to think charging £40 for a dress in charity shop is not on!!

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Stopped off in little village charity shop today on way home. I normally find some nice little bargins in my local. There was a lovely dress, BNWT but they wanted £40 I know what the price said on tag was £120 new but tbh its properly gone in sale since.
They also wanted £4 for a furby toy, £2 for a kids book and £4.50 for a demin bag!
Anyone else been out priced b charity shop.

Charity shops are there to make money for charity, BUT provide the less well-off with affordable stuff too. If they price thinggs too high people will stop buying. I would happily pay £5 for a dress and not even bother to try it on. If it didn't fit I would re-donate it back to the shop. Then someone else wold buy it and the charity would gain twice. But £40? No way! A lot of people in charity shops are looking for a bargain because that's all they can afford.

These prices have got higher and higher, in my opinion to stop people buying from charity shops, and seling for a profit on eBay.

What is wrong with somone buying from charity and then reselling on ebay?

IME the books are often too expensive.

3.99 for a very tatty bashed copy of a chicklit novel is far too much in my local Oxfam bookshop ( I tend to buy, read then redonate). We have a smaller local charity bookshop down the road where you buy a box for a tenner and can then fill it with as many books as you want/can carry.

I've also noticed the Primark t-shirts for more than they cost in the shops which is madness.

But I did think the BNWT geiger blouse I bought for my Mum was a bargain at 25 quid. As were the (used) emma hope shoes for the same price.

I don't mind paying a premium price for premium brands I just object to paying over the odds for tat.

They certainly were NOT watching Mary Portas - she changed nothing, the sector was already like that...and funnily enough, had been doing 'her ideas' for years.

As other people have rightly pointed out, the charity shops are there to raise funds for the charity, not be a charity for people who want cheap stuff. Places like Primark, Asda and Tesco have taken up that mantle.

Charity shopping is far different these days - it's more looking for something that 'not everyone else is wearing' than just picking up something cheap.

Although i agree, Oxfam's books ARE very expensive!

I saw a gorgeous dress a couple of days ago, a real princess one! My stepdaughter would have loved it, but when I looked at the price! Damn it, it was for sale for £30. I've never paid anywhere near that for a dress for the girls in a charity shop!
I mentioned it to DP that evening, I could see him weakening as I described it! We may take a trip out this weekend
Mostly I pay up to £5 per item for the girls. Prices vary a lot from shop to shop. You just have to be savvy about what any item is worth.
I would however pay more for an exceptional item!

I work in Chiswick, West London. Loads of charity shops, all full of over priced tatty clothes (even though it's a posh area and you'd expect more). I don't even look at the clothes now as I've never seen anything nice & they are very expensive.

I think its a rock/hard place situation as they have to pay high rent.

I do get some lovely as new well priced kiddies books & novels though which I why I still pop in once a week.

I think it is worth popping into charity shops regularly. I went on a day trip recently and browsed around two charity shops. In one I spent £2 total on two books and a box of 10 cards (birthday etc). In the other, I picked up a mens waterproof coat which is nearly new but is in need of a few stitches on the hood and it was priced at just £4.99. It is around £220 new. It is size large whereas I need a medium but it's fine for dog walking in the winter!

ummm, whoa people. Calm down. If it's too expensive, don't buy it and leave it for people who can afford it so the money goes to helping people on the starvation line have proper water and sanitation etc. So much of what we buy is unsustainably cheap - the real cost is exploitation of people/resources etc. I bought a black m+s dress in a charity shop for £12 2 years ago - which I was outraged about at the time - £12!!! for second hand m+s!! but in hindsight, it's my favourite lbd, I always get compliments on it, I've worn it for years and it was a total bargain. Would you have bought the dress for £40 in a dress agency and be really pleased? What is it's real value to you? If you don't think it's worth £40, fine, don't buy it.

yanbu
which is why I don't give to any one but the salvation army now.

Agree that Oxfam is overpriced. Don't bother going in there. But am happy to support my local Red Cross charity shop and have bought some great baby books and toys in there - books usually between 50p to a pound and toys around £2. They also have nice baby clothes for a pound or two.

Our local shop has some Jimmy Choos in the window at the moment for £150 and they are minging They look really tacky and naff, black with gold bits stuck on them, really gawdy. 80% of our village are retired folk so can't see them getting anything like that for them ...