Charity shops have lost the plot

I would hope they take more leave than Paid staff!!
As they aren’t being paid!
I wouldn’t pay £2.50 for new paperback! As I buy a lot of paperbacks from The Works!

It was amazing. They have a bookshop which has lots of great stuff in it anyway.
Apparently this book was some rare first edition. If it had not been noticed, or even donated to a different charity, it would have gone for 50p.
it is good that come charities have volunteers that look out for stuff like that now.

@XenoBitch - wow that’s fabulous!

Years ago, I took a bagful of decent clothing to my local charity shop. Lots of BNWT stuff like All Saints and Karen Millen.
Got a letter saying it raised about £5 in Gift Aid, which did make me
But this was years ago. A lot of charity shops are catching on now to how much they can get for things, and price them accordingly. There is nothing wrong with that... they are ultimately there to make money for their cause.
One chain of them here has volunteers who research what things are worth, and they sell them on eBay to increase their audience. They sold a rare book for over £900 earlier this year... money for the local hospice.

Well don't buy them. No need to moan about it. The same way I don't complain about beans being more expensive in Waitrose.

Liz Truss hasn't done to badly has she for being Prime Minister for just a few days. Sunak walked into a well paid consultancy job for which he had no obvious qualification.

The bin?? Wash your mouth out!! What will the neighbours say? 😂. Honestly I would judge myself for putting it in the bin even if it was the biggest retail mistake I ever made!! The charity shop salves my conscience. I do only give them decent stuff though- I’m not one of those people who gives them stained primark pants.

Agree, people will come in and say they've had an email telling them they raised however much all the time.

Also happens to me on a weekly basis, especially with donors who gift aid.

Ime a lot of people do care.
if people don’t really care what happens then surely they just put it in the bin rather than schlepping it to the charity shop.

That's not true. Some people don't care and just want stuff out the house. But others will hand over bags and say that there is BNWT in it, or designer, or top end high street and that shops will make "good money". This has happened to me multiple times, and some customers absolutely would be cross if they donated a BNWT Hobbs dress which was sold for £2.

Nobody gives a flying f#ck what the shops do with them. People want their stuff off their hands, and charity shops do the trick for them. I give a hell of a lot of stuff away, and I couldn't care less how much they sell it for.

A Lot of people who donate do care about how much we sell their items for. Many people have been directly affected by the cause they support and want to make as much money as possible for the charity.

They are giving the stuff to charity because they don't want it. They're not searching through their wardrobe and thinking "oh I still like it but I'll give it to charity so the charity can make money". Honestly I give stuff like Hush, Nobody's Child and Me &Em to the charity shop and I really don't mind what they sell it for. It's not cluttering my drawers. That's what I care about.

I used to work in one, they colour coded price labels, so every week they removed all items with that colour tab and sent it to another store. That freed up space and some stores had different types of customers, so our unsaleable stuff would be sold there. I do admit this was 30 years ago

Exactly!

I expect the person who donated them would be pretty pissed off if they let them go for a couple of quid. I donate clothes to charity shops to support the charity, not to provide fodder for people's Vinted resales.

This is the funniest article (and truest on the topic) I've read in ages. So much resonates with my own charity shop shopping experiences 😂. Thanks for posting

so it’s a great donation for the charity. 😀

Well, you got them for free, so...

That's sort of the point I was making. The salaried staff tend to be paid well under the going rate for the levels of responsibility, so why is that different for the executive staff?

Public companies need to report the top level salaries and average lower quartile salaries, and state how many multiples of the lower quartile that the top levels earn. Would be interesting to see this for charities.

How many times a day are cash strapped Mumsnet members advised to put stuff on vinted, marketplace for sale. We're hurting financially in the UK.

Bingo!

I agree. I've seen T shirts from Primark priced at more than they would be brand new!

Exactly!
we had a bag of clothes donated with two Me and Em cashmere jumpers - why would we sell them for a fiver?