Charity shop donations

[whitebunnies]

I went to donate some really good quality stuff earlier at Cancer Research. It was stuff I could have sold online but don’t have the time to. The manager of the shop was very rude and said we don’t accept bric a brac and was looking down on me.

It wasn’t bric a brac and she didn’t even see inside the bag. I said thanks and started to leave and then she was being really passive aggressive giving me nasty stares and saying some nonsense about they have enough donations so she held me up and then the bags split outside. I wish I just ignored her and left as the bags would not have split.

I had this hassle 10 years ago at the same branch with someone else there. Do Cancer Research not want to raise money for their charity? I won’t go in their again due to the rudeness of the manager.

I took my bags to Acorns in the end who were really nice and thankful.

Very patronising. You were not there so it is rude of you to say she was not giving me stares 😒

I have given up the charity shops. I just pust things up on FB to give away. Works just fine.

I didn’t realise this thread was still going! It is only the one specific charity shop who are always rude so I won’t go there. Though I will donate to other charity shops and preferably independent charities who seem to be more grateful.

On the whole most charity shops are really good and grateful.

Dh and I went in a charity shop yesterday and there was a sign saying all CDs 50p. So dh chose 10. At the counter the bloke on the till said that was a sale sign which was now over and they were now £1. Dh put the CDs back.He’d chosen some random old stuff which was never going to sell. That’s my point I made earlier - surely £5 in the till is better than £10 maybe… never. Especially as they were clearly priced at 50p!

I'm going to the charity shops later and will probably buy a few terrific things for very little, and the staff will be their usual friendly selves.
I need to bag up a few donations first.