I found a trinket someone had ‘claimed’ at Goodwill – I bought it anyway but got shouted at, I’m not sure who was right
A SAVVY shopper has shared how she clinched a chic item at Goodwill that someone else supposedly staked their claim on.
She still bought the artistic item because she wanted it, but she couldn’t help being shouted at for her actions.
Reddit user Sunny543 took to the social media platform after a shopping fiasco at a popular discount store.
In a post, she asked if she was in the wrong for buying a memorable trinket that someone else supposedly “claimed” in Goodwill.
She posted in an online community on the site, where you can discuss “any non-violent conflict you have experienced, give us both sides of the story, and find out if you’re right.”
She explained that while roaming the aisles, the 22-year-old woman noticed a basket turned upside down.
When she picked it up to look at it, she found a “pretty, little marble statue underneath.”
“One of those ones of a lady with the arms and head cut off. I really liked it and it was only five bucks, so I decided to get it. But this lady near me noticed what I was holding and said ‘Uh oh’, she detailed.
She asked the other woman if she was going to buy it, and the other woman said she wasn’t sure.
After strolling the store, she looked around and didn’t see her anywhere as she held on to the fine object.
“I felt a little bad, but I carried it around for a while looking at other stuff and figured if that lady saw me holding it she could come argue with me, if she felt like it,” she explained.
She waited almost 15 more minutes before she decided to head to the cashier and purchase it.
“Right when I set my stuff down I heard this voice say ‘ARE YOU KIDDING ME?’ And this older lady came up right next to me and put her hand on the statue,” she said.
A man was with her, who the Reddit user assumed was her husband.
She said that she was going to buy it and hid it from view under the basket on purpose.
The young woman admitted that she didn’t like confrontation, but “was also kinda mad that she was already getting in my face.”
“I said ‘I’ve been carrying this around and you haven’t come up to talk to me about it until now. I didn’t know you were set on buying it’,” she said.
The other woman said she was making up her mind and that’s why she hid it, so no one else would see it before she decided that she was going to buy it.
They argued back and forth for a while at the checkout counter.
The cashier even was on the Reddit user’s side because she was already there at the register buying it.
She also added: “You can’t really call dibs on something, you haven’t purchased it yet.”
The older woman said she had been looking for a decoration like this for months, but Sunny bought it anyway.
In the end, the other woman and her husband scoffed at each other and mumbled obscenities under their breath as the Reddit user simultaneously left the store with the decorative piece.
Many Reddit users wrote in the comments that she was NTA, also known as “not the a**hole” in the scenario, and completely in the right to buy the item.
“You don’t get to hide things from other customers when you’re “deciding whether to buy it”. The entitled arrogance of the sort of person that thinks they can hide things in a shop to call dibs on them,” one commented.
“That’s exactly what I do. If I’m not sure, and it’s the only one left, I carry it with me. If I decide I don’t want it I take it back to where I found it,” another wrote.
“NTA. Hiding something while you think about buying it is not a thing other people recognize. She’s nuts. Enjoy your statue,” another added.