sanitizer but didn’t get into anything yucky. Everything is sold by the pound the more you buy the cheaper it is well the heavier it is the cheaper it is they have a lot of clothing.
There were obviously people here that were pickers, for resale.
This is sort of out of the way if you’re not used to being over on this side of town but right across from the Fred Meyer so I take that back it’s not that far out of the way definitely worth a stop or two just to have the experience.
This was my first time and I didn’t really find anything tempting enough to bother buying but who knows maybe next time.

Yes, you dig through bins of unsorted clothing. Thats why it’s SO cheap. I will go here many more times. I spent three hours here and walked away with :
2 tank tops
2 t-​shirts
1 flannel
2 pairs of sweats
1 pair of shorts
2 toddler sized shirts
5 toddler shorts
2 toddler jeans
1 movie
1 stuffed Victoria secret Pink dog.
and my grand total was $ 17.80
So yes, its time consuming to dig through huge bins but its WORTH IT. seventeen pieces of clothing and two other things for less than twenty dollars.

This place is huge! Different pricing than the ‘stores’. By the pound on most normal size items.
I have heard all the puffing about how filthy this place is and that you should bring gloves which is never a bad idea when you are sorting through other peoples detritus. Seriously. I do this kind of stuff for a living and gloves are HIGHLY recommended.
Now I only donate here, and sometimes they are very picky about what they are accepting. Really? I can’t fathom that when I know what kind of stuff they are selling (for actual money) inside.
Back when I started reselling, I found a couple of decent items such as a nice lawn mower, vintage luggage and more but quite frankly, I’ve decided it’s just too nasty for me.

LOL! oh sorry, was that rude?
This place was a trip! I have been to plenty Goodwill’s and I have been to swap meets in South LA. But I have never seen people savagely rummaging through bins like this. It was almost sad. to a point. The only reason I came here was to check out the furiniture items. Surprisingly, they had a great selection of couches and chairs. The prices were not high either which is good. They should’nt be high anyway, but you’d be surprised.
Bottom line, I found what I was looking for! Thats why my review is 3 stars instead of 1. I bought an adorable antique looking hutch. And it was $ 20.00 SCORE!
On my way back towards the front of the store, I decided to just look at some of the items in the bins… I saw absolutely nothing in there that looked decent. Everything was broken or ripped. Items such as, vacuums, gross blankets, clothing, VCR’s.
I would only come back here again to look at the furniture.

Just went there tonight, after getting stuck in traffic and giving up on going downtown. I wanted to find some jacked up furniture that I could refurbish like I see on Pinterest. Find something, sand it down, paint it Martha Stewart green or something.
I walked in and immediately wanted to just turn around from the smell. It’s a weekday, right after work, and there are babies crying, kids running laps, and adults with gloves digging in the bins. I walked past SOMETHING that smelled like it was drenched in cat urine. But I headed towards the furniture in the way back, and just didn’t look to my left or right on the way there.
Easily, I saw a dresser I could visualize as awesome. And a minute later, a long table with those funky curved legs and thin line carvings in it. Real wood, just dirty and chipped. $ 15. Great service, and I’m so excited to have this little project to work on.
Whatever you do, don’t touch anything with your bare hands. I couldn’t do a surgical wash fast enough!

THE BINS! I discovered this accidentally. And I didn’t bring gloves or anything so I just sort of lightly browsed.
I had my eyes on a pair of MATCHING rollerblades but they weren’t sized. They would’ve only been like $ 4 by weight!
This is a competitive affair, not unlike Walmart on Black Friday, depending on which particular bin you are browsing. Beware!

If you have little kids, the Goodwill Outlet is a life saver. We have three kids, ages 5 months, 2, and 4. They aren’t at the age yet where «fashion» is everything so coming here you can buy cheap outfits by the pound. It is not uncommon to get say 2 dozen outfits for $ 12.00. On the upside, we sometimes find things for ourselves (mom and dad), and digging through the bins is kind of fun!
Let me address a rumor that floats around about this place. It’s the rumor that if you dig through the bins, you are going to find needles or dog poo, or worse. We are regular customers, this has NEVER happened, and we’ve been there maybe three dozen times spending hours at a time at this place. Some people wear rubber gloves, but we find them to be unnecessary. The bins are always clean.

Let’s be real about what this place is: the large majority of Goodwill’s outlet stores house merchandise that is being saved from landfills, as in these things did not sell at retail locations or was not pretty enough to go there. Don’t kid yourself into thinking this place is totally organized or clean. As others have noted, organization is roughly, «this is cloth substance» and «this has a cord of some kind, therefore making it electrical.» You are now a modern day treasure hunter. Got it?
Except for the items noted on large signs hanging from the ceiling, all merchandise in the warehouse is priced by the pound. You are now free to roam the large, blue rolling bins held in place by floor tracks. Dig – there is going to be a time you touch something wet. Or sticky. Get over it. Just bring hand sanitizer if you’re afraid you’ll contract a disease. Don’t dig too excitedly – I’ve been told at other locations that it is not uncommon to find broken glass or a needle, though I’ve never had that happen at this location.
Things are generally ridiculously good priced. Furniture, bikes, large sculptural pieces, you name it, awesome price. Retail Goodwill couldn’t sell it for $ 19.99? Okay, have it for $ 2.99 now. That brand new Merona/JCrew/Chico’s piece – with the original tags on it – also didn’t sell at a retail Goodwill? Yours by the pound for less than $ 1! I do have to complain that the weigh stations have evaporated, so super cheap (er, frugal) people like me can guess how much they’re spending.
Expect there to be a lot of people, don’t be too timid to get your hands into a bin, DON’T pull merchandise from a bin during a bin rotation until that entire row has been set, and good luck. You’ll need it.

I’ve never gone in this store without being mad dogged by «regulars.» I heard there might be cool vintage clothing, yet all I found was a bunch of old Massimo tops and used underwear – and almost a quarter of the clothes were wet!
I wouldn’t shop here unless you really want to experience screaming children who are not being watched by their parents, too busy pushing each other over Target clothing to sell to Buffalo Exchange.

It’s hard for me to really rate this place…
On the one hand — crazy bargains are to be had. CRAZY! Clothing and household goods sold by the pound, with other items priced lower than low. Best find? I’ve scored a $ 5 TV/​VCR combo (with DVD hookups), working just fine, that’s now living the life in my home office. They’ve got insane deals on furniture — $ 3 -$ 20 couches, chairs, etc. It’s all the merch that didn’t sell at the regular Goodwill, but honestly, I’m not sure why a lot of it didn’t sell. I think they ship some stuff directly here when the regular Goodwill stores get overloaded. There is no reason to have a cute couch in good condition for $ 5! There is some high-​quality stuff with insanely low prices — not all of it is rockin’ by any means, but there are some definite good buys.
On the other hand, this places can make Walmart on Black Friday look calm. Picture a huge warehouse-​type space filled with ginormous industrial bins. The bins are organized by type of merchandise, but that’s where the organizations stops. The bins get rotated on a regular basis, with newly filled bins being pushed through magical doors — Goodwill staff will actually announce which bins will be rotated next, and customers will line up where that bin will be placed, awaiting its arrival, and digging in like there’s no tomorrow. I’m telling you, its nutty pants of America.
If you can put up with this type of environment, or if you just want to see something totally nuts, stop in. But bring a large vehicle, in case you score a $ 5 couch.
I wouldn’t recommend going unless you’re confident in your immune system. Just sayin’.

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Success story at the ‘Goodwill Outlet’, Hillsboro, OR.
We went to the «Goodwill Outlet» in Hillsboro, Oregon right off TV Hwy yesterday. My husband found a ball point pen for 10 cents. And not just any ballpoint pen. Estimated worth? $ 1600, probably more.
The pen we found is a Mont Blanc very rare, limited edition 75^th anniversary ball point pen hand stamped (not etched) with its series number. It has mother of pearl on the crown, 23k rose gold and a diamond set in the «O» of «75 YEARS OF PASSION» written on the band. There are only 1924 of this series made in the world. (I will take a photo in natural light and post it.)
The story goes:
We were driving by and I asked my husband if he wanted to stop. He said «Sure.» So we stopped and went in.
My husband was in the this ‘Goodwill Outlet’ and «saw» «in his minds eye»: «There is a Mont Blanc in here somewhere.» He looked once, did not find it. Came back 10 minutes later? And there it was stuck in between a crack.
Since purchases are, generally, by the pound at the «Goodwill Outlet»? The lady felt the weight in her hand and told my husband «Ah, probably 3 cents.» But after putting it on the scale? it was heavier than she thought. She had to break the bad news to him. It would be 10 cents. He bucked up and paid it.
This is 4 cents more than he paid for the wood crucifix he got at this same «Goodwill Outlet» that came all the way from Jerusalem that he sent to his friend who is a nun who had always wants a wood set.
My husband has three other Mont Blanc pens — none of which he has ever paid for — they have always, somehow, come to him. This is the most expensive one yet — at 10 cents. So he gave it to me, which is, now, my first Mont Blanc. He said «It is In keeping with family tradition.» In other words, it was free to me just as his other three were to him.
This pen really stands out from the others, though. This pen is in perfect condition, is *gorgeous*, is a ladies traveling pen which is shorter than his, and the 23k rose gold is «fatter» than his more flat finish gold on his three pens. It is simply beautiful. Great way to start my new business.
I guess this trumps the gorgeous $ 500 chunk of turquoise we have in our fish tank.
Yeah, you can say we are a fan of Goodwill. We go all the time (shopping and donating).
And the ‘Goodwill Outlet’? You just have to see it to believe it. Note that not all are created equal. The one in Vancouver, WA is not nearly as good as the one in Hillsboro, OR.
Just bring something to wash your hands off after a visit there. Oh, and stand back when they bring in a new bin and you will be fine. :)
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Goodwill retail stores have been dead to me for a while. It’s outrageous what they are charging for clothes these days, and that I can get stuff for cheaper at way nicer consignment stores all over town. It ain’t right when folks who Goodwill is meant to help can’t afford to shop in their stores. $ 20 for jeans? What a joke.
That being said, sometimes a trip to the Goodwill Outlets are good for if not a laugh, a humbling look at how little you could, in theory, actually spend on outfitting yerself.
The outlets are unsorted goods, a dig-​though-​the-​bins situation. I am not blessed with sorting skills myself, but take a pro thrifter with you and within seconds, he’ll pull out the nicest, brand-​new, fancy brand sweater in the whole warehouse, costing mere pocket change.
Sales are all by the pound, ranging from $ 1.59-$ 0.89, depending on how much you buy. If you consider the people who pile up a whole cart with a year’s worth of clothes, that’s pretty darn cheap. They also have furniture and televisions, TVs from $ 15 and up. They were all plugged in and working, looked fine to me.
So, I suppose the Outlet makes me reconsider my Goodwill disdain a little bit, depending on the need. Worth a drive to Hillsboro? HELL NO. But if you happen to be out that way, it might be worth a peek.